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Previous|1|Next Lot #5 Portfolio 1984 [with] The Loom View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Copper Canyon Press)AuthorHamill, Sam et al.HeadlinePoetry broadsides and a chapbook from Sam Hamill et al.PublisherCopper Canyon PressDate Published1984; [1975] Lot #6 Four volumes by Sam Hamill from his Copper Canyon Press View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Copper Canyon Press)AuthorHamill, SamHeadlineFour volumes by Sam Hamill, three signedPublisherCopper Canyon PressDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #8 The Good European and Other Poems View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Cummington Press)AuthorBlackmur, R.P.HeadlineSigned by R.P. Blackmur, 1/40PublisherThe Cummington PressDate Published1947 Lot #9 Five Tales View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Cummington Press)AuthorMaxwell, WilliamHeadlineSigned with note and inscription by William MaxwellPublisherThe Cummington PressDate Published1988 Lot #14 Unsought Intimacies: Poems of 1991 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Koch, Peter, printer)AuthorGunn, ThomHeadlineThom Gunn, Theophilus Brown, & Peter KochPublisherPeter Koch, PrinterDate Published1993 Lot #15 The Confessions of Saint Augustine View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorAugustine of HippoHeadlineSigned by Edy LegrandPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1962 Lot #18 Grimm's Fairy Tales View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorGrimm, BrothersHeadlineSigned by Lucille CorcosPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1962 Lot #21 Metamorphoses: In Fifteen Books View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorOvidHeadlineSigned by Hans Enri and Giovanni MardersteigPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1958 Lot #22 Rights of Man View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorPaine, ThomasHeadlineSigned by Lynd WardPublisherThe Limited Editions ClubDate Published1961 Lot #25 Lives of the Most Eminent Painters View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorVasari, GiorgioHeadlineLives of the Most Eminent Painters, LECPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1966 Lot #29 The Charm: Early and Uncollected Poems View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Perishable Press)AuthorCreeley, RobertHeadlineSigned by Robert Creeley, 1/250PublisherThe Perishable PressDate Published1967 Lot #30 Selected Poems View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Perishable Press)AuthorCunningham, J.V.HeadlineSigned by the poetPublisherThe Perishable PressDate Published1971 Lot #31 Remains Poems View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Perishable Press)AuthorGardons, S.S. [W.D. Snodgrass]HeadlineSigned by W.D. SnodgrassPublisherThe Perishable PressDate Published1970 Lot #33 Two chapbooks and a folding broadside from Walter Hamady's Perishable Press View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Perishable Press)HeadlineWith a broadside signed by Michael OndaatjePublisherThe Perishable PressDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #38 The Names of the Lost View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Windhover Press)AuthorLevine, PhilipHeadlineSigned by Philip Levine, 1/200PublisherWindhover PressDate Published1976 Lot #39 Two volumes from Windhover Press View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Windhover Press)AuthorMerwin, W.S.; James LaughlinHeadlineOne signed by W.S. MerwinPublisherWindhover PressDate Published[1978]; [1982] Lot #40 Regarding Wave View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Windhover Press)AuthorSnyder, GaryHeadlineSigned by Gary Snyder, 1/280PublisherWindhover PressDate Published[1969] Lot #41 The Continuous Life View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Windhover Press)AuthorStrand, MarkHeadlineMark Strand The Continuous Life Windhover PressPublisherWindhover PressDate Published1990 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 #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 #121 Certificate verifying Emma Jean Arnold participated in the Manhattan Project to build an Atomic Bomb during World War II View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Atomic Bomb)HeadlineEphemera from dawn of Atomic AgeDate Published6 August 1945 Lot #137 Animal Sketching View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorCalder, AlexanderHeadlineAlexander Calder's Animal sketching w/jacketPublisherBridgman PublishersDate Published[1926] Lot #138 Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorCalder, AlexanderHeadlineCalder's Three Young Rats in jacketPublisherCurt ValentinDate Published1944 Lot #142 The Year's at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Clarke, Harry, illustrator)AuthorWalters, L. D'o.HeadlineSigned by Harry Clarke, 1/250PublisherGeorge G. HarrapDate Published1920 Lot #154 The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Dryden, John, translator)AuthorVirgilHeadlineSecond edition of Dryden's VirgilPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1698 Lot #170 Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings... Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorGiacometti, AlbertoHeadlineGiacometti exhibit catalogue 1948Date Published1948 Lot #179 Twenty-four Selections from his Work View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHart, George O. "Pop"HeadlineWith a signed lithograph by Pop HartPublisherThe Downtown GalleryDate Published1928 Lot #193 A Birthday Book View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorKent, RockwellHeadlineSigned by Rockwell KentPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1931 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 #204 Long Walk to Freedom - inscribed to Wayne Dyer View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorMandela, NelsonHeadlineInscribed by Nelson Mandela to Wayne DyerPublisherAbacusDate Published[1995] 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] Lot #218 The Road Less Traveled [with] The Different Drum View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPeck, M. ScottHeadlineTwo first editions by M. Scott Peck, one signedPublisherSimon and SchusterDate Published[1978]; [1987] Lot #219 P. Moschidis: Zeichnungen 1963-1968 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Petropoulos, Ilias)AuthorMoschidis, PawlosHeadlineInscribed by Ilias Petropoulos to Paul GrayPublisher[Grafische Gestaltung Anakreon Kanawakis]Date Published1969 Lot #223 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Heading(Pogany, Willy, illustrator)AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorHeadlineWilly Pogany Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1 of 25PublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co.Date Published[1910] Lot #224 Posters: A Critical Study Of The Development Of Poster Design In Continental Europe, England And America View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Posters)AuthorPrice, Charles MatlackHeadlinePosters, 1/250PublisherGeorge W. BrickaDate Published1913 Lot #230 Tales from Shakespeare View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorLamb, Charles & MaryHeadlineLarge paper edition signed by Arthur RackhamPublisherJ.M. Dent / E.P. DuttonDate Published1909 Lot #234 Rembrandt Drawings: Twenty-five Years in the Peck Collection View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Rembrandt)AuthorPeck, SheldonHeadlineRembrandt Drawings in the Peck Collection 1/400Date Published2003 Lot #236 Every Building on the Sunset Strip View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorRuscha, EdwardHeadlineRuscha Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966Publisher[Edward Ruscha]Date Published1966 Lot #237 Egon Schiele: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Schiele, Egon)AuthorLeopold, RudolfHeadlineThe artwork of Egon Schiele, 1/50 copiesPublisherPhaidonDate Published[1973] Lot #238 Shakespeare in Pictorial Art [with] Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man Illustrated View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Shakespeare, William)AuthorSalaman, C.; W. BromleyHeadlineTwo illustrated works of ShakepeareanaPublisherThe Studio Ltd.; W. BromleyDate Published1916;1799 Lot #241 Scar Strangled Banner - signed with four signed items promoting the book View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorSteadman, RalphHeadlineSteadman Scar Strangled Banner - signedPublisherSalem HouseDate Published[1988] Lot #242 Monokatari Genji gojūyon chō - ものかたり源氏五十四帖 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Tale of Genji)AuthorKawarazaki, KōtōHeadlineArtistic rendering of the Tale of Genji ch. 54PublisherUchida Bijutsu ShoshiDate Published1935 Lot #248 The Magic Flute: With Musical Themes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adapted and Illustrated by Warren Chappell - First Edition, library binding variant and First UK Edition View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorUpdike, JohnHeadlineIncludes a first edition inscribed by John UpdikePublisherAlfred A. Knopf; André Deutsch & Edmund WardDate Published[1962]; [1964] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next