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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 #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 #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 #28 Koenigsmark View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Binding)AuthorBenoit, PierrePublisherAlbin MichelDate Published[1936] 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 #32 Aucassin & Nicolette View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Binding)AuthorLang, Andrew, trans.PublisherDavid NuttDate Published1887 Lot #33 The Greatness of the Mystery of Godliness View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Binding)AuthorSydenham, CuthbertPublisherRobert BoulterDate Published1672 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 #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 #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 #64 King George VI View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherAchille J. St. OngeDate Published1952 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 #71 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorPublisherChilmark PressDate Published1964 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 #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 #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 #85 Seven Poems and Two Translations View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordPublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1902 Lot #86 Infancy. A Poem View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorDownman, HughPublisherG. KearsleyDate Published1774-76 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 #95 Poems View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorRogers, SamuelPublisherT. Cadell & E. MoxonDate Published1834 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 #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 #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 #114 Hand-illuminated book in tribute to Allah, hand-written in Arabic by an unknown Iranian citizen View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Hand-Illuminated Book)AuthorThe Holy Qur'anDate Published[c. 1900] Lot #118 La Science du Blason accompagnee d'un Armorial General des Familles Nobles de l'Europe View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSold Heading(Heraldry)AuthorMagny, Le Vicomte dePublisherL'Institut HeraldiqueDate Publishedc.1868 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 #124 Conspectus reipublicae litterariae in Hungaria View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Hungary)AuthorWallaszky, PaulloPublisherUniversitatis HungaricaeDate Published1808 Lot #132 Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. to which are added some Poems Never Before Printed. Published from the Original MSs in her Possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Johnson, Samuel)AuthorPiozzi, Hester LynchPublisherA. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1788 Lot #133 Chrysal: or the Adventures of a Guinea. Wherein are exhibited Views of several striking Scenes with curious and interesting Anecdotes, of the most noted Persons in every Rank of Life, whose Hands it passed through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and Portugal View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Author[Johnstone, Charles]PublisherJohn HillDate Published1767 Lot #134 Cynthias Revels, Or The Foumtayne of selfe-Loue. A Comicall Satyre View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$175StatusSold Author[Jonson, Ben]PublisherPrinted by W. StansbyDate Published1616 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 #147 Evangeline. A Tale of Acadie View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$81.25StatusSold AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthPublisherPrinted at the Riverside PressDate Published1893 Lot #150 Rienzi. The Last of the Tribunes View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Author[Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer]PublisherSaunders and OtleyDate Published1835 Lot #151 Two Essays on the Earl of Chatham View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorMacaulay, [Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay]PublisherArthur L. HumphreysDate Published1901 Lot #152 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorMackay, CharlesPublisherOffice of the National Illustrated LibraryDate Published1852 Lot #153 Principles of Political Economy considered with a View to their Practical Application View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorMalthus, T[homas] R[obert]PublisherC. Roworth for John MurrayDate Published1820 Lot #166 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnPublisherJ.&R. Tonson, S. Draper, et alDate Published1751 Lot #167 Life of Dante View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Heading(Nash, John Henry)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1922 Lot #172 Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorO'Connell, DanielPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1888 Lot #173 The Book of the New Moral World, Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and Society View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorOwen, RobertPublisherEffingham WilsonDate Published1836 Lot #182 Rime di Francesco Petrarca View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoPublisherTipografia della SocietaÌ LetterariaDate Published1805 Lot #185 Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham; and of the Principal Events of His Time: with his Speeches in Parliament from the Year 1736 to the Year 1778 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorPitt, William, Earl of ChathamPublisherL.B. SeeleyDate Published1796 Lot #186 Tales [&] The Raven and Other Poems View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorPoe, Edgar A[llan]PublisherWiley and PutnamDate Published1845 Lot #189 Poems on Several Occasions View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorWITHDRAWN [Prior, Matthew]PublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1718 Lot #190 Signed card View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPuccini, GiacomoDate Published1920 Lot #196 Supplement to "Six Months in a Convent," Confirming the Narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed, by the Testimony of More that One Hundred Witnesses... Containing a Minute Account of the Elopement of Miss Harrisson... and an Exposition of the System of Cloister Education... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorReed, Rebecca TheresaPublisherRussell, Odiorne, & Co.Date Published1835 Lot #200 Various works, mostly poetry, bound together View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorRowe, Nicholas; Matthew Prior; Thomas Parnell, Daniel Defoe, Dr. ArmstrongDate Publishedc.1800 Lot #201 Rowlandson the Caricaturist. A Selection of his Works with Anecdotal Descriptions of his Famous Caricatures and A Sketch of his Life, Times, and Contemporaries View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Rowlandson, Thomas)AuthorGrego, JosephPublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1880 Lot #204 Kenilworth; A Romance View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Author[Scott, Sir Walter]PublisherArchibald Constable, et al.Date Published1821 Lot #205 Lady of the Lake View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorScott, Sir WalterPublisherT. Nelson and SonsDate Published1863 Lot #206 The Monastery View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold AuthorScott, Sir WalterPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and BrownDate Published1820 Lot #207 Works View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorArnold, MathewPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1904 Lot #208 Cambridge Editions of the Poets View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$106.25StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorBrowning & KeatsPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[1899-1900] Lot #209 Works View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorCarlyle, ThomasPublisherChapman & HallDate PublishedNo dates Lot #210 The Memoirs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorCasanova, JacquesPublisherPrivately printed for Subscribers OnlyDate PublishedNo date [after 1925] Lot #211 The Complete Works View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published[1900] Lot #212 Works View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate PublishedNo dates Lot #213 [Works] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[1903-04] Lot #214 The Greatness and Decline of Rome View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorFerrero, GuglielmoPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate PublishedNo dates Lot #215 The Complete Works View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorFielding, HenryPublisherCroscup & SterlingDate Published[1902] Lot #216 The Works...with The Life of the Author View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorFielding, HenryPublisherStrahan, Rivington, Hawes, et alDate Published1771 Lot #217 [Works] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorFiske, JohnPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[c.1891-1902] Lot #218 [Oeuvres] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorFrance, AnatolePublisherCalmann-LevyDate PublishedNo dates Lot #219 The Collected Works View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorIbsen, HenrikPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1908-9 Lot #220 The Life and Works View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorKingsley, CharlesPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1902 Lot #221 Works View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorParkman, FrancisPublisherLittle, Brown & Co.Date Published1902 Lot #222 Works View details Estimate$700 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorParkman, FrancisPublisherLittle, Brown, and CompanyDate Published1906-09 Lot #223 Works View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$106.25StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorPope, AlexanderPublisherJ. Buckland and T. LongmanDate Published1777 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next