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 1-56 of 56. Previous|1|Next 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 #40 A New General Atlas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, Representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe, Together with the Several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities, and Corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries Headingzzf(Atlas)AuthorFinley, AnthonyHeadlineFinley's General Atlas 1831 60 mapsPublisherAnthony FinleyDate Published1831 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World with a special map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c... Heading(Atlas)AuthorMitchell, S. AugustusHeadlineMitchell's Universal Atlas 1848PublisherS. Augustus MitchellDate Published1848 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #65 The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]HeadlineFirst edition of Cooper's MohicansPublisherH.C. Carey & I. LeaDate Published1826 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold 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 #71 Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine AuthorDu Halde, Jean-BaptisteHeadlineDu Halde’s China, 1st ed., 4 volumes, 1735PublisherP.G. Le MercierDate Published1735 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$23,750StatusSold Lot #75 Sixty-one volumes of "The Tudor Facsimile Texts, Old English Plays Printed & MS. Rarities, Exact Collotype Reproductions..." Heading(English Literature - Tudor Facsimile Texts)AuthorFarmer, John S., editorHeadline61 volumes of "The Tudor Facsimile Texts..."PublisherTudor Facsimile TextsDate Publishedc.1911-14 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #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 #122 Les Liaisons Dangereuses AuthorLaclos, Choderlos deHeadlineLes Liaisons Dangereuses Illustrated by AlastairPublisherBlack Sun PressDate Published1929 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #129 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. Auct. Guiljelmo Blaeuw Heading(Map)AuthorBlaeu, WillemHeadlineBlaeu map of the World, 1606-Date Published1606-[1635-58] View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold Lot #130 A Chart of the Straights of Magellan, in which are Inserted the Observations and Discoveries, of Captn. Byron, Captn. Wallis and Captain Carteret Heading(Map)Author[Cook, James]HeadlineStraights of Magellan from Cook's VoyageDate Published1773 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #131 L'Europe Divisee selon l'Etendue de ses Principales Parties... Heading(Map)AuthorDesnos, Louis CharlesHeadlineLarge wall map of Europe by Desnos 1772Date Published1761 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold 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 #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 #145 Three volumes of Dickens' Works from the Nonesuch Press Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Works from the Nonesuch PressPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1937-38 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold 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 #147 The Masnavi [Spiritual Couplets] Heading(Persian Manuscript)AuthorMawlana Jalaluddin RumiHeadline15th century ms. of Masnavi of MawlanaDate PublishedAH 860/AD 1456 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold 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 #158 An Old Sweetheart of Mine - With an Autograph Letter, signed, from Riley AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley Old Sweetheart of MinePublisherBobbs-Merrill CompanyDate Published[1903] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #159 The Old Swimmin'-hole, and 'Leven More Poems AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineOld Swimmin'-hole signed w/8 line poem RileyPublisherGeorge C. Hitt & Co.Date Published1883 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #160 The Riley Medal - With pamphlet and book AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley - The Riley MedalDate Published1916 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #161 Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers - Finely bound, with an Autograph Letter, signed, from Riley to the illustrator tipped in AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineRubaiyat of Doc Sifers finely bound, with letterPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1897 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #162 The Works of James Whitcomb Riley - Homestead Edition, with a letter from Riley to the publisher AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineThe Works of James Whitcomb Riley w/letterPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1897-1910 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #163 Pair of bookends with a portrait of James Whitcomb Riley Heading(Riley, James Whitcomb)Author**HeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley BookendsPublisherBradley & Hubbard Co.Date Publishedc.1910 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold 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 #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 #172 The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Tragical History of Hamlet 1 of 500 copiesPublisherAdam & Charles BlackDate Published1911 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #180 Collection of poster art and posters for theatrical productions of John Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" Heading(Steinbeck, John)Author**HeadlineThe Moon is Down theater poster artDate Publishedc.1942 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold 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 #184 Autograph Letter Signed S.L. Clemens, to his British publisher, regarding the publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Twain to publisher about Huck FinnDate PublishedApr. 1/84 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next