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AckermannDate Published1812 Lot #7 Warren Newcombe View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorArmitage, MerleHeadlineWarren Newcombe by Merle Armitage signed 1/500PublisherE. Weyhe / Merle ArmitageDate Published1932 Lot #8 The Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd in Verse... [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 #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 #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 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorChurchill, C.HeadlinePoems of C. Churchill, 1763-5Date Published1763 & 1765 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 #41 Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Dickens, Charles)Author"Boz," editorHeadlineMemoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Dickens 2nd issuePublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 Lot #42 Complete set of Charles Dickens's Christmas Books, First Editions in the original cloth View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst Editions of Dickens' Christmas BooksPublisherChapman & Hall [or] Bradbury & EvansDate Published1844-1848 Lot #43 The Nonesuch Dickens View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineThe Nonesuch Dickens with a woodcut plate by Marcus StonePublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1937-1938 Lot #44 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineHandsomely bound Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1837 Lot #45 An Index to “In Memoriam” View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorDodgson, Charles Lutwidge, contributorHeadlineEarly work by Lewis CarrollPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1862 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorDryden, JohnHeadlineDryden's All for Love 1st ed. 1678PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb, for Henry HerringmanDate Published1678 Lot #48 Le Comte de Monte-Christo View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorDumas, AlexandreHeadlineLe Comte de Monte-Christo 1845-46PublisherSociete Belge de LibrairieDate Published1845-46 Lot #49 The Three Musketeers; or, the Feats and Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorDumas, AlexandreHeadlineThree Musketeers 1st ed. in English 1846PublisherBruce and WyldDate Published1846 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 #58 Amelia View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlineHenry Fielding's last novelPublisherPrinted for A. MillarDate Published1752 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 #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 #72 Art View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$130StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorRodin, AugusteHeadlineArt by Rodin finely bound 1912PublisherSmall, Maynard & CompanyDate Published1912 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 #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 #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 #84 My Recollections of Lord Byron; and Those of Eye-Witnesses of His Life View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorGuiccioli, CountessHeadlineCountess Guiccioli's Recollections of Lord Byron w/letterPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1869 Lot #86 The Woodlanders View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThomas Hardy's The WoodlandersPublisherMacmillanDate Published1887 Lot #89 The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadline4th printing of The House of the Seven GablesPublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate Published1851 Lot #90 True Stories from History and Biography View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlinePreviously owned by C. G. Thompson, Hawthorne's portraitistPublisherTicknor, Reed, and FieldsDate 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 #94 Songes and Sonettes. Written By the Right Honorable Lord Henry Haward, late Earle of Surrey View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorHoward, Henry, Earl of SurreyHeadlineEarl of Surrey's Sonnets, 1717PublisherRe-printed by E. CurllDate Published1717 Lot #95 Les Misérables View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineLes Misérables 1st ed. 1862PublisherLacroix, Verboeckhoven & Ce.Date Published1862 Lot #96 Notre-Dame de Paris View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineVictor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris 1831PublisherLouis HaumanDate Published1831 Lot #98 The Life and Adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHurtado de Mendoza, DiegoHeadlineFictional biography by Diego Hurtado de MendozaPublisherPrinted by J. BellDate Published1789 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 #100 English Decoration and Furniture: An Account of Its Development and Characteristic Forms View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorJourdain, M.HeadlineJourdain's English Decoration and FurniturePublisherB.T. Batsford, Ltd.Date Published[1920s] 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 #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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorLeonardo da VinciHeadlineDa Vinci's Treatise on Painting 1721PublisherJ. SenexDate Published1721 Lot #115 Voices of the Night View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthHeadlineLongfellow's first published book of poetry bound by Peter LowPublisherJohn OwenDate Published1840 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 #123 Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire. Vol. IX, Nos. 35 et 36 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Matisse, Henri)HeadlineVerve The Last Works of MatissePublisherEditions de la VerveDate Published[1958] Lot #124 The Image of His Father; or, One Boy is More Trouble than a Dozen Girls, Being the Story of a “Young Monkey.” By the Brothers Mayhew View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorMayhew, Augustus and HenryHeadlineClassic Victorian satirical novel published in parts, 1st editionPublisherH. HurstDate Published1848 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 #132 Phrase Book View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorMoody, Rick & Fred TomaselliHeadlineRick Moody & Fred Tomaselli Phrase Book 1/150PublisherThe Whitney MuseumDate Published2000 Lot #139 Battle of Niagara with Other Poems View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorNeal, JohnHeadlineEnlarged edition of Neal's second bookPublisherN. G. MaxwellDate Published1819 Lot #140 The Iliad View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorHomerHeadlineNonesuch Press Homer's IliadPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1931 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 #152 2 Statements. Also a Comment by Merle Armitage - presentation copy View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorPicasso, PabloHeadlineWith lithograph of Picasso by Napolitano, signedPublisherMerle ArmitageDate Published1936 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 #155 The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineFirst Australian Edition of Poe's poetical worksPublisherGeorge RobertsonDate Published1868 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 #159 The Wood-Rangers View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorReid, Captain Thomas Mayne, translatorHeadlineFerry novel translated by fellow American West adventurer, ReidPublisherHurst and BlackettDate Published1960 Lot #163 "The Old Swimmin-Hole," and 'Leven More Poems By Benj. F. Johnson of Boone View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley's first bookPublisherGeorge C. HittDate Published1883 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 #169 David Scott, R.S.A. and His Works: Being a Catalogue of His Paintings, Engravings, and Designs View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Scott, David)AuthorGray, John M.HeadlineWorks of the artist David Scott, 1/100 large paper copiesPublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1884 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 #177 Twenty-five first and early editions of works of George Sterling, 15 of them inscribed and signed by Sterling View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorSterling, GeorgeHeadline25 books by George Sterling, 15 signedDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #179 Summer Cruising in the South Seas - signed View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorStoddard, Charles WarrenHeadlineStoddard's Cruising in the South Seas - signed 1881PublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1881 Lot #180 Uncle Tom's Cabin View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorStowe, Harriet BeecherHeadlineThe most influential novel of the 19th centuryPublisherJohn P. Jewett & CompanyDate Published1852 Lot #184 Bothwell: A Tragedy View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorSwinburne, Algernon CharlesHeadlineInscribed by SwinburnePublisherChatto & WindusDate Published1874 Lot #185 Poems and Ballads View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorSwinburne, Algernon CharlesHeadlineInscribed by Swinburne and signed by Barry CornwallPublisherJohn Camden HottenDate Published1866 Lot #186 Queen Mary: A Drama View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorTennyson, AlfredHeadlineInteresting association copy of Tennyson's Queen MaryPublisherHenry S. KingDate Published1875 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 #188 The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineLarge paper copy of Thomson's most famous workPublisherReeves and TurnerDate Published1880 Lot #190 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineHuckleberry Finn in original morocco bindingPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 Lot #191 The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadline£1,000,000 Bank-Note by Twain, 1893 First EditionPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1893 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] Lot #198 M. Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis poetae, & Albae Episcopi, Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorVida, Marco GirolamoHeadlineVida's poetical works, 1537PublisherPer Balthasarem Lasivm & Thomam PlatterumDate Published1537 Lot #201 Walt Whitman's signature on his 65th birthday View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWalt Whitman's signature on his 65th birthdayDate Published1884 Lot #202 Legends of New-England View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorWhittier, John G.HeadlineJohn Greenleaf Whittier's first bookPublisherHanmer and PhelpsDate Published1831 Lot #204 Christopher Wool View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Wool, Christopher)AuthorBanks, Eric, Ann Goldstein, Richard Hell, et alHeadlineChristopher Wool monograph 1/1100PublisherTaschenDate Published2008 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next