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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Alaska. - Volumes 1 & 2 of the Harriman Alaska series View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Alaska)AuthorBurroughs, John, John Muir, et alHeadlineVolumes 1 & 2 of Harriman's AlaskaPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1902 Lot #7 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Allix, Susan)AuthorOmar KhayyamHeadlineSusan Allix illustrates Omar KhayyamPublisher[Quadrat Press]Date Published1973 Lot #9 Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. In Which are Described the Character and the Condition of the Dutch Colonist of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Several Tribes of Natives Beyond its Limits.. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorBarrow, JohnHeadlineBarrow's Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa 2nd ed.PublisherPrinted for T. Cadell and W. DaviesDate Published1806 Lot #18 An History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain [An History of the River Thames] View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorBoydell, John and Josiah, publishersHeadlineBoydell's River Thames with 76 colored aquatintsPublisherPrinted for W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah BoydellDate Published1794-1796 Lot #23 A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus. By Mons. Chappe d'Auteroche. With an historical description of the author's route through Mexico, and the natural history of that province. Also, a voyage to Newfoundland and Sallee, to make experiments on Mr. Le Roy's time keepers. By Monsieur de Cassini View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorChappe d'Auteroche, JeanHeadlineEarly Scientific Voyage to California 1772PublisherEdward and Charles DillyDate Published1778 Lot #25 The Annals of Ireland, Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorConnellan, Owen and Philip Mac DermottHeadlineThe Annals of Ireland 1846PublisherBryan GeraghtyDate Published1846 Lot #26 A Voyage Round Great Britain, Undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and Commencing From the Land's-End in Cornwall, by Richard Ayton, With a Series of Views Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold AuthorDaniell, William & Richard AytonHeadlineA Voyage Round Great Britain with color plates by DaniellPublisherLongman, Hurst, et al.Date Published1814 Lot #27 Les Warega (Congo belge) View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDelhaise, Charles Godefroid Félix FrançoisHeadlineThe Warega people of the Belgian CongoPublisherAlbert de WitDate Published1909 Lot #28 Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824,...Extending Across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Felatah Empire View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorDenham, Maj. Dixon & Capt. Hugh ClappertonHeadlineDenham & Clapperton in Northern & Central AfricaPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1826 Lot #33 A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece, During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorDodwell, EdwardHeadlineDodwell's Tour of Greece 1819PublisherRodwell and MartinDate Published1819 Lot #34 Zum Kontinent des Eisigen Sudens; Deutsche Sudpolarexpedition, Fahreten und Forschungen des "Gauss," 1901-1903 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorDrygalski, Erich vonHeadlineScarce German polar expedition 1904PublisherGeorg ReimerDate Published1904 Lot #35 De Singes et de Mouches View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorDupin, JacquesHeadlineFinely bound by Joanne SonnichsenPublisherFata MorganaDate Published[1983] Lot #36 Superb album of 75 photographs of the sights, scenes, and people of Egypt View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Egypt)HeadlineSuperb album of albumen photographs of EgyptPublisherAlinari & CookDate Published1890s Lot #40 Dissertatio de Animi Affectionum Physica Causa et Loco ac de Tabaci Usu View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorFabra, Luigi DallaHeadlineTreatise in Latin on the effects of tobacco 1702PublisherTypis Bernardini PomatelliDate Published1702 Lot #41 The Birth and Triumph of Love. A Poem View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBurges, James BlandHeadlineHand-colored plates of Cupid in fine bindingPublisherPrinted by C. Roworth for T. Egerton, et al.Date Published1796 Lot #42 Metropolitan Museum: Poeme par Robert Choquette. Avec Bois de Edwin H. Holgate. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorChoquette, RobertHeadlineChoquette's Metropolitan Museum bound by Monique LallierPublisher[Herald Press]Date Published1931 Lot #43 Sports of Love, in Six Poems and Six Etchings... Dedicated to the Women of the British Empire View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCraig, W.M.HeadlinePoems of Love, colored plates, finely bound, 1818PublisherPrinted by B.R. Howlett for Thomas M'LeanDate Published1818 Lot #44 Josephine, Imperatrice et Reine View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorMasson, FredericHeadlineFrederic Masson's Josephine finely boundPublisherGoupil et CieDate Published1899 Lot #45 L'Éducation Sentimentale: Historie d'un Jeune Homme. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorFlaubert, GustaveHeadlineFlaubert's L'Éducation Sentimentale, 1st edPublisherMichel LévyDate Published1870 Lot #49 The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorGell, WilliamHeadlineThe Geography and Antiquities of IthacaPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, and OrmeDate Published1807 Lot #50 The Itinerary of Greece with a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an Account of the Monuments of Antiquity at Present Existing in That Country View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorGell, WilliamHeadlineThe Itinerary of Greece - the Blackmer copyPublisherT. PayneDate Published1810 Lot #52 Approx. 350 sheets (about 4 oz.) of gold leaf from the Roycroft bindery, in flexible leather folder tooled in blind View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Gold Leaf - Roycrofters)HeadlineGold leaf from Roycroft BinderyDate PublishedNo date Lot #58 Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, etc., During the Years 1812 and 1813. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorHolland, HenryHeadlineHolland's Travels in the Ionian Isles, etc. 1812-13 First EditionPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1815 Lot #59 Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Heading(Hollis, Thomas, bookbinder)AuthorWallis, JohnHeadlineWallis' English Grammar with Thomas Hollis bindingPublisherG. Bowyer and A. MillarDate Published1765 Lot #61 Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorHughes, Thomas SmartHeadlineHughes Travels in Sicily Greece and AlbaniaPublisherJ. MawmanDate Published1820 Lot #62 Photograph album of Italian art, architecture, and life View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Italy)HeadlineLate 19th century Italian albumen photo albumDate PublishedLate 19th century Lot #72 WITHDRAWN - Oxonia illustrata, sive Omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis totius scenographia. Delineavit & sculpsit Dav: Loggan Univ. Oxon. Chalcographus View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorLoggan, DavidHeadlineWITHDRAWN - The finest 17th century engraved views of OxfordPublisherTheatro SheldonianoDate Published1675 Lot #78 From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorMurdoch, W.G. BurnHeadlineScarce whaling narrative 1894PublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1894 Lot #79 The Life of Napoleon, A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos by Doctor Syntax View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Heading(Napoleon Bonaparte)Author[Combe, William]HeadlineDoctor Syntax and the Life of NapoleonPublisherT. TeggDate Published1817 Lot #80 Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Napoleon Bonaparte)AuthorMaitland, F.L.HeadlineMaitland's Surrender of NapoleonPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1826 Lot #88 Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineGulliver's Travels finely bound w/Rackham illustrationsPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1909 Lot #90 Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in Their Respective Uniforms Representing the Whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise in 87 Plates View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorRowlandson, ThomasHeadlineThomas Rowlandson color plates of London uniformsPublisher[Rudolph Ackermann]Date Published[1798-99] Lot #91 Picturesque Tour of the Seine, From Paris to the Sea... View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorSauvan, Jean Baptiste Balthazar.HeadlineSauvan's Tour of the Seine color platesPublisherR. AckermannDate Published1821 Lot #94 The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorShackleton, E. H.HeadlineShackleton's Heart of the Antarctic 1st UK EdnPublisherHeinemannDate Published1909 Lot #104 La Venetia Edificata: Poema Eroico con Gli Argomenti del Sig. Francesco Cortesi. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorStrozzi, GiulioHeadlineEarly history of Venice with engraved plates 1624PublisherAppresso Antonio PinelliDate Published1624 Lot #106 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineFirst edition of Gulliver's Travels, 1726PublisherPrinted for Benj. MotteDate Published1726 Lot #110 Phong Hoa View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Vietnam)HeadlineVietnamese modernist journal 1933-4Date Published1932-1934 Lot #112 WITHDRAWN - A Journey Into Greece, By George Wheler Esq.; In Company of Dr. Spon of Lyons. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorWheler, GeorgeHeadlineThe standard 17th century history of GreecePublisherWilliam Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, and Awnsham ChurchillDate Published1682 Lot #115 The Journal of Joseph Banks in the Endeavor 1768-1771 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorBanks, JosephHeadlineJoseph Banks Journal 1768-1771, Forward by HRH Prince PhilipPublisherGenesisDate Published1980 Lot #121 The Life of Samuel Johnson View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Johnson Beautifully bound by BayntunPublisherGeorge BayntunDate Published1925 Lot #149 Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorGodwin, WilliamHeadlineCornerstone of Anarchist ThoughtPublisherPrinted by Bioren and MadanDate Published1796 Lot #164 "Bain" Masonic Reprints (The Secret History of the Free-Masons; Known as the "Briscoe" Copy of the Old Charges; The Preface to Long Livers: A Curious History &c.; Dr. Dassigny's "Enquiry" Reproduced in Exact Facsimile; Together with an Introductory Sketch on Royal Arch Masonry 1743-1893; The Orientation or Direction of Temples, by William Simpson; Builders' Rites and Ceremonies by G.W. Speth) View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Masonic)HeadlineThe Secret History of the Free-Masons Lot #179 Rerum memorabilium sive deperditarum View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorPanciroli, GuidoHeadlinePanciroli's 1660 encyclopaedic history of arts & technologyPublisherHeirs of G. SchoenwetterDate Published1660 Lot #189 Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution, Including a Narrative of the Expedition of General Xavier Mina, to which are Annexed Some Observations on the Practicability of Opening a Commerce Between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, through the Mexican Isthmus... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorRobinson, William DavisHeadlineMemoirs of the Mexican RevolutionPublisherLackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & LepardDate Published1821 Lot #203 A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Containing a General Description of the Kingdom with a Particular Account of the Counties, Islands, Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, Valleys, Cities, Towns, Villages,Objects of Natural History, Scenery of the Country, .... Together with an account of the weights and measures of each county, the revenues of towns, and of all the religious houses at the time of the Reformation, &c, and an Elegant Sheet Map. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorWebster, DavidHeadline1817 Topographical Dictionary of ScotlandPublisherD. Schaw, PrinterDate Published1817 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next