Sale 287: Fine & Rare Books including Travel & Exploration (#287) 06/10/2004 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/10/2004 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-86 of 86. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Mont Saint Michel and Chartres Author[Adams, Henry]Publisher[Privately printed for the author]Date Published1904 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #3 The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories AuthorAubudon, John JamesPublisherGeo. R. Lockwood and SonDate Published[1870] View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #12 The Life of John Wilkes AuthorBleakley, HoracePublisherJohn Lane, the Bodley HeadDate Published1917 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #13 The Decameron AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniPublisherLawrence & BullenDate Published1893 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #14 The Hundredth Book: A Bibliography of the Publications of the Book Club of California & A History of the Club Heading(Book Club of California)AuthorMagee, DavidPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1958 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #15 Birds and Trees of North America AuthorBrasher, RexDate Published1929-1932 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Lot #16 Calder Heading(Calder, Alexander)AuthorMulos, Ugo and H. Harvard ArnasonPublisherViking PressDate Published[1971] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #17 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova AuthorCasanova [de Seingalt, Giacomo Girolamo]PublisherThe Venetian SocietyDate Published1928 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #20 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 AuthorChurchill, WinstonPublisherRansohoffsDate Published1940 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #21 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 AuthorChurchill, WinstonPublisherRansohoffsDate Published1941 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$106.25StatusSold Lot #24 The Bravo. A Venetian Story Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1831 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #25 The Deerslayer: or, the First War-Path. A Tale Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1841 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #26 The Headsman; or, the Abbaye des Vignerons. A Tale Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherCarey, Lea & BlanchardDate Published1833 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #27 The Heidenmauer; or the Benedictines Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1832 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #28 The History of the Navy of the United States of America AuthorCooper, J[ames] FenimorePublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1839 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #29 Home as Found Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1838 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #30 The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757 Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherJohn MillerDate Published1826 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #31 Mercedes of Castile. A Romance of the Days of Columbus AuthorCooper, J[ames] FenimorePublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1841 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #32 Mercedes of Castile: or, the Voyage to Cathay Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherLea and BlanchardDate Published1840 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #33 The Pathfinder: or, the Inland Sea Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherLea and BlanchardDate Published1840 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #34 The Pilot; A Tale of the Sea Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherJohn MillerDate Published1824 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #35 The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherCharles WileyDate Published1824 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #36 The Red Rover, a Tale Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1827 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #37 The Spy; A Tale of the Neutral Ground; Referring to Some Particular Occurrences During the American War: Also Pourtraying American Scenery and Manners Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherG. and W.B. WhittakerDate Published1822 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #38 Lot of 3 items AuthorCooper, James FenimoreDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #41 A Compendious System of Midwifery, Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the Inquiries of those who may be pursuing this branch of Study... AuthorDewees, William P[otts]PublisherH.C. Carey & L. LeaDate Published1824 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #43 The Chimes. * The Cricket on the Hearth. * The Haunted Man AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & Hall / Bradbury & EvansDate Published1845-48 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #44 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1844 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #45 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1839 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #46 Our Mutual Friend AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1865 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #48 Works AuthorDryden, JohnPublisherWilliam MillerDate Published1808 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #49 Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1908] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #50 Adam Bede. * Middlemarch: A Study of Provinvial Life. * Daniel Deronda AuthorEliot, GeorgePublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1859 / 1871-2 / 1876 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 Autograph poetic quote, signed AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoDate PublishedSeptember 1861 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #57 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$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #62 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #64 Galleria Omerica; o, Raccolta di monumenti antichi esibita dal Cav. Francesco Inghirami, per servire allo studio dell'Iliade e dell'Odissea AuthorInghirami, FrancescoPublisherPoligraphia Fiesolana dai torchi dell'autoreDate Published1831-36 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 The Naval History of Great Britain... AuthorJames, WilliamPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1837 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #69 The Golden Legend Heading(Kelmscott Press)Author[Voragine, Jacobus de]PublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1892 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #71 The Seven Seas [and] Barrack-Room Ballads AuthorKipling, RudyardPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published1896 & 1892 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #74 T.E. Lawrence: Letters to E.T. Leeds with a commentary by E.T. Leeds Heading(Lawrence, T.E.)AuthorWilson, J.M., ed.PublisherThe Whittington PressDate Published[1988] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #81 History of the Indian Tribes of North America with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs AuthorMcKenney, Thomas L. [& James Hall]PublisherD. Rice & Co.Date Published1872 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #83 Original Manuscript Court Documents relating to theft of a Mulatto Slave, 1576 Heading(Mexico – 16th Century Manuscript Court Documents)Author**Date Published1576 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #84 Mapa que comprehende la exttencion y districto termino del curato antiguo de San Andres y el nuevo de Santa Clara, rotulados sus pueblos, hazziendas, ranchas, caminos, barrancas, y el termino que los divide para su mas facil comprehension Heading(Mexico - 18th Century Manuscript Map)Author**Date PublishedLatter half of 18th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #85 Manuscript map of an unidentified region of Mexico, showing the rivers, towns etc., including the Rio de Tlalhistaquilla Heading(Mexico - 18th Century Manuscript MapAuthor**Date PublishedLatter half of 18th century View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #86 Manuscript map of an unidentified region of Mexico, showing the rivers, towns etc., including the Rio del Oro Heading(Mexico - 18th Century Manuscript MapAuthor**Date PublishedLatter half of 18th century View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #87 The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia... AuthorMichaux, F[rancois] Andre & Thomas NuttallPublisherD. Rice & A.N. HartDate Published1857 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #88 Paradise Lost AuthorMilton, JohnPublisherCassell, Petter, and GalpinDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #112 La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorAligheri, DantePublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1928 View details Estimate$400 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #121 The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table Heading(Rackham, Arthur)AuthorMalory, ThomasPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1917 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #126 Three autograph letters signed to Miriam Koshland AuthorReik, TheodorDate Published1949-1951 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #132 Laurel Crowned Letters Series Heading(Sets)Author**PublisherA. McClurgDate Published1892 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #133 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Heading(Sets)AuthorPepys, SamuelPublisherGeorge Bell & SonsDate Published1904-05 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #134 Works Heading(Sets)AuthorSmith, F[rancis] HopkinsPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1902-15 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #136 The Complete Works of Shakepeare, Revised from the Original Editions. With Historical and Analytical Introductions to each Play, Also Notes Explanatory and Critical, and a Life of the Poet AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherThe London Printing and Publishing Co.Date Published[c.1870's] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #137 Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus AuthorShelley, MaryPublisherCarey, Lea & BlanchardDate Published1833 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #138 Autograph copy of "America" ("My Country Tis of Thee") signed by Samuel F. Smith AuthorSmith, Samuel F.Date PublishedFeb. 25, 1895 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #139 The Ocean of Story AuthorSomadeva, [Katha Sarit Sengra]PublisherPrivately printed for subscribers only by Chas. J. SawyerDate Published1924-28 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #141 Slaktarebenck dat ar En sanferdigh wiss berattelse om de ynckelige Fangzlende Heading(Vellum Printing)AuthorCarl, HertighPublisherBroderna LagerstromDate Published1917 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #143 Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & a Backward Glance o'er Travelled Roads AuthorWhitman, WaltDate Published[1889] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #144 American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States AuthorWilson, Alexander and Prince Charles Lucian BonapartePublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1876 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #145 The Deerslayer or The First War-Path Heading(Wyeth, N.C., illus.)AuthorCooper, James FenimorePublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1925 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #146 Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868 Heading(Alaska)AuthorLada-Mocarski, ValerianPublisherYale University PressDate Published1969 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #155 Voyage de Découvertes dans la Partie Septentrionale de l'Ocean Pacifique...pendant les Années 1795, 1796, 1797, et 1798; Dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d'Asie.... AuthorBroughton, W[illiam] R[obert]PublisherDentuDate Published1807 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #156 The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton, K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S. AuthorBurton, IsabelPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1893 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #158 The Land of Midian AuthorBurton, Richard FPublisherC. Kegan Paul & Co.Date Published1879 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #159 The Nile Basin AuthorBurton, Richard FPublisherTinsley BrothersDate Published1864 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #165 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerk, and Gore, in his Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingPublisherPrinted by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. CadellDate Published1784 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #177 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, GeorgePublisherPublished by Geo. GouldingDate Published1789 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #183 The Voyages of the English Nation to America AuthorHakluyt, Richard, comp.PublisherE. & G. GoldsmidDate Published1889-1890 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #186 Lot of four inscribed titles AuthorHiginbotham, John U.PublisherReilly & BrittonDate Published[1908-13] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #187 The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages Heading(Hill Collection)AuthorSilveira de Braganza, Rondal Louis, ed.PublisherUniversity Library, Univ. of Calif.Date Published1974, 1982 & 1983 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #198 Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849; with a Glance at California. By a Merchant Long Resident at Tahiti... Author[Lucatt, Edward]PublisherLongman, Brown, Green & LongmansDate Published1851 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #201 Exploraciones en los Andes Ecuatorianos AuthorMartinez, NicolasPublisherTalleres Graficos NacionalesDate Published1933 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #202 Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West Passage; and some account of the Trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain AuthorMeares, JohnPublisherLogographic PressDate Published1790 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #218 A Tenderfoot with Peary Heading(Polar)AuthorBorup, GeorgePublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published[1911] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #219 My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, with the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy Heading(Polar)AuthorCook, Frederick A.PublisherThe Polar Publishing Co.Date Published1911 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #220 My Attainment of the Pole. Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Heading(Polar)AuthorCook, Frederick A.PublisherMitchell KennerleyDate Published1913 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #221 My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, with the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy Heading(Polar)AuthorCook, Frederick A.PublisherMitchell KennerleyDate Published1912 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #222 To the Top of the Continent: Discovery, Exploration and Adventure in Sub-arctic Alaska. The First Ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906 Heading(Polar)AuthorCook, Frederick A.PublisherDoubleday, PageDate Published1908 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #223 Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 Heading(Polar)AuthorKane, Elisha KentPublisherChilds & PetersonDate Published1857 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #224 Nearest The Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 Heading(Polar)AuthorPeary, R[obert] E..PublisherDoubleday, PageDate Published1907 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #225 The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club Heading(Polar)AuthorPeary, Robert E.PublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published1910 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #227 The Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806. The Report of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov of His Voyage to that Provincia of Nueva España from New Archangel AuthorRezanov, Nikolai PetrovichPublisherThomas C. RussellDate Published1926 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #245 A 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 - $7,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #246 The Exploration of the World: The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherScribner'sDate Published1880 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$175StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next