Sale 374: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#374) 02/21/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/21/2008 1:00 PM PST Auction Info 374 169 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 1-53 of 53. Previous|1|Next Lot #31 The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Angling)AuthorBates, Joseph D., Jr.HeadlineBates, Art of..Atlantic Salmon Fly deluxe editionPublisherDavid R. GodineDate Published[1987] Lot #33 Modern Development of the Dry Fly: The New Dry Fly Patterns, the Manipulation of Dressing them, and Practical Experiences of their Use View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Headingzzk(Angling)AuthorHalford, Frederic M.HeadlineHalford, Modern Development of the Dry Fly 1/50PublisherE. P. DuttonDate Published[1910] Lot #34 The Gentleman Angler: Containing Short, Plain, and Easy Instructions, whereby the most ignorant Beginner may, in short Time, become a perfect Artist, in Angling for Salmon, Salmon Peal, Trout, Pike, Carp, Perch, Barbel, Tench, Bream, Chub, Grayling, Mullets, Flounders, Roch, Dace, Gudgeon, &c.... By a Gentleman, who has made Angling his Diversion upwards of Twenty-Eight Years View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Angling)Author**HeadlineGentleman Angler 1st Ed. 1726 full leatherPublisherA. BettesworthDate Published1726 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 #50 Heures Imprimees Par L'Ordre de Monseigeur L'Archeveque de Paris, A L'Usage de Son Diocese View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Book of Hours)Author**HeadlineFrench Book of Hours 1736 Finely BoundPublisherAux depens des Libraires associes pour les Usages du DioceseDate Published1736 Lot #54 The Workes Of Ovr Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly Printed... View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineWorks of Geoffrey Chaucer 1602PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1602 Lot #57 Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorColeridge, S[amuel] T[aylor]HeadlineColeridge's Biographia Literaria First EditionPublisherRest FennerDate Published1817 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 #59 First Editions of Cooper's Five "Leatherstocking Tales" View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold AuthorCooper, James FenimoreHeadlineFirst Editions of Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesPublisherVarious PublishersDate Published1823-1841 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 #73 5 titles by Henry Fielding - First Editions View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorFielding, HenryHeadline5 titles by Henry Fielding - First EditionsPublisherMillarDate PublishedVarious Dates Lot #75 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCasanova de Seingalt, JacquesHeadlineMemoirs of Casanova Finely BoundPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1940 Lot #76 The Works of Joseph Conrad View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorConrad, JosephHeadlineThe Works of Joseph Conrad Sun-Dial Edn SignedPublisherDoubleday, Page & CompanyDate Published1920-1928 Lot #77 Writings of J. Fenimore Cooper. Author's Autograph Edition. View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCooper, James FenimoreHeadlineCooper's Works Author's Autograph Edition 1 of 63PublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published[1895-1900] Lot #78 El Oficio del Domingo View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineEl Oficio del Domingo Tortoise Shell BindingPublisherDesclee, LefebvreDate Published[c. 1880] Lot #79 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineEmerson's Works Autograph Centenary EditionPublisherRiverside PressDate Published1903-04 Lot #80 Private Lives of Kaiser William II and His Consort View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Headingzze(Fine Bindings)AuthorFischer, Henry W.HeadlinePrivate Lives of Kaiser William II & His ConsortPublisherJ.R. SmithDate Published[1909] Lot #81 The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineThe Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 1 of 100PublisherGeorge BarrieDate Published[c. 1900] Lot #82 The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorRossetti, Dante GabrielHeadlineWorks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Finely BoundPublisherEllis and ScruttonDate Published1886 Lot #83 The Waverley Novels View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineThe Waverley Novels 48 Finely Bound VolumesPublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published1877-79 Lot #84 The Works View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorSmollett, TobiasHeadlineWorks of Tobias Smollet 1797 Full Leather BindingPublisherB. Law, J. Johnson, et alDate Published1797 Lot #85 Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Headingzze(Fine Bindings)AuthorTalleyrand, Prince deHeadlineMemoirs of Talleyrand Finely BoundPublisherGrolier SocietyDate Published[c. 1900] Lot #86 The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineLarge Paper Edn of Tennyson's Works Finely BoundPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1929 Lot #87 [Works] View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThackeray, Miss (Mrs. Richmond Ritchie)HeadlineNovels by Miss Thackeray Finely BoundPublisherBernhard TauchnitzDate Published1870s-80s Lot #88 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineThoreau's Writings Large Paper Edition 1 of 150PublisherRiverside PressDate Published1894 Lot #89 A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; With Lists of Their Works View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWalpole, Horace & Thomas ParkHeadlineA Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors 1806PublisherJohn ScottDate Published1806 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 #91 Poems of William Wordsworth View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-edge Painting)AuthorWordsworth, WilliamHeadlinePoems of William Wordsworth w/ fore-edge paintingPublisherRoutledge, Warnes & RoutledgeDate Published1859 Lot #92 North and South View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Author[Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn]HeadlineMrs. Gaskell's North & South Association CopyPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1855 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 #98 Dictionnaire Chinois, Français et Latin. Publié d'apres l'Ordre de sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi Napoléon le Grand. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorGuignes, [Chretien Louis de].HeadlineDictionnaire Chinois, Français et Latin 1813PublisherImprimerie ImperialeDate Published1813 Lot #99 El Porlifemo de Don Luis de Gongora. Comentado por Don Garcia de Salzedo Coronel... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorGóngora y Argote, Luis deHeadlineThe Polyphemus of Don Luis de Gongora 1636PublisherDomingo GoncalezDate Published1636 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 #103 The Scarlet Letter: A Romance View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlineHawthorne's Scarlet Letter, first issue, 1850PublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1850 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 #111 The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. With Critical Observations on Their Works View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohnson's Lives of the English Poets 1781PublisherPrinted for C. Bathurst, et al.Date Published1781 Lot #112 Dubliners View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce, Dubliners 1914 1st Edition, 1 of 746PublisherGrant Richards Ltd.Date Published[1914] Lot #113 The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorKeats, JohnHeadlineKeats Poetical Works Privately Printed 1883PublisherPrinted for Private DistributionDate Published1883 Lot #118 A Posthumous Collection of rare and important Lovecraft books, catalogues and paper items, primarily from the Library of W. Easton Louttit, noted collector and Brown University archivist View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold AuthorLovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] (1890-1937)HeadlineH.P. Lovecraft collection 1st Eds., etc. 1939-99Date Published1939-99 Lot #122 Moby-Dick View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby-Dick 1st American Edition bound by PapuchyanPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1851 Lot #123 Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMelville's Omoo First English Edition 1847PublisherLohn MurrayDate Published1847 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 #129 The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Headingzzc(Mosher Press)AuthorVillon, FrancoisHeadlinePoems of Francois Villon 1 of 50 on vellumPublisherThomas B. MosherDate Published1900 Lot #143 Goblin Market View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorRossetti, ChristinaHeadlineC. Rossetti's Goblin Market in Embroidered ClothPublisherMacmillanDate Published1893 Lot #157 Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Headingzzc(Vale Press)AuthorDrayton, MichaelHeadlineVale Press Nimphidia and the Muses 1896Publisher[Ballantyne Press (for the Vale Press)]Date Published[1896] Lot #159 Attila: Drama Lirico di Temistocle Solera. Musica del M. Giuseppe Verdi. Ridotta per Piano Forte da L. Truzzi View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorVerdi, GiuseppeHeadlineScore of Verdi's Opera Attila 1847PublisherPresso F. LuccaDate Published[1847] Lot #160 Il Trovatore View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorVerdi, GiuseppeHeadlineVerdi's opera Il Trovatore 1853PublisherGio. RicordiDate Published[1852] Lot #161 Rigoletto: Melodramma de F.M. Piave, Musica del Maestro G. Verdi... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorVerdi, GiuseppeHeadlineScore of Verdi opera Rigoletti 1851-2PublisherJ.R StabilimentoDate Published[1851-1852] Lot #167 Good-Bye My Fancy. 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWalt Whitman Good-Bye My Fancy 'Large Paper'PublisherDavid McKayDate Published1891 Lot #168 Art and Morality. A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray". With 3 page ALS View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorWilde, OscarHeadlineOscar Wilde Art & Morality With Letter from WildePublisherJ. JacobsDate Published1908 Lot #169 The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorYeats, W[illiam] B[utler]HeadlineW.B. Yeats The Countess Kathleen 1892PublisherT. Fisher UnwinDate Published1892 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next