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Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorDante AlighieriPublisherAldusDate Published1502 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #2 Lot of two volumes from the Aldine press Heading(Aldine Press)Author**Date Published1550 & 1564 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold 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 AuthorAnson, GeorgePublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1749 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #7 Argonautica, antiquis una, & optimis cum commentariis AuthorApollonius RhodiusPublisherPeter BrubrachDate Published1546 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #8 Artis rhetoricae, sive de arte dicendi libri iii AuthorAristotlePublisherBernardum AlbinumDate Published1598 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #10 The Life of S. Augustine. The First Part. Written by himself in the first ten Books of his Confessions... AuthorAugustinePublisherJohn CrookDate Published1660 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$875StatusSold 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 #18 Jerusalem. A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book AuthorBlake, William (1757-1827)PublisherThe Trianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published[1951] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #20 The Writings of William Blake [Together with] The Life of William Blake by Mona Wilson AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1925; 1927 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #24 Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah AuthorBurton, Richard F.PublisherG.P. PutnamDate Published1856 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold 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 #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 #31 The Columbus Papers. The Barcelona Letter of 1493 AuthorColumbus, ChristopherPublisherNew York Public Library and NYW PublishingDate Published1987 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold 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.... Heading(Cook, James)AuthorAnderson, George WilliamPublisherAlex. HoggDate Published[1784-1786] View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #35 Lot of two first editions AuthorCrabbe, GeorgePublisherJ. HatchardDate Published1810 & 1812 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #40 Dombey and Son AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #41 The Personal History of David Copperfield AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1850 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #42 A Tale of Two Cities AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1860 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #43 Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries... [and] Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorFroissart, JeanPublisherHenry G. Bohn / William SmithDate Published1855 / 1844-45 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #56 The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume XIV. For the Year M.DCC.XLIV. By Sylvanus Urban, Gent. Heading(Gentleman's Magazine)Author**PublisherEdw. Cave, jun.Date Published1744 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #57 Poetae Graeci veteres carminis heroici scriptores... Heading(Greek Poetry)Author**PublisherPrinted by Pierre de la RoviereDate Published1606 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold 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 #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... AuthorHennepin, LouisPublisherPrinted for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. ManshipDate Published1698 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #69 Sonnets from the Portuguese...to which is prefaced a "Little Journey" to the home of the author, written by Elbert Hubbard Heading(Hubbard, Elbert)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisher[Elbert Hubbard at the Roycroft Shop]Date Published[1898] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #77 The Koran, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed Heading(Koran)AuthorSale, George, translatorPublisherPrinted by C. Ackers for J. WilcoxDate Published1734 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold 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 #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 #89 Idylls of the King Heading(Manuscript - Calligraphy )AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordDate Publishedc.1890 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #90 Epigrammatum AuthorMartialis, Marcus ValeriusPublisherJoseph BarbouDate Published1754 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold 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 #94 The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races AuthorMicheaux, OscarPublisherWestern Book Supply CompanyDate Published1915 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #98 Laili and Majnun; A Poem AuthorNazamiPublisherA.J. ValpyDate Published1836 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #101 The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia... AuthorNuttall, ThomasPublisherSmith & Wistar, et alDate Published1849 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold 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 AuthorOccam, Samson and Jonathan EdwardsPublisherBuckland, Dilly, et alDate Published1789 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold 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 #106 A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, Composed for the Use of the Citizens of the United States AuthorPike, NicolasPublisherJohn MycallDate Published1788 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #117 The Works of Charles Dickens Heading(Sets)AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1876; 1897-99 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold 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 #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 #122 The Waverley Novels Heading(Sets)AuthorScott, Sir WalterPublisherJ.B. MilletDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #123 Waverley Novels Heading(Sets)AuthorScott, Sir WalterDate Published1829-1833 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #125 The Poetical Works Heading(Sets)AuthorSouthey, RobertPublisherLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & LongmanDate Published1837-38 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #127 The Tragedie of Cymbeline AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisher[Ernest Benn Ltd.]Date Published1923 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #128 The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley AuthorShelley, Percy BysshePublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1839 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #129 The Miscellaneous Works AuthorSidney, Philip, SirPublisherPrinted and published by D.A. TalboysDate Published1829 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #131 Meeting the Sun: A Journey All Round the World through Egypt, China, Japan, and California AuthorSimpson, WilliamPublisherLongmans, Green, Reader, and DyerDate Published1874 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #132 An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [and] The Theory of Moral Sentiments AuthorSmith, AdamDate Published1804-1805 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold 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 AuthorStuder, Jacob H., Theodore Jasper, et alPublisherJacob H. StuderDate Published1878 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold 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 #138 The History of Henry Esmond, Esq... AuthorThackeray, William MakepeacePublisherSmith, ElderDate Published1852 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #139 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero AuthorThackeray, William MakepeacePublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold 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 #142 Can You Forgive Her? AuthorTrollope, AnthonyPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1864-65 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #143 The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States. With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published... AuthorTucker, GeorgePublisherCarey, Lea & BlanchardDate Published1837 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold 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 Lot #154 The Georgicks AuthorVirgilPublisherRichard ReilyDate Published1741 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold 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 AuthorWafer, LionelPublisherPrinted for James KnaptonDate Published1699 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #156 The Works AuthorWalpole, HoracePublisherG.G. & J. Robinson and J. EdwardsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold 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 Lot #158 "The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue" [in] The Nineteenth Century, No. 143, January 1889 AuthorWilde, OscarPublisherKegan Paul, Trench, & Co.Date Published1889 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next