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Previous|1|Next Lot #15 The Alienist View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaHeadlineThe Alienist signed by Carroll DunhamPublisherArion PressDate Published1998 Lot #16 Journey Round My Room View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMaistre, Xavier deHeadlineArion Press Journey Round My RoomPublisherArion PressDate Published2007 Lot #24 Tono-Bungay View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWells, H.G.HeadlineArion Press Tono-Bungay, H. G. WellsPublisherArion PressDate Published2008 Lot #37 The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineInscribed by Cobden-Sanderson to E. HolmesPublisherDoves PressDate Published1909 Lot #57 The Anatomie of Melancholy View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorBurton, Robert writing as Democritus JuniorHeadlineNonesuch Press Anatomy of MelancholyPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1925 Lot #58 Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote from the Nonesuch PressPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published[1930] Lot #62 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Pennyroyal Press)AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlinePennyroyal Huck Finn with additional suitePublisherPennyroyal PressDate Published1985 Lot #67 The Tragedie of King Lear View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Theodore Press)AuthorVan Vliet, Claire, illustratorHeadlineVan Vliet's Tragedie of King Lear, Theodore PressPublisherTheodore PressDate Published1986 Lot #76 The Man Who Made Wine View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorScott, J.M.HeadlineYolla Bolly Press, The Man Who Made WinePublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1996] Lot #87 Zuleika Dobson View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bayntun-Riviere)AuthorBeerbohm, MaxHeadlineBayntun-Riviere fine binding of Zuleika Dobson 1st ed.PublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1911 Lot #90 Certain Tragical Discourses of Bandello View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Bickers & Son)AuthorBandello, MatteoHeadlineBandello's Discourses, bound by Bickers & SonPublisherDavid NuttDate Published1898 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 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Birdsall)AuthorBeardsley, Aubrey, illustratorHeadlineBirdsall binding of Beardsley's Morte D'ArthurPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1893-94 Lot #99 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineHandsomely bound Pickwick Papers of DickensPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1887 Lot #100 Great Expectations View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst Edition of Great Expectations finely bound by RivierePublisherChapman & HallDate Published1861 Lot #101 Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz" View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens Oliver Twist First EditionPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 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. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineOliver Goldsmith's Works 1780PublisherPrinted for H. GoldneyDate Published1780 Lot #114 Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes From the New Atlantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorManley, [Mary de la Riviere]HeadlineManley's scandalous roman à clef, nicely boundPublisherPrinted for John Morphew and J. WoodwardDate Published1709 Lot #115 The Works Of Christopher Marlowe View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorMarlowe, ChristopherHeadlineMarlowe's works finely bound 1885PublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1885 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,... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Author[Nivardus, Hartmann Schopper]HeadlineEnglish translation of Reinard the Fox fablePublisherPrinted for John NuttDate Published1706 Lot #122 The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (El Boccaccio) View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Payne, John)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineJohn Payne's Decameron handsomely bound, 1886PublisherPrinted by Private SubscriptionDate Published1886 Lot #130 [The Complete Works of John Ruskin] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineThe Complete Works of John Ruskin, 26 volsPublisherPrivately Printed for Members of the Society of English BibliophilistsDate Published[n.d.] Lot #131 Mornings at Bow Street: A Selection o the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports Which Have Appeared in the Morning Herald View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Sangorski & Sutcliffe)AuthorWight, J.HeadlineBow Street, bound by Sangorski & SutcliffePublisherPrinted for Thomas Tegg & SonDate Published[1838] Lot #134 Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorDulac, Edmund, illustratorHeadlineSigned by Edmund Dulac, in Zaehnsdorf bindingPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1908] Lot #138 Plain or Ringlets? View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorSurtees, Robert SmithHeadlineSurtees Plain or Ringlets bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherBradbury, Agnew,. & Co.Date Published[c. 1880] Lot #144 Fables by John Gay with a Life of the Author View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Blake, William, illustrator)AuthorGay, JohnHeadlineGay's Fables with Wm. Blake platesPublisherPrinted for John StockdaleDate Published1793 Lot #187 Pride and Prejudice View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Thomson, Hugh, illustrator)AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlinePride and Prejudice, illust. by Hugh ThomsonPublisherMacmillan & Co.; George AllenDate Published1894 Lot #202 Comedies and Tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, and now published by the authours originall copies View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorBeaumont, Francis & John FletcherHeadline1st ed. of Beaumont & Fletcher's WorksPublisherPrinted for Humphrey Robinson... and for Humphrey MoseleyDate Published1647 Lot #205 The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conuersation [with] The Decameron Containing an Hundred Pleasant Nouels View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio's Decameron, printed by Isaac IaggardPublisherPrinted by Isaac IaggardDate Published1625; 1620 Lot #210 Philobiblon, a Treatise on the Love of Books: Written in MCCCXLIV, and translated from the first edition, MCCCCLXXIII. With some collations View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorBury, Richard deHeadline1st Ed. in English of De Bury's Philobiblon 1832PublisherPrinted for Thomas RoddDate Published1832 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorChurchill, C.HeadlinePoems of C. Churchill, 1763-5Date Published1763 & 1765 Lot #223 The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDaniel Defoe Consolidator 1705PublisherBenj. BraggDate Published1705 Lot #247 La Nouvelle Atala; ou, La Fille de l’Esprit: Légende Indienne par Chahta-Ima (De La Louisiane). View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Hearn, Lafcadio)AuthorChahta-Ima (psued. of Adrien Emmanuel Roquette)HeadlineFirst appearance of Lafcadio HearnPublisherImprimerie du Propagatetr [sic] CatholiqueDate Published1879 Lot #255 The Poetical Works View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlinePoetical Works of Samuel Johnson 1785PublisherPrinted for the Editor, and sold by G. KearsleyDate Published1785 Lot #257 Warning From the Invisible Supernatural View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorKing, Eleanor ManuelHeadlineMemoir of child kidnapped by criminalsPublisherEleanor Manuel KingDate Published[1913] Lot #259 Lucan's Pharsalia translated into English verse by Nicholas Rowe, Esq. View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorLucanus, Marcus AnneausHeadlineNicholas Rowe's translation of Lucan's PharsaliaPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1718 Lot #272 Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz'd, and Represented in Figures View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Metamorphosis in English, 1640PublisherPrinted by J.L. for Andrew HebbDate Published1640 Lot #276 A collection of 36 contemporary English & American plays, published in New York, Boston, Philadelphia & Portland View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Plays)Headline4 volumes of American & English playsDate Published1825-1850 Lot #277 Dramatic Poems View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Poetry)HeadlineA tragedy ... or four; dramatic poems by Scott, Byron, etc.Date Published1823 Lot #278 The Compleat Mendicant: Or, Unhappy Beggar. Being the Life of an Unfortunate Gentleman... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Price, Thomas?)HeadlineThe Compleat Mendicant 1699 once attributed to Daniel DefoePublisherE .HarrisDate Published1699 Lot #291 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Author[Sterne, Laurence]HeadlineThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1760-1767 Lot #292 Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu from Robert Louis Stevenson View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineRobert Louis Stevenon's Father Damien first editionPublisher[for the author]Date Published1890 Lot #303 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlinePudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 1st Ed.PublisherAmerican Publishing CompanyDate Published1894 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. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorWaller, EdmundHeadlineWaller's poems 1694PublisherPrinted for H. Herringman, and sold by J. TonsonDate Published1694 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next