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... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorAesopPublisherHieronymum de Marnef, sub PelicanoDate Published1561 Lot #2 Fabulae Aesopicae, Plures quingentis, & aliae quaedam narrationes, cum historia vitae fortunaeq View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorAesopPublisherIoan. TornaesiumDate Published1571 Lot #3 Vita di Esopo Frigio, Prudente & faceto fauolatore View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Author(Aesop)PublisherAltobella Salicato for Libraria della FortezzaDate Published1588 Lot #4 Fabulae Aesopi graece & latine View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorAesopPublisherJoannis MaireDate Published1632 Lot #5 The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Ogilby, John, trans.)AuthorAesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas RoycroftDate Published1668 Lot #6 Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(L'Estrange, Roger, trans.)AuthorAesopPublisherR. Sare, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, et alDate Published1694 Lot #7 Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorPhaedrus, Aug[ustus] LibertusPublisherFrancis HalmaDate Published1701 Lot #8 Aesop Naturaliz'd: In a Collection of Fables and Stories from Aesop, Locman, Pilpay, and Others View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$212.50StatusSold Author**PublisherD. MidwinterDate Published1727 Lot #9 Aesop's Fables with Instructive Morals and Reflections, Abstracted from all Party Considerations, adapted to All Capacities View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorAesopPublisherT. Wilson and R. SpenceDate Published[c.1780's] Lot #10 Fables...with a Life of the Author View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorGay, JohnPublisherPrinted by Darton & Harvey for Rivington, White, Longman, et alDate Published1793 Lot #11 The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorAesopPublisherJohn StockdaleDate Published1793 Lot #12 Fabulae graecae, latine conversae View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Bodoni)AuthorAesopPublisherEx Regio Typographeo [Bodoni]Date Published1800 Lot #13 Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Dodsley, R[obert], ed.)Author**PublisherPrinted by and for Henry MozleyDate Published1809 Lot #14 The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorBewick, ThomasPublisherPrinted by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and SonDate Published1818 Lot #16 Fables choisies d'Esope View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold AuthorAesopPublisherBoullandDate Published1825 Lot #21 The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio... View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(Jacobs, Joseph, ed.)AuthorAesopPublisherDavid NuttDate Published1889 Lot #22 Aesop Redivivus View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold AuthorBoyle, MaryPublisherField & Tuer, The Leadenhall PressDate Published1890 Lot #23 The Fables of Aesop View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Heighway, Richard, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherMacmillan & CoDate Published1894 Lot #27 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherWilliam Heinemann / Doubleday PageDate Published1912 Lot #30 Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Calder, Alexander, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherHarrison of ParisDate Published1931 Lot #31 The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Gooden, Stephen, illus.)AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean dePublisherHeinemann & Random HouseDate Published1931 Lot #32 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorAesopPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1933 Lot #33 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Gooden, Stephen, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherGeorge C. HarrapDate Published1936 Lot #34 Fables View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Miniature)AuthorAesopPublisherEdmund S. Wood [Minia Press]Date Published1943 Lot #35 A Children's Sampler: Selections from Famous Children's Books View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading"Ladies of the Distaff Side"Author**Date Published1950 Lot #36 Aesopic View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorHecht, AnthonyPublisherGehenna PressDate Published1967 Lot #38 A Fable of Bidpai View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorSiegl, Helen & NicholasPublisherJanus PressDate Published1974 Lot #39 Lot of eight titles View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorAesop, et alDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #44 Comoediae View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Baskerville)AuthorTerentius Afer, PubliusPublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1772 Lot #47 Etudes de la Nature View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques HenriPublisherTourneizenDate Published1797 Lot #48 The Holy Bible View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Bible Facsimile)Author**Publisher[World Publishing]Date Published[1965] 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Bible Leaf Book)Author[King James Bible]PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1937 Lot #50 Leaf from a folio edition of Robert Barker's "The Holy Bible" View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Bible Leaf)Author**Date Published[c.1611] Lot #51 Biblia Sacra utriusque testamenti View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**PublisherJ. PetreiumDate Published1527 Lot #54 Sonnets from the Portuguese View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Bindings)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherRiccardi Press for the Medici SocietyDate Published1914 Lot #56 Bilder des Todes View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Bindings)Author[Holbein, Hans]Publisher[Insel-Verlag]Date PublishedNo date 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 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew CookeDate Published1652 Lot #72 Histoire du Paraguay View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorCharlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier dePublisherDidot, Giffart, and NyonDate Published1756 Lot #73 The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1602 Lot #74 Les Délices des Pays-Bas, ou description géographique et historiques des XVII. provinces Belgiques View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Author[Christyn, Jean Baptiste]PublisherJ.F. BassompierreDate Published1769 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Cook, James, Captain - First Voyage)AuthorHawkesworth, JohnPublisherLeathley, Exshaw, et al. [& Strahan and Cadell]Date Published1773 Lot #85 Works View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorCooper, James FenimorePublisherD. AppletonDate PublishedNo date Lot #88 Rural Sports View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorDaniel, William B[arker]PublisherBunny & GoldDate Published[1801]-1802 Lot #94 Lucrece View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisher[Doves Press]Date Published1915 Lot #95 The Athenian Oracle: Being an Entire Collection of all the Valuable Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Author[Dunton, John]PublisherAndrew BellDate Published1706-08 Lot #97 Englishmen's Birth Right. Broom's Original Edition of Magna Charta and The Bill of Rights View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England)Author**PublisherT. BroomDate Published[c.1810] Lot #100 Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorFelltham, OwenPublisherPrinted by M. Clark for Charles HarperDate Published1696 Lot #101 The Poetical Works...to which are added Mr. Hammond's Elegies View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Foulis Press)AuthorCollins, WilliamPublisherPrinted by Robert & Andrew FoulisDate Published1771 Lot #102 Artzney-Buch: Darinnen vast für alle des Menschlichen Leibes Anliegen... View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorGaebelkhover, OswaldPublisherJohann Peter ZubrodtDate Published1680 Lot #103 A Dissertation upon the Uncertainty of the Roman History during the First Five Hundred Years View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Gibbon, Edward)Author[De Beaufort, Louis]PublisherT. WallerDate Published1740 Lot #104 Opera Chymica, Bucher und Schrifften View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorGlauber, Johann RudolfPublisherThomas Matthew GoekensDate Published1658 Lot #110 Queen Victoria View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorHolmes, Richard R.PublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1897 Lot #112 Two leaves on vellum View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Horae)Author**Date Published[16th century] Lot #114 Antiphonal leaf on vellum View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author**Date Publishedc.14th century Lot #117 In dei nomine amen nouerint vniversi cristifideles qualiter santissimi dominus felicis re... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Heading(Incunable Document)AuthorInnocent VIII and Alexander VI, PopesPublisher[Wynkyn de Worde]Date Published[c.1498] Lot #118 Single leaf from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] Lot #119 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] Lot #120 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] Lot #121 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] Lot #122 Leaf from the Bible, in Latin, with commentaries of Nicolaus de Lyra View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Nicolaus de Lyra]Publisher[Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus]Date Published[1493] Lot #123 Hand-colored double-page city view from the Peregrinationes in terram sanctam View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Incunable Leaves)Author[Breydenbach, Bernhard von]Date Published[c.1486] Lot #126 A Dictionary of the English Language... View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelPublisherPrinted by W. Strahan for Knapton, Longman, et al.Date Published1755 Lot #127 A Voyage to Abyssinia. By Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(Johnson, Samuel, trans.)AuthorLobo, JeromePublisherA. Bettesworth & C. HitchDate Published1735 Lot #129 Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorKeysler, John GeorgePublisherA. Linde and T. FieldDate Published1756-7 Lot #131 A Brief History of the Times, &c. In a Preface to the Third Volume of Observators View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[L'Estrange, Sir Roger]PublisherCharles BromeDate Published1687-88 Lot #132 Contes et nouvelles en vers View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean de]PublisherDidot JeuneDate Published1796 Lot #138 [The New-English History] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMather, CottonPublisherThomas ParkhurstDate Published1702 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... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorMatthews, JohnPublisherPrinted for B. White and SonDate Published1788 Lot #143 Addresses View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorLincoln, AbrahamDate Published1929 Lot #144 Lot of five titles, Gospels & Psalms View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$112.50StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherUniversity Press & Humphrey MilfordDate PublishedNo dates Lot #146 Lot of 12 miniature books, plus one small book View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates Lot #147 Lot of ten miniature books, plus one set of toy playing cards and a small book View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates Lot #148 The Courtin' View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorLowell, James RussellPublisherPrivately printedDate Published[1938] Lot #149 Petit Fabuliste de la Jeunesse View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherPresteauDate Published[Late 19th-century] Lot #150 A Colonial Courting. Being Extracts from Judge Samuel Sewall's Diary, September 1720 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorSewall, SamuelPublisherWilliam Lewis WashburnDate Published1940 Lot #151 The Bible in Miniature; Or, A Concise History of the Old & New Testaments View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Date PublishedNo date Lot #152 The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherOxford University PressDate PublishedNo date Lot #154 The Twenty-Third Psalm View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherWilliam Lewis WashburnDate Published1938 Lot #155 The Wolf-King, or Little Red Riding-Hood View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherWilliam Lewis WashburnDate Published1940 Lot #163 Psalmody View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Musical Manuscript)AuthorBeeby, JohnDate Published[c.1762] Lot #164 Regole prattiche dei Principii della Composizione View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Musical Manuscript)AuthorSchuster, JosephDate Published[c.1770's] Lot #165 Scotia Depicta; or, The Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, [etc.] of Scotland View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorNattes, John ClaudePublisherH.R. YoungDate Published1819 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... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorNoble, MarkPublisherJ. DebrettDate Published1804 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Pigott, Charles]PublisherH.D. Symonds / J.S. JordanDate Published1792 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Plague)AuthorColledge of PhysiciansPublisherPrinted by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the KingDate Published1665 Lot #170 Essay on Man. Der Mensch ein philosophisches Gedichte View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorPope, AlexanderPublisherRichterischen BuchhandlungDate Published1759 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 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorRead, DanielPublisherPrinted for & Sold by the EditorDate Published[c.1795] Lot #175 Flora and Sylva View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorRobinson, WilliamDate Published1903-05 Lot #176 [The History of the Caribby-Islands] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$500StatusSold Author[Rochefort, Charles de]Date Published[1666] Lot #177 La Conjuracion de Catalina y la guerra de Jugurta View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorSalustio, Cayo CrispoPublisher[Joachin Ibarra]Date Published[1772] Lot #181 The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1939 Lot #182 Note Books of Percy Bysshe Shelley from the Originals in the Library of W.K. Bixby View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(Shelley, P.B.)AuthorForman, H. Buxton, ed.PublisherPrivately printed for William K. BixbyDate Published1911 Lot #184 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorSmith, AdamPublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1778 Lot #185 Poems on Several Occassions View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Smith, Adam)Author[Hamilton, William of Bangour]PublisherRobert & Andrew FoulisDate Published1748 Lot #190 Travels into the Several Remote Nations of the World...by Lemuel Gulliver View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,000StatusSold Author[Swift, Jonathan]PublisherBenjamin MotteDate Published1726 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(Toy Book)Author**PublisherPrinted by John BabcockDate Published1802 Lot #212 Bucolica, Georgica, et Æneis View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Author[Virgil] Vergilius Maro, PubliusPublisherJohannis BaskervilleDate Published1757 Lot #213 Alle de Treurspelen. Eerste Deel. View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorVondel, Joost van denPublisherJoannes OosterwykDate Published1720 Lot #216 The Complete Angler View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorWalton, Izaak and Charles CottonPublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1885 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... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWalton, Izaak, et alPublisherRichard Marriott [& Henry Brome - part II]Date Published1676 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next