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 280 263 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 1-83 of 83. Previous|1|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 #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 #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 #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 #46 Israel: A Personal History AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidPublisherFunk & Wagnallis / SabraDate Published[1971] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #60 Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry AuthorBloomfield, RobertPublisherVernor, Hood, Sharpe, et alDate Published1806 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #103 A Dissertation upon the Uncertainty of the Roman History during the First Five Hundred Years Heading(Gibbon, Edward)Author[De Beaufort, Louis]PublisherT. WallerDate Published1740 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #110 Queen Victoria AuthorHolmes, Richard R.PublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1897 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #116 Illuminated manuscript leaf from an Old Testament, on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author[Leber Workshop]Date Published[c.1240-50] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #117 In dei nomine amen nouerint vniversi cristifideles qualiter santissimi dominus felicis re... Heading(Incunable Document)AuthorInnocent VIII and Alexander VI, PopesPublisher[Wynkyn de Worde]Date Published[c.1498] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #131 A Brief History of the Times, &c. In a Preface to the Third Volume of Observators Author[L'Estrange, Sir Roger]PublisherCharles BromeDate Published1687-88 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #132 Contes et nouvelles en vers AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean de]PublisherDidot JeuneDate Published1796 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #138 [The New-English History] AuthorMather, CottonPublisherThomas ParkhurstDate Published1702 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #141 The Works of George Meredith AuthorMeredith, GeorgePublisherConstable and CompanyDate Published1909-1911 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #142 Manuscript record book for the Hospital Real de los Indios Heading(Mexican Manuscript)AuthorCardenas, Joseph deDate Published1748-49 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #148 The Courtin' Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorLowell, James RussellPublisherPrivately printedDate Published[1938] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #149 Petit Fabuliste de la Jeunesse Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherPresteauDate Published[Late 19th-century] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #155 The Wolf-King, or Little Red Riding-Hood Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherWilliam Lewis WashburnDate Published1940 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #161 Archive of approximately 170 items, letters, and manuscript material by Mountbatten and Professor Franklyn Johnson, detailing Mountbatten's history during World War II, and his guidance to Professor Johnson to write a book about the attempts to unify British Military Command structure in "Defence By Ministry" AuthorMountbatten, Lord Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of BurmaDate Published1963-1979 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #162 Collection of three typed letters signed AuthorMountbatten, Lord Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of BurmaDate Published1962; 1963; 1970 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #166 A History of the College of Arms, and the Lives of All the Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants, from the Reign of Richard III... AuthorNoble, MarkPublisherJ. DebrettDate Published1804 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #168 The Jockey Club; or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the first [-third] [bound with] An Answer to Three Scurrilous Pamphlets, entitled the Jockey Club Author[Pigott, Charles]PublisherH.D. Symonds / J.S. JordanDate Published1792 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #170 Essay on Man. Der Mensch ein philosophisches Gedichte AuthorPope, AlexanderPublisherRichterischen BuchhandlungDate Published1759 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #172 The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature In Poetry, Literature and Art [and] Art and Poetry: Being Thoughts towards Nature Heading(Pre-Raphaelite)Author**Publisher"Aylott and Jones"Date Published[c.1900] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #177 La Conjuracion de Catalina y la guerra de Jugurta AuthorSalustio, Cayo CrispoPublisher[Joachin Ibarra]Date Published[1772] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #179 Splinters Struck Off Winskill Rock Heading(Scots Dialect)AuthorTwisleton, TomPublisherWildman and SonDate Published[c.1867] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #181 The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1939 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #183 The Seat of War in the East. First and Second Series AuthorSimpson, WilliamPublisherPaul & Dominic ColnaghiDate Published1855-56 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #185 Poems on Several Occassions Heading(Smith, Adam)Author[Hamilton, William of Bangour]PublisherRobert & Andrew FoulisDate Published1748 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #186 The Theory of Moral Sentiments... AuthorSmith, AdamPublisherBell & Bradfute, Laing, et alDate Published1808 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #191 Works AuthorThackeray, William MakepeacePublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1869; 1886 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #192 The Life and Death of Tom Thumb, the Little Giant. Together with some Curious Anecdotes respecting Grumbo, the Great Giant, King of the country of Eagles Heading(Toy Book)Author**PublisherPrinted by John BabcockDate Published1802 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #202 Typed Letter Signed by Trotsky, to Marguerite Tucker Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorTrotsky, LeonDate PublishedNov. 21, 1931 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #210 Coleccion [/Recopilacion] de Leyes, Decretos y Resoluciones Gubernativas, Tratados Internacionales...de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay Heading(Uruguay)AuthorCaravia, Antonio T., edPublisherLa TribunaDate Published1867-[70] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$81.25StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next