Sale 242: Fine & Rare Books with a Collection of Charles Dickens (#242) 05/23/2002 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/23/2002 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info 242 301 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 136. Previous|12|Next Lot #1 A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America AuthorAdams, JohnPublisherC. DillyDate Published1787 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #2 The Town and Country Almanack for the Year MDCCLXXX Heading(Almanac)Author**PublisherJ. MennonsDate Published[1779] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #4 Orlando Furioso AuthorAriosto, LodovicoPublisherG. BaskervilleDate Published1773 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #7 The Flower Art of Japan AuthorAverill, MaryPublisherJohn Lane Co.Date Published1915 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #12 The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher...with Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the Reverend William Law, M.A. AuthorBehmen, JacobPublisherM. RichardsonDate Published1764 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #13 Original Printed Leaf from the Complutensian Bible of Alcala Heading(Bible Leaf - Complutensian)Author**Publisher[Arnald Guillen de Brocar]Date Published[1514-1517] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #16 Poetical Sketches. Now First Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1783 AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherBasil Montagu PickeringDate Published1868 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #19 The Encyclopedia Britannica Heading(Britannica)Author**PublisherScribner'sDate Published1878-1888 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #20 Sonnets from the Portuguese AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherDodge PublishingDate Published[1916] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #22 Historie Naturelle De Buffon AuthorBuffon, [Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de]PublisherChez DetervilleDate Published1802 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #23 Mazeppa, A Poem AuthorByron, George Gordon Noel, LordPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1819 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #26 Eikon Basilike: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings: Together with His Private Prayers, used in the time of his Restraint, and delivered to D. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death AuthorCharles I, King of EnglandDate Published1649 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #27 The Charters of the British Colonies in America Heading(Charters)Author**PublisherJ. AlmonDate Published[1774] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #28 Génie du Christianisme, ou Beautés de la Religion Chrétienne AuthorChateaubriand, [Francois Rene de]PublisherLe Normant, Imprimeur-LibraireDate Published1823 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #29 The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: Being a large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture, in the Most Fashionable Taste... AuthorChippendale, ThomasPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1762 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #31 Collection of Four Titles in Five Volumes AuthorClemenceau, GeorgesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #39 Curiositates Eroticae Physiologiae; or, Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated. In Six Essays AuthorDavenport, JohnPublisherPrivately printedDate Published1875 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #42 American Notes for General Circulation AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1842 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #43 The Battle of Life: A Love Story AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #44 Bleak House AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-1853 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #45 Bleak House AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1853 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #46 The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1845 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #47 Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate PublishedNo date [after 1867] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #48 The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #49 Dombey and Son AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846-1848 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #50 Dombey and Son AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #51 Hard Times. For These Times AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1854 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #52 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #53 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1844 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #54 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1838-1839 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #55 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1839 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #56 Little Dorritt AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1855-1857 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #57 Little Dorrit AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1857 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #58 Master Humphrey's Clock AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1840-1841 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #59 Master Humphrey's Clock AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1840-1841 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #60 The Mystery of Edwin Drood AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #61 The Mystery of Edwin Drood AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #62 Our Mutual Friend AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1865 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #63 The Personal History of David Copperfield AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1850 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #64 Pictures from Italy AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #65 The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #66 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1836 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #67 Seven Extra Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round AuthorDickens, CharlesDate Published1855-1867 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #68 The Story of Little Dombey AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #69 A Tale of Two Cities AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1859 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #70 The Uncommercial Traveller AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1861 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #71 The Works of Charles Dickens AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherR.G. Newbegin Co.Date Published1902 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 De medicinali materia libri sex AuthorDioscorides, PedaniusPublisher[Balthazarem Arnolletum]Date Published[1550 or 1552] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #75 The History of Scotland, From the year 1423, until the year 1542. Containing the Lives and Reigns of James the I, the II, the III, the IV, the V. With several Memorials of State During the Reigns of James VI & Charles I AuthorDrummond, WilliamPublisherPrinted by Henry Hills, for Rich. TomlinsDate Published1655 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #76 Villette Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorBronte, CharlottePublisherJ.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.Date Published1922 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #77 Greenfield Hill: A Poem AuthorDwight, TimothyPublisherChilds and SwaineDate Published1794 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #78 Le Parfait ou le Teinturier François Heading(Dying)Author**PublisherPar la CompagnieDate Published1767 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #80 The Works of George Eliot AuthorEliot, GeorgePublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published[c.1878-1885] View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #82 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published[1903] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #83 A Collection of all the Statutes in Force, Relating to the Duties upon Foreign Salt, after the 25th of December, 1730. With so much of the Laws of Excise, as are particularly refferr'd to in the said Statutes. Together with the Duties on Red and White Herrings for home Consumption. As also the Bounty on Fish, Beef, and Pork, exported Heading(English Laws)Author**PublisherAssigns of His Majesty's PrinterDate Published1730 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #84 Silva: Or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions...together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. Terra, a Philosophical Essay of Earth... AuthorEvelyn, JohnPublisherJ. Walthoe, et al.Date Published1729 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #85 Sentimental Education: A Young Man's History AuthorFlaubert, GustavePublisherH.S. Nichols Ltd.Date Published1898 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #86 Le Morte D'Arthur: The History of King Arthur Heading(Flint, W. Russell)AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasPublisherPhilip Lee Warner for the Medici SocietyDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #88 Fox's Book of Martyrs: A Universal History of Christian Martyrdom: From the Birth of Our Blessed Saviour to the Latest Periods of Persecution AuthorFox, Rev. JohnPublisherKey, Mielke & BiddleDate Published1832 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #89 Die Suggestion und Ihre Heilwirkung Heading(Freud, Sigmund)AuthorBernheim, H[ippolyte]PublisherFranz DeutickeDate Published1896 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #90 Fables AuthorGay, [John]PublisherJ. Tonson and J. WattsDate Published1728 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #91 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London AuthorGerard, [John]PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #93 The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals: also, Various Cheap and Easie Ways of making Salt-Petre, and Improving of Barren-Land, and the Fruits of the Earth. Translated into English, and Published for Publick Good by...Christopher Packe AuthorGlauber, Johann RudolfPublisherThomas MilbournDate Published1689 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #94 The Book of Esther: From the King James Version of the Holy Bible Heading(Golden Cross Press)Author**PublisherThe Golden Cross PressDate Published1935 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #95 The Rival Sisters: or, The Violence of Love, A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants AuthorGould, [Robert]PublisherRicard BentleyDate Published1696 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #96 Eros and Psyche: A Poem in XII Measures Heading(Gregynog Press)AuthorBridges, RobertPublisherGregynog PressDate Published1935 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #97 German Popular Stories, Translated from the Kinder und haus Märchen, collected by M.M. Grimm from Oral Tradition AuthorGrimm BrothersPublisherC. Baldwyn/James RobinsDate Published1823 & 1826 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #98 Della Historia D'Italia di M. Francesco Guicciardini, Gentiluomo Fiorentino AuthorGuicciardini, M. FrancescoPublisherAppresso Michele KluchDate Published1775-1776 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #99 Original Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible Heading(Gutenberg Bible Leaf)Author**PublisherJohann GutenbergDate Publishedc.1450-1455 View details Estimate$40,000 - $50,000Sold for$37,500StatusSold Lot #100 De Jure Manium, Seu De Ritu, More, et Legibus Prisci Funeris. Libri tres. Cum Qvatuor Indicibus Annexoqve Tractatu Eiusdem De Orbitate Toleranda AuthorGutherius, Jacobus [Jacques Goutiére]PublisherSumptibus haered. Schürerianorum & Joh. FritzschiiDate Published1671 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #101 Love's a Lottery, and a Woman the Prize. With a New Masque, call'd Love and Riches Reconcil'd. As it was Acted by His Majesties Servants at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields AuthorHarris, JosephPublisherDaniel Brown, et al.,Date Published1699 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #102 The Point of View AuthorHarvey, James ClarencePublisherHope, Waite & Long International PressDate Published1905 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #103 The Female Spectator, Volume III (Books XIII to XVIII) Author[Haywood, Eliza Fowler, ed.]PublisherT. GardnerDate Published1745 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #104 Sevachim [or Zevachim], de Sacrificiis... Heading(Hebrew Book)Author**Date Published[1721] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #105 Lock and Key: A Musical Entertainment, in Two Acts AuthorHoare, PrincePublisherT.N. Longman and O. ReesDate Published1804 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #106 The Lyff of the Olde Auncyent Holy Faders Heading(Incunabular Leaf)AuthorHieronymousPublisher[Wynkyn de Worde]Date Published[1495] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #107 The Indian Mutiny, to the Fall of Delhi Heading(Indian Mutiny)Author**PublisherG. Routledge & Co.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #108 Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists AuthorIrving, WashingtonPublisherG.P. Putnam'sDate Published1896 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #109 The Portrait of a Lady AuthorJames, HenryPublisherMacmillanDate Published1882 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #110 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar AuthorJohnson, SamuelPublisherPrinted by W. Strahan, for J. & P. Knapton, et al.Date Published1755-56 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,625StatusSold Lot #114 A bifolium leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer - Untrimmed Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyPublisher[Kelmscott Press]Date Published[1896] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #115 The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, Together with a Version in Modern English Verse Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorVan Wyck, William, trans.PublisherCovici-FriedeDate Published1930 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #116 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia AuthorKhayyám, OmarPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published1882 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #117 The Works of Rudyard Kipling AuthorKipling, RudyardPublisherThe Jefferson PressDate Published[c.1909] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #119 Imaginary Conversations AuthorLandor, Walter SavagePublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1936 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #120 The Setter: With Notices of the Most Eminent Breeds Now Extant; Instructions How to Breed, Rear, and Break; Dog Shows, Field Trails, General Management, Etc. AuthorLaverack, EdwardPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1872 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #121 Original printed leaf on vellum from a late 15th century breviary Heading(Leaf - Book of Hours)Author**Date PublishedLate 15th century View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #125 Magna Carta Cum Aliis Antiquis Statutis, Quorum Catalogum, in Fine Operis Reperies Heading(Magna Carta)Author**PublisherThomae BertheletiDate Published1540 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #126 Les Admirables Secrets d'Albert Le Grand. Contenant Plusieurs Traites sur la Conception des Femmes, des Vertus des Herbes, des Pierres Precieuses & des Animaux... AuthorAlbertus MagnusPublisherHeritiers de Beringos FretresDate Published1743 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #130 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale AuthorMelville, HermanPublisherHarperDate Published1851 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #131 Historie de France AuthorMichelet, J[ules]PublisherChamerot, Libraire-ÉditeurDate Published1861-1867 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #132 The Poetical Language of Flowers; or the Pilgrimage of Love AuthorMiller, ThomasPublisherDavid BogueDate Published1847 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #133 Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes AuthorMilton, JohnPublisherPrinted by J.M. for John StarkeyDate Published1671 View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500StatusUnsold Lot #135 Œuvres AuthorMoliere, FrançoisPublisherArkste'e & MerkusDate Published1765 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$156.25StatusSold Lot #136 Les Essais de Montaigne: Publiés de`après l'édition de 1588 Avec Les Variantes de 1595 et Une Notice, Des Notes, Un Glossaire et un Index AuthorMontaigne, [Michel Eyquem de]PublisherLibrairie des BibliophilesDate Published[c.1890] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #137 Lettres Persanes [and] Considérations sur les Causes de la Grandeur Des Romains et de Leur Décadence AuthorMontesquieu, [Charles de Secondat, baron de]PublisherLibrairie Des BibliophilesDate Published[c.1880] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #138 Specimen Universae Rei Nummariae Antiquae, Quod Litteratorum Reipublicae proponit Andreas Morellius, Helvetio Bernas AuthorMorellius, AndreasPublisherJ. Thomam FritschDate Published1695 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #139 The Scarlet Letter, A Romance Heading(Moser, Barry)AuthorHawthorne, NathanielPublisherPennyroyal PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #141 Scènes de la Vie de Bohème AuthorMurger, HenryPublisherCalmann LévyDate Published1895 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #142 Oeuvres AuthorMusset, Alfred dePublisherLibrairie Alphonse LemerreDate Published[c.1907-1908] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$187.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next