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Previous|1|Next 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 #16 Journey Round My Room Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMaistre, Xavier deHeadlineArion Press Journey Round My RoomPublisherArion PressDate Published2007 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #24 Tono-Bungay Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWells, H.G.HeadlineArion Press Tono-Bungay, H. G. WellsPublisherArion PressDate Published2008 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold 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 #57 The Anatomie of Melancholy Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorBurton, Robert writing as Democritus JuniorHeadlineNonesuch Press Anatomy of MelancholyPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1925 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #58 Don Quixote de la Mancha Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote from the Nonesuch PressPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published[1930] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #62 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Heading(Pennyroyal Press)AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlinePennyroyal Huck Finn with additional suitePublisherPennyroyal PressDate Published1985 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold 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 #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 #87 Zuleika Dobson Heading(Bayntun-Riviere)AuthorBeerbohm, MaxHeadlineBayntun-Riviere fine binding of Zuleika Dobson 1st ed.PublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1911 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #90 Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello Heading(Bickers & Son)AuthorBandello, MatteoHeadlineBandello's Discourses, bound by Bickers & SonPublisherDavid NuttDate Published1898 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #91 The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte DArthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of the World of them All Heading(Birdsall)AuthorBeardsley, Aubrey, illustratorHeadlineBirdsall binding of Beardsley's Morte D'ArthurPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1893-94 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #99 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineHandsomely bound Pickwick Papers of DickensPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1887 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #100 Great Expectations AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst Edition of Great Expectations finely bound by RivierePublisherChapman & HallDate Published1861 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #101 Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz" AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens Oliver Twist First EditionPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #110 The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.b., Now First Collected. With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineOliver Goldsmith's Works 1780PublisherPrinted for H. GoldneyDate Published1780 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #114 Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes From the New Atlantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. AuthorManley, [Mary de la Riviere]HeadlineManley's scandalous roman à clef, nicely boundPublisherPrinted for John Morphew and J. WoodwardDate Published1709 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #115 The Works Of Christopher Marlowe AuthorMarlowe, ChristopherHeadlineMarlowe's works finely bound 1885PublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1885 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #120 The Crafty Courtier: or the Fable of Reinard the Fox: Newly done into English Verse, from the Ancient Latin Iambics of Hartm. Schopperus,... Author[Nivardus, Hartmann Schopper]HeadlineEnglish translation of Reinard the Fox fablePublisherPrinted for John NuttDate Published1706 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #122 The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (El Boccaccio) Heading(Payne, John)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineJohn Payne's Decameron handsomely bound, 1886PublisherPrinted by Private SubscriptionDate Published1886 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #130 [The Complete Works of John Ruskin] AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineThe Complete Works of John Ruskin, 26 volsPublisherPrivately Printed for Members of the Society of English BibliophilistsDate Published[n.d.] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #131 Mornings at Bow Street: A Selection o the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports Which Have Appeared in the Morning Herald Heading(Sangorski & Sutcliffe)AuthorWight, J.HeadlineBow Street, bound by Sangorski & SutcliffePublisherPrinted for Thomas Tegg & SonDate Published[1838] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 #138 Plain or Ringlets? Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorSurtees, Robert SmithHeadlineSurtees Plain or Ringlets bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherBradbury, Agnew,. & Co.Date Published[c. 1880] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #144 Fables by John Gay with a Life of the Author Heading(Blake, William, illustrator)AuthorGay, JohnHeadlineGay's Fables with Wm. Blake platesPublisherPrinted for John StockdaleDate Published1793 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #187 Pride and Prejudice Heading(Thomson, Hugh, illustrator)AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlinePride and Prejudice, illust. by Hugh ThomsonPublisherMacmillan & Co.; George AllenDate Published1894 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #202 Comedies and Tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, and now published by the authours originall copies AuthorBeaumont, Francis & John FletcherHeadline1st ed. of Beaumont & Fletcher's WorksPublisherPrinted for Humphrey Robinson... and for Humphrey MoseleyDate Published1647 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #205 The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conuersation [with] The Decameron Containing an Hundred Pleasant Nouels AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio's Decameron, printed by Isaac IaggardPublisherPrinted by Isaac IaggardDate Published1625; 1620 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #210 Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love of Books: Written in MCCCXLIV, and translated from the first edition, MCCCCLXXIII. With some collations AuthorBury, Richard deHeadline1st Ed. in English of De Bury's Philobiblon 1832PublisherPrinted for Thomas RoddDate Published1832 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #215 Poems. Containing The Rosciad. The Apology. Night. The Prophecy of Famine. An Epistle to William Hogarth. And, The Ghost, in Four Books. [Bound With] Poems. Containing The Conference. The Author. The Duelist. Gotham, In Three Books. The Candidate. The Farewell. The Times. Independence. And, Fragment of Journey AuthorChurchill, C.HeadlinePoems of C. Churchill, 1763-5Date Published1763 & 1765 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #223 The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDaniel Defoe Consolidator 1705PublisherBenj. BraggDate Published1705 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #247 La Nouvelle Atala; ou, La Fille de l’Esprit: Légende Indienne par Chahta-Ima (De La Louisiane). Heading(Hearn, Lafcadio)AuthorChahta-Ima (psued. of Adrien Emmanuel Roquette)HeadlineFirst appearance of Lafcadio HearnPublisherImprimerie du Propagatetr [sic] CatholiqueDate Published1879 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #255 The Poetical Works AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlinePoetical Works of Samuel Johnson 1785PublisherPrinted for the Editor, and sold by G. KearsleyDate Published1785 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #257 Warning From the Invisible Supernatural AuthorKing, Eleanor ManuelHeadlineMemoir of child kidnapped by criminalsPublisherEleanor Manuel KingDate Published[1913] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #259 Lucan's Pharsalia translated into English verse by Nicholas Rowe, Esq. AuthorLucanus, Marcus AnneausHeadlineNicholas Rowe's translation of Lucan's PharsaliaPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1718 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #272 Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Metamorphosis in English, 1640PublisherPrinted by J.L. for Andrew HebbDate Published1640 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #276 A collection of 36 contemporary English & American plays, published in New York, Boston, Philadelphia & Portland Heading(Plays)Headline4 volumes of American & English playsDate Published1825-1850 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #277 Dramatic Poems Heading(Poetry)HeadlineA tragedy ... or four; dramatic poems by Scott, Byron, etc.Date Published1823 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #278 The Compleat Mendicant: Or, Unhappy Beggar. Being the Life of an Unfortunate Gentleman... Heading(Price, Thomas?)HeadlineThe Compleat Mendicant 1699 once attributed to Daniel DefoePublisherE .HarrisDate Published1699 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #291 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Author[Sterne, Laurence]HeadlineThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1760-1767 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #292 Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu from Robert Louis Stevenson AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineRobert Louis Stevenon's Father Damien first editionPublisher[for the author]Date Published1890 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #303 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlinePudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 1st Ed.PublisherAmerican Publishing CompanyDate Published1894 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #307 Poems, &c. written upon several Occasions, and to several Persons: by Edmond Waller, Esq; The Sixth Edition with several additions never before printed. AuthorWaller, EdmundHeadlineWaller's poems 1694PublisherPrinted for H. Herringman, and sold by J. TonsonDate Published1694 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next