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 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 1-93 of 93. 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #26 The Fables of Aesop Heading(Detmold, Edward J., illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1909 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #28 The Big Book of Fables Heading(Robinson, Charles, illus.)Author**PublisherBlackie and SonDate Published1912 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #32 Aesop's Fables Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorAesopPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1933 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #34 Fables Heading(Miniature)AuthorAesopPublisherEdmund S. Wood [Minia Press]Date Published1943 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$125StatusSold 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 #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 #44 Comoediae Heading(Baskerville)AuthorTerentius Afer, PubliusPublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1772 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #45 The Mysterious Stranger; or, Memoirs of Henry More Smith; alias Henry Frederick Moon; alias William Newman... AuthorBates, WalterPublisherMaltby, Goldsmith & Co.Date Published1817 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #47 Etudes de la Nature AuthorBernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques HenriPublisherTourneizenDate Published1797 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #53 Tragedie Heading(Bindings)AuthorAlfieri, VittorioPublisherPress of Leonardo CiardettiDate Published1820-1 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #54 Sonnets from the Portuguese Heading(Bindings)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherRiccardi Press for the Medici SocietyDate Published1914 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #55 Oeuvres Heading(Bindings)AuthorFlorian, [Jean Pierre Claris de]PublisherGide / BriandDate Published1801-1810 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #57 Le Commedie Heading(Bindings)AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloPublisherG. BarberaDate Published1863 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #58 Poems Heading(Bindings)AuthorRossetti, ChristinaPublisherMacmillanDate Published1905 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold 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 #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 #69 The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherWilliam PattersonDate Published1892 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$212.50StatusSold 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 #73 The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1602 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #84 The Water Witch; or, The Skimmer of the Seas Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]PublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1830 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #85 Works AuthorCooper, James FenimorePublisherD. AppletonDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold 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 #89 The Nightless City. Or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yuwaku" AuthorDe Becker, J[oseph] E[rnest]PublisherMax NosslerDate Published[c.1905] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold 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 #93 Poems. Third Series AuthorDickinson, EmilyPublisherRoberts BrothersDate Published1896 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold 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 #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 #106 A History of the Earth and Animated Nature AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherA. FullartonDate Published1847 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #108 The Scarlet Letter AuthorHawthorne, NathanielPublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1850 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #125 The Life of George Brummell, Esq., commonly called Beau Brummell AuthorJesse, CaptainPublisherSaunders and OtleyDate Published1844 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold 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 #128 The Floral Keepsake for 1850 AuthorKeese, John, edPublisherLeavittDate Published1850 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #133 Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Second Series AuthorLandor, Walter SavagePublisherJames DuncanDate Published1829 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #141 The Works of George Meredith AuthorMeredith, GeorgePublisherConstable and CompanyDate Published1909-1911 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold 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 #145 Lot of four miniature books on Americana Heading(Miniature Books)Author**PublisherAchille J. St. OngeDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$2,000StatusSold 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 #153 The Little Gazetteer, or, Universal Geographical Dictionary Heading(Miniature Books)Author**Date Published[mid-19th century] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold 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 #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 #170 Essay on Man. Der Mensch ein philosophisches Gedichte AuthorPope, AlexanderPublisherRichterischen BuchhandlungDate Published1759 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold 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 #179 Splinters Struck Off Winskill Rock Heading(Scots Dialect)AuthorTwisleton, TomPublisherWildman and SonDate Published[c.1867] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #180 Quentin Durward AuthorScott, Walter, SirPublisherArchibald ConstableDate Published1823 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$106.25StatusSold 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 #186 The Theory of Moral Sentiments... AuthorSmith, AdamPublisherBell & Bradfute, Laing, et alDate Published1808 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #188 The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1897-1901 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold 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 #191 Works AuthorThackeray, William MakepeacePublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1869; 1886 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #193 Lot of two titles on Constitutional Irritation AuthorTravers, BenjaminPublisherLongman, Reed, Orme, Brown, & GreenDate Published1827 & 1835 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold 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 #219 Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & a Backward Glance o'er Travelled Roads AuthorWhitman, WaltDate Published[1889] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next