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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 The Lords of Creation View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorAllen, Frederick LewisHeadlineFrederick Lewis Allen Lords of Creation w/jacketPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1935 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 #35 Ministerio de Transportes, Empresa Consoidada Cubana de Aviacion. Informe de la Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviacion al consejo de direccion del ministerio de transportes. [Report of the Consolidated Cuban Aviation Company to the Board of Directors of the Transport Ministry...] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuban Airline Company)Author[Oliver, Carlos Coca, Director]HeadlineReport on the Cuban Airline Company under CastroPublisherEmpresa Consolidada Cubana de AviacionDate Published1962 Lot #40 Cours Entier de Philosophie, ou Systéme General Selon les Principes de M. Descartes Contenant la Logique, la Metaphysique, la Physique et la Morale View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Descartes, Rene)AuthorRegis, Pierre SilvainHeadlinePhilosophies of Descartes 1691PublisherHuguetanDate Published1691 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 #81 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Italian History, 22 vols. 1704-1725PublisherVander AaDate Published1704-1725 Lot #82 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Siciliae... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Sicilian History, 15 vols. 1723-1725Date Published1723-1725 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 #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 #120 Long Walk to Freedom - signed View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorMandela, NelsonHeadlineNelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom SignedPublisherLittle, Brown and CompanyDate Published[1994] 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 #130 Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum. S. Pii V. Jussu editum. Clementis VIII. et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate Recognitum. Et Novis Missis ex Indulto Apostolico Hucusque Concessis Auctum. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Missals)AuthorRoman Catholic ChurchHeadlineHandsomely bound 18th century missalPublisherTypis Sacræ congregationis de propaganda fideDate Published1714 Lot #138 Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorNapier, MarkHeadlineMemoirs of the inventor of LogarithmsPublisherWilliam Blackwood and Thomas CadellDate Published1834 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 #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 #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 #165 Forty-two issues of Iskry [Sparks] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Russia)HeadlineForty-two issues of Iskry, 1917Date Published1917 Lot #168 Mémoires sur l'art de la guerre, de Maurice, Comte de Saxe, Duc de Courlande et de Sémigalle, Maréchal des Armées de S. M. T. etc. Nouvelle édition conforme à l'original et augmentée du Traité des légions, ainsi que de quelques Lettres de cet illustre capitaine sur ses opérations militaires. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSaxe, Maurice comte de [Maréchal Moritz von Sachsen]HeadlineMaurice De Saxe's art of war 1757PublisherChez George Conrad WaltherDate Published1757 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 #174 Memorial, que con la mayor veneración, y confianza pone a las Reales Plantas de la Católica Magestad del Rey Nuestro Señor D. Felipe V. que Dios guarde. La Santa Iglesia Metropolitana y Patriarcal de Sevilla View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Spain)HeadlineCathedral squabbling’s, Seville & Toledo 1722Date Published[c.1722] Lot #175 Glossarium archaiologicum: Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula; quae post labefactatas a Gothis, Vandalisque res Europaeas, in ecclesiasticis, profanisque scriptoribus... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSpelman, HenryHeadlineEnglish antiquarian investigations 1664PublisherAliciam WarrenDate Published1664 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 #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 #194 Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates: Quibus inserta est Pestiferae adversus Dei Gratiam à Pelagio Britanno in Ecclesiam inductae Haereseos Historia. Accedit Gravissime Questionis De Christianarum Ecclesiarum Successione & Statu Historica Explicatio View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorUsserio, Jacobo [Ussher, James, Archbishop Of Armagh]HeadlineUssher's account of the Church 1687PublisherImpensis Benj. TookeDate Published1687 Lot #196 La Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in Vaticano/ The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Vatican Maps)AuthorGambi, Lucio & Antonio Pinelli, editorsHeadlineGallery of Maps in the Vatican 1994PublisherFranco Cosimp PaniniDate Published[1994] Lot #205 A Defence of M. Perkins Booke, Called A Reformed Catholike: Against the Cavils of a Popish writer, one D.B.P. or W.B. on his Deformed Reformation View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorWotton, AnthonyHeadlineAnthony Wotton, A Defence of M. Perkins Booke 1606PublisherFelix. Kyngston, for C. 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