Sale 607: Rare Books & Manuscript (Sunday at 8:00 am, Oakland, CA) (#607) 02/12/2017 8:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/12/2017 8:00 AM PST Auction Info 607 415 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 1-28 of 28. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Letter "leasing" slaves of Daniel Boone's Revolutionary War friend and Indian battle companion View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1817 – Tennessee slaves, Daniel Boone)AuthorPleasant HendersonHeadlineLetter "leasing" slaves of Daniel Boone's Revolutionary War friend and Indian battle companionDate PublishedDec. 27, 1817 Lot #3 Ten vellum antiphonal leaves (i.e. five bifolia) with two inhabited initials and an elaborate title leaf View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Antiphonal Leaves)HeadlineLarge vellum antiphonal leavesDate Published1740 Lot #17 The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants - Volumes IV & V View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Botanical color plates)AuthorAndrews, Henry C.HeadlineTwo volumes from the Botanist's Repository 144 platesPublisherFor the author by T. BensleyDate Published1802-03 Lot #25 Letter from Miguel Costanzo to the Viceroy of New Spain, requesting arms for the cavalry corps of the northern provinces, plus a manuscript payment voucher for Costanzo View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorCostanzo, MiguelHeadlineLetter from Miguel Costanzo to Viceroy of New SpainDate Published1810 & 1794 Lot #37 Letter from Albert Einstein expressing regret that he did not have time to contribute to a journal View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineAlbert Einstein letter signed 1927Date Published1 Sept. 1927 Lot #38 Letter from Albert Einstein to physicist, astronomer, and author Kenneth Heuer regarding distribution of heavy metals on the surface of Earth View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein commentson distribution of heavy metalsDate PublishedOctober 20, 1952 Lot #39 Small group of original signed letters from Albert Einstein to author Max Fishler, an important correspondence about Immanuel Kant and Relativity View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$62,500StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein letters about Kant and RelativityDate Published1949-1954 Lot #56 Autograph Letter, signed, and a sheet of manuscript musical notations View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorHalévy, FromentalHeadlineFromental Halevy Letter and Musical ManuscriptDate PublishedOctober, 1849 Lot #57 Letter by American woman missionary, Maui, on anti-slavery, "adulterous" natives, and naval threat of French Catholicism View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Hawaii, 1840)AuthorMary Kittredge Clark [Mrs. Ephraim Clark]Headline1840 Hawaii letter by American woman missionary - anti-slavery and French Catholic threatDate PublishedJuly 12, 1840 Lot #58 Letter by anti-missionary British-Hawaiian 49er who acquired Sacramento land from John Sutter and later befriended King Kamehameha View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Hawaii, California Gold Rush, 1849)AuthorGeorge S.[eymour] KenwayHeadline1849 Hawaii Letter by an anti-missionary British merchant who visited Gold Rush CaliforniaDate PublishedOct. 11, 1849 Lot #67 Institutionum Civilium libri quatuor - manuscript copy View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorJustinianus I, EmperorHeadlineManuscript copy of the Institutiones of Justinian IDate Published(17th Century?) Lot #72 Statutes of Venice - manuscript on vellum View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Heading(Law Manuscript - Venice, Italy, 1580)HeadlineRare manuscript statutes of Venice 1580Date Published1580 Lot #76 Manuscript notebook with 39 ink and watercolor drawings in illustration of 39 manuscript limericks View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorLear, Edward, attrib.HeadlineManuscript Limericks & Drawings with Lear attbutionDate Published19th century Lot #77 Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold AuthorLeidesdorff, William AlexanderHeadlineAccounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44Date Published1843-1844 Lot #79 Tales of the Fish Patrol View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorLondon, JackHeadlineInscribed by Jack London to his personal physicianPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1905 Lot #87 The Subjection of Women View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorMill, John StuartHeadlineJohn Stuart on The Subjection of Women 1st EditionPublisherLongman, Green, Reader, and DyerDate Published1869 Lot #88 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineWritings of John Muir Manuscript Edition DeluxePublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 Lot #89 Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorNimmo, JosephHeadlineThe most important of the "Big Four" cattle booksPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1885 Lot #95 The Natural History of Animals, Containing the Anatomical Description of Several Creatures Dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Wherein The Construction, Fabrick and Genuine Use of the Parts, are Exactly and Finely Delineated in Copper Plates...To Which is Added an Account of the Measure of a Degree of a Great Circle of the Earth, Published by the Members of the Same Academy... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorPerrault, ClaudeHeadlinePerrault's Natural History of Animals 1702PublisherR. SmithDate Published1702 Lot #97 Archive of 26 manuscript letters signed by King Philip IV of Spain, to Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste, his Viceroy in New Spain, written from February 1651 to February 1653 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000StatusUnsold AuthorPhilip IV, King of SpainHeadlinePhilip IV writes his Viceroy in New Spain 1651-1653Date Published1651-1653 Lot #109 Studies of Western Life by Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist. With Descriptions by Granville Stuart View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorRussell, Charles M.HeadlineStudies of Western Life Charles M. Russell 1890PublisherThe Albertype Co.Date Published1890 Lot #111 Reichenbachia. Orchids Illustrated and Described. First and Second Series. View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold AuthorSander, Henry Frederick ConradHeadlineSander's Reichenbachia Imperial EditionPublisherH. Sotheran & Co. & F. Sander & Co.Date Published1888-1894 Lot #126 Opere di Galileo Galilei nobile fiorentino - signed by Allesandro Volta View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Volta, Allesandro)AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineVolta's copy of GalileoPublisherDalla Società tipografica de' classici italiani contrada del CappuccioDate Published1811 Lot #140 The Behâristân (Abode of Spring) by Jâmi View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Author[Burton, Richard F., translator]HeadlineThe Behâristân (Abode of Spring)PublisherKama Shastra SocietyDate Published1887 Lot #152 The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorDe Waal, Ronald BurtHeadlineDe Waal's Sherlock Holmes BibliographyPublisherNew York Graphic SocietyDate Published1974 Lot #154 Barnaby Rudge and Sketches by Boz View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadline2 volumes from The Nonesuch DickensPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1937-38 Lot #155 The Mill on the Floss View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadlineEliot's The Mill on the FlossPublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1860 Lot #211 The Innocents Abroad View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineTwain's Innocents AbroadPublisherAmerican Pub. 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