Sale 694: Rare Books & Manuscripts at the Pasadena Book Fair (#694) 02/06/2020 10:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/06/2020 10:00 AM PST Auction Info 694 508 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 1-40 of 40. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 The Railway Alphabet View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Alphabet Book)HeadlineVictorian railway-themed alphabet bookPublisherDean & SonDate Publishedc. 1867-73 Lot #7 Scarecrow of Oz with Pirates in Oz View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBaum, L. Frank and Ruth Plumly ThompsonHeadlineTwo Oz AdventuresPublisherReilly & LeeDate Published1918 and 1931 Lot #8 Sugar-Loaf Mountain View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Baum, L. Frank)AuthorBancroft, LauraHeadlineScarce and popular non-Oz title by Baum under pseudonymPublisherReilly & LeeDate Published1906 Lot #9 Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Baum, L. Frank)AuthorVan Dyne, EdithHeadlineL. Frank Baum's last book published in his lifetimePublisherReilly & BrittonDate Published1918 Lot #10 The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees. It Was Written for Boys, But Others May Read It View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorBaum. L. FrankHeadlineL. Frank Baum's Fairy Tale on the Mystery of ElectricityPublisherBowen-Merrill Co.Date Published1901 Lot #11 Two Autograph Letters and Four Typed Letters Signed by Pearl S. Buck View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBuck, Pearl S.HeadlineSigned letters from Pearl S. Buck to her illustratorDate PublishedJanuary 8, 1932-November 21, 1938 Lot #23 Scenes From the Life of Nickleby Married View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineScarce edition of Scenes From the Life of Nickleby MarriedPublisherJohn WilliamsDate Published1840 Lot #27 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. To Which is Prefixed The Life of the Author View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlineA beautifully bound copy of The History of Tom JonesPublisherPrinted for J. WalkerDate Published1819 Lot #39 Abacus View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorKarr, MaryHeadlineFirst book by author of The Liars' ClubPublisherWesleyan University PressDate Published1987 Lot #40 The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places + Wee Willie Winkie + In Black and White View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineA Kipling SammelbandDate Published1889-1891 Lot #51 The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorStanford, FrankHeadlineThe Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love YouPublisherMill Mountain Press/Lost Roads PublishingDate Published1977 Lot #63 Asconii Pediani explanatio in Ciceronis orationes in C. Verrem, in orat. pro C. Cornelio, in orat. contra competitores, in orat. pro M. Scauro, in orat. contra L. Pisonem, in orat. pro Milone View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorAsconius Pedianus, QuintusHeadlineQuintus Asconius Pedianus from Aldine PressPublisherPaulus ManutiusDate Published1563 Lot #64 Ciceronis De oratore libri III. Orator. De claris oratoribus View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorCiceroHeadlineAldine edition of Cicero, 1559PublisherPaulus ManutiusDate Published1559 Lot #72 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandment View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineQuarto edition of King James Bible 1613 with mapPublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 Lot #73 [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement. Appointed to be read in Churches] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Headline"She" Bible issue of King James Bible, 1613-1611Publisher[Robert Barker]Date Published[1613-1611] Lot #74 The Book of Ahania View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineFacsimile of Blake's Ahania, 1892, finely boundPublisher[Quaritch}Date Published[1892] Lot #75 The Book of Thel View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineMuir facsimile of Blake's Book of Thel, 1885Publisher[William Muir]Date Published[1885] Lot #76 Visions of the Daughters of Albion View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineMuir facsimile of Blake's Daughters of AlbionPublisher[William Muir]Date Published[1885] Lot #77 The Writings of William Blake View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Blake's Writings from Nonesuch Press, 1/75 copiesPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1925 Lot #92 The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language. And Adorned with several Copper Plates View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John NewtonDate Published1687 Lot #93 Archive of original artwork for the book, "The Big Ball of String," the author/artist's best known work View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Children's Literature - original artwork)AuthorHolland, MarionHeadlineOriginat artwork for A Big Ball of String, 1958Date Published[c.1958] Lot #107 Psalterium Davidis - emblem book with copper-engraved scenes from Genesis and the New Testament View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Emblem Books)HeadlineEmblem book with engraved Biblical scenesDate PublishedNo date Lot #108 Essays View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineEmerson's Essays, 1841 1st edition in original clothPublisherJames Munroe and CompanyDate Published1841 Lot #111 [Elements, i.e.] The English Euclide, being the First Six Elements of Geometry, Translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and useful Supplements, by Edmund Scarburgh, M.A. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorEuclidHeadlineHandsomely printed Euclid's Elements, 1705PublisherPrinted at the TheaterDate Published1705 Lot #124 Les Miserables View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineLes Miserables with Victor Hugo ALSPublisherGeorge Routledge & SonsDate Published1886 Lot #127 Archive of 37 incunabula leaves from different 15th century books View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Heading(Incunabula)HeadlineArchive of 37 incunable leaves, 1470-1500Date Published1470-1500 Lot #128 Isocratis Orationes omnes, quae quidem ad Nostram Aetatem Pervenervunt, Vna Et Viginti Nvmero, Vna Cvm Novem eiusdem Epistolis, e Graeco in Latinum conuersae, per Hieronymvm VVolfivm Oetingsem... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorIsocratesHeadlineWolf's translation of Isocrates, 1548PublisherPer Ioannem Oporinum.Date Published1548 Lot #129 A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Johnson, Samuel]HeadlineJohnson's Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1775 Lot #130 The Sundering Flood View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineKelmscott Sundering Flood with hand-illuminationsPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1897 Lot #133 Suite of 24 hand-colored mezzotints designed and engraved by John Martin for the 1827 two-volume edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorMartin, JohnHeadlineJohn Martin's mezzotints for Paradise Lost in large formatPublisherSeptimus ProwettDate Published1825-1827 Lot #140 Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake: Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain'd & Samson Agonistes View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineNonesuch MIlton with Blake illustrations, 1/90PublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1926 Lot #142 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1634 2nd edition in EnglishPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 Lot #143 An Essay on Man. Address'd to a Friend. Part I [with] An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Author[Pope, Alexander]HeadlineAlexander Pope's An Essay on Man, 1733-34PublisherJ. WilfordDate Published[1733-34] Lot #144 Absconditorum a constitutione mundi clavis, qua mens humana tam in divinis quam in humanis pertinget ad interiora velminis aeternae veritatis View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$2,437.50StatusSold AuthorPostel, GuillaumeHeadlinePostel's Absconditorum, 1547 first editionPublisher[apud Joann. Oporinum]Date Published[1547] Lot #150 Sketchbook of Lewis Carleton Ryan View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorRyan, Lewis CarletonHeadline1942 sketchbook of original drawings by Lewis C. RyanDate Published1942 Lot #152 Kupfer-Bibel: in welcher Die Physica Sacra, Oder Beheiligte Naturwissenschafft Derer in Heil. Schrifft Vorkommenden Natürlichen Sachen, Deutlich Erklärt und Bewährt View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorScheuchzer, Johann JakobHeadlineScheuchzer's Kupfer-Bibel/Physica Sacra, 1731-35PublisherGedruckt bey C.U. WagnerDate Published1731-5 Lot #154 The Comedie of Errors View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Comedie of Errors 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #155 Measure for Measure View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Measure for Measure 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #157 The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorSterne, LaurenceHeadlineTrustam Shandy with Laurence Stern's signatures, 1760-1767PublisherR. & J. Dodsley/ T. Becket & P.A. DehontDate Published1760-1767 Lot #162 Letter from Walt Whitman, inviting the unnamed correspondent to visit him View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineAutograph letter signed by Walt WhitmanDate PublishedSept. 22 [no year] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next