Sale 472: Rare Books & Manuscripts (Monday after S.F. Book Fair) (#472) 02/06/2012 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/06/2012 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 472 62 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 1-42 of 42. Previous|1|Next Lot #6 Les Antiquités Bouddhiques de Bamiyan View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Afghanistan)AuthorGodard, A., et al.HeadlineThe Buddhas of BamiyanPublisherLes Editions G. Van OestDate Published1928 Lot #13 Das Deutsche Heer und die Marine View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Headingzzf(Costume)AuthorArnould, Georg & Felix von OlbergHeadlineColor lithos of German Military by ArnouldPublisherKunstanstalt (vormals Gustav W. Seitz) A.-O.Date Published[1891] Lot #18 Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Asian)Author**Headline41 vols. Journal Royal Asiatic SocietyDate Published1865-1948 Lot #21 [Report on the Excavation of Two Southern T'Ang Mausoleums] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Asian)Author**HeadlineRare report on Chinese excavations 1957PublisherCulture Objects PressDate Published1957 Lot #22 Ying-Ch'êng-Tzu: The Han Brick-Tomb with Fresco-Paintings, &c., near Chien-Mu-Ch'êng-J, South Manchuria View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Asian)Author**HeadlineHan Brick-Tomb Fresco-Paintings ManchuriaPublisherKwanto Government MuseumDate Published1934 Lot #23 Shi Liao Xun Kan [Journal of Historical Sources] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Asian)AuthorArchive department of the Palace MuseumHeadlineJournal of Historical Sources Quing DynastyPublisherPrinted by Jin Hua Printing HouseDate Published1930-1931 Lot #27 Tung-ching-ch'êng: Report on the excavation of the site of the capital of P'o-hai View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Asian)AuthorHarada, Yoshito, et al.HeadlineExcavation of the site of the capital of P'o-haiPublisherToa-koko-gakukwai, or the Far-Eastern archaeological SocietyDate Published1939 Lot #28 A New Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide Book View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Asian)AuthorHuang Shiu-fu and T'an Chung-yoHeadlineNew Edition of the Omei Illustrated Guide BookPublisherWest China Union UniversityDate Published1936 Lot #29 Yong Le Da Dian Ben Shui Jin Zhu [Commentary on “ The Waterways Classic” taken from “The Encyclopedia of the Young Le Era”] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Asian)AuthorLi Dao Yuan (d. 527)HeadlineWork on the ancient geography of ChinaPublisherThe Commercial PressDate Published1935 Lot #30 Tai Ping Yu Lan [Imperial Readings of the Tai Ping Era] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Heading(Asian)AuthorLi Fang and othersHeadlineImperial Readings of the Tai Ping EraPublisherXue Hai TangDate Published1892 Lot #33 Les grottes de Touen-Houang: Peintures et sculptures bouddhiques des époques des Wei, des T'ang et des Song View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Asian)AuthorPelliot, PaulHeadlineGrottes de Touen-Houang, ChinaPublisherLibrarie Paul GeuthnerDate Published1920-1924 Lot #34 Gao Lan Xian Xu Zhi [Gao Lan County Chronicle] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Asian)AuthorQin Weiyue, Huang Jing, Lu Zhitian & Zhang TingxunHeadlineChina - Gao Lan County Chronicle 1847PublisherGao Lan Shu Yuan [The Academy of Gao Lan]Date Published1847 Lot #35 T’oung Pao ou Archives pour servir à l’étude de l’histoire, des langues, la geographie et l’ethnographie de l’Asie Orientale (Chine, Japon, Corée, Indo-Chine, Asie Centrale et Malaisie) View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Asian)AuthorSchlegel, Gustave & Henri Cordier, et al., editorsHeadline1st 38 volumes of T'oung Pao Archives 1890-1931PublisherE.J. BrillDate Published1890-1931 Lot #37 Xi Qing Xu Jian [The supplement to the Catalogue of Chinese Antique Bronzes from the collection of the Emperor Qianlong of Quing Dynasty, Part B or Second Part] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Asian)AuthorWang Jie and othersHeadlineCatalogue of Chinese Antique BronzesPublisherBeiping (Beijing) Antiquities Exhibition Institute (the National Museum)Date Published1931 Lot #38 Fei Hung Tang Yi Pu [Fei Hung Tang Seal Collections] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Asian)AuthorWang Qi ShuHeadlineFei Hung Tang Seal Collections - ChineseDate Publishedc.1900? Lot #39 Nan Zhao Ye Shi Shang [An Unofficial History of Nan Zhao Kingdom: Volume One] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Asian)AuthorYang Shen; revised by Hu WeiHeadlineHistory of Nan Zhao KingdomPublisherYunna BookstoreDate PublishedDuring Reign of Emperor Guan Xu (1875-1908) Lot #66 The Costume of the Russian Empire, Illustrated by a Series of Seventy-Three Engravings View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Costume)Author**HeadlineThe Costume of the Russian Empire 73 color platesPublisherW. MillerDate Published1803 Lot #67 Von Wunderland zu Wunderland: Landschafts- und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorCronau, RudolfHeadlineVon Wunderland zu Wunderland 50 collotype platesPublisherMax Spohr / T.O. WeigelDate Published[1885]-1887 Lot #71 Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$23,750StatusSold AuthorDu Halde, Jean-BaptisteHeadlineDu Halde’s China, 1st ed., 4 volumes, 1735PublisherP.G. Le MercierDate Published1735 Lot #74 Five offprints of works by Egyptologist Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, two of them presentation copies View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Egypt)AuthorChampollion-Figeac, Jacques JosephHeadlineEgyptologist Jacques Joseph Champollion-FigeacDate Published1826-1857 Lot #79 La Mode - 9 volumes, with 103 hand-colored plates View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Fashion)Author**HeadlineLa Mode - 9 volumes, with 103 hand-colored platesPublisher[Edouard Proux]Date Published1830s-40s Lot #80 Magasin för Konst, Nyheter och Moder - Volumes 10 & 13 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fashion)Author**HeadlineSwedish fashion magazine from 1833 & 1836PublisherCarl DeleenDate Published1833, 1836 Lot #81 Recueil Général de Coëffures de Différents Goûts, où l'on Voit la Manière Dont se Coëffoient les Femmes, sous Différens Règnes, à Commencer en 1589 Jusqu'en 1778 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fashion)Author**HeadlineRare work on 18th century hairstylesPublisherChez DesnosDate Published[1788] Lot #82 The Lady's Monthly Museum, or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction - Volumes 1 & 16 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Headingzzf(Fashion)Author**HeadlineThe Lady's Monthly Museum - Color Fashion PlatesPublisherVernor & HoodDate Published1798 & 1806 Lot #84 Secret Court Memoirs View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineSecret Court Memoirs 20 Vols. Finely BoundPublisherGrolier SocietyDate Published[c.1900] Lot #97 Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineVoyage of Discovery to the West Coast of CoreaPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1818 Lot #99 Four Autograph Letters, signed, from an early American entrepreneur in Hawaii View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Hawaii)AuthorCalkin, Milo and ElizabethHeadline1843-44 A YANKEE ENTREPRENEUR IN HAWAIIDate PublishedNovember 3, December 22, 1843; & January 28, 1844 Lot #101 Herodotou logoi ennea, oiper epipalountai Mousai/ Herodoti Libri novem, qvibvs Mvsarvm indita svnt nomina ... Ad haec View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorHerodutusHeadlineHerodutus in Greek 1557Publisherex officina HeruagianaDate Published1557 Lot #119 WITHDRAWN. Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, consusio linguarum, inde gentium transmigrationis... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Turris Babel 1679PublisherJanssonio-WaesbergianaDate Published1679 Lot #127 Under the Northern Lights View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorMacGahan, J.A.HeadlineUnder the Norther Lights by MacGahan 1876PublisherSampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & RivingtonDate Published1876 Lot #134 Lettres Américaines, dans lesquelles on examine l'Origine, l'État Civil, Politique, Militaire & Religieux, les Arts, l'Industrie, les Sciences, les Mœurs, les Usages des anciens Habitans de l'Amérique; les grandes Epoques de la Nature, l'ancienne Communication des deux Hémisphères, & la dernière Révolution qui a fait disparoître l'Atlantide : pour servir de suite aux Mémoires de D. Ulloa - Emperor Maximilian I's copy View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico - His Copy)AuthorCarli, M. Le Comte J.R.HeadlineEmperor Maximilian I's copyPublisherChez BuissonDate Published1788 Lot #142 Le Siécle de Napoléon, Galerie des Illustrations de L'Empire View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Headingzzf(Napoléon)Author**HeadlineLe Siécle de Napoléon 25 colored lithographsPublisherAdministration de LibrairieDate Published1846 Lot #149 Voyage a Travers la Mongolie el la Chine View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPiassetsky. P.HeadlineVoyage a Travers la Mongolie el la ChinePublisherLibrarie Hachette et Cie.Date Published1883 Lot #153 Le Costume Historique View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorRacinet, M.A.HeadlineRacinet's Le Costume Historique 1888PublisherFirmin-DidotDate Published1888 Lot #164 The History of the Caribby-Islands, viz. Barbados, St. Christopher, St. Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis, Antego, &c. in all XXVIII. In Two Books. The First containing the Natural; The Second, the Moral History of those Islands. Illustrated with several Pieces of Sculpture, representing the most considerable Rarities therein Described. With a Caribbian-Vocabulary View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Rochefort, Charles de]HeadlineHistory of the Caribby Islands 1666PublisherPrinted by J.M. for Thomas Dring and John StarkeyDate Published1666 Lot #166 Journal of a Missionary Tour Through the Desert of Arabia to Bagdad View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorSamuel, JacobHeadlineTour thru Arabia to Bagdad 1844PublisherMaclachlan, Stewart, & Co.Date Published1844 Lot #175 Interesting Narrative of the Loss His Majesty's Armed Vessels the Porpoise and Cato of London, Upon Wreck Reef, on Their Passage from New South Wales to China; Interspersed with Occasional Remarks on New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. By an Officer of the Porpoise, Never Before Published. Also, The Loss of the Doddington, East Indiaman View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Shipwreck)AuthorOfficer of the Porpoise, AnHeadlineLoss of the Porpoise and CatoPublisherThomas TeggDate Published[1808] Lot #183 [History of the Pelopponesian War, i.e.]: Thoukudides meta scholion palaion.../ Thucydides cum Scholiis et Antiquis... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides in Greek, 1540PublisherOfficina HervagianaDate Published1540 Lot #185 The Golden Fleece, Divided into three Parts, Under which are discovered the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the Wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colehos, out of the Southernmost Part of the Iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Junior, for the generall and perpetuall Good of Great Britaine View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Author[Vaughan, William]HeadlineThe Golden Fleece by William Vaughan 1626PublisherFrancis WilliamsDate Published1626 Lot #190 Journeys in North China, Manchuria, and Eastern Mongolia; With Some Account of Corea View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorWilliamson, AlexanderHeadlineWilliamson's Journeys in North ChinaPublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1870 Lot #193 Japanese Propaganda Poster Appealing to Filipino Anti-American Nationalism View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(World War II Propaganda Poster)Author**HeadlineWWII Japanese Propaganda PosterDate Publishedc.1942 Lot #194 British anti-Nazi Propaganda Poster for Iran View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(World War II Propaganda Poster for Iran)Author"Kem" [Kimon Evan Marengo]HeadlineBritish anti-Nazi Propaganda Poster for IranPublisher[British Ministry of Information]Date Published[c.1943] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next