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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(African-American)AuthorPriest, Rev. James M.HeadlineALs from an ex-Kentucky slave in LiberiaDate PublishedFeb. 2, 4, and 9, 1847 Lot #8 Principvm Christianorvm Stemmata. Cum breuibus eiusdem notationib[us] pars ex Archiuis Pp. desc. Adiecto stem[m]ate Othomannico View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorAlbizzi, AntonioHeadlineRare work of noble family trees with city viewsPublisherDominici CustodisDate Published1608 [but 1609] Lot #10 Autograph Document, signed. - Receipt for an ad in the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser offering "black girl for sale" View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(American Revolution)AuthorClaypoole, JohnHeadlineSigned by Betsy Ross' husband John ClaypooleDate PublishedMarch 23, 1795 Lot #11 Draft Letter, signed with initials, predicting the defeat of General How[e] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(American Revolution)AuthorGurney, JosephHeadlineJoseph Gurney draft letter w Revolution contentDate PublishedSeptember 19, 1777 Lot #42 The Quadrupeds of North America View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John James and John BachmanHeadlineAudubon's Quadrupeds with colored lithogaphsPublisherV[ictor] G[ifford] AudubonDate Published1851-1854 Lot #43 Lower California. The Peninsula. Now Open to Colonists: Tierra Perfecta, the perfect land of the mission fathers View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Baja California)Author**HeadlineRare Baja California Land Brochures1887PublisherInternational Company of MexicoDate Published[1887] Lot #48 Biblioglyphé sive Icones Biblicae, Arte Chalcographica & Poetica praecipues S. Scripturae Historias perquam eleganter representanter. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)AuthorAmmon, Johan, editorHeadlineStriking Biblical engravings, 1643PublisherTypis Caspari Rötelii, impensis Johannis AmmoniiDate Published1643 Lot #49 Single Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Algonquin)Author**HeadlineSingle Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible 1663Publisher[Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson]Date Published1663-61 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 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineKing James Bible 2nd folio 1613PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineJohn Baskerville's Bible 1763PublisherPrinted by John Baskerville, Printer to the UniversityDate Published1763 Lot #52 Two title-pages from 16th century English language editions of the Bible View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineTitles of 16th century English editions the BibleDate Published1566 & 1576 Lot #53 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Biblical)Author**HeadlineRare Times of Bible with occult, 1667Date Published1667 Lot #55 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Book of Common Prayer)Author**HeadlineBook of Common Prayer 1713 with engravingsPublisherJohn BaskettDate Published1713 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(California)HeadlineRare Northern California promotional booklet 1885PublisherH.S. Crocker & Co.Date Published1885 Lot #58 Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorCalmet, AugustinHeadlineCalmet's Bible Dictionary with maps & platesPublisherEmery, et al.Date Published1722-1728 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSecond English Edition of Don Quixote 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew CookeDate Published1652 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 #68 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man 1871 1st Edn, 2nd PtgPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 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... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe 2 vols. 1719PublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1719 Lot #70 Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des métiers… View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorDiderot, Denis & Jean le Rond d'AlembertHeadlineComplete set of Diderot's Encyclopedia 4to EdnPublisherJean-Leonard Pellet (Imprint varies)Date Published1778-79 Lot #72 The Butterflies of North America - First Series, plus several parts from second series View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorEdwards, William H.HeadlineThe Butterflies of North America Color PlatesPublisherHoughton, Osgood and CompanyDate Published1879 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 #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 View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorFranklin, BenjaminHeadlineBen Franklin's Experiments on Electricity 1774PublisherPrinted for F. NewberyDate Published1774 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 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineGalileo's Mathematical Discourses 1730PublisherJ. HookeDate Published1730 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... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorGuernieri, Giovanni FrancescoHeadlineRare work on Italian architecture 1706PublisherTypis Henrici HarmesDate Published1706 Lot #96 Bound for Glory View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorGuthrie, WoodyHeadlineWoody Guthrie Bound for Glory First Edition in DJPublisherE.P. Dutton & Co.Date Published1943 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 #110 Illustrated manuscript arithmetic copy book - Fabulous original illustrations throughout View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Heading(Illustrated Manuscript)Author**HeadlineArithmetic copy book with fantastic illustrationsDate Published1808 Lot #111 Partial leaf (1 column) of Liber Sextus Decretalium, printed on vellum by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Incunable)AuthorBoniface VIIHeadlineIncunable leaf printed on vellumDate Published1465 Lot #112 Autograph Letter, signed, presenting a gift of a Jefferson law book to President Andrew Jackson View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Masonic)Author[Goodenow, John M.] Wonedoog M. NhojHeadlineGIFT OF A JEFFERSON LAW BOOK TO PRESIDENT JACKSONDate PublishedA[nno] L[ucis] 5830 [1830] Lot #114 Autograph Letter, signed, to his wife while fleeing from French Troops View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorJuarez, BenitoHeadlineALs From Benito Juarez to his wife while fleeingDate PublishedSept. 22, 1864 Lot #115 Two Typed Letters, signed, regarding anti-Semitic portrayals in motion pictures View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Anti-Semitism)AuthorLewis, Leon L.Headline2 TLs regarding anti-semitic portrayals in filmsDate Published1914 & 1915 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 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Mundus Subterraneus 1665PublisherJoannem Janssonium & Elizum WeyerstratenDate Published1665 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 #120 The Koran, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Koran)AuthorSale, George, translatorHeadlineFirst Sale edition of The Koran 1734PublisherPrinted by C. Ackers for J. WilcoxDate Published1734 Lot #126 Two unpublished letters about General James Wilkinson, noted soldier, traitor, spy and first Governor of Louisiana View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Louisiana Territory)AuthorWilkinson, James B. (Jr.); Henry Dearborn; George IngersollHeadlineTwo letters re General James WilkinsonDate Published1803-04 Lot #128 Autograph Letter, signed, from the Utopian "Father of American Geology" then residing in Mexico View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorMaclure, WilliamHeadlineALs from the Father of American GeologyDate PublishedOctober 1, 1836 Lot #133 Partielle Differentialgleichungen und deren Anwendung auf physikalische Fragen. Vorlesungen View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Mathematics)AuthorRiemann, BernhardHeadlineEarly mathematics course by Bernhard RiemannPublisherF. ViewegDate Published1869 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 #139 Gone With the Wind View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorMitchell, MargaretHeadlineGone With the Wind inscribed in jacketPublisherMacmillanDate Published1936 Lot #140 Essayes Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne ... done into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorMontaigne, Michel Eyquem deHeadlineMontaigne's Essays 1613 Translated by FlorioPublisherPrinted by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William BarretDate Published1613 Lot #143 The New Dealers - Signed by F.D.R. and approximately 80 other New Dealers View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(New Deal)Author"Unofficial Observer"HeadlineThe New Dealers - Signed by F.D.R. and othersPublisherLiterary GuildDate Published[1934] Lot #144 WITHDRAWN Manuscript Document Signed by William Franklin as Colonial Governor of New Jersey View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(New Jersey)AuthorFranklin, WilliamHeadlineDocument signed by last colonial N. Jersey Gov.Date PublishedJune 20, 1765 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. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorParacelsus & CrollHeadlineParacelsus & others on alchemy 1657PublisherPrinted by M.S. for Lodowick LloydDate Published1657 Lot #150 Dialogues View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlineRare compilation of Plato's Dialogues in EnglishDate Published1759-1779 Lot #151 The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides, and Timæus of Plato. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlineThomas Taylor translates Plato 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 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 #167 Golden Gate Park - The People's Paradise View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(San Francisco - Golden Gate Park)Author**HeadlineBroadside for Stow Lake Golden Gate ParkDate Publishedc.1895 Lot #169 [Collected Works, i.e.:] The Works of Shakespear. In Six Volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlinePope's 4to edition of Shakespeare 7 volumes 1725PublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1725-23-25 Lot #170 Original Leaf from the First Folio edition of The Tragedie of Cymbeline View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineLeaf from the First Folio of CymbelinePublisher[Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount]Date Published[1623] Lot #171 Two Original Leaves from the Second Folio edition of Richard the Second View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline2 original leaves from Shakespeare Second FolioPublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes...Date Published1632 Lot #176 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1805PublisherJ. & J. ScrimgeourDate Published1805 Lot #177 Miscellanea Eruditæ: In Quibus Marmora, Statuæ, Musiva, Toreumata, Gemmæ, Numismata, Grutero, Ursino, Boissardo, Reinesio,... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorSpon, JacobHeadlineMiscellanea Eruditae by Jacob Spon 1685PublisherSumptibus Auctoris, Vaeneunt apud Thomam AmaulryDate Published1685 Lot #181 Autograph Letter, signed, from the future Supreme Court Justice, the a love-sick young attorney View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorStory, JosephHeadlineALs future Supreme Court Justice Joseph StoryDate PublishedMay 19, 1802 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 #187 Anatomia View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorVesalius, AndreasHeadlineVesalius Anatomia 1617PublisherJoannes JansoniusDate Published1617 Lot #189 Wade & Croome's Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany. Drawn from nature and engraved by William Wade View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorWade, WilliamHeadline1846 Panorama of the Hudson RiverPublisherJ. DisturnellDate Published1846 Lot #191 American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorWilson, Alexander & Charles Lucian BonaparteHeadlineWilson & Bonapartes American OrnithologyPublisherWhittaker, Treacher, & ArnotDate Published1832 Lot #192 Printer's mock-up for the never published Wall Street periodical "The Woman Investor" View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Heading(Women's Rights)Author**HeadlineProspectus for The Woman Investor 1914PublisherThe Woman InvestorDate PublishedFebruary, 1914 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next