Sale 801: The Shawn Donnille Collection of Natural History - Rare Books & Manuscripts - Fine Press & Bohemian Club (#801) 11/16/2023 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 11/16/2023 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 801 668 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-37 of 37. Previous|1|Next Lot #13 Seven volumes illustrated by Frank W. Benson Heading(Benson, Frank W.)HeadlineGroup of books illustrated by Frank W. BensonDate Published1917-1994 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #15 History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick AuthorBewick, ThomasHeadlineBewick's British Birds First Edition 2 vols.Date Published1797-1804 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #45 Histoire Naturelle AuthorErnst, MaxHeadlineMax Ernst's Histoire NaturelleProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherHarry N. AbramsDate Published[1972] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #59 Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska AuthorKent, RockwellHeadlineWinderness by Rockwell Kent with slip signed by CanfieldProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1920 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #82 Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico AuthorMuir, John, editorHeadlinePicturesque California edited by John MuirProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherJ. Dewing Publishing CompanyDate Published[1888] View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #111 Fish by Schaldach: Collected Etchings, Drawings and Water Colors of Trout, Salmon and Other Game Fish AuthorSchaldach, William J.HeadlineFish by Schaldach, 1937ProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherJ.B. LippincottDate Published1937 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #114 Lives of Game Animals AuthorSeton, Ernest ThompsonHeadlineSeton's Life of Game Animals, 1929 trade ed.ProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherDoubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.Date Published1929 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #115 Lives of Game Animals. An Account of Those Land Animals in America, North of the Mexican Border, Which Are Considered "Game," Either Because They Have Held the Attention of Sportsmen, or Received the Protection of the Law AuthorSeton, Ernest ThompsonHeadlineLives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson SetonProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherDoubleday, Page & Company & William HeinemannDate Published1925-1928 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #135 Eight signed trophy hunting memoirs Heading(Trophy Hunting)HeadlineEight signed books on Trophy HuntingPublisherTrophy Room BooksDate Published1996 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #145 The History of the Abbey Church of St Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments Heading(Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher)HeadlineAckermann's Westminster Abbey with 80 aquatints 1812PublisherPrinted for R. AckermannDate Published1812 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #149 Four 19th-century works on art criticism Heading(Art criticism)HeadlineFour works on 19th-century art and literatureDate Published1817-1915 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #156 The British Monarchy: Or, a New Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain AuthorBickham, GeorgeHeadlineThe British Monarchy, engraved book 1748PublisherG. BickhamDate Published1748 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #157 Five volumes of biographical writing collections Heading(Biography)HeadlineFive 19th-century memorial writing collectionsPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1829-1860 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #161 Galerie de son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse de Berry - Tome 2 AuthorBonnemaison, FéréolHeadline59 early lithograph platesPublisher[J. Didot l'aîné]Date Published1822 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #167 Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect... in II Volumes [with] volume IV of later edition AuthorCampbell, ColenHeadlineVitruvius Britannicus, vols. 1-2 & 4PublisherSold by the Author..., John Nicholson, [et al.]Date Published1715-1717; 1767 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #168 The Marvellous Book: An Album Containing One Hundred Studies of Famous Chinese Porcelains Reproduced in Full Colors, Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes in English French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese Heading(China)AuthorTalbot, StarHeadlineTalbot's book of Chinese Porcelain, signedPublisherS. Talbot & SonsDate Published1930 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #174 The first, second, and third Tours of Doctor Syntax Author[Combe, William]HeadlineTour of Doctor Syntax - Three Vols, 1st & 3rd Eds.PublisherR. Ackermann's Repository of the ArtsDate Published1812-1821 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #176 The English Spy: The Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious/ Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle... Heading(Cruikshank, Robert)AuthorWestmacott, Charles MolloyHeadlineWestmacott's English Spy with Robert Cruikshank illustrationsPublisherSherwood, Jones and Co.Date Published1825-1826 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #183 Über die Interferenzeigenschaften des durch Kanalstrahlen emittierten Lichtes AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's notorious paper on Anode RaysPublisherPreussische Akademieder WissenschaftenDate Published1926 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #229 Three 19th century essay collections by women Heading(Essay collections)HeadlineThree 19th-century essay collections by womenPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1813-1886 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #246 Hone's Popular Political Tracts AuthorHone, WilliamHeadlineHone's Political Tracts with numerous engravingsPublisherPrinted for William HoneDate Published1819-1822 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #258 The Winchester Psalter Miniature Cycle Heading(Medieval Manuscripts - Facsimile)HeadlineWinchester Psalter Miniature facsimile ed.PublisherThe Folio SocietyDate Published2015 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #262 The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him Absolute in the Most Necessary Commendable Qualities, Concerning Mind, or Body, That May be Required in a Person of Honor AuthorPeacham, HenryHeadlineThe Compleat Gentleman 1661PublisherPrinted by E. Tyler, for Richard ThraleDate Published1661 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #263 Studi di Pittura Gia Dissegnatida Giambatista Piazzetta ed Ora con L'Intaglio di Marco Pitteri... AuthorPiazzetta, GiambattistaHeadlinePiazzetta's 1760 drawing manual with 22 platesPublisherG.B. AlbrizziDate Published[1760] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #264 Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs of All Ages and Nations, From Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. AuthorPigot, Richard, editorHeadlineWith numerous pictorial emblem engravingsPublisherD. Appleton & Co.Date Published1860 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #308 The Grove Plays of The Bohemian Club Heading(Bohemian Club)AuthorGarnett, Porter, editorHeadlineHandsome early anthology of Grove Plays, 1918PublisherPrinted for the Bohemian Club at the press of the H.S. Crocker CompanyDate Published1918 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #317 WPA Federal Art Project - Printmaking in California 1935-1943 Heading(Book Club of California)AuthorSeaton, ElizabethHeadlineWPA Printmaking in California 1935-1943PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published2005 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #318 A Book of Bridges AuthorBrangwyn, Frank and Walter SparrowHeadlineBook of Bridges, Brangwyn & Sparrow large paper ed.PublisherJohn Lane The Bodley HeadDate Published1916 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #319 The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly Heading(Colophon)HeadlineThe Colophon complete in 47 volumesPublisherThe ColophonDate Published1930-1950 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #321 East of the Sun and West of the Moon Heading(Fine Bindings - Asprey)Author[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe]HeadlineEast of the Sun by Nielsen, bound by AspreyPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #322 The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte DArthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of the World of them All Heading(Fine Bindings - Birdsall)AuthorBeardsley, Aubrey, illustratorHeadlineBirdsall binding of Beardsley's Morte D'ArthurPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1893-94 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #330 A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Heading(Fine Bindings - Root & Son)AuthorMorris, Francis Orpen, editorHeadlineMorris' Picturesque Views, bound by Root & SonPublisherWilliam MackenzieDate Published[1878] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #335 Three illustrated novels from Fine Presses Heading(Fine Press)HeadlineIncludes two illustrated works by ThoreauDate Published1909-1968 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #337 A Cross Section. The Society of Wood Engravers in 1988. Heading(Fleece Press)HeadlineWith 44 woodcuts by members of the SocietyPublisherFleece PressDate Published1988 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #340 Birds, Beasts and Flowers AuthorLawrence, D.HHeadlineDeluxe copy with extra suite of proofsPublisherThe Cresset PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #344 Sous Le Signe du Rossignol Heading(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator)AuthorJacques, Henry [pseud. of Jacques Cohen]HeadlineSous Le Signe du Rossignol, Kay NielsenPublisherL'Édition D'Art H. PiazzaDate Published[1923] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #349 Buchkunst. Beitrage zur Entwicklung der graphischen Kunste und der Kunst im Buche. Heading(Weimar Germany)HeadlineBook Art and typology, 1931 Weimar GermanyPublisherStaatliche Akademie fur Graphische KunsteDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next