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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817; Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin, and Observations on the Countries which it visited AuthorAbel, ClarkeHeadlineClarke Abel's Journey to China 1819 color platesPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1819 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #32 An American Angler in Australia Headingzzk(Angling)AuthorGrey, ZaneHeadlineZane Grey An American Angler in Australia 1st EdnPublisherHarper & Bros.Date Published1937 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #37 Istoria della China de Lodovico Arrivabene Gentil'hvomo Mantovano, nella quale si tratta de molte cose marauigliose di quell' amplissimo Regno AuthorArrivabene, LodovicoHeadlineHistory of China, 1599PublisherAppresso A. Tamo ad instanza di Angelo de'RossiDate Published1599 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #38 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume V. AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVolume 5 of Audubon's Birds 1842 Octavo Edn.PublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1842 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #39 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume VI. AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVolume 6 of Audubon's Birds 1843 Octavo Edn.PublisherJ.J. AudubonDate Published1843 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$23,750StatusSold Lot #42 Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri Septem. In quibus Tabulae omnes gradibus distinctae, descriptiones accuratae, caetera supra priores editiones politiora, Auctioraque. ad Christianissimum Galliae & Navarrae Regem Ludovicum XIII AuthorBertius, PetrusHeadlineBertius' Geography with 220 maps 1618PublisherJodocus HondiusDate Published1618 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition AuthorByrd, Richard E.HeadlineRichard Byrd Discovery Signed with photosPublisherPutnam'sDate Published1935 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #53 The Jerusalem Windows AuthorChagall, MarcHeadlineMarc Chagall Jerusalem Windows w/ 2 color lithos.PublisherAndre SauretDate Published[1962] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #55 Veterum Romanorum Religio, Castrametatio, Disciplina Militaris ut & Balneae ex Antiquis Numismatibus & Lapidibus Demonstrata. AuthorChoul, Guilielmo DuHeadlineGuilielmo Du Choul Veterum Romanorum 1685PublisherJansson-WaesbergDate Published1685 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #56 Les Civilisations de L'Inde Heading(Chromolithographs)AuthorLe Bon, Le Dr. GustaveHeadlineLes Civilisations de L'Inde - 7 chromolithographsPublisherFirmin-Didot & Co.Date Published1887 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #58 Doctor Syntax in Paris Or A Tour in Search of the Grotesque Author[Combe, William]HeadlineDoctor Syntax in Paris First Edition 1820PublisherW. WrightDate Published1820 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #61 From Calcutta to London by the Suez Canal HeadingzzkAuthor[Dall, Charles Henry Appleton]HeadlineFrom Calcutta to London by the Suez Canal 1869PublisherPrinted at the "Englishman" PressDate Published1869 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #62 Rural Sports. Volumes 1-3, plus Supplement. AuthorDaniel, Wm. B.HeadlineWilliam Daniel's Rural Sports 1812-13PublisherLongman, et alDate Published1812-13 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #64 Egypt, the Cradle of Ancient Masonry AuthorDe Clifford, Norman FrederickHeadlinede Clifford, Egypt Ancient Masonry 1902 bookPublisherThe Lincoln Pub. Co.Date Published1902 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #65 Bleak House AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens Bleak House in Original PartsPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-53 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #66 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst Issue of Dickens' Christmas CarolPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #67 A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Judiciously selected from the best Writers in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, and other Languages... AuthorDrake, Edward CavendishHeadlineDrakes' Voyages with maps & plates 1771PublisherJ. CookeDate Published1771 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #69 The Kingdom of the Pearl Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorRosenthal, LeonardHeadlineThe Kingdom of the Pearl Edmund Dulac Illus.PublisherNisbet & Co.Date Published[c. 1920] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #70 Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China... AuthorEllis, HenryHeadlineEllis' Embassy to China 1817PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1817 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #71 The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used Instead of letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. Heading(Euclid)AuthorByrne, OliverHeadlineByrne's Euclid First Edition 1847PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1847 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #90 The Picture of Dorian Gray Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWilde, OscarHeadlinePicture of Dorian Gray Bound by Paul DelruePublisherCharles CarringtonDate Published1908 (i.e. 1910) View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #94 Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape; with a Poem on Landscape Painting. To These are Now Added Two Essays . . . AuthorGilpin, WilliamHeadlineGilpin's Essays on Beauty Travel & Landscape 1794PublisherR. BlamireDate Published1794 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #95 Narrative of my Captivity in Japan During the Years 1811, 1812 & 1813; With Observations on the Country and the People . . . To which is added, An Account of Voyages to the Coasts of Japan, and of Negotiations with the Japanese, for the Release of the Author and his Companions. AuthorGolownin, Vasil Mikhailavich & [Petr Ivanovich] RikordHeadlineGolownin - My Captivity in Japan 1811-13PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1818 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #96 Dell' Historia Della China AuthorGonzález de Mendoza, JuanHeadlineHistory of China 1586PublisherAppresso Bartolomeo Grassi,Date Published1586 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #97 A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution... AuthorGranger, Rev. J.HeadlineBiographical History of England, 300+ engravingsPublisherPrinted for William Baynes & SonDate Published1824 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #100 The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres: divided into three severall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed... AuthorHakluyt, RichardHeadlineHakluyt's Voyages, 1599-1600PublisherGeorge Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert BarkerDate Published1599-1600 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #101 The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Notebook of Raoul Dubois AuthorHamerton, Philip GilbertHeadlineP.G. Hamerton The Sylvan Year Finely BoundPublisherSeeley, Jackson and HallidayDate Published1876 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #105 The Graphic Processes: Intaglio, Relief, Planographic With a Set of Actual Prints Illustrative of the Text AuthorHolman, Louis A.HeadlineLouis Holman The Graphic Processes 1929PublisherCharles GoodspeedDate Published1929 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #106 Opera AuthorHoratius Flaccus, Quintus [Horace]HeadlineJohn Pine's Horace First Edition 1733-37PublisherJohn PineDate Published1733-37 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #107 Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-land to China: Thro' Great Ustiga, Siriana, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c. to Peking... AuthorIdes, Evert YsbrantsHeadlineIdes Travels to Chinia 1706 with platesPublisherPrinted for W. Freeman, et al.Date Published1706 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #108 London: From the South Side of the Thames Heading(Illustrated London News)Author**HeadlineView of London From the South Side of the ThamesPublisherIllustrated London NewsDate Published1861 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #109 New York: From Bergen Hill, Hoboken Heading(Illustrated London News)Author**HeadlinePanoramic View of New York 1876PublisherIllustrated London NewsDate Published1876 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #110 Enthronement of the One Hundred Twenty-Fourth Emperor of Japan Heading(Japan)AuthorFleisher, Benjamin W., ed.HeadlineEnthronement of the 124th Emperor of JapanPublisherThe Japan AdvertiserDate Published1928 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #120 Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. IV No. 13 Heading(Matisse, Henri)Author**HeadlineHenri Matisee in Verve Vol. IV, No. 13 1945PublisherVerveDate Published[1945] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #121 Der Weiss Kunig: Eine Erzehlung von den Thaten Kaiser Maximilian des Ersten Heading(Maximilian I)AuthorTrettzsaurwein, MarxHeadlineDer Weiss Kunig 1775 237 Woodcut IllustrationsPublisherJoseph KurzbockDate Published1775 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #125 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineFirst illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher for Richard BentlyDate Published1688 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold Lot #130 Tendances Nouvelles du Theatre AuthorMoussinac, LeonHeadlineL. Moussinac Tendances Nouvelles du Theatre 1/600PublisherEditions Albert LevyDate Published1931 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #131 Disquisitio Geographica & Historica, De Chataia, In Qua 1. Praecipue Geographorum nobilis illa Controversia: Quaenam Chataia sit, & an sit idem ille terrarum tractus, quem Sinas, & vulgo Chinam vocant, aut pars eius aliqua? latissime tractatur; 2. Eadem vero opera pleraque rerum, quae unquam de Chataia, deque Sinis memorabilia fuerunt, atque etiam nunc sunt, compendiose enarrantur AuthorMüller, AndreasHeadlineMüller's History of China 1671PublisherTypis RungianisDate Published1671 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #132 History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 AuthorNapier, W[illiam] F[rancis] P[atrick]HeadlineNapier's Peninsular War First EditionPublisherJohn Murray & Thomas and William BooneDate Published1828-40 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #134 An Alphabet AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Nicholson An Alphabet 1898PublisherR.H. RussellDate Published1898 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #139 Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present..... AuthorPurchas, SamuelHeadlineFirst edition of Purchas His Pilgrimage 1613PublisherPrinted by William Stansby for Henrie FetherstoneDate Published1613 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #144 Galerie de Rubens, Dite du Luxembourg AuthorRubens, Peter PaulHeadlineGalerie de Rubens, Dite du Luxembourg 1809PublisherL'Imprimerie de CrapeletDate Published1809 View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #145 Original Pen and Ink Comic Strip AuthorSchultz, CharlesHeadlineOriginal Charles Schultz Comic Strip 1954Date PublishedFebruary 27, 1954 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #148 The Cat in the Hat AuthorSeuss, Dr.HeadlineDr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat, 1st Ed 1st Ptg. in djPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1957] View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #152 Cup of Gold: A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSteinbeck, Cup of Gold, First Ed. 1st issue in djPublisherRobert M. McBrideDate Published1929 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #154 Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species... AuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Flora Australasica with colored platesPublisherJames RidgwayDate Published1827-1828 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #156 Regni Chinensis Descriptio... Author[Trigault, Nicolas, et al.]HeadlineElzevir History of China 1639PublisherElzevirDate Published1639 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #163 Following Abraham Lincoln AuthorWall, BernhardtHeadlineBernhardt Wall Etchings of Lincoln's LifePublisherBernhardt WallDate Published1931 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #164 An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language AuthorWebb, JohnHeadlineWebb on Chinese Language with map 1669PublisherPrinted for Nath. BrookDate Published1669 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #165 Manuscript Account Book for the Barke Congaree Heading(Whaling Journal)Author**HeadlineManuscript Account Book for the Barke CongareeDate Published1856-58 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #166 Manuscript Log Book for the Ship South Carolina Heading(Whaling Log Book)Author**HeadlineManuscript Log Book for the Ship South CarolinaDate Published1848-51 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next