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Previous|12|Next Lot #101 Quarto-Millenary: The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years, 1929-1954, of the Limited Editions Club Heading(Limited Editions Club)Author**HeadlineQuarto-Millenary Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1959 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #102 Nine titles from the Limited Editions Club Heading(Limited Editions Club)Author**HeadlineNine titles from the Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #103 Nine titles from the Limited Editions Club Heading(Limited Editions Club)Author**Headline9 titles from the Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #104 Ten titles from the Limited Editions Club Heading(Limited Editions Club)Author**Headline10 titles from the Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #105 Ten titles from the Limited Editions Club Heading(Limited Editions Club)Author**HeadlineTen titles from the Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #106 Anacreon Done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683 Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorAnacreonHeadlineNonesuch Press Anacreon Gooden engravingsPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1923 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #107 A History of the Nonesuch Press Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorDreyfus, JohnHeadlineA History of the Nonesuch PressPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1981 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #108 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorPlutarchHeadlineThe Nonesuch PlutarchPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1929 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #109 The Works of Shakespeare. The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineNonesuch Press Shakespeare 7 vols. full leatherPublisherNonesuch Press / Random HouseDate Published1929-1933 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #110 Winemaking in California: I. How Wine is Made. II. From the Missions to 1894 Heading(Peregrine Press)AuthorPeninou, Ernest & Sidney GreenleafHeadlinePeregrine Press Winemaking in California 1/150PublisherThe Peregrine PressDate Published1954 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #111 Four Lectures by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson Heading(Plantin Press)AuthorDreyfus, John, editorHeadlinePlantin Press Lectures by T.J. Cobden-SandersonPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1974 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #112 The Sting of the Wasp: Political & Satirical Cartoons from the Truculent Early San Francisco Weekly Heading(Plantin Press)AuthorJohnson, Kenneth M., editorHeadlineThe Sting of the Wasp Plantin PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1967 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #113 The Voyage of the Racoon: A "Secret" Journal of a Visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813-1814 Heading(Taylor & Taylor)AuthorHussey, John A., edHeadlineVoyage of the Racoon - Taylor & Taylor 1958PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1958 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #114 Europe: A Prophecy Heading(Trianon Press)AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Europe from Trianon Press 1/526Publisher[Trianon Press for William Blake Trust]Date Published[1969] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #115 Europe: A Prophecy Heading(Trianon Press)AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Americafrom Trianon Press 1/526Publisher[Trianon Press for William Blake Trust]Date Published[1963] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #116 Ecclesiastes, or, the Preacher Heading(Trianon Press)AuthorShahn, BenHeadlineEcclesiastes illum. by Ben Shahn Trianon PressPublisher[Trianon Press]Date Published[1967] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #117 Haggadah for Passover Copied and Illustrated by Ben Shahn Heading(Trianon Press)AuthorShahn, BenHeadlineShahn Haggadah from Trianon Press 1/20PublisherTrianon PressDate Published[1966] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #118 A Discription and playne discourse of paper. From a Sparke of Friendship and Warme Goodwill written by Thomas Churchyard, Gent. London, 1588 Heading(Urabec, John H.)AuthorChurchyard, ThomasHeadlineDiscription and playne discourse of paper 1/5Date Published1982 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #119 Ten volumes - mostly from various California fine presses Heading(Various)Author**Headline10 vols most from various California fine pressesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #120 Ten volumes - mostly from various California fine presses Heading(Various)Author**Headline10 vols from most California fine pressesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #121 Texas Argonauts: Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush Heading(Wind River Press)AuthorDillon, Richard H.HeadlineWind River Press Texas ArgonautsPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1987 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #122 The Press of the Renaissance in Italy Heading(Windsor Press)AuthorJohnson, James SydneyHeadlinePress of the Renaissance in Italy Windsor PressPublisher[The Brothers Johnson at the Windsor Press]Date Published1927 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #123 Cawdor Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorJeffers, RobinsonHeadlineRobinson Jeffers Cawdor Yolla Bolly PressPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1983] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #124 The Inland Whale Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorKroeber, ThodoraHeadlineYolla Bolly Press Inland Whale by Kroeber 1/135PublisherThe Yolla Bolly PressDate Published[1987] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #125 True Bear Stories Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorMiller, JoaquinHeadlineYolla Bolly Press True Bear StoriesPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1985] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #126 My First Summer in the Sierra Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineJohn Muir from Yolla Bolly PressPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1988] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #127 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorSaroyan, WilliamHeadlineYolla Bolly Press SaroyanPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1984] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #128 Two Rivers Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorStegner, WallaceHeadlineYolla Bolly Two Rivers by Stegner 1/55PublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1989] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #129 Two volumes relating to Robinson Jeffers from the Yolla Bolly Press Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)Author**HeadlineRobinson Jeffers from the Yolla Bolly PressPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1983 & 1987] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #137 Opera Quotquot Reperiri Potuerunt Omnia Headingzzc(Bede, The Venerable)AuthorBedae, VenerabilisHeadlineVenerable Bede Opera Omnia 1612 EditionPublisherA. Hieratius & J. GymniciusDate Published1612 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #141 Two works with woodcut illustrations by Thomas and John Bewick Headingzzc(Bewick, Thomas & John)Author**Headline2 works with Thomas and John Bewick WoodcutsPublisherW. Bulmer And Co.Date Published1795 & 1796 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #143 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of Ireland; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed at they are to be Sung or Said in Churches Headingzzc(Book of Common Prayer)Author**HeadlineCommon Prayer of Church of Ireland 1722PublisherPrinted by A. Rhames, for J. Hyde, et al.Date Published1722 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #145 The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson HeadingzzcAuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 1785PublisherHenry Baldwin for Charles DillyDate Published1785 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #150 Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta - finely bound, with the arms of Louis XIV HeadingzzcAuthorCallimachusHeadlineCallimachus in a Louis XIV full morocco bindingPublisherSebastianus Mabre-CramoisyDate Published1675 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #168 The Golden Cockerel Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorPushkin, AlexanderHeadlineThe Golden Cockerel 1/1500 from LECPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published[1949] View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #177 The Imitation of Christ Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorÁ Kempis, ThomasHeadlineImitation of Christ Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindingPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published1926 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #184 Memoirs of Count Grammont AuthorHamilton, A[nthony]HeadlineMemoirs of Count Grammont 1793PublisherS. and E. HardingDate Published[1793] View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #193 Hogarth Illustrated Headingzzc(Hogarth, William)AuthorIreland, JohnHeadlineHogarth Illustrated by John Ireland 1791PublisherJ. and J. BoydellDate Published1791, 92, 98 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #196 The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets HeadingzzcAuthorHomerHeadlineThe Iliads of Homer, Prince of PoetsPublisherPrinted for Nathaniell ButterDate Published[1611?] View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #197 The Iliad [&] The Odyssey of Homer HeadingzzcAuthorHomerHeadlineThe Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer 1/600PublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1905 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #198 The Plan of St. Gall: A Study of the Architecture & Economy of, & Life in a Paradigmatic Carolingian Monastery HeadingzzcAuthorHorn, Walter & Ernest BornHeadlineThe Plan of St. Gall in 3 vols U of Calif pressPublisherUniversity of California PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #208 An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding HeadingzzcAuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineAn Essay Concerning Humane UnderstandingPublisherAwnsham and John Churchil, and Samuel ManshipDate Published1695 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #218 Vulgo Aemilii Probi de Vita AuthorNepos, CorneliusHeadlineCorn. Nepos Vulgo Aemilii Probi de VitaPublisherClaud Marnium & Jo. AubriiDate Published1608 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #219 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 HeadingzzcAuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et alDate Published1728 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #238 The Diary of Samuel Pepys HeadingzzcAuthorPepys, SamuelHeadlinePepys Diary 11 volumes with wooden boxPublisherThe Folio SocietyDate Published2003 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #247 The Fables of Phædrus, Translated into English Prose HeadingzzcAuthorPhædrusHeadlineThe Fables of Phædrus London 1745PublisherJoseph DavidsonDate Published1745 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #289 Museum Museorum, oder vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung... Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen... HeadingzzcAuthorValentini, Michael BernhardHeadlineValentini Museum Museorum Vol. 2 & 3 1714PublisherJ.D. Zunner's sel. erben und J.A. JungenDate Published1714 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #291 Opera AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineVirgil's Opera London 1715PublisherJacob Tonson and John WattsDate Published1715 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #292 The Stronger Sex as Seen by Vertès Headingzzc(Vertès)AuthorFlanner, JanetHeadlineThe Stronger Sex as Seen by VertèsPublisherHyperion PressDate Published[1941] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #306 The Ornithology...Wherein All the Birds Hitherto Known, Being Reduced into a Method Suitable to Their Natures, are Accurately Described...To Which are Added, Three Considerable Discourses...by John Ray HeadingzzcAuthorWillughby, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Willughby The Ornithology 1678PublisherPrinted by A.C. for John MartynDate Published1678 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next