Sale 776: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#776) 11/17/2022 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 11/17/2022 11:00 AM PST 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 1-79 of 79. Previous|1|Next Lot #21 The Handy Reference Atlas of the World View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorBartholomew, John, editorHeadlineFinely bound by Sangorski & SutcliffePublisherJohn Bartholomew & Son, Ltd.Date Published1928 Lot #33 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c. and Notes by Various Hands. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, nicely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published[1835] Lot #34 Mille et un Livres Botaniques, repertoire bibliographique de la bibliotheque Arpad Plesch View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorPlesch, ArpadHeadlineArpad Plesch Mille et un Livres BotaniquesPublisherArcadeDate Published1973 Lot #37 A History of the Art of Bookbinding with Some Account of the Books of the Ancients. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBrassington, W. Salt, editorHeadlineOne of 50 large paper copies, nicely boundPublisherElliot StockDate Published1894 Lot #39 The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on his Writings. To Which are Prefixed, some Observations on the Character and Condition of The Scottish Peasantry. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineNicely bound set of Robert Burns' worksPublisherPrinted for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies; W. CreechDate Published1801 Lot #40 The Gulistân, or Rose-Garden of The Sheikh Sa'di of Shiraz View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorBurton, Richard F., translatorHeadlineSangorski & Sutcliffe binding of Burton's Sa'diPublisherPhilip Allan & Co.Date Published1928 Lot #41 A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorBurton, Sir Richard F., translatorHeadlineArabian Nights, Library Edition, nicely boundPublisherPrinted by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers onlyDate Published1885 Lot #42 The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by Thomas Moore, Esq. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorByron, LordHeadlineNicely bound in 17 volumes by BirdsallPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1832-1833 Lot #45 The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorCarroll, LewisHeadlineHunting of the Snark, bound by Riviere & SonPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1876 Lot #46 Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America Intended to Contain Descriptions and Figures of All North American Birds... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorCassin, JohnHeadlineCassin's Birds of California finely boundPublisherJ.B. Lippincott & Co.Date Published1862 Lot #47 Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote, nicely bound by J. WrightPublisherJ.J. Dubochet & Co.Date Published1837 Lot #50 William Roscoe of Liverpool View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorChandler, GeorgeHeadlineSpecially bound by Zaehnsdorf after FazakerleyPublisherB.T. Batsford Ltd.Date Published1953 Lot #57 The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in Search of the Antique and the Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Author[Combe, William]HeadlineWith 20 hand-colored aquatint platesPublisherMatthew Iley; Bell and Bradfute; W. TurnbullDate Published[1821] Lot #58 Beautiful Seaweeds Illustrated by Natural Specimens. Also, Instructions for the formation of a Herbarium of Marine Algae, and a complete list of the British species View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorCook, JamesHeadlineWith 42 plates of pressed seaweed specimensPublisherPublished by J. & J. Cook, PrintersDate Published[1881] Lot #66 The Animal Kingdom. Arranged in Conformity with its Organization... with Additional Descriptions of All the Species Hitherto Named, and of Many Not Before Noticed by Edward Griffith and Others. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorCuvier, Baron [Georges]HeadlineCuvier's Animal Kingdom, complete in 16 volumesPublisherPrinted for Geo. B. WhittakerDate Published[1827-1835] Lot #68 Four works relating to Charles Darwin, two of them signed by his son Francis Darwin View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Darwin, Charles)HeadlineFour volumes relating to Charles DarwinDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #69 Selected Works of Charles Darwin View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineWorks of Charles Darwin, Westminster EditionPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published[1893] Lot #70 Seven works by Charles Darwin in eight volumes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadline19th cent. eds. of works by Charles DarwinPublisherJohn Murray [& Ward, Lock]Date PublishedVarious dates Lot #71 Three works in seven volumes, of life and letters of Charles Darwin and his family View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineLife & Letters of Darwin & his familyPublisherJohn MurrayDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #78 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineNicely bound copy of the Pickwick PapersPublisherDodd, Mead & CompanyDate Published1944 Lot #79 The Works of Charles Dickens View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Works handsomely bound by AspreyPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1897-1899 Lot #80 The French Bulldog: History of the Origin of the Breed, Its Cultivation and Development View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Dogs - French Bulldog)Author[Vedder, O.F., et al.]HeadlineThe French Bulldog, 1926PublisherHamilton Printing Co. for The French Bulldog Club of AmericaDate Published[1926] Lot #81 The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoughty, John & ThomasHeadlineFirst American sporting book with color platesPublisherJ. & T. DoughtyDate Published1830; 1832 Lot #82 The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle - Author's Edition View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineWorks of Arthur Conan Doyle 1/1000 signedPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1903 Lot #84 Peter Ibbetson View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDu Maurier, GeorgeHeadlinePeter Ibbetson, nicely bound by KnickerbockerPublisherHarper's New Monthly MagazineDate Published1891 Lot #85 Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Dulac, Edmund, illustrator)AuthorFitzgerald, Edward, translatorHeadlineOne of 750 signed by artist Edmund DulacPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1909] Lot #92 Family Secrets, or Hints to Those Who Would Make Home Happy View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Ellis, Sarah Stickney]HeadlineFamily Secrets by Sarah Stickney EllisPublisherFisher, Son, & Co.Date Published[1841] Lot #93 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineEmerson's Works, nicely bound by M. AlbinhacPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside PressDate Published[1903-1904] Lot #97 The Corsair View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore-edge Painting)AuthorByron, George Gordon Noel, LordHeadlineWith fore-edge paintingPublisherThomas Davison for John MurrayDate Published1814 Lot #101 The Reptiles of British India View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorGünther, Albert C.L.G.HeadlineWith 26 plates of various Indian reptilesPublisherPublished for the Ray Society by Robert HardwickeDate Published1864 Lot #102 Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum. Faksimileausgabe,... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorGessner, ConradHeadlineComplete set with 187 botanical color platesPublisherUrs GrafDate Published1972-1980 Lot #108 The Writings of Bret Harte View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorHarte, BretHeadlineComplete set of Harte's writings, nicely boundPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside PressDate Published[1896]-1914 Lot #109 Hawthorne's Works in Twenty-Five Volumes View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlineHawthorne's Works, nicely bound, Concord editionPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside PressDate Published1899 Lot #110 General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Of the Different Parts of the World... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorHill, JohnHeadlineJohn Hill A General Natural History 1748-52PublisherThomas OsborneDate Published1748, 51, 52 Lot #112 North American Herpetology; or, A Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorHolbrook, John EdwardsHeadlineHolbrook's expanded N. American HerpetologyPublisherJ. DobsonDate Published1842 Lot #116 Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorHudson, W. H.HeadlineGreen Mansions, bound by Sangorski & SutcliffePublisherDuckworthDate Published1931 Lot #122 The Naturalist's Library View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorJardine, William, editorHeadlineWith +1000 hand-colored plates of animalsPublisherW.H. LizarsDate Published1833-43 Lot #125 The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorJohnson, Samuel, editorHeadlineWorks of the English Poets, a complete setPublisherPrinted by John Nichols; for J. Buckland et al.Date Published[1790] Lot #126 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineWorks of Samuel Johnson in 11 volumesPublisherWilliam Pickering; Talboys and WheelerDate Published1825 Lot #127 Thirty Years with the Philippine Head-Hunters View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorKane, SamuelHeadlineHead-Hunters, Finely BoundPublisherJarrolds PublishersDate Published1934 Lot #131 The Writings in Prose and Verse View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineThe Prose and Poetry of Kipling in 21 volumesPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1899-1900 Lot #137 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorLincoln, AbrahamHeadlineWritings of Lincoln, Constitutional EditionPublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published[1905-1906] Lot #147 Human Longevity: Recording the name, age, place of residence, and year, of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799, comprising a period of 1733 years. With anecdotes of the most remarkable View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorEaston, JamesHeadlineJames Easton records names of long-liversPublisherJames Easton & John WhiteDate Published1799 Lot #162 The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMeehan, ThomasHeadlineChromolithograph botanical illustrations after LunzerPublisherAmerican Natural History Publishing Co.; Charles Robson & Co.Date Published1880 Lot #163 Minerals: A Catalogue of about two hundred lots, of British and Exotic Minerals... Also, a small parcel of fine African Bird Skins, Mahogany Cabinets, &c. Which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Thomas, at his Great Room... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Minerals)HeadlineAuction of rare minerals, 1825Date Published1825 Lot #164 Three important 16th century works on horticulture "secrets" by Antoine Mizauld, bound together View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorMizauld, AntoineHeadlineMizauld's agricultural "secrets" 1560-75PublisherFédéric MorelDate Published1560-1575 Lot #165 Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorMizner, AddisonHeadlineSigned by Addison Mizner, Edicion Imperial 1/100Publisher[H.H. Smith Publications]Date Published[1928] Lot #169 Petits Contes en Prose View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorMoreau, HégésippeHeadlineMoreau's Petits Contes bound by RaparlierPublisherLibrairie RouquetteDate Published1892 Lot #171 WITHDRAWN - The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorMosher, Thomas Bird, editorHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Thomas Bird Mosher The Bibelot Finely BoundPublisherThomas B. MosherDate Published1895-1915 Lot #173 Zoology of New-York, or New-York Fauna...Part V. Mollusca View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Natural History - New York)AuthorDe Kay, James E.HeadlineNatural History of New-York Part V: MolluscaPublisherCarroll and Cook, Printers to the AssemblyDate Published1843 Lot #174 Natural History of New York View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Natural History - New York)AuthorSeward, William HenryHeadline18 volumes from Natural History of NYPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1842-54 Lot #176 One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorNorthcote, JamesHeadlineNorthcote's One Hundred Fables, 1st seriesPublisherGeo: LawfordDate Published1828 Lot #179 The Golden Treasury Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPalgrave, Francis T., editorHeadlineThe Golden Treasury, finely bound by BayntunPublisherThe MacMillan CompanyDate Published1922 Lot #180 The Faces in the Fire; A Story for the Season. By Redgap View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Author[Pardon, George Frederick]HeadlineFaces in the Fire, bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherWilloughby and Co.Date Published[c. 1850] Lot #185 History of Quadrupeds View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorPennant, ThomasHeadlineThomas Pennant classifies the quadrupeds, 1793PublisherPrinted for B. & J. WhiteDate Published1793 Lot #188 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$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History in 2 volumes 1634PublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1634 Lot #193 Works of Charles Reade View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorReade, CharlesHeadlineReade's Works, expertly bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherThe Grolier SocietyDate Published[c. 1900] Lot #195 The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or the Frolicks of Fortune View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator)HeadlineDoctor Comicus with hand-colored platesPublisherPrinted for B. BlakeDate Published1815 Lot #196 Chesterfield Travestie; Or School for Modern Manners View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator)HeadlineChesterfield, finely bound by MorrellPublisherThomas TeggDate Published1808 Lot #197 American Entomology, or, Descriptions of the Insects of North America View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorSay, ThomasHeadlineThomas Say, American Entomology 1824-5PublisherPhiladelphia Museum / Samuel Augustus MitchellDate Published1824-5 Lot #198 Bibliotheca Botanica, sive catalogus auctorum et librorum, qui de Re Botanica, de Medicamentis ex Vegetabilibus paratis, de Re Rustica, & de Horticultura tractant... Accessit Bibliotheca Botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi, seu potius Ovidii Montalbani... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorSéguier, Jean FrançoisHeadlineSeguier's botanical bibliographyPublisherApud Cornelium HaakDate Published1760 Lot #199 The World in Miniature View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorSchoberl, Frederic, editorHeadlineComplete set, with numerous color platesPublisherR. AckermannDate Published[1821] Lot #200 The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineWorks of Shakespeare, nicely bound by BayntunPublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1856 Lot #201 The New Century (Trade-Mark) Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the latest edition of William Aldis Wright... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineNew Century Shakespeare Works, De Luxe EditionPublisherDana Estes and CompanyDate Published1900-1901 Lot #202 Poems of Shelley View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorShelley, Percy ByssheHeadlineShelley's, nicely bound by Sangorski & SutcliffePublisherMacmillan and Co., LimitedDate Published1922 Lot #205 Instructions for the Cultivating and Raising of Flax and Hemp: In a Better Manner, than that generally Practis'd in Ireland. [bound with] Observations made by Richard Hall... Hemp and Flax Dresser:... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorSlator, Lionel; Richard HallHeadlineIrish and Dutch methods of Hemp cultivationPublisherPrinted by George GriersonDate Published[1724] Lot #206 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineSmith's Wealth of Nations in 3 vols, 1786PublisherPrinted for A. Strahan; and T. CadellDate Published[1786] Lot #208 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh Edition View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadline34 Finely Bound Works of Stevenson, 1/1035PublisherLongmans, Green, and Co. et alDate Published1895-1898 Lot #209 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Vailima Edition View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineExcellently bound set of Stevenson's WorksPublisherCharles Scribner's Sons; William Heinemann and othersDate Published[1921] Lot #212 The Paris Sketch Book View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineParis Sketch Book, nicely bound by AtchardsPublisherJohn MacroneDate Published1840 Lot #213 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineThackeray's Works, bound by Harcourt BinderyPublisherDana Estes & CompanyDate Published[1900] Lot #214 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineWritings of Henry David Thoreau Finely BoundPublisherRiverside PressDate Published1898 Lot #221 Darwinism: an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with some of its applications View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineWallace defends Darwinism 1889 1st ed.PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1889 Lot #222 Studies Scientific and Social View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineStudies Scientific by Alfred Russel WallacePublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #223 Three volumes by A.R. Wallace, plus two others View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineNatural History by A.R. Wallace & othersDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #225 The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineThe Complete Writings of Walt WhitmanPublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published1902 Lot #226 Illustrations of Indian Botany; or Figures Illustrative of each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorWight, RobertHeadlineBotanizing in India with Robert Wight, 1840PublisherJ.B. Pharoah for the AuthorDate Published1840 Lot #228 The Works of Oscar Wilde View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorWilde, OscarHeadlineOscar Wilde's Works, bound by BrentanosPublisherLamb Publishing Co.Date Published[1909] Lot #229 The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, Agriculture and Early History... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorWilkinson, J.G.HeadlineWilkinson's History of the Egyptians, first editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1837 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next