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 1-33 of 33. 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 #11 Die 92 Holzschnitte der Lübecker Bibel aus dem Jahre 1494 von einem unbekannten Meister Heading(Bible)AuthorWahl, Hanz, editorHeadlineFacsimile color woodcuts of Lubeck BiblePublisherGustav KiepenheuerDate Published1917 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #12 [The Holy Byble, conteynyng the olde Testament and the newe. Set foorth by aucthoritie] Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineThird folio edition of Bishops' Bible 1574Publisher[Richarde Iugge]Date Published[1574] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #13 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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 #20 Dieta salutis Sancti Bonauenture doctoris eminentissimi: aureus libellus: qui dieta salutis communiter nuncupatur:... AuthorBonaventure, SaintHeadlineSaint Bonaventure on Salvation 1518Publisher[Per Cesarem Arriuabenum Venetum]Date Published[24 Dec. 1518] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold 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 #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 #57 The "Haddon" MS., in the Possession of Mr. James S. Haddon, of Wellington Heading(Freemasonry)AuthorHaddon, James S., of WellingtonHeadlineRare printing of Freemason Haddon MS. 1895PublisherM.C. PeckDate Published1895 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #63 The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - In a beautiful hand-painted full vellum binding Heading(Hand-Painted Binding)Author**HeadlineNew testament in a painted vellum bindingPublisherUniversity PressDate Published1881 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold 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 #82 Joannis Clerici Physica, sive de rebus corporeis libri quinque... AuthorLe Clerc, JeanHeadlineTheological physics from Jean Le Clerc 1705PublisherTypis academicis, sumtibus [sic] Timothei Child & Roberti KnaplockDate Published1705 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #103 Poiesis philosophos [in Greek, then in Latin]: Poesis philosophica, vel saltem, Reliquiae poesis philosophicae, Empedoclis, Parmenidis, Xenophanis, Cleanthis, Timonis, Epicharmi. Adiuncta sunt Orphei illius carmina qui à suis appellatus fuit ho theologos. Item Heracliti et Democriti loci quidam, & eorum epistolae Heading(Philosophy)Author**HeadlineFragments of Pre-Socratic philosophers 1573PublisherHenr. Stephanus [Henri Estienne]Date Published1573 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 Hieronymi Pradi et Ioannis Baptistae Villalpandi e Societate Iesu In Ezechielem explanationes et Apparatus vrbis ac Templi Hierosolymitani commentarijs et imaginibus illustratus. Opus tribus tomis distinctum. Quid vero singulis contineatur, quarta pagina indicabit AuthorPrado, Jerónimo de, & juan Bautista VillalpandoHeadlinePrado's Commentaries on Bible 1596-1604PublisherEx typographia Aloysij Zanetti. Apud S. MarcumDate Published1596-1604 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold 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 #125 Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum AuthorStolcius de Stolcenberg, DanielHeadlineRare hermetic emblem book 1624PublisherSumptibus Lucae Jennisii,Date Published1624 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold 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