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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Eight volumes published by the Book Club of California View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Book Club of California)HeadlineEight works from the Book Club of CaliforniaPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1954-1994 Lot #2 California as an Island View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Book Club of California)AuthorLeighly, JohnHeadlineWith 25 map plates of CaliforniaPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1972 Lot #3 Graveyard by the Sea View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Centaur Press)AuthorValery, PaulHeadlineValery's Graveyard by the SeaPublisherThe Centaur PressDate Published1932 Lot #4 Nine titles from the Colt Press View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Colt Press)HeadlineNine Colt Press titlesPublisherColt PressDate Published1938-1953 Lot #5 Nine San Francisco Fine Press Titles View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Press)HeadlineNine San Francisco Fine Press TitlesDate Published1939-2008 Lot #6 Thirteen volumes from various Fine Presses View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Press)HeadlineThirteen works from various fine pressesPublisherVarious publishers Lot #7 The Book of Signs which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the middle ages by primitive peoples and Early Christians View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(First Edition Club)AuthorKoch, RudolfHeadlineExcellent survey of symbols and their usesPublisherThe First Edition ClubDate Published1930 Lot #8 California in 1851-[1852]: The Letters of Dame Shirley View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Grabhorn Press)Author[Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith]HeadlineThe Shirley Letters from Grabhorn PressPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1933 Lot #9 Eight volumes from the Grabhorn Press View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)HeadlineEight works printed by the Grabhorn PressPublisherThe Grabhorn PressDate Published1927-1954 Lot #10 Eight volumes printed by the Grabhorn Press View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)HeadlineEight volumes printed by the Grabhorn PressPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1934-1951 Lot #11 The Southern Mines of California: Early Development of the Sonora Mining Region View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorHolmes, Roberta EvelynHeadlineSouthern Mines of California by Grabhorn PressPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1930 Lot #12 Books of the California Gold Rush: A Centennial Selection View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorWheat, Carl IrvingHeadlineWheat's Bibliography of the California Gold RushPublisherThe Colt PressDate Published1949 Lot #13 George Yount: The Kindly Host of Caymus Rancho View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorWood, Ellen LamontHeadlineGeorge Yount: The Kindly Host of Caymus RanchoPublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1941 Lot #14 A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Nash, John Henry)AuthorCowan, Robert Ernest and Robert Grannis CowanHeadlineBest edition of seminal California bibliographyPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1933 Lot #15 A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930 & Index View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Nash, John Henry)AuthorCowan, Robert Ernest and Robert Granniss CowanHeadlineVols I-IV of Cowans' California bibliographyPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1933 Lot #16 Five works printed by John Henry Nash View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Nash, John Henry)HeadlineFive works printed by John Henry NashPublisherVarious publishersDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #17 Nine volumes printed by John Henry Nash View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Nash, John Henry)HeadlineNine volumes printed by John Henry NashPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1928 Lot #18 A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Nash, John Henry)AuthorO'Day, NellHeadlineO'Day's catalogue of John Henry NashPublisher[John Henry Nash]Date Published1937 Lot #19 Five Fine press poetry broadsides View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Poetry Broadsides)Headline5 Fine press poetry broadsidesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #43 Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artists & Binders with a Catalogue Raisonné of Miss C. B. Currie View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorWeber, JeffHeadlineDefinitive reference work on fore-edge artists, signedPublisherJeff Weber Rare BooksDate Published2010 Lot #92 Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Blake's Drawings for Poems of Thomas GrayPublisherTrianon PressDate Published1972 Lot #118 Fabrique de Caractères en Bois et de Matériel d'Imprimerie View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorDureau, HenriHeadlinePre-WWI Parisian type-sets from Henri DureauPublisherHenri DureauDate Published1910 Lot #125 Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum. Six Specimens of Miniatures, Borders, and Initials Reproduced in Gold and Colours with an Example of Successive Printings. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Author[Griggs, William]HeadlineExcellent series of plates on chromolithographyPublisherPrinted by Order of the TrusteesDate Published1903 Lot #158 Six Woodcuts signed by Vincent Perez - page proofs from the Yolla Bolly edition of Joaquin Miller's True Bear Stories View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPerez, Vincent, illustratorHeadlineSix woodcuts signed by Vincent PerezPublisherThe Yolla Bolly PressDate Published1985 Lot #168 Three woodcuts from the Bohemian Club Grove play Maximillian! View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorPerez, VincentHeadlineThree woodcuts signed by Vincent PerezPublisherArion Press for the Bohemian ClubDate Published1984 Lot #188 American Printing Co. Fall River Mass. Fabrics we are printing, and How we do it. (cover title) View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Textiles)HeadlineScarce booklet on the American Printing CompanyPublisherThe American Printing CompanyDate Published[1890] Lot #195 The First Printer's Early Days View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Children's Books)HeadlineThe life of Gutenberg as told for young adultsPublisherOliphant, Anderson, & FerrierDate Published[1884] Lot #247 The Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; containing some account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of this Fatal Disease... - WITH - Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorDibdin, Thomas FrognallHeadlineCoined the idea of "Bibliomania"PublisherVarious publishersDate Published1809 & 1811 Lot #311 Catalogue d'une trés-belle et Riche Collection de Livres en plusiers langues et facultes, principalement en Médecine, Chirurgie et Anatomie... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorBruggemann, Eustache Grégoire, collectorHeadlineAuction catalog of rare medical books, c.1860PublisherChez M.A. Mahne, LibraireDate Publishedc.1860 Lot #323 WITHDRAWN - The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Norman, Haskell F.)AuthorHook, Diana H. & Jeremy M. NormanHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Deluxe Haskell Norman Library, 1/35PublisherJeremy Norman & Co., Inc.Date Published1991 Lot #337 Bibliotheca Botanica, sive catalogus auctorum et librorum, qui de Re Botanica, de Medicamentis ex Vegetabilibus paratis, de Re Rustica, & de Horticultura tractant... Accessit Bibliotheca Botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi, seu potius Ovidii Montalbani... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorSéguier, Jean FrançoisHeadlineSeguier's botanical bibliographyPublisherApud Cornelium HaakDate Published1760 Lot #351 Incunabula Typographica: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century (1460-1500) in the Library of Henry Walters View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorWalters, HenryHeadlineThe Henry Walters collection of incunabulaPublisher[Leo S. Olschki for Henry Walters]Date Published1906 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next