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Previous|1|Next 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorAndrouet du Cerceau, JacquesHeadlineAndrouat's architectural and interior designs, 1561PublisherDe L'Imprimerie d'André WechelDate Published1561 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorAristotleHeadlineAristotle’s Poetics, first edition in English, 1705PublisherPrinted for Dan. Browne and Will. TurnerDate Published1705 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 #14 The London and Country Brewer. Containing the Whole Art of Brewing all Sorts of Malt-Liquors View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Beer)Author[Ellis, William]HeadlineThe London and Country Brewer 1759 EditionPublisherT. AstleyDate Published1759 Lot #17 The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineKing James Bible 1683PublisherPrinted by John HayesDate Published1683 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 #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 #33 A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage: together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCollier, JeremyHeadlineCollier's English Stage 1698PublisherPrinted for S. Keble... and H. HindmarshDate Published1698 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorGunter, EdmundHeadlineThe works of Edmund Gunter 1673PublisherA. C[lark] for Francis EglesfieldDate Published1673 Lot #86 The Woodlanders View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThomas Hardy's The WoodlandersPublisherMacmillanDate Published1887 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHawney, WilliamHeadlineHawney's Complete Measurer 1763PublisherPrinted for J. Knapton, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1763 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 #92 [Opera. Ilias & Odyssea. In Greek] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorHomerHeadlineFoulis edition of Homer in Greek, 1756-58PublisherExcudebant Robertus et Andreas FoulisDate Published1756 & 1758 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 #104 Aufrichtig Teutsch redender Hebräer, welcher gründlich zeiget den Ursprung und die Schicksale des jüdischen Volcks View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Judaica)AuthorBodenschatz, Johann Christoph GeorgHeadlineJewish life in 18th century GermanyPublisherMartin GobhardDate Published1756 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLeadbetter, Charles.HeadlineLeadbetter's Royal Gauger 1760PublisherC.Hitch and L. HawkeDate Published1760 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 #114 Lyttilton tenures truelye translated into Englishe View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorLittleton, Thomas, SirHeadlineThe 1st textbook on English property lawPublisher[Thomas Marsh]Date Published1556 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 #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 #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)... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilles, ThomasHeadlineMilles' Catalogue of Honor, 1610PublisherPrinted by William JaggardDate Published1610 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 #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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorMoss, ThomasHeadlineA Treatise of Gauging 1779PublisherPrinted for G. RobinsonDate Published1779 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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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