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Abbey Heading(Abbey, John R.)Author**PublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1991 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #2 Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland / Life In England / Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J.R. Abbey Heading(Abbey, John R.)Author**PublisherAlan WofsyDate Published1991 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #3 Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. From the Library of J.R. Abbey Heading(Abbey, John R.)Author*PublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1991 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #24 Keramic Art of Japan AuthorAudsley, George Ashdown and James Lord BowesPublisherBy the Authors & Henry SotheranDate Published1875[-80] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #26 Album containing approximately 96 mounted prints, most color or hand-colored, including 21 Baxter process color prints\ Heading(Baxter Color Prints)Author**Date Published19th century View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #35 The American Practical Dyer's Companion... AuthorBird, F.J.PublisherHenry Carey Baird & Co.Date Published1882 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #48 Recuerdos de Lima. Album tipos, trajes y costumbres AuthorBonnaffeì, A.A.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #56 Hudibras AuthorButler, SamuelPublisherThomas M'LeanDate Published1819 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #72 Costume of the Russian Empire, Illustrated by upwards of Seventy Richly Coloured Engravings... Heading(Costume)Author**PublisherPrinted for E. Harding, et alDate Published1803 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #81 The Life, and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabitted Island on the Coast of America near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque... AuthorDefoe, DanielPublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1722 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #123 Bermuda Houses AuthorHumphreys, John S.PublisherMarshall JonesDate Published[1923] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #137 XVIIIme Siecle, Lettres, Sciences et Arts France 1700-1789 AuthorLacroix, PaulPublisherFirmin-DidotDate Published1878 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #187 A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present AuthorPope, Arthur Upham & Phyllis Ackerman, editorsPublisherUnder the Auspices of the American Institute for Iranian Art & Archaeology, Oxford University PressDate Published1938 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #191 The Costume of Great Britain AuthorPyne, W[illiam] H[enry]PublisherPrinted for William Miller...by Howlett and BrimmerDate Published1804 [but circa 1821] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #192 The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore AuthorPyne, W[illiam] H[enry]PublisherA. DryDate Published1819 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #203 The Clans of Scotland. Their Tartans, Badges, and War-Cries Heading(Scots)Author**PublisherRomanes & PatersonDate Publishedc.1892 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #259 An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, in South America. Containing a Description of many Curious Productions in the Animal and Vegetable Systems of that Country. Together with an Accoung of the Religion, Manners and Customs of several Tribes of its Indian Inhabitants... AuthorBancroft , EdwardPublisherT. Beckett & P.A. De HondtDate Published1769 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #260 Life Histories of North American Birds, With Special Reference to Their Breeding Habits and Eggs AuthorBendire, CharlesPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1892 & 1895 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #264 Ten [i.e. Forty] Lithographic Coloured Flowers with Botanical Descriptions drawn and coloured by a Lady Heading(Botanical)Author**PublisherDavid BrownDate Published1826 [but c. 1828] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #266 Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain Descriptions and Figures of all North American Birds... AuthorCassin, JohnPublisherJ.B. Lippincott & Co.Date Published[1853]-56 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #273 The Reptiles of British India AuthorGünther, Albert C.L.G.PublisherPublished for the Ray Society by Robert HardwickeDate Published1864 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #275 Prodome D'une Iconographie Descriptive des Ophidiens AuthorJan, M. Le ProfesseurPublisherImprimerie de Mme. Ve. Bouchard-HuzardDate Published1859 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #276 The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds AuthorJohnstone, William Grosart & Alexander CroallPublisherBradbury and EvansDate Published1859 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #278 The Snakes of Australia; An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of All the Known Species AuthorKrefft, GerardPublisherThomas Richards, Government PrinterDate Published1869 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #284 Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous AuthorPalmer, Julius A[uboinea], Jr., editorPublisherL. PrangDate Published1885 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #288 Orphidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon AuthorWall, FrankPublisherH.R. Cottle, Government PrinterDate Published1921 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #289 Island Life: or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1880 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #292 The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1876 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #293 Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 AuthorBack, Captain [George]PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1836 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #294 The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot, by W.H. Bartlett, J.D. Harding, T. Creswick, and Others. With Descriptions, Historical and Descriptive Heading(Bartlett, William Henry, et al.)Author**PublisherVirtue & Co.Date Published[c1850] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #295 An Authentic Narrative of the Proceedings of his Majesty's Squadron under the command of Rear-admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, from its Sailing from Gibraltar to the Conclusion of the Glorious Battle of the Nile, Drawn Up from the Minutes of an Officer of Rank in the Squadron Author[Berry, Sir Edward]PublisherT. Cadell, Jun., & W. DaviesDate Published1798 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #296 The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands, on the Coast of North and South America... AuthorBlunt, Edmund MPublisherEdmund and George W. BluntDate Published1827 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #297 La Figure de la terre... AuthorBouguer, [Pierre]PublisherCharles-Antoine JombertDate Published1749 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #298 The New American Practical Navigator... AuthorBowditch, NathanielPublisherE. & G.W. BluntDate Published1848 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #299 The Sphinx and White Ghost Shelter and other Spitzkopje Sites AuthorBreuil, HenriPublisherThe Trianon PressDate Published[1975] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #300 The Tsisab Ravine and other Brandberg Sites AuthorBreuil, HenriPublisherThe Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon PressDate Published[1959] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #301 Bound volume with five documents relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1842 Heading(Canada-America Border)Author**PublisherPrinted by T.R. HarrisonDate Published[1843] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #302 Cary's New Itinerary: or, an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, both Direct and Cross, throughout England and Wales; with many of the Principal Roads in Scotland... AuthorCary, JohnPublisherJ. CaryDate Published1806 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #303 An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Cartaret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour. Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. AuthorCook, JamesPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1773 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #304 British Government in India. The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses AuthorCurzon, George Nathaniel, LordPublisherCassell & Co. Ltd.Date Published[1925] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #305 The Life of Lord Curzon. Being the Authorized Biography of George Nathaniel Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. Heading(Curzon, George Nathaniel, Lord)AuthorRonaldshay, Lawrence, EarlPublisherErnest Benn Ltd.Date Published[1928] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #306 The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms... AuthorDana, Richard Henry, Jr.PublisherThomas GroomDate Published1865 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #307 A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates... Author[Defoe, Daniel]. Captain Charles Johnson, pseud.PublisherCh. Rivington, et alDate Published1724 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #308 A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon AuthorDixon, GeorgePublisherGeo. GouldingDate Published1789 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #309 Drake and the Tudor Navy Heading(Drake, Francis)AuthorCorbett, Julian S.PublisherLongmans, Green, and CoDate Published1898 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #310 French Explorers in the Pacific AuthorDunmore, JohnPublisherat the Clarendon PressDate Published1965-69 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #311 Histoire de la Marine Française AuthorFarrère, ClaudePublisherFlammarionDate Published[1934] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #312 The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys AuthorFitzGerald, E[dward] A[rthur]PublisherMethuenDate Published1899 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #313 Sultan to Sultan. Adventures among the Masai and other Tribes of East Africa AuthorFrench-Sheldon, [May], "Bebe Bwana"PublisherArenaDate Published1892 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #314 The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52 AuthorGilliss, J[ames] M[elville]PublisherA.O.P. Nicholson, Public PrinterDate Published1855 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #315 The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation AuthorHakluyt, RichardPublisherAugustus M KelleyDate Published1969 View details Estimate$200 - $250Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #316 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804 AuthorHumboldt, Alexander vonPublisherGeorge Bell & SonsDate Published1884 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #317 An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and Some of His Officers, Who, in August, 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a Packet Belonging to the Honourable East India Company AuthorKeate, GeorgePublisherPrinted by Manning & Loring for S. Hall, et al.Date Published1796 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #318 Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy: With Extracts from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq., of Sarawak, (Now Agent for the British Government in Borneo.) AuthorKeppel, HenryPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1846 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #319 In the Forbidden Land. An Account of a Journey in Tibet Capture by the Tibetan Authorities Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release AuthorLandor, A. Henry SavagePublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1898 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #322 Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph AuthorLawrence, T. E.PublisherDoubleday, Doran & Co.Date Published1935 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #323 Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U.S. Brig Dolphin, Made nder the Direction of the Navy Department AuthorLee, S[amuel] P[hillips]PublisherBeverley Tucker, Printer to the SenateDate Published1854 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #324 The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship. With an Appendix containing several figures illustrative of novelties and improvements in Rigging, &c &c &c AuthorLever, DarcyPublisherJohn Richardson, et al.Date Published[1835] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #325 The Spirit of St. Louis AuthorLindbergh, Charles A.PublisherScribner'sDate Published1955 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #326 Reflexiones sobre los contratos maritimos, sacadas del derecho civil, y canonico, del consulado del mar, y de los usos maritimos, con las formulas de los tales contratos... Heading(Maritime)AuthorTarga, CarlosPublisherEn la Imprenta de Francisco Xavier GarciaDate Published1753 View details Estimate$70 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #327 The Story of the Seaman: Being an Account of the Ways and Appliances of Seafarers and of Ships from the Earliest Time Until Now AuthorMeigs, John ForsythPublisherLippincottDate Published1924 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #328 A Trip Around the World AuthorMoerlein, GeorgePublisherM. & R. BurgheimDate Published[1886] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #329 An Account of Denmark as it was in the Year 1692 Author[Molesworth, Robert, Viscount]Date Published1694 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #330 Naval Evolutions: Or. A System of Sea-Discipline; Extracted from the Celebrated Treatise of P. L'Hoste, Professor of Mathematics, in the Royal Seminary of Toulon... To which are added, An Abstract of the Theory of Ship-Building; an Essay on Naval Discipline... A General Idea of the Armament of the French Navy... AuthorO'Bryen, ChristopherPublisherW. JohnstonDate Published1762 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #331 Lot of three titles, all presentation copies for Samuel Bligh AuthorOliphant, LaurenceDate Published1852-56 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #332 Souvenirs de Marine: Collection de Plans ou Dessins de Navires et de Bateaux Anciens ou Modernes AuthorParis, EdmondPublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1910 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #333 Voyage historique, pittoresque et philosophique de la Grece AuthorPausaniusPublisherChez DebarleDate Published1797 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #334 Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation AuthorPigafetta, AntonioPublisherYale University PressDate Published1969 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #335 The Natural History of Man... AuthorPrichard, James CowlesPublisherH. BailliereDate Published1843 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #336 Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China AuthorPumpelly, RaphaelPublisherLeyboldt & HoltDate Published1870 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #337 The British Flag Triumphant! Or The Wooden Walls of Old England: Being Copies of the London Gazettes, Containing the Accounts of the Great Victories and Gallant Exploits of the British Fleets, During the Last and Present War... Author[Radstock, Sir William Waldegrave and Park, J. A.]PublisherMessrs. Rivington, et al.Date Published1806 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #338 Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery: Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. Illustrated with Cuts, and a Chart, Shewing the Tracks of the Ships Employed in this Expedition Author[Rickman, John]PublisherPrinted for E. NewberyDate Published1785 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #339 The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia AuthorRoberts, DavidPublisherDay & SonDate Published1855-56 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #340 The Evolution of Naval Armament AuthorRobertson, Frederick LesliePublisherConstable & Co.Date Published1921 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #341 Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1820, 1831, 1832, 1833...and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole AuthorRoss, JohnPublisherA.W. WebsterDate Published1835 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #342 Algemeine Geschichte der Laender und Voelker von America Author[Schroeter, Johann Friedrich]PublisherJohann Justinus GebauerDate Published1752-53 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #343 The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration AuthorStanley, Henry M[orton]PublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published[1885] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #344 Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the Command of Captain George Vancouver AuthorVancouver, GeorgePublisherJohn StockdaleDate Published1801 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #345 Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements AuthorWagner, Henry R.PublisherJohn HowellDate Published1926 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #346 Wanderings in South America, The North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. The Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History AuthorWaterton, CharlesPublisherJ. MawmanDate Published1825 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #347 Maori Superstitions: A Lecture... Delivered for the "Young Men's Christian Association," in the Odd Fellow's Hall, June 20th, 1856 AuthorWhite, JohnPublisherWilliamson and WilsonDate Published1856 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #348 The Yukon Sun and Klondike Pioneer. Official Paper of the Yukon Territory. Special Number Heading(Yukon)Author**Date PublishedSeptember 1900 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next