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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 #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 #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 #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 #20 The Poetical Works of James Beattie View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorBeattie, JamesHeadlineWorks of James Beattie w/fore-edge painting 1831PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1831 Lot #21 The Poetical Works View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorCampbell, ThomasHeadlineThomas Campbell w/fore-edge painting 1854PublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1854 Lot #22 Aids to Reflection In the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality and Religion View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorHeadlineColeridge w/fore-edge painting 1836PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1836 Lot #23 Poems View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorCowper, WilliamHeadlineCowper's Poems w/fore-edge paintings 1810PublisherPrinted for J. Johnson and Co.Date Published1810 Lot #24 The Poetical Works of William Cowper View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore-edge paintings)AuthorCowper, WilliamHeadlineWith color fore-edge paintings of scenic viewsPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1830-1831 Lot #25 Miscellaneous Verses View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorDoyle, Sir Francis HastingsHeadlineF. Hastings Doyle fore-edge painting 1841PublisherSaunders and OtleyDate Published1841 Lot #26 The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Notice of His Life and Genius View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineGoldsmith Works w/fore-edge painting 1859PublisherW. KentDate Published1859 Lot #27 The Works of Thomas Grey View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorGrey, ThomasHeadlineThomas Grey w/fore-edge paintings 1807PublisherPrinted for Vernor, Hood, and SharpeDate Published1807 Lot #28 The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)HeadlineFore-edge painting 1817 BiblePublisherStereotyped and printed by J. SmithDate Published1817 Lot #29 History of Christian Missions, From the Reformation to the Present Time View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorHuie, James A.HeadlineChristian Missions w/fore-edge paintingPublisherOliver & Boyd, Tweeddale CourtDate Published1842 Lot #30 Poems and Ballads by Dr. John Leyden with A Memoir to the Author by Sir Walter Scott, Bart View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorLeyden, JohnHeadlineJohn Leyden Poems w/fore-edge painting 1875PublisherJ. & J. H. RutherfordDate Published1875 Lot #31 Longfellow's Poetical Works View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthHeadlineLongfellow's Works w/fore-edge paintingPublisherGeorge Routledge and SonsDate Published[c.1880s] Lot #33 The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Newly translated out of the original Greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By His Majesty's special command. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)Headline1734 Bible with fore-edge paintingPublisherPrinted by John BaskettDate Published1734 Lot #34 The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as well as Practice of a Christian: Made Easy for the Practice of the Present Age View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)HeadlineWhole Duty of Man 1825 w/ fore-edge paintingPublisherPrinted for W. BentDate Published[1825] Lot #35 The Percy Anecdotes Original and Select View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorPercy, Sholto and ReubenHeadlinePercy Anecdotes w/fore-edge paintingPublisherT. BoysDate Published1822 Lot #36 The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, complete in one volume View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)HeadlineSouthey's poems w/ fore-edge painting 1850PublisherLondonDate Published1850 Lot #37 The Works of William Shakespeare; Containing his Plays and Poems, the Text of the Editions by Charles Knight... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's works w/ fore-edge paintingPublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1866 Lot #38 Complete Works of Edmund Spenser. The Globe Edition View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineSpenser's Works w/fore-edge painting 1879PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1879 Lot #39 Lot of 5 fore-edge paintings View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorTennyson, Alfred, LordHeadline5 fore-edge paintings after Edward Burne-JonesDate Published1859-1870 Lot #40 Anthologia Latina View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorThackeray, Franciscus St. John, editorHeadlineAnthologia Latina w/fore-edge painting 1865PublisherBell Et DaldyDate Published1865 Lot #41 The Seasons: And Castle of Indolence View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorThompson, JamesHeadlineFore-edge painting of Kent 1842PublisherWilliam SmithDate Published1842 Lot #42 The Seasons View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineThomson's Seasons with fore-edge paintingPublisherLongman, Brown, Green & LongmansDate Published1842 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 #44 Sacred Poems View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorWillis, Nathaniel ParkerHeadlineSacred Poems w/fore-edge painting 1860PublisherClark, Austin & SmithDate Published1860 Lot #45 The Complaint, Or Night Thoughts View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorYoung, EdwardHeadlineYoung's The Complaint w/fore-edge painting 1817PublisherPrinted for John SharpeDate Published1817 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 #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