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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments Heading(Arabian Nights)AuthorLane, Edward William, translatorHeadlineLane's Arabian Nights 1838-41 in original partsPublisherCharles Knight and Co.Date Published1838-1841 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #5 Pride and Prejudice. A Novel AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineJane Austen Pride & Prejudice 1839PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1839 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold 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 AuthorBrontë, CharlotteHeadlineLetter from Charlotte Brontë to her editor 1850Date PublishedJuly 27, 1850 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$81,250StatusSold 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 Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineAnonymous political tract by Daniel Defoe 1726PublisherPrinted for T. WarnerDate Published1726 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #35 A Tale of Two Cities AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineTale of Two Cities original cloth w/ Russell ALSPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1859 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #37 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineRosebury copy of John Donne's lettersPublisherPrinted by J. Flesher, for Richard MarriotDate Published1651 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #38 Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel AuthorDostoevsky, FyodorHeadlineFirst in English of Crime & PunishmentPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published1886 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #41 Three finely bound first editions by George Eliot AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadline3 finely bound George Eliot 1st editionsDate Published1860-1863 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #46 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorBaskerville, JohnHeadlineFine fore-edge painting w/ Baskerville BCP 1760PublisherPrinted by John Baskerville, Printer to the University; by whom they are sold, and by B. DodDate Published1760 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$750StatusSold 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 AuthorGreville, Fulke, Baron BrookeHeadlineSir Fulke Greville Certaine Workes 1633PublisherPrinted by E.P. for Henry SeyleDate Published1633 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #50 News from Nowhere: Or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineThomas B. Mosher's copy of News from NowherePublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1893 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #51 An Answere to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavilations Written by an Anabaptist, and Adversarie to Gods Eternall Predestination AuthorKnox, JohnHeadlineJohn Knox on predestination 1591PublisherThomas ChardeDate Published1591 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #55 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1680 English translation of MachiavelliPublisherJohn Starkey, Charles Harper, and John AmeryDate Published1680 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #64 Moby Dick or the Whale AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMulti-layered association copy signed by KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #65 Moby-Dick or the White Whale AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby Dick 2nd English edition 1892PublisherG.P. Punam's SonsDate Published[1892] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #66 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineThe Arion Press masterpiece, Moby DickPublisherArion PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #69 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost 1st illustrated 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #70 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineThe Writings of John Muir Manuscript EditionPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #84 On Poetry: A Rhapsody Heading(Sangorski & Sutcliffe)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineStunning Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindingPublisherJ. HuggonsonDate Published1733 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #85 The Tragedie of Macbeth [&] The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineHamlet & Macbeth from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold Lot #87 The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift [with] Letters Written by Jonathan Swift AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineJonathan Swift's works and letters, 21 volumesPublisher[Various publishers]Date Published1766-1767 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #88 Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall Verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent AuthorTasso, TorquatoHeadlineFirst Tasso Jerusalem in English 1600PublisherAr. Hatfield, for I. Iaggard and M. LownesDate Published1600 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #92 Leaves of Grass AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadline1855 Leaves of Grass with signed Whitman portraitDate Published1855 View details Estimate$120,000 - $180,000StatusUnsold Lot #94 Portrait of Walt Whitman holding a butterfly, matted with large signature AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWhitman's "Butterfly Portrait" with signaturePublisher[Phillips & Taylor ]Date Published[early 1880s?] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next