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 View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorApianus, PeterHeadline1st obtainable map to name America 1520Date Published1520 Lot #11 Die 92 Holzschnitte der Lübecker Bibel aus dem Jahre 1494 von einem unbekannten Meister View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Bible)AuthorWahl, Hanz, editorHeadlineFacsimile color woodcuts of Lubeck BiblePublisherGustav KiepenheuerDate Published1917 Lot #12 [The Holy Byble, conteynyng the olde Testament and the newe. Set foorth by aucthoritie] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineThird folio edition of Bishops' Bible 1574Publisher[Richarde Iugge]Date Published[1574] Lot #13 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] Lot #14 Single manuscript leaf from a Bible View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in Latin - manuscript leaf)Author**HeadlineManuscript leaf from a Bible 13th centuryDate Publishedca. 13th century Lot #15 Single Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Bible in Massachuset)Author**HeadlineSingle Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible 1663PublisherSamuel Green and Marmaduke JohnsonDate Published1661-63 Lot #18 The Game of Politics or, The Race for the Presidency View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Board Game - American Politics)AuthorClarke, Jeanie P.Headline1888 Presidential Election Board GamePublisherHorace, Partridge & Co.Date Published1888 Lot #20 Dieta salutis Sancti Bonauenture doctoris eminentissimi: aureus libellus: qui dieta salutis communiter nuncupatur:... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBonaventure, SaintHeadlineSaint Bonaventure on Salvation 1518Publisher[Per Cesarem Arriuabenum Venetum]Date Published[24 Dec. 1518] Lot #33 The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. [&] Memoir of William Ellery Channing View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorChanning, William E.HeadlineWorks & Memoir of William Ellery ChanningPublisherJames Munroe [&] Wm. Crosby and H.P. NicholsDate Published1847, 1848 Lot #36 The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War - with autograph letter from Churchill View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston L. SpencerHeadlineMalakand Field Force with letter from ChurchillPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1898 Lot #42 A History of British Birds View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000Sold for$56,250StatusSold Heading(Darwin, Charles, his copy)AuthorBewick, ThomasHeadlineCharles Darwin's copy of Bewick's British BirdsPublisherT. BewickDate Published1826 Lot #45 Opera - manuscript in Latin on vellum View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold AuthorDionysius Areopagite (pseud.)Headline14th century ms. of Dionysius AreopagiteDate Publishedc.1300 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 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold 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 Lot #57 The "Haddon" MS., in the Possession of Mr. James S. Haddon, of Wellington View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Freemasonry)AuthorHaddon, James S., of WellingtonHeadlineRare printing of Freemason Haddon MS. 1895PublisherM.C. PeckDate Published1895 Lot #63 The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - In a beautiful hand-painted full vellum binding View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Hand-Painted Binding)Author**HeadlineNew testament in a painted vellum bindingPublisherUniversity PressDate Published1881 Lot #69 Collection of Love Letters from Howard Hughes to Billie Dove View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000StatusUnsold AuthorHughes, HowardHeadlineLove Letters form Howard Hughes to Billie DoveDate Published[1930s] Lot #70 Collection of telegrams sent from Howard Hughes to Katherine Hepburn View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold AuthorHughes, HowardHeadlineTelegrams from Howard Hughes to Katherine HepburnDate Published1937-1939 Lot #71 Sixteenth century illuminated manuscript of Persian poetry, probably produced in Samarkand View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Illuminated Manuscript)Author**Headline16th Century Persian Illuminated ManuscriptDate Published[c. 1576] Lot #78 Autograph manuscript of a lecture by Kesey with a section devoted to psychedelic drugs View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorKesey, KenHeadlineKen Kesey lecture on psychedelic drugsDate PublishedAugust 1965 Lot #82 Joannis Clerici Physica, sive de rebus corporeis libri quinque... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLe Clerc, JeanHeadlineTheological physics from Jean Le Clerc 1705PublisherTypis academicis, sumtibus [sic] Timothei Child & Roberti KnaplockDate Published1705 Lot #83 Archive of Correspondence from Timothy Leary to his childhood friend William Scanlon View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorLeary, TimothyHeadlineTimothy Leary ArchiveDate Published1930s-40s Lot #89 Elaborate hand-painted & lettered letter of introduction for a Doctor of Divinity to sites in Europe and then the New World View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Manuscript Illuminated Letter of Introduction - 17th Century)Author**HeadlineManuscript Passport - 17th CenturyDate Publishedc.1650 Lot #90 Illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum from a missal View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineManuscript leaf on vellum from a missal c.1450Date Publishedc.1450 Lot #91 Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Cistercian Missal View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineManuscript leaf from 12 cent. Cistercian MissalDate Publishedc.1160-11190 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Philosophy)Author**HeadlineFragments of Pre-Socratic philosophers 1573PublisherHenr. Stephanus [Henri Estienne]Date Published1573 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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorPrado, Jerónimo de, & juan Bautista VillalpandoHeadlinePrado's Commentaries on Bible 1596-1604PublisherEx typographia Aloysij Zanetti. Apud S. MarcumDate Published1596-1604 Lot #118 Illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorSenecaHeadlineIlluminated leaf from manuscript of Seneca c.1475Date Publishedc.1475 Lot #125 Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorStolcius de Stolcenberg, DanielHeadlineRare hermetic emblem book 1624PublisherSumptibus Lucae Jennisii,Date Published1624 Lot #128 Autograph manuscript leaf, in ink with pencil corrections, discussing Transcendentalist philosophy View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineThoreau manuscript leaf c.1840Date Publishedc.1840 Lot #130 Autograph Letter Signed as Samuel L. Clemens, to Andrew Chatto, requesting some of his printed works be sent to him View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Mark Twain to his English publisherDate PublishedJune 3, [1878] Lot #131 Roughing It View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineMark Twain Roughing It First Edition, First IssuePublisherAmerican Publishing Co.Date Published1872 Lot #133 Lettre sur Mallarmé Adressée a Jean Royère View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorValéry, PaulHeadlinePresentation copy inscribed by Paul VeleryPublisherLibrairie GallimardDate Published1928 Lot #134 WITHDRAWN Autograph Manuscript for his novel The Smithsonian Institution View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorVidal, GoreHeadlineGore Vidal Manuscript Smithsonian InstitutionDate Publishedc.1998 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next