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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Lot of two volumes from the Aldine press Heading(Aldine Press)Author**Date Published1550 & 1564 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #11 The Story of Little Black Sambo AuthorBannerman, HelenPublisherGrant RichardsDate Published1899 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #14 A General History of Quadrupeds AuthorBewick, T[homas]PublisherPrinted by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby & T. BewickDate Published1790 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #15 Fabliaux or Tales, of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Heading(Bewick, Thomas and John)AuthorLe Grand d'Aussy and Pierre Jean BaptistePublisherPrinted for J. RodwellDate Published1815 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #22 Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars AuthorBrinkley, Captain F., editorPublisherJ.B. Millet Co.Date Published[1897] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #25 The Commentaries...of his Wars in Gallia and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey AuthorCaesar, C[aius] JuliusPublisherThomas Newcomb for Jonathan EdwinDate Published1677 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #27 Don Quixote de la Mancha. The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha Written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : Motteux' Translation Revised Anew (1743) & Corrected Rectified and Filled Up in Numberless Places by J. Ozell Who Likewise Added the Explanatory Notes from the Best Editions in English & Spanish... AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published[1930] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #29 Dessins pour la Bible AuthorChagall, MarcPublisherVerveDate Published[1960] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #30 A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language; arranged according to the Wu-Fang Yuen Yin with the Pronunciation of the Characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai Heading(Chinese Dictionary)AuthorWilliams, S. WellsPublisherAmerican Presbyterian Mission PressDate Published1874 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #36 Phrenological Illustrations, Or, An Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim AuthorCruikshank, GeorgePublisherGeorge CruikshankDate Published1826 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #39 "Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection". In: The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History AuthorDarwin, Charles and Alfred R. WallacePublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 Dombey and Son AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #44 Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des métiers… [and] Supplemente a l’Encyclopedie AuthorDiderot, Denis & Jean le Rond d'AlembertDate Published1758-1777 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Lot #51 Proceedings of the French National Convention on the Trial of Louis XVI. Late King of France and Navarre... Heading(French Revolution)AuthorTrapp, Joseph, editorPublisherPrinted for the Author and Sold by Murray, Kearsley, et alDate Published1793 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #54 The History and Antiquities of Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred AuthorGage, JohnPublisherJohn DeckDate Published1838 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #58 The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary AuthorGreen, ThomasPublisherPrinted at the Caxton Press by Henry FisherDate Published[1816-1820] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #60 His Three Books Treating of the Rights of War & Peace... AuthorGrotius, HugoPublisherThomas Basset and Ralph SmithDate Published1682 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #65 Herodoti halicarnassei historiarum libri IX novem Musarum nominibus inscripti. Ejusdem narratio de vita Homeri. Excerpta e ctesiae libris de rebus Persicis & Indicis. GraeceÌ & Latineì. Et H. Stephani Apologia pro Herodoto. Accesserunt huic editioni chronologia Historiae, & tabula geographiae Herodoteae; necnon variantes lectiones, & notae ex pluribus Mss. codd. & antiquis scriptoribus collectae; una cum indice Graeco & Latino AuthorHerodotusPublisherE. Horton & J. GroverDate Published1679 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #66 The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus: The Translation of G. W. Rawlinson Revised & Annotated by A. W. Lawrence Heading(Herodotus)AuthorLawrence, A. W.PublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1935 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #70 The Book of Job Heading(Hubbard, Elbert)AuthorElzas, Rabbi Abraham, translatorPublisherThe Roycroft ShopDate Published1897 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #71 Two 1-page autograph letters signed by Alexander von Humboldt, plus a special commemorative postage envelope of Humboldt AuthorHumboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)Date Published[c. 1815-22] & [c. 1836] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #72 A Book About Lawyers AuthorJeafferson, John CordyPublisherHurst & BlackettDate Published1867 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #73 Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language in Miniature. To Which are Added, an Alphabetical Account of the Heathen Deities, and a Copious Chronological Table of Remarkable Events, Discoveries and Inventions in Europe...Also, a New and Complete American Chronology... AuthorJohnson, [Samuel]PublisherG. LongDate Published1822 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #75 Historiae naturalis [de quadrupedibus; de avibus; de piscibus et cetis; de xanguibus aquaticus; de insectis; de serpentibus et draconibus] AuthorJonston, JohnPublisherJ.J. Fil. SchipperDate Published1657 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #76 The History of Japan AuthorKaempfer, EngelbertPublisherPrinted for the Translator [J.G. Scheuchzer]Date Published1727-1728 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Lot #79 Archive of approximately 20 books with one or more illustrations by Paul Landacre, plus programs, brochures, catalogues, announcements and related ephemera with Landacre woodcuts and illustrations Heading(Landacre, Paul)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #81 Anno Regnie Gulielmi et Mariae, regis & reginae Angliae Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Primo Heading(Laws)Author**PublisherPrinted by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King and QueenDate Published1689 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #82 Anno Tricesimo Nono. Georgii III. Regis.: Cap[ter] LXXX. An Act for better regulating the Manner of carrying Slaves, in British Vessels, from the Coast of Africa Heading(Laws)Author**Publisher[Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers for King George III]Date Published1799 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #83 The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals AuthorLoudon, [Jane Webb]PublisherWilliam SmithDate Published1842 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #84 The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials AuthorLoudon, [Jane Webb]PublisherWilliam SmithDate Published1843-44 View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #86 Document signed by Francois I, King of France Heading(Manuscript)AuthorFrancois IDate Published[1540?] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #91 Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile AuthorMelville, HermanPublisherG.P. Putnam & Co.Date Published1855 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #92 Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas AuthorMelville, HermanPublisherHarper & Bros.Date Published1847 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #95 Orchids. The Royal Family of Plants AuthorMiner, Harriet StewartPublisherLee and ShepardDate Published1885 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #99 Letter signed by Horatio Lord Nelson AuthorNelson, Vice-admiral Horatio Lord (1758-1805)Date PublishedMay 8, 1801 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #103 Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution by Thomas Paine [and] Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France by the Right Hon. Edmund Burke [and] A Reply to Mr. Burke's Invective Against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons...by Thomas Cooper AuthorPaine, Thomas, Edmund Burke and Thomas CooperPublisherP. Byrne, et al.Date Published1791-92; 1796 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #105 Le Temple des Muses...ou sont representes les Evenemens les plus remarquables de l'Antiquite Fabuleuse Heading(Picart, Bernard)Author**PublisherZacharie ChatelainDate Published1733 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #107 Historia naturalis AuthorPliny the ElderPublisherCoustelierDate Published1773 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #112 The Gazetteer of Sikhim AuthorRisley, H[erbert] H[ope], intro.PublisherPrinted at the Bengal Secretariat PressDate Published1894 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #115 Opus poeticum de admirabilia fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes... AuthorSchopper, HartmannPublisher[Petrum Fabritium, impensis Sigismundi Feirabent, & Simonis Huteri]Date Published1567 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #116 Album du jeune naturaliste, ou l'oeuvre de la creation... Author[Senefelder, Alois]PublisherEymery, FrugerDate Published1830 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #118 Original Letters, illustrative of English History... Heading(Sets)AuthorEllis, Henry, editorPublisherHarding, Triphook, and LepardDate Published1825-1827 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #119 Set of 20 decoratively bound illustrated classics in literature Heading(Sets - Literature)Author**PublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1905-06 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #120 The Works of Molière Heading(Sets)AuthorMolière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin de] (1622-1673)PublisherChez Barrie FrèresDate Published[c. 1900] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #121 The Works of Theodore Roosevelt Heading(Sets)AuthorRoosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)PublisherScribner'sDate Published1906-1913 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #124 Letters from the Marchioness de Sevigne, To Her Daughter the Gondess de Grignan Heading(Sets)AuthorSevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise dePublisherSpurr & SwiftDate Published1927 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #127 The Tragedie of Cymbeline AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisher[Ernest Benn Ltd.]Date Published1923 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #130 The Second Punick War between Hannibal and the Romanes.... AuthorSilius Italicus, CaiusPublisherPrinted by Thomas Roycroft for J. Martin, J. Allestry, and T. DicasDate Published1661 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #133 Star-Chamber Cases. Shewing what Causes properly belong to the Cognizance of that Court Heading(Star-Chamber)AuthorCrompton, [Richard]PublisherJohn GroveDate Published1641 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #135 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships Author[Swift, Jonathan] (1667-1745)PublisherPrinted for Benj. MotteDate Published1726 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #136 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World... Author[Swift, Jonathan]PublisherThe Golden Cockerel PressDate Published1925 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #137 Annalium... AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusPublisherJ. Froben, 1533 & J. Hervagius. 1532 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #139 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero AuthorThackeray, William MakepeacePublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #144 "A Voyage in a Balloon". In: Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art. Vol. X AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherJohn SartainDate Published1852 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #145 The Adventures of a Chinaman in China AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherLee and Shepard / Charles T. DillinghamDate Published1889 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #146 Around the World in Eighty Days AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherSampson Low, Marston, Low & SearleDate Published1874 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #147 Dick Sands. The Boy Captain AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1879 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #148 From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherScribner, Armstrong & Co.Date Published1874 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #149 The Giant Raft (Part I). Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1881 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #150 Hector Servadac AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherScribner, Armstrong & Co.Date Published1878 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #151 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; or, the Marvellous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherGeo. M. SmithDate Published1873 View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #152 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; or, the Marvellous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherJames R. OsgoodDate Published1875 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #153 Lot of three titles AuthorVerne, JulesDate Published1870's View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$687.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next