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Previous|123|Next Lot #4 The Tactiks of Aelian; Or, art of embattailing an army after ye Grecian manner View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorAelianus TacticusPublisherLawrence LisleDate Published[1616]-1631 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 #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 #18 The Government of the Tongue View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Author[Allestree, Richard]Date Published1694 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 #20 Tables of the Grecian, Roman and Jewish Measures, Weights and Coins; Reduc'd to the English Standard View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorArbuthnot, JohnPublisherRalph SmithDate PublishedN.d. (18th century) 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 #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 #29 Notes, Theological, Political, and Miscellaneous View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Binding)AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1853 Lot #30 Der Elste Teil der Buecher des Ehrwirdigen herrn D. Martini Lutheri... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Binding)Author**Date Published1572 Lot #31 The Rubaiyat View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Binding)AuthorOmar KhayyamPublisherGeorge G. HarrapDate PublishedNo date Lot #33 The Greatness of the Mystery of Godliness View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Binding)AuthorSydenham, CuthbertPublisherRobert BoulterDate Published1672 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 #46 Della Geneologia de gli Dei....libri quindeci. Ne' quali si tratta dell'Origine, & discendenza di tutti gli Dei de' Gentili... Tradotta gia per M. Gioseppe Betussi View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorBoccacio, GiovanniPublisherLa Comnagnia de gli V. nitiDate Published1585 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 #49 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorBoswell, JamesPublisherCharles DillyDate Published1793 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 #55 Reflections on the Revolution in France... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBurke, EdmundPublisherPrinted by D. Humphreys for Young, Dobson, Carey, and RiceDate Published1792 Lot #56 Hudibras View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorButler, SamuelPublisherThomas M'LeanDate Published1819 Lot #57 The Poetical Mirror; or, the Living Bards of Britain. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorByron, Lord, et al.PublisherM. CareyDate Published1817 Lot #58 Class-Book of English Poetry and Prose View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Carlyle, Thomas)AuthorAhn, F.H.PublisherDumont-SchaubergDate Published1869 Lot #59 Glasmalerein für Jerusalem View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorChagall, MarcPublisherAndre SauretDate Published[1962] Lot #60 Historia del Emperador Carlo magno, y delos doze pares de Francia. Y de la Bata Ila que vuo Oliueros con Frerabras rey de Alexandria, hijo del Almirante Balan View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Charlemagne)Author**PublisherSebastian MartinezDate Published1570 Lot #61 Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofPublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 Lot #62 Miscellaneous Works View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofPublisherEdward and Charles DillyDate Published1777 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 #65 Marlborough: His Life and Times View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co.Date Published[1933-1938] Lot #66 Shall We Commit Suicide? View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.Publisher[Eilert Printing Company]Date Published[1924] Lot #70 L'Art de Vérifier les Dates des Faits Historiques des chartes, des chroniques et autres anciens monuments, depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur, par le Moyen d'une Table Chronologique View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Author[Clément, François]PublisherG. DesprezDate Published1770 Lot #71 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorPublisherChilmark PressDate Published1964 Lot #73 A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, deposited in the British Museum View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Cotton, Robert)Author**Date Published1802 Lot #74 The History of Pompey the Little: or the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Author[Coventry, Francis]PublisherPrinted for M. CooperDate Published1751 Lot #75 Maggie. A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Author[Crane, Stephen] Smith, Johnston, pseud.Publisher[Printed for the Author]Date Published[1893] Lot #76 De Honesta Disciplina, Lib. XXV. Poetis Latinis, Lib. V. et Poematon, Lib. II. Cum Indicibus View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorCrinitus, PetrusPublisherIacobum ChouëtDate Published1598 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 #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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorDefoe, DanielPublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1722 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 #86 Infancy. A Poem View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorDownman, HughPublisherG. KearsleyDate Published1774-76 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 #88 Choice Presidents upon all Acts of Parliament, Relating to the Office and Duty of a Justice of Peace View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(English Law)AuthorKilburn, RichardPublisherRichard TonsonDate Published1690 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 #90 Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S.... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorEvelyn, JohnPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1818 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 #93 Catalogue des livres rares, précieux, et très-bien conditionnés du cabinet de M. Firmin Didot View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Firmin Didot Sale Catalogue)Author**PublisherDe Bure pere et filsDate Published1810 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 #97 A king and his minister instructed in divers important points of present concern both to themselves and the publick; translated from the Spanish original and dedicated to Philip IV View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Author[Francisco de Santa Maria]PublisherPrinted by J. Crook; and Sold at the Pamphlet-Shops in London, Westminster, and St. James'sDate Published1741 Lot #98 Group of pamphlets from the years leading up to and during the French Revolution View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(French Revolution)Author**Date Published1780-90's 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 #101 The Citizen of the World. Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London to his friends in the East View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherT. Vernor, W. Otridge, et alDate Published1792 Lot #102 The Vicar of Wakefield View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherConstable & Co.Date Published1926 Lot #103 Thesaurus rei antiquariae Huberrimus View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorGoltzius, HubertPublisherGulielmus a TongrisDate Published1618 Lot #104 The Chinese Spy; or, Emissary from the Court of Pekin View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$687.50StatusSold Author[Goudar, Ange]PublisherS. BladonDate Published1765 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 #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 #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 #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 #120 Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by Himself: With Essays on his Life and Genius, and Criticisms on his Works... View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorHogarth, WilliamPublisherJ.B. Nichols and SonDate Published1833 Lot #121 The Iliad View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorHomerPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1864 Lot #123 Bermuda Houses View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorHumphreys, John S.PublisherMarshall JonesDate Published[1923] Lot #124 Conspectus reipublicae litterariae in Hungaria View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Hungary)AuthorWallaszky, PaulloPublisherUniversitatis HungaricaeDate Published1808 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 #127 Regum pariumque Magnae Britanniae historia genealogica View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorImhoff, Jacob WilhelmPublisherJohannis Andreae EndteriDate Published1690 Lot #128 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] Lot #129 Single leaf from The Golden Legend View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Voragine, Jacobus de]Publisher[Wynkyn de Worde]Date Published[1493] Lot #130 Sermoniarum de poenitentia per adventum et quadragesimam [bound with] Opera varia View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Incunabula)AuthorCarcano, Michael de [&] Robertus CaracciolusPublisher[Nicolaus de Frankfordia] & [Joannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio]Date Published[11 December 1487] & [15 March 1490] Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next