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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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Aesop)AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineEarly edition of Ogilby's AesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas Warren for Andrew CrookDate Published1651 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 #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 #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 #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 #56 The Magic Volume! View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Magic)HeadlineRare Magic Book features Queen Victoria 1840PublisherS.H. & E.A.Date Published1840 Lot #61 Chanson Sentimentale View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorMasereel, FransHeadlineOriginal art for unpublished wordless novelDate Published[1931] 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 #67 Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Fac-Similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics... Together with The Monuments of New Spain by M. Dupaix... View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Heading(Mexico)AuthorKingsborough, Edward KingHeadlineKingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico in 9 vols.PublisherRobert Havell and Colnaghi, Son, and Co./Henry G. BohnDate Published1831-1848 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 #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