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)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-59 of 59. Previous|1|Next 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 #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 #28 The Poetical Works View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorCampbell, ThomasHeadlineWith color fore-edge painting of Fast CastlePublisherEdward MoxonDate Published[1848] Lot #29 Democritus in London with the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-Fellow to Which are added Notes Festivous Etc. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$150StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)Author[Daniel, George]HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of St. Paul's cathedralPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1852 Lot #30 Cranford View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGaskell, Elizabeth CleghornHeadlineWith color fore-edge painting of a ShipPublisherMacmillan and Co., LimitedDate Published1898 Lot #31 Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGesner, J.M., editorHeadlineWith fore-edge paintings of Badminton and StowePublisherHarding, Mavor, et LepardDate Published[1824] Lot #32 The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorGleig, G.R.HeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Wellington in uniformPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1877 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 #34 The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, with Notes, Index of First Lines and Chronological List. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorHorder, W. Garrett, editorHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of ship City of MobilePublisherHenry FrowdeDate Published1910 Lot #35 Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorIrving, WashingtonHeadlineFore-edge paintings of Goldsmith and DublinPublisherBell & DaldyDate Published1868 Lot #36 The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorLowell, James RussellHeadlineWith a color fore-edge paintingPublisherWard, Lock, & Co.Date Published[ca. 1900] Lot #37 Critical and Historical Essays View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMacaulay, Thomas BabingtonHeadlineWith a fore-edge painting of a Holkham HallPublisherLongmans, Green, Reader, and DyerDate Published1874 Lot #38 Milton's Paradise Lost. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Battersea BridgePublisherT. Longman, B. Law, P. Dodsley et al.Date Published1795 Lot #39 Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer on the Sundays and other Holy-days throughout the Year [and] The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)HeadlineWith fore-edge paintings of Basingwerk & ConwyPublisherPrinted at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co.Date Published[1834] Lot #40 Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord 1826. Being the Second After Bisextile. Adorned with many delightful and useful Verities... in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorRider, Cardanus, compilerHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of an armored knightPublisherPrinted for the Company of StationersDate Published1826 Lot #41 Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Norham CastlePublisherArchibald Constable and Company; William Miller and John MurrayDate Published1811 Lot #42 The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Including his Great Metrical Romances, Copyright Lyrical Pieces, Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads. with a Memoir of the Author. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineWith fore-edge painting of Norham CastlePublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published[1861] Lot #43 The Lady of the Lake View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineLady of the Lake with fore-edge paintingPublisherAdam and Charles BlackDate Published1871 Lot #44 The Natural History of the Bible View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorTristram, H.B.HeadlineWith a charming fore-edge painting of DresdenPublisherSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. & J. B. Young & Co.Date Published1898 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 #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 #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 #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 #178 Joséphine Impératrice et Reine View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMasson, FrédéricHeadlineEmpress Josephine with aquatint platesPublisherGoupil et CieDate Published1899 Lot #211 Notes on Railroad Accidents View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorAdams, Charles FrancisHeadlineEarly railroad accidents, 1879PublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1879 Lot #216 The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorAstle, ThomasHeadlineThe Origin and Progress of Writing 1803PublisherJ. WhiteDate Published1803 Lot #218 Notice sur deux fragments d'un Pentateuque hébreu-samaritain rapportés de la Palestine par M. le sénateur F. de Saulcy. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorBargès, Jean Joseph Léandre, editor and translatorHeadline'Song of Moses' in Samaritan, Hebrew and LatinPublisherImprimerie Polyglotte Édouard BlotDate Published1865 Lot #225 Methodus ad Facilem Historiarum Cognitonem View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBodin, JeanHeadlineJean Bodin's easy method for learning historyPublisherSumptibus Joannis RavesteinyDate Published[1650] Lot #229 Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorBrand, JohnHeadlineObservations on Popular Antiquities, finely boundPublisherCharles Knight and Co.Date Published1841 Lot #232 Limitation of Offspring, Transmission of Character and Increase of Crime. Its Causes and Remedies Scientifically Discussed. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Author[Buckley, N.G.]HeadlineScarce Eugenics text on family planningPublisherBy the AuthorDate Published1893 Lot #234 The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorCamden, WilliamHeadlineCamden's history of the reign of Queen ElizabethPublisherPrinted by E. Flesher for Charles Harper and John AmeryDate Published1675 Lot #236 The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England; Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCoke, EdwardHeadlineFourth part of Coke's history of English LawPublisherPrinted for A. Cooke, W. Leake, A. Roper et al.Date Published1669 Lot #240 The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom. Collected from the Publick Records of the Nation, the Charters and other Writings of the Nobility, and from the most approved Histories. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCrawfurd, GeorgeHeadlineCrawfurd's 1716 Peerage of ScotlandPublisherGeorge StewartDate Published1716 Lot #242 Stephani Curcellaei Opera Theologica, quorum pars praecipua institution religionis Christianae. Cum indicibus necessariis. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDe Courcelles, ÉtienneHeadlineTheological works of Étienne de CourcellesPublisherApud Danielem ElserviriumDate Published[1675] Lot #249 The World's Great Classics View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDwight, Timothy et al, editorsHeadline7 Vols of Classics in Modern History WritingPublisherThe Colonial PressDate Published1899 Lot #250 The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day or the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead: The Egyptian Hieroglyphic Text Edited from Numerous Papyri View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Egypt)AuthorBudge, E.A. WallisHeadlineThe Book of the Dead in hieroglyphicsPublisherKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.Date Published1910 Lot #251 The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Egypt)AuthorBudge, E.A. WallisHeadlineWallis Budge study of the Rosetta StonePublisherKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.Date Published1904 Lot #252 A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII. B.C. 30 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Egypt)AuthorBudge, E.A. WallisHeadlineE.A. Wallis Budge History of Egypt 8 vols. 1902PublisherKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.Date Published1902 Lot #253 Two works on ancient Egyptian texts published by the British Museum View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Egypt)HeadlineTexts from ancient EgyptPublisherTrustees of the British MuseumDate Published1913 & 1955 Lot #269 A History of Champagne with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorVizetelly, HenryHeadlineHistory of Champagne Wines of France 1882PublisherVizetelly & Co.Date Published1882 Lot #272 Orientalisch- und occidentalischer Sprachmeister, welcher nicht allein hundert Alphabete nebst ihrer Aussprache, so bey denen meisten europäisch- asiatisch- africanisch- und americanischen Völckern... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorFritz, Johann FriedrichHeadlineGerman Enlightenment text on Linguistics, 1748PublisherChristian Friedrich GessnerDate Published1748 Lot #274 Historia Di M. Bernardo Giustiniano Gentiluomo Vinitiano. Dell Origine de Vinegia, & Delle Cose Fatte da Vinitiani. Nella Quale Anchora Ampiamente Tradotta da Lodovico Domenichi View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorGiustiniani, BernardoHeadlineGiustiniani's History of Venice, 1545Publisher[Bernardo Bindoni]Date Published[1545] 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 #278 Theatrum Historicum et Chronologicum: æqualibus denariorum, quinquagenariorum & centenariorum intervallis; cum assignatione View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHelvici, ChristophoriHeadlineChristof Helvig's chronology, 1662PublisherH. HallDate Published1662 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 #281 Herodotou Alikarnasseos I'storiōn logoith: epigraphomenoi Mousai tou autou Exegesis peri tes Homerou biotes = Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarvm lib. IX: Eiusdem narratio de vita Homeri View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorHerodotus, Henri Estienne, Lorenzo Valla, Joachim Camerarius, and CtesiasHeadlineEstienne edition of Herodotus, 1592PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1592 Lot #292 The Accedens of Armory View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorLegh, GerardHeadlineExcellent 1562 illustrated survey of heraldryPublisher[Richard Tottill]Date Published[1562] Lot #296 Titi Livii Historiarum Ab Urbe Condita View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineElsevier Bros 1664-5 Ed. of Livy, Finely BoundPublisherLudovicum & Danielem ElseviriosDate Published1664-65 Lot #317 Histoire Generale de Normandie. View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorMoulin, Gabriel duHeadlineHistory of Normandy, 1631PublisherJean OsmontDate Published1631 Lot #329 Antonii Pichardi Vinuesae I.C. Hispani... In quatuor Institutionum Imperatoris Iustiniani libros veterarecens Quarta hac Editione, cui eiusdem Iustiani accesit contextus, in duos divisa tomos renouata commentaria... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorPichardo Vinuesa, AntonioHeadlineSpanish law under Emperor JustinianPublisherex Officina Viduae Francisci Fernandez de CordouaDate Published1630 Lot #330 C. Plini Panegyricus Liber Trajano Dictus, Cum Annotationibus ante hac ineditis Dominici Baudii. Iis Accedunt Comentarius Justi Lipsii, integrae notae Joannis Livinaei, Jani Gruteri, Conradi Rittershusii, ac Selectae Variorum. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPliny the YoungerHeadlinePliny, the Younger's Letters, Speeches, 1675PublisherHackianaDate Published1675 Lot #339 A Character of King Charles the Second: And Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSavile, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Savile reflects on the character of Charles IIPublisherJ. and R. Tonson and S. DraperDate Published1750 Lot #340 The Life of the Lady VVarner. Of Parham in Suffolk. In Religion Call'd Sister Clare of Jesus. The Second Edition, to which is added An Abridgement of the Life of her Sister-in-law Mrs. Elizabeth Warner... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Scarisbrike, Edward]Headline1692 Biography of Sister Clare of JesusPublisherPrinted by Tho: HalesDate Published1692 Lot #345 Scriptores Rerum Silesiacarum oder Sammlung Schlesischer Geschichtschreiber, Namens der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Cultur View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorStenzel, Gustav AdolfHeadlineUncommon Silesian History, 3 volsPublisherJosef Max & KompDate Published1839 Lot #354 Statuts de L'Ordre de Saint-Esprit au Droit Desir ou du Noeud Institué a Naples en 1352 ... Manuscrit du XIVme Siècle Conservé au Louvre dans le Musée des Souvrains Français... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorViel-Castel, M. le Comte Horace deHeadlineChromolithograph Facsimile of 1352 ManuscriptPublisherEngelmann et GrafDate Published1853 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next