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 1-43 of 43. 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 #5 A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Now Lord Anson, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorAnson, GeorgePublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1749 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 #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 #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 #33 New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority, Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty, for Making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, &c. &c. &c. and Successively Performed in the Years 1768...1780.... View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Cook, James)AuthorAnderson, George WilliamPublisherAlex. HoggDate Published[1784-1786] Lot #36 Phrenological Illustrations, Or, An Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorCruikshank, GeorgePublisherGeorge CruikshankDate Published1826 Lot #49 Collection of photographs and related items of erotic and pornographic nature View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Erotica)Author**Date PublishedLate 19th century to 1950's 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 #64 A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, Extending above Four Thousand Miles, Between New France and New Mexico; with a Description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants, and Animals. Also, the Manners, Customs and Languages of the Several Native Indians; and the Advantage of Commerce with those different Nations. With a Continuation, Giving an Account of the Attempts of the Sieur De la Salle upon the Mines of St. Barbe, &c. The Taking of Quebec by the English; with the Advantages of a Shorter Cut to China and Japan... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorHennepin, LouisPublisherPrinted for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. ManshipDate Published1698 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 #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 #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 #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 #94 The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorMicheaux, OscarPublisherWestern Book Supply CompanyDate Published1915 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 #101 The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorNuttall, ThomasPublisherSmith & Wistar, et alDate Published1849 Lot #102 A Sermon at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian; Who had been guilty of Murder, Preached at New Haven in America. By Samson Occom, A native Indian...Also Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians...by Jonathan Edwards View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorOccam, Samson and Jonathan EdwardsPublisherBuckland, Dilly, et alDate Published1789 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 #106 A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, Composed for the Use of the Citizens of the United States View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPike, NicolasPublisherJohn MycallDate Published1788 Lot #110 Autograph letter signed by Basil Rathbone View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorRathbone, Basil (1892-1967)Date Published[c. 1935] 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 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorRathbone, Basil, Brian Aherne and Katharine CornellDate Published1934-35; 1980 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 #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 #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 #134 Studer's popular ornithology. The birds of North America: drawn and colored from life byTheodore Jasper... [and] Ornithology; or, the science of birds View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorStuder, Jacob H., Theodore Jasper, et alPublisherJacob H. StuderDate Published1878 Lot #137 Annalium... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusPublisherJ. Froben, 1533 & J. Hervagius. 1532 Lot #143 The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States. With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorTucker, GeorgePublisherCarey, Lea & BlanchardDate Published1837 Lot #155 A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, Giving an Account of the Author's Abode There, the Form and Make of the Country, the Coasts, Hills, Rivers, &c. Woods, Soil, Weather, &c. Trees, Fruit, Beasts, Birds, Fish, &c. The Indian Inhabitants, their Features, Complexion, &c... With Remarkable Occurrences in the South Sea, and elsewhere View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorWafer, LionelPublisherPrinted for James KnaptonDate Published1699 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next