Sale 421: Fine & Rare Books & Manuscripts (#421) 02/08/2010 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/08/2010 1:00 PM PST Auction Info 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 1-54 of 54. Previous|1|Next 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 Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey)AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasHeadlineLe Morte d'Arthur Beardsley IllustrationsPublisherE. P. DuttonDate Published1927 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #13 The Holy Bible. The Old Testament (&) The New Testament, Embellished with Engravings from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineMassive Macklin Bible in 7 VolumesPublisherPrinted for Thomas Macklin by Thomas BensleyDate Published1800 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #16 For Children. The Gates of Paradise AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineMuir facsimile of Blakes Gates of ParadisePublisher[William Muir]Date Published[1888] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #17 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries 1753 folio editionPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold 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 AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John NewtonDate Published1687 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #28 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's English-Speaking Peoples Finely BoundPublisherCassellDate Published[1956-58] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #31 London to Ladysmith, via Pretoria AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineLondon to Ladysmith, via Pretoria First EditionPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #33 Lord Randolph Churchill AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineLord Randolph Churchill First American EditionPublisherMacmillanDate Published1906 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #34 Marlborough: His Life and Times AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill's Marlborough 1 of 155 signedPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.Date Published[1933-38] View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #35 Marlborough: His Life and Times AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineMarlborough: His Life and Times Finely BoundPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co.Date Published[1933-38] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #39 My Early Life: A Roving Commission AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill My Early Life SignedPublisherMacmillanDate Published1941 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #43 The Second World War - Presentation Binding AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineThe Second World War - Presentation BindingPublisherCassellDate Published[1948-54] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #44 The Second World War AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill Second World War Finely BoundPublisherCassellDate Published[1948-54] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #47 Thoughts and Adventures [bound with] Painting as a Pastime AuthorChurchill, Winston S.Headline2 titles by Winston Churchill Finely BoundDate Published[1932 & 1948] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #48 The War Speeches of the Rt Hon Winston S. Churchill AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's War Speeches Finely BoundPublisherCassellDate Published1962, 1952 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #49 The World Crisis AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The World Crisis Finely BoundPublisherThornton ButterworthDate Published[1923-31] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #51 Seven volumes of Churchill's War & Post-War Speeches AuthorChurchill, Winston S.Headline7 volumes of Churchill's War & Post-War SpeechesPublisherCassellDate Published[1942-50] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #57 A Survey Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorBeerbohm, MaxHeadlineMax Beerbohm A SurveyPublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1921 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold 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 AuthorDaniell, Thomas & James WalesHeadlineDaniell's Hindoo Excavations wth 24 plates 1816PublisherWilliam Daniell, & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1816 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #65 La Légende du Juif Errant. Compositions et Dessins par Gustave Doré, gravés sur bois par Rouget, Jahyer et Gauchard AuthorDoré, GustaveHeadlineDoré's Wandering Jew 1862PublisherLibrairie du Magasin PittoresqueDate Published1862 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #70 Queen Elizabeth Heading(Fine Binding - Cosway Style)AuthorCreighton, MandellHeadlineCosway Style Binding with Portrait of ElizabethPublisherBoussod, Valadon & Co.Date Published1896 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #71 Nell Gwynne, 1650-1687 Headingzzh(Fine Binding - Cosway Style)AuthorDasent, Arthur IrwinHeadlineNell Gwynne in a Cosway-Style BindingPublisherMacmillanDate Published1924 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #72 Reynard the Fox, A Poem in Twelve Cantos Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHolloway, E.W., translatorHeadlineReynard the Fox Finely Bound by Kelly & SonsPublisherA.H. Payne / W. FrenchDate Published[1852] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #73 Stat Nominis Umbra [Letters of Junius] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorJunius [pseud.]HeadlineLetters of Junius Finely BoundPublisherT. BensleyDate Published1796 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #74 Everybody's Pepys: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1669 Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPepys, SamuelHeadlinePepys' Diary Rivier Inlaid BindingPublisherG. Bell and SonsDate Published1927 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #75 The Works Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineThackeray's Works 13 Finely Bound VolumesPublisherSmith, Elder, & Co.Date Published1905-11 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #76 The Seasons Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineThomson's Seasons Finely BoundPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1927 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #77 Poetry. Seventh Series Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorAbdy, Mrs. [Maria Smith]HeadlineFore Edge Painting of Wimborne Minster, DorsetPublisherJ. RobinsDate Published1858 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #78 Poems and Songs Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineRobert Burns Poems & Songs Fore Edge PaintingPublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1858 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #79 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorClarendon, Edward [Earl of]HeadlineFore Edge Painting of London LandmarksPublisherUniversity PressDate Published1839 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #80 The Christian Philosopher Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorDick, ThomasHeadlineFore Edge Painting of Dundee ScotlandPublisherWilliam CollinsDate Published[1846] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #81 The Poetical Works 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #82 Ballads and Lays Illustrative of Events in the Early English History Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorMant, F.W.HeadlineWith a fore edge painting of the Tower of LondonPublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1857 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #83 The Pilgrim of Beauty; The Cottager's Sabbath; and Other Poems, Now First Collected Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorMullen, SamuelHeadlineMullen's Poems - Fore Edge PaintingPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1845 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #84 Le Rime di Messer F. Petrarca Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlineFore Edge Painting View of TivoliPublisherBaudryDate Published1836 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #85 The Lady of the Lake Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineLady of the Lake with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherJohn Ballantyne, et alDate Published1810 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #86 Poems Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineSir Walter Scott's Poems with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherWilliam P. NimmoDate Published[1860s?] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #87 The Poetical Works Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineScott's Poetical Works with fore edge paintingPublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published1876 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #88 Rokeby Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineScott's Rokeby with a Fore Edge PaintingPublisherJohn Ballantyne, et alDate Published1813 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #89 The Complete Works Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Works with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherOxford University PressDate Published1919 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #90 Sabrinae Corolla in Hortulis Regiae Scholae Salopiensis Contexuerunt Tres Viri Floribus Legendis Heading(Fore Edge Painting)Author[Shrewsbury Royal School]HeadlineFore Edge Painting of a Franciscan ConventPublisherBell & DaldyDate Published1859 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #91 Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorStanley, Arthur PenrhynHeadlineWith a Fore Edge of Westminster Abbey 1896PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1896 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #92 Xenopontis Memorabilium Socratis Dictorum Libri IV Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorXenophonHeadlineFore Edge Painting of Oxford UniversityPublisherE Theatro SheldonianoDate Published1749 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #93 The Book of Common Prayer Heading(Fore Edge Painting)Author**HeadlineFore Edge Painting of CambridgePublisherR. Watts for the UniversityDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #105 Sixteenth century illuminated manuscript of Persian poetry, probably produced in Samarkand Heading(Illuminated Manuscript)Author**Headline16th Century Persian Illuminated ManuscriptDate Published[c. 1576] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #108 Tarpomania & Buck Fever AuthorJohnson, Eldridge ReevesHeadlineTarpomania & Buck FeverPublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1928 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #109 The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineWorks of Josephus Baltimore 1795PublisherPechin and Co.Date Published1795 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #113 Moby Dick or the Whale Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby Dick with Illustrations by Rockwell KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #119 The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Illustrated with Plates, From Drawings by Mr. W. Nicholson, Reduced from a Series of Portraits from Life, Executed for the Agricultural Museum of the University of Edinburgh, by Mr. W. Shiels AuthorLow, DavidHeadlineLow's Domestic Animals of the British IslandsPublisherLongman, Orme, Brown, Green and LongmanDate Published1842 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #126 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost folio 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #136 Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates Heading(Plato)AuthorGrote, GeorgeHeadlineGrote's Plato, 3 volumes finely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1867 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$937.50StatusSold 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... AuthorRichards, WalterHeadlineWalter Richards Her Majesty's ArmyPublisherJ.S. VirtueDate Published[1890s] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #160 Andy Warhol's Index (Book) AuthorWarhol, AndyHeadlineAndy Warhol's Index (Book)PublisherRandom HouseDate Published1967 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #163 Street Haunting - Bound by Eleanore Ramsey AuthorWoolf, VirginiaHeadlineStreet Haunting bound by Eleanore RamseyPublisherWestgate PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next