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AckermannDate Published1812 Lot #62 Westminster View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBesant, WalterHeadlineWalter Besant's Westminster finely boundPublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1902 Lot #63 Lives of the Fathers, martyrs and other principal saints compiled from original monuments and authentic records View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorButler, AlbanHeadlineButler's Lives of the Saints, 1859PublisherJ. DuffyDate Published1859 Lot #64 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineOrigin of Species in prize bindingPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1897 Lot #65 Essays View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineDoves Press edition Emerson's Essays, 1/300PublisherDoves PressDate Published1906 Lot #66 Crusade in Europe View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineEisenhower's Crusade in Europe finely boundPublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc.Date Published1948 Lot #67 Novels and Letters of Jane Austen - The Chawton Edition View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineJane Austen - The Chawton EditionPublisherFrank S. HolbyDate Published1906 Lot #68 Israel: The Establishment of a State View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorSacher, HarryHeadlineFounding of Israel in fine bindingPublisherGeorge Weidenfeld & NicolsonDate Published[1952] Lot #69 The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)HeadlineAdventures of Baron Munchausen finely bound by BayntunPublisherLawrence & BullenDate Published[c.1895] Lot #70 Seven Letters Concerning the Politics of Switzerland, Pending the Outbreak of the Civil War in 1847 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorGrote, GeorgeHeadlineGrote's letters on the Swiss Civil WarPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1876 Lot #71 The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorJerrold, BlanchardHeadlineIllustrated Life of George CruikshankPublisherChatto & WindusDate Published1882 Lot #72 Battles and Leaders of the Civil War View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorJohnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel, editorsHeadlineBattles and Leaders of the Civil War 4 volsPublisherCentury Co.Date Published[1887-1888] Lot #73 Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorLivingstone, DavidHeadlineLivingstone's Missionary Travels in Africa 1857PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1857 Lot #74 Journal d'une Femme de Cinquante Ans 1778-1815. View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorMarquise de La Tour-du-Pin Gouvernet, Henriette-Lucie DillonHeadlineJournal d'une Femme de Cinquante An 1913PublisherLibrairie ChapelotDate Published1913 Lot #75 Elements of General History Ancient and Modern View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMillot, Claude-François-XavierHeadlineMillot's Elements of General History RevisedPublisherArchibald Constable & Co.Date Published1823 Lot #76 The Poetical Works of Robert Browning View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Poetry)AuthorBrowning, RobertHeadline6 Volumes of Robert Browning's PoetryPublisherSmith, Elder, & Co.Date Published1882 Lot #77 The Poems of William Shakespeare, According to the Text of the Original Copies, Including the Lyrics, Songs, and Snatches Found in His Dramas View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlinePoetry of Shakespeare bound by Bayntun, 1/450Publisher[Essex House Press]Date Published1899 Lot #78 The Works of Shakspeare View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe works of Shakespeare w/steel engraved platesPublisherVirtue & Co.Date Published[c.1870] Lot #79 Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great: With the trial of Francis Ravaillac, for the Murder of Henry the Great,... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorSully, Maximilien de Bethune, Duc deHeadlineMemoirs of the Duke of Sully finely boundPublisherStirling and Slade, et alDate Published1819 Lot #80 The Imitation of Jesus Christ, Translated from the Latin Original Ascribed to Thomas à Kempis View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Thomas à Kempis)AuthorDibdin, Thomas Frognall, translatorHeadlineDibdin's translation of Thomas à KempisPublisherWilliam Pickering and John MajorDate Published1828 Lot #81 A History of British Birds View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorYarrell, WilliamHeadlineYarrell's British Birds finely boundPublisherJohn Van BoorstDate Published1843 Lot #82 The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener: Containing A New Method of Improving Estates and Gardens... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorAgricola, [Georg Andreas]HeadlineAgricola's The Experimental Husbandman and GardenerPublisherW. MearsDate Published1726 Lot #83 The History of Esculent Fish View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorAlbin, Eleazar and Roger NorthHeadlineHistory of Esculent Fish 18 plates by Albin 1794PublisherEdward Jeffery, et. al.Date Published1794 Lot #84 Botanical Illustrations of the Twenty-four Classes in the Linnaean System of Vegetables, by Select Specimens of English Plants View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Botanical)HeadlineDarton Harvey and Darton Botanical IllustrationsPublisherDarton, Harvey, and DartonDate Published1813 Lot #85 Twenty-two hand-colored botanical and entomological prints published by Thomas and Samuel Curtis View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorCurtis, Thomas and EdwardHeadlineTwenty-two hand-colored botanicals from Curtis MagazinePublisherThomas and Edward CurtisDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #86 [Collection of plates from] Flora Londinensis...a History of the Plants Indigenous to Great Britain View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorCurtis, WilliamHeadlineEleven hand-colored botanical engravingsDate Published[c. 1777] Lot #87 Twelve hand-colored botanical engravings published by William Curtis View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)AuthorCurtis, WilliamHeadlineTwelve hand-colored botanicals published by W. CurtisPublisherWilliam CurtisDate Published1789-97 Lot #88 Forty-eight botanical color plates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorEaton, Mary EmilyHeadlineForty-eight botanical color plates by Mary Emily EatonPublisherAddisonia: A Publication of the New York Botanical GardenDate PublishedNo date Lot #89 Botanical Prints with Excerpts from the Artist's Notebooks [with] folding broadside signed by Henry Evans View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorEvans, HenryHeadlineBotanical Prints by Henry Evans with signed broadsidePublisherW.H Freeman and CompanyDate Published[1977] Lot #90 Four linocuts by Henry Evans with two broadsides and miscellaneous ephemera View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorEvans, HenryHeadlineFour linocuts by Henry Evans with broadsides & ephemeraPublisher[Peregrine Press]Date PublishedVarious dates Lot #91 Five hand-colored botanical and entomological lithographs from drawings by F.E. Guérin View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorGuérin, [Félix Édouard]HeadlineFive hand-colored plates by F.E, GuérinDate PublishedNo date Lot #92 Seven miscellaneous 19th century botanical prints, some hand-colored View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)Headline7 miscellaneous colored botanical printsDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #93 Six folio hand-colored botanical engravings - two from William Curtis's Flora Londinensis View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)HeadlineSix folio hand-colored engraved botanicalsDate Published[Late 18th century] Lot #94 Sixteen nineteenth century hand-colored botanical plates View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)HeadlineSixteen 19th century hand-colored botanical platesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #95 Fifteen hand-colored botanical engravings by James Sowerby, many with letterpress descriptions View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)AuthorSowerby, JamesHeadlineFifteen hand-colored botanical engravings by SowerbyPublisherJames SowerbyDate Published[c 1800] Lot #96 Twelve hand-colored botanical engravings by James Sowerby, nine of which with letterpress descriptions View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorSowerby, JamesHeadlineTwelve hand-colored botanicals by James SowerbyPublisherJames SowerbyDate Published1812; 1863 Lot #97 Thirty seven botanical plates - some hand-colored View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)Headline37 botanical color platesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #98 Three hand-colored copper engravings from Deliciae Naturae Selectae View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Conchology)AuthorKnorr, Georg WolfgangHeadlineThree hand-colored engravings of shellsDate Published[c. 1770] Lot #99 A Practical Treatise of Husbandry: Wherein are contained, many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations in the New Husbandry, Collected during a Series of Years, by the Celebrated... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDuhamel du Monceau, [Henri-Louis]HeadlineA Practical Treatise of Husbandry by Duhamel du MonceauPublisherJ. Whiston and B. WhiteDate Published1759 Lot #100 [Thirty-seven lithograph plates from] Vol. V of Natural History of New York View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorEmmons, EbeneezerHeadlineWith 34 hand-colored plates of butterflies and insectsPublisherPrinted by C. Van BenthuysenDate Published1854 Lot #101 Diodon Atinga [with] Blennius Gunellus/Blennius Pholis - two plates from Okonomische Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Auslandischen Fische View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Ichthyology)AuthorBloch, Marcus ElieserHeadlineTwo late 18th century ichthyological plates, hand-coloredDate Published[1786-87] Lot #102 [Twenty hand-colored lithographs from] Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen: Darstellung und Beschreibung der im Arzneibuche für das Deutsche Reich erwähnten Gewächse View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Kohl, F.G., artist)AuthorBerg, O.C., K. Schumann, et al.HeadlineTwenty hand-colored botanical lithos by F.G. KohlPublisherVerlag von Arthur FelixDate Published[1890's] Lot #103 Soma and the Fly-Agaric; Mr. Wasson's Rejoinder to Professor Brough View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Mycology)HeadlineSoma and the Fly-AgaricPublisherBotanical Museum of Harvard UniversityDate Published1972 Lot #104 Twenty-four volumes on mushrooms: medicinal, delectable, and magical—even magickal View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Mycology)HeadlineA mycological cornucopiaDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #105 Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Mycology)AuthorWasson, R. GordonHeadlineSoma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, 1st trade editionPublisherHarcourt Brace JovanovichDate Published[1968] Lot #106 Assorted collection of over fifty natural history plates, many hand-colored View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Natural History)HeadlineOver fifty natural history plates, many hand-coloredDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #107 Seven miscellaneous hand-colored natural history plates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Natural History)HeadlineSeven hand-colored natural history platesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #108 A Group of Auriculas - plate IX from the Temple of Flora View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorThornton, RobertHeadlineA Group of Auriculas plate from Temple of FloraPublisherPublished by the authorDate Published[c. 1810] Lot #194 The Book of the Pearl View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorKunz, George Fredrick & Charles Hugh StevensonHeadlineKunz & Stevenson The Book of the PearlPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1908 Lot #206 One Thousand American Fungi, How to Select and Cook the Edible; How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poisonous View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorMcIlvaine, CharlesHeadlineOne Thousand American Fungi author's edition 1900PublisherBowen-MerrillDate Published[1900] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next