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Previous|12|Next Lot #5 The Oresteian Trilogy View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorAeschylusPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1982-83 Lot #6 A Venetian Story View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorByron, Lord George GordonPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published[1963] Lot #7 The Dialogue of the Dogs View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1969 Lot #8 All For Love. Antony - Cleopatra View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorDryden, JohnPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1976 Lot #9 The Bacchae. Doinysus, the God View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorEuripidesPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1972 Lot #10 The Temptation of Saint Anthony View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorFlaubert, GustavePublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1974 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 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)Author**PublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1973 Lot #12 A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$81.25StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorHarte, BretPublisherL-D Allen PressDate Published1960 Lot #13 Christopher Columbus View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorKazantzakis, NikosPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1972 Lot #14 Antigone View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorSophoclesPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1978 Lot #15 La Porte de Malétroit View details Estimate$70 - $100Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1952 Lot #16 What Men Live By View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$68.75StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorTolstoy, LeoPublisherThe L-D Allen PressDate Published1951 Lot #17 Quartet: Four Stories View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorWharton, EdithPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1975 Lot #19 Argonautica, e scriptis octo veteribus libris, quorum plerique nondum collati fuerant View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorApollonius RhodiusPublisherBauer et TreuttelDate Published1780 Lot #21 Le Desert De Retz: A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden. Le Jardin Pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorKetcham, DianaPublisherArion PressDate Published1990 Lot #22 Swiat / The World: A sequence of twenty poems... View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMilosz, CzeslawPublisherArion PressDate Published1989 Lot #23 The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorRilke, Rainer MariaPublisherArion PressDate Published1983 Lot #24 Keramic Art of Japan View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorAudsley, George Ashdown and James Lord BowesPublisherBy the Authors & Henry SotheranDate Published1875[-80] Lot #25 Black Jacks and Leather Bottells View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold AuthorBaker, OliverPublisherPrivately printed for W.J. Fieldhouse & Ed. J. Burrow & Co.Date Published[1921] Lot #26 Album containing approximately 96 mounted prints, most color or hand-colored, including 21 Baxter process color prints\ View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Baxter Color Prints)Author**Date Published19th century 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey, illustrator.)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineKing Arthur by Thomas Mallory, Beardsley Illus.PublisherDent & CoDate Published1893-94 Lot #32 Aucassin & Nicolette View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Binding)AuthorLang, Andrew, trans.PublisherDavid NuttDate Published1887 Lot #34 Chinese Paintings in English Collections View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorBinyon, LaurencePublisherLibraire Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire. G. VanoestDate Published1927 Lot #36 All Religions Are One View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1970 Lot #37 Illustrations of the Book of Job View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisher[Trianon Press]Date Published[1976] Lot #38 A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Blake, William)AuthorKeynes, Geoffrey, SirPublisherTrianon PressDate Published[1964] Lot #39 Milton, a Poem View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1967 Lot #40 Songs of Innocence View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$175StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published[1954] Lot #41 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1960 Lot #42 There is No Natural Religion View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1971 Lot #43 Visions of the Daughters of Albion View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1959 Lot #44 William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1972 Lot #45 William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherTrianon Press for the William Blake TrustDate Published1972 Lot #47 A History of European Banking View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorBogaert, R., G. Kugran-Van Hentenryk and H. Van der WeePublisherFonds Mercator ParibasDate Published[1994] Lot #50 Pointes Sèches View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorBoutet, HenriPublisherAteliers de reproduction Fortier-MarotteDate Published[1898] Lot #52 The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn, R.A. View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Brangwyn, Frank)AuthorGaunt, W[illiam]PublisherThe StudioDate Published1926 Lot #53 A Book of Bridges View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorBrangwyn, Frank and Walter SparrowPublisherJohn Lane - The Bodley HeadDate Published1916 Lot #54 European Glass View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorBuckley, WilfredPublisherErnest BennDate Published1926 Lot #59 Glasmalerein für Jerusalem View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorChagall, MarcPublisherAndre SauretDate Published[1962] Lot #63 The Freer Chinese Bronzes View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Chinese Bronzes)AuthorPope, J.A., R.J. Gettens, J. Cahill & N. BarnardPublisherSmithsonian InstitutionDate Published1967-69 Lot #64 King George VI View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherAchille J. St. OngeDate Published1952 Lot #71 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorPublisherChilmark PressDate Published1964 Lot #77 Collection of signed letters and drawings View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorCruikshank, GeorgeDate Published1844-76 Lot #78 Death's Doings View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDagley, R[ichard]PublisherJ. AndrewsDate Published1827 Lot #79 Dalziels' Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$468.75StatusSold Author(Dalziel Brothers)PublisherWard & LockDate Published[1864-65] Lot #80 The Poets of the Nineteenth Century View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(Dalziel Brothers)AuthorWillmott, Robert Aris, editorPublisherGeorge Routledge & Co.Date Published1857 Lot #83 Observations of a Tour through almost the Whole of England and a Considerable Part of Scotland, In a Series of Letters... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorDibdin, C[harles]PublisherG. Goulding; John Walker; Author's WarehouseDate Published[1801-02] Lot #85 Seven Poems and Two Translations View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordPublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1902 Lot #87 Underweysung der Messung mit dem zirckel und richt scheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen Corporen View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorDürer, AlbrechtPublisherCollegium GraphicumDate Published[1972] Lot #89 The Harp. In its present improved State. Compared with The Original Pedal Harp (cover title) View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorErard, PierreDate Published1821 Lot #91 Pictorial Artistry. The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorFassbender, AdolfPublisherB. WestermannDate Published[1937] Lot #92 The Art of Engraving, with the Various Modes of Operation... View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorFielding, T.H.PublisherNattaliDate Published1864 Lot #94 Emblematical Devices with Appropriate Motto's Collected by Samuel Fletcher, Seal Engraver View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorFletcher, SamuelPublisherSamuel FletcherDate Published1810 Lot #96 The Fowler Architectural Collection of The Johns Hopkins University View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorFowler, Laurence Hall and Elizabeth Baer, compilersPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1991 Lot #100 Gavarni in London: Sketches of Life and Character, with Illustrative Essays by Popular Writers View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Gavarni)AuthorSmith, Albert, edPublisherDavid BogueDate Published1849 Lot #102 The Vicar of Wakefield View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherConstable & Co.Date Published1926 Lot #105 Goya: Engravings and Lithographs View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(Goya)AuthorHarris, TomasPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published[2001] 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 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherRansohoffsDate Published1941 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 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherRansohoffsDate Published1940 Lot #108 The Comedy of Dante Alighieri translated into English Unrhymed Hendecasyllabic Verse View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorDante AlighieriPublisherThe Grabhorn PressDate Published1958 Lot #109 A Christmas Carol. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$56.25StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherRansohoffsDate Published1950 Lot #110 Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1940-1956 [With a Check-List 1916-1940] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorMagee, David and DorothyPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1957 Lot #111 A Midsommer Nights Dreame View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$106.25StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1955 Lot #112 The Fisherman and His Soul View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$81.25StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorWilde, OscarPublisher[Ransohoffs]Date Published[1939] 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 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)Author[Windsor, Edward, Duke of]PublisherRansohoffsDate Published1938 Lot #115 Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part I: French Sixteenth Century Books View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Harvard Library - 16th Century French Books)AuthorMortimer, RuthPublisherWittenborn Art BooksDate Published1998 Lot #116 Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian 16th Century Books View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Harvard Library - 16th Italian Books)AuthorMortimer, RuthPublisherWittenborn Art BooksDate Published1998 Lot #123 Bermuda Houses View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorHumphreys, John S.PublisherMarshall JonesDate Published[1923] 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. View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$68.75StatusSold AuthorHuygens, ChristiaanPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1912 Lot #126 Large illuminated initial letter "B" in gilt and colors, on vellum, possibly from an antiphonal View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Illuminated Initial - c.16th century)Author**Date Publishedc.16th century 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... View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorKrauss, Johann UlrichPublisherJohann Ulrich KraussDate Published1694 Lot #137 XVIIIme Siecle, Lettres, Sciences et Arts France 1700-1789 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorLacroix, PaulPublisherFirmin-DidotDate Published1878 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 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorPartridge, EricPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1939 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 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorPartridge, EricPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1939 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. View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorBrant, Sebastian.PublisherDavid MageeDate Published1938 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 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Books)Author(Caxton, William)Publisher[Book Club of California]Date Published1938 Lot #143 The Estiennes: A Biographical Essay...illustrated with Original Leaves from Books printed by the Three Greatest Members of that Distinguished Family View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Books)AuthorPattison, MarkPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1949 Lot #144 Original pencil drawing, signed in initials View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorLeech, JohnDate PublishedNo date Lot #145 Original watercolor sketch, signed View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorLeech, JohnDate PublishedNo date Lot #148 Sculpture of Boris Lovet-Lorski View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Lovet-Lorski, Boris)AuthorArmitage, MerlePublisherE. Weyhe PublisherDate Published1937 Lot #149 Marques de Collections de Dessins et d'Estampes View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorLugt, FritsPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1975-88 Lot #154 The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Manuscript Leaf Book)AuthorSchulz, H.C.PublisherDavid MageeDate Published1939 Lot #155 Single illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Manuscript Leaf)Author**Date Published[c. 1400] Lot #156 Single illuminated manuscript leaf from a breviary View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Manuscript Leaf)Author**Date Published[c. mid-13th century] Lot #157 Five Moghul leaves, with painted miniatures View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Manuscript leaves)Author**Date Published[19th-century?] Lot #158 Two manuscript leaves on vellum View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Manuscript leaves)Author**Date Published[c.1400] Lot #159 Single manuscript leaf on vellum View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(Manuscripts)Author**Date Published[c. late 14th century] Lot #161 James McBey. Etchings & Drypoints. Catalogue Raisonné View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(McBey, James)AuthorHardie, Martin and Carter, CharlesPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1998 Lot #164 Jean Francois Millet. His Life and Letters View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$106.25StatusSold Heading(Millet, Jean Francois)AuthorCartwright, JuliaPublisherSwan SonnenscheinDate Published1896 Lot #167 Life of Dante View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Heading(Nash, John Henry)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1922 Lot #171 Arte poetica, e da pintura, e symmetria, com principios da perspectiva View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorNunes, PhilippePublisherPedro CrasbeeckDate Published1615 Lot #174 Samuel Palmer. A Vision Recaptured: The Complete Etchings and the Paintings for Milton and for Virgil View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorPalmer, SamuelPublisherTrianon Press Facsimiles for the William Blake TrustDate Published1978 Lot #176 Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts Panama-Pacific International Exposition View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Panama-Pacific International Exposition)AuthorTrask, John E. D. and J. Nilsen Laurvik, eds.PublisherPaul ElderDate Published[1915] Lot #177 Paolo da Venezia View details Estimate$70 - $100Sold for$43.75StatusSold Heading(Paolo da Venezia)AuthorMuraro, MichelangeloPublisherThe Pennsylvania State University PressDate Published[1970] Lot #178 Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Heading(Paper Specimens)Author(Stevens-Nelson Paper Company)Date Published[1953] Lot #181 Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Pennell, Joseph)AuthorWuerth, Louis A.PublisherLittle, Brown, and CoDate Published1928 Lot #182 Rime di Francesco Petrarca View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoPublisherTipografia della SocietaÌ LetterariaDate Published1805 Lot #184 Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Complete Etchings View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Piranesi)AuthorWilton-Ely, JohnPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1994 Lot #187 A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorPope, Arthur Upham & Phyllis Ackerman, editorsPublisherUnder the Auspices of the American Institute for Iranian Art & Archaeology, Oxford University PressDate Published1938 Lot #188 Breve Comppendio das Excelencias de Sagrada Religeaõ, e Negra, que professam os Frades Menores... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Portuguese Manuscript)Author**Date Publishedcirca mid-18th century Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next