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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 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorAbel, ClarkeHeadlineClarke Abel's Journey to China 1819 color platesPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1819 Lot #32 An American Angler in Australia View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Headingzzk(Angling)AuthorGrey, ZaneHeadlineZane Grey An American Angler in Australia 1st EdnPublisherHarper & Bros.Date Published1937 Lot #37 Istoria della China de Lodovico Arrivabene Gentil'hvomo Mantovano, nella quale si tratta de molte cose marauigliose di quell' amplissimo Regno View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorArrivabene, LodovicoHeadlineHistory of China, 1599PublisherAppresso A. Tamo ad instanza di Angelo de'RossiDate Published1599 Lot #38 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume V. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVolume 5 of Audubon's Birds 1842 Octavo Edn.PublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1842 Lot #39 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume VI. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$23,750StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVolume 6 of Audubon's Birds 1843 Octavo Edn.PublisherJ.J. AudubonDate Published1843 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 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorBertius, PetrusHeadlineBertius' Geography with 220 maps 1618PublisherJodocus HondiusDate Published1618 Lot #52 Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorByrd, Richard E.HeadlineRichard Byrd Discovery Signed with photosPublisherPutnam'sDate Published1935 Lot #53 The Jerusalem Windows View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorChagall, MarcHeadlineMarc Chagall Jerusalem Windows w/ 2 color lithos.PublisherAndre SauretDate Published[1962] Lot #55 Veterum Romanorum Religio, Castrametatio, Disciplina Militaris ut & Balneae ex Antiquis Numismatibus & Lapidibus Demonstrata. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorChoul, Guilielmo DuHeadlineGuilielmo Du Choul Veterum Romanorum 1685PublisherJansson-WaesbergDate Published1685 Lot #56 Les Civilisations de L'Inde View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Chromolithographs)AuthorLe Bon, Le Dr. GustaveHeadlineLes Civilisations de L'Inde - 7 chromolithographsPublisherFirmin-Didot & Co.Date Published1887 Lot #58 Doctor Syntax in Paris Or A Tour in Search of the Grotesque View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Author[Combe, William]HeadlineDoctor Syntax in Paris First Edition 1820PublisherW. WrightDate Published1820 Lot #61 From Calcutta to London by the Suez Canal View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold HeadingzzkAuthor[Dall, Charles Henry Appleton]HeadlineFrom Calcutta to London by the Suez Canal 1869PublisherPrinted at the "Englishman" PressDate Published1869 Lot #62 Rural Sports. Volumes 1-3, plus Supplement. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorDaniel, Wm. B.HeadlineWilliam Daniel's Rural Sports 1812-13PublisherLongman, et alDate Published1812-13 Lot #64 Egypt, the Cradle of Ancient Masonry View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorDe Clifford, Norman FrederickHeadlinede Clifford, Egypt Ancient Masonry 1902 bookPublisherThe Lincoln Pub. Co.Date Published1902 Lot #65 Bleak House View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens Bleak House in Original PartsPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-53 Lot #66 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst Issue of Dickens' Christmas CarolPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 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... View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorDrake, Edward CavendishHeadlineDrakes' Voyages with maps & plates 1771PublisherJ. CookeDate Published1771 Lot #69 The Kingdom of the Pearl View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorRosenthal, LeonardHeadlineThe Kingdom of the Pearl Edmund Dulac Illus.PublisherNisbet & Co.Date Published[c. 1920] Lot #70 Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorEllis, HenryHeadlineEllis' Embassy to China 1817PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1817 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. View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Heading(Euclid)AuthorByrne, OliverHeadlineByrne's Euclid First Edition 1847PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1847 Lot #90 The Picture of Dorian Gray View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWilde, OscarHeadlinePicture of Dorian Gray Bound by Paul DelruePublisherCharles CarringtonDate Published1908 (i.e. 1910) 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 . . . View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorGilpin, WilliamHeadlineGilpin's Essays on Beauty Travel & Landscape 1794PublisherR. BlamireDate Published1794 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. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorGolownin, Vasil Mikhailavich & [Petr Ivanovich] RikordHeadlineGolownin - My Captivity in Japan 1811-13PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1818 Lot #96 Dell' Historia Della China View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorGonzález de Mendoza, JuanHeadlineHistory of China 1586PublisherAppresso Bartolomeo Grassi,Date Published1586 Lot #97 A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution... View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorGranger, Rev. J.HeadlineBiographical History of England, 300+ engravingsPublisherPrinted for William Baynes & SonDate Published1824 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... View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold AuthorHakluyt, RichardHeadlineHakluyt's Voyages, 1599-1600PublisherGeorge Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert BarkerDate Published1599-1600 Lot #101 The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Notebook of Raoul Dubois View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorHamerton, Philip GilbertHeadlineP.G. Hamerton The Sylvan Year Finely BoundPublisherSeeley, Jackson and HallidayDate Published1876 Lot #105 The Graphic Processes: Intaglio, Relief, Planographic With a Set of Actual Prints Illustrative of the Text View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorHolman, Louis A.HeadlineLouis Holman The Graphic Processes 1929PublisherCharles GoodspeedDate Published1929 Lot #106 Opera View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorHoratius Flaccus, Quintus [Horace]HeadlineJohn Pine's Horace First Edition 1733-37PublisherJohn PineDate Published1733-37 Lot #107 Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-land to China: Thro' Great Ustiga, Siriana, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c. to Peking... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorIdes, Evert YsbrantsHeadlineIdes Travels to Chinia 1706 with platesPublisherPrinted for W. Freeman, et al.Date Published1706 Lot #108 London: From the South Side of the Thames View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Illustrated London News)Author**HeadlineView of London From the South Side of the ThamesPublisherIllustrated London NewsDate Published1861 Lot #109 New York: From Bergen Hill, Hoboken View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Illustrated London News)Author**HeadlinePanoramic View of New York 1876PublisherIllustrated London NewsDate Published1876 Lot #110 Enthronement of the One Hundred Twenty-Fourth Emperor of Japan View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Japan)AuthorFleisher, Benjamin W., ed.HeadlineEnthronement of the 124th Emperor of JapanPublisherThe Japan AdvertiserDate Published1928 Lot #120 Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. IV No. 13 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Matisse, Henri)Author**HeadlineHenri Matisee in Verve Vol. IV, No. 13 1945PublisherVerveDate Published[1945] Lot #121 Der Weiss Kunig: Eine Erzehlung von den Thaten Kaiser Maximilian des Ersten View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Maximilian I)AuthorTrettzsaurwein, MarxHeadlineDer Weiss Kunig 1775 237 Woodcut IllustrationsPublisherJoseph KurzbockDate Published1775 Lot #125 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineFirst illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher for Richard BentlyDate Published1688 Lot #130 Tendances Nouvelles du Theatre View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorMoussinac, LeonHeadlineL. Moussinac Tendances Nouvelles du Theatre 1/600PublisherEditions Albert LevyDate Published1931 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorMüller, AndreasHeadlineMüller's History of China 1671PublisherTypis RungianisDate Published1671 Lot #132 History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorNapier, W[illiam] F[rancis] P[atrick]HeadlineNapier's Peninsular War First EditionPublisherJohn Murray & Thomas and William BooneDate Published1828-40 Lot #134 An Alphabet View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Nicholson An Alphabet 1898PublisherR.H. RussellDate Published1898 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..... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorPurchas, SamuelHeadlineFirst edition of Purchas His Pilgrimage 1613PublisherPrinted by William Stansby for Henrie FetherstoneDate Published1613 Lot #144 Galerie de Rubens, Dite du Luxembourg View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorRubens, Peter PaulHeadlineGalerie de Rubens, Dite du Luxembourg 1809PublisherL'Imprimerie de CrapeletDate Published1809 Lot #145 Original Pen and Ink Comic Strip View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorSchultz, CharlesHeadlineOriginal Charles Schultz Comic Strip 1954Date PublishedFebruary 27, 1954 Lot #148 The Cat in the Hat View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorSeuss, Dr.HeadlineDr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat, 1st Ed 1st Ptg. in djPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1957] Lot #152 Cup of Gold: A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSteinbeck, Cup of Gold, First Ed. 1st issue in djPublisherRobert M. McBrideDate Published1929 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... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Flora Australasica with colored platesPublisherJames RidgwayDate Published1827-1828 Lot #156 Regni Chinensis Descriptio... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Author[Trigault, Nicolas, et al.]HeadlineElzevir History of China 1639PublisherElzevirDate Published1639 Lot #163 Following Abraham Lincoln View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorWall, BernhardtHeadlineBernhardt Wall Etchings of Lincoln's LifePublisherBernhardt WallDate Published1931 Lot #164 An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorWebb, JohnHeadlineWebb on Chinese Language with map 1669PublisherPrinted for Nath. BrookDate Published1669 Lot #165 Manuscript Account Book for the Barke Congaree View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Whaling Journal)Author**HeadlineManuscript Account Book for the Barke CongareeDate Published1856-58 Lot #166 Manuscript Log Book for the Ship South Carolina View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Whaling Log Book)Author**HeadlineManuscript Log Book for the Ship South CarolinaDate Published1848-51 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next