Sale 412: Fine Books & Manuscripts (#412) 09/17/2009 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/17/2009 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info 412 124 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 1-55 of 55. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists AuthorAesopHeadlineFables of Aesop and other Eminent MythologistsPublisherR. Sare, B. Took, et alDate Published1699 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #6 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Heading(Arabian Nights)AuthorBurton, Sir Richard F., translatorHeadlineThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a NightPublisherH.S. Nichols, Ltd.Date Published1897 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #7 The Arabian Nights Heading(Arabian Nights)AuthorForster, Edward, translatorHeadlineThe Arabian Nights Forster Translation 1810PublisherWilliam MillerDate Published1810 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #9 The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem: with annotations and an astronomical appendix. By Edward Sherburne, Esquire Heading(Astronomy)AuthorManilius, MarcusHeadlineManilius Sphere inscribed by trans. Ed. SherburnePublisherPrinted for Nathanael Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal ExchangeDate Published1675 View details Estimate$18,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #10 Dictionnaire des Athees Anciens et Moderns Heading(Atheism)AuthorMarechal, Pierre-SylvainHeadlineMarechal's Dictionnaire des AtheesPublisherChez l'EditeurDate Published1833 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #11 Del Decamerone AuthorBaccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineDecameron by Boccaccio in Italian 1761 2volsDate Published1761 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #18 The True and Eccentric Life of Betty Bolaine, (Late of Canterbury) A Well Known Character for Avarice, Meanness, and Vice; Who Died June 6, 1805, aged Eighty Two, Whilst Eating a Brown Crust; Although Worth Twenty Thousand Pounds! Heading(Bolaine, Betty)Author**HeadlineLife of Betty BolainePublisherJ. Scales, et alDate Published[c. 1805] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #21 The Book of the Dead: Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher, and Netchemet with Supplementary Text From the Papyrus of Nu AuthorBudge, E.A. WallisHeadlineThe Book of the DeadPublisherBritish Museum, et alDate Published1899 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #27 A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be so frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's Name AuthorCibber, ColleyHeadlineLetter from Mr. Cibber to Mr Pope 1742PublisherPrinted, and Sold by W. LewisDate Published1742 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #28 Wordsworth: An Anthology Heading(Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James)AuthorWordsworth, WilliamHeadlineCobden-Sanderson's copy or WordsworthPublisherRichard Cobden-SandersonDate Published1920 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #38 Dean's Recently Improved Analytical Guide to the Art of Penmanship... AuthorDean, HenryHeadlineDean's Guide to the Art of Penmanship... 1808PublisherFor the Author, et alDate Published[1808] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #39 The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language Author[Defoe, Daniel]Headlinememoirs of sundry trans World-Moon Defoe 1705PublisherBenj. BraggDate Published1705 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #42 Clipped signature of Charles Dickens AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineClipped signature of Charles DickensDate Publishedc.1869 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #43 Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz" AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Oliver Twist First Edition Finely BoundPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #44 [Works] AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Works Finely BoundPublisherAmerican News CompanyDate PublishedNo date [c. 1880] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #46 Poems on Various Occasions; and Translations from Several Authors AuthorDryden, JohnHeadlinePoems on Various Occasions 1701PublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1701 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #55 [Works] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadlineWorks of George Eliot Finely BoundPublisherLippincottDate Published1901 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #56 The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq. Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlineThe Works of Henry Fielding Finely BoundPublisherBickers and Son, H. Sotheran and Co.Date Published1871-72 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #58 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineThe Works of Edgar Allan Poe Finely BoundPublisherCroscup & CompanyDate Published1896 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #60 The Waverly Novels - Collectors' Autograph Edition Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineThe Waverly Novels Collectors' Autograph EditionPublisherGeorge D. SproulDate Published1900 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Edition of The Sonnets of William Shakespeare Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSonnets of William Shakespeare Finely BoundPublisherShepheard-WalwynDate Published[1974] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #62 The Works of Shakespeare Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Works of ShakespearePublisherW. Kent & Co.Date Published1880 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #67 The Flowers of Shakespeare Author[Giraud, Jane Elizabeth]HeadlineFlowers Shakespeare chromolithos signed by GiraudPublisherDay & HagheDate Published[1845] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #71 Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time AuthorGrose, FrancisHeadlineGrose's Military AntiquitiesPublisherPrinted for T. Egerton & G. KearsleyDate Published1801 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #76 A Series of Mercantile Letters, Intended to Give a General Knowledge of Business to Those Young Persons Whose Views are Directed to Commerce, and for the Use of Schools AuthorHodgkins, E.HeadlineMercantile letters by E.Hodgkins 1808PublisherT. BooseyDate Published1808 View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold Lot #78 Queen Victoria AuthorHolmes, Richard R.HeadlineRichard Holmes Queen VictoriaPublisherBoussod, Valadon & Co.Date Published1897 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #80 A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist [Quadrille; Piquet; Back-Gammon] AuthorHoyle, EdmondHeadlineEarly Edition of Hoyle's GamesPublisherT. OsborneDate Published1750 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #83 Old Sword-Play: The Systems of Fence in Vogue During the XVIth, XVIIth. and XVIIIth Centuries with Lessons Arranged from the Works of Various Ancient Masters AuthorHutton, AlfredHeadlineAlfred Hutton Old Sword-PlayPublisherGrevel & Co.Date Published1892 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #84 Illuminated manuscript leaf from an Antiphonal, on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author**Headlineillum manuscript Antophonal on vellum 16th centDate Publishedc.16th century View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #85 The Rape of the Smock. An Heroi-comical Poem. By Mr. Jacob. The third edition. With other miscellanies AuthorJacob, [Giles]HeadlineJacob's The Rape of the Smock, 1736PublisherE. CurllDate Published1736 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #87 The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Complete in One Volume AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineThe poetical works of Samuel Johnson 1785PublisherPrinted for W. Osborne and T. Griffin, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and J. Mozley, GainsbroughDate Published1785 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #89 Fables de La Fontaine AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean de]HeadlineFables de La Fontaine Grandville IllustrationsPublisherH. Fournier AineDate Published1838 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #90 The Fables of La Fontaine AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean de]HeadlineThe Fables of La Fontaine Dore IllustrationsPublisherCassell & CompanyDate PublishedNo date [1880s?] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #91 Tales and Novels in Verse AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean deHeadlineLa Fontaine Tales and Novels in VersePublisherThe Society of English BibliophilistsDate Published1896 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #93 The Comic History of Rome Heading(Leech, John)AuthorA'Beckett, Gilbert AbbottHeadlineThe Comic History of RomePublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published[1852] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #95 The Poetical Works of...Illustrated AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthHeadline2 vol Poetical Works Henry W Longfellow 1881-82PublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published1881-82 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #102 The Dramatic Works of Philip Massinger, Compleat. In four volumes. Revised, corrected, and all the various editions collated, by Thomas Coxeter. With notes critical and explanatory, of various authors. To which are prefixed, Critical reflections on the old English dramatic writers. Addressed to David Garrick, Esq AuthorMassinger, PhilipHeadlineThe dramatic works of Philip Massinger 1761Publisherprinted for T. DaviesDate Published1761 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #126 Paradise Lost, A Poem. AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost Glasgow, 1770PublisherRobert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the UniversityDate Published1770 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #127 Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineJohn Milton Paradise Lost 1821PublisherJohn SharpeDate Published1821 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #133 The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte Heading(Napoleon)AuthorHazlitt, WilliamHeadlineHazlitt's Life of Napoleon BuonapartePublisherOffice of the Illustrated London LibraryDate Published1852 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #137 An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorMaclaurin, ColinHeadlineSir Isaac Newton's Philosophical DiscoveriesPublisherA. MillarDate Published1750 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #138 Collection of manuscript copies of early occult texts Heading(Occult)Author**HeadlineManuscript copies of early occult textsDate Published[Late 19th - early 20th centuries] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #143 Odes of Pindar, With Several Other Pieces in Prose and Verse, Translated from the Greek. To which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Olympick Games AuthorPindarHeadlineOdes of Pindar 1749 LondonPublisherR. DodsleyDate Published1749 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #146 Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst. By Mr. Pope AuthorPope, AlexanderHeadlineAlexander Pope Of the Use of Riches 1732PublisherPrinted by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church in FleetstreetDate Published1732 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #147 The Works of Alexander Pope AuthorPope, AlexanderHeadline6 vols Works of Alexander Pope 1736-37Date Published1736-37 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #153 Poems on Several Occasions: with Valentinian; a Tragedy. Written by the Right Honourable John, late Earl of Rochester AuthorRochester, John Wilmot, Earl ofHeadlineRochester's Poems 1705PublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1705 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #154 The works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq; in two volumes. Consisting of his plays and poems AuthorRowe, NicholasHeadlineThe works of Nicholas Rowe 1756Publisherprinted for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper and H. Lintot,Date Published1756 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #156 The Tragedie of Macbeth. With Illustrations and Notes by J. Moyr Smith AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Tragedie of Macbeth Illus by J. Moyr SmithPublisherWhite and AllenDate Published[1899] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #157 [Works] AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineMiniature edition of Shakespeare in orig boxPublisherKnickerbocker Leather & Novelty Co.Date Published[c. 1910] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #161 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Author[Smollett, Tobias]HeadlineThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker 1st EditionPublisherPrinted for W. Johnson and B. CollinsDate Published1771 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #163 The Seasons, by James Thomson, with His Life, and a Complete Index and Glossary. Embellished with Fourteen Fine Engravings, by the First Artists AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineThomson's Seasons 1795 with fine platesPublisherprinted by and for T. Chapman,Date Published1795 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #164 Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: Or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage AuthorTull, JethroHeadlineJethro Tull of Vegetation and Tillage 1762PublisherA. MillarDate Published1762 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #167 La Bonne Chanson AuthorVerlaine, PaulHeadlinePaul Verlaine La Bonne Chanson Unique CopyPublisherAlbert MesseinDate Published1914 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #169 Autograph passage in Whitman's hand, matted with photograph AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineAutograph passage in Walt Whitman's handDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #170 L'Anniversaire de l'Infante AuthorWilde, OscarHeadlineL'Anniversaire de l'Infante Illus. by AlastairPublisherBlack Sun PressDate Published1928 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next