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 1-100 of 101. Previous|12|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 #16 Fables choisies d'Esope AuthorAesopPublisherBoullandDate Published1825 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold 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 #27 Aesop's Fables Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherWilliam Heinemann / Doubleday PageDate Published1912 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold 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 #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 #44 Comoediae Heading(Baskerville)AuthorTerentius Afer, PubliusPublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1772 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 #54 Sonnets from the Portuguese Heading(Bindings)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherRiccardi Press for the Medici SocietyDate Published1914 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 #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 #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 #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 #85 Works AuthorCooper, James FenimorePublisherD. AppletonDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #88 Rural Sports AuthorDaniel, William B[arker]PublisherBunny & GoldDate Published[1801]-1802 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold 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 #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 #100 Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political AuthorFelltham, OwenPublisherPrinted by M. Clark for Charles HarperDate Published1696 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #101 The Poetical Works...to which are added Mr. Hammond's Elegies Heading(Foulis Press)AuthorCollins, WilliamPublisherPrinted by Robert & Andrew FoulisDate Published1771 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #102 Artzney-Buch: Darinnen vast für alle des Menschlichen Leibes Anliegen... AuthorGaebelkhover, OswaldPublisherJohann Peter ZubrodtDate Published1680 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$343.75StatusSold 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 #104 Opera Chymica, Bucher und Schrifften AuthorGlauber, Johann RudolfPublisherThomas Matthew GoekensDate Published1658 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #110 Queen Victoria AuthorHolmes, Richard R.PublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1897 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #112 Two leaves on vellum Heading(Horae)Author**Date Published[16th century] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #114 Antiphonal leaf on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author**Date Publishedc.14th century View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold 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 #118 Single leaf from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #119 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #120 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #121 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #122 Leaf from the Bible, in Latin, with commentaries of Nicolaus de Lyra Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Nicolaus de Lyra]Publisher[Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus]Date Published[1493] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #123 Hand-colored double-page city view from the Peregrinationes in terram sanctam Heading(Incunable Leaves)Author[Breydenbach, Bernhard von]Date Published[c.1486] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #126 A Dictionary of the English Language... AuthorJohnson, SamuelPublisherPrinted by W. Strahan for Knapton, Longman, et al.Date Published1755 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Lot #127 A Voyage to Abyssinia. By Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit Heading(Johnson, Samuel, trans.)AuthorLobo, JeromePublisherA. Bettesworth & C. HitchDate Published1735 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #129 Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain... AuthorKeysler, John GeorgePublisherA. Linde and T. FieldDate Published1756-7 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 #139 A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone, on the Coast of Africa; Containing an Account of the Trade and Productions of the Country, and of the Civil and Religious Customs and Manners of the People; In a Series of Letters to a Friend in England. By John Matthews, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy; During His Residency in That Country in the Years 1785, 1786, and 1787. With an Additional Letter on the Subject of the American Slave Trade... AuthorMatthews, JohnPublisherPrinted for B. White and SonDate Published1788 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #143 Addresses Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorLincoln, AbrahamDate Published1929 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #144 Lot of five titles, Gospels & Psalms Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherUniversity Press & Humphrey MilfordDate PublishedNo dates View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #146 Lot of 12 miniature books, plus one small book Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #147 Lot of ten miniature books, plus one set of toy playing cards and a small book Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #150 A Colonial Courting. Being Extracts from Judge Samuel Sewall's Diary, September 1720 Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorSewall, SamuelPublisherWilliam Lewis WashburnDate Published1940 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #151 The Bible in Miniature; Or, A Concise History of the Old & New Testaments Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Date PublishedNo date View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #152 The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherOxford University PressDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #154 The Twenty-Third Psalm Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherWilliam Lewis WashburnDate Published1938 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold 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 #163 Psalmody Heading(Musical Manuscript)AuthorBeeby, JohnDate Published[c.1762] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #164 Regole prattiche dei Principii della Composizione Heading(Musical Manuscript)AuthorSchuster, JosephDate Published[c.1770's] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #165 Scotia Depicta; or, The Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, [etc.] of Scotland AuthorNattes, John ClaudePublisherH.R. YoungDate Published1819 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold 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 #169 Certain Necessary Directions, As well For the Cure of the Plague, As for preventing the Infection: with Many easie Medicines of small Charge, very profitable to His Majesties Subjects Heading(Plague)AuthorColledge of PhysiciansPublisherPrinted by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the KingDate Published1665 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #170 Essay on Man. Der Mensch ein philosophisches Gedichte AuthorPope, AlexanderPublisherRichterischen BuchhandlungDate Published1759 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #174 The Columbian Harmonist, No. 1, Containing: First. A Plain and Concise Introduction to Psalmody fitly calculated for the use of Singing Schools. Second. A Choice Collection of New Psalm Tunes of American Composition AuthorRead, DanielPublisherPrinted for & Sold by the EditorDate Published[c.1795] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #175 Flora and Sylva AuthorRobinson, WilliamDate Published1903-05 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #176 [The History of the Caribby-Islands] Author[Rochefort, Charles de]Date Published[1666] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$500StatusSold 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 #181 The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1939 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #182 Note Books of Percy Bysshe Shelley from the Originals in the Library of W.K. Bixby Heading(Shelley, P.B.)AuthorForman, H. Buxton, ed.PublisherPrivately printed for William K. BixbyDate Published1911 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #184 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations AuthorSmith, AdamPublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1778 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold 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 #190 Travels into the Several Remote Nations of the World...by Lemuel Gulliver Author[Swift, Jonathan]PublisherBenjamin MotteDate Published1726 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,000StatusSold 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 #212 Bucolica, Georgica, et Æneis Author[Virgil] Vergilius Maro, PubliusPublisherJohannis BaskervilleDate Published1757 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #213 Alle de Treurspelen. Eerste Deel. AuthorVondel, Joost van denPublisherJoannes OosterwykDate Published1720 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #216 The Complete Angler AuthorWalton, Izaak and Charles CottonPublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1885 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #217 The Universal Angler, Made so, by Three Books of Fishing. The First Written by Mr. Izaak Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton, Esq; The Third by Col. Robert Venables... AuthorWalton, Izaak, et alPublisherRichard Marriott [& Henry Brome - part II]Date Published1676 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next