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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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #35 Lot of two first editions AuthorCrabbe, GeorgePublisherJ. HatchardDate Published1810 & 1812 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 #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 #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 #70 The Book of Job Heading(Hubbard, Elbert)AuthorElzas, Rabbi Abraham, translatorPublisherThe Roycroft ShopDate Published1897 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,750StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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