Fall Rare Books, Manuscripts, Historical Prints, & Ephemera
Updated September 23, 2026
| Date | October 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | Quinn's Auction Galleries |
| Location | Falls Church, Virginia, 22046 · more auctions in Falls Church |
| Lots | 264 |
| Estimates | $80 – $6,000 |
What's in this auction
264 lots, mostly comics & books (3), firearms & militaria (3), fine art & prints (2), antiques & furniture (2). 264 lots have photos and 264 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $80–$6,000 across 263 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing October 8, 2026.
Highest-estimated lots
- JFK, large portrait photograph inscribed — est. $4,000–$6,000
- Limited Deluxe Rubaiyat illustrated by Elihu Vedde — est. $2,500–$3,500
- First edition of Webster's Dictionary, 1828 — est. $2,000–$3,000
- Audubon Folio Woodcock, 1835 — est. $2,000–$3,000
- Johnson's Dictionary, 3rd edition — est. $1,500–$2,500
From the auction house
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In this auction (264 lots)
Categories: Comics & Books (3) · Firearms & Militaria (3) · Fine Art & Prints (2) · Antiques & Furniture (2) · Sporting Goods & Outdoors (1) · Pottery, China & Glass (1)
- Lot 1 — Leaf from Cosmographia with four 16th c. woodcuts
- Lot 2 — Vermigli's Common Places, English edition 1583
- Lot 3 — Pliny, Historie of the World, 1601
- Lot 4 — Manuscript Qur'an, 17th century
- Lot 5 — The Religion of Protestants, 1638
- Lot 6 — English History, 3 vols.
- Lot 7 — Annals of the Low Country Wars, 1665
- Lot 8 — Du Cange, Glossarium, 1681
- Lot 9 — Montaigne in English, 1693
- Lot 10 — Davenant's Essays, 1701
- Lot 11 — Biblical commentary, 1713
- Lot 12 — 18th-century England, 5 volumes.
- Lot 13 — Roman, English, and French Civil Law, 1724
- Lot 14 — Life of Thomas Moore, 1726
- Lot 15 — Defoe, Memoirs of Cap. Carleton, 1743
- Lot 16 — History of the Rebellion, 1749
- Lot 17 — Johnson's Dictionary, 3rd edition
- Lot 18 — Paradise Lost, 1778
- Lot 19 — The Art of Angling, 1787
- Lot 20 — Botanic Garden, with 5 plates by William Blake
- Lot 21 — Letters to a Young Lady 1791
- Lot 22 — Dictionaries, 2 vols.
- Lot 23 — The Barrister, 1793
- Lot 24 — Harleian Miscellany, 10 volumes
- Lot 25 — Roman Missal 1843
- Lot 26 — English History, 9 volumes.
- Lot 27 — Illustrated Bible in Deluxe Binding
- Lot 28 — Locke's Two Treatises on Goverment, 1821
- Lot 29 — Josephus, 2 vols, 1821.
- Lot 30 — Humboldt's lectures on the Bhagavad-Gita, 1826
- Lot 31 — First edition of Webster's Dictionary, 1828
- Lot 32 — Promessi Sposi, 1834
- Lot 33 — Countess Blessington, Desultory Thoughts, 1839
- Lot 34 — Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue, first appearance
- Lot 35 — Poe, First Appearance of "The Raven", 1845
- Lot 36 — Bronte's Villette, First American edition
- Lot 37 — H.W. Beecher's Copy of E.B. Browning
- Lot 38 — Van Der Linde's History of Chess, first edition
- Lot 39 — Knight's Shakespeare illustrated
- Lot 40 — Manuscript Qur'an, 19th century
- Lot 41 — Manuscript Islamic Prayerbook, 19th century
- Lot 42 — Queer Victorian Lit by "Michael Fields"
- Lot 43 — Around the World on a Bicycle, 1889, 2 vols
- Lot 44 — Swinburne/Watts/Jerome Kern copy
- Lot 45 — In Darkest Africa, Second American edition, 1891
- Lot 46 — House of Seven Gables, illustrated
- Lot 47 — Alice Meynell with ALS
- Lot 48 — Roycrofters, 4 vols.
- Lot 49 — Desert Dreamers, Early Gay Lit, 1914
- Lot 50 — Yeats, 3 vols.
- Lot 51 — Signed by Yeats, Trembling of the Veil
- Lot 52 — 2 vols, Robert Graves, inscribed and signed
- Lot 53 — Hogarth Press, Robert Graves
- Lot 54 — Faulkner, 6 vols.
- Lot 55 — Amazing Stories Quarterly, complete
- Lot 56 — With an ALS of Wise to Wordsworth's grandson
- Lot 57 — The Good Earth, signed.
- Lot 58 — Five Japanese Tales by Hearn, woodblock printed
- Lot 59 — Tender is the Night, first edition
- Lot 60 — Hemingway, 5 vols.
- Lot 61 — Naked and the Dead, in first issue jacket
- Lot 62 — Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition
- Lot 63 — Inscribed by Frost
- Lot 64 — The Alexandria Quartet, limited signed
- Lot 65 — The Good Earth, limted signed edition
- Lot 66 — Cicero's Letters to Atticus, 7 vols.
- Lot 67 — Marvin X, Ysaye Barnwell copy
- Lot 68 — The Lord God Made Them All, Signed by Herriot
- Lot 69 — Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2nd edition
- Lot 70 — Chamber's Cyclopaedia, 1779-86, 4 vols.
- Lot 71 — Dictionary of Arts and Sciences 1815
- Lot 72 — Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
- Lot 73 — Chamber's Enclyclopaedia, 1887
- Lot 74 — Gibbon's Roman Empire, 12 vols.
- Lot 75 — Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, 5 vols.
- Lot 76 — British Poets, Fine Binding
- Lot 77 — Illuminated Gray's elegy in "relievo" binding
- Lot 78 — Walter Scott, Extra-Illustrated
- Lot 79 — Byron in Fine Binding
- Lot 80 — John Doran Fine Binding
- Lot 81 — 14 vols. Decorative Leather
- Lot 82 — Longfellows works illustrated in deluxe binding
- Lot 83 — French Lit in Fine Bindings, 7 vols.
- Lot 84 — Irving in Fine Binding
- Lot 85 — Works of Dickens, 15 vols
- Lot 86 — French Lit in Fine Bindings, 6 vols.
- Lot 87 — Writings of Harte
- Lot 88 — Coronation of Edward VII
- Lot 89 — French History in Fine Bindings, 7 vols.
- Lot 90 — Peguy Oeuvres Poetiques, 1914
- Lot 91 — 6 volumes, Poetry in Fine Bindings
- Lot 92 — French Literature in Fine Bindings, 10 vols.
- Lot 93 — Dante, Dore in Fine Binding
- Lot 94 — Writings of Twain
- Lot 95 — 10 vols. Works of La Fontaine
- Lot 96 — Dante in elaborate binding
- Lot 97 — French Language in Fine Bindings, 7 vols.
- Lot 98 — Large heraldry plates, 1789
- Lot 99 — Piranesi, 2 engravings
- Lot 100 — Cruikshank, 10 works in 1 vol.
- Lot 101 — C.C. Henderson Coaching Scene, 1842
- Lot 102 — The Celebrated Trotting Horse Trustee, 1848
- Lot 103 — Iconographic Encyclopedia, Plate Volumes
- Lot 104 — Costumes of the French court, 1854
- Lot 105 — Illustrated Family Bible
- Lot 106 — Bartolozzi, 2 vols., 1881
- Lot 107 — La Bible Amusante, 1882
- Lot 108 — Limited Deluxe Rubaiyat illustrated by Elihu Vedde
- Lot 109 — Undine + Dore's Hood
- Lot 110 — Voyage to the Moon, 1892.
- Lot 111 — Home and Haunts of Shakespeare
- Lot 112 — Fin de siècle illustration, 4 vols.
- Lot 113 — Alice's Adventures Illustrated 1901
- Lot 114 — Surtees, 1/90, plates in two states
- Lot 115 — Rackham, Aesop's Fables
- Lot 116 — Illustrated books, 2 volumes
- Lot 117 — Sassoon, To the Red Rose, limited signed
- Lot 118 — Horses, 1 of 150 signed
- Lot 119 — Éloge de la Table, 1 of 26 copies
- Lot 120 — Sherlock Holmes Limited Editions Club
- Lot 121 — Tolstoy & Dostoevsky Limited Editions Club
- Lot 122 — Limited Editions Club, 31 vols.
- Lot 123 — Chittaprosad Woodcuts, 1955
- Lot 124 — Dore Illustrated Family Bible
- Lot 125 — Chilmark Press Theocritus
- Lot 126 — Swallow Press Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Lot 127 — Wandering Aengus 1/50 signed by the illustrator
- Lot 128 — Ysaye Barnwell, limited signed, TLS
- Lot 129 — Itinerario en el caos, one of 500 copies
- Lot 130 — Dutch Gardens and Garden Architecture, 1686
- Lot 131 — Complete Gard'ner, 1710
- Lot 132 — Gardening, 2 vols.
- Lot 133 — Ware's Complete Body of Architecture, first ed
- Lot 134 — French Gardens, 5 vols.
- Lot 135 — 5 vols. French architectural plates
- Lot 136 — Fragments D'Architecture
- Lot 137 — Vieux Hotels de Paris, 16 volumes
- Lot 138 — The Petit Trianom Versailles
- Lot 139 — L'art des jardins
- Lot 140 — Gardens of Italy, Deluxe Binding
- Lot 141 — The English Interior, Deluxe Binding
- Lot 142 — Les Anciens Chateaux de France
- Lot 143 — Architecture, 2 volumes
- Lot 144 — 3 vols. Versailles
- Lot 145 — Lives of the Spanish Painters, first ed in English
- Lot 146 — Carved Jade, limited signed
- Lot 147 — Black Gods, inscribed by Robert Farris Thompson
- Lot 148 — Georgia O'Keefe Catalogue Raisonne
- Lot 149 — Fashion: Dries van Noten and Iris Van Herpen
- Lot 150 — American Artists, 2 vols.
- … and 114 more lots
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