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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse, and adorn’d with Sculpture, by John Ogilby Heading(Aesop)AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineEarly edition of Ogilby's AesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas Warren for Andrew CrookDate Published1651 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold 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 #11 The Congress AuthorBorges, Jorge LuisHeadlineThe Congress signed by Jorge Luis BorgesPublisherEnitharmon PressDate Published1974 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold 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 #19 Cuban pennant from the 1953 XIV World Amateur Baseball Championship, signed by many players on the team Heading(Cuba - Baseball)HeadlineCuban amateur baseball champs signed pennantDate Published1953 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 File of legal documents (Expediante) regarding the formal processes that Chinese workers had to go through to obtain a second work contract Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineObtaining work permit as Chinese laborer in CubaDate Published1872 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 Legal file (expediante) for the restructuring and renaming of the "Society of the Casino Asiatico de Macubiges" in Matanzas, Cuba Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese Casino in Cuba renamed & reorganizedDate Published1888-1925 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold 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” Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese rebel slaves in Cuba captured 1874Date Published1874 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #24 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineOver 600 Chinese coolies bound for China 1868Date PublishedJan 24, 1868 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #25 Manuscript legal depositions from an investigation into shipboard deaths of Chinese laborers bound for Cuba Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineShipboard deaths of Chinese coolies investigatedDate Publishedc.1860s View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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 Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineCoolies on bloody passage from Macao to CubaDate Published1865 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold 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 Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineSpanish slave ship sighted by British frigate 1864Date Published1864 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #29 Manuscript listing the complaints of slaves and workers about their masters and employers, and the solutions and agreements made to address them Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban slaves complain about their masters 1852Date Published1852 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #30 Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths Heading(Daniel, George)AuthorBrowne, Thomas, SirHeadlineBrowne Pseudodoxia Epidemica w/ Daniel George annotationsPublisherPrinted by T.H. for Edward DodDate Published1646 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold 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 #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 AuthorGraham, Isabella MarshallHeadline“Founding Mother” of American Charity writes from colonial NYDate PublishedFeb. 3, 1771 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold 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 #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 #56 The Magic Volume! Heading(Magic)HeadlineRare Magic Book features Queen Victoria 1840PublisherS.H. & E.A.Date Published1840 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #61 Chanson Sentimentale AuthorMasereel, FransHeadlineOriginal art for unpublished wordless novelDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #62 [Demain Les Jeunes] AuthorMasereel, FransHeadlineOriginal art for unpublished wordless novelDate Published[c. 1947-48] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold 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 #67 Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Fac-Similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics... Together with The Monuments of New Spain by M. Dupaix... Heading(Mexico)AuthorKingsborough, Edward KingHeadlineKingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico in 9 vols.PublisherRobert Havell and Colnaghi, Son, and Co./Henry G. BohnDate Published1831-1848 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold 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 #79 Cypress, Point Lobos Heading(Photographs)AuthorWeston, EdwardHeadlineWeston's first photograph at Pt. Lobos, signedDate Published1929; vintage print. View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold 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