![Swift, Gulliver Travels, Leavitt & Allen US Ed. 1856, illustrated, Notes: "Gulliver's Travels comprising the Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag", by Dean (Jonathan) Swift, with explanatory and critical footnotes, embellished with woodcut illustrations, published by Leavitt](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176819870_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
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![Swift, Gulliver Travels, Leavitt & Allen US Ed. 1856, illustrated, Notes: "Gulliver's Travels comprising the Voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag", by Dean (Jonathan) Swift, with explanatory and critical footnotes, embellished with woodcut illustrations, published by Leavitt](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176819870_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Le Sage, Adventures of Gil Blas, Complete Smollett UK Ed. 1791, Stothard illustrated: "The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane", by Le Sage, translated from the French by Dr. Smollett; complete four volumes in one, Rococo style engraved plates by Stothard, published by Harrison, Londo](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176210565_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Dryden, Amphitryon, Congreve, Love for Love, 3 Plays, 1791, illustrated: "Three plays Adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-books", by permission of the managers. London: printed f](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176210039_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Memoirs of Royal Academy of Surgery Paris, 2vol. 1st UK Ed. 1750 illustrated: "Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris containing a great Variety of Cases in the chief Branches of the Art. Many of them Very surprising and uncommon." Translated from the Original, anonym](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176205996_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![240 Engraved Portraits, British History, 10 vol. Lodge UK Ed. 1840: "Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Mem](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176346451_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Goodall, Song of the Nubian Slave, 1888 Antique Engraving by Roffe: "The Song of the Nubian Slave" (Egypt), after painting by Frederick Goodall; engraved by William Roffe (c.1820s-1890s); genuine antique engraving on steel, printed on high quality heavy stock paper; p](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/177166375_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Latin-German-Latin Dictionaries, Lexicon, Complete 3vol. Ed. 1820: "Complete edition of Schellers' Latin - German and German-Latin dictionaries" [lexicon], edited, revised and extended by G. H. Lunemann, University of Gottingen, fourth revised and extended edition, p](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176016374_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
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![Colonial Boston engraving and Paul Revere war bond lead Early American’s June 8 sale](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/178057835_1_x.jpg)
Colonial Boston engraving and Paul Revere war bond lead Early American’s June 8 sale
WINCHESTER, VA — An original printing of a well-known image of colonial Boston will be offered at Early American History Auctions on Saturday, June 8. The circa-1761 engraving of a view of the city after a drawing by the Royal Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Pownall (1722-1805), has an estimate of $10,000-$12,000. The complete catalog is […]
![Mark Catesby’s Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving leads our five auction highlights](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Trillium-Antique-Prints-and-Rare-Books-April-6-Mark-Catesby.jpeg)
Mark Catesby’s Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving leads our five auction highlights
Mark Catesby, Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving, $5,555 FRANKLIN, TN – Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was born in England, but after traveling to South Carolina, he became America’s first naturalist and illustrator. A century before Audubon, he published the seminal Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of […]
![Original Salvador Dali engraving turns up at thrift shop](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FEAT12813554_1_x-1.jpg)
Original Salvador Dali engraving turns up at thrift shop
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) – An original Salvador Dali wood engraving hangs on the wall of Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head after being discovered among the donated items of an Outer Banks thrift shop.
![Museum reveals engraving hidden in Lincoln watch](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2009_0312_lincoln.jpg)
Museum reveals engraving hidden in Lincoln watch
WASHINGTON (AP) – For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch. On Tuesday, museum curators confirmed it was true. A watchmaker used tiny tools to carefully pry open the antique watch at the National Museum of American History, and a descendant of the […]