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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Cases of Treason AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon of Treason 1641PublisherPrinted by the Assignes of John MoreDate Published1641 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold 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 #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 #20 The Decisive Moment AuthorCartier-Bresson, HenriHeadlineThe Decisive Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson in djPublisherSimon and Schuster in collaboration with Èditions VerveDate Published[1952] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold 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 #22 A Perfect Narrative of the Whole Proceedings of the High Court of Justice in the Tryal of the King in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20, and Monday the 22 of this Instant January. [with] A Continuation of the Narrative Being the Third and Fourth Days Proceedings [with] A Continuation of the Narrative Being the Last and Final Dayes Proceedings... Heading(Charles I of England)Author**HeadlineTrial of Charles I of England Contemporary AccounPublisherJohn PlayfordDate PublishedJanuary 23, 25, & 29, 1648 [i.e. 1649] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #23 Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son... AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofHeadlineChesterfields Letters to His Son 1st EditionPublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #26 The Dawn of Liberation - Publisher's Presentation Binding AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineDawn of Liberation Publisher Presentation BindingPublisherCassellDate Published[1945] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #27 The Great War AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The Great WarPublisherGeorge Newnes Ltd.Date Published[1933-34] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold 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 #29 Ian Hamilton's March - First English & American Editions AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineIan Hamilton's March - 1st English & American EdnPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #30 Into Battle AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill Into Battle InscribedPublisherCassellDate Published[1941] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold 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 #32 Lord Randolph Churchill AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineWinston S. Churchill's bio of Lord RandolphPublisherMacmillanDate Published1906 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold 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 #36 Marlborough: His Life and Times AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineMarlborough: His Life and Times First EditionPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co.Date Published[1933-38] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #37 Marlborough: His Life and Times AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill - Marlborough His Life & TimesPublisherScribner'sDate Published1933-38 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #38 My African Journey AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineWinston Churchill My African Journey 1st EdnPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1908 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold 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 #40 The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineChurchill's the River War First Edition 1899PublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1899 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #41 Savrola AuthorChurchill, WinstonHeadlineWinston Churchill Savrola Signed!PublisherHodder and StoughtonDate Publishedno date View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold 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 #45 The Sinews of Peace: Post War Speeches by Winston S. Churchill - Publisher's Presentation Binding AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's Sinews of Peace Presentation BindingPublisherCassellDate Published[1948] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #46 The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineBook Signed by Winston S. ChurchillPublisherThomas Nelson & SonsDate Published[1916] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold 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 #50 The World Crisis AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The World Crisis 1st EditionPublisherThornton ButterworthDate Published[1923-31] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold 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 #52 Seven volumes from the Collected Works of Winston S. Churchill AuthorChurchill, Winston S.Headline7 volumes from Works of Winston S. ChurchillPublisherLibrary of Imperial HistoryDate Published[1974] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #53 A Bibliography of the Works of Winston Churchill - Long Galley Proofs Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorWoods, FrederickHeadlineProof sheets of Woods' Churchill BibliographyPublisherNicholas VaneDate Published[1963] View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #54 The Churchill Centenary Medals Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)Author**HeadlineThe Churchill Centenary MedalsPublisherJohn Pinches Medallists Ltd.Date Published[1974] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #55 Twenty 1965 Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown (5 shilling) Coins Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)Author**Headline20 Churchill Crown CoinsDate Published1965 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #56 Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; With his Original Correspondence: Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim, and Other Authentic Sources Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorCoxe, WilliamHeadlineMemoirs of John Duke of MarlboroughPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and BrownDate Published1818-19 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #110 The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knight... AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineLarge Paper Copy of L'Estrange's Josephus 1702PublisherPrinted for Richard SareDate Published1702 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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 #117 "We" AuthorLindbergh, Charles A.HeadlineCharles Lindbergh "We" 1 of 1000 signed copiesPublisherPutnamDate Published1927 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #118 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #125 A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II, with a glossary of military terms of the Middle Ages AuthorMeyrick, Samuel RushHeadlineMeyrick's Ancient Armour editor's copyPublisherRobert JenningsDate Published1824 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold 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 #135 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$600 - $900StatusUnsold 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 #140 Classified phone book for the Kremlin, with names of purged officials crossed out Heading(Russia - Soviet Era)Author**HeadlineClassified phone book for the KremlinDate Published1955 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #141 Lot of 5 original photographs of Soviet leaders and dignitaries Heading(Russia - Soviet Era)Headline5 original photographs of Soviet leadersDate Publishedc.1919-1960's View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #143 WITHDRAWN Three volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etc. with woodcut illustrations Heading(Samurai)Author**HeadlineThree volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etcDate Published18th Century(?) View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #157 The hystory, writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls... AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucyides Pelopenessian War 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next