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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Poems View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Adams, Ansel)AuthorJeffers, RobinsonHeadlineRobinson Jeffers Poems Signed by Ansel AdamsPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1928 Lot #6 Invisible Cities View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCalvino, ItaloHeadlineArion Press Invisible CitiesPublisherArion PressDate Published1999 Lot #7 The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCanetti, EliasHeadlineThe Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a VisitPublisherThe Arion PressDate Published2001 Lot #8 The Apocalypse. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. The last book of the New Testament View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorDine, Jim, illustratorHeadlineArion Press The Apocalypse, Illus. by Jim DinePublisherArion PressDate Published1982 Lot #9 A Coney Island of the Mind View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorFerlinghetti, LawrenceHeadlineFerlinghetti Coney Island of the Mind Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published2005 Lot #16 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 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBeattie, JamesHeadlineBeatties Dissertations Moral & Critical 1783PublisherW. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. CreechDate Published1783 Lot #21 The Grave, A Poem View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertHeadlineThe Grave 1808 William Blake Engravings folio ed.PublisherT. BensleyDate Published1808 Lot #22 Il Decameron View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineThe Decameron of Boccaccio 1816 Folio EditionPublisherCo' Caratteri di F. DidotDate Published1816 Lot #23 Rime di Francesco Petrarca View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Bodoni)AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoHeadlineBodoni printing of Petrarca's Rimes 1799PublisherCo' Tipi BodonianiDate Published1799 Lot #24 In Funere Caroli III Hispaniar. Regis Catholici Oratio View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Bodoni)AuthorRidolfi, BernardinoHeadlineScarce Officina Bodoni Work By RidolfiPublisherEx Regio TypographeoDate Published1789 Lot #30 Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Calder, Alexander, illus.)AuthorAesopHeadlineAesop's Fables Illustrated by Alexander CalderPublisherHarrison of ParisDate Published1931 Lot #35 [Don Quixote in English, i.e. The history of Don-Quichote. The first parte] View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineEarly English edition of Don Quixote 1620Publisher[Ed. Blounte]Date Published[1620?] Lot #36 The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant, Don Quixote, of the Mancha [with] The Second Part of the History... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Author[Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de]HeadlineEarly English Edition of Don QuixotePublisherR. Scot, et al [&] Richard HodgkinsonDate Published1675 Lot #49 A Christmas Carol View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineEarly Printing of Dickens Christmas Carol 1844PublisherChapman & HallDate Published1844 Lot #51 Swiat/The World View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Dine, Jim, artist)AuthorMilosz, CzeslawHeadlineSwiat/The World, One of 250 signed copiesPublisherArion PressDate Published1989 Lot #52 The Hound of the Baskervilles View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles 1st EdnPublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1902 Lot #56 Le Bestiaire View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorEluard, PaulHeadlinePaul Eluard Le Bestiare Illus by Andre ChastelPublisherMaeghtDate Published[1948] Lot #59 Epitome Adagiorvm post novissimam D. Erasmi Rot. exquisitam recognitionem, per Eberhardum Tappium ad numerum adagiorum magni operis nunc primum aucta View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorErasmus Roterodamus, DesideriusHeadlineErasmus Adagiorum 1542PublisherGymnicusDate Published1542 Lot #63 A Primer of Birds View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Gehenna Press)AuthorHughes, TedHeadlineGehenna Press Primer of Birds Printer's CopyPublisherThe Gehenna PressDate Published1981 Lot #68 The Canterbury Tales View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Golden Cockerel Press)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineGolden Cockerel Canterbury Tales of ChaucerPublisherGolden Cockerel PressDate Published1929-31 Lot #76 Homer His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby, Esq. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineOgilby edition of Homer's Odyssey, 1669PublisherPrinted by James Flesher, for the AuthourDate Published1669 Lot #78 Les Misérables View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineVictor Hugo Les Misérables First Edition 1862PublisherA. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & CeDate Published1862 Lot #87 Maud, a Monodrama View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineKelmscott Press printing of Tennyson's MaudPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published[1893] Lot #90 Le Livre de la Fumeé View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorLaloy, LouisHeadlineLaloy Livre de la Fumee inscribedPublisherDorbon-AinéDate Published[1913] Lot #91 Ulysses View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce's Ulysses 1/1500 Signed by MatissePublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1935 Lot #92 The Plays in 37 volumes View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineLimited Editions Club Shakespeare 37 volumesPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1939-1940 Lot #94 The Seasons View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineInscribed by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisherLongman, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1842 Lot #96 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1680 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherJohn Starkey, Charles Harper, and John AmeryDate Published1680 Lot #98 Les Georgiques View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Maillol, Aristide, illustrator)AuthorVirgilHeadlineVirgil's Georgiques Illustrated by MaillolPublisherPhilippe GoninDate Published1937-43 [i.e. 1950] Lot #99 [Le Morte d'Arthur, i.e.]: The most ancient and famous history of the renowned prince Arthur King of Britaine, vvherein is declared his life and death, with all his glorious battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and pagans, which (for the honour of his country) he most worthily atchieued. As also all the noble acts, and heroicke deeds of his valiant knights of the Round Table. Newly refined, and published for the delight, and profit of the reader View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineEarly English edition of Le Morte d'ArthurPublisherPrinted by William Stansby, for Iacob BloomeDate Published1634 Lot #101 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost folio 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 Lot #102 Galileo a Madama Cristina di Lorena (1615) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Miniature Book)AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineGalileo in MiniaturePublisherTipogr. SalminDate Published1896 (colophon dated 1897) Lot #107 The Iliad [&] The Odyssey View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorHomerHeadlineNonesuch Press Iliad & Odyssey of HomerPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1931 Lot #116 Goblin Market View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur)AuthorRossetti, Christina GeorginaHeadlineRossetti's Goblin Market Signed by Arthur RackhamPublisherGeorge G. HarrapDate Published[1933] Lot #118 Delle Rime Del S. Berardino Rota [bound with] Delle Egloghe Pescatorie del S. Berardino Rota View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorRota, BerardinoHeadlineRhymes of Berardino Rota 1572PublisherGiuseppe Cacchii dell AquilaDate Published1572 Lot #121 "If" and "Recessional" View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Heading(Sangorski, Alberto)AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineIlluminated Manuscript by Alberto SangorskiDate Published[c. 1928] Lot #124 Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies - First Folio Facsimile View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline1807 Facsimile of Shakespeare's First FolioPublisher[printed by E. and J. Wright]Date Published[1807-8] Lot #125 The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Richard III, 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #126 The Winters Tale View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Winters Tale 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #127 The life and death of King John View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's King John 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #128 Twelfe Night, Or what you will View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Twelfe Night 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #134 The Way We Live Now View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorSontag, SusanHeadlineThe Way We Live Now, 1/200 Signed, Ltd.PublisherKarsten SchubertDate Published[1991] Lot #136 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Author[Sterne, Laurence]HeadlineSterne's Sentimental Journey 1768PublisherT. Becket and P.A. De HondtDate Published1768 Lot #144 The .xiii. bookes of Æneidos. The first twelue beeinge the woorke of the diuine poet Virgil Maro, and the thirtenth the supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English verse to the fyrst thirdpart of the tenth booke, by Thomas Phaër Esquire: and the residue finished, and now the second time newly setforth for the delite of such as are studious in poetrie: by Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineVirgil's Aeneid in English 1584PublisherWilliam How for Abraham VealeDate Published1584 Lot #149 Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855...1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.)... Portraits from Life... Autograph View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWhitman's Complete Poems & Prose signedDate Published[1888 or 1889] Lot #151 Fables View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Wiley, William T., illustrator)AuthorHannon, MichaelHeadlineFabels by Michael Hannon Signed Limited EditionPublisherTurkey PressDate Published1988 Lot #152 Second Thoughts View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Wiley, William T., illustrator)AuthorHannon, MichaelHeadlineMichael Hannon Second Thoughts Sgnd Ltd EdnPublisherThe John and Maxine Belger Family FoundationDate Published2001 Lot #154 The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorWilson, AdrianHeadlineMaking of the Nuremberg Chronicle Finely BoundPublisherNico IsraelDate Published[1976] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next