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To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802 to the residence of the chiefs of the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorBarrow, JohnHeadlineBarrow's Cochinchina with aquatint plates 1806PublisherPrinted for T. Cadell and W. DaviesDate Published1806 Lot #6 The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey)AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasHeadlineLe Morte d'Arthur Beardsley IllustrationsPublisherE. P. DuttonDate Published1927 Lot #16 For Children. The Gates of Paradise View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineMuir facsimile of Blakes Gates of ParadisePublisher[William Muir]Date Published[1888] Lot #17 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries 1753 folio editionPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 Lot #21 The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language. And Adorned with several Copper Plates View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John NewtonDate Published1687 Lot #24 Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts; les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: Par les Missionaires de Pekin View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Heading(China)AuthorAmiot, Jean Joseph Marie, et al.HeadlineMemoires Chinois 15 vols. 1776-91PublisherNyonDate Published1776-1791 Lot #25 Journal du voyage de Siam fait en 1685. & 1686. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorChoisy, Abbé deHeadlineChoisy's Voyage de Siam 1687PublisherSebastien Mabre-CramoisyDate Published1687 Lot #31 London to Ladysmith, via Pretoria View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineLondon to Ladysmith, via Pretoria First EditionPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #38 My African Journey View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineWinston Churchill My African Journey 1st EdnPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1908 Lot #40 The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineChurchill's the River War First Edition 1899PublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1899 Lot #57 A Survey View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorBeerbohm, MaxHeadlineMax Beerbohm A SurveyPublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1921 Lot #59 Representation of the Death of Capt. Cook View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Cook, James)Author**HeadlineEngraving of Death of Captain Cook 1781PublisherS.A. CamberlegeDate PublishedJuly 1, 1781 Lot #62 Hindoo excavations in the mountain of Ellora, near Aurungabad, in the Decan, in twenty-four views, from the drawings of James Wales, under the direction of Thomas Daniell View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorDaniell, Thomas & James WalesHeadlineDaniell's Hindoo Excavations wth 24 plates 1816PublisherWilliam Daniell, & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1816 Lot #63 A Picturesque Voyage to India by the way of China View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorDaniell, William & ThomasHeadlineDaniell Voyage to India 50 aquatint platesPublisherLongman, Hurst, et al.Date Published1810 Lot #65 La Légende du Juif Errant. Compositions et Dessins par Gustave Doré, gravés sur bois par Rouget, Jahyer et Gauchard View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorDoré, GustaveHeadlineDoré's Wandering Jew 1862PublisherLibrairie du Magasin PittoresqueDate Published1862 Lot #66 A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet: containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold AuthorDu Halde, Jean-BaptisteHeadlineDu Halde's Description of China w/ maps & platesPublisherPrinted by T. Gardner...for Edward CaveDate Published1738-1741 Lot #69 An Account of the Empire of China, Historical, Political, Moral and Religious. A Short Description of that Empire, and Notable Examples of its Emperors and Ministers... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorFernandez Navarette, DomingoHeadlineFernandez Navarette's China 1752PublisherHenry Lintot & John OsbornDate Published[1752] Lot #71 Nell Gwynne, 1650-1687 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Headingzzh(Fine Binding - Cosway Style)AuthorDasent, Arthur IrwinHeadlineNell Gwynne in a Cosway-Style BindingPublisherMacmillanDate Published1924 Lot #72 Reynard the Fox, A Poem in Twelve Cantos View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHolloway, E.W., translatorHeadlineReynard the Fox Finely Bound by Kelly & SonsPublisherA.H. Payne / W. FrenchDate Published[1852] Lot #76 The Seasons View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineThomson's Seasons Finely BoundPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1927 Lot #77 Poetry. Seventh Series View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorAbdy, Mrs. [Maria Smith]HeadlineFore Edge Painting of Wimborne Minster, DorsetPublisherJ. RobinsDate Published1858 Lot #78 Poems and Songs View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineRobert Burns Poems & Songs Fore Edge PaintingPublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1858 Lot #79 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorClarendon, Edward [Earl of]HeadlineFore Edge Painting of London LandmarksPublisherUniversity PressDate Published1839 Lot #80 The Christian Philosopher View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorDick, ThomasHeadlineFore Edge Painting of Dundee ScotlandPublisherWilliam CollinsDate Published[1846] Lot #81 The Poetical Works View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorHowitt, Mary, Eliza Cook and L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon]HeadlineFore Edge Painting View of BostonPublisherPhillips, Sampson, & Co.Date Published1850 Lot #82 Ballads and Lays Illustrative of Events in the Early English History View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorMant, F.W.HeadlineWith a fore edge painting of the Tower of LondonPublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1857 Lot #83 The Pilgrim of Beauty; The Cottager's Sabbath; and Other Poems, Now First Collected View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorMullen, SamuelHeadlineMullen's Poems - Fore Edge PaintingPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1845 Lot #84 Le Rime di Messer F. Petrarca View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlineFore Edge Painting View of TivoliPublisherBaudryDate Published1836 Lot #85 The Lady of the Lake View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineLady of the Lake with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherJohn Ballantyne, et alDate Published1810 Lot #86 Poems View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineSir Walter Scott's Poems with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherWilliam P. NimmoDate Published[1860s?] Lot #87 The Poetical Works View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineScott's Poetical Works with fore edge paintingPublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published1876 Lot #88 Rokeby View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineScott's Rokeby with a Fore Edge PaintingPublisherJohn Ballantyne, et alDate Published1813 Lot #89 The Complete Works View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Works with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherOxford University PressDate Published1919 Lot #90 Sabrinae Corolla in Hortulis Regiae Scholae Salopiensis Contexuerunt Tres Viri Floribus Legendis View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)Author[Shrewsbury Royal School]HeadlineFore Edge Painting of a Franciscan ConventPublisherBell & DaldyDate Published1859 Lot #91 Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorStanley, Arthur PenrhynHeadlineWith a Fore Edge of Westminster Abbey 1896PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1896 Lot #92 Xenopontis Memorabilium Socratis Dictorum Libri IV View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorXenophonHeadlineFore Edge Painting of Oxford UniversityPublisherE Theatro SheldonianoDate Published1749 Lot #93 The Book of Common Prayer View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore Edge Painting)Author**HeadlineFore Edge Painting of CambridgePublisherR. Watts for the UniversityDate PublishedNo date Lot #94 Autograph manuscript draft of The Fisherman Under the Southern Cross View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorGrey, RomerHeadlineautograph mss draft of Romer Grey's SouthernCrossDate Published[c.1925] Lot #99 Beschryving van Guiana, of de wildekust, in Zuid-America, betreffende de aardrykskunde en historie des lands, de zeeden en gewoontes der inwooners, de dieren, vogels, visschen, boomen en gewassen, als mede de eerste ontdekking dier kust, de bezittingen der Spanjaarden, Franschen en Portugeezen en voornaamelyk de volkplantingen der Nederlanderen, als Essequebo, Demerary, Berbice, Suriname, en derzelver rivieren, met de noodige kaarten en afbeeldingen der forten. Waarby komt eene verhandeling over den aart en de gewoontes der neger-slaaven View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorHartsinck, Jan JakobHeadlineHartsinck's History of Guiana 1770PublisherGerrit TielenburgDate Published1770 Lot #103 Catalogue of specimens and travel narrative by the naturalist Ludwig Kumlien while on the Howgate Expedition View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$6,875StatusSold Heading(Howgate Polar Expedition)AuthorKumlien, LudwigHeadlineLudwig Kumlien's 1877-78 Howgate Exp. journalDate Published[1877-1878] Lot #104 The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorHughes, GriffithHeadlineHughes' Natural History of Barbados 1750PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1750 Lot #105 Sixteenth century illuminated manuscript of Persian poetry, probably produced in Samarkand View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Illuminated Manuscript)Author**Headline16th Century Persian Illuminated ManuscriptDate Published[c. 1576] Lot #109 The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineWorks of Josephus Baltimore 1795PublisherPechin and Co.Date Published1795 Lot #113 Moby Dick or the Whale View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby Dick with Illustrations by Rockwell KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 Lot #114 China Monumentis qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturæ & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata.... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher's China Monumentis 1667 maps & platesPublisherApud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & Elizeum WeyerstraetDate Published1667 Lot #116 Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical. Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorLe Comte, LouisHeadlineLe Comte's Memoirs of China 1699PublisherPrinted for Benjamin TookeDate Published1699 Lot #117 "We" View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorLindbergh, Charles A.HeadlineCharles Lindbergh "We" 1 of 1000 signed copiesPublisherPutnamDate Published1927 Lot #126 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost folio 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 Lot #128 Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages in Two Embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East Tartary… View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold AuthorMontanus, ArnoldusHeadlineMontanus' Atlas Chinensis w/ maps & plates 1671PublisherPrinted by Tho. Johnson for the AuthorDate Published1671 Lot #133 The history of the conquest of China by the Tartars· Together with an account of several remarkable things, concerning the religion, manners, and customes of both nations, but especially of the latter. First writ in Spanish, by Señór Palafox Bishop of Osma, and Vice-Roy of Mexico. And now rendred English View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorPalafox y Mendoza, Juan deHeadlinePalafox Conquest of China by Tartars 1671PublisherPrinted by W. Godbid, and sold by M. PittDate Published1671 Lot #138 Her Majesty's Army: A Descriptive Account of the Various Regiments Now Comprising the Queen's Forces From Their First Establishment to the Present Time [and] ...Indian and Colonial Forces... View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorRichards, WalterHeadlineWalter Richards Her Majesty's ArmyPublisherJ.S. VirtueDate Published[1890s] Lot #145 The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. VVherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people. Together with the traffick and commodities of that countrey View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold AuthorSemedo, AlvaroHeadlineSemedo's History of China 1655 with mapPublisherPrinted by E. Tyler for Iohn CrookDate Published1655 Lot #151 The Costume of Hindostan Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engraving; With Descriptions in English and French, Taken in the Years 1798 and 1799 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorSolvyns, [Frans] Balt[asar]HeadlineThe Costume of Hindostan 60 color platesPublisherEdward OrmeDate Published1807 [but circa 1821] Lot #152 Voyage aux Indes Orientales et la Chine. Fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Dans lequel on traite des moeurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins & des Madégasses; suivi d'observations sur le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de France & de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines & les Moluques, & de recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorSonnerat, [Pierre]HeadlineSonnerat's Voyage to India & China w/2 maps 1782PublisherChez l'Auteur, Froule, Nyon, BarroisDate Published1782 Lot #153 An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [+ 2 others] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorStaunton, George LeonardHeadlineStaunton's Embassy to ChinaPublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer for G. NicolDate Published1797 Lot #154 Narrative of a five years expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and describing its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, & Roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorStedman, J[ohn] G[abriel]HeadlineStedman's Revolted Negroes of Surinam 1796PublisherJ. Johnson & J. EdwardsDate Published1796 Lot #158 Regni Chinensis descriptio. Ex Variis Authoribus View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorTrigault, NicolasHeadlineTrigault's China from Elzivir Press 1639PublisherOfficina ElzevirianaDate Published1639 & 1631 Lot #160 Andy Warhol's Index (Book) View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorWarhol, AndyHeadlineAndy Warhol's Index (Book)PublisherRandom HouseDate Published1967 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next