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 1-97 of 97. 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #56 Bilder des Todes Heading(Bindings)Author[Holbein, Hans]Publisher[Insel-Verlag]Date PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #96 The Genus Iris AuthorDykes, William RickatsonPublisherat the University PressDate Published1913 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold 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 #107 The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England AuthorHall, S[amuel] C[arter]PublisherWillis & SotheranDate Published1858 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #115 Illuminated manuscript leaf with miniature, from a Book of Hours, on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author**Date Published[c.late 15th century] View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold 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 #124 [Clothing Pattern Catalogue] Heading(Japanese Textiles)Author**Publisher[Higashi-Yama Textile Shop]Date Published[1935] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #130 Illuminated Koran Heading(Koran)Author**Date Published[19th century] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #132 Contes et nouvelles en vers AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean de]PublisherDidot JeuneDate Published1796 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #134 The Early Works of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A...with a Complete List of his Exhibited Pictures Heading(Landseer, Sir Edwin)Author**PublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1869 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #135 Library of Natural History AuthorLydekker, Richard, edPublisherSaalfield PublishingDate Published1904 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #140 A Manual of North American Butterflies AuthorMaynard, Charles JPublisherDe Wolfe, FiskeDate Published1891 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #141 The Works of George Meredith AuthorMeredith, GeorgePublisherConstable and CompanyDate Published1909-1911 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold 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 #156 The Octavo Nature-Printed British Ferns AuthorMoore, ThomasPublisherBradbury and EvansDate Published1859-60 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #157 A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds AuthorMorris, F[rances] O[rpen]PublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published1861 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #158 A History of British Birds AuthorMorris, F[rancis] O[rpen]PublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published1851-7 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #159 A History of British Birds AuthorMorris, F[rancis] O[rpen]PublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1891 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #160 A History of British Butterflies AuthorMorris, F[rancis] O[rpen]PublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published1865 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold 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 #167 The Oldman Collection of Polynesian Artifacts AuthorOldman, W[illiam] O.PublisherPrinted by Thomas Avery & SonsDate Published1943 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #170 Essay on Man. Der Mensch ein philosophisches Gedichte AuthorPope, AlexanderPublisherRichterischen BuchhandlungDate Published1759 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #171 The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain AuthorPratt, AnnePublisherSociety for Promoting Christian KnowledgeDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold 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 #175 Flora and Sylva AuthorRobinson, WilliamDate Published1903-05 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #178 Original sketchbook Heading(Scotland, Wales, and Germany)AuthorTonndorf, E.Date Published1899-1902 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #189 The Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery AuthorSweet, R[obert]PublisherG. WillisDate Published1852 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold 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 #220 A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca, and Gibraltar AuthorWillyams, C[ooper]PublisherJohn HearneDate Published1822 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #221 American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States AuthorWilson, Alexander and Prince Charles Lucian BonapartePublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1876 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next