Sale 798: Fine Press with Rare & Antiquarian and Illustrated Books (#798) 10/05/2023 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 10/05/2023 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 798 655 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 1-69 of 69. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Godot, An Imaginary Staging...of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Heading(Arion Press)HeadlineGodot, An Imaginary Staging by Willy T. WileyPublisherArion PressDate Published2006 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #4 Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions Heading(Arion Press)AuthorAbbott, Edwin A.HeadlineArion Press Flatland, signed by Ray BradburyPublisherArion PressDate Published1980 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #5 Trout Fishing in America Heading(Arion Press)AuthorBrautigan, RichardHeadlineArion Brautigan with signed Thiebaud lithoPublisherArion PressDate Published2003 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #6 Invisible Cities Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCalvino, ItaloHeadlineArion Press Invisible Cities signed by ThiebaudPublisherArion PressDate Published1999 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #7 The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCanetti, EliasHeadlineArion Press Canetti's Voices of MarrakeshPublisherArion PressDate Published2001 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #8 Don Quixote Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCervantes, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote signed by William T. WileyPublisherArion PressDate Published2009; 2010 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #9 Sampler Heading(Arion Press)AuthorDickinson, EmilyHeadlineArion Press Dickinson signed by Kiki SmithPublisherArion PressDate Published2007 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #12 The Case of the Wolf-Man Heading(Arion Press)AuthorFreud, SigmundHeadlineThe Case of the Wolf Man signed by Jim DinePublisherArion PressDate Published1993 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #13 Squarings: A sequence of forty-eight poems...with forty-eight drawings by Sol Lewitt Heading(Arion Press)AuthorHeaney, SeamusHeadlineSigned by Seamus Heaney and Sol LewittPublisherArion PressDate Published2003 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #14 With the Night Mail, A Story of 2000 A.D. Heading(Arion Press)AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineArion Press edition of Kipling's sci-fi novella With the Night MailPublisherArion PressDate Published1998 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #15 The Alienist Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaHeadlineThe Alienist signed by Carroll DunhamPublisherArion PressDate Published1998 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #17 Lie, Sit, Stand, Be Still Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMcClure, MichaelHeadlineSigned by McClure with 24 signed lithos by GrahamPublisherArion PressDate Published1995 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,200StatusSold Lot #20 The Silverado Squatters Heading(Arion Press)AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineArion Press Silverado Squatters, signed by Michael KennaPublisherArion PressDate Published1996 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #21 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 #22 The Ballad of Lemon and Crow Heading(Arion Press)AuthorTodd, GlennHeadlineSigned by Bruce Conner and Glenn ToddPublisherArion PressDate Published2002 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #23 Cane Heading(Arion Press)AuthorToomer, JeanHeadlineArion Press, Cane signed by Martin PuryearPublisherArion PressDate Published2000 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #26 Kora in Hell: Improvisations Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWilliams, William CarlosHeadlineW.C.W. Kora in Hell: Improvisations Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published1998 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #29 The World of William Clissold Heading(Benn, Ernest)AuthorWells, H.G.HeadlineWorld of William Clissold signed by WellsPublisherErnest Benn Ltd.Date Published1926 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #30 The Odalisque Heading(Blaine, Mahlon, illustrator)AuthorVoltaireHeadlineSigned by illustrator Mahlon BlainePublisherPrivately printedDate Publishedn.d. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #32 The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats Heading(Clelland, Thomas Maitland)AuthorKeats, JohnHeadlineClelland's Hampstead edition of John KeatsPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1938 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #33 Wordsworth: An Anthology Heading(Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.)AuthorWordsworth, WilliamHeadlineSigned and inscribed by T.J. Cobden-SandersonPublisherRichard Cobden-SandersonDate Published1920 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #37 The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke Heading(Doves Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineInscribed by Cobden-Sanderson to E. HolmesPublisherDoves PressDate Published1909 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #41 The Country of the Blind Heading(Golden Cockerel Press)AuthorWells, H.G.HeadlineGolden Cockerel deluxe edition signed by H.G. WellsPublisherGolden Cockerel PressDate Published[1939] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #47 Beowulf Heading(Kent, Rockwell, illustrator)HeadlineBeowulf according to Rockwell Kent, 1932PublisherRandom HouseDate Published1932 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #48 Poems: 1886-1929 AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlinePoems 1886-1929 signed by Rudyard KiplingPublisherDoubleday, DoranDate Published1930 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #53 Nohow On Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorBeckett, SamuelHeadlineLEC edition of Samuel Beckett's Nohow OnPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published[1989] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #54 The Chimes by Charles Dickens Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorRackham, Arthur, illustratorHeadlineDickens' The Chimes signed by Rackham, LECPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1931 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #55 Apologia Heading(Lone Goose Press)AuthorLopez, BarryHeadlineApologia signed by Barry Lopez and R. EschnerPublisherLone Goose PressDate Published1997 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #61 Diary of a Young Girl: Het Achterhuis Heading(Pennyroyal Press)AuthorFrank, AnneHeadlinePennyroyal Anne Frank, signed by GoldynePublisherPennyroyal Press with Jewish Heritage PublishingDate Published1985 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #64 Arcimboldo Heading(Ricci, Franco Maria)AuthorBarthes, RolandHeadlineArcimboldo by Roland BarthesPublisherFranco Maria RicciDate Published[1980] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #67 The Tragedie of King Lear Heading(Theodore Press)AuthorVan Vliet, Claire, illustratorHeadlineVan Vliet's Tragedie of King Lear, Theodore PressPublisherTheodore PressDate Published1986 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #71 Punch pretending to be R.W. Catching up on the News While Having a Glass of Van or Done Air...(Even Tho There was Another Orange Alert...) AuthorWiley, William T.HeadlineWilliam T. Wiley pays tribute to Robin WilliamsDate Published2003 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #75 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorSaroyan, WilliamHeadlineDaring Young Man Flying Trapeze from Yolla Bolly PressPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #76 The Man Who Made Wine Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorScott, J.M.HeadlineYolla Bolly Press, The Man Who Made WinePublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1996] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #77 Flight Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineYolla Bolly Press edition of Steinbeck's FlightPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #117 The Spectator. A New Edition Reproducing the Original Text Both as First Issued and as Corrected by its Authors AuthorMorley, Henry, editorHeadlineHenry Morley's New Edition of the SpectatorPublisherGeorge Routledge and SonsDate Published1891 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #123 Die Durch Theorie Erfundene practic... [with] Anthropometria, Sive Statura Hominis à Nativitate ad consummatum aetatis... AuthorPreissler, Johann Daniel and Johann Georg Bergmüller, et al.Headline83 fine 18th c. plates on drawing instructionPublisherPreissler; LotterDate Published1723; 1728-1734 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #134 Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorDulac, Edmund, illustratorHeadlineSigned by Edmund Dulac, in Zaehnsdorf bindingPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1908] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #140 Variations: Quatre-Vingt-Six Motifs Decoratifs en Vingt Planches AuthorBenedictus, [Edouard]HeadlineVariations with pochoir plates after BenedictusPublisherLibrarie Centrale des Beaux-ArtsDate Published[1928] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #148 Réminiscences du Corbeau AuthorButor, MichelHeadlineSigned by Michel Butor and Axel CasselPublisherÉditons Luigi MorminoDate Published[1982] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #150 Les Zoua—Zoo AuthorCanal, FrançoiseHeadlineLes Zoua—Zoo by Françoise Canal, signedPublisherCanal EditionsDate Published1984 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #151 Le Barnabooth et autres bêtes modernes AuthorCaswell, W.A.HeadlineDeluxe copy with 2 cancelled copper platesPublisher[Luc & Pascale Moreau]Date Published[1976] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$325StatusSold Lot #153 Thirty Recipes Suitable for Framing Heading(Goines, David Lance)AuthorWaters, Alice and David Lance GoinesHeadlineRecipes by Alice Waters, art by Goines (25/30 prints)PublisherSaint Hieronymous PressDate Published1970 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #163 Encheiresin Naturae: Fifteen Engravings by Barry Moser; A Heroic Crown of Sonnets by Paul Muldoon Heading(Moser, Barry - Nawakum Press)AuthorMoser, Barry and Paul MuldoonHeadlineEncheiresin Naturae with 15 Moser engravingsPublisherNawakum PressDate Published2015 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #169 40 dessins en marge du Buffon AuthorPicasso, Pablo and Georges Louis Leclerc comte de BuffonHeadlineFacsimile of Dora Maar's copy of Picasso's BuffonPublisherJonquièresDate Published1957 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #170 Bestiaire AuthorPlace, JacquesHeadlineBestiaire signed by Jacques Place, 1982Publisher[Published by the artist]Date Published[1982] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #172 L'Ornement Polychrome: Cent Planches en Couleur Or et Argent, Art Ancien et Asiatique, Moyen Age, Renaissance, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles AuthorRacinet, M.A.HeadlineL'Ornement Polychrome 2nd seriesPublisherLibrairie de Firmin-DidotDate Publishedc.1885 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #173 L'Ornement Polychrome: Cent Planches en Couleurs or et Argent Contenant Environ 2000 Motifs de Tous les Styles Art Ancient et Asiatique Moyen Age Renaissance... AuthorRacinet, M.A.HeadlineL'Ornement Polychrome M.A. Racinet, 3rd editionPublisherLibrairie de Firmin-DidotDate Publishedc.1890 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #174 A Christmas Carol Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineRackham signed limited Dickens' Christmas Carol, beautiful copyPublisherWilliam Heinemann / J.B. LippincottDate Published[1915] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #175 Histoires Naturelles AuthorRenard, JulesHeadlineRenard's Histoires Naturelles, lithos by BarretPublisherVialetayDate Published[1972] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #176 Natural History AuthorRenard, Jules and Walter SteinHeadlineWalter Stein's Bestiary, with extra litho suitePublisherDepartment of Printing and Graphic Arts / Harvard College LibraryDate Published1955 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #181 First three deluxe Harry Potter editions - Volume I signed by J.K. Rowling AuthorRowling, J.K.HeadlineHarry Potter deluxe edition signed by RowlingPublisherBloomsburyDate Published[1999] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #185 [Bestiaire] De l'Âne au Zèbre AuthorTerrasse, MichelHeadlineMichel Terrasse's Bestiaire, signed 1955Publisher[Edmond and Jacques Desjobert]Date Published[1955] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #196 Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Severall Pieces, of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, & Theological AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineExtensive Bacon-Shakespeare theory annotationsPublisherPrinted by Sarah Griffin, for William LeeDate Published1657 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #199 A Wise and Moderate Discourse Concerning Church-Affaires Author[Bacon, Francis]HeadlineAnonymous pamphlet by Francis Bacon, 1641Date Published1641 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #213 The Marvellous Book: An Album Containing One Hundred Studies of Famous Chinese Porcelains Reproduced in Full Colors, Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes in English French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese Heading(China)AuthorTalbot, StarHeadlineTalbor's book of Chinese Porcelain, signedPublisherS. Talbot & SonsDate Published1930 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #214 Stenciled choir book Heading(Choir Book)HeadlineMid-18th or 19th c. stenciled choir bookDate PublishedMid-18th to 19th century View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #216 An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; With Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art Author[Collier, Jane]HeadlineArt of Tormenting, 2nd ed. 1757PublisherPrinted for A. MillarDate Published1757 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #229 Epictetus his Morals, with Simplicius his Comment. AuthorEpictetusHeadline1694 edition of Morals of Epictitus in EnglishPublisherPrinted for Richard Sare and Joseph HindmarshDate Published1694 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #234 Two books signed by Julia Child Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorChild, JuliaHeadlineTwo books signed by Julia Child and moreDate Published1979 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #235 Julia Child & Company Heading(Food & Drink)AuthorChild, JuliaHeadlineJulia Child & Co., signed 1st editionPublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1978 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #238 The Vanity of Dogmatizing: or Confidence and Opinions Manifested in a Discourse of the Shortness and Uncertainty of our Knowledge AuthorGlanvill, JosephHeadlineGlanvill, Vanity of Dogmatizing 1661PublisherPrinted by E.C. for Henry EversdenDate Published1661 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #248 De L'Esprit: or, Essays on the Mind, and its Several Faculties. AuthorHelvetius, [Claude Adrien]Headline1st English translation of Essays on the MindPublisherPrinted for the TranslatorDate Published[1759] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #251 A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbes's Book, Entitled Leviathan. Heading(Hobbes, Thomas)AuthorClarendon, Edward Earl ofHeadlineThe Earl of Clarendon on Hobbes's LeviathanPublisherPrinted at the TheaterDate Published1676 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #253 Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects AuthorHume, DavidHeadlineDavid Hume's Essays and Treatises 1777PublisherPrinted for T. Cadell. et al.Date Published1777 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #260 The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originaIly [sic] in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English AuthorMachiavelli, NiccolòHeadlineWorks of Machiavelli in English 1695PublisherPrinted for R. Clavel, C. Harper, et al.Date Published1695 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #261 Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness Author[Mandeville, Bernard]HeadlineBernard Mandeville Free Thoughts on Religion 1720PublisherPrinted, and Sold by T. Jauncy, at the Angel without Temple Bar, and J. Roberts, in Warwick-LaneDate Published1720 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #275 Studi di Pittura Gia Dissegnatida Giambatista Piazzetta ed Ora con L'Intaglio di Marco Pitteri... AuthorPiazzetta, GiambattistaHeadlinePiazzetta's 1760 drawing manual with 22 platesPublisherG.B. AlbrizziDate Published[1760] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #289 Καινα και Παλαια. Things New and Old. Or, a store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. With their severall applications AuthorSpencer, JohnHeadlineStore-house of similes, 1658PublisherPrinted by W. Wilson and J. Streater, for John SpencerDate Published1658 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next