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 1-22 of 22. Previous|1|Next Lot #5 Tipus Orbis Universalis iuxta Ptolemei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes a Petro Apiano Leysnico Elucbrat An. Do. MDXX AuthorApianus, PeterHeadline1st obtainable map to name America 1520Date Published1520 View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold 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 #15 Single Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible Heading(Bible in Massachuset)Author**HeadlineSingle Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible 1663PublisherSamuel Green and Marmaduke JohnsonDate Published1661-63 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #18 The Game of Politics or, The Race for the Presidency Heading(Board Game - American Politics)AuthorClarke, Jeanie P.Headline1888 Presidential Election Board GamePublisherHorace, Partridge & Co.Date Published1888 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold 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 #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 #52 The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 Heading(Federalist)Author[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay]HeadlineFirst Edition of Federalist Papers, 1788, Vol. IIPublisherPrinted and Sold by J. and A. M'LeanDate Published1788 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold 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 #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 #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 #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 #131 Roughing It AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineMark Twain Roughing It First Edition, First IssuePublisherAmerican Publishing Co.Date Published1872 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next