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Previous|1|Next Image Lot Item Title Time Left Your Bids 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold View details 5 Pride and Prejudice. A Novel AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineJane Austen Pride & Prejudice 1839PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1839 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold View details 6 The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane. To the King AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon's Twoo Bookes 1605PublisherPrinted for Henrie TomesDate Published1605 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold View details 7 The Golden Legend [Legenda Aurea] Heading(Bible - Early English)AuthorVoragine, Jacobus deHeadlineCaxton's Bible translation in 1507 Golden LegendPublisher[W. de Worde for R. Pynson]Date Published[1507] Estimate$80,000 - $120,000Sold for$75,000StatusSold View details 8 The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement. Appointed to be read in Churches Heading(Bible in English - Great "She" Bible)HeadlineThe Great She Bible, 1613-1611PublisherRobert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent MaiestieDate Published1613-1611 Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold View details 9 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New [with] Book of Common Prayer [with] The Whole Book of Psalms Heading(Bible in English)Headline1661 Bible with interesting knightly provenancePublisherPrinted by John FieldDate Published1661 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold View details 10 Boetius de philosophico consolatu, siue, De consolatioe philosophi[a]e: cu[m] figur[is] ornatissimis nouit[er] expolit[us] AuthorBoethiusHeadlineBoethius Consolation of Philosophy 1st illus 1501PublisherImpressum Argentin[a]e, P[er] Iohanne[m] GrüningeDate Published1501 Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold View details 12 Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy, Propos’d in a familiar discourse to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it, by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq; fellow of the Royal Society AuthorBoyle, RobertHeadlineNatural philosophy by Robert Boyle, 1664PublisherPrinted by Hen. Hall printer to the University, for Ric. DavisDate Published1664 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold View details 13 Breviarium secundum usum et consuetudinem ecclesiae collegiate beatissimi Quintini Viromandensis Heading(Breviary - Use of St. Quentin)HeadlineVellum breviary, printed 16th c., period bindingPublisher[Hémon Le Fèvre]Date Published[c.1511-1525] Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$81,250StatusSold View details 16 The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law It Selfe AuthorCoke, EdmundHeadlineCoke on Littleton, first edition 1628PublisherPrinted for the Societie of StationersDate Published1628 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 34 A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed... Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe on the lewdness of marriagePublisherPrinted for T. Warner at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-RowDate Published1727 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold View details 35 A Tale of Two Cities AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineTale of Two Cities original cloth w/ Russell ALSPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1859 Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold View details 36 Βιαθανατος. A Declaration of the Paradoxe, or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineJohn Donne on self-homicide, 1644PublisherPrinted by John DawsonDate Published[c.1644-1647] Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold View details 37 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineRosebury copy of John Donne's lettersPublisherPrinted by J. Flesher, for Richard MarriotDate Published1651 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold View details 38 Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel AuthorDostoevsky, FyodorHeadlineFirst in English of Crime & PunishmentPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published1886 Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold View details 39 An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady Author[Drake, Judith, attributed]Headline17th century educational sexism attackedPublisherPrinted for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R Claval at the PeacockDate Published1697 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold View details 41 Three finely bound first editions by George Eliot AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadline3 finely bound George Eliot 1st editionsDate Published1860-1863 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 42 Bound volume of twenty-five publications on "The Popish Plot" 1678-1681 Heading(England - Popish Plot)Headline25 publications on The Popish Plot 1678-81Date Published1678-1681 Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold View details 43 The Elements of Geometrie of the most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara AuthorEuclidHeadlineDee's Euclid, first edition in English 1570PublisherIohn DayeDate Published1570 Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold View details 52 Frutefull Sermons Preached by the Tight [sic] Reuerend Father, and Constant Martyr of Iesus Christ M. Hugh Latymer... AuthorLatimer, HughHeadlineLatimer's Reformation sermons, 1571/1575PublisherIohn DayDate Published[1571 or 1575] Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold View details 53 Catastrophe Mundi: or, Merlin Reviv'd, in a discourse of prophecies & predictions, and their remarkable accomplishment. With Mr. Lilly's hieroglyphicks exactly cut; and notes and observations thereon. As also a collection of all the antient (reputed) prophecies... By a Learned Pen AuthorLilly, WilliamHeadlineAstrology by Wm. Lilly with woodcuts 1683PublisherPrinted and are to be sold by John How... and Thomas MalthusDate Published1683 Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold View details 54 The Romane Historie Written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: With a Chronologie to the Whole Historie: And the Topographie of Rome in Old Time AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst edition of Livy in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1600 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold View details 60 A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principal Vocations, or Callings, in Which every Good Husband or House-wife, May Lawfully imploy themselves... AuthorMarkham, GervaseHeadlineMarkham's Way to Get Wealth, 1683PublisherPrinted by T.B. for Hannah SawbridgeDate Published1683 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 64 Moby Dick or the Whale AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMulti-layered association copy signed by KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold View details 65 Moby-Dick or the White Whale AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby Dick 2nd English edition 1892PublisherG.P. Punam's SonsDate Published[1892] Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold View details 66 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineThe Arion Press masterpiece, Moby DickPublisherArion PressDate Published1979 Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold View details 70 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineThe Writings of John Muir Manuscript EditionPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold View details 76 Phisicke against Fortune, as well prosperous, as adverse, conteyned in two Bookes AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlinePetrarch instructs on conduct of one's life, 1579PublisherRichard WatkynsDate Published1579 Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold View details 77 A Treatise of Morall Philosophie containing the Sayings of the Wise... Heading(Philosophy)AuthorBaldwin, WilliamHeadlineBaldwin's Moral philosophy, 1591PublisherThomas EsteDate Published1591 Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold View details 81 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1634 2nd edition in EnglishPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold View details 82 The Arraignment and Conviction of Sr VValter Rawleigh, at the Kings Bench-barre at Winchester. on the 17. of November. 1603. Before the right Honorable the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberline, the Earle of Devon-shire... Coppied by Sir Tho: Overbury Heading(Raleigh, Sir Walter)HeadlineTrials of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1648PublisherPrinted by William Wilson, for Abel RoperDate Published1648 Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold View details 83 The Courtiers Academie: Comprehending Seuen Seuerall Dayes Discourses AuthorRomei, Annibale, conteHeadlineThe Courtiers Academie 1598, 1st Eng. ed.PublisherPrinted by Valentine SimsDate Published[1598] Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold View details 84 On Poetry: A Rhapsody Heading(Sangorski & Sutcliffe)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineStunning Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindingPublisherJ. HuggonsonDate Published1733 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold View details 85 The Tragedie of Macbeth [&] The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineHamlet & Macbeth from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold View details 89 The Aldine Thucydides, with scholia and History of the Emperors by Herodian AuthorThucydidesHeadlineAldine Thucydides 1502, first printed Greek textPublisherAldus ManutiusDate Published1502-1503 Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold View details 91 The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests or the like, is utterly denied and disproved... AuthorWebster, JohnHeadlineWebster debunks witchcraft 1677, H.F. Norman copyPublisherPrinted by J.M.Date Published1677 Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold View details 92 Leaves of Grass AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadline1855 Leaves of Grass with signed Whitman portraitDate Published1855 Estimate$120,000 - $180,000StatusUnsold View details 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?] Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold View details 95 The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq; fellow of the Royal Society. In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates AuthorWillughby, FrancisHeadlineWillughby's Ornithology 1st in EnglishPublisherPrinted by A.C. for John MartynDate Published1678 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next