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 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorHamerton, Philip GilbertHeadlineP.G. Hamerton The Sylvan Year Finely BoundPublisherSeeley, Jackson and HallidayDate Published1876 Lot #102 The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Anthony, Susan B.)AuthorHarper, Ida HustedHeadlineThe Life and Work of Susan B. AnthonyPublisherHollenbeck PressDate Published[1898; 1908] 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 #104 For Whom the Bell Tolls View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineFor Whom the Bell Tolls inscribed by HemingwayPublisherScribner'sDate Published1955 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 #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 #114 An evening with William Morris' Albion Proof Press April 1st, 1940 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott/Grabhorn)Author**HeadlineDouble folio leaf printed on William Morris pressPublisherThe Quercus PressDate Published1940 Lot #115 Manuscript Koran in Arabic Script View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Koran)Author**HeadlineManuscript Koran in Arabic ScriptDate Publishedearly 19th century 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 #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. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorMalthus, T[homas] R[obert].HeadlineMalthus on Population 3rd Edition 1806PublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1806 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 #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 #124 Les Arts Decoratifs Musulmans View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Author[Migeon, Gaston]HeadlineGaston Migeon Les Arts Decoratifs MusulmansPublisherEditions Albert MoranceDate Published[c. 1925] 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 #127 Record Album Jacket Signed and Inscribed by Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorMonroe, Marilyn and Arthur MillerHeadlineInscribed by Marilyn Monroe and Arthur MillerDate PublishedJuly 1, 1956 Lot #128 Moriyama, 1965-2003 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorMoriyama, DaidoHeadlineMoriyama, 1965-2003, Signed by photographerPublisherShimane Art Museum & NHK EducationalDate Published2003 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 #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 #133 Autograph manuscript page by Sir Isaac Newton regarding theological subjects View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineAutograph manuscript page by Sir Isaac NewtonDate PublishedLate 17th/early 18th century Lot #134 An Alphabet View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Nicholson An Alphabet 1898PublisherR.H. RussellDate Published1898 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 #137 Annalen der Physik View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Physics)Author**HeadlineAnnalen der Physik 15 vols. with EinsteinPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900-1904 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 #140 Traite Élémentaire de Mécanique Céleste View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorResal, M. H[enri].HeadlineTraite Élémentaire de Mécanique Céleste 1884PublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1884 Lot #141 The Joy of Cooking View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorRombauer, Irma S.HeadlineFirst Edition of The Joy of Cooking 1931Publisher[A.C. Clayton Printing Co.]Date Published[1931] Lot #142 African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorRoosevelt, TheodoreHeadlineRoosevelt African Game Trails 1/500 signed copiesPublisherScribnersDate Published1910 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 #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 #146 The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Scott, Sir Walter]HeadlineSir Walter Scotts Life of Napoleon 1827PublisherLongman, Rees, et alDate Published1827 Lot #147 Document Signed by Elizabeth Ann Seton View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold AuthorSeton, Elizabeth AnnHeadlineDocument Signed by Elizabeth Ann SetonDate Publishedc. 1814 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 #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 #150 History of Woman Suffrage View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold AuthorStanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn GageHeadlineStanton & Anthony History of Woman SuffragePublisherSusan B. AnthonyDate Published1887 & 1902 Lot #151 Clarence Edward Dutton: An Appraisal View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorStegner, Wallace E.HeadlineWallace Stegner's rare1st book Clarence E. DuttonPublisherUniversity of UtahDate Published[1935] 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 #153 Praha Panoramatická [Prague Panoramas] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorSudek, JosefHeadlineJosef Sudek [Prague Panoramas] photos 1st Ed 1959PublisherStátní Nakladatelství Krásné LiteraturyDate Published[1959] 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 #155 11 volumes of typed scripts for the television series Foreign Intrigue, 1951-1954 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Television)Author**HeadlineScripts for Foreign Intrigue 1951-1954Date Published1951-1954 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 #158 New England Manufacturers and Manufactories View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorVan Slyck, J.D.HeadlineVan Slyck on New England Manufacturers 2 vols.PublisherVan Slyck & CompanyDate Published1879 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 #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. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorWalker, ThomasHeadlineWalker's Treatise Upon the Art of Flying 1810PublisherPrinted by Joseph Simmons for Longman, et alDate Published1810 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 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|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next