Sale 488: Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Property of Jane Hohfeld Galante & Other Owners (#488) 09/13/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/13/2012 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 488 46 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)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-32 of 32. Previous|1|Next Lot #9 The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineWorks of Francis Bacon 10 volumesPublisherJ. Johnson, W.J. and J. Richardson, et alDate Published1803 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #14 Single manuscript leaf from a Bible Heading(Bible in Latin - manuscript leaf)Author**HeadlineManuscript leaf from a Bible 13th centuryDate Publishedca. 13th century View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #17 WITHDRAWN Series Chronologica et Imagines Regum Hispaniae ab Ataulpho ad Carolum II AuthorBlondeau, Jacobus, engraverHeadlineSpanish Monarchs from Ataulphus to Charles IIPublisherPetrus de la TourDate Published1698 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #33 The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. [&] Memoir of William Ellery Channing AuthorChanning, William E.HeadlineWorks & Memoir of William Ellery ChanningPublisherJames Munroe [&] Wm. Crosby and H.P. NicholsDate Published1847, 1848 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #35 Broadcast Addresses to the People of Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Russia, and the United States, by the Prime Minister of the British Empire, Winston Churchill, MCMXL-MCMXLI AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill Broadcast Addresses GrabhornPublisherRansohoffsDate Published1941 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #36 The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War - with autograph letter from Churchill AuthorChurchill, Winston L. SpencerHeadlineMalakand Field Force with letter from ChurchillPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1898 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #42 A History of British Birds Heading(Darwin, Charles, his copy)AuthorBewick, ThomasHeadlineCharles Darwin's copy of Bewick's British BirdsPublisherT. BewickDate Published1826 View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000Sold for$56,250StatusSold Lot #44 The Compleat Ambassador, or, Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory; comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France. Together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho. Smith, and others. Wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood, with many remarkable passages of state... AuthorDigges, Dudley, SirHeadlineIntended marriage of Queen Elizabeth I 1655PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas CollinsDate Published1655 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #45 Opera - manuscript in Latin on vellum AuthorDionysius Areopagite (pseud.)Headline14th century ms. of Dionysius AreopagiteDate Publishedc.1300 View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold Lot #59 Oliver Cromwell AuthorGardiner, Samuel RawsonHeadlineGardiner's biograpy of Oliver CromwellPublisherGoupil & Co.Date Published1899 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #60 The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq., with Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself.... AuthorGibbon, EdwardHeadlineThe Miscellaneous Works of Edward GibbonPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1814 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #61 An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness AuthorGodwin, WilliamHeadlineAn Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by GodwinPublisherG.G.J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1793 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #69 Collection of Love Letters from Howard Hughes to Billie Dove AuthorHughes, HowardHeadlineLove Letters form Howard Hughes to Billie DoveDate Published[1930s] View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000StatusUnsold Lot #70 Collection of telegrams sent from Howard Hughes to Katherine Hepburn AuthorHughes, HowardHeadlineTelegrams from Howard Hughes to Katherine HepburnDate Published1937-1939 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 Sixteenth century illuminated manuscript of Persian poetry, probably produced in Samarkand Heading(Illuminated Manuscript)Author**Headline16th Century Persian Illuminated ManuscriptDate Published[c. 1576] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #78 Autograph manuscript of a lecture by Kesey with a section devoted to psychedelic drugs AuthorKesey, KenHeadlineKen Kesey lecture on psychedelic drugsDate PublishedAugust 1965 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #83 Archive of Correspondence from Timothy Leary to his childhood friend William Scanlon AuthorLeary, TimothyHeadlineTimothy Leary ArchiveDate Published1930s-40s View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #85 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #89 Elaborate hand-painted & lettered letter of introduction for a Doctor of Divinity to sites in Europe and then the New World Heading(Manuscript Illuminated Letter of Introduction - 17th Century)Author**HeadlineManuscript Passport - 17th CenturyDate Publishedc.1650 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #90 Illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum from a missal Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineManuscript leaf on vellum from a missal c.1450Date Publishedc.1450 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #91 Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Cistercian Missal Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineManuscript leaf from 12 cent. Cistercian MissalDate Publishedc.1160-11190 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #95 The History of New-England Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country AuthorNeal, DanielHeadlineHistory of New-England by Neal Zaehnsdorf w/mapPublisherPrinted for J. Clark, et al.Date Published1720 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #96 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et al.Date Published1728 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #108 Complete Works of Plutarch AuthorPlutarchHeadlineComplete Works of PlutarchPublisherThomas Y. Crowell & Co.Date Published[c.1900] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #118 Illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium AuthorSenecaHeadlineIlluminated leaf from manuscript of Seneca c.1475Date Publishedc.1475 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #128 Autograph manuscript leaf, in ink with pencil corrections, discussing Transcendentalist philosophy AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineThoreau manuscript leaf c.1840Date Publishedc.1840 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #129 Kort en Bondigh Verhael / Van't geene inden Oorlogh, Tusschen den Koningh van Engelant &c. de H: M: Heeren Staten der vrye Vereenigde Nederlanden, en den Bisschop van Munster is voorgevallen... Heading(Treaty of Breda)Author**HeadlineRare work on the Treaty of BredaPublisherVoor Marcus Willemsz. DoornickDate Published1667 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #130 Autograph Letter Signed as Samuel L. Clemens, to Andrew Chatto, requesting some of his printed works be sent to him AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Mark Twain to his English publisherDate PublishedJune 3, [1878] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #133 Lettre sur Mallarmé Adressée a Jean Royère AuthorValéry, PaulHeadlinePresentation copy inscribed by Paul VeleryPublisherLibrairie GallimardDate Published1928 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #134 WITHDRAWN Autograph Manuscript for his novel The Smithsonian Institution AuthorVidal, GoreHeadlineGore Vidal Manuscript Smithsonian InstitutionDate Publishedc.1998 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #135 Le Siecle de Louis XIV Author[Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet]HeadlineVoltaire's Age of Louis XIV 1751 First EditionPublisherHenningDate Published1751 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #136 Athenarum Frisiacarum, Libro Duo. Quorum Alter Praeter Historiam Academiae, quae est Franequerae, Elogia Sereniss. & Ampl. Ephororum alter Cl. Professorum,... AuthorVriemoet, Emo LuciusHeadlineEmo Lucius Vriemoet Athenarum FrisiacarumPublisherG. CoulonDate Published1758 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next