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 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 205. Previous|123|Next Lot #1 A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorAdams, JohnPublisherC. DillyDate Published1787 Lot #2 The Town and Country Almanack for the Year MDCCLXXX View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Almanac)Author**PublisherJ. MennonsDate Published[1779] Lot #3 Le Vatican et la Basilique de St. Pierre de Rome...Monographie Mise en Ordre et Completee par M. Alphonse Simil (Architecte Attache a la Commission des Monuments Historiques) View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Architecture - Vatican)AuthorLetarouilly, PaulPublisherJ.H. JansenDate Published[c.1890] Lot #4 Orlando Furioso View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorAriosto, LodovicoPublisherG. BaskervilleDate Published1773 Lot #5 First Report of a Book-Collector; Comprising: A Brief Answer to the frequent question "Why First Editions?" With Some Remarks on the common supposition that mere scarcity is a reason for collecting them; and Five Egotistical Chapters of Anecdote and Advice addressed to the beginner in book-collecting; Followed by An Account of Book-Worms. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorArnold, William HarrisPublisherMarion PressDate Published1897-1898 Lot #6 Keramic Art of Japan View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorAudsley, George Ashdown and James Lord BowesPublisherPublished for the Subscribers by the AuthorDate Published1875 Lot #7 The Flower Art of Japan View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorAverill, MaryPublisherJohn Lane Co.Date Published1915 Lot #8 Set of Six English Muggletonian Planetary Oil Colour Prints View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Baxter Color Prints)AuthorFrost, IsaacPublisherG. BaxterDate Publishedc.1846 Lot #9 The Beatles Souvenir Program, Manila, Philippines, Rizal Memorial Football Stadium, July 4, 1966 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Beatles)Author**Publisher[Vertex Press, Inc.]Date Published1966 Lot #10 Autographed signature with a self-portrait sketch View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Beatles)AuthorLennon, JohnDate PublishedNo date Lot #11 Poster "The Beatles Live in Concert" View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author(Beatles)PublisherHeld at the Chrysler ArenaDate PublishedOctober 14, 1965 Lot #12 The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher...with Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the Reverend William Law, M.A. View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorBehmen, JacobPublisherM. RichardsonDate Published1764 Lot #13 Original Printed Leaf from the Complutensian Bible of Alcala View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Bible Leaf - Complutensian)Author**Publisher[Arnald Guillen de Brocar]Date Published[1514-1517] Lot #14 Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1887. Part II View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Bison Extinction)Author**PublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1889 Lot #15 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherJ.M. Dent/E.P. DuttonDate Published1927 Lot #16 Poetical Sketches. Now First Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1783 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherBasil Montagu PickeringDate Published1868 Lot #17 De Consolatione Philosophiae View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorBoethiusDate Published14th century Lot #18 Peter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBradley, WillPublisherDodd, MeadDate Published1906 Lot #19 The Encyclopedia Britannica View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Britannica)Author**PublisherScribner'sDate Published1878-1888 Lot #20 Sonnets from the Portuguese View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherDodge PublishingDate Published[1916] Lot #21 Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy, in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; in Which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorBrownlow, William G.PublisherPublished for the AuthorDate Published1856 Lot #22 Historie Naturelle De Buffon View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBuffon, [Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de]PublisherChez DetervilleDate Published1802 Lot #23 Mazeppa, A Poem View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorByron, George Gordon Noel, LordPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1819 Lot #24 Sepher Ha-Nikkud ve Sod Ha-hasmal [Book of punctuation and Secret of the Electrum] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cabbala)AuthorGikatallaDate Published18th century Lot #25 Original Autographed Manuscript of Anagrams View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorCarroll, Lewis [pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]Date PublishedNo date 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorCharles I, King of EnglandDate Published1649 Lot #27 The Charters of the British Colonies in America View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Charters)Author**PublisherJ. AlmonDate Published[1774] Lot #28 Génie du Christianisme, ou Beautés de la Religion Chrétienne View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorChateaubriand, [Francois Rene de]PublisherLe Normant, Imprimeur-LibraireDate Published1823 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... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorChippendale, ThomasPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1762 Lot #30 The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War: Its Causes, Origin, Conduct and Results... View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Civil War)AuthorWilson, John LairdPublisherThe National Publishing Co.Date Published[1881] Lot #31 Collection of Four Titles in Five Volumes View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorClemenceau, GeorgesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #32 Portfolio of Indian Art, Objects Selected from the Collections of the Museum [of Fine Arts, Boston] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorCoomaraswamy, Ananda K[entish]PublisherMuseum of Fine ArtsDate Published1923 Lot #33 Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives. Thèse Présentée a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de Docteur ès Sciences Physiques View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorCurie, Madame SklodowskaPublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1904 Lot #34 Two pamphlets from from Madame Curie's Library: Fundamental Properties of the Elements & Etude des Trajectoires View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Curie, Marie)AuthorRichards, Theodore W. & Perrin, FrancisPublisherGovt. Ptg. Office & Les Presses UnversitairesDate Published1912 & 1922 Lot #35 Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Works of Don Diego de Silva Velazquez View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorCurtis, Charles B.PublisherJ.W. Bouton/Sampson, Low, et al.Date Published1883 Lot #36 Edward Weston in Los Angeles View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorDanly, Susan and Weston J. NaefPublisherThe Huntington LibraryDate Published1986 Lot #37 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1872 Lot #38 Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherHarperDate Published1846 Lot #39 Curiositates Eroticae Physiologiae; or, Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated. In Six Essays View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorDavenport, JohnPublisherPrivately printedDate Published1875 Lot #40 Fabre's Book of Insects Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Detmold, Edward J.)AuthorStawell, Mrs. RodolphPublisherTudor Publishing Co.Date Published[1937] Lot #41 Fundus Oculi: Ophthalmoskopische Diagnose View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorDi Marzio, Q[uirino]PublisherRosenberg & SellierDate Published[c.1941] Lot #42 American Notes for General Circulation View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1842 Lot #43 The Battle of Life: A Love Story View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 Lot #44 Bleak House View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-1853 Lot #45 Bleak House View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1853 Lot #46 The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1845 Lot #47 Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate PublishedNo date [after 1867] Lot #48 The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 Lot #49 Dombey and Son View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846-1848 Lot #50 Dombey and Son View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 Lot #51 Hard Times. For These Times View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1854 Lot #52 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 Lot #53 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1844 Lot #54 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1838-1839 Lot #55 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1839 Lot #56 Little Dorritt View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1855-1857 Lot #57 Little Dorrit View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1857 Lot #58 Master Humphrey's Clock View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1840-1841 Lot #59 Master Humphrey's Clock View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1840-1841 Lot #60 The Mystery of Edwin Drood View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 Lot #61 The Mystery of Edwin Drood View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 Lot #62 Our Mutual Friend View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1865 Lot #63 The Personal History of David Copperfield View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1850 Lot #64 Pictures from Italy View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 Lot #65 The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1836 Lot #67 Seven Extra Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesDate Published1855-1867 Lot #68 The Story of Little Dombey View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858 Lot #69 A Tale of Two Cities View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1859 Lot #70 The Uncommercial Traveller View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1861 Lot #71 The Works of Charles Dickens View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherR.G. Newbegin Co.Date Published1902 Lot #72 De medicinali materia libri sex View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorDioscorides, PedaniusPublisher[Balthazarem Arnolletum]Date Published[1550 or 1552] Lot #73 In Principio Erat Verbum et Verbum Erat Apud Deum et Deus Erat Verbum View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)Author**PublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1911 Lot #74 The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson. Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, & Italy View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorDoyle, RichardPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1855 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorDrummond, WilliamPublisherPrinted by Henry Hills, for Rich. TomlinsDate Published1655 Lot #76 Villette View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorBronte, CharlottePublisherJ.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.Date Published1922 Lot #77 Greenfield Hill: A Poem View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorDwight, TimothyPublisherChilds and SwaineDate Published1794 Lot #78 Le Parfait ou le Teinturier François View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Heading(Dying)Author**PublisherPar la CompagnieDate Published1767 Lot #79 Autographed Letter from Einstein to his wife, signed with his initials View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorEinstein, AlbertDate PublishedDec. 21, 1937 Lot #80 The Works of George Eliot View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorEliot, GeorgePublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published[c.1878-1885] Lot #81 Letters of Andrew Ellicot 1785 to 1819. Being copies of the letters that were presented to the Library of Congress Washington D.C., June 30, 1960 by Charles B. Curtis, Isabella W. Day, Ronald Eliot Curtis, great great grandchildren of Andrew Ellicott View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorEllicott, AndrewDate Published1957 Lot #82 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published[1903] 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(English Laws)Author**PublisherAssigns of His Majesty's PrinterDate Published1730 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorEvelyn, JohnPublisherJ. Walthoe, et al.Date Published1729 Lot #85 Sentimental Education: A Young Man's History View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorFlaubert, GustavePublisherH.S. Nichols Ltd.Date Published1898 Lot #86 Le Morte D'Arthur: The History of King Arthur View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Flint, W. Russell)AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasPublisherPhilip Lee Warner for the Medici SocietyDate Published[1920] Lot #87 Superbowl Programs I-XXXV View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Football)Author**PublisherNational Football League Properties, Inc.Date Published1967-2001 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorFox, Rev. JohnPublisherKey, Mielke & BiddleDate Published1832 Lot #89 Die Suggestion und Ihre Heilwirkung View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Freud, Sigmund)AuthorBernheim, H[ippolyte]PublisherFranz DeutickeDate Published1896 Lot #90 Fables View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorGay, [John]PublisherJ. Tonson and J. WattsDate Published1728 Lot #91 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorGerard, [John]PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 Lot #92 Pictures of People View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorGibson, Charles DanaPublisherR.H. Russell & SonDate Published1896 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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorGlauber, Johann RudolfPublisherThomas MilbournDate Published1689 Lot #94 The Book of Esther: From the King James Version of the Holy Bible View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Golden Cross Press)Author**PublisherThe Golden Cross PressDate Published1935 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorGould, [Robert]PublisherRicard BentleyDate Published1696 Lot #96 Eros and Psyche: A Poem in XII Measures View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Gregynog Press)AuthorBridges, RobertPublisherGregynog PressDate Published1935 Lot #97 German Popular Stories, Translated from the Kinder und haus Märchen, collected by M.M. Grimm from Oral Tradition View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorGrimm BrothersPublisherC. Baldwyn/James RobinsDate Published1823 & 1826 Lot #98 Della Historia D'Italia di M. Francesco Guicciardini, Gentiluomo Fiorentino View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorGuicciardini, M. FrancescoPublisherAppresso Michele KluchDate Published1775-1776 Lot #99 Original Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible View details Estimate$40,000 - $50,000Sold for$37,500StatusSold Heading(Gutenberg Bible Leaf)Author**PublisherJohann GutenbergDate Publishedc.1450-1455 Lot #100 De Jure Manium, Seu De Ritu, More, et Legibus Prisci Funeris. Libri tres. Cum Qvatuor Indicibus Annexoqve Tractatu Eiusdem De Orbitate Toleranda View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorGutherius, Jacobus [Jacques Goutiére]PublisherSumptibus haered. Schürerianorum & Joh. FritzschiiDate Published1671 Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next