Sale 645: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#645) 06/14/2018 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/14/2018 11:00 AM 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)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-53 of 53. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The History of the Abbey Church of St Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments Heading(Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher)HeadlineAckermann's Westminster Abbey with 80 aquatints 1812PublisherPrinted for R. AckermannDate Published1812 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #4 Second livre d'architecture Contenant plusieurs et diverses ordonnances de cheminees, lucarnes, portes, fonteines, puis, & pavillons, pour enricher tant le dedans que le dehors de tous edifices AuthorAndrouet du Cerceau, JacquesHeadlineAndrouat's architectural and interior designs, 1561PublisherDe L'Imprimerie d'André WechelDate Published1561 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #5 Aristotle's Art of Poetry. Translated from the original Greek, according to Mr. Theodore Goulston's edition. Together, with Mr. D'Acier's notes translated from the French AuthorAristotleHeadlineAristotle’s Poetics, first edition in English, 1705PublisherPrinted for Dan. Browne and Will. TurnerDate Published1705 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #8 The Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd in Verse... [bound with] Æsopics: or a Second Collection of Fables... AuthorÆsopHeadlineOgilby's Aesop, parts 1 & 2, 1668PublisherPrinted by Thomas RoycroftDate Published1668 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #11 Etching of a bearded man in Spanish-style hat - artist's proof AuthorBaskin, LeonardHeadlineLeonard Baskin artist's proof etchingDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$180StatusSold Lot #14 The London and Country Brewer. Containing the Whole Art of Brewing all Sorts of Malt-Liquors Heading(Beer)Author[Ellis, William]HeadlineThe London and Country Brewer 1759 EditionPublisherT. AstleyDate Published1759 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #17 The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineKing James Bible 1683PublisherPrinted by John HayesDate Published1683 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold 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] Heading(Block books)HeadlineDer Antichrist, block book facsimile 1/650PublisherPrestel-VerlagDate Published[1970] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #28 The Laureate's Country: A Description of Places Connected with the Life of Alfred Lord Tennyson AuthorChurch, Alfred JohnHeadlineThe Laureate's Country w/watercolor on vellumPublisherSeeley and Co.Date Published1891 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #29 Poems. Containing The Rosciad. The Apology. Night. The Prophecy of Famine. An Epistle to William Hogarth. And, The Ghost, in Four Books. [Bound With] Poems. Containing The Conference. The Author. The Duelist. Gotham, In Three Books. The Candidate. The Farewell. The Times. Independence. And, Fragment of Journey AuthorChurchill, C.HeadlinePoems of C. Churchill, 1763-5Date Published1763 & 1765 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #32 The Ladies’ Equestrian Guide; Or, The Habit & the Horse: A Treatise on Female Equitation. Author[Clarke, Mrs. Sterling]HeadlineLadies’ Equestrian Guide 1857PublisherDay & SonDate Published[1857] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #33 A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage: together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument AuthorCollier, JeremyHeadlineCollier's English Stage 1698PublisherPrinted for S. Keble... and H. HindmarshDate Published1698 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold 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 Heading(Descartes, Rene)AuthorRegis, Pierre SilvainHeadlinePhilosophies of Descartes 1691PublisherHuguetanDate Published1691 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #47 All For Love: or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal; and Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stile 1st Edition AuthorDryden, JohnHeadlineDryden's All for Love 1st ed. 1678PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb, for Henry HerringmanDate Published1678 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #54 The Great Chalice of Antioch: On Which Are Depicted in Sculpture the Earliest Known Portraits of Christ, Apostles and Evangelists AuthorEisen, Gustavus A.HeadlineGreat Chalice of Antioch w/60 platesPublisherKouchakji FréresDate Published1923 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #65 The Comic Almanack, an Ephermeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCruikshank, GeorgeHeadlineComic Almanack in 2 vols Cruikshank 1835-1853PublisherChatto and WindusDate Published[c.1881] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #67 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Heading(Fine Bindings)Author[Fitzgerald, Edward, translator]HeadlineRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám finely boundPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.Date Published[c.1910] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #68 WITHDRAWN - The Ingoldsby Legends; Or Mirth & Marvels - finely bound by The Guild of Women-Binders Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorIngoldsby, Thomas [pseud of Richard Barham].HeadlineIngoldsby Legends bound by Guild of Women-BindersPublisherJohn LaneDate Published1911 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #76 Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna Heading(Fine Bindings)Author[Stieler, Karl]HeadlineItaly from the Alps to Mt. Etna finely boundPublisherJ.S. VirtueDate Published[c.1888] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #81 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae... AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Italian History, 22 vols. 1704-1725PublisherVander AaDate Published1704-1725 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #82 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Siciliae... AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Sicilian History, 15 vols. 1723-1725Date Published1723-1725 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #83 Macbeth: Eaux-fortes de Gromaire Heading(Gromaire, Marcel)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineMarcel Gromaire, 20 etched plates for Macbeth 1/200PublisherTériadeDate Published1958 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #85 The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the Description and Use of the Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant, and other Instruments. With a Canon of Artificial Sines and Tangents to a Radius of 10.00000 parts, and the Logarithms from Unite to 10000: The Uses whereof are illustrated in the Practice of Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Dialling, and Fortification. And some Questions in Navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, Teacher of Mathematicks in Ratcliff, near London... AuthorGunter, EdmundHeadlineThe works of Edmund Gunter 1673PublisherA. C[lark] for Francis EglesfieldDate Published1673 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #88 The Complete Measurer: or, the whole art of measuring. In two parts. The first part teaching decimal arithmetick, with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: And also the Multiplication of Feet and Inches, commonly called Cross Multiplication. The second part teaching to measure all sorts of superficies and solids, by Decimals; by Cross-Multiplication, and by Scale and Compasses... AuthorHawney, WilliamHeadlineHawney's Complete Measurer 1763PublisherPrinted for J. Knapton, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1763 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #92 [Opera. Ilias & Odyssea. In Greek] AuthorHomerHeadlineFoulis edition of Homer in Greek, 1756-58PublisherExcudebant Robertus et Andreas FoulisDate Published1756 & 1758 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #93 Botanical Miscellany, Volume 1 AuthorHooker, William Jackson, editorHeadlineBotanical Miscellany w/75 plates 1830PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1830 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #94 Songes and Sonettes. Written By the Right Honorable Lord Henry Haward, late Earle of Surrey AuthorHoward, Henry, Earl of SurreyHeadlineEarl of Surrey's Sonnets, 1717PublisherRe-printed by E. CurllDate Published1717 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #99 Ancient Spanish Ballads: Historical and Romantic Heading(Jones, Owen, designer)AuthorLockhart, J. G., translatorHeadlineAncient Spanish Ballad 1859 finely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1859 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #104 Aufrichtig Teutsch redender Hebräer, welcher gründlich zeiget den Ursprung und die Schicksale des jüdischen Volcks Heading(Judaica)AuthorBodenschatz, Johann Christoph GeorgHeadlineJewish life in 18th century GermanyPublisherMartin GobhardDate Published1756 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #108 Sam & Sap. Aventures surprenantes d'un petit nègre et de son singe AuthorLe Cordier, GeorgesHeadlineSam et Sap with racial stereotype illustrations 1909PublisherLibrairie Ch. DelagraveDate Published[1909] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #109 The Royal Gauger or Gauging Made Perfectly Easy as it is Actually Practiced by the Officers of His Majesty's Revenue Of Excise in Two Parts AuthorLeadbetter, Charles.HeadlineLeadbetter's Royal Gauger 1760PublisherC.Hitch and L. HawkeDate Published1760 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #111 A Treatise on Painting...Translated from the Original Italian, and Adorn'd with a great Number of Cuts. To Which is prefix'd, The Author's Life; Done from the Last Edition of the French AuthorLeonardo da VinciHeadlineDa Vinci's Treatise on Painting 1721PublisherJ. SenexDate Published1721 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #114 Lyttilton tenures truelye translated into Englishe AuthorLittleton, Thomas, SirHeadlineThe 1st textbook on English property lawPublisher[Thomas Marsh]Date Published1556 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #116 Aphrodite AuthorLouys, PierreHeadlineAphrodite illustrated by Donald DentonPublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1928 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #122 My Book of Hours: 167 Designs Engraved on Wood By Frans Masereel AuthorMasereel, FransHeadlineMy Book of Hours: 167 woodcuts by Frans Masereel 1/600PublisherSe trouve chez l'AuteurDate Published1922 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #126 The Sistine Chapel Heading(Michelangelo)AuthorHartt, Frederick, and Okamura, TakashiHeadlineSistine Chapel 1/2500PublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1991 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #127 The Catalogue of Honor or Treasury of True Nobility Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine: that is to say: A Collection historicall of all the Free Monarches aswell Kinges of England as Scotland (nowe united togither)... AuthorMilles, ThomasHeadlineMilles' Catalogue of Honor, 1610PublisherPrinted by William JaggardDate Published1610 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #128 Now We Are Six AuthorMilne, A.A.HeadlineA.A. Milne Now We Are Six 1st edPublisherMethuen and Co.Date Published[1927] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #129 Missae Solemniorum Festorum E Missali Romano Excerptae Ad Usum Episcoporum Ac Praelatorum Solemniter Celebrantium Heading(Missals)AuthorRoman Catholic ChurchHeadlineFinely bound missal 1890PublisherSoc. S. Joannis EvangDate Published1890 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold 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. Heading(Missals)AuthorRoman Catholic ChurchHeadlineHandsomely bound 18th century missalPublisherTypis Sacræ congregationis de propaganda fideDate Published1714 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #134 A Treatise of Gauging: Or, the Modern Practical Gauger Containing Besides All the Principal Rules Usually Given on the Subject, a Great Variety of New and Interesting Improvements...Illustrated with Necessary Examples AuthorMoss, ThomasHeadlineA Treatise of Gauging 1779PublisherPrinted for G. RobinsonDate Published1779 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #142 A collection of hand-colored plates of Paris fashion from the late nineteenth century Heading(Paris fashion)HeadlineHand-colored Paris fashion plates 1800'sDate Published[Late 1800's] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #154 Kiowa Indian Art: Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma Heading(Pochoir)AuthorJacobson, Oscar Brousse, introductionHeadlinePochoir plates of Kiowa Indian ArtPublisherC. SzedzickiDate Published[1929] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #156 Pompeian Frescoes and Mosaics. A collection of 37 original photographs mounted on commercial cabinet cards Heading(Pompei)Headline37 original photographs of Pompeian Frescoes and MosaicsPublisherGrillet & Co.Date Published[c.1860] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #157 Freedom, a Fable. A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times Heading(Pop-Up)AuthorWalker, Kara ElizabethHeadlineRare pop-up by Kara WalkerPublisherThe Peter Norton FamilyDate Published[1997] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #158 The Procession of Pope Clement VII and the Emperor Charles V: After the Coronation in Bologna on the 24th February 1530 Heading(Pope Clement VII)AuthorHogenberg, Jan Nicolas and William Stirling MaxwellHeadlineCoronation in Bologna 1530 scarce facsimilePublisherEdmonston & DouglasDate Published1875 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 AuthorSkelton, JosephHeadlineSkelton's engravings of Oxford, large paper copyPublisherPrinted by S. and J. Collingwood . and published by J. SkeltonDate Published1823 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #175 Glossarium archaiologicum: Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula; quae post labefactatas a Gothis, Vandalisque res Europaeas, in ecclesiasticis, profanisque scriptoribus... AuthorSpelman, HenryHeadlineEnglish antiquarian investigations 1664PublisherAliciam WarrenDate Published1664 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #187 The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineThackeray's Virginians in Original PartsPublisherBradbury and EvansDate Published1857-59 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold 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 AuthorUsserio, Jacobo [Ussher, James, Archbishop Of Armagh]HeadlineUssher's account of the Church 1687PublisherImpensis Benj. TookeDate Published1687 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #197 Veiled Prophet [Ball] October 8th 1889 Heading(Veiled Prophet Ball)HeadlineVeiled Prophet Ball 1889Date Published[1889] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #198 M. Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis poetae, & Albae Episcopi, Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia... AuthorVida, Marco GirolamoHeadlineVida's poetical works, 1537PublisherPer Balthasarem Lasivm & Thomam PlatterumDate Published1537 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 AuthorWotton, AnthonyHeadlineAnthony Wotton, A Defence of M. Perkins Booke 1606PublisherFelix. Kyngston, for C. BurleyDate Published1606 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next