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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 #4 Archive of 13 original photographs taken by Yosuke Yamahata of Nagasaki, Japan, the day after the city was devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by the United States View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Heading(Atomic Bomb)AuthorYamahata, YosukeHeadlinePhotographs of Nagasaki after atom bomb fellDate Published1945-46 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 #11 The Congress View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorBorges, Jorge LuisHeadlineThe Congress signed by Jorge Luis BorgesPublisherEnitharmon PressDate Published1974 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 #15 Family photograph album of Sir George Scott when he was Administrator at Taunngyi in the Shan States in Burma View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Burma - Myanmar)AuthorScott, James GeorgeHeadlinePhotograph album of colonial BurmaDate Publishedc.1908-11 Lot #19 Cuban pennant from the 1953 XIV World Amateur Baseball Championship, signed by many players on the team View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Baseball)HeadlineCuban amateur baseball champs signed pennantDate Published1953 Lot #21 File of legal documents (Expediante) regarding the formal processes that Chinese workers had to go through to obtain a second work contract View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineObtaining work permit as Chinese laborer in CubaDate Published1872 Lot #22 Legal file (expediante) for the restructuring and renaming of the "Society of the Casino Asiatico de Macubiges" in Matanzas, Cuba View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese Casino in Cuba renamed & reorganizedDate Published1888-1925 Lot #23 Legal file (expediante) of documents relating to the capture of runaway Chinese laborers in Cuba, and their imprisonment in the “Depository for Rebel Slaves” View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese rebel slaves in Cuba captured 1874Date Published1874 Lot #24 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineOver 600 Chinese coolies bound for China 1868Date PublishedJan 24, 1868 Lot #25 Manuscript legal depositions from an investigation into shipboard deaths of Chinese laborers bound for Cuba View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineShipboard deaths of Chinese coolies investigatedDate Publishedc.1860s Lot #26 Manuscript record of the interrogation of passengers from the French frigate “Emmanuelle” about deaths which occurred during its voyage from Macao to Havana, Cuba View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineCoolies on bloody passage from Macao to CubaDate Published1865 Lot #28 File of original documents relating to the sighting and pursuit by a British frigate of a Cuban steamship carrying African slaves - with an encrypted message from the British government View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineSpanish slave ship sighted by British frigate 1864Date Published1864 Lot #29 Manuscript listing the complaints of slaves and workers about their masters and employers, and the solutions and agreements made to address them View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban slaves complain about their masters 1852Date Published1852 Lot #30 Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Daniel, George)AuthorBrowne, Thomas, SirHeadlineBrowne Pseudodoxia Epidemica w/ Daniel George annotationsPublisherPrinted by T.H. for Edward DodDate Published1646 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 #40 Album with approx. 145 large format photographs of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, most albumen View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Egypt & the Middle East)HeadlineLarge photo album of Egypt & Middle EastDate Published1894 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 #48 Letter from Isabella Graham, founder of the American Sunday School movement, to her parents in England, recounting her meeting with a Seneca Indian chief and his “Squa” and daughter, and other matters View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorGraham, Isabella MarshallHeadline“Founding Mother” of American Charity writes from colonial NYDate PublishedFeb. 3, 1771 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 #62 [Demain Les Jeunes] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorMasereel, FransHeadlineOriginal art for unpublished wordless novelDate Published[c. 1947-48] 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 #72 Collection of ten original photographs from James Mooney’s pioneering investigations of the Ghost Dance and other Native American circle dances View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Heading(Native American)AuthorMooney, JamesHeadlineRare photos of the Ghost Dance by MooneyDate Publishedc.1892-93 Lot #78 Untitled [Vineyards, Northern California] View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Heading(Photographs)AuthorAdams, AnselHeadlineAdams' oversized photo of Napa vineyardsDate Published[1960s] Lot #79 Cypress, Point Lobos View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Photographs)AuthorWeston, EdwardHeadlineWeston's first photograph at Pt. Lobos, signedDate Published1929; vintage print. 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 #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