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 124. 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #81 Photograph, signed View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorChurchill, WinstonDate Published[early 1950's] Lot #82 The Second World War View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.PublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[1948]-53 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 #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 #88 Rural Sports View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorDaniel, William B[arker]PublisherBunny & GoldDate Published[1801]-1802 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 #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 #98 Das Buch der N.S.D.A.P. Werden, Kampf und Ziel der NSDAP View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorEspe, Walter M.PublisherSchönfeld'sDate Published[1934] 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 #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 #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 #116 Illuminated manuscript leaf from an Old Testament, on vellum View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author[Leber Workshop]Date Published[c.1240-50] 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 #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 #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 #133 Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Second Series View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold AuthorLandor, Walter SavagePublisherJames DuncanDate Published1829 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 #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 #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 #161 Archive of approximately 170 items, letters, and manuscript material by Mountbatten and Professor Franklyn Johnson, detailing Mountbatten's history during World War II, and his guidance to Professor Johnson to write a book about the attempts to unify British Military Command structure in "Defence By Ministry" View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold AuthorMountbatten, Lord Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of BurmaDate Published1963-1979 Lot #162 Collection of three typed letters signed View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorMountbatten, Lord Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of BurmaDate Published1962; 1963; 1970 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next