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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Lot of two volumes from the Aldine press View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Aldine Press)Author**Date Published1550 & 1564 Lot #4 The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorAnnan, ThomasPublisherJames MacLehose & SonsDate Published1900 Lot #13 An Aegean note-book: comments on a Mid-Century Odyssey in Greece View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorBeny, RoloffPublisher[Privately printed]Date Published[1950] Lot #14 A General History of Quadrupeds View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBewick, T[homas]PublisherPrinted by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby & T. BewickDate Published1790 Lot #16 Historiae sacrae Veteris & Novi Testamenti...Figures of the Bible, In wich the chiefest Histories of the holy Scriptures are described... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible)Author**PublisherReinier and Josua OttensDate Publishedc.1730 Lot #18 Jerusalem. A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorBlake, William (1757-1827)PublisherThe Trianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published[1951] Lot #19 Songs of Innocence and of Experience View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherThe Trianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1955 Lot #20 The Writings of William Blake [Together with] The Life of William Blake by Mona Wilson View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1925; 1927 Lot #22 Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorBrinkley, Captain F., editorPublisherJ.B. Millet Co.Date Published[1897] Lot #25 The Commentaries...of his Wars in Gallia and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorCaesar, C[aius] JuliusPublisherThomas Newcomb for Jonathan EdwinDate Published1677 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... View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published[1930] Lot #28 Bible View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorChagall, MarcPublisherVerveDate Published[1956] Lot #29 Dessins pour la Bible View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorChagall, MarcPublisherVerveDate Published[1960] 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Chinese Dictionary)AuthorWilliams, S. WellsPublisherAmerican Presbyterian Mission PressDate Published1874 Lot #31 The Columbus Papers. The Barcelona Letter of 1493 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorColumbus, ChristopherPublisherNew York Public Library and NYW PublishingDate Published1987 Lot #37 Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCuitt, GeorgePublisherNattali and BondDate Published1855 Lot #51 Proceedings of the French National Convention on the Trial of Louis XVI. Late King of France and Navarre... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(French Revolution)AuthorTrapp, Joseph, editorPublisherPrinted for the Author and Sold by Murray, Kearsley, et alDate Published1793 Lot #54 The History and Antiquities of Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGage, JohnPublisherJohn DeckDate Published1838 Lot #60 His Three Books Treating of the Rights of War & Peace... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorGrotius, HugoPublisherThomas Basset and Ralph SmithDate Published1682 Lot #62 Facsimile edition of the Gutenberg Bible View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Gutenberg)Author**Publisher[Insel Verlag]Date Published1913 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorHerodotusPublisherE. Horton & J. GroverDate Published1679 Lot #66 The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus: The Translation of G. W. Rawlinson Revised & Annotated by A. W. Lawrence View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Herodotus)AuthorLawrence, A. W.PublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1935 Lot #69 Sonnets from the Portuguese...to which is prefaced a "Little Journey" to the home of the author, written by Elbert Hubbard View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Hubbard, Elbert)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisher[Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop]Date Published[1898] Lot #70 The Book of Job View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Hubbard, Elbert)AuthorElzas, Rabbi Abraham, translatorPublisherThe Roycroft ShopDate Published1897 Lot #71 Two 1-page autograph letters signed by Alexander von Humboldt, plus a special commemorative postage envelope of Humboldt View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorHumboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)Date Published[c. 1815-22] & [c. 1836] Lot #72 A Book About Lawyers View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorJeafferson, John CordyPublisherHurst & BlackettDate Published1867 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorJohnson, [Samuel]PublisherG. LongDate Published1822 Lot #74 One Thousand and One Initial Letters View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorJones, OwenPublisherDay & SonDate Published1864 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Landacre, Paul)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates Lot #81 Anno Regnie Gulielmi et Mariae, regis & reginae Angliae Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Primo View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Laws)Author**PublisherPrinted by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King and QueenDate Published1689 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 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Heading(Laws)Author**Publisher[Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers for King George III]Date Published1799 Lot #86 Document signed by Francois I, King of France View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Manuscript)AuthorFrancois IDate Published[1540?] Lot #87 Preinte de exepcin perpetua de Alcaualas de al muy noble y muyleal villa Osuna View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Manuscript)Author**Date Published29 July 1623 Lot #89 Idylls of the King View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Heading(Manuscript - Calligraphy )AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordDate Publishedc.1890 Lot #91 Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanPublisherG.P. Putnam & Co.Date Published1855 Lot #92 Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanPublisherHarper & Bros.Date Published1847 Lot #99 Letter signed by Horatio Lord Nelson View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorNelson, Vice-admiral Horatio Lord (1758-1805)Date PublishedMay 8, 1801 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorPaine, Thomas, Edmund Burke and Thomas CooperPublisherP. Byrne, et al.Date Published1791-92; 1796 Lot #105 Le Temple des Muses...ou sont representes les Evenemens les plus remarquables de l'Antiquite Fabuleuse View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Picart, Bernard)Author**PublisherZacharie ChatelainDate Published1733 Lot #112 The Gazetteer of Sikhim View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorRisley, H[erbert] H[ope], intro.PublisherPrinted at the Bengal Secretariat PressDate Published1894 Lot #115 Opus poeticum de admirabilia fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorSchopper, HartmannPublisher[Petrum Fabritium, impensis Sigismundi Feirabent, & Simonis Huteri]Date Published1567 Lot #118 Original Letters, illustrative of English History... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Sets)AuthorEllis, Henry, editorPublisherHarding, Triphook, and LepardDate Published1825-1827 Lot #121 The Works of Theodore Roosevelt View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorRoosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)PublisherScribner'sDate Published1906-1913 Lot #124 Letters from the Marchioness de Sevigne, To Her Daughter the Gondess de Grignan View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Heading(Sets)AuthorSevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise dePublisherSpurr & SwiftDate Published1927 Lot #127 The Tragedie of Cymbeline View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisher[Ernest Benn Ltd.]Date Published1923 Lot #129 The Miscellaneous Works View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSidney, Philip, SirPublisherPrinted and published by D.A. TalboysDate Published1829 Lot #130 The Second Punick War between Hannibal and the Romanes.... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorSilius Italicus, CaiusPublisherPrinted by Thomas Roycroft for J. Martin, J. Allestry, and T. DicasDate Published1661 Lot #133 Star-Chamber Cases. Shewing what Causes properly belong to the Cognizance of that Court View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Star-Chamber)AuthorCrompton, [Richard]PublisherJohn GroveDate Published1641 Lot #136 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Swift, Jonathan]PublisherThe Golden Cockerel PressDate Published1925 Lot #137 Annalium... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusPublisherJ. Froben, 1533 & J. Hervagius. 1532 Lot #141 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901. Dessins, Estampes, Affiches View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Toulouse-Lautrec)AuthorJoyant, MauricePublisherH. 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