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 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 101-169 of 169. Previous|12|Next 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 #102 The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony Heading(Anthony, Susan B.)AuthorHarper, Ida HustedHeadlineThe Life and Work of Susan B. AnthonyPublisherHollenbeck PressDate Published[1898; 1908] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #103 The Scarlet Letter: A Romance AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlineHawthorne's Scarlet Letter, first issue, 1850PublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1850 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #104 For Whom the Bell Tolls AuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineFor Whom the Bell Tolls inscribed by HemingwayPublisherScribner'sDate Published1955 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold 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 #111 The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. With Critical Observations on Their Works AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohnson's Lives of the English Poets 1781PublisherPrinted for C. Bathurst, et al.Date Published1781 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #112 Dubliners AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce, Dubliners 1914 1st Edition, 1 of 746PublisherGrant Richards Ltd.Date Published[1914] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #113 The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats AuthorKeats, JohnHeadlineKeats Poetical Works Privately Printed 1883PublisherPrinted for Private DistributionDate Published1883 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #114 An evening with William Morris' Albion Proof Press April 1st, 1940 Heading(Kelmscott/Grabhorn)Author**HeadlineDouble folio leaf printed on William Morris pressPublisherThe Quercus PressDate Published1940 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #115 Manuscript Koran in Arabic Script Heading(Koran)Author**HeadlineManuscript Koran in Arabic ScriptDate Publishedearly 19th century View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #116 An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding AuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineJohn Locke's Humane Understanding 1694PublisherAwnsham and John Churchil, and Samuel ManshipDate Published1694 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold 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. Author[Locke, John]HeadlineLocke's Considerations on the Value of Money 1692PublisherAwnsham and John ChurchillDate Published1692 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold 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 AuthorLovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips] (1890-1937)HeadlineH.P. Lovecraft collection 1st Eds., etc. 1939-99Date Published1939-99 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold Lot #119 An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils Which It Occasions. AuthorMalthus, T[homas] R[obert].HeadlineMalthus on Population 3rd Edition 1806PublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1806 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold 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 #122 Moby-Dick AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby-Dick 1st American Edition bound by PapuchyanPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1851 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Lot #123 Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMelville's Omoo First English Edition 1847PublisherLohn MurrayDate Published1847 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #124 Les Arts Decoratifs Musulmans Author[Migeon, Gaston]HeadlineGaston Migeon Les Arts Decoratifs MusulmansPublisherEditions Albert MoranceDate Published[c. 1925] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$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 #126 Officium B[eatae] Mariae Virg[inis] Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Headline1677 Plantin Press Officium Beatae Mariae VirginiPublisherOfficina PlantinianaDate Published1677 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #127 Record Album Jacket Signed and Inscribed by Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller AuthorMonroe, Marilyn and Arthur MillerHeadlineInscribed by Marilyn Monroe and Arthur MillerDate PublishedJuly 1, 1956 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #128 Moriyama, 1965-2003 AuthorMoriyama, DaidoHeadlineMoriyama, 1965-2003, Signed by photographerPublisherShimane Art Museum & NHK EducationalDate Published2003 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #129 The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris Headingzzc(Mosher Press)AuthorVillon, FrancoisHeadlinePoems of Francois Villon 1 of 50 on vellumPublisherThomas B. MosherDate Published1900 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 #133 Autograph manuscript page by Sir Isaac Newton regarding theological subjects AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineAutograph manuscript page by Sir Isaac NewtonDate PublishedLate 17th/early 18th century View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #134 An Alphabet AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Nicholson An Alphabet 1898PublisherR.H. RussellDate Published1898 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #135 Las Obras y Relaciones de Anton. Perez, Secretario de Estado, que fue del Rey de España Don Phelippe II deste nombre AuthorPerez, AntonioHeadlineRare works of Philip II's Secretary 1654PublisherImprimido por Pietro ChouëtDate Published1654 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold 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. AuthorPetty, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Petty Political Arithmetick 1690PublisherRobert Clavel and Hen. MortlockDate Published1690 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #137 Annalen der Physik Heading(Physics)Author**HeadlineAnnalen der Physik 15 vols. with EinsteinPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900-1904 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold 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 AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History 1624PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold 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 #140 Traite Élémentaire de Mécanique Céleste AuthorResal, M. H[enri].HeadlineTraite Élémentaire de Mécanique Céleste 1884PublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1884 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #141 The Joy of Cooking AuthorRombauer, Irma S.HeadlineFirst Edition of The Joy of Cooking 1931Publisher[A.C. Clayton Printing Co.]Date Published[1931] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #142 African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist AuthorRoosevelt, TheodoreHeadlineRoosevelt African Game Trails 1/500 signed copiesPublisherScribnersDate Published1910 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #143 Goblin Market AuthorRossetti, ChristinaHeadlineC. Rossetti's Goblin Market in Embroidered ClothPublisherMacmillanDate Published1893 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold 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 #146 The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution Author[Scott, Sir Walter]HeadlineSir Walter Scotts Life of Napoleon 1827PublisherLongman, Rees, et alDate Published1827 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #147 Document Signed by Elizabeth Ann Seton AuthorSeton, Elizabeth AnnHeadlineDocument Signed by Elizabeth Ann SetonDate Publishedc. 1814 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold 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 #149 Dell' Arte Dei Giardini Inglesi Author[Silva, Ercole]HeadlineErcole Silva Dell' Arte Dei Giardini Inglesi 1801PublisherDalla Stamperia e Fonderia al Genio TipograficoDate PublishedAnno IX [1801] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #150 History of Woman Suffrage AuthorStanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn GageHeadlineStanton & Anthony History of Woman SuffragePublisherSusan B. AnthonyDate Published1887 & 1902 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #151 Clarence Edward Dutton: An Appraisal AuthorStegner, Wallace E.HeadlineWallace Stegner's rare1st book Clarence E. DuttonPublisherUniversity of UtahDate Published[1935] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold 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 #153 Praha Panoramatická [Prague Panoramas] AuthorSudek, JosefHeadlineJosef Sudek [Prague Panoramas] photos 1st Ed 1959PublisherStátní Nakladatelství Krásné LiteraturyDate Published[1959] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold 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 #155 11 volumes of typed scripts for the television series Foreign Intrigue, 1951-1954 Heading(Television)Author**HeadlineScripts for Foreign Intrigue 1951-1954Date Published1951-1954 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #156 Regni Chinensis Descriptio... Author[Trigault, Nicolas, et al.]HeadlineElzevir History of China 1639PublisherElzevirDate Published1639 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #157 Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium Headingzzc(Vale Press)AuthorDrayton, MichaelHeadlineVale Press Nimphidia and the Muses 1896Publisher[Ballantyne Press (for the Vale Press)]Date Published[1896] View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #158 New England Manufacturers and Manufactories AuthorVan Slyck, J.D.HeadlineVan Slyck on New England Manufacturers 2 vols.PublisherVan Slyck & CompanyDate Published1879 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #159 Attila: Drama Lirico di Temistocle Solera. Musica del M. Giuseppe Verdi. Ridotta per Piano Forte da L. Truzzi AuthorVerdi, GiuseppeHeadlineScore of Verdi's Opera Attila 1847PublisherPresso F. LuccaDate Published[1847] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #160 Il Trovatore AuthorVerdi, GiuseppeHeadlineVerdi's opera Il Trovatore 1853PublisherGio. RicordiDate Published[1852] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #161 Rigoletto: Melodramma de F.M. Piave, Musica del Maestro G. Verdi... AuthorVerdi, GiuseppeHeadlineScore of Verdi opera Rigoletti 1851-2PublisherJ.R StabilimentoDate Published[1851-1852] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #162 A Treatise Upon the Art of Flying, by Mechanical Means; With a Full Explanation of the Natural Principles by Which Birds are Enabled to Fly: Likewise, Instructions and Plans for Making a Flying Car With Wings, in Which a Man May Sit, and, by Working a Small Lever, Cause Himself to Ascend and Soar Through the Air. AuthorWalker, ThomasHeadlineWalker's Treatise Upon the Art of Flying 1810PublisherPrinted by Joseph Simmons for Longman, et alDate Published1810 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold 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 Lot #167 Good-Bye My Fancy. 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass. AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWalt Whitman Good-Bye My Fancy 'Large Paper'PublisherDavid McKayDate Published1891 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #168 Art and Morality. A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray". With 3 page ALS AuthorWilde, OscarHeadlineOscar Wilde Art & Morality With Letter from WildePublisherJ. JacobsDate Published1908 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #169 The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics AuthorYeats, W[illiam] B[utler]HeadlineW.B. Yeats The Countess Kathleen 1892PublisherT. Fisher UnwinDate Published1892 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next