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 1-100 of 221. Previous|123|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 #14 The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorBewick, ThomasPublisherPrinted by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and SonDate Published1818 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 #19 Marcus Ward's Fable Picture Book...With the Fables from Aesop told in Verse View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorFriswell, J. HainPublisherMarcus Ward & Co.Date Published[c.1874] Lot #20 Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances... View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Caldecott, Randolph, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherMacmillanDate Published1887 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 #22 Aesop Redivivus View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold AuthorBoyle, MaryPublisherField & Tuer, The Leadenhall PressDate Published1890 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 #25 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading(Condé, J.M., illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherMoffat, Yard & CompanyDate Published1905 Lot #26 The Fables of Aesop View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Detmold, Edward J., illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1909 Lot #27 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherWilliam Heinemann / Doubleday PageDate Published1912 Lot #28 The Big Book of Fables View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Robinson, Charles, illus.)Author**PublisherBlackie and SonDate Published1912 Lot #29 An Argosy of Fables. A Representative Selection From the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Cooper, Frederic Taber, ed.)Author**PublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published[1921] Lot #30 Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Calder, Alexander, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherHarrison of ParisDate Published1931 Lot #31 The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Gooden, Stephen, illus.)AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean dePublisherHeinemann & Random HouseDate Published1931 Lot #32 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorAesopPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1933 Lot #33 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Gooden, Stephen, illus.)AuthorAesopPublisherGeorge C. HarrapDate Published1936 Lot #34 Fables View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Miniature)AuthorAesopPublisherEdmund S. Wood [Minia Press]Date Published1943 Lot #35 A Children's Sampler: Selections from Famous Children's Books View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Heading"Ladies of the Distaff Side"Author**Date Published1950 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 #38 A Fable of Bidpai View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorSiegl, Helen & NicholasPublisherJanus PressDate Published1974 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 #41 Lot of 17 titles View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #56 Bilder des Todes View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Bindings)Author[Holbein, Hans]Publisher[Insel-Verlag]Date PublishedNo date Lot #57 Le Commedie View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Bindings)AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloPublisherG. BarberaDate Published1863 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 #60 Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold AuthorBloomfield, RobertPublisherVernor, Hood, Sharpe, et alDate Published1806 Lot #61 Lot of three titles in the Popular Botany series View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)Author**Date Published[1850's] Lot #62 The Florist and Garden Miscellany View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Botanical)Author**PublisherChapman & HallDate Published1850-52 Lot #63 Franks Bequest. Catalogue of the Finger Rings. Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and Later... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(British Museum)AuthorDalton, O.M.Publisher[Horace Hart at Oxford University Press for the] Trustees of the British MuseumDate Published1912 Lot #64 Palm-Leaf Manuscript View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Buddhist Manuscript)Author**Date Published[19th century?] Lot #65 Natural History, General and Particular View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBuffon, Comte dePublisherT. Cadell & W. DaviesDate Published1812 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 #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 #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 #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 #96 The Genus Iris View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorDykes, William RickatsonPublisherat the University PressDate Published1913 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 #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 #100 Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorFelltham, OwenPublisherPrinted by M. Clark for Charles HarperDate Published1696 Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next