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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 #36 Bound volume of works on Architecture by Middleton or Soane View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Architecture)AuthorMiddleton, Charles [&] John SoaneHeadline3 works on Architecture by Middleton or SoanePublisherTaylorDate PublishedVarious Dates 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 #41 Fratris Petri Berthorij Pictauie[n]sis: Ordinis Diui Patris Benedicti ... Morale reductoriu[m]: sup[er] tota[m] Biblia[m] quattuor et triginta libris co[n]su[m]matu[m]. Adiectis Biblie co[n]corda[n]tijs View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorBerchorius, Petrus [Pierre Bersuire]HeadlineBible commentary by Pierre Bersuire 1515PublisherAdam PetriDate Published1515 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 #43 Bibla Sacra: Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece & Latine View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)Author**HeadlinePlantin Polyglot Bible, 5 volumes, 1569-72PublisherChristopher PlantinDate Published[1569-72] Lot #44 Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, Complectens Textus Originals Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Caldaicum, Graecum. Versionumque antiquarumm Samaritano, Graecae LXXII Interp., Caldaicae, Syriacae, Arabicae, Aethiopicae, Persicae, Volg. Lat... View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)Author**HeadlineWalton Polyglot Bible 6 folio volumes 1657PublisherThomas RoycroftDate Published1657 Lot #46 The Byble, That is to Say All the Holy Scripture: In Which are Cotayned the Olde and New Testamente... View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1549 Edition of Matthews Bible - The 'Bug' BiblePublisherJhon Daye and William SeresDate Published1549 Lot #47 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha.... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineBible printed by Isaiah Thomas 1791PublisherIsaiah ThomasDate Published1791 Lot #48 Bibla: Dat ys: De Gantze Hillige Schrifft, Vordüdeschet dorch Doct. Mart. Luth. Vth der Lesten Corectur Mercklick Vorbëtert, vnde mit grotem vlyte corrigeret. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in German)Author**HeadlineBible in Low German 1569 EditionPublisherHans LufftDate Published1569 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 #51 Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorBoyle, RobertHeadlineRobert Boyle on Mineral Waters 1684PublisherSamuel SmithDate Published1684/5 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #74 A Discourse Whether it May be Lawful to Make Use for Money View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorFilmer, RobertHeadlineFilmer's Discourse on Money 1678PublisherPrinted for Will. CrookDate Published1678 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #116 An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineJohn Locke's Humane Understanding 1694PublisherAwnsham and John Churchil, and Samuel ManshipDate Published1694 Lot #117 Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament. View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Author[Locke, John]HeadlineLocke's Considerations on the Value of Money 1692PublisherAwnsham and John ChurchillDate Published1692 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 #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 #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 #126 Officium B[eatae] Mariae Virg[inis] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Headline1677 Plantin Press Officium Beatae Mariae VirginiPublisherOfficina PlantinianaDate Published1677 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 #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 #135 Las Obras y Relaciones de Anton. Perez, Secretario de Estado, que fue del Rey de España Don Phelippe II deste nombre View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorPerez, AntonioHeadlineRare works of Philip II's Secretary 1654PublisherImprimido por Pietro ChouëtDate Published1654 Lot #136 Political Arithmetick, Or A Discourse Concerning, The Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings; Husbandry, Manufacture, Commerce, Fishery, Artizans, Seamen, Soldiers; Publick Revenues, Interest, Taxes, Superlucration, Registries, Banks; Valuation of Men, Increasing of Seamen, of Militia's Harbours, Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, &c. As the Same Relates to Every Country in General, But More Particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and His Neighbors of Holland, Zealand, and France. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorPetty, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Petty Political Arithmetick 1690PublisherRobert Clavel and Hen. MortlockDate Published1690 Lot #138 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History 1624PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 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 #143 Goblin Market View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorRossetti, ChristinaHeadlineC. Rossetti's Goblin Market in Embroidered ClothPublisherMacmillanDate Published1893 Lot #149 Dell' Arte Dei Giardini Inglesi View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Author[Silva, Ercole]HeadlineErcole Silva Dell' Arte Dei Giardini Inglesi 1801PublisherDalla Stamperia e Fonderia al Genio TipograficoDate PublishedAnno IX [1801] Lot #156 Regni Chinensis Descriptio... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Author[Trigault, Nicolas, et al.]HeadlineElzevir History of China 1639PublisherElzevirDate Published1639 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 #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 #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