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HessellHeadlineMS. account of Airspeed aviationDate Published1931-1936 Lot #2 Cases of Treason View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon of Treason 1641PublisherPrinted by the Assignes of John MoreDate Published1641 Lot #7 Archive of letters from René Belbenoit, with related material View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorBelbenoit, RenéHeadlineArchive of letters from René BelbenoitDate Published1930s-50s 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 #20 The Decisive Moment View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorCartier-Bresson, HenriHeadlineThe Decisive Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson in djPublisherSimon and Schuster in collaboration with Èditions VerveDate Published[1952] 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... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Charles I of England)Author**HeadlineTrial of Charles I of England Contemporary AccounPublisherJohn PlayfordDate PublishedJanuary 23, 25, & 29, 1648 [i.e. 1649] Lot #23 Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son... View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofHeadlineChesterfields Letters to His Son 1st EditionPublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 Lot #26 The Dawn of Liberation - Publisher's Presentation Binding View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineDawn of Liberation Publisher Presentation BindingPublisherCassellDate Published[1945] Lot #27 The Great War View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The Great WarPublisherGeorge Newnes Ltd.Date Published[1933-34] Lot #28 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's English-Speaking Peoples Finely BoundPublisherCassellDate Published[1956-58] Lot #29 Ian Hamilton's March - First English & American Editions View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineIan Hamilton's March - 1st English & American EdnPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #30 Into Battle View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill Into Battle InscribedPublisherCassellDate Published[1941] 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 #32 Lord Randolph Churchill View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineWinston S. Churchill's bio of Lord RandolphPublisherMacmillanDate Published1906 Lot #33 Lord Randolph Churchill View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineLord Randolph Churchill First American EditionPublisherMacmillanDate Published1906 Lot #34 Marlborough: His Life and Times View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill's Marlborough 1 of 155 signedPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.Date Published[1933-38] Lot #35 Marlborough: His Life and Times View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineMarlborough: His Life and Times Finely BoundPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co.Date Published[1933-38] Lot #36 Marlborough: His Life and Times View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineMarlborough: His Life and Times First EditionPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co.Date Published[1933-38] Lot #37 Marlborough: His Life and Times View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill - Marlborough His Life & TimesPublisherScribner'sDate Published1933-38 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 #39 My Early Life: A Roving Commission View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill My Early Life SignedPublisherMacmillanDate Published1941 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 #41 Savrola View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorChurchill, WinstonHeadlineWinston Churchill Savrola Signed!PublisherHodder and StoughtonDate Publishedno date Lot #42 Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineWinston Churchill Savrola First English EditionPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #43 The Second World War - Presentation Binding View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineThe Second World War - Presentation BindingPublisherCassellDate Published[1948-54] Lot #44 The Second World War View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill Second World War Finely BoundPublisherCassellDate Published[1948-54] Lot #45 The Sinews of Peace: Post War Speeches by Winston S. Churchill - Publisher's Presentation Binding View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's Sinews of Peace Presentation BindingPublisherCassellDate Published[1948] Lot #46 The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineBook Signed by Winston S. ChurchillPublisherThomas Nelson & SonsDate Published[1916] Lot #48 The War Speeches of the Rt Hon Winston S. Churchill View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's War Speeches Finely BoundPublisherCassellDate Published1962, 1952 Lot #49 The World Crisis View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The World Crisis Finely BoundPublisherThornton ButterworthDate Published[1923-31] Lot #50 The World Crisis View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The World Crisis 1st EditionPublisherThornton ButterworthDate Published[1923-31] Lot #51 Seven volumes of Churchill's War & Post-War Speeches View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.Headline7 volumes of Churchill's War & Post-War SpeechesPublisherCassellDate Published[1942-50] Lot #52 Seven volumes from the Collected Works of Winston S. Churchill View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.Headline7 volumes from Works of Winston S. ChurchillPublisherLibrary of Imperial HistoryDate Published[1974] Lot #53 A Bibliography of the Works of Winston Churchill - Long Galley Proofs View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorWoods, FrederickHeadlineProof sheets of Woods' Churchill BibliographyPublisherNicholas VaneDate Published[1963] Lot #54 The Churchill Centenary Medals View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)Author**HeadlineThe Churchill Centenary MedalsPublisherJohn Pinches Medallists Ltd.Date Published[1974] Lot #55 Twenty 1965 Winston Churchill Commemorative Crown (5 shilling) Coins View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)Author**Headline20 Churchill Crown CoinsDate Published1965 Lot #56 Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; With his Original Correspondence: Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim, and Other Authentic Sources View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorCoxe, WilliamHeadlineMemoirs of John Duke of MarlboroughPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and BrownDate Published1818-19 Lot #57 A Survey View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)AuthorBeerbohm, MaxHeadlineMax Beerbohm A SurveyPublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1921 Lot #58 Wordsworth: An Anthology View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James)AuthorWordsworth, WilliamHeadlineCobden-Sanderson's copy of WordsworthPublisherRichard Cobden-SandersonDate Published1920 Lot #70 Queen Elizabeth View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Fine Binding - Cosway Style)AuthorCreighton, MandellHeadlineCosway Style Binding with Portrait of ElizabethPublisherBoussod, Valadon & Co.Date Published1896 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 #75 The Works View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineThackeray's Works 13 Finely Bound VolumesPublisherSmith, Elder, & Co.Date Published1905-11 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 #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 #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 #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 #110 The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knight... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineLarge Paper Copy of L'Estrange's Josephus 1702PublisherPrinted for Richard SareDate Published1702 Lot #111 Dubliners View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce, Dubliners 1914 1st Edition, 1 of 746PublisherGrant Richards Ltd.Date Published[1914] Lot #112 Ulysses View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJoyce's Ulysses in orig wrappers 5th printingPublisherShakespeare and CompanyDate Published1924 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 #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 #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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorMeyrick, Samuel RushHeadlineMeyrick's Ancient Armour editor's copyPublisherRobert JenningsDate Published1824 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 #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 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorPepys, SamuelHeadlineSamuel Pepys Memoirs 1st edition 1825PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1825 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 #139 The Seven Lamps of Architecture - With annotations in Ruskin's hand View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineRuskin's Seven Lamps Annotated by HimPublisherSmith, Elder, and Co.Date Published1855 Lot #140 Classified phone book for the Kremlin, with names of purged officials crossed out View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Russia - Soviet Era)Author**HeadlineClassified phone book for the KremlinDate Published1955 Lot #141 Lot of 5 original photographs of Soviet leaders and dignitaries View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Russia - Soviet Era)Headline5 original photographs of Soviet leadersDate Publishedc.1919-1960's Lot #143 WITHDRAWN Three volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etc. with woodcut illustrations View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Samurai)Author**HeadlineThree volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etcDate Published18th Century(?) Lot #146 Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies View details Estimate$200,000 - $300,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSecond Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Works 1632PublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot... at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yardDate Published1632 Lot #147 The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, William (attrib.)HeadlineShakespeare's John Oldcastle 1734PublisherJ. TonsonDate Published1734 Lot #148 Business card for Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Shakespeare and Company)Author**HeadlineShakesepeare & Co. business card c. 1925Date Published[c.1925] Lot #155 [Brobdingnag and New Albion] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineMap of Brobdingnag and New Albion 1731Date Published[1731?] 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... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucyides Pelopenessian War 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 Lot #161 Andy Warhol's Exposures View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorWarhol, Andy with Bob ColacelloHeadlineAndy Warhol's Exposures Signed by WarholPublisherAndy Warhol Books/Grosset & DunlapDate Published[1979] Lot #162 The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorYeats, W[illiam] B[utler]HeadlineVariorum Edition of the Poems of Yeats signedPublisherMacmillanDate Published1957 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next