Sale 769: Antiquarian Books with Fine Press and Fine Bindings (#769) 08/25/2022 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 08/25/2022 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 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 1-71 of 71. Previous|1|Next Lot #13 The Analects of Confucius View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorConfuciusHeadlineLimited Editions Club Analects of ConfuciusPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1933 Lot #22 The Tower of London. A Historical Romance View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorAinsworth, William HarrisonHeadlineAinsworth's Tower of London, Cruikshank illusPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1840 Lot #23 A Christmas Carol View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Bayntun-Riviere)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineBound by Bayntun Riviere, illus. by RackhamPublisherWilliam Heinemann; J.B. LippincottDate Published[1915] Lot #24 The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy View details Estimate$500 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBurckhardt, JacobHeadlineBurckhardt's Renaissance, handsomely boundPublisherC. Kegan Paul & Co.Date Published1878 Lot #25 German Popular Stories, with Illustrations After the Original Designs of George Cruickshank View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$2,000StatusSold HeadingCruikshank, George, illustratorHeadlineBrothers Grimm Illus by CruikshankPublisherJohn Camden HottenDate Published[c.1865] Lot #26 Lola Montez An Adventuress of the Forties View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorD'Auvergne, Edmund, B.HeadlineNicely bound with seven lithographed portraitsPublisherJohn Lane CompanyDate Published[1909] Lot #27 The British Novelists; with an Essay, and Prefaces Biographical and Critical... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorBarbauld, Anna Laetita, editorHeadlineWith six color fore-edge paintings of EnglandPublisherPrinted for F.C. and J. Rivington et alDate Published1820 Lot #33 The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: Memoir, Explanatory Notes, &c. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorHood, ThomasHeadlineWith a fore-edge painting of riders and dogsPublisherFrederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford and ArmstrongDate Published[ca. 1880] Lot #45 The Universal Anthology. A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorGarnett, Richard; Leon Vallée and Alois Brandl, editorsHeadlineHandsomely bound 33 volume Universal AnthologyPublisherThe Clarke Company; Merrill & Baker; Emile Terquem; Bibliothek VerlagDate Published[1899] Lot #46 A Staff Officer's Scrap-Book During the Russo-Japanese War View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorHamilton, IanHeadlineNicely bound account of the Russo-Japanese WarPublisherEdward ArnoldDate Published1905 Lot #47 The Story of My Life View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorHare, Augustus J.C.HeadlineAugustus Hare's Memoirs, handsomely boundPublisherGeorge AllenDate Published1896-1900 Lot #48 The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter, of California View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorHittell, Theodore H.HeadlineHittell's Adventures of James Capen AdamsPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1911 Lot #49 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorHolmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.HeadlineWritings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Riverside EditionPublisherRiverside PressDate Published1895-96 Lot #50 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellHeadlineWendell Holmes Breakfast Books, nicely boundPublisherWilliam PatersonDate Published[ca. 1883-1890] Lot #51 [Works of Victor Hugo] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineThe Works of Victor Hugo, Guernsey EditionPublisherEstes and LauriatDate Published[ca. 1892] Lot #52 Of the Imitation of Christ View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorKempis, Thomas A.HeadlineImitation of Christ finely bound 1898PublisherLawrence & BullenDate Published1898 Lot #53 Beauty and the Beast View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorLamb, CharlesHeadlineCharles Lamb's Rhyming Beauty & BeastPublisherField & TuerDate Published[1887] Lot #54 Memoirs of Baron Lejeune Aide-de-Camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout, and Oudinot. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Lejeune, Louis-François]HeadlineBaron Lejeune's popular memoirs, nicely boundPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1897 Lot #55 Henry of Guise and Other Portraits View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMacdowall, H.C.HeadlineNicely bound biography of Henry of GuisePublisherMacmillan and Co.; The Macmillan CompanyDate Published1898 Lot #56 The Poems of Richard Monckton Milnes View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorMilnes, Richard MoncktonHeadlineThe Poetry of Richard Milnes, Finely BoundPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1838 Lot #57 Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorMosby, John S.HeadlineStuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg CampaignPublisherMoffat, Yard and Co.Date Published1908 Lot #58 Le Fond du Sac ou Recueil de Contes en Vers et en Prose & de Pieces Fugitives View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorNogaret, Francois-Felix, et al.HeadlineNogaret's Poetry and Prose, Finely Bound 1/30PublisherLeclereDate Published1866 Lot #59 Marie Antoinette the Dauphine. [and] Marie Antoinette the Queen. View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorNolhac, Pierre deHeadlineMarie Antoinette by de Nolhac, finely boundPublisherGoupil & Co. / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.Date Published[1897-98] Lot #60 The English Dance of Death,... Volume I & II [with] The Dance of Life,... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)Author[Combe, Richard]HeadlineIllus. by Rowlandson, bound by Riviere & SonPublisherPublished by R. AckermannDate Published1815-1817 Lot #61 A Biographical History of England, From Egbert the Great to the Revolution: Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes, and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads:... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorGranger, J.HeadlineJ. Granger's history bound by Riviere & SonPublisherWilliam Baynes and SonDate Published1824 Lot #62 The Story of Nell Gwyn: and the Sayings of Charles the Second View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Riviere)AuthorCunningham, Peter, editorHeadlineNell Gwyn, Royal Mistress, Bound by RivierePublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1862 Lot #63 The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(The Robe Bindery)AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlineWorks of Henry Fielding, bound by Robe BinderyPublisherBickers and SonDate Published1902-1903 Lot #64 Villani's Chronicle, Being Selections From The First Nine Books Of The Croniche Fiorentine Of Giovanni Villani View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorSelfe, Rose E., translatorHeadlineMedieval Chronicle, 1907 Ed. Finely BoundPublisherE.P. Dutton and CompanyDate Published1907 Lot #65 The National Shakespeare: A Facsimile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe National Shakespeare 1st Folio FacsimilePublisherWilliam MackenzieDate Published[c.1900] Lot #66 Roderick the Last of the Goths. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSouthey, RobertHeadlineSouthey's Roderick, handsomely boundPublisherLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and GreenDate Published1826 Lot #67 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh Edition View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadline34 Finely Bound Works of Stevenson, 1/1035PublisherLongmans, Green, and Co. et alDate Published1895-1898 Lot #68 Italian Byways View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSymonds, John AddingtonHeadlineSymond's Italian travelogue, nicely boundPublisherHenry Holt and CompanyDate Published1883 Lot #69 The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineCentenary Edition of Tennyson, nicely boundPublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1909 Lot #70 The Mirror of the World View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorUzanne, OctaveHeadlineMirror of the World, nicely boundPublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1889 Lot #71 Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. de Voltaire. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorVoltaire, François-Marie Arouet deHeadlineThe illustrated Voltaire, nicely boundPublisherPrinted for P. DodsleyDate Published1794 Lot #72 A Narrative of The Events Which Have Taken Place in France from the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte On The First Of March, 1815, Till The Restoration of Louis XVIII. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorWilliams, Helen MariaHeadlineFinely Bound Work of Napoleonic HistoryPublisherThe Burrows Brothers CompanyDate Published1895 Lot #73 Celebrated Trials Connected with the Aristocracy in the Relations of Private Life. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorBurke, PeterHeadlineHandsomely bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherWilliam Benning & Co.Date Published1849 Lot #74 Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton with Numerous Extracts from Her Ms. Autobiography and Other Original Documents, Published in Vindication of Her Memory View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorDevey, LouisaHeadlineBiography of Rosina Lytton, bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherSwan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.Date Published1887 Lot #75 Maximes la Rochefoucauld View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)Author[La Rochefoucauld, Francois Duc de]HeadlineRochefoucauld's Maximes, bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherArthur L. HumphreysDate Published1902 Lot #76 The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorShelley, Percy ByssheHeadlineShelley's Works bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1839 Lot #126 Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus." With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings. Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, in Facsimile by W.J. Linton, and in Photolithography; with a few of Blake's Original Plates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Blake, William)AuthorGilchrist, AlexanderHeadlineGilchrist's Life of William Blake, nicely boundPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1863 Lot #127 Essays on Physiognomy; For the Promotion and the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Blake, William, illustrator)AuthorLavater, John CasparHeadlineNicely illustrated and bound set on PhysiognomyPublisherSymonds and WalkerDate Published1804 Lot #139 L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ [and] L'Imitation de Iésus-Christ. Historique de l'Ornamentation des Manuscrits & Explication des Planches View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Chromolithography - Medieval Facsimiles)HeadlineChromolithograph facsimile illuminated manuscriptPublisherGruel EngelmannDate Published[c.1865] Lot #152 George Cruikshank's Portraits of Himself View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Cruikshank, George, illustrator)AuthorLayard, George SomesHeadlineWith over forty illustrations by CruikshankPublisherW.T. SpencerDate Published1897 Lot #160 L'Oeuvre Inédit de Gavarni Planches Rares et Lithographies Posthumues cent vingt Reproductions en Héliotypie par Léon Marotte View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Gavarni, Paul, illustrator)AuthorRobiquet, JeanHeadlineNicely bound, w/ 120 heliogravures by GavarniPublisherH. Floury, ÉditeurDate Published[1922] Lot #170 Jacob Jordaens His Life and Work View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Jordaens, Jacob, artist)AuthorRooses, MaxHeadlineNicely bound work on the art of Jacob JordaensPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.; E.P. Dutton Co.Date Published1908 Lot #173 Collection of 1920s fashion designs by Louise Lamotte View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorLamotte, LouiseHeadlineWith 190 fashion designs from 1920s ParisPublisherLouise LamotteDate Published1920-1924 Lot #188 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Pogány, Willy, illustrator)AuthorKhayyám, OmarHeadlineRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, illus. by Willy PogányPublisherThomas Y. Crowell Company Lot #196 The Ingoldsby Legends; Or Mirth & Marvels View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorIngoldsby, ThomasHeadlineRiviere-Bound Rackham Ed. of the IngoldsbyPublisherJ.M. Dent & SonsDate Published1930 [actually 1949] Lot #212 The Spectator View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Author[Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele, editors]HeadlineEarly edition of The Spectator 1712-15PublisherS. Buckley and J. TonsonDate Published1712-1715 Lot #217 Resuscitatio. Or, bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works Civil, Historical, Philosophical, and Theological, hitherto sleeping...[bound with] Several Letters, Written by This Honourable Authour, to Queen Elizabeth, King James, Divers Lords, and Others View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineHitherto "sleeping" texts by Francis Bacon, 1661PublisherPrinted by S. Griffin for William Lee; Printed by F.L. for William LeeDate Published1661; 1657 Lot #230 Oriental Series: Japan and China View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorBrinkley, Captain F.HeadlineOriental Series Japan and China - Artists' Edition 1/500PublisherJ. B. MilletDate Published[1901] Lot #244 The Battle of Life [with] The Cricket on the Hearth View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineTwo works from Dickens, bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 Lot #246 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineMartin Chuzzlewit, First Ed., 2nd IssuePublisherChapman and HallDate Published1844 Lot #270 Dialoghi piacevolissimi di Nicolò Franco da Benevento. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorFranco, NiccolòHeadlineFranco's Dialoghi, as censored by the ChurchPublisherPresso Altobello SalicatoDate Published[1590] Lot #275 Among the Selkirk Glaciers Being the Account of a Rough Survey in the Rocky Mountain Regions of British Columbia View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGreen, William SpotswoodHeadlineEarly Canadian Mountaineering, 1890PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1890 Lot #276 The Works of Gerald Griffin View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorGriffin, GeraldHeadline8 Vols of Griffin's Poetry, Handsomely BoundPublisherD. & J. Sadlier & Co.Date Published[c.1857] Lot #277 A History of Greece; From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorGrote, GeorgeHeadlineNicely bound set of Grote's History of GreecePublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1862 Lot #279 The History of Great Britain, from the First Invasion of it by the Romans under Julius Caesar. Written on a New Plan. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorHenry, RobertHeadlineRobert Henry's History of Great BritainPublisherPrinted for A. Strahan; and T. CadellDate Published[1788] Lot #282 Hesperides or the Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorHerrick, RobertHeadlineHerrick's Poems, Finely Bound in 2 Vols, 1846PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1846 Lot #285 Isokratous Logoi Kai Epistolai. Isocratis Orationes et Epistolae, Cum Latina Interpretatione Hier. Wolfii, ab ipso postremùm regognita, Henr. Steph. in Isocratem Diatribae VII: quarum van observationes... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorIsocratesHeadlineIsocrates and Diatribae from Henri EstiennePublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published[1593] Lot #287 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineWorks of Samuel Johnson in 11 volumesPublisherWilliam Pickering; Talboys and WheelerDate Published1825 Lot #294 Anti-Goeze... D.I. Nothgedrungener beytraege zu den Freywillingen betraegen des hrn. past. Goeze. View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorLessing, Gotthold EphraimHeadlineLessing debates Goeze, 1778Publisher[Waisenhausbuchhandlung]Date Published1778 Lot #295 Epistolarum selectarum centuria prima [-quinta] miscellanea. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorLipsius, JustusHeadlineLetters of Lipsius, Plantin-Moretus printingPublisherEx officina Plantiana, apud Ioannem Moretum; viduam & filios Ioannis MoretiDate Published[1605-1614] Lot #297 Kate Carnegie View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorMaclaren, IanHeadlineKate Carnegie, Signed by Ian MaclarenPublisherDodd, Mead and CompanyDate Published1896 Lot #298 Œuvres Complettes de M. de Marivauz, de l'Académie Françoise View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorMarivaux, Pierre deHeadlineHandsome set of French playwright MarivauxPublisherChez la Veuve DuchesneDate Published1781 Lot #344 My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorStanley, Henry M.HeadlineHenry Stanley's travels in America and AsiaPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1895 Lot #346 Uncle Tom's Cabin View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorStowe, Harriet BeecherHeadlineUncle Tom's Cabin, finely boundPublisherJohn CassellDate Published1852 Lot #357 Recollections of a Minister to France 1869-1877 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorWashburne, E.B.HeadlineNicely bound set of Washburne's RecollectionsPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1887 Lot #359 Opera Omnia, exegetica, didactica, et polemica. Quorum Seriem versa pagina exhibet. Cum indicibus necessariis. View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorWolzogen, Johann Ludwig vonHeadlineRadical Reformation commentaries from WolzogenPublisher[Frans Kuyper, & Daniel Bakkamude]Date Published1656 Lot #360 The Three Cities: Lourdes, Rome, Paris View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorZola, EmileHeadlineZola's Three Cities nicely bound in 6 volumesPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1897 & 1898 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next