![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)
Engraving Books
![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)
![Thirteen Months in Rebel Army, 1st US Edition 1863, Civil War CSA: "Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army - Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176570905_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Optic, Galligasken, General Ulysses Grant, 1st US Ed. 1868, illustrated: "Our Standard-Bearer; or, The Life of General Ulysses S. Grant: His Youth, His Manhood, His Campaigns, and His Eminent Services in the Reconstruction of the Nation Hai Sword Has Redeemed:" as Seen and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176570506_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Parton, Life Times of Benjamin Franklin, Complete 2vol. 1st US Ed. 1864 illustrated: "Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" by James Parton, published by Mason Brothers, New York, 1864. Complete in two volumes. First edition with '1864' on the title page and copyright 1864 by Mason Bro](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/176564075_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)
![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)
![Goldsmith, Roman History Abridged for Schools, UK Ed. 1819: "Dr. Goldsmith's Roman History", Abridged by Himself for the use of Schools, by Oliver Goldsmith, A New and Correct Edition, published by Henry Mozley (1773-1845), Derby St Werburgh, Derbyshire, Engla](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/175991591_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 […]