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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 A Delicate Balance Heading(Arion Press)AuthorAlbee, EdwardHeadlineAlbee's A Delicate Balance Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published2011 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #4 Mrs. Bridge Heading(Arion Press)AuthorConnell, Evan S.HeadlineArion Press, Mrs. Bridge by ConnellPublisherArion PressDate Published2009 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #7 What the End is For: A Selection of Poems, 1977-2011 Heading(Arion Press)AuthorGraham, JorieHeadlineSigned by Graham and LethbridgePublisherArion PressDate Published2014 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #9 Stone from Delphi Heading(Arion Press)AuthorHeaney, SeamusHeadlineSigned, the last book by Seamus HeaneyPublisherArion PressDate Published2012 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #10 Porgy & Bess Heading(Arion Press)AuthorHeyward, DuBoseHeadlineKara Walker's Artist Book from Arion, signedPublisherArion PressDate Published2013 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #12 The Sundial Heading(Arion Press)AuthorJackson, ShirleyHeadlineArion Press, Sundial signed by Myles HymanPublisherArion PressDate Published2011 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #16 Arcadia: A Play Heading(Arion Press)AuthorStoppard, TomHeadlineArion Press Arcadia signed by Tom StoppardPublisherArion PressDate Published2001 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #38 The Loving Shepherdess AuthorJeffers, RobinsonHeadlineSigned by Robinson Jeffers and Jean KelloggPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1956 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #39 The Martian Chronicles Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineSigned by Ray BradburyPublisherThe Limited Editions ClubDate Published1974 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #52 At Low Water: An Intertidal Memoir Heading(Pie in the Sky Press)AuthorChamlee, RebeccaHeadlineLetter A of 5 deluxe copies, At Low WaterPublisherPie in the Sky PressDate Published2017 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #60 Farmers: Wood Engravings—Interviews [with] Farmers Progressive Proofs AuthorSchanilec, GaylordHeadlineFarmers by Schanilec with progressive proofsPublisherMidnight Paper Sales PressDate Published[1989]; 1992 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #68 The Sierra Nevada Suite: Thirty-One Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener Heading(Wagener, Richard - BCC)AuthorWagener, RichardHeadlineWagener's Sierra Suite, one of only 10 suchPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published2013 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #69 The Fragments of Parmenides - deluxe copy with suite of 10 additional wood engravings signed by Richard Wagener Heading(Wagener, Richard - Editions Koch)AuthorParmenidesHeadlineParmenides deluxe copy with Wagener suitePublisherEditions KochDate Published2003 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #70 Teapots & Tympani Heading(Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions)AuthorChernoff, Maxine and Richard WagenerHeadlineTeapots & Tympany one of 3 "in sheets' copiesPublisherMixolydian EditionsDate Published2019 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #71 Cracked Sidewalks Heading(Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions)AuthorWagener, RichardHeadlineCracked Sidewalks signed by R. WagenerPublisherMixolydian EditionsDate Published2006 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #72 Cracked Sidewalks Heading(Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions)AuthorWagener, RichardHeadlineSigned deluxe edition with extra suite of printsPublisherMixolydian EditionsDate Published2006 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #73 From Here and There Heading(Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions)AuthorWagener, RichardHeadlineDeluxe copy with 6 additional signed engravingsPublisherMixolydian EditionsDate Published2022 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #74 Mountains & Religion Heading(Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions)AuthorWagener, RichardHeadlineMountains & Religion signed by R. WagenerPublisherMixolydian EditionsDate Published2011 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #78 The Garden of the Night Heading(The Whittington Press)AuthorAzmi, Iftikhar, translatorHeadlineSigned by the artist and translatorPublisherThe Whittington PressDate Published[1979] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #79 The Song of Songs Heading(The Whittington Press)HeadlineThe Song of Songs from The Whittington PressPublisherThe Whittington PressDate Published1976 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #80 Three works illustrated by Richard Kennedy Heading(The Whittington Press)HeadlineThree illustrated and signed by Richard KennedyPublisherThe Whittington Press View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #164 Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus AuthorAlciati, AndreaHeadlineAlciati emblem book, 1535PublisherEx officina Christiani WecheliDate Published1535 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #165 Epistolae Clarorum Virorum, Selectae de Quamplurimis Optimae, ad Indicandam Nostrorum Temporum Eloquentiam Heading(Aldine Press)HeadlineAldine ed. of learned correspondence 1556PublisherApud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filiumDate Published1556 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #166 Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum Libri Undeviginti Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorGellius, AulusHeadlineOne of the last books of Aldus ManutiusPublisherIn aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceriDate Published1515 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #168 Elémens de Musique Théorique et Pratique, suivant les Principes de M. Rameau, éclairis, développées et simplifiés AuthorAlembert, Jean le Rond d'HeadlineAlembert's Elements of Music 1766PublisherChez Jean-Marie BruysetDate Published1766 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #169 ,WITHDRAWN - Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince of Denmark Heading(Austen, John, illustrator)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Hamlet, illustrated by John AustenPublisherSelwyn & BlountDate Published[1922] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #178 Prose di Monsignor Bembo AuthorBembo, PietroHeadlinePietro Bembo's paean to the Italian vernacularPublisher[Comin de Trino]Date Published1540 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #179 A Treatise on Mensuration, both in Theory and Practice Heading(Bewick, Thomas, illustrator)AuthorHutton, CharlesHeadlineThomas Bewick's first book illustrationsPublisherT. Saint for the authorDate Published1770 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #180 Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, Complectens Textus Originals Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Caldaicum, Graecum. Versionumque antiquarumm Samaritano, Graecae LXXII Interp., Caldaicae, Syriacae, Arabicae, Aethiopicae, Persicae, Volg. Lat... Heading(Bible - Polyglot)AuthorWalton, BrianHeadlineWalton Polyglot Bible 1657, vol. 2PublisherExecudebat Thomas RoycroftDate Published1655 [i.e. 1657] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #181 The Fyfth Booke of Moses, Called in the Hebrue: Ellehaddebarim, and in the Latyn, Deuteronomium - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineDeuteronomy from Great Bible of 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #182 Twelve leaves from the "Great Bible" of 1540, Gospel of Luke Heading(Bible in English)Headline1540 Gospel of Luke 3:1-22:54 in EnglishPublisher[Thomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas Berthelet]Date Published[1540] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #184 Sanctus Hieronymus interpres biblie: Biblia cum concordantijs veteris et noui testamenti et sacrorum canonum, necnon et additionibus in marginibus varietatis diuersorum textuum... Heading(Bible in Latin)Headline1515 Bible with hand-colored woodcutsPublisherJacobum Sacon Lugd' Expe[n]sis... Anthonij koberger de Nuremburgis feliciter explicitDate Published1515 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #185 Severino Boetio De Conforti Pholosophici AuthorBoethius, Anicus Manlius SeverinusHeadlineBoethius Consolation of Philosophy, Italian 1550PublisherAppresso Lorenzo Torrentino, Impressor DucaleDate Published1550 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #186 An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land Heading(Bransom, Paul, illustrator)AuthorCooper, Frederic Taber, editorHeadlineSigned large paper edition, in jacket & boxPublisherFrederick A. StokesDate Published[1921] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #192 Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum et Poëmatum, sive, Catalecta Poëtarum Latinorum AuthorBurmannus, Petrus, editorHeadlineCollection of Latin poetryPublisherEx Officina SchoutenianaDate Published1759-1773 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #194 The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English 1742 Jarvis TranslationPublisherJ. and R. TonsonDate Published1742 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #195 Pharmacopee Royal Galenique et Chymique... AuthorCharas, MoyseHeadlineFamous French Pharmacist, 16893PublisherAnisson & PosuelDate Published1693 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #196 Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with other pieces on various subjects AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl ofHeadlineStanhope's copy of Chesterfield's LettersPublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published[1774] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #201 The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years Experience. To Which is Added, a Rational Account of the causes of Such Alterations, the Nature of Wind, Rain, Snow, &c. on the Principles of the Newtonian Philosophy AuthorClaridge, JohnHeadlineRules to Judge of the Changes of the WeatherPublisherW. BickerstonDate Published1744 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #204 Tipple and Snack: Good Things to Eat and Better Things to Drink Heading(Cocktail Manuals)AuthorMason, DexterHeadlineTipple and Snack inscribed by Dexter MasonPublisherFarrar & RinehartDate Published1931 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #211 Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino historiado AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineExtensive Dante commentary w/ marginaliaPublisherPer Bartholomeo de Zanni da PorteseDate Published1507 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #216 Nova Bibliotheca Auctorum Ecclesiasticorum AuthorDu Pin, Louis-ElliesHeadlineModernizing ecclesiastical scholarship, 1692-3PublisherSocietatis & HuguetanorumDate Published1692-1693 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #233 Opvs Familiarivm Colloqviorvm Des. Erasmi Roterodami, vt Postremùm à Frobenio est editu[m], ipsius Auctoris manu locupletatum & recognit[m]: auctioribus etiam scholijs... illustrat[m]... AuthorErasmus, DesideriusHeadlineErasmus Colloquia familiaria, 1568PublisherPetrus HorstDate Published1568 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #234 Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii Historiis Externis Libri XXXXIIII Heading(Estienne, Robert - Printer)AuthorJustinus, Marcus Junianus and Pompeius TrogusHeadline1543 Estienne ed. of Pompeius TrogusPublisherEx Officina Rob. Stephani typographi regijDate Published1543 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #235 Two Ethiopian manuscript scrolls Heading(Ethiopia)Headline2 Ethiopian scrolls in Ge'ezDate Publishedc.19th century View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #238 Medicina Gerocomica: Or, the Galenic Art of Preserving Old Men’s Healths... AuthorFloyer, JohnHeadlinePreservation of old men's health, 1725PublisherPrinted for J. IstedDate Published1725 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #239 Oriental Collection Heading(Foliophiles)AuthorBrown, G.M.LHeadlineLeaves from eastern manuscripts and booksPublisherFoliophilesDate Published1928 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #242 Three volumes from Van Foreest's Observationum & Curationum Medicinalium, bound together AuthorForeest, Pieter vanHeadline3 medical works by Pieter van Foreest 1589-1591PublisherEx officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum RaphelengiumDate Published1589-91 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #244 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 AuthorFoxe, JohnHeadlineAbridgment of Foxe's Martyrs 1589PublisherImprinted at London by I. Windet, at the assignment of Master Tim BrightDate Published1589 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #246 Millions of Cats AuthorGa'g, WandaHeadlineLimited edition signed by Wanda Ga'gPublisherCoward McCannDate Published1928 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #247 In Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentaria: Ex interpretatione Anvtii Foesii, & Gvlielmi Plantii, cum annotationibus ejusdem... AuthorGalenus, ClaudiusHeadlineGalen's commentaries on Hippocrates, 1633Publisherex officina J. MaireDate Published1633 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #255 Le Pitture Antiche d'Ercolano e Contorni Incise con Qualche Spiegazione [with] Catalogo degli Antichi Monumenti... di Ercolano Heading(Herculaneum)HeadlineThe paintings of HerculaneumPublisherNella Regia StamperiaDate Published1765 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #256 His Iliads Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby [bound with] His Odysseys Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations... AuthorHomerHeadlineOgilby's Homer translations with 73 platesPublisherJames FlesherDate Published[1669] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #260 Corrigendi emendandiq[ue] psalterij prologus Beati Brunonis Ep[iscop]i herbipolen[sis]. breuis co[m]mendatio... Heading(Incunabula)AuthorBruno, Bishop of WürzburgHeadlineIncunable German Psalter, c. 1485Publisher[Georg Reyser]Date Published[c.1485-1489] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #261 Two leaves from the Polychronicon Heading(Incunabula)AuthorHigden, RanulfHeadlineIncunable Wynkyn de Worde leaf, 1498PublisherBy me Wynken de WordeDate Published1498 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #265 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohnson's English Dictionary 1755PublisherPrinted by W. Strahan, for J. & P. Knapton, et al.Date Published1755 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #277 Several papers relating to money, interest and trade, &c. Writ upon several occasions, and published at different times. By Mr. John Locke, AuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineJohn Locke on money, 1696PublisherPrinted for A. and J. ChurchillDate Published1696 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #278 Letter from King Louis XIV of France to captain of the Rouvroy cavalry regiment AuthorLouis XIVHeadlineSigned by Louis XIVDate Published1678 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #279 Dris Martini Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia: or, Dr Martin Luther's Divine Discourses at his Table, &c. Which in his Life Time hee Held with Divers Learned Men... Conteining Questions and Answers Touching Religion... AuthorLuther, MartinHeadlineLuther's Divine Discourses in English, 1652PublisherPrinted by William Du-gardDate Published1652 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #283 De Philippi Melanchthonis Ortu, Totius Vitae Curriculo et Morte Heading(Melanchthon, Philipp)AuthorCamerarius, JoachimHeadlineFirst biography of Melanchthon, first editionPublisherExcudebat Ernestus Voegelin ConstantiensisDate Published1566 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #284 De Puerorum Morbis Tractatus Locupletissimi AuthorMercurialis, HieronymusHeadlineTwo medical works in LatinPublisherAndre WechelDate Published1584 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #285 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery Lane...Date Published1688 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #290 Orationi militari AuthorNannini, RemigioHeadlineMilitary texts compiled by Dominican friarPublisherAppresso Gabriel Giolito de' FerrariDate Published1560 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #295 Familiae romanae in antiquis numismatibus Heading(Numismatics)Author[Orsini, Fulvio]HeadlineRoman family coins, 253 platesPublisherIoannem du Bray [et al.]Date Published1663 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #300 Constitusiones de la Sagrada Religion Bethlemitica Heading(Peru - Lima)Headline17th c. Bethlehemite manuscript compilationDate Publishedc.1711-1758 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #302 Delle vite de Pontefici, dal Salvator Nostro sino a Paolo II. Ampliato con le Historie de'Papi moderni da Sisto IV, sino a Paolo V... [with] La Cronologia Ecclestiastica... AuthorPlatinaHeadlineLives of popes, church history timeline 1643PublisherAppresso il BarezziDate Published1643 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #303 The Letters of Pliny the Younger With Observations on each Letter; And an Essay on Pliny's Life, Addressed to Charles Lord Boyle By John Earl of Orrery AuthorPlinius Caecilius Scundus [Pliny the Younger]HeadlineLetters of Pliny the YoungerPublisherPrinted by James Bettenham for Paul VaillantDate Published1751 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #314 Original model book with drawings of Abraham Rattner AuthorRattner, AbrahamHeadlineMockup for book by Abraham RattnerDate Publishedc.1976 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #319 The Art of Jin Shangyi - A Full Record Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House AuthorShangyi, JinHeadlineSigned by artist Jin ShangyiPublisherJiangsu Fine Arts Publishing HouseDate Published2009 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #321 Historiarum de occidentali imperio Libri XX. AuthorSigonio, CarloHeadline1578 1st Ed Sigonio's History of Roman EmpirePublisherSocietatem Typographiae BononiensisDate Published1578 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #331 The First World Flight: Being the personal narratives of Lowell Smith, Erik Nelson, Leigh Wade, Leslie Arnold, Henry Ogden, and John Harding. AuthorThomas, LowellHeadlineThe First World Flight by Lowell ThomasPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1925 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #333 Two Tibetan manuscripts Heading(Tibet)Headline2 South & East Asian mss., 1 illuminatedDate Publishedc.19th century? View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #338 Lavrentii Vallae de Lingvae Latinae Elegantia Libri Sex, iam Novissime de Integro Bona Fide Emacvlati. Eiusdem de Reciprocatione Sui & Suus Libellus: & in Errores Antonij Raudensis & Poggij Florent. Adnotationes... AuthorValla, LorenzoHeadlineLorenzo Valla's plea for pure Latin, 1577PublisherApud Ioannem Gymnicum, sub MonoceroteDate Published1577 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #346 A Lecture On Earthquakes; Read in the Chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, N.E. November 26th 1755. On the Occasion of the Great Earthquake Which Shook New England the Week Before AuthorWinthrop, JohnHeadlineJohn Winthrop on the New England Earthquake 1755PublisherEdes & GillDate Published1755 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$875StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next