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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Heading(Arabian Nights)AuthorLane, Edward William, translatorHeadlineLane's Arabian Nights 1838-41 in original partsPublisherCharles Knight and Co.Date Published1838-1841 Lot #5 Pride and Prejudice. A Novel View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineJane Austen Pride & Prejudice 1839PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1839 Lot #14 Autograph Letter from Charlotte Brontë to William S. Williams, one of her editors at the publishing house of Smith, Elder, and Co., regarding a portrait she sat for, and ruminations at a time of change and challenge View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$81,250StatusSold AuthorBrontë, CharlotteHeadlineLetter from Charlotte Brontë to her editor 1850Date PublishedJuly 27, 1850 Lot #33 Mere Nature Delineated: Or, A Body without a Soul. Being Observations upon the Young Forester... Also, a Brief Dissertation upon the Usefulness and Necessity of Fools, Whether Political or Natural View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineAnonymous political tract by Daniel Defoe 1726PublisherPrinted for T. WarnerDate Published1726 Lot #35 A Tale of Two Cities View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineTale of Two Cities original cloth w/ Russell ALSPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1859 Lot #37 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineRosebury copy of John Donne's lettersPublisherPrinted by J. Flesher, for Richard MarriotDate Published1651 Lot #38 Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorDostoevsky, FyodorHeadlineFirst in English of Crime & PunishmentPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published1886 Lot #41 Three finely bound first editions by George Eliot View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadline3 finely bound George Eliot 1st editionsDate Published1860-1863 Lot #49 Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, Written in his Youth, and Familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorGreville, Fulke, Baron BrookeHeadlineSir Fulke Greville Certaine Workes 1633PublisherPrinted by E.P. for Henry SeyleDate Published1633 Lot #50 News from Nowhere: Or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineThomas B. Mosher's copy of News from NowherePublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1893 Lot #55 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1680 English translation of MachiavelliPublisherJohn Starkey, Charles Harper, and John AmeryDate Published1680 Lot #64 Moby Dick or the Whale View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMulti-layered association copy signed by KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 Lot #65 Moby-Dick or the White Whale View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby Dick 2nd English edition 1892PublisherG.P. Punam's SonsDate Published[1892] Lot #66 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineThe Arion Press masterpiece, Moby DickPublisherArion PressDate Published1979 Lot #69 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost 1st illustrated 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 Lot #70 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineThe Writings of John Muir Manuscript EditionPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 Lot #85 The Tragedie of Macbeth [&] The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineHamlet & Macbeth from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] Lot #87 The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift [with] Letters Written by Jonathan Swift View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineJonathan Swift's works and letters, 21 volumesPublisher[Various publishers]Date Published1766-1767 Lot #88 Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall Verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorTasso, TorquatoHeadlineFirst Tasso Jerusalem in English 1600PublisherAr. Hatfield, for I. Iaggard and M. LownesDate Published1600 Lot #92 Leaves of Grass View details Estimate$120,000 - $180,000StatusUnsold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadline1855 Leaves of Grass with signed Whitman portraitDate Published1855 Lot #93 Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineGrabhorn Press Leaves of Grass, 1930PublisherRandom HouseDate Published1930 Lot #94 Portrait of Walt Whitman holding a butterfly, matted with large signature View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWhitman's "Butterfly Portrait" with signaturePublisher[Phillips & Taylor ]Date Published[early 1880s?] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next