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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Benson, Frank W.)HeadlineGroup of books illustrated by Frank W. BensonDate Published1917-1994 Lot #15 History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBewick, ThomasHeadlineBewick's British Birds First Edition 2 vols.Date Published1797-1804 Lot #45 Histoire Naturelle View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorErnst, MaxHeadlineMax Ernst's Histoire NaturelleProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherHarry N. AbramsDate Published[1972] Lot #59 Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorKent, RockwellHeadlineWinderness by Rockwell Kent with slip signed by CanfieldProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherG.P. Putnam's SonsDate Published1920 Lot #82 Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorMuir, John, editorHeadlinePicturesque California edited by John MuirProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherJ. Dewing Publishing CompanyDate Published[1888] Lot #111 Fish by Schaldach: Collected Etchings, Drawings and Water Colors of Trout, Salmon and Other Game Fish View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorSchaldach, William J.HeadlineFish by Schaldach, 1937ProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherJ.B. LippincottDate Published1937 Lot #114 Lives of Game Animals View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSeton, Ernest ThompsonHeadlineSeton's Life of Game Animals, 1929 trade ed.ProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherDoubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.Date Published1929 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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorSeton, Ernest ThompsonHeadlineLives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson SetonProvenanceFrom the collection of Shawn DonnillePublisherDoubleday, Page & Company & William HeinemannDate Published1925-1928 Lot #135 Eight signed trophy hunting memoirs View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Trophy Hunting)HeadlineEight signed books on Trophy HuntingPublisherTrophy Room BooksDate Published1996 Lot #145 The History of the Abbey Church of St Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher)HeadlineAckermann's Westminster Abbey with 80 aquatints 1812PublisherPrinted for R. AckermannDate Published1812 Lot #149 Four 19th-century works on art criticism View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Art criticism)HeadlineFour works on 19th-century art and literatureDate Published1817-1915 Lot #156 The British Monarchy: Or, a New Chorographical Description of all the Dominions Subject to the King of Great Britain View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorBickham, GeorgeHeadlineThe British Monarchy, engraved book 1748PublisherG. BickhamDate Published1748 Lot #157 Five volumes of biographical writing collections View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Biography)HeadlineFive 19th-century memorial writing collectionsPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1829-1860 Lot #161 Galerie de son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse de Berry - Tome 2 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorBonnemaison, FéréolHeadline59 early lithograph platesPublisher[J. Didot l'aîné]Date Published1822 Lot #167 Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect... in II Volumes [with] volume IV of later edition View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorCampbell, ColenHeadlineVitruvius Britannicus, vols. 1-2 & 4PublisherSold by the Author..., John Nicholson, [et al.]Date Published1715-1717; 1767 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(China)AuthorTalbot, StarHeadlineTalbot's book of Chinese Porcelain, signedPublisherS. Talbot & SonsDate Published1930 Lot #174 The first, second, and third Tours of Doctor Syntax View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Combe, William]HeadlineTour of Doctor Syntax - Three Vols, 1st & 3rd Eds.PublisherR. Ackermann's Repository of the ArtsDate Published1812-1821 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Cruikshank, Robert)AuthorWestmacott, Charles MolloyHeadlineWestmacott's English Spy with Robert Cruikshank illustrationsPublisherSherwood, Jones and Co.Date Published1825-1826 Lot #183 Über die Interferenzeigenschaften des durch Kanalstrahlen emittierten Lichtes View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's notorious paper on Anode RaysPublisherPreussische Akademieder WissenschaftenDate Published1926 Lot #229 Three 19th century essay collections by women View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Essay collections)HeadlineThree 19th-century essay collections by womenPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1813-1886 Lot #246 Hone's Popular Political Tracts View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorHone, WilliamHeadlineHone's Political Tracts with numerous engravingsPublisherPrinted for William HoneDate Published1819-1822 Lot #258 The Winchester Psalter Miniature Cycle View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Medieval Manuscripts - Facsimile)HeadlineWinchester Psalter Miniature facsimile ed.PublisherThe Folio SocietyDate Published2015 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorPeacham, HenryHeadlineThe Compleat Gentleman 1661PublisherPrinted by E. Tyler, for Richard ThraleDate Published1661 Lot #263 Studi di Pittura Gia Dissegnatida Giambatista Piazzetta ed Ora con L'Intaglio di Marco Pitteri... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorPiazzetta, GiambattistaHeadlinePiazzetta's 1760 drawing manual with 22 platesPublisherG.B. AlbrizziDate Published[1760] Lot #264 Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs of All Ages and Nations, From Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPigot, Richard, editorHeadlineWith numerous pictorial emblem engravingsPublisherD. Appleton & Co.Date Published1860 Lot #308 The Grove Plays of The Bohemian Club View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 Lot #317 WPA Federal Art Project - Printmaking in California 1935-1943 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Book Club of California)AuthorSeaton, ElizabethHeadlineWPA Printmaking in California 1935-1943PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published2005 Lot #318 A Book of Bridges View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorBrangwyn, Frank and Walter SparrowHeadlineBook of Bridges, Brangwyn & Sparrow large paper ed.PublisherJohn Lane The Bodley HeadDate Published1916 Lot #319 The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Colophon)HeadlineThe Colophon complete in 47 volumesPublisherThe ColophonDate Published1930-1950 Lot #321 East of the Sun and West of the Moon View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings - Asprey)Author[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe]HeadlineEast of the Sun by Nielsen, bound by AspreyPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1914] 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings - Birdsall)AuthorBeardsley, Aubrey, illustratorHeadlineBirdsall binding of Beardsley's Morte D'ArthurPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1893-94 Lot #330 A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings - Root & Son)AuthorMorris, Francis Orpen, editorHeadlineMorris' Picturesque Views, bound by Root & SonPublisherWilliam MackenzieDate Published[1878] Lot #335 Three illustrated novels from Fine Presses View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Press)HeadlineIncludes two illustrated works by ThoreauDate Published1909-1968 Lot #337 A Cross Section. The Society of Wood Engravers in 1988. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Fleece Press)HeadlineWith 44 woodcuts by members of the SocietyPublisherFleece PressDate Published1988 Lot #340 Birds, Beasts and Flowers View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorLawrence, D.HHeadlineDeluxe copy with extra suite of proofsPublisherThe Cresset PressDate Published1930 Lot #344 Sous Le Signe du Rossignol View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator)AuthorJacques, Henry [pseud. of Jacques Cohen]HeadlineSous Le Signe du Rossignol, Kay NielsenPublisherL'Édition D'Art H. PiazzaDate Published[1923] Lot #349 Buchkunst. Beitrage zur Entwicklung der graphischen Kunste und der Kunst im Buche. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Weimar Germany)HeadlineBook Art and typology, 1931 Weimar GermanyPublisherStaatliche Akademie fur Graphische KunsteDate Published[1931] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next