Sale 280: Fine & Rare Books, with the Fable Collection of the Late Dr. Margaret Rose Quentin (#280) 02/26/2004 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/26/2004 1:00 PM PST 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 1-100 of 221. Previous|123|Next Lot #1 Aesopi Phrygis, et aliorum fabulae. Quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit. Elegantissimis iconibus... AuthorAesopPublisherHieronymum de Marnef, sub PelicanoDate Published1561 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #2 Fabulae Aesopicae, Plures quingentis, & aliae quaedam narrationes, cum historia vitae fortunaeq AuthorAesopPublisherIoan. TornaesiumDate Published1571 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #3 Vita di Esopo Frigio, Prudente & faceto fauolatore Author(Aesop)PublisherAltobella Salicato for Libraria della FortezzaDate Published1588 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #4 Fabulae Aesopi graece & latine AuthorAesopPublisherJoannis MaireDate Published1632 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #5 The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse... Heading(Ogilby, John, trans.)AuthorAesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas RoycroftDate Published1668 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #6 Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists Heading(L'Estrange, Roger, trans.)AuthorAesopPublisherR. Sare, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, et alDate Published1694 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #7 Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V AuthorPhaedrus, Aug[ustus] LibertusPublisherFrancis HalmaDate Published1701 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #8 Aesop Naturaliz'd: In a Collection of Fables and Stories from Aesop, Locman, Pilpay, and Others Author**PublisherD. MidwinterDate Published1727 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #9 Aesop's Fables with Instructive Morals and Reflections, Abstracted from all Party Considerations, adapted to All Capacities AuthorAesopPublisherT. Wilson and R. SpenceDate Published[c.1780's] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #10 Fables...with a Life of the Author AuthorGay, JohnPublisherPrinted by Darton & Harvey for Rivington, White, Longman, et alDate Published1793 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #11 The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author AuthorAesopPublisherJohn StockdaleDate Published1793 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #12 Fabulae graecae, latine conversae Heading(Bodoni)AuthorAesopPublisherEx Regio Typographeo [Bodoni]Date Published1800 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #13 Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists Heading(Dodsley, R[obert], ed.)Author**PublisherPrinted by and for Henry MozleyDate Published1809 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #14 The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood AuthorBewick, ThomasPublisherPrinted by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and SonDate Published1818 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #15 The Fables of Pilpay Author[Bidpai]PublisherBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, et alDate Published1818 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #16 Fables choisies d'Esope AuthorAesopPublisherBoullandDate Published1825 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #17 Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly From Original Sources Heading(Tenniel, John, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1848 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #18 The Fables of Aesop and Others translated into Human Nature Heading(Bennett, Charles H., illus.)Author**PublisherW. Kent & Co.Date Published[1857] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #19 Marcus Ward's Fable Picture Book...With the Fables from Aesop told in Verse AuthorFriswell, J. HainPublisherMarcus Ward & Co.Date Published[c.1874] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #20 Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances... Heading(Caldecott, Randolph, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherMacmillanDate Published1887 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #21 The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio... Heading(Jacobs, Joseph, ed.)AuthorAesopPublisherDavid NuttDate Published1889 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #22 Aesop Redivivus AuthorBoyle, MaryPublisherField & Tuer, The Leadenhall PressDate Published1890 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #23 The Fables of Aesop Heading(Heighway, Richard, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherMacmillan & CoDate Published1894 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #24 Triplets. Comprising the Baby's Opera, the Baby's Bouquet, and the Baby's own Aesop AuthorCrane, WalterPublisherPrinted by Edmund Evans for George Routledge & SonsDate Published1899 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #25 Aesop's Fables Heading(Condé, J.M., illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherMoffat, Yard & CompanyDate Published1905 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #26 The Fables of Aesop Heading(Detmold, Edward J., illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1909 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #27 Aesop's Fables Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherWilliam Heinemann / Doubleday PageDate Published1912 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #28 The Big Book of Fables Heading(Robinson, Charles, illus.)Author**PublisherBlackie and SonDate Published1912 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #29 An Argosy of Fables. A Representative Selection From the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land Heading(Cooper, Frederic Taber, ed.)Author**PublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published[1921] View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #30 Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange Heading(Calder, Alexander, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherHarrison of ParisDate Published1931 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #31 The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine Heading(Gooden, Stephen, illus.)AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean dePublisherHeinemann & Random HouseDate Published1931 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #32 Aesop's Fables Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorAesopPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1933 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #33 Aesop's Fables Heading(Gooden, Stephen, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherGeorge C. HarrapDate Published1936 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #34 Fables Heading(Miniature)AuthorAesopPublisherEdmund S. Wood [Minia Press]Date Published1943 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #35 A Children's Sampler: Selections from Famous Children's Books Heading"Ladies of the Distaff Side"Author**Date Published1950 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #36 Aesopic AuthorHecht, AnthonyPublisherGehenna PressDate Published1967 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #37 Aesop's Fables Heading(Lawrence, Jacob, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherWindmill BooksDate Published[1970] View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #38 A Fable of Bidpai AuthorSiegl, Helen & NicholasPublisherJanus PressDate Published1974 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #39 Lot of eight titles AuthorAesop, et alDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #40 Lot of ten titles AuthorAesop, et alDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #41 Lot of 17 titles AuthorAesop, et alDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #42 A Narrative of the Expedition Sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River Niger, in 1841. Under the Command of Captain H.D. Trotter AuthorAllen, William and T[homas] R[ichard] H[eywood] ThomsonPublisherR. BentleyDate Published1848 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #43 The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories AuthorAudubon, John JamesPublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1840 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #44 Comoediae Heading(Baskerville)AuthorTerentius Afer, PubliusPublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1772 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #45 The Mysterious Stranger; or, Memoirs of Henry More Smith; alias Henry Frederick Moon; alias William Newman... AuthorBates, WalterPublisherMaltby, Goldsmith & Co.Date Published1817 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #46 Israel: A Personal History AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidPublisherFunk & Wagnallis / SabraDate Published[1971] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #47 Etudes de la Nature AuthorBernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques HenriPublisherTourneizenDate Published1797 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #48 The Holy Bible Heading(Bible Facsimile)Author**Publisher[World Publishing]Date Published[1965] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #49 A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes & "The Printing of the King James Bible" by Louis I. Newman Heading(Bible Leaf Book)Author[King James Bible]PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1937 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #50 Leaf from a folio edition of Robert Barker's "The Holy Bible" Heading(Bible Leaf)Author**Date Published[c.1611] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #51 Biblia Sacra utriusque testamenti Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**PublisherJ. PetreiumDate Published1527 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #52 American Medical Botany, being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States... AuthorBigelow, JacobPublisherCummings and HilliardDate Published1817-20 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #53 Tragedie Heading(Bindings)AuthorAlfieri, VittorioPublisherPress of Leonardo CiardettiDate Published1820-1 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #54 Sonnets from the Portuguese Heading(Bindings)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherRiccardi Press for the Medici SocietyDate Published1914 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #55 Oeuvres Heading(Bindings)AuthorFlorian, [Jean Pierre Claris de]PublisherGide / BriandDate Published1801-1810 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #56 Bilder des Todes Heading(Bindings)Author[Holbein, Hans]Publisher[Insel-Verlag]Date PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #57 Le Commedie Heading(Bindings)AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloPublisherG. BarberaDate Published1863 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #58 Poems Heading(Bindings)AuthorRossetti, ChristinaPublisherMacmillanDate Published1905 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #59 Christliche Standes-Unterweisungen AuthorBitschau, OttoPublisherSuddeutschen VerlagsbuchhandlungDate Published[c.1898] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #60 Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry AuthorBloomfield, RobertPublisherVernor, Hood, Sharpe, et alDate Published1806 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #61 Lot of three titles in the Popular Botany series Heading(Botanical)Author**Date Published[1850's] View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #62 The Florist and Garden Miscellany Heading(Botanical)Author**PublisherChapman & HallDate Published1850-52 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #63 Franks Bequest. Catalogue of the Finger Rings. Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and Later... Heading(British Museum)AuthorDalton, O.M.Publisher[Horace Hart at Oxford University Press for the] Trustees of the British MuseumDate Published1912 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #64 Palm-Leaf Manuscript Heading(Buddhist Manuscript)Author**Date Published[19th century?] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #65 Natural History, General and Particular AuthorBuffon, Comte dePublisherT. Cadell & W. DaviesDate Published1812 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #66 Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah AuthorBurton, Richard F.PublisherTylston and EdwardsDate Published1893 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #67 The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam AuthorBurton, Richard F.PublisherHutchinsonDate Published1898 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #68 Illustrations of Medical Botany Consisting of Coloured Figures of the Plants... AuthorCarson, JosephPublisherRobert P. SmithDate Published1847 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #69 The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherWilliam PattersonDate Published1892 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #70 The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly Corrected and Amended AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew CookeDate Published1652 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #71 The Spirit of Cervantes; or, Don Quixote Abridged AuthorCervantes [Saavedra, Miguel de]PublisherF.C. & J. RivingtonDate Published1820 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #72 Histoire du Paraguay AuthorCharlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier dePublisherDidot, Giffart, and NyonDate Published1756 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #73 The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1602 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #74 Les Délices des Pays-Bas, ou description géographique et historiques des XVII. provinces Belgiques Author[Christyn, Jean Baptiste]PublisherJ.F. BassompierreDate Published1769 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #75 The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorBlakston, W. A., W. Swaysland and August F. WienerPublisherCassellDate Published[c.1880] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #76 European Ferns Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorBritten, JamesPublisherCassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.Date Published[c.1888] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #77 Album des Célébrités Contemporaines Publié par Lefèvre-Utile... Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorLèfevre-UtilePublisherLefèvre-UtileDate Published[c.1909] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #78 Les Contemporains Célèbres. Album Lèfevre-Utile. Première Série. Portraits, Autographes, Notices Biographiques Illustrées, Portraits Humoristiques des Célébrités Contemporaines Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorLèfevre-UtilePublisherOctave BeauchampDate Published[1904] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #79 Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorStep, EdwardPublisherFrederick WarneDate Published1896-97 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #80 Animate Creation; Popular Edition of "Our Living World," a Natural History Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorWood, J[ohn] G[eorge]PublisherSelmar HessDate Published[1898] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #81 Photograph, signed AuthorChurchill, WinstonDate Published[early 1950's] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #82 The Second World War AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[1948]-53 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #83 An Account of the Voyages...for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour Heading(Cook, James, Captain - First Voyage)AuthorHawkesworth, JohnPublisherLeathley, Exshaw, et al. [& Strahan and Cadell]Date Published1773 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #84 The Water Witch; or, The Skimmer of the Seas Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1830 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #85 Works AuthorCooper, James FenimorePublisherD. AppletonDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #86 A History of British Fishes AuthorCouch, JonathanPublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published186[2]-64 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #87 Steel engraving plate of Cruikshank's work "The Fatal Duel between Lord Randy and Sir Toby" AuthorCruikshank, GeorgePublisher[Cunningham and Mortimer]Date Published[1843] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #88 Rural Sports AuthorDaniel, William B[arker]PublisherBunny & GoldDate Published[1801]-1802 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #89 The Nightless City. Or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yuwaku" AuthorDe Becker, J[oseph] E[rnest]PublisherMax NosslerDate Published[c.1905] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #90 A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery, in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands AuthorDelano, AmasaPublisherPrinted by E. G. House for the AuthorDate Published1817 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #91 Master Humphrey's Clock AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1840-41 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #92 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1837 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #93 Poems. Third Series AuthorDickinson, EmilyPublisherRoberts BrothersDate Published1896 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #94 Lucrece Heading(Doves Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisher[Doves Press]Date Published1915 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #95 The Athenian Oracle: Being an Entire Collection of all the Valuable Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries... Author[Dunton, John]PublisherAndrew BellDate Published1706-08 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #96 The Genus Iris AuthorDykes, William RickatsonPublisherat the University PressDate Published1913 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #97 Englishmen's Birth Right. Broom's Original Edition of Magna Charta and The Bill of Rights Heading(England)Author**PublisherT. BroomDate Published[c.1810] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #98 Das Buch der N.S.D.A.P. Werden, Kampf und Ziel der NSDAP AuthorEspe, Walter M.PublisherSchönfeld'sDate Published[1934] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #99 Icones Farlowianae. Illustrations of the Larger Fungi of Eastern North America-WITHDRAWN AuthorFarlow, William GilsonPublisherFarlow Library and Herbarium of Harvard University PressDate Published1929 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #100 Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political AuthorFelltham, OwenPublisherPrinted by M. Clark for Charles HarperDate Published1696 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next