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[bound with] Æsopics: or a Second Collection of Fables... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorÆsopHeadlineOgilby's Aesop, parts 1 & 2, 1668PublisherPrinted by Thomas RoycroftDate Published1668 Lot #11 Etching of a bearded man in Spanish-style hat - artist's proof View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$180StatusSold AuthorBaskin, LeonardHeadlineLeonard Baskin artist's proof etchingDate PublishedNo date Lot #19 Der Antichrist und die fünfzehn Zeichen Faksimile-Ausgabe des einzigen erhaltenen chiroxylographishen Blockbuches [The Antichrist and the Fifteen Signs. 2 volumes: Facsimile and Commentary] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Block books)HeadlineDer Antichrist, block book facsimile 1/650PublisherPrestel-VerlagDate Published[1970] Lot #20 Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$350StatusSold Heading(Bonaparte, Napoleon)AuthorLas Cases, The Count deHeadlinePrivate Life of Napoleon at St. Helena 1823PublisherHenry CoburnDate Published1823 Lot #27 The Life of Robert Burns View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Burns, Robert)AuthorLockhart, John GibsonHeadlineThe Life of Robert Burns 1/520 1914PublisherHenry Young & SonsDate Published1914 Lot #28 The Laureate's Country: A Description of Places Connected with the Life of Alfred Lord Tennyson View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorChurch, Alfred JohnHeadlineThe Laureate's Country w/watercolor on vellumPublisherSeeley and Co.Date Published1891 Lot #32 The Ladies’ Equestrian Guide; Or, The Habit & the Horse: A Treatise on Female Equitation. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Author[Clarke, Mrs. Sterling]HeadlineLadies’ Equestrian Guide 1857PublisherDay & SonDate Published[1857] Lot #54 The Great Chalice of Antioch: On Which Are Depicted in Sculpture the Earliest Known Portraits of Christ, Apostles and Evangelists View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorEisen, Gustavus A.HeadlineGreat Chalice of Antioch w/60 platesPublisherKouchakji FréresDate Published1923 Lot #59 Eikon Basilike or The King's Book View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorAlmack, Edward, editorHeadline"The King's Book" finely boundPublisherDe La More PressDate Published1903 Lot #60 The Golden Ass View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorApuleius, LuciusHeadlineThe Golden Ass finely bound 1/900PublisherPrivately printedDate Published1930 Lot #61 Ten Droll Tales Being The Story Of The Fair Imperia, The Venial Sin, The Merrie Diversions Of His Most Christian Majesty King Louis The Eleventh, Together With Certain Other Quaint And Piquant Histories Making Up The First Decade Of Droll Tales View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBalzac, Honoré deHeadlineBalzac's Ten Droll Tales finely boundPublisherJohn Lane The Bodley Head LimitedDate Published1926 Lot #62 The Poetical Works of Robert Browning With Portraits View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBrowning, RobertHeadlineBrowning's works, finely bound by Zaehnsdorf.PublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1897 Lot #63 The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCellini, BenvenutoHeadlineLife of Cellini finely boundPublisherBrentano'sDate Published[1906] Lot #64 British Butterflies - finely bound by Zaehnsdorf View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$400StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorColeman, W.SHeadlineBritish Butterflies bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherRoutledge Warne and RoutledgeDate Published1860 Lot #65 The Comic Almanack, an Ephermeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCruikshank, GeorgeHeadlineComic Almanack in 2 vols Cruikshank 1835-1853PublisherChatto and WindusDate Published[c.1881] Lot #66 The Essays of Emerson View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEmerson, [Ralph Waldo]HeadlineEssays of Ralph Waldo Emerson finely boundPublisherArthur L. HumphreysDate Published1899 Lot #67 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author[Fitzgerald, Edward, translator]HeadlineRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám finely boundPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.Date Published[c.1910] Lot #68 WITHDRAWN - The Ingoldsby Legends; Or Mirth & Marvels - finely bound by The Guild of Women-Binders View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorIngoldsby, Thomas [pseud of Richard Barham].HeadlineIngoldsby Legends bound by Guild of Women-BindersPublisherJohn LaneDate Published1911 Lot #69 The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions, Notes, and An Essay on Milton's English View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlinePoetical Works of John Milton finely boundPublisherMacmillan and CompanyDate Published1874 Lot #70 Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835, & 1836. Including A Summer Residence with the Pawnee Tribe of Indians, in the Remote Prairies of the Missouri, and A Visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorMurray, Charles AugustusHeadlineMurray's Travels in North America finely boundPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1839 Lot #71 The Dialogues of Plato View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPlatoHeadlinePlato's Dialogues finely boundPublisherMacmillan and CompanyDate Published1892 Lot #72 Art View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$130StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorRodin, AugusteHeadlineArt by Rodin finely bound 1912PublisherSmall, Maynard & CompanyDate Published1912 Lot #73 Ballads and Sonnets View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorRossetti, Dante GabrielHeadlineRossetti's sonnets and ballads finely boundPublisherBernhard TauchnitzDate Published1882 Lot #74 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)HeadlineRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam w/Riviere bindingPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1929 Lot #75 Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorStanley, Arthur PenrhynHeadlineHistory of the Jewish Church finely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1865 Lot #76 Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author[Stieler, Karl]HeadlineItaly from the Alps to Mt. Etna finely boundPublisherJ.S. VirtueDate Published[c.1888] Lot #77 Gentlemen Up View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorStreett, William B.HeadlineIllustrated horse racing, finely boundPublisherThe Derrydale PressDate Published1930 Lot #78 Coaching Days and Coaching Ways View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTristram, W. OutramHeadlineCoaching Days and Coaching Ways finely boundPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1894 Lot #79 Story-Life of Washington: A Life-History in Five Hundred True Stories, Selected from Original Sources and Fitted Together in Order View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWhipple, WayneHeadlineStory-Life of Washington finely boundPublisherThe John C. Winston CompanyDate Published1911 Lot #83 Macbeth: Eaux-fortes de Gromaire View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Gromaire, Marcel)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineMarcel Gromaire, 20 etched plates for Macbeth 1/200PublisherTériadeDate Published1958 Lot #91 Memoirs of the Opera in Italy, France, Germany and England - from the library of Freiherr Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorHogarth, GeorgeHeadlineMemoirs of the Opera finely bound 1851PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1851 Lot #93 Botanical Miscellany, Volume 1 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorHooker, William Jackson, editorHeadlineBotanical Miscellany w/75 plates 1830PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1830 Lot #99 Ancient Spanish Ballads: Historical and Romantic View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Jones, Owen, designer)AuthorLockhart, J. G., translatorHeadlineAncient Spanish Ballad 1859 finely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1859 Lot #108 Sam & Sap. Aventures surprenantes d'un petit nègre et de son singe View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorLe Cordier, GeorgesHeadlineSam et Sap with racial stereotype illustrations 1909PublisherLibrairie Ch. DelagraveDate Published[1909] Lot #116 Aphrodite View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorLouys, PierreHeadlineAphrodite illustrated by Donald DentonPublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1928 Lot #122 My Book of Hours: 167 Designs Engraved on Wood By Frans Masereel View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorMasereel, FransHeadlineMy Book of Hours: 167 woodcuts by Frans Masereel 1/600PublisherSe trouve chez l'AuteurDate Published1922 Lot #126 The Sistine Chapel View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Michelangelo)AuthorHartt, Frederick, and Okamura, TakashiHeadlineSistine Chapel 1/2500PublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1991 Lot #128 Now We Are Six View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMilne, A.A.HeadlineA.A. Milne Now We Are Six 1st edPublisherMethuen and Co.Date Published[1927] Lot #129 Missae Solemniorum Festorum E Missali Romano Excerptae Ad Usum Episcoporum Ac Praelatorum Solemniter Celebrantium View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Missals)AuthorRoman Catholic ChurchHeadlineFinely bound missal 1890PublisherSoc. S. Joannis EvangDate Published1890 Lot #142 A collection of hand-colored plates of Paris fashion from the late nineteenth century View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Paris fashion)HeadlineHand-colored Paris fashion plates 1800'sDate Published[Late 1800's] Lot #144 Na Motu: or, Reef-Rovings in the South Seas. A Narrative of Adventures at the Hawaiian, Georgian and Society Islands; with Maps, Twelve Original Illustrations, and An Appendix Relating to the Resources, Social and Political Conditions of Polynesia, and Subject of Interest in the Pacific Ocean View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPerkins, Edward T.HeadlineRoving about the Pacific, 1854PublisherPudney & RussellDate Published1854 Lot #153 2 Statements. Also a Comment by Merle Armitage - unique copy View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorPicasso, PabloHeadlineUniquely bound w/signed lithograph of PicassoPublisherMerle ArmitageDate Published1936 Lot #154 Kiowa Indian Art: Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Pochoir)AuthorJacobson, Oscar Brousse, introductionHeadlinePochoir plates of Kiowa Indian ArtPublisherC. SzedzickiDate Published[1929] Lot #156 Pompeian Frescoes and Mosaics. A collection of 37 original photographs mounted on commercial cabinet cards View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Pompei)Headline37 original photographs of Pompeian Frescoes and MosaicsPublisherGrillet & Co.Date Published[c.1860] Lot #157 Freedom, a Fable. A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Pop-Up)AuthorWalker, Kara ElizabethHeadlineRare pop-up by Kara WalkerPublisherThe Peter Norton FamilyDate Published[1997] Lot #158 The Procession of Pope Clement VII and the Emperor Charles V: After the Coronation in Bologna on the 24th February 1530 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Pope Clement VII)AuthorHogenberg, Jan Nicolas and William Stirling MaxwellHeadlineCoronation in Bologna 1530 scarce facsimilePublisherEdmonston & DouglasDate Published1875 Lot #164 The Stones of Venice View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineRuskin's Stones of Venice finely boundPublisherGeorge Allen, Sunnyside, OrpingtonDate Published1893 Lot #170 The Merchant of Venice. Printed from the Folio of 1623 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Shakespeare Head Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineMerchant of Venice Shakespeare Head Press 1/100Publisher[Shakespeare Head Press]Date Published1923 Lot #173 Oxonia Antiqua Resturata, containing upwards of one hundred and seventy engravings, among which are numerous representations of buildings in Oxford, now either altered or demolished... The whole forming an Illustration of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings in this University View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorSkelton, JosephHeadlineSkelton's engravings of Oxford, large paper copyPublisherPrinted by S. and J. Collingwood . and published by J. SkeltonDate Published1823 Lot #178 International Sport: The Anglo-American Equestrian World View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorStock, Alphons. editorHeadlineAnglo-American Equestrian World 1956 1/250PublisherAstor Publishing Company LtdDate Published1956 Lot #187 The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineThackeray's Virginians in Original PartsPublisherBradbury and EvansDate Published1857-59 Lot #192 Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineMark Twain's Sketches finely bound.PublisherAmerican Publishing CompanyDate Published1875 Lot #197 Veiled Prophet [Ball] October 8th 1889 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Veiled Prophet Ball)HeadlineVeiled Prophet Ball 1889Date Published[1889] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next