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 1-63 of 63. Previous|1|Next Lot #7 Autograph Letter, signed from an ex-Kentucky slave in Liberia Heading(African-American)AuthorPriest, Rev. James M.HeadlineALs from an ex-Kentucky slave in LiberiaDate PublishedFeb. 2, 4, and 9, 1847 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #8 Principvm Christianorvm Stemmata. Cum breuibus eiusdem notationib[us] pars ex Archiuis Pp. desc. Adiecto stem[m]ate Othomannico AuthorAlbizzi, AntonioHeadlineRare work of noble family trees with city viewsPublisherDominici CustodisDate Published1608 [but 1609] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #10 Autograph Document, signed. - Receipt for an ad in the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser offering "black girl for sale" Heading(American Revolution)AuthorClaypoole, JohnHeadlineSigned by Betsy Ross' husband John ClaypooleDate PublishedMarch 23, 1795 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #11 Draft Letter, signed with initials, predicting the defeat of General How[e] Heading(American Revolution)AuthorGurney, JosephHeadlineJoseph Gurney draft letter w Revolution contentDate PublishedSeptember 19, 1777 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 The Quadrupeds of North America AuthorAudubon, John James and John BachmanHeadlineAudubon's Quadrupeds with colored lithogaphsPublisherV[ictor] G[ifford] AudubonDate Published1851-1854 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #43 Lower California. The Peninsula. Now Open to Colonists: Tierra Perfecta, the perfect land of the mission fathers Heading(Baja California)Author**HeadlineRare Baja California Land Brochures1887PublisherInternational Company of MexicoDate Published[1887] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #48 Biblioglyphé sive Icones Biblicae, Arte Chalcographica & Poetica praecipues S. Scripturae Historias perquam eleganter representanter. Heading(Bible - Polyglot)AuthorAmmon, Johan, editorHeadlineStriking Biblical engravings, 1643PublisherTypis Caspari Rötelii, impensis Johannis AmmoniiDate Published1643 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #49 Single Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible Heading(Bible in Algonquin)Author**HeadlineSingle Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible 1663Publisher[Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson]Date Published1663-61 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #50 The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement. Appointed to be read in Churches Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineKing James Bible 2nd folio 1613PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #51 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in Churches Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineJohn Baskerville's Bible 1763PublisherPrinted by John Baskerville, Printer to the UniversityDate Published1763 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 Two title-pages from 16th century English language editions of the Bible Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineTitles of 16th century English editions the BibleDate Published1566 & 1576 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #53 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #54 Times of the Bible: veyled in cubits, shekels, talents, furlongs, chapters, verses, letters, of the Scripture: with the days, hours, watches, weeks and months of the Jewish year Heading(Biblical)Author**HeadlineRare Times of Bible with occult, 1667Date Published1667 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #55 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments... Heading(Book of Common Prayer)Author**HeadlineBook of Common Prayer 1713 with engravingsPublisherJohn BaskettDate Published1713 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #57 Northern California, a description of its soil, climate, productions, markets, occupied and unoccupied lands. Homes in a winterless climate, where all the products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones grow to perfection Heading(California)HeadlineRare Northern California promotional booklet 1885PublisherH.S. Crocker & Co.Date Published1885 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #58 Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible... AuthorCalmet, AugustinHeadlineCalmet's Bible Dictionary with maps & platesPublisherEmery, et al.Date Published1722-1728 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #60 The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly Corrected and Amended AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSecond English Edition of Don Quixote 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew CookeDate Published1652 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #67 Von Wunderland zu Wunderland: Landschafts- und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union AuthorCronau, RudolfHeadlineVon Wunderland zu Wunderland 50 collotype platesPublisherMax Spohr / T.O. WeigelDate Published[1885]-1887 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #68 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man 1871 1st Edn, 2nd PtgPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #69 The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner [with] The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life... Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe 2 vols. 1719PublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1719 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #70 Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des métiers… HeadingzzfAuthorDiderot, Denis & Jean le Rond d'AlembertHeadlineComplete set of Diderot's Encyclopedia 4to EdnPublisherJean-Leonard Pellet (Imprint varies)Date Published1778-79 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 The Butterflies of North America - First Series, plus several parts from second series AuthorEdwards, William H.HeadlineThe Butterflies of North America Color PlatesPublisherHoughton, Osgood and CompanyDate Published1879 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold 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 Heading(Fashion)Author**HeadlineRare work on 18th century hairstylesPublisherChez DesnosDate Published[1788] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #85 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates AuthorFranklin, BenjaminHeadlineBen Franklin's Experiments on Electricity 1774PublisherPrinted for F. NewberyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #86 Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues. I. Of the Resistance of Solids against Fraction. II. Of the Cause of their Coherence. III. Of Local Motion, viz. Equable, and naturally Accelerate. IV. Of Violent Motion, or of Projects. By Galileo Galilei, Chief Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. With an appendix concerning the center of gravity of solid bodies. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston, late Master, and now publish’d by John Weston, present Master, of the Academy at Greenwich AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineGalileo's Mathematical Discourses 1730PublisherJ. HookeDate Published1730 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #95 Delineatio montis a metropoli Hasso-Cassellana uno circiter milliari distantis, qui olim Winter-Casten, id est, Hiemis Receptaculum dicebatur, nunc autem Carolinus audit, ob ædificia & aquarum fontes quibus... Carolus, Langravius Hassiæ... illum posteritatis monumento magnificè exornavit... AuthorGuernieri, Giovanni FrancescoHeadlineRare work on Italian architecture 1706PublisherTypis Henrici HarmesDate Published1706 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #96 Bound for Glory AuthorGuthrie, WoodyHeadlineWoody Guthrie Bound for Glory First Edition in DJPublisherE.P. Dutton & Co.Date Published1943 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #99 Four Autograph Letters, signed, from an early American entrepreneur in Hawaii Heading(Hawaii)AuthorCalkin, Milo and ElizabethHeadline1843-44 A YANKEE ENTREPRENEUR IN HAWAIIDate PublishedNovember 3, December 22, 1843; & January 28, 1844 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #101 Herodotou logoi ennea, oiper epipalountai Mousai/ Herodoti Libri novem, qvibvs Mvsarvm indita svnt nomina ... Ad haec AuthorHerodutusHeadlineHerodutus in Greek 1557Publisherex officina HeruagianaDate Published1557 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #110 Illustrated manuscript arithmetic copy book - Fabulous original illustrations throughout Heading(Illustrated Manuscript)Author**HeadlineArithmetic copy book with fantastic illustrationsDate Published1808 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #111 Partial leaf (1 column) of Liber Sextus Decretalium, printed on vellum by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer Heading(Incunable)AuthorBoniface VIIHeadlineIncunable leaf printed on vellumDate Published1465 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #112 Autograph Letter, signed, presenting a gift of a Jefferson law book to President Andrew Jackson Heading(Masonic)Author[Goodenow, John M.] Wonedoog M. NhojHeadlineGIFT OF A JEFFERSON LAW BOOK TO PRESIDENT JACKSONDate PublishedA[nno] L[ucis] 5830 [1830] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #114 Autograph Letter, signed, to his wife while fleeing from French Troops AuthorJuarez, BenitoHeadlineALs From Benito Juarez to his wife while fleeingDate PublishedSept. 22, 1864 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #115 Two Typed Letters, signed, regarding anti-Semitic portrayals in motion pictures Heading(Anti-Semitism)AuthorLewis, Leon L.Headline2 TLs regarding anti-semitic portrayals in filmsDate Published1914 & 1915 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #118 WITHDRAWN - Mundus Subterraneus, in XII libros digestus; quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturæ in eo distributio, verbo pantámorphou Protei regnum, universæ denique naturæ majestas & divitiæ summa rerum varietate exponuntur. Abditorum effectuum causæ acri indagine inquisitæ demonstrantur; cognitæ per artis & naturæ conjugium ad humanæ vitæ necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo, & ratione applicantur AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Mundus Subterraneus 1665PublisherJoannem Janssonium & Elizum WeyerstratenDate Published1665 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold 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... AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Turris Babel 1679PublisherJanssonio-WaesbergianaDate Published1679 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #120 The Koran, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed Heading(Koran)AuthorSale, George, translatorHeadlineFirst Sale edition of The Koran 1734PublisherPrinted by C. Ackers for J. WilcoxDate Published1734 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #126 Two unpublished letters about General James Wilkinson, noted soldier, traitor, spy and first Governor of Louisiana Heading(Louisiana Territory)AuthorWilkinson, James B. (Jr.); Henry Dearborn; George IngersollHeadlineTwo letters re General James WilkinsonDate Published1803-04 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #128 Autograph Letter, signed, from the Utopian "Father of American Geology" then residing in Mexico AuthorMaclure, WilliamHeadlineALs from the Father of American GeologyDate PublishedOctober 1, 1836 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #133 Partielle Differentialgleichungen und deren Anwendung auf physikalische Fragen. Vorlesungen Heading(Mathematics)AuthorRiemann, BernhardHeadlineEarly mathematics course by Bernhard RiemannPublisherF. ViewegDate Published1869 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold 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 Heading(Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico - His Copy)AuthorCarli, M. Le Comte J.R.HeadlineEmperor Maximilian I's copyPublisherChez BuissonDate Published1788 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #139 Gone With the Wind AuthorMitchell, MargaretHeadlineGone With the Wind inscribed in jacketPublisherMacmillanDate Published1936 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #140 Essayes Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne ... done into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio HeadingzzfAuthorMontaigne, Michel Eyquem deHeadlineMontaigne's Essays 1613 Translated by FlorioPublisherPrinted by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William BarretDate Published1613 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #143 The New Dealers - Signed by F.D.R. and approximately 80 other New Dealers Heading(New Deal)Author"Unofficial Observer"HeadlineThe New Dealers - Signed by F.D.R. and othersPublisherLiterary GuildDate Published[1934] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #144 WITHDRAWN Manuscript Document Signed by William Franklin as Colonial Governor of New Jersey Heading(New Jersey)AuthorFranklin, WilliamHeadlineDocument signed by last colonial N. Jersey Gov.Date PublishedJune 20, 1765 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #146 Philosophy Reformed and Improved in Four Profound Tractates. The I. Discovering the Great and Deep Mysteries of Nature by that Learned Chymist & Physitian Osw: Crollius. The Other III. Discovering the Wonderful Mysteries of the Creation by Paracelsus: Being His Philosophy to the Athenians. AuthorParacelsus & CrollHeadlineParacelsus & others on alchemy 1657PublisherPrinted by M.S. for Lodowick LloydDate Published1657 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #150 Dialogues AuthorPlatoHeadlineRare compilation of Plato's Dialogues in EnglishDate Published1759-1779 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #151 The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides, and Timæus of Plato. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor AuthorPlatoHeadlineThomas Taylor translates Plato 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold 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 Author[Rochefort, Charles de]HeadlineHistory of the Caribby Islands 1666PublisherPrinted by J.M. for Thomas Dring and John StarkeyDate Published1666 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #167 Golden Gate Park - The People's Paradise Heading(San Francisco - Golden Gate Park)Author**HeadlineBroadside for Stow Lake Golden Gate ParkDate Publishedc.1895 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #169 [Collected Works, i.e.:] The Works of Shakespear. In Six Volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, by Mr. Pope AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlinePope's 4to edition of Shakespeare 7 volumes 1725PublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1725-23-25 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #170 Original Leaf from the First Folio edition of The Tragedie of Cymbeline AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineLeaf from the First Folio of CymbelinePublisher[Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount]Date Published[1623] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #171 Two Original Leaves from the Second Folio edition of Richard the Second AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline2 original leaves from Shakespeare Second FolioPublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes...Date Published1632 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #176 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1805PublisherJ. & J. ScrimgeourDate Published1805 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #177 Miscellanea Eruditæ: In Quibus Marmora, Statuæ, Musiva, Toreumata, Gemmæ, Numismata, Grutero, Ursino, Boissardo, Reinesio,... AuthorSpon, JacobHeadlineMiscellanea Eruditae by Jacob Spon 1685PublisherSumptibus Auctoris, Vaeneunt apud Thomam AmaulryDate Published1685 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #181 Autograph Letter, signed, from the future Supreme Court Justice, the a love-sick young attorney AuthorStory, JosephHeadlineALs future Supreme Court Justice Joseph StoryDate PublishedMay 19, 1802 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #183 [History of the Pelopponesian War, i.e.]: Thoukudides meta scholion palaion.../ Thucydides cum Scholiis et Antiquis... AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides in Greek, 1540PublisherOfficina HervagianaDate Published1540 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold 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 Author[Vaughan, William]HeadlineThe Golden Fleece by William Vaughan 1626PublisherFrancis WilliamsDate Published1626 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #187 Anatomia AuthorVesalius, AndreasHeadlineVesalius Anatomia 1617PublisherJoannes JansoniusDate Published1617 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #189 Wade & Croome's Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany. Drawn from nature and engraved by William Wade AuthorWade, WilliamHeadline1846 Panorama of the Hudson RiverPublisherJ. DisturnellDate Published1846 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #191 American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States AuthorWilson, Alexander & Charles Lucian BonaparteHeadlineWilson & Bonapartes American OrnithologyPublisherWhittaker, Treacher, & ArnotDate Published1832 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #192 Printer's mock-up for the never published Wall Street periodical "The Woman Investor" Heading(Women's Rights)Author**HeadlineProspectus for The Woman Investor 1914PublisherThe Woman InvestorDate PublishedFebruary, 1914 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #193 Japanese Propaganda Poster Appealing to Filipino Anti-American Nationalism Heading(World War II Propaganda Poster)Author**HeadlineWWII Japanese Propaganda PosterDate Publishedc.1942 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next