Sale 429: Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Kent Johnson (with additions) (#429) 05/27/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/27/2010 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info 429 107 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-35 of 35. Previous|1|Next Lot #8 The Map of Man's Misery. Or, The Poor Man's Pocket-Book: Being a Perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations: Or Compleat-Directory, For One Endless Week Heading(American Imprint)AuthorKer, PatrickHeadlineA Previously Unrecorded American Imprint!!!!PublisherPrinted by T.G. [Timothy Green] for [B.] EliotDate Published[c. 1700] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #9 Ammiani Marcellini Rerum gestaru[m] libri XVIII: à decimoquarto ad trigesimum primum. nam XIII priores desiderantur. Quanto uero castigatior hic scriptor nunc prodeat, ex Hieronymi Frobenij epistola, quam hac de causa additimus, cognosces. Librum trigesimumprimum qui in exemplari Frobeniano non habetur, adiecimus ex codice Mariangeli Accursij. AuthorAmmianus Marcellinus.Headlineancient history latin literature estiennePublisherEx officina Rob. Stephani [Robert Estienne]Date Published1544 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #12 The Lives of All the Princes of Orange; From William the Great, Founder of the Common-wealth of the United Provinces AuthorAubery du Maurier, Louis and Thomas BrownHeadlineThe Lives of All the Princes of Orange 1693PublisherThomas BennetDate Published1693 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #20 Manuscript Leaf from a Monumental Bible, 13th century Heading(Bible Leaf - Manuscript)Author**HeadlineLeaf from a Monumental Bible, 13th centuryDate Published13th century View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #25 Les annales d'Aquitaine, faictes & gestes en sommaire des roys de France, & d'Angleterre, & païs de Naples & de Milan... AuthorBouchet, JeanHeadlineBouchet's Annals of Acquitaine 1545PublisherJean & Enguilbert de Marnef, FreresDate Published1545 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #37 The History of Paraguay. Containing amongst many other New, Curious, and Interesting Particulars of that Country, a full and authentic account of the establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the Savage Natives, in the very Centre of Barbarism: Establishments allowed to have realized the Sublime Ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas More, and Plato, Written originally in French AuthorCharlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier deHeadlineCharlevoix History of Paraguay 1769PublisherP. & W. Wilson, et al.Date Published1769 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #41 Autograph Letter Signed, from Lady Randolph Churchill writing as Jennie Cornwallis-West to Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of Century Magazine Author[Churchill, Lady Randolph] Jennie Cornwallis-WestHeadlineLetter from Churchill's mother to her editorDate PublishedApril 7, 1908 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #48 Histoire de Constantinople depuis le regne de l'ancien Justin jusqu'a la fin de l'empire AuthorCousin, Louis, TranslatorHeadlineHistoire de Constantinople Volumes 1 & 2PublisherDamien FoucaultDate Published1671-2 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #50 Autograph Statement Signed by Andrew Crommelin, relating his observations of eclipses AuthorCrommelin, AndrewHeadlineA. Crommelin letter about observing eclipsesDate PublishedJune 28, 1932 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #51 De la Vida, y Acciones de Alexandro el Grande AuthorCurtius Rufus, QuintusHeadlineCurtius' Life of Alexander in Spanish 1749PublisherAntonio Perez de SotoDate Published1749 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #57 Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon AuthorDesormeaux, [Joseph Louis Ripault]HeadlineHistoire de la Maison de BourbonPublisherL'Imprimerie RoyaleDate Published1772-1788 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #60 Lettre du Comte de Comminges a Sa Mere, Suivie d'Une Lettre de Philomele a Progne Author[Dorat, Claude Joseph]HeadlineWith MS fragment by C.J. DoratPublisherSebastien JorryDate Published1764 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #66 Collected Poems 1909-1935 - with author's ms. revisions AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineEliot's Collected Poems with ms. revisionsPublisherFaber & FaberDate Published1936 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #69 Il Costume Antico e Moderno ovvero Storia del Governo, della Milizia, della Religione, delle Arti, Scienze ed Usanze di tutti i Populi Antichi e Moderni... AuthorFerrario, GiulioHeadlineFerrario's Costume Antico with 197 platesPublisherTipografia VignozziDate Published1830-1838 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #72 An Exact and Most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial and Judgment (According to Law) of Twenty Nine Regicides, the Murtherers of his Late Sacred Majesty of Most Glorious Memory... Author[Finch, Heneage (Earl of Nottingham)]HeadlineAccount of the 29 Regicides 1679PublisherR. Scot, T. Basset, et alDate Published1679 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #77 Archive of letters & other correspondence from Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini to Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder AuthorGiannini, A.P.HeadlineLetters from BofA Pres. Giannini to Sec. TreasuryDate Published1945-1949 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #78 The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests; From the Earliest Accounts till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. In Two Volumes. [&] The History of Greece from the Accession of Alexander of Macedon till its Final Subjection to the Roman Empire. AuthorGillies, John [&] Gast, JohnHeadlineGillies & Gast Histories of Ancient Greece 1780sPublisherA. Strahan [&] J. MurrayDate Published1786 [&] 1782 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #82 The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. [Bound with] The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt. AuthorHayward, JohnHeadlineJohn Hayward on Henry IIII and Edward VIPublisherJohn Wolfe (i.e. M. Parsons) / John PartridgeDate Published1599 [i.e. 1638?] / [1630] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #83 Autograph excerpts from Being and Time AuthorHeidegger, MartinHeadlineAutograph excerpts Heidegger's Being and TimeDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #89 Manuscript Gradual on paper, in medieval calf & wood binding Heading(Illuminated Manuscript Gradual)Author**HeadlineManuscript Gradual on paper c.1475Date Publishedc.1475 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #91 A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Author[Johnson, Samuel]HeadlineA Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandPublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1775 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #92 Political Tracts. Containing, The False Alarm. Falkland's Islands. The Patriot; and Taxation No Tyranny Author[Johnson, Samuel]HeadlineSamuel Johnson Political Tracts 1776PublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1776 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #94 Josephus de antiquitatibus ac de bello Judaico AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadline1499 Edition of JosephusPublisherAlbertinum VercellensemDate Published1499 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #95 Nelle Historie de Trogo Pompeio, novamente in lingua toscana tradotto: et con somma diligentia et cura stampato AuthorJustinus, Marcus JunianusHeadlineJustinus' Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 1524PublisherNicolo Zopino e Vicentio compagnoDate Published1524 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #98 Hispania, sive de Regis Hispaniae-regnis et optibus Commentarius Author[Laet, Joannes De]HeadlineSurvey of Spanish Empire 1629PublisherOfficina ElzevirianaDate Published1629 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #102 Anthology of New Netherland or Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of New York with Memoirs of their Lives Heading(Lossing, Benson)AuthorMurphy, Henry C.HeadlineAnthology of New Netherland 1/125 1865Publisher[Bradford Club]Date Published1865 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #104 The History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time: Containing an Account of the Religion, Government, Usages, and Character of the Inhabitants of that Kingdom AuthorMalcolm, JohnHeadlineMalcolm's History of Persia 1815PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1815 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #105 Enameled Gold-Mounted Book of Morning Prayers With the Arms of the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, Circa 1590 Heading(Manuscript Prayer Book)Author**Headline16th century mss prayer bookDate Publishedc. 1590 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000StatusUnsold Lot #108 The Histoirie and Lives of the Kings of England; From William the Conqueror, Unto the End of the Reign of King Henrie the Eight AuthorMartyn, WilliamHeadlineMartyn's Lives of the Kings of England 1615PublisherJohn BillDate Published1615 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #116 Manuscript book in Spanish with treatment of music theory and numerous musical scores Heading(Music)Author**HeadlineMS. book in Spanish on music theory & practiceDate Published18th century View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #130 The Mystery of Jesuitism, Discovered in Certain Letters, Written Upon Occasion of the Present Differences at Sorbonne Between the Jansenists and the Molinists, Displaying the Pernicious Maximes of the Late Casuists Author[Pascal, Blaise]HeadlineBlaise Pascal The Mystery of JesuitismPublisherRichard RoystonDate Published1679 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #131 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669...And a Selection From His Private Correspondence AuthorPepys, SamuelHeadlineSamuel Pepys Memoirs 1st edition 1825PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1825 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #146 's Weerelds Gods-diensten of Vertoog van alle de Religien en Ketteryen in Asia, Africa, America en Europa, van 't begin des Weereldts, tot desen tegenwoordigen tijdt toe AuthorRoss, AlexanderHeadlineRoss's history of the world's religionsPublisherMichiel de GrootDate Published1671 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #151 Curia Politiae: Or the Apologies of Several Princes: Justifying to the World Their Most Eminent Actions: By the Strength of Reason, and the Most Exact Rules of Policy AuthorScudery, [George de]HeadlineScudery's Curia Politiae 1673PublisherRobert BoulterDate Published1673 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #154 Forgery of Autograph Letters Signed by William Shakespeare, to the actor Richard Cowley Heading(Shakespeare, William)AuthorIreland, William HenryHeadlineFamed forgery of Shakespeare letterDate Publishedc.1794-?? 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