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Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMelville, HermanPublisherArion PressDate Published1979 Lot #4 One Hundred Wood Engravings by Barry Moser for the Arion Press Edition of Moby Dick View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMoser, BarryPublisherArion PressDate Published1979 Lot #8 La Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorBalzac, Honoré dePublisherGeorge Barrie & SonDate Published[1897-1900] Lot #9 Le Grand Tableau De l'Univers, ou l'Histoire des Evenemens de l'Eglise depuis la Creation du Monde Jusqu'a l'Apolypse de S. Jean... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorBasnage, JacquesPublisherJaques LindenbergDate Published1714 Lot #10 The Beauties of England and Wales; or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Beauties of England and Wales)AuthorBritton, John and Edward Wedlake BrayleyHeadlinebookPublisherThomas Maiden for Vernor and Hood, Longman and Rees, et al.Date Published1801-1818 Lot #11 A General History of Quadrupeds View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBewick, T[homas]PublisherPrinted by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby & T. BewickDate Published1790 Lot #12 History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorBewick, T[homas]Date Published1797 & 1804 Lot #13 Select Fables: With Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784: Together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBewick, ThomasPublisherPrinted by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, et al.Date Published1820 Lot #14 The Chase: A Poem View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bewick, Thomas)AuthorSomervile, WilliamPublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer, Shakespeare Printing OfficeDate Published1796 Lot #15 The Seasons, by J. Thomson. Embellished with Engravings on Wood by Bewick, from Thurston's Designs View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Bewick, Thomas)AuthorThomson, JamesPublisherPrinted for James Wallis...by T. BensleyDate Published1805 Lot #17 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised; with Complete Concordance…Apocrypha and Psalms View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Bible)Author**PublisherA.J. Holman & Co.Date Published1883 Lot #33 Three volumes by Holmes, illustrated by H.B. Brock, finely bound by Cedric Chivers View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Chivers, Cedric, binder)AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellPublisherJ.M. DentDate Published1902 Lot #45 The Raven View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Doré, Gustave)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanPublisherHarper & Bros.Date Published1884 Lot #50 Diverse Imprese Accomodate a diverse moralita, con Versi che i loreo Significati dichiarano . . . nella lingua Italiana no piu tradotte. Tratte da gli Emblemi dell' Alciato View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Emblem Book)AuthorAlciatus, [Andreas]PublisherGulielmo RovillioDate Published1551 Lot #57 Observations, Relatively Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on several parts of England; Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorGilpin, William.PublisherR. BlamireDate Published1786 Lot #59 Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorWhitman, WaltPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1930 Lot #60 Fables de La Fontaine View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Grandville, J.J.)AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean de]PublisherH. Fournier aineDate Published1838 Lot #77 Ulysses View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorJoyce, JamesPublisherThe Limited Editions ClubDate Published1935 Lot #79 A Leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer, Together with a Monograph by Carl Purington Rollins View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyPublisherPhilip C. DuschnesDate Published[1941] Lot #88 The Heptameron or Tales and Novels of Marguerite Queen of Navarre now First Completely done into English Prose and Verse from the Original French by Arthur Machen View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorMachen, Arthur, translatorPublisherPrivately printedDate Published1886 Lot #93 Two circa 9th-century manuscript leaves on vellum View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Heading(Medieval Manuscript)Author**Date Published[circa 9th century] Lot #96 Spectaculum Naturae & Artium: in vier Sprachen, Deutsch, Lateinisch, Franzõsisch, Italianisch. Erste Lieferung von 30 Platten und 28 Beschreibungen View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Author[Meil, Johann Wilhelm]PublisherGeorge Ludwig WinterDate Published1761 Lot #101 The Book of Small Flies View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Miniature book)AuthorHarrop, Rene, Ernest Schwiebert, Poul Jorgensen, and S.A. Neff, Jr.PublisherIsaac OelgartDate Published1983 Lot #141 The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Poem (&) The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation: A Poem (&) The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife: A Poem View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Rowlandson, Thomas)Author[Combe, William]PublisherR. AckermannDate Published1812, 1820, 1821 Lot #142 Tours of Dr. Syntax, miniature edition View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Rowlandson, Thomas)Author[Combe, William]PublisherR. AckermannDate Published1823 Lot #149 Waverley Novels View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlinebookPublisherRobert Cadell, A. & C. Black, et al.Date Published1829-32 Lot #158 Report From the New World: Tryptych of Coloured Etchings View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Sobota, Jan, binder)AuthorHaskova, EvaPublisherBonaventuraDate Published[1993] Lot #176 Manuscript diary and sketch-book kept during the Peninsular Campaign, 1813-14 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Author[Wheatley, Edmund]Date Published[1813-14] Lot #178 Sakoontalá, or, The Lost Ring; an Indian drama. Translated into English prose and verse, from the Sanskrit of Kalidasa by Monier Williams View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorWilliams, Monier, translatorPublisherDodd Mead and Co.Date Published1885 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next