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Previous|12|Next Lot #5 The Oresteian Trilogy Heading(Allen Press)AuthorAeschylusPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1982-83 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #6 A Venetian Story Heading(Allen Press)AuthorByron, Lord George GordonPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published[1963] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #7 The Dialogue of the Dogs Heading(Allen Press)AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1969 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #8 All For Love. Antony - Cleopatra Heading(Allen Press)AuthorDryden, JohnPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1976 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #9 The Bacchae. Doinysus, the God Heading(Allen Press)AuthorEuripidesPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1972 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #10 The Temptation of Saint Anthony Heading(Allen Press)AuthorFlaubert, GustavePublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1974 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #11 Four Fictions. A Concise Presentation of Literature, Book Arts and Crafts of England, France, United States, and Italy. Joseph Conrad: The Lagoon. Gustave Flaubert: The Legend of Saint Julian. Henry James: The Jolly Corner. Luigi Pirandello: The Annuity Heading(Allen Press)Author**PublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1973 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #12 A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready Heading(Allen Press)AuthorHarte, BretPublisherL-D Allen PressDate Published1960 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$81.25StatusSold Lot #13 Christopher Columbus Heading(Allen Press)AuthorKazantzakis, NikosPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1972 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #14 Antigone Heading(Allen Press)AuthorSophoclesPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1978 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #15 La Porte de Malétroit Heading(Allen Press)AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1952 View details Estimate$70 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #16 What Men Live By Heading(Allen Press)AuthorTolstoy, LeoPublisherThe L-D Allen PressDate Published1951 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$68.75StatusSold Lot #17 Quartet: Four Stories Heading(Allen Press)AuthorWharton, EdithPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1975 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #19 Argonautica, e scriptis octo veteribus libris, quorum plerique nondum collati fuerant AuthorApollonius RhodiusPublisherBauer et TreuttelDate Published1780 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #21 Le Desert De Retz: A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden. Le Jardin Pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville Heading(Arion Press)AuthorKetcham, DianaPublisherArion PressDate Published1990 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #22 Swiat / The World: A sequence of twenty poems... Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMilosz, CzeslawPublisherArion PressDate Published1989 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #23 The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke Heading(Arion Press)AuthorRilke, Rainer MariaPublisherArion PressDate Published1983 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold 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 #25 Black Jacks and Leather Bottells AuthorBaker, OliverPublisherPrivately printed for W.J. Fieldhouse & Ed. J. Burrow & Co.Date Published[1921] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold 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 #27 The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte DArthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of the World of them All Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey, illustrator.)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineKing Arthur by Thomas Mallory, Beardsley Illus.PublisherDent & CoDate Published1893-94 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #32 Aucassin & Nicolette Heading(Binding)AuthorLang, Andrew, trans.PublisherDavid NuttDate Published1887 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #34 Chinese Paintings in English Collections AuthorBinyon, LaurencePublisherLibraire Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire. G. VanoestDate Published1927 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #36 All Religions Are One AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1970 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #37 Illustrations of the Book of Job AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisher[Trianon Press]Date Published[1976] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #38 A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet Heading(Blake, William)AuthorKeynes, Geoffrey, SirPublisherTrianon PressDate Published[1964] View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #39 Milton, a Poem AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1967 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #40 Songs of Innocence AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published[1954] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #41 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1960 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #42 There is No Natural Religion AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1971 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #43 Visions of the Daughters of Albion AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1959 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #44 William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1972 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #45 William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1972 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #47 A History of European Banking AuthorBogaert, R., G. Kugran-Van Hentenryk and H. Van der WeePublisherFonds Mercator ParibasDate Published[1994] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #50 Pointes Sèches AuthorBoutet, HenriPublisherAteliers de reproduction Fortier-MarotteDate Published[1898] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #52 The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn, R.A. Heading(Brangwyn, Frank)AuthorGaunt, W[illiam]PublisherThe StudioDate Published1926 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #53 A Book of Bridges AuthorBrangwyn, Frank and Walter SparrowPublisherJohn Lane - The Bodley HeadDate Published1916 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #54 European Glass AuthorBuckley, WilfredPublisherErnest BennDate Published1926 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #59 Glasmalerein für Jerusalem AuthorChagall, MarcPublisherAndre SauretDate Published[1962] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #63 The Freer Chinese Bronzes Heading(Chinese Bronzes)AuthorPope, J.A., R.J. Gettens, J. Cahill & N. BarnardPublisherSmithsonian InstitutionDate Published1967-69 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #64 King George VI AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherAchille J. St. OngeDate Published1952 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #71 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorPublisherChilmark PressDate Published1964 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #77 Collection of signed letters and drawings AuthorCruikshank, GeorgeDate Published1844-76 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #78 Death's Doings AuthorDagley, R[ichard]PublisherJ. AndrewsDate Published1827 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #79 Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments Author(Dalziel Brothers)PublisherWard & LockDate Published[1864-65] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #80 The Poets of the Nineteenth Century Heading(Dalziel Brothers)AuthorWillmott, Robert Aris, editorPublisherGeorge Routledge & Co.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #83 Observations of a Tour through almost the Whole of England and a Considerable Part of Scotland, In a Series of Letters... AuthorDibdin, C[harles]PublisherG. Goulding; John Walker; Author's WarehouseDate Published[1801-02] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #85 Seven Poems and Two Translations Heading(Doves Press)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordPublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1902 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #87 Underweysung der Messung mit dem zirckel und richt scheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen Corporen AuthorDürer, AlbrechtPublisherCollegium GraphicumDate Published[1972] View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #89 The Harp. In its present improved State. Compared with The Original Pedal Harp (cover title) AuthorErard, PierreDate Published1821 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #91 Pictorial Artistry. The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography AuthorFassbender, AdolfPublisherB. WestermannDate Published[1937] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #92 The Art of Engraving, with the Various Modes of Operation... AuthorFielding, T.H.PublisherNattaliDate Published1864 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #94 Emblematical Devices with Appropriate Motto's Collected by Samuel Fletcher, Seal Engraver AuthorFletcher, SamuelPublisherSamuel FletcherDate Published1810 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #96 The Fowler Architectural Collection of The Johns Hopkins University AuthorFowler, Laurence Hall and Elizabeth Baer, compilersPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1991 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #100 Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Character, with Illustrative Essays by Popular Writers Heading(Gavarni)AuthorSmith, Albert, edPublisherDavid BogueDate Published1849 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #102 The Vicar of Wakefield AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherConstable & Co.Date Published1926 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #105 Goya: Engravings and Lithographs Heading(Goya)AuthorHarris, TomasPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published[2001] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #106 Broadcast Addresses to the People of Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Russia, and the United States, by the Prime Minister of the British Empire, Winston Churchill, MCMXL-MCMXLI Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherRansohoffsDate Published1941 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #107 Addresses Delivered in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty to the People of Great Britain, of France, and to the Members of the English House of Commons, by the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherRansohoffsDate Published1940 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #108 The Comedy of Dante Alighieri translated into English Unrhymed Hendecasyllabic Verse Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorDante AlighieriPublisherThe Grabhorn PressDate Published1958 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #109 A Christmas Carol. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherRansohoffsDate Published1950 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$56.25StatusSold Lot #110 Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1940-1956 [With a Check-List 1916-1940] Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorMagee, David and DorothyPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1957 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #111 A Midsommer Nights Dreame Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1955 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$106.25StatusSold Lot #112 The Fisherman and His Soul Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorWilde, OscarPublisher[Ransohoffs]Date Published[1939] View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$81.25StatusSold Lot #113 Farewell Speech of King Edward The Eighth Broadcast from Windsor Castle the Tenth Day of December, MCMXXXVI, with the Instrument of Abdication & a Note by William Saroyan Heading(Grabhorn Press)Author[Windsor, Edward, Duke of]PublisherRansohoffsDate Published1938 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #115 Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part I: French Sixteenth Century Books Heading(Harvard Library - 16th Century French Books)AuthorMortimer, RuthPublisherWittenborn Art BooksDate Published1998 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #116 Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian 16th Century Books Heading(Harvard Library - 16th Italian Books)AuthorMortimer, RuthPublisherWittenborn Art BooksDate Published1998 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #123 Bermuda Houses AuthorHumphreys, John S.PublisherMarshall JonesDate Published[1923] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #125 Treatise on light, in which are explained the causes of that which occurs reflexion and in refraction, and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal. AuthorHuygens, ChristiaanPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1912 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$68.75StatusSold Lot #126 Large illuminated initial letter "B" in gilt and colors, on vellum, possibly from an antiphonal Heading(Illuminated Initial - c.16th century)Author**Date Publishedc.16th century View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #136 Biblisches Engel- u. KunstWerck; alles das jenige Was in Heiliger Göttlicher Schrifft Altes und Neuen Testaments Von den Heiligen Engeln Gottes Dero Erscheinungen Verrichtungen Bottschaffte u Gesandschaffte[n], Auf mancherley Art und Weise auss Göttlicher Verordnung Zu finden ist Also, dass auch, was von dess Engels dess Bundes und Grossen Raths Jesu Christi dess Sohns Gottes... AuthorKrauss, Johann UlrichPublisherJohann Ulrich KraussDate Published1694 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #137 XVIIIme Siecle, Lettres, Sciences et Arts France 1700-1789 AuthorLacroix, PaulPublisherFirmin-DidotDate Published1878 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #139 An Original Issue of "The Spectator" together with the Story of the Famous Engligh Periodical and of its Founders, Joseph Addison & Richard Steele Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorPartridge, EricPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1939 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #140 An Original Issue of "The Spectator" together with the Story of the Famous Engligh Periodical and of its Founders, Joseph Addison & Richard Steele Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorPartridge, EricPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1939 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #141 An Original Leaf from the First Edition of Alexander Barclay's English Translation of Sebastian Grant's "Ship of Fools," printed by Richard Pynson in 1509. Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorBrant, Sebastian.PublisherDavid MageeDate Published1938 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #142 An Original Leaf from the Polycronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482: The Life and Works of William Caxton, with an historical reminder of fifteenth century England by Benjamin P. Kurtz together with a Note on the Polycronicon by Oscar Lewis & an Appreciation...by Edwin Grabhorn Heading(Leaf Books)Author(Caxton, William)Publisher[Book Club of California]Date Published1938 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #143 The Estiennes: A Biographical Essay...illustrated with Original Leaves from Books printed by the Three Greatest Members of that Distinguished Family Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorPattison, MarkPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1949 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #144 Original pencil drawing, signed in initials AuthorLeech, JohnDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #145 Original watercolor sketch, signed AuthorLeech, JohnDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #148 Sculpture of Boris Lovet-Lorski Heading(Lovet-Lorski, Boris)AuthorArmitage, MerlePublisherE. Weyhe PublisherDate Published1937 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #149 Marques de Collections de Dessins et d'Estampes AuthorLugt, FritsPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1975-88 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #154 The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages Heading(Manuscript Leaf Book)AuthorSchulz, H.C.PublisherDavid MageeDate Published1939 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #155 Single illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours Heading(Manuscript Leaf)Author**Date Published[c. 1400] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #156 Single illuminated manuscript leaf from a breviary Heading(Manuscript Leaf)Author**Date Published[c. mid-13th century] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #157 Five Moghul leaves, with painted miniatures Heading(Manuscript leaves)Author**Date Published[19th-century?] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #158 Two manuscript leaves on vellum Heading(Manuscript leaves)Author**Date Published[c.1400] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #159 Single manuscript leaf on vellum Heading(Manuscripts)Author**Date Published[c. late 14th century] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #161 James McBey. Etchings & Drypoints. Catalogue Raisonné Heading(McBey, James)AuthorHardie, Martin and Carter, CharlesPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1998 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #164 Jean Francois Millet. His Life and Letters Heading(Millet, Jean Francois)AuthorCartwright, JuliaPublisherSwan SonnenscheinDate Published1896 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$106.25StatusSold Lot #167 Life of Dante Heading(Nash, John Henry)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1922 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #171 Arte poetica, e da pintura, e symmetria, com principios da perspectiva AuthorNunes, PhilippePublisherPedro CrasbeeckDate Published1615 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #174 Samuel Palmer. A Vision Recaptured: The Complete Etchings and the Paintings for Milton and for Virgil AuthorPalmer, SamuelPublisherTrianon Press Facsimiles for the William Blake TrustDate Published1978 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #176 Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts Panama-Pacific International Exposition Heading(Panama-Pacific International Exposition)AuthorTrask, John E. D. and J. Nilsen Laurvik, eds.PublisherPaul ElderDate Published[1915] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #177 Paolo da Venezia Heading(Paolo da Venezia)AuthorMuraro, MichelangeloPublisherThe Pennsylvania State University PressDate Published[1970] View details Estimate$70 - $100Sold for$43.75StatusSold Lot #178 Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue Heading(Paper Specimens)Author(Stevens-Nelson Paper Company)Date Published[1953] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #181 Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell Heading(Pennell, Joseph)AuthorWuerth, Louis A.PublisherLittle, Brown, and CoDate Published1928 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #182 Rime di Francesco Petrarca AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoPublisherTipografia della SocietaÌ LetterariaDate Published1805 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #184 Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Complete Etchings Heading(Piranesi)AuthorWilton-Ely, JohnPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1994 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold 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 #188 Breve Comppendio das Excelencias de Sagrada Religeaõ, e Negra, que professam os Frades Menores... Heading(Portuguese Manuscript)Author**Date Publishedcirca mid-18th century View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next