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Previous|12|Next Lot #1 Letter thanking an Ohio women abolitionists for support of his Canadian Underground Railroad “station”; explaining his work feeding, clothing and teaching hundreds of newly-arrived Black “fugitives” View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(African American – Underground Railroad)AuthorRice, Isaac J.HeadlineLetter from terminus of Underground RailroadDate PublishedApril 26, [1851?] Lot #2 Mutus Liber in quo tamen tota Philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur, ter optimo maximo Deo misericordi consecratus, solisque filiis artis dedicatus, authore cujus nomen est Altus View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorAltusHeadlineLiber Mutus, legendary illustrated AlchemyDate Publishedc.1978? Lot #3 Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, his Divine Pymander, in seventeen books. Together with his second book, called Asclepius; containing fifteen chapters, with a commentary. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English; by that learned divine Dr. Everard. View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorHermes TrismegistusHeadlineCornerstone of Alchemy by Hermes TrismegistusPublisherPrinted by J[ohn] S[treater] for Thomas BrewsterDate Published1657 Lot #4 Chymisches Cabinet derer gossen Geheimnussen der Natur durch wohl ersonnene sinnreiche Kupfferstiche und Emblemata... View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorMaier, MichaelHeadlineAlchemical highspot with 50 engravings 1708PublisherGeorg Heinrich OehrlingDate Published1708 Lot #5 Natural Magick...in Twenty Books...Wherein are set forth All the Riches and Delights of the Natural Sciences View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorPorta, John BaptistaHeadlinePorta's Natural Magick in English, 1658PublisherThomas Young and Samuel SpeedDate Published1658 Lot #6 Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Heading(Alcoholics Anonymous)Author[Wilson, William (Bill W.)]HeadlineAA Big Book in jacket with inscribed photoPublisherWorks Publishing CompanyDate Published1939 Lot #7 Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa ('Epistles of the Brethren of Purity') View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$125,000StatusSold Heading(Arabic Manuscript)HeadlineArabic ms Epistles of Brethren of Purity c.1495Date PublishedAH 900 (CE 1495-96) Lot #8 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorAshbery, JohnHeadlineSigned by De Kooning, Rivers, Katz, AvedonPublisherArion PressDate Published1984 Lot #9 The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorBrillat-Savarin, Jean AnthelmeHeadlineThe Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne ThiebaudPublisherArion PressDate Published1994 Lot #10 Don Quixote View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCervantes, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote signed by William T. WileyPublisherArion PressDate Published2009; 2010 Lot #11 The Apocalypse. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. The last book of the New Testament View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorDine, Jim, artistHeadlineJim Dine, Apocalypse of St. JohnPublisherArion PressDate Published1982 Lot #12 Ulysses View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineRobert Motherwell's Joyce, Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published1988 Lot #13 Poems View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorStevens, WallaceHeadlineSigned by Jasper Johns, Wallace Stevens PoemsPublisherArion PressDate Published1985 Lot #14 Leaves of Grass View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineArion Press Leaves of Grass, 1/275PublisherArion PressDate Published2014 Lot #15 The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of Spanish by Thomas Shelton, MDCXII View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Heading(Ashendene Press)AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineAshendene Press Don Quixote in moroccoPublisherThe Ashendene PressDate Published1927-1928 Lot #16 The Quadrupeds of North America View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John James and John BachmanHeadlineAudubon's Quadrupeds with original wrappers bound inPublisherV.G. AudubonDate Published1849-1851-1854 Lot #17 The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineOctavo edition of Audubon's Birds of AmericaPublisherPublished by J.J. Audubon [and J.B. Chevalier]Date Published1840-1844 Lot #18 A Balloon View of London, as Seen from the North View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Author[Banks, John Henry]HeadlineBird's-eye view of London, circa 1851PublisherPublished as the Act directs, by Appleyard and Hetling, 86 Farringdon Street, CityDate Published[c.1851] Lot #19 Cinquieme Sinfonie en ut mineur: C Moll de Louis Van Beethoven. Oeuvre 67, Partition View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorBeethoven, Ludwig van.HeadlineFirst edition of Beethoven's 5th SymphonyPublisherChez Breitkopf & HartelDate Published[1826] Lot #20 Biblia Latina View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin)HeadlineIncunable Bible w/ stunning illumination, Venice 1480PublisherFranciscus Renner de HeilbronnDate Published1480 Lot #21 Biblia Latina View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin)HeadlineThe Poor Man's Bible, 1495PublisherFinit p[er] Johannem froben de HamelburgkDate Published1495 Lot #22 Sanctus Hieronymus interpres biblie: Biblia cum concordantijs veteris et noui testamenti et sacrorum canonum, necnon et additionibus in marginibus varietatis diuersorum textuum... View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin)Headline1515 Bible with hand-colored woodcutsPublisherJacobum Sacon Lugd' Expe[n]sis... Anthonij koberger de Nuremburgis feliciter explicitDate Published1515 Lot #23 Il Decamerone di m. Giovanni Boccaccio View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadline1757 Boccaccio finely bound with engraved platesPublisher[Prault]Date Published1757-[1761] Lot #24 Siete Poemas Sajones. Seven Saxon Poems View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorBorges, Jorge LuisHeadlineSigned by Jorge Luis Borges, one of 120 producedPublisherPlain Wrapper PressDate Published[1974] Lot #25 Physique Théorique - Sur les véritables idées de base de la Mécanique ondulatoire View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorBroglie, Louis Victor, Prince deHeadlineInscribed by Nobel Prize winner de BroglieDate Published1973 Lot #26 Photograph of Kim Il-sung and Liu Shaoqi, signed by both of them View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(China & Korea)HeadlineSigned photo of Kim Il-sung & Liu ShaoqiDate Publishedc.1960s? Lot #27 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Heading(China)AuthorMao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung)HeadlineMao's Quotations signed first editionPublisherForeign Language PressDate Published1966 Lot #28 El Cocinero Mexicano, O, Colección De Las Mejores Recetas Para Guisar Al Estilo Americano, y De Las Mas Selectas Segun El Metodo De Las Cocinas Español, Italiana, Francesa E Inglesa View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Cookery - Mexican)Headline1831 Mexican cookbook w/ fold-out plates 3 vols.PublisherImprenta de GalvanDate Published1831 Lot #29 Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas and Adjacent Territory View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Author[Cox, James, editor]Headline1st ed. Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of TexasPublisherWoodward & Tiernan Printing Co.Date Published1895 Lot #30 Manifest listing a shipload of Chinese laborers bound for Havana, seven of whom died en route View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers settling in Cuba, 1867 manifestDate PublishedAugust 3, 1867 Lot #31 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers bound for Cuba in 1867Date Published6 April 1867 Lot #32 Manuscript papers and documents relating to the formation of a Chinese Society in Cuba, with extensive additional documentation on its operations over some 70 years View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDocuments of Chinese Society in China 1890-1960Date Publishedc.1890-1961 Lot #33 Registro Civil de Esclavos de la jurisdicion de... Cedula... (from first page) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineListing of Cuban slaveowners c.1850Date Publishedc.1850s Lot #34 Zona Central de Puerto Principe año de 1879 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineManuscript maps of Cuban communities 1879Date Published1879 Lot #35 Sheet with lithographed (or engraved?) facsimile signatures of 48 American patriots, 43 of whom are signers of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, with outline portraits of each View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Declaration of Independence)HeadlineFacsimiles of Declaration signatures with portraitsDate Publishedc. early to mid 19th century Lot #36 Keats View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorKeats, JohnHeadlineKeats' Poems from the Doves PressPublisher[Doves Press]Date Published1914 Lot #37 The Alloys of Steel. By J. Stodart, Esq. F.R.S. and Mr. M. Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. From the Philosophical Transactions View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorFaraday, MichaelHeadlineRare offprint inscribed by Michael FaradayPublisherPrinted by William NicolDate Published1822 Lot #38 Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas, por el Sr. General de division y actual Presidente del supremo Tribunal de la guerra y marina de la República... Don Vicente Filisola View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorFilisola, VicenteHeadlineImportant account of Texas war, 1848-49PublisherTipografia de R. RafaelDate Published1848 & 1849 Lot #39 The Great Gatsby View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorFitzgerald, F. ScottHeadlineFitzgerald's Great GatsbyPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1925 Lot #40 An abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: vvritten by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie, haue not the vse of so necessary an history View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorFoxe, JohnHeadlineAbridgment of Foxe's Martyrs 1589PublisherImprinted at London by I. Windet, at the assignment of Master Tim BrightDate Published1589 Lot #41 Den Nederlandtschen Hovenier [with] Det Vermakelyck Landt-leven View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorGroen, J. van der & Petrus NylandHeadlineKey Dutch gardening book, 1st Brussels ed. in DutchPublisherBy Philips Vleugaert, ghezworen Boeck-Drucker, achter't stadt-huys, in den Enghel-bewaerderDate PublishedMCLXXII [1672] Lot #42 Lexicon Technicum: Or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: Explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, JohnHeadlineHarris' Lexicon Technicum 2 volumesPublisherDan. Brown, et al.Date Published1704-1710 Lot #43 Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie... View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' De Cive, first in English, 1651PublisherPrinted by J.G. for R. RoystonDate Published1651 Lot #44 ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ [Odysseia - The Odyssey, in Greek] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineHomer's Odyssey in Greek Oxford 1909PublisherPrinted at the University PressDate Published1909 Lot #45 Archive relating to Tomiji Takeda, a Japanese-American resident of Milpitas, California, who was interned at Tule Lake camp, then allowed to move to Utah and eventually Colorado View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Japanese-American Internment)HeadlineJapanese American interned at Tule LakeDate Publishedc.1930-1950s Lot #46 The Loving Shepherdess View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorJeffers, RobinsonHeadlineSigned by Robinson Jeffers and Jean KelloggPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1956 Lot #47 The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers; of the Jews, as practised in their synagogues and families On all Occasions... with the Hebrew Title of each Prayer made English View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Judaica)Author[Mears, Abraham] "Gamaliel ben Pedahzur", translatorHeadlineFirst edition in English of Jewish Prayer Book 1738PublisherPrinted for J. WilcoxDate Published1738 Lot #48 Arca Noë, in Tres Libros Digesta, quorum: I. De rebus quæ ante diluvium, II. De iis, quæ ipso diluvio ejusque duratione, III. De iis, quæ post diluvium a Noëmo gesta sunt, quæ omnia novâ methodo, nec non summa argumentorum varietate, explicantur, & demonstrantur View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher's analysis of the Ark & Flood, 1675PublisherApud Joannem Janssoniun à WaesbergeDate Published1675 Lot #49 Watermark View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Koch, Peter)AuthorBrodsky, JosephHeadlineSigned by Peter Koch and Robert MorganPublisherPeter Koch, PrinterDate Published2006 Lot #50 The Fragments of Parmenides View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Koch, Peter)AuthorParmenidesHeadlineSigned by R. Wagener, P. Koch, and R. BringhurstPublisherEditions KochDate Published2003 Lot #51 A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West Passage, Between Asia and America; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorLedyard, JohnHeadlineLedyard's Cook journal with part of rare mapPublisherNathaniel PattenDate Published1783 Lot #52 To Kill a Mockingbird View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorLee, HarperHeadlineTo Kill a Mockingbird with Harper Lee letterPublisherJ.B. Lippincott CompanyDate Published[1960] Lot #53 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 Lot #54 Several papers relating to money, interest and trade, &c. Writ upon several occasions, and published at different times. By Mr. John Locke, View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold AuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineJohn Locke on money, 1696PublisherPrinted for A. and J. Churchill,Date Published1696 Lot #55 The Call of the Wild View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold AuthorLondon, JackHeadlineJack London, Call of the Wild, 1st Ed. in jacketPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1903 Lot #56 The Song of Hiawatha View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthHeadlineHiawatha first issue in publisher's "gilt extra" bindingPublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1855 Lot #57 Cien años de soledad View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMárquez, Gabriel GarcíaHeadlineTrue first of Marquez' 100 Years of SolitudePublisherEditorial SudamericanaDate Published[1967] Lot #58 El Exmo. Sr Presidente interino... que sigue... Ley Constitucional. Estantes y habitantes en el territorio Mexicano, sus derechos y obligaciones... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Mexico)AuthorBarragan, MiguelHeadlineMexico moves from Federalist to Centralist 1835Date Published15 de Diciembre de 1835 Lot #59 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery Lane...Date Published1688 Lot #60 Encheiresin Naturae: Fifteen Engravings by Barry Moser; A Heroic Crown of Sonnets by Paul Muldoon View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Moser, Barry - Nawakum Press)AuthorMoser, Barry and Paul MuldoonHeadlineEncheiresin Naturae with 15 Moser engravingsPublisherNawakum PressDate Published2015 Lot #61 Optical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools of the University of Cambridge, Anno Domini, 1669... Translated into English out of the Original Latinranslate View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineRare lectures on Optics by Isaac Newton 1728PublisherPrinted for Francis FayramDate Published1728 Lot #62 The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorNostradamus, Michel deHeadlineEnglish edition of Nostradamus 1672PublisherPrinted by Thomas Ratliffe & Nathaniel ThompsonDate Published1672 Lot #63 The Waste Land View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Officina Bodoni)AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineFinely printed Waste Land signed by T.S. EliotPublisherFaber & FaberDate Published[1961] Lot #64 The Oyez Press collection and archive View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold Heading(Oyez Press)HeadlineOyez Press collection & archivePublisherOyez PressDate Published1964-2000 Lot #65 The Knave of Hearts View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Parrish, Maxfield, illustrator)AuthorSaunders, LouiseHeadlineParrish's Knave of Hearts with 2 ALSPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1925 Lot #66 Philosophical transactions: giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline1st 2 years of Philosophical Transactions 1665-67PublisherPrinted by T.N. for John MartynDate Published1667 Lot #67 At Low Water: An Intertidal Memoir View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Pie in the Sky Press)AuthorChamlee, RebeccaHeadlineLetter A of 5 deluxe copies, At Low WaterPublisherPie in the Sky PressDate Published2017 Lot #68 A la Recherche du Temps Perdu View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorProust, MarcelHeadlineProust Recherche Du Temps Perdu 1st, nearly completePublisherNouvelle Revue FrançaiseDate Published1918-1927 Lot #69 Atlas Shrugged View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold AuthorRand, AynHeadlineAyn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, signedPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1957] Lot #70 Accession List of German Documents pertaining to Guided Missiles - plus related materials View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Rocketry - V2)HeadlineAmericans acquire German Rocket SciencePublisherOrdnance Department, Army Service ForcesDate PublishedMarch & April, 1946 Lot #71 The Odyssey of Homer View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Rogers, Bruce)AuthorHomerHeadlineBruce Rogers prints T.E. Lawrence's Odyssey trans.PublisherSir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce RogersDate Published1932 Lot #72 The Catcher in the Rye View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold AuthorSalinger, J.D.HeadlineSalinger's Catcher in the Ry with jacketPublisherLittle, Brown and CompanyDate Published1951 Lot #73 Handwritten letter by J.D. Salinger, signed Jerry, to Rose-Ellen Currie, relaying news of his recent wedding to Claire Douglas, with mention of Franny and Holden Caulfield View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorSalinger, J.D.HeadlineAutograph letter from J.D. "Jerry" SalingerDate PublishedWednesday [1955] Lot #74 Letter from J.D. Salinger to the principal of a Michigan elementary school, recommending a former neighbor, friend and tutor for employment as a teacher View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorSalinger, J.D.HeadlineJ.D. Salinger recommends neighbor as teacherDate PublishedOctober 29, 1982 Lot #75 Farmers: Wood Engravings—Interviews [with] Farmers Progressive Proofs View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorSchanilec, GaylordHeadlineFarmers by Schanilec with progressive proofsPublisherMidnight Paper Sales PressDate Published[1989]; 1992 Lot #76 Three complete plays from the 1632 Second Folio edition of Shakespeare's works View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThree complete 2nd folio Shakespeare playsDate Published[1632] Lot #77 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Society of Wood Engravers)AuthorHamway, Nigel, compilerHeadlineDeluxe edition with portfolio of wood engravingsPublisherNomad Letterpress / Society of Wood EngraversDate Published2020 Lot #78 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineStevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr HydePublisherScribner'sDate Published1886 Lot #79 The Columbian Harmony. Containing the Rules of Psalmody; together with a Collection of Sacred Music. Designed for the Use of Worshiping Assemblies & Singing Societies View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorStone, Joseph & Abraham WoodHeadlineEarly American scaleboard hymnal, completePublisherEngraved by J. AllenDate Published[1793] Lot #80 The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo Jones Esquire, Architect Generall to the King View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Stonehenge)AuthorJones, InigoHeadlineInigo Jones examination of Stonehenge 1655PublisherPrinted by James Flesher for Daniel PakemanDate Published1655 Lot #81 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorTwain, Mark [pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens]HeadlineHuckleberry Finn with card signed by TwainPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 Lot #82 Fifteen wrapper-bound books and pamphlets written by or about Ukrainian emigrants, military, political and cultural figures and activists View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Ukraine)Headline15 rare books & pamphlets on Ukraine 1919-55Date Published1919-1955 Lot #83 Two original printed leaves from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica, each with full-page anatomical woodcut, one of a "Muscle Man" and one of the human skeleton View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorVesaliusHeadlineVesalius leaves with "muscle man" woodcutPublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 Lot #84 Heart Disease View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWhite, Paul DudleyHeadlineSigned by Paul D. White & 3 colleaguesPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1932 Lot #85 My First Summer in the Sierra View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineYolla Bolly John Muir One of 25 deluxe copiesPublisherThe Yolla Bolly PressDate Published[1988] Lot #86 Remarks Concerning the Government and the Laws of the United States of America: In Four Letters, Addressed to Mr. Adams View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Adams, John)AuthorMably, Gabriel Bonnot deHeadlineThe Abbé De Mably’s Letters to John AdamsPublisherPrinted for Messrs. Moncrieffe, Jenkin, Walker, Burton, White, Byrne, Cash, and HeeryDate Published1785 Lot #87 Shaoyang Xian Zhi = 邵陽雜志; Gazetteer of Shaoyang County View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(China)HeadlineRare record of Shaoyang county, ChinaPublisherPrinted by Da Zhan Letterpress, printing bureau of ShaoyangDate Published1875 Lot #88 Blue Sky With Tree View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorCummings, E. E.HeadlineOriginal oil painting by poet e.e.cummingsDate PublishedNovember 9, 1959 Lot #89 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Declaration of Independence)HeadlineFirst miniature printing of the Declaration of IndependencePublisherL. H. BridghamDate Published1836 Lot #90 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Martin Chuzlewit illustrated by PhizPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1844 Lot #91 La Céramique Moderne par Le Grand Dépot. Porcelaines, Faiences & Cristaux View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorEnalt, LouisHeadlineWith chromolithographs by Charles VerneauDate Published1890 Lot #92 The Works of Lord Byron with his letters and journals, and his life View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Fore-edge paintings)AuthorMoore,Thomas, Esq.HeadlineThe Works of Lord Byron with 17 fore-edge paintingsPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1832 Lot #93 The Grand Bazaar: Istanbul View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorGulgun, SerdarHeadlineThe Grand Bazaar, copiously illustratedPublisherAssoulineDate Published2011 Lot #94 Innocence in Extremis View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorHawkes, JohnHeadlineInnocence in Extremis, 1/18 reserved for author & artistPublisherGrenfell PressDate Published1985 Lot #95 Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from A Book Of Hours View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Illuminated Manuscript)HeadlineEarly 15th century illuminated manuscriptDate PublishedEarly 15th century Lot #96 Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Morris Gothic Architecture Kelmscott Press 1stPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1893 Lot #97 Historical Memoir of The War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLatour, A. 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