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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Comic History of England [and] The Comic History of Rome View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Leech, John)AuthorA'Beckett, Gilbert AbbottHeadlineComic History of England & Rome 1st EditionsDate Published1847-48, [1852] Lot #3 The Spectator View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Addison, Steele, et al]HeadlineThe Spectator in 8 volumes mid-18th CenturyPublisherJ. and R. Tonson and S. DraperDate Published[c. 1750] Lot #4 Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Aesop's Fables)AuthorPhaedrus, Aug[ustus]Headline1701 Edition of Aesop FablesPublisherFrancis HalmaDate Published1701 Lot #6 A Whimsical History of some Part of the Iron-Age, Set for in a Predictical Manner. Or a Prognostical Account: Of some Events that will happen to fall out this Year... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorAnonymousHeadlineRare Whimsical History of Iron-Age 1727PublisherPrinted for the Author...Date Published1727 Lot #7 Apulei Madaurensis Platonici Opera Omnia Quae Exstant. Geverhartus Elemenhorstius ex Mstis & vett. Codd. Recensuit, Librumque Emendationum & Indices absolutissimos adiecit View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorApuleius, LuciusHeadlineWorks fo Lusius Apuleius 1621PublisherOfficina WechelianaDate Published1621 Lot #10 A Day in the Bleachers View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorHano, ArnoldHeadlineArion Press A Day in the BleachersPublisherArion PressDate Published2006 Lot #11 Journey Round My Room View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMaistre, Xavier deHeadlineArion Press Journey Round My RoomPublisherArion PressDate Published2007 Lot #12 Godot, An Imaginary Staging...of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWiley, William T.HeadlineGodot, An Imaginary Staging Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published2006 Lot #13 Orlando, A Biography View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWoolf, VirginiaHeadlineArion Press Edition of Virginia Woolf's OrlandoPublisherArion PressDate Published2005 Lot #18 Dissertations Moral and Critical. On Memory and Imagination. On Dreaming. The Theory of Language. On Fable and Romance. On the Attachments of Kindred. Illustrations on Sublimity. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorBeattie, JamesHeadlineBeatties Dissertations Moral & Critical 1783PublisherW. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. CreechDate Published1783 Lot #23 Il Decamerone de M. Giovanni Boccaccio Nvovamente Corretto et Con Diligentia Stampato View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio Decameron 1729 reprint of 1527 editionPublisher[Pasinello]Date Published[1729] Lot #24 Consolationis philosophiae libros quinque View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineBoethius' Consolationis philosophiae 1680PublisherLamberium RoullandDate Published1680 Lot #25 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, during Which He Flourished View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, First EditionPublisherPrinted by Henry BaldwinDate Published1791 Lot #35 Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea: En la qual se contienen de mas de su agradable y dulce estilo muchas sentencias filosofales y auisos muy necessarios para mancebos: mostrandoles los engaños que estan encerrados en siruientes y alcahuetas View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Heading(Celestina...)Author[Rojas, Fernando de]HeadlineRare Antwerp printing of Celestina 1568PublisherEn casa de Philippo NucioDate Published1568 Lot #36 Comedias y entremeses de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, el autor del Don Quixote, divididas en dos tomos, con una dissertacion, o prologo sobre las comedias de España View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineCervantes' Comedias y Entremeses 1749PublisherImprenta de Antonio MarinDate Published1749 Lot #37 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodkinsonne, for Andrew CrookeDate Published1652 Lot #38 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English 1742 Jarvis TranslationPublisherJ. and R. TonsonDate Published1742 Lot #39 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English with 16 plates 1788PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1788 Lot #40 [Don Quixote in Spanish, i.e.] Vida, y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Qvixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadline1750 Spanish edition of Don QuixotePublisherA costa de Don Pedro Alonso y PadillaDate Published1750 Lot #41 [Don Quixote in Spanish, i.e.] El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineFacsimile of 1st Ed. of Don Quixote 1886PublisherDon Francisco Lopez FabraDate Published[c.1886?] Lot #42 Novelas exemplares de Miguèl de Cervantes Saavedra: dirigidas a la exelentissima Señora condessa de Westmorland, en esta ultima imprecion View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineCervantes Novelas Exemplares 1739 the HaguePublisherJ. NeaulmeDate Published1739 Lot #49 Fables Moral and Political, With Large Explications View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCourt, Pieter de laHeadlineFables Moral and Political, With Large ExplicatioDate Published1703 Lot #55 The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner [with] The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe 2 vols. 1719PublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1719 Lot #56 The life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner; who lived eight-and-twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque. With an account of his deliverance thence, and his after Surprizing Adventures. Complete in one volume View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorDefoe, DanielHeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe printed in Chester 1785PublisherPrinted by J. Fletcher, for T. Craig, in NantwichDate Published1785 Lot #60 A Christmas Carol View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Christmas Carol 1st Edition, 2nd IssuePublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 Lot #61 The Mystery of Edwin Drood View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDickens, Charles.HeadlineMystery of Edwin Drood in PartsPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 Lot #62 The Hound of the Baskervilles View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles 1st EdnPublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1902 Lot #63 The Return of Sherlock Holmes View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, A. ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle The Return of Sherlock HolmesPublisherGeorge Newnes, Ltd.Date Published1905 Lot #67 The Novels of Henry Fielding - Large Paper Edition View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlineThe Novels of Henry Fielding - Large Paper EditioPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1926 Lot #68 Finden's Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects of the Engravings by W. Brockenden... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorFinden, William & Edward Francis FindenHeadlineFinden's Illustrations to the Life of Lord ByronPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1833-34 Lot #69 Chefs-D'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineChefs-D'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain Finely BoundPublisherGeorge Barrie & SonsDate Published[c. 1900] Lot #70 [Works] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Works in 13 Volumes Finely BoundPublisherChapman and HallDate Published[c. 1865] Lot #72 The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineWorks of Tennyson Finely BoundPublisherEstes and LauriatDate Published1895-97 Lot #73 10 finely bound volumes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**Headline10 fine binding booksDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #75 Lettres galantes de Monsieur le Chevalier d'Her*** View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de]HeadlineFontenelle's Lettres Galantes 1699PublisherMichel BrunetDate Published1699 Lot #82 The Wind in the Willows View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorGrahame, KennethHeadlineGrahame The Wind in the Willows first editionPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published[1908] Lot #90 The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Headingzzf(Fine Bindings)AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThe Writings of Thomas Hardy Finely BoundPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published[1920] Lot #98 The Dances of Death, Through the Various Stages of Human Life: Wherein the Capriciousness of That Tyrant is Exhibited in Forty-Six Copper Plates; Done from the Original Designes, Which Were Cut in Wood, and Afterwards Painted View details Estimate$300 - $600StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorHolbein, HansHeadlineHolbein Dances of Death 1803 - 46 copper platesPublisherPrinted by w. Smith and Co. for John ScottDate Published1803 Lot #103 Moby Dick or the Whale View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineLakeside Press Edition of Moby Dick Rockwell KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 Lot #110 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherprinted for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-BarDate Published1675 Lot #114 The Love of the Angels, a Poem View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorMoore, Thomas, the PoetHeadlineMoore's Love of Angels 1823PublisherLongman, Hurst, et al.Date Published1823 Lot #115 [Utopia] A Most Pleasant, Fruitful, and Witty Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the new Isle called Utopia... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineMore's Utopia Large Paper Copy 1st Dibdin EditionPublisherPrinted by William Bulmer, for William MillerDate Published1808 Lot #131 Five titles in prize bindings View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Prize Bindings)Author**Headline6 vols of prize binding booksDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #135 A satyr against mankind· VVritten by a person of honour View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Author[Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of]HeadlineRochester's Satyr against manking 1675Date Published[1675?] Lot #137 Les Mois, Poeme, en Douze Chants View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorRoucher, [Jean Antoine]HeadlineRoucher, Les Mois, Poeme, en Douze Chants 1779PublisherQuillauDate Published1779 Lot #143 Four plays from the Second Folio View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineFour plays from Shakespeare's Second FolioDate Published[1632] Lot #147 The Faerie Queene View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineSpenser's Faerie Queene Fairfax-Muckley IllusPublisherJ.M. DentDate Published1897 Lot #153 A Tale of A Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which is added, An Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineSwift's Tale of a Tub 2nd edition 1704PublisherPrinted for John NuttDate Published1704 Lot #154 A Tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James’s Library View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineSwift's Tale of a Tub 1711Date PublishedAnno M.DCC.XI [1711] Lot #159 The Writings of Mark Twain - Author's Edition De Luxe, with ALs to Bliss Carman View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineWritings of Mark Twain With ALs to Bliss CarmanPublisherChatto & WindusDate Published[1899-1907] Lot #161 Le Brutus, de Monsieur de Voltaire, avec un Discours sur la Tragedie View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorVoltaire, [François Marie Arouet de]HeadlineVoltaire's Brutus, 1731Date Published1781 Lot #164 A dialogue between G--s E---e and B--b D---n View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold HeadingzzhAuthorWilliams, Charles HanburyHeadlineHanbury Williams' Dialogue, 1741PublisherT. TaylorDate Published1741 Lot #170 Four Autograph Letters signed by Arnold Bennett View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorBennett, ArnoldHeadlineFour Autograph Letters signed by Arnold BennettDate Published1901-1902 Lot #172 Autograph Letter signed by Blair, to his London publisher View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorBlair, HughHeadlineLetter from Hugh Blair, to his London publisherDate PublishedMay 4, 1782 Lot #178 Autograph Letter signed by Joseph Conrad, to Mrs. DeFries View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorConrad, JosephHeadlineAutograph Letter signed by Joseph ConradDate Published22 May 1899 Lot #179 Manuscript copies of poems and letters by William Cowper, perhaps in the hand of Lady Anne Austen View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorCowper, WilliamHeadlineMS. copies of William Cowper poems & lettersDate Publishedc.1800 Lot #181 Autograph Letter signed by C.L. Dodgson, to a publisher View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorDodgson, Charles Lutwidge [Lewis Carroll]HeadlineAutograph Letter signed by C.L. DodgsonDate PublishedJan. 20, 1872 Lot #182 Autograph Letter signed by C.L. Dodgson, to a Mrs. Richards View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorDodgson, Charles Lutwidge [Lewis Carroll]HeadlineAutograph Letter signed by C.L. DodgsonDate PublishedDec. 13/81 Lot #186 Autograph Letters from Sir Philip Francis, signed Jemmy Twitcher, to Mr. Woodfall View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorFrancis, Philip, atttrib.HeadlineAutograph Letters from Sir Philip FrancisDate Published1765 Lot #188 Autograph Letter signed by H. Rider Haggard, to Mrs. DeFriese View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorHaggard, H. RiderHeadlineAutograph Letter signed by H. Rider HaggardDate Published7 Sept. '07 Lot #190 Autograph Letter signed by Victor Hugo View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineAutograph Letter signed by Victor HugoDate PublishedJan. 2, 1847 Lot #192 Autograph Letter signed by Henry James, to Mrs. DeFriese View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorJames, HenryHeadlineAutograph Letter signed by Henry JamesDate PublishedMay 17, 1899 Lot #195 Autograph Letter signed by John Logan, to Henry Mackenzie, offering criticism of Robert Burns View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorLogan, JohnHeadlineLetter from John Logan criticizing Burns' poetryDate PublishedFebruary 28, 1787 Lot #196 Three Autograph Letters signed by Edward Mangin, to publisher Edward Moxon View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorMangin, EdwardHeadlineLetters from English writer Edward ManginDate Published1833-1834 Lot #207 "Methodists" - Autograph Manuscript View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorSouthey, RobertHeadline"Methodists" - Autograph MS. by Robert SoutheyDate Publishedc.1820 Lot #209 Lot of three autograph manuscripts signed by W.R.H. Trowbridge View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorTrowbridge, W[illiam] R[utherford] H[ayes]HeadlineManuscripts signed by W.R.H. TrowbridgeDate PublishedNo dates Lot #210 Menu for the American Society in London's dinner in honor of United States Independence Day, signed by Mark Twain View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorTwain, Mark [pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens]HeadlineMenu signed by Mark Twain 1907Date PublishedJuly 4th, 1907 Lot #211 Photograph portrait of Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens], signed by him in ink beneath the image View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineSigned photograph of Mark TwainDate Published1907 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next