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 111. Previous|12|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 #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 #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 #48 The Holy Bible Heading(Bible Facsimile)Author**Publisher[World Publishing]Date Published[1965] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold 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 Heading(Bible Leaf Book)Author[King James Bible]PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1937 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #50 Leaf from a folio edition of Robert Barker's "The Holy Bible" Heading(Bible Leaf)Author**Date Published[c.1611] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #51 Biblia Sacra utriusque testamenti Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**PublisherJ. PetreiumDate Published1527 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 #58 Poems Heading(Bindings)AuthorRossetti, ChristinaPublisherMacmillanDate Published1905 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold 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 #72 Histoire du Paraguay AuthorCharlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier dePublisherDidot, Giffart, and NyonDate Published1756 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold 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 #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 #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 Heading(Cook, James, Captain - First Voyage)AuthorHawkesworth, JohnPublisherLeathley, Exshaw, et al. [& Strahan and Cadell]Date Published1773 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold 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 #88 Rural Sports AuthorDaniel, William B[arker]PublisherBunny & GoldDate Published[1801]-1802 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$343.75StatusSold 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 #97 Englishmen's Birth Right. Broom's Original Edition of Magna Charta and The Bill of Rights Heading(England)Author**PublisherT. BroomDate Published[c.1810] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #100 Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political AuthorFelltham, OwenPublisherPrinted by M. Clark for Charles HarperDate Published1696 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold 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 #102 Artzney-Buch: Darinnen vast für alle des Menschlichen Leibes Anliegen... AuthorGaebelkhover, OswaldPublisherJohann Peter ZubrodtDate Published1680 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #103 A Dissertation upon the Uncertainty of the Roman History during the First Five Hundred Years Heading(Gibbon, Edward)Author[De Beaufort, Louis]PublisherT. WallerDate Published1740 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #104 Opera Chymica, Bucher und Schrifften AuthorGlauber, Johann RudolfPublisherThomas Matthew GoekensDate Published1658 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold 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 #112 Two leaves on vellum Heading(Horae)Author**Date Published[16th century] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #114 Antiphonal leaf on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author**Date Publishedc.14th century View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #117 In dei nomine amen nouerint vniversi cristifideles qualiter santissimi dominus felicis re... Heading(Incunable Document)AuthorInnocent VIII and Alexander VI, PopesPublisher[Wynkyn de Worde]Date Published[c.1498] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #118 Single leaf from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #119 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #120 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #121 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #122 Leaf from the Bible, in Latin, with commentaries of Nicolaus de Lyra Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Nicolaus de Lyra]Publisher[Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus]Date Published[1493] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #123 Hand-colored double-page city view from the Peregrinationes in terram sanctam Heading(Incunable Leaves)Author[Breydenbach, Bernhard von]Date Published[c.1486] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold 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 #129 Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain... AuthorKeysler, John GeorgePublisherA. Linde and T. FieldDate Published1756-7 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #131 A Brief History of the Times, &c. In a Preface to the Third Volume of Observators Author[L'Estrange, Sir Roger]PublisherCharles BromeDate Published1687-88 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #132 Contes et nouvelles en vers AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean de]PublisherDidot JeuneDate Published1796 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #133 Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen. Second Series AuthorLandor, Walter SavagePublisherJames DuncanDate Published1829 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #138 [The New-English History] AuthorMather, CottonPublisherThomas ParkhurstDate Published1702 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold 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... AuthorMatthews, JohnPublisherPrinted for B. White and SonDate Published1788 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #141 The Works of George Meredith AuthorMeredith, GeorgePublisherConstable and CompanyDate Published1909-1911 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold 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 #163 Psalmody Heading(Musical Manuscript)AuthorBeeby, JohnDate Published[c.1762] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #164 Regole prattiche dei Principii della Composizione Heading(Musical Manuscript)AuthorSchuster, JosephDate Published[c.1770's] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold 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 #166 A History of the College of Arms, and the Lives of All the Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants, from the Reign of Richard III... AuthorNoble, MarkPublisherJ. DebrettDate Published1804 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 #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 Heading(Plague)AuthorColledge of PhysiciansPublisherPrinted by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the KingDate Published1665 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold 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 #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 AuthorRead, DanielPublisherPrinted for & Sold by the EditorDate Published[c.1795] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #176 [The History of the Caribby-Islands] Author[Rochefort, Charles de]Date Published[1666] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #177 La Conjuracion de Catalina y la guerra de Jugurta AuthorSalustio, Cayo CrispoPublisher[Joachin Ibarra]Date Published[1772] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next