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 122. 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 #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 #42 A Narrative of the Expedition Sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River Niger, in 1841. Under the Command of Captain H.D. Trotter View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorAllen, William and T[homas] R[ichard] H[eywood] ThomsonPublisherR. BentleyDate Published1848 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 #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 #59 Christliche Standes-Unterweisungen View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBitschau, OttoPublisherSuddeutschen VerlagsbuchhandlungDate Published[c.1898] Lot #62 The Florist and Garden Miscellany View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Botanical)Author**PublisherChapman & HallDate Published1850-52 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 #67 The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBurton, Richard F.PublisherHutchinsonDate Published1898 Lot #68 Illustrations of Medical Botany Consisting of Coloured Figures of the Plants... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorCarson, JosephPublisherRobert P. SmithDate Published1847 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 #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 #75 The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorBlakston, W. A., W. Swaysland and August F. WienerPublisherCassellDate Published[c.1880] Lot #76 European Ferns View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorBritten, JamesPublisherCassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.Date Published[c.1888] Lot #77 Album des Célébrités Contemporaines Publié par Lefèvre-Utile... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorLèfevre-UtilePublisherLefèvre-UtileDate Published[c.1909] Lot #78 Les Contemporains Célèbres. Album Lèfevre-Utile. Première Série. Portraits, Autographes, Notices Biographiques Illustrées, Portraits Humoristiques des Célébrités Contemporaines View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorLèfevre-UtilePublisherOctave BeauchampDate Published[1904] Lot #79 Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorStep, EdwardPublisherFrederick WarneDate Published1896-97 Lot #80 Animate Creation; Popular Edition of "Our Living World," a Natural History View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorWood, J[ohn] G[eorge]PublisherSelmar HessDate Published[1898] 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 #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 #86 A History of British Fishes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorCouch, JonathanPublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published186[2]-64 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 #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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorDelano, AmasaPublisherPrinted by E. G. House for the AuthorDate Published1817 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 #96 The Genus Iris View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorDykes, William RickatsonPublisherat the University PressDate Published1913 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 #106 A History of the Earth and Animated Nature View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherA. FullartonDate Published1847 Lot #107 The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorHall, S[amuel] C[arter]PublisherWillis & SotheranDate Published1858 Lot #108 The Scarlet Letter View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielPublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1850 Lot #109 Original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing of the Schooner United States stuck in the ice of Greenland View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorHayes, Isaac IsraelDate Published1861 Lot #111 Blumen des heiligen Lande View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Holy Land Flowers)Author**Date Published[c.1910] 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 #124 [Clothing Pattern Catalogue] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Japanese Textiles)Author**Publisher[Higashi-Yama Textile Shop]Date Published[1935] 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 #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 #133 Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Second Series View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold AuthorLandor, Walter SavagePublisherJames DuncanDate Published1829 Lot #135 Library of Natural History View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorLydekker, Richard, edPublisherSaalfield PublishingDate Published1904 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 #137 Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorMarkham, Clements R[obert], edPublisherTrübnerDate Published1876 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 #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 #156 The Octavo Nature-Printed British Ferns View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorMoore, ThomasPublisherBradbury and EvansDate Published1859-60 Lot #157 A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMorris, F[rances] O[rpen]PublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published1861 Lot #158 A History of British Birds View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorMorris, F[rancis] O[rpen]PublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published1851-7 Lot #159 A History of British Birds View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorMorris, F[rancis] O[rpen]PublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1891 Lot #160 A History of British Butterflies View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorMorris, F[rancis] O[rpen]PublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published1865 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 #167 The Oldman Collection of Polynesian Artifacts View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorOldman, W[illiam] O.PublisherPrinted by Thomas Avery & SonsDate Published1943 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 #171 The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorPratt, AnnePublisherSociety for Promoting Christian KnowledgeDate PublishedNo date 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 #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] Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next