Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info 311 232 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 1-36 of 36. 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #86 Document signed by Francois I, King of France Heading(Manuscript)AuthorFrancois IDate Published[1540?] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #87 Preinte de exepcin perpetua de Alcaualas de al muy noble y muyleal villa Osuna Heading(Manuscript)Author**Date Published29 July 1623 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #88 Les Clavicules de R. Salomon, traduite exactement du Texte hebreu en francois: le tout enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures misterieuses de Talismans, Pentacules, Cercles, Canderies, & Caracteres Heading(Manuscript - Occult)Author**Date Publishedc.1700 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #89 Idylls of the King Heading(Manuscript - Calligraphy )AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordDate Publishedc.1890 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold 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 #97 Photograph portrait of Mussolini, signed by Mussolini for "Palazzo Venzia" AuthorMussolini, Benito (1883-1945)Date PublishedMay 19, 1936 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold 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 #110 Autograph letter signed by Basil Rathbone AuthorRathbone, Basil (1892-1967)Date Published[c. 1935] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #111 Archive of theatrical material, including an autograph letter signed by Basil Rathbone, pertaining to Kit Cornell's 1934-1935 production of Romeo and Juliet AuthorRathbone, Basil, Brian Aherne and Katharine CornellDate Published1934-35; 1980 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold 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 #118 Original Letters, illustrative of English History... Heading(Sets)AuthorEllis, Henry, editorPublisherHarding, Triphook, and LepardDate Published1825-1827 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold 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 #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 #137 Annalium... AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusPublisherJ. Froben, 1533 & J. Hervagius. 1532 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #140 Signed photograph of Tolstoy, with signed book and small archive AuthorTolstoy, LeoDate Publishedcirca 1903 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #157 Ravenna. Recited in The Theatre, Oxford. June 26, 1878 AuthorWilde, OscarPublisherThos. Shrimpton and SonDate Published1878 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next