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 1-49 of 49. Previous|1|Next 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 #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 #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 #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 #65 The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Author[Cooper, James Fenimore]HeadlineFirst edition of Cooper's MohicansPublisherH.C. Carey & I. LeaDate Published1826 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 #75 Sixty-one volumes of "The Tudor Facsimile Texts, Old English Plays Printed & MS. Rarities, Exact Collotype Reproductions..." View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(English Literature - Tudor Facsimile Texts)AuthorFarmer, John S., editorHeadline61 volumes of "The Tudor Facsimile Texts..."PublisherTudor Facsimile TextsDate Publishedc.1911-14 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 #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 #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 #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 #122 Les Liaisons Dangereuses View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorLaclos, Choderlos deHeadlineLes Liaisons Dangereuses Illustrated by AlastairPublisherBlack Sun PressDate Published1929 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 #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 #145 Three volumes of Dickens' Works from the Nonesuch Press View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Works from the Nonesuch PressPublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1937-38 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 #147 The Masnavi [Spiritual Couplets] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Persian Manuscript)AuthorMawlana Jalaluddin RumiHeadline15th century ms. of Masnavi of MawlanaDate PublishedAH 860/AD 1456 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 #158 An Old Sweetheart of Mine - With an Autograph Letter, signed, from Riley View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley Old Sweetheart of MinePublisherBobbs-Merrill CompanyDate Published[1903] Lot #159 The Old Swimmin'-hole, and 'Leven More Poems View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineOld Swimmin'-hole signed w/8 line poem RileyPublisherGeorge C. Hitt & Co.Date Published1883 Lot #160 The Riley Medal - With pamphlet and book View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley - The Riley MedalDate Published1916 Lot #161 Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers - Finely bound, with an Autograph Letter, signed, from Riley to the illustrator tipped in View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineRubaiyat of Doc Sifers finely bound, with letterPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1897 Lot #162 The Works of James Whitcomb Riley - Homestead Edition, with a letter from Riley to the publisher View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorRiley, James WhitcombHeadlineThe Works of James Whitcomb Riley w/letterPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1897-1910 Lot #163 Pair of bookends with a portrait of James Whitcomb Riley View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Riley, James Whitcomb)Author**HeadlineJames Whitcomb Riley BookendsPublisherBradley & Hubbard Co.Date Publishedc.1910 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 #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 #172 The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Tragical History of Hamlet 1 of 500 copiesPublisherAdam & Charles BlackDate Published1911 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 #180 Collection of poster art and posters for theatrical productions of John Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Heading(Steinbeck, John)Author**HeadlineThe Moon is Down theater poster artDate Publishedc.1942 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 #184 Autograph Letter Signed S.L. Clemens, to his British publisher, regarding the publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Twain to publisher about Huck FinnDate PublishedApr. 1/84 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next