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 1-99 of 99. Previous|1|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 #15 The Fables of Pilpay View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$87.50StatusSold Author[Bidpai]PublisherBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, et alDate Published1818 Lot #16 Fables choisies d'Esope View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold AuthorAesopPublisherBoullandDate Published1825 Lot #17 Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly From Original Sources View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Tenniel, John, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1848 Lot #18 The Fables of Aesop and Others translated into Human Nature View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Bennett, Charles H., illus.)Author**PublisherW. Kent & Co.Date Published[1857] 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 #23 The Fables of Aesop View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Heighway, Richard, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherMacmillan & CoDate Published1894 Lot #24 Triplets. Comprising the Baby's Opera, the Baby's Bouquet, and the Baby's own Aesop View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCrane, WalterPublisherPrinted by Edmund Evans for George Routledge & SonsDate Published1899 Lot #26 The Fables of Aesop View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Detmold, Edward J., illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1909 Lot #28 The Big Book of Fables View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Robinson, Charles, illus.)Author**PublisherBlackie and SonDate Published1912 Lot #32 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorAesopPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1933 Lot #36 Aesopic View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorHecht, AnthonyPublisherGehenna PressDate Published1967 Lot #37 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Lawrence, Jacob, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherWindmill BooksDate Published[1970] Lot #39 Lot of eight titles View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorAesop, et alDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #40 Lot of ten titles View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorAesop, et alDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #43 The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John JamesPublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1840 Lot #44 Comoediae View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Baskerville)AuthorTerentius Afer, PubliusPublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1772 Lot #45 The Mysterious Stranger; or, Memoirs of Henry More Smith; alias Henry Frederick Moon; alias William Newman... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorBates, WalterPublisherMaltby, Goldsmith & Co.Date Published1817 Lot #46 Israel: A Personal History View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidPublisherFunk & Wagnallis / SabraDate Published[1971] Lot #47 Etudes de la Nature View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques HenriPublisherTourneizenDate Published1797 Lot #52 American Medical Botany, being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorBigelow, JacobPublisherCummings and HilliardDate Published1817-20 Lot #53 Tragedie View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Bindings)AuthorAlfieri, VittorioPublisherPress of Leonardo CiardettiDate Published1820-1 Lot #54 Sonnets from the Portuguese View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Bindings)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherRiccardi Press for the Medici SocietyDate Published1914 Lot #55 Oeuvres View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bindings)AuthorFlorian, [Jean Pierre Claris de]PublisherGide / BriandDate Published1801-1810 Lot #58 Poems View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Heading(Bindings)AuthorRossetti, ChristinaPublisherMacmillanDate Published1905 Lot #66 Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBurton, Richard F.PublisherTylston and EdwardsDate Published1893 Lot #69 The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherWilliam PattersonDate Published1892 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 #71 The Spirit of Cervantes; or, Don Quixote Abridged View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes [Saavedra, Miguel de]PublisherF.C. & J. RivingtonDate Published1820 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 #84 The Water Witch; or, The Skimmer of the Seas View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1830 Lot #85 Works View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorCooper, James FenimorePublisherD. AppletonDate PublishedNo date Lot #87 Steel engraving plate of Cruikshank's work "The Fatal Duel between Lord Randy and Sir Toby" View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorCruikshank, GeorgePublisher[Cunningham and Mortimer]Date Published[1843] Lot #89 The Nightless City. Or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yuwaku" View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorDe Becker, J[oseph] E[rnest]PublisherMax NosslerDate Published[c.1905] Lot #91 Master Humphrey's Clock View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1840-41 Lot #92 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1837 Lot #93 Poems. Third Series View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorDickinson, EmilyPublisherRoberts BrothersDate Published1896 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 #99 Icones Farlowianae. Illustrations of the Larger Fungi of Eastern North America-WITHDRAWN View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorFarlow, William GilsonPublisherFarlow Library and Herbarium of Harvard University PressDate Published1929 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 #105 American Natural History View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorGodman, John DPublisherUriah Hunt & SonDate Published1860 Lot #106 A History of the Earth and Animated Nature View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherA. FullartonDate Published1847 Lot #108 The Scarlet Letter View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielPublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1850 Lot #125 The Life of George Brummell, Esq., commonly called Beau Brummell View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorJesse, CaptainPublisherSaunders and OtleyDate Published1844 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 #133 Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Second Series View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold AuthorLandor, Walter SavagePublisherJames DuncanDate Published1829 Lot #136 A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorM`Clintock, [Francis Leopold]PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1859 Lot #138 [The New-English History] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMather, CottonPublisherThomas ParkhurstDate Published1702 Lot #140 A Manual of North American Butterflies View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorMaynard, Charles JPublisherDe Wolfe, FiskeDate Published1891 Lot #141 The Works of George Meredith View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorMeredith, GeorgePublisherConstable and CompanyDate Published1909-1911 Lot #142 Manuscript record book for the Hospital Real de los Indios View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Mexican Manuscript)AuthorCardenas, Joseph deDate Published1748-49 Lot #143 Addresses View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorLincoln, AbrahamDate Published1929 Lot #145 Lot of four miniature books on Americana View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherAchille J. St. OngeDate PublishedVarious dates 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 #170 Essay on Man. Der Mensch ein philosophisches Gedichte View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorPope, AlexanderPublisherRichterischen BuchhandlungDate Published1759 Lot #172 The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature In Poetry, Literature and Art [and] Art and Poetry: Being Thoughts towards Nature View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Pre-Raphaelite)Author**Publisher"Aylott and Jones"Date Published[c.1900] 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 #179 Splinters Struck Off Winskill Rock View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Scots Dialect)AuthorTwisleton, TomPublisherWildman and SonDate Published[c.1867] Lot #180 Quentin Durward View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$106.25StatusSold AuthorScott, Walter, SirPublisherArchibald ConstableDate Published1823 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 #186 The Theory of Moral Sentiments... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamPublisherBell & Bradfute, Laing, et alDate Published1808 Lot #188 The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1897-1901 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 #191 Works View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorThackeray, William MakepeacePublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1869; 1886 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 #194 Typed Letter Signed, from Mencken to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorMencken, H.L.Date PublishedMay 25, 1922 Lot #195 Autograph Letter Signed, from Darrow to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorDarrow, ClarenceDate PublishedJune 8, [c.1925?] Lot #196 Autograph Postcard Signed by Eastman, to Peggy Tucker View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorEastman, MaxDate PublishedApril 18, 1927 Lot #198 Autograph Letter Signed, from Dewey to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorDewey JohnDate PublishedNov. 20, '28 Lot #199 Typed Letter Signed, from Ruby Darrow to Miss "Peggy Tucker" and Managment at Il-Nuovo-Mondo View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold HeadingTucker, Marguerite ("Peggy")AuthorDarrow, Ruby (Mrs. Clarence)Date PublishedOctober 4, 1930 Lot #200 Typed Letter Signed, from Lewis to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy)AuthorLewis, SinclairDate PublishedNovember 15, 1930 Lot #201 Typed Letter Signed by Darrow and Hays, to the editor of The Nation View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorDarrow, Clarence & Arthur Garfield HaysDate PublishedNo date [c.1930?] Lot #203 Typed Letter Signed by Roosevelt, to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorRoosevelt, EleanorDate PublishedNovember 16, 1946 Lot #204 Autograph Note Signed by Frankfurter, to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorFrankfurter, FelixDate PublishedXII.28.48 Lot #206 Letters from three labor leaders to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")AuthorLewis, John L., Sidney Hillman & Theodore DebsDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #207 Lot of eight letters from various politicians and U.S. Government officials to Marguerite Tucker View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Tucker, Marguerite "Peggy")Author**Date Published1924-1950 Lot #210 Coleccion [/Recopilacion] de Leyes, Decretos y Resoluciones Gubernativas, Tratados Internacionales...de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$81.25StatusSold Heading(Uruguay)AuthorCaravia, Antonio T., edPublisherLa TribunaDate Published1867-[70] Lot #211 The Life and Times of Americus Vespucius; with Illustrations concerning the Navigator, and the Discovery of the New World View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Heading(Vespucius, Americus)AuthorLester, C. EdwardsPublisherHorace MansfieldDate Published1853 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 #219 Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & a Backward Glance o'er Travelled Roads View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorWhitman, WaltDate Published[1889] Lot #221 American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorWilson, Alexander and Prince Charles Lucian BonapartePublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1876 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next