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 1-34 of 34. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 The History of the Abbey Church of St Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments Heading(Ackermann)Author**HeadlineHistory of Westminster Abbey 1812 AckermannPublisherR. AckermannDate Published1812 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold 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a Bible 13th centuryDate Publishedca. 13th century View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #17 WITHDRAWN Series Chronologica et Imagines Regum Hispaniae ab Ataulpho ad Carolum II AuthorBlondeau, Jacobus, engraverHeadlineSpanish Monarchs from Ataulphus to Charles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 #32 The Jerusalem Windows AuthorChagall, MarcHeadlineMarc Chagall Jerusalem Windows 2 Original LithosPublisherGeorge BrazillerDate Published[1962] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #34 The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, Together with a Version in Modern English Verse AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineCanterbury Tales Illustrations by Rockwell KentPublisherCovici FriedeDate Published1930 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 #39 L'Art de Décorer les Tissus, d'après les Collections du Musée Historique de la Chambre de Commerce de Lyon AuthorCox, RaymondHeadlineRaymond Cox L'Art de Décorer les TissusPublisherP. Mouillot & A ReyDate Published1900 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold 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 #43 A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and England AuthorDibdin, Thomas FrognallHeadlineDibdin Tour France & England extra-illustratedPublisherPrinted for the Author, by W. Bulmer and W. NicolDate Published1821 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold 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 #47 L'art, la Décoration et l'Ornement des Étoffes et des Tissus: Chez les Anciens et Chez les Modernes...Recueil Historique, Pratique et Technique de Décorations Polychromes AuthorDupont-Auberville, [Auguste]HeadlineRare work on decorated fabrics -ChromolithographsPublisherLibrairie Ancienne et Moderne de la Noblesse et des Beaux-ArtsDate Published[c.1877] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #48 Macao et Cosmage ou L'Experience de Bonheur AuthorEdy-Legrand, [Edouard Leon Louis]HeadlineEdy-Legrand Macao et Cosmage 1919 1st EditionPublisherAux Editions de la Nouvelle Revue FrancaiseDate Published[1919] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #54 The Poetical Works of Robert Burns - With a fore edge portrait of the author Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineWorks of Robert Burns with a fore edge paintingPublisherDavid BryceDate Published[c.1890] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #55 Illustrations of Sterne - With a fore edge painting of Sterne's residence, Shandy Hall Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorFerriar, JohnHeadlineFore Edge Painting of Shandy HallPublisherCadell and DaviesDate Published1798 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #68 The Odyssey - With Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth AuthorHomerHeadlineThe Odyssey - With Illustrations by N.C. WyethPublisherHoughton Mifflin CompanyDate Published1929 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold 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 #74 The Grammar of Ornament AuthorJones, OwenHeadlineOwen Jones The Grammar of OrnamentPublisherBernard QuaritchDate Published1910 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold 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 #80 Etching. An Outline of Its Technical Processes and Its History, With Some Remarks on Collections and Collecting AuthorKoehler, S.R.HeadlineS.R. Koehler on Etching 30 etched platesPublisherCassell & Company, LimitedDate Published[1885] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$593.75StatusSold 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 #98 East of the Sun and West of the Moon Heading(Nielsen, Kay)Author[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe]HeadlineKay Nielsen's East of the Sun & West of the MoonPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #110 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny - In rare glassine dust jacket AuthorPotter, BeatrixHeadlineTale of Benjamin Bunny in Glassine DJ 1907PublisherFrederick WarneDate Published[1904, but c.1907] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #114 The Compleat Angler Heading(Rackham, Arthur)AuthorWalton, IzaakHeadlineIzaak Walton's Complete Angler Rackham IllusPublisherGeorge C. HarrapDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold 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 #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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next