Sale 397: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#397) 02/19/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/19/2009 1:00 PM PST Auction Info 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 101-154 of 154. Previous|12|Next 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 #103 The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorMonstrelet, Enguerrand deHeadlineThe Chronicles of Engeurrand de MonstreletPublisherHafod PressDate Published1809 Lot #104 One Hundred Years of Solitude View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorMárquez, Gabriel GarcíaHeadlineMárquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 1st EdnPublisherHarper & RowDate Published[1970] Lot #105 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English, Vol. I, 1729PublisherPrinted for Benjamin MotteDate Published1729 Lot #106 The method of fluxions and infinite series; with its application to the geometry of curve-lines. By the Inventor Sir Isaac Newton, Kt. Late President of the Royal Society. Translated from the author’s Latin original not yet made publick. To which is subjoin’d, a perpetual comment upon the whole work, Consisting of Annotations, Illustrations, and Supplements, In order to make this Treatise A compleat Institution for the use of Learners. By John Colson, M.A. and F.R.S. Master of Sir Joseph Williamson’s free Mathematical-School at Rochester View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Methods of Fluxions large paper 1736PublisherPrinted by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John NourseDate Published1736 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 #108 Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, of Personal Valour, Bravery, and Particular Incidents Which Occurred to the Armies of Great Britain and her Allies, in the Long-Contested War, Terminating with the Battle of Waterloo. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorOrme, Edward, publisherHeadlineMilitary Color-Plate Book 1819PublisherEdward OrmeDate Published1819 [plates watermarked 1825] Lot #109 Collection of 34 manuscript leaves with paintings from Persia or Mughal India View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Heading(Persian/Mughal Manuscript Leaves)Author**Headline34 Persian/Mughal Manuscript LeavesDate PublishedEarly 19th century? Lot #110 Manuscript book of Poetry in Arabic Script with illuminations in gilt and colors View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Persian Poetry Manuscript)AuthorAbu Mo'in Hamid al-Din Nasir ibn KhusrawHeadlineIlluminated Persian Poetry ManuscriptDate Published1897 Lot #111 Mädchen in Filmprobe View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Photographs)AuthorJacobi, LotteHeadlineLotte Jacobi original photograph 1932Publisherfoto JacobiDate Published1932 Lot #112 8 photographs of Zeppelins including view of the Hindenburg before its last flight View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Photographs)AuthorWolff, PaulHeadlinePaul Wolff photos including Hindenburg ZeppelinDate Published1930s Lot #113 Le Temple des Muses View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Picart, Bernard)Author**HeadlinePicart's Temple of Muses with engravingsPublisherZacharie ChatelainDate Published1733 Lot #114 Opera View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorPlautus, [Titus Maccius]HeadlineWorks of Plautus edited by Lambin 1577PublisherJean MaceDate Published1577 Lot #115 The Historie of the World; Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Author[Pliny the Elder] Plinius Secundus, GaiusHeadlinePliny's History of the World 1601PublisherImpensis G.B. [Printed by Adam Islip]Date Published1601 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 #117 Iconologia Overo View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorRipa, CesareHeadlineSecond Edition of Ripa's IconologiaPublisherLepido FaeijDate Published1603 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 #119 Hachelyke Reystogt van Jacob Jansz. de Roy Na Borneo en Atchin... in het Jaar 1691... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorRoy, Jacob deHeadlineEarly account of Borneo by Jacob de RoyPublisherPieter Vander AaDate Published1706 Lot #120 The Little Prince View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold AuthorSaint-Exupéry, Antoine deHeadlineThe Little Prince Signed Limited EditionPublisherReynal & HitchcockDate Published[1943] 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 #122 Letters on Egypt, With a Parallel Between the Manners of its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, the Present State, the Commerce, the Agriculture, and Government of the Country View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorSavary [Claude Etienne]HeadlineSavary's Letters on Egypt 1786 First English EdnPublisherG. G. J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1786 Lot #123 Habes hic lector, dialogū de Fratre Hieronymi Nicolai Sauonarola Ferrariensi... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorSavonarola, GirolamoHeadlineSavonarola's Last Moments 1521Publisher[Johannes Rhau-Grunenberg]Date Published1521 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 #129 Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorShaw, HenryHeadlineShaw's Middle Ages Large Paper Copy w/platesPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1843 Lot #130 The Seat of War in the East. First and Second Series View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorSimpson, WilliamHeadlineSimpson's Seat of War in the East 1855-56PublisherPaul & Dominic ColnaghiDate Published1855-56 Lot #131 An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations 2nd Amer. Edn.PublisherThomas DobsonDate Published1796 Lot #132 Antiquities of London and it's Environs View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorSmith, John ThomasHeadlineSmith's Antiquities of London 1791-[1800]PublisherSewell, Faulder, et alDate Published1791-[1800] Lot #133 De Pileo, Caeterisque Capitus Tegminibus Tan Sacris, Quam Profanis View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorSolerius, Anselmus [Raynaud, Theophile]HeadlineScarce works on head wear, togas, etcPublisherAndreae FrisiiDate Published1672 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 #135 Opera Posthuma: Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorSpinoza, Baruch deHeadlineSpinoza's posthumas works, 1677Publisher[J. Rieuwertsz]Date Published1677 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 #137 Comoediae. Recensuit, Notasque Suas et Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentleius. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading[Terence]AuthorP. Terentii AfriHeadlineTerence's Comedies 1727PublisherR. & J. Wetstein & G. SmithDate Published1727 Lot #138 Commentaria sancti thome super libros physicor[um] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorThomas AquinasHeadlineRare incunabula of Thomas Aquinas on AristotlePublisherJoanem & Gregoriuu[n] de Gregoriis fratresDate Published1492 Lot #139 Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Peloponnesian Warre 1629PublisherImprinted for Hen: SeileDate Published1629 Lot #140 Abeceda Dusevniho Prazdna [Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorTmej, Zdenek, photographerHeadlineAbeceda Dusevniho Prazdna Tmej ZdenekPublisherNakladatelstvi ZadruhaDate Published1946 Lot #141 A Confederacy of Dunces View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorToole, John KennedyHeadlineJ.K. Toole A Confederacy of Dunces 1st EditionPublisherLouisiana State University PressDate Published1980 Lot #142 Door Locks, Knobs, Padlocks, Etc., Illustrated and Described View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Trade Catalog)AuthorMallory, Wheeler & Co.HeadlineScarce Catalog of Door Knobs, Locks, etcPublisherMallory, Wheeler & Co.Date Published1871 Lot #143 Vermont Marble Company's Designs View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Trade Catalog)Author**HeadlineTombstone Trade Catalog with Marble SamplesPublisherVermont Marble CompanyDate Published[c. 1910?] 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 #145 Le Grand Testament View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorVillon, FrancoisHeadlineVillon Le Grand Testament Limited EditionPublisherRene JeanneDate Published1963 Lot #146 Les Bucoliques de Virgile View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Villon, Jacques, artist)AuthorValery, PaulHeadlineLes Bucoliques, One of 245 CopiesPublisherScripta & PietaDate Published1953 Lot #147 Dictionnaire Raisonne du Mobilier Francais de l'Epoque Carlovingienne a la Renaissance View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorViollet-le-Duc, [Eugene Emmanuel]HeadlineDictionnaire Raisonne du Mobilier FrancaisPublisherA. Morel & Cie.Date Published1872-75 Lot #148 Les Dix Livres d'Architecture Corrigez et Traduits Nouvellement en Francois, Avec des Notes & des Figures. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorVitruvius. [Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus]Headline1673 Edition of Vitruvius d'ArchitecturePublisherJean Baptiste CoignardDate Published1673 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 #150 A Suite of Daze. Etchings by William Wiley View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorWiley, William T.HeadlineA Suite of Daze. Signed by William WileyPublisherLandfall PressDate Published1977 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 #153 A Streetcar Named Desire View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorWilliams, TennesseeHeadlineTennessee Williams Streetcar Named DesirePublisherNew DirectionsDate Published[1947] 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|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next