Sale 804: Rare & Antiquarian - Natural History - Fine Press, Fine Bindings, & Illustrated Books (#804) 01/11/2024 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/11/2024 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 804 674 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 1-100 of 100. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorAddison, JosephHeadlineBaskerville Printing of Addison's Works 1761PublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1761 Lot #2 The Tragedies of Aeschylus in Greek View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorAeschylusHeadlineFoulis Press Aeschylus 1795, one of 63 copiesPublisherAndreas FoulisDate Published1795 Lot #4 Cabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: In Letters of Illustrious Persons and Great Ministers of State as well Forreign as Domestick... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Author[Bacon, Francis, et al.]HeadlineCabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra 1663PublisherG. Bedell and T. CollinsDate Published1663 Lot #10 The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,562.50StatusSold AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineSecond Speght Chaucer 1602PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1602 Lot #11 The Works of our Ancient, Learned & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineFinal blackletter Chaucer ed., 1687Publishern.p.Date Published1687 Lot #13 The Whole Workes of Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorDaniel, SamuelHeadlineWhole Workes Samuel Daniel 1623 later issue(?)PublisherPrinted by Nicholas OkesDate Published1623 Lot #14 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$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineAnonymous political tract by Daniel Defoe 1726PublisherPrinted for T. WarnerDate Published1726 Lot #16 The Considerations of Drexelius Upon Eternitie View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorDrexel, JeremiasHeadlineDrexelius Upon Eternitie 1636 w/ 8 engravingsPublisherPrinted by the Printers to the UniversitieDate Published1636 Lot #17 Absalom and Achitophel [with] The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel [with] Absalom Senior: Or, Achitophel Transpros'd View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorDryden, John, Nahum Tate and Elkanah SettleHeadlineDryden's biting satire, Absalom w/ responsesDate Published1681-1682 Lot #18 All For Love: or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal; and Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stile View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorDryden, JohnHeadlineDryden's All for Love 1st ed. 1678PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb, for Henry HerringmanDate Published1678 Lot #19 Three works by John Dryden [with] one attack upon him View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorDryden, JohnHeadline3 by John Dryden with anon attack on himDate Published1683-1695 Lot #20 The Virtuous Wife; or, Good Luck at Last. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Dukes Theater View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorDurfey, ThomasHeadlineDurfey Virtuous Wife 1680PublisherPrinted by T.N. for R. Bentley, and M. MagnesDate Published1684 [i.e. 1680] Lot #22 An Argument of Law Concerning the Bill of Attainder of High-Treason of Thomas Earle of Strafford View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Civil War)HeadlineOn Thomas Earl of Strafford Bill of AttainderPublisherPrinted by G.M. for John BartletDate Published1641 Lot #23 Eight seventeenth-century English pamphlets used as inspiration at Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(England - Civil War)Headline8 English pamphlets owned by D.B. UpdikeDate Published1641-1657 Lot #24 His Majesties Declaration: To All His Loving Subjects, of the Causes which Moved Him to Dissolve the Last Parliament View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(England - Civil War)HeadlineCharles I defends dissolving Parliament 1640PublisherPrinted by Robert Barker... and by the Assignes of John BillDate Published1640 Lot #26 Revolution Politicks: Being a Compleat Collection of all the Reports, Lyes, and Stories, which were the Fore-runners of the Great Revolution in 1688 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Glorious Revolution)HeadlineRevolution Politicks, 1733, on Glorious RevolutionDate Published1733 Lot #27 Ten titles relating to the Glorious Revolution View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(England - Glorious Revolution)Headline10 pamphlets touching the Glorious RevolutionDate Published1680-1689 Lot #28 Observations both Historical and Moral upon the Burning of London, September 1666 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(England - Great Fire of London)HeadlineEarly title on 1666 Great Fire of LondonPublisherPrinted by Thomas RatcliffeDate Published1667 Lot #30 A Compleat Parson [with] Star-Chamber Cases View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Law)AuthorDoddridge, John and Richard CromptonHeadline2 English legal texts, 1630 Doddridge & CromptonDate Published1630 Lot #31 A Tory Plot: Or the Discovery of a Design Carried on by our Late Addressers and Abhorrers, to Alter the Constitution of the Government and to Betray the Protestant Religion [with] The Tory Plot: The Second Part View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(England - Popish Plot)AuthorMisopappas, Philanax [pseud. of Charles Blount]HeadlineThe Tory Plot, Misopappas 1682, 2 partsPublisherRichard JanewayDate Published1682 Lot #32 Seven titles on the Popish Plot View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(England - Popish Plot)HeadlineSeven early Popish Plot documentsDate Published1678-1681 Lot #33 Twelve seventeenth century English sermons and theological tracts View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(England - Religion)Headline12 English sermons & tracts c.1650-90Date Publishedc.1650-1690 Lot #34 Observations Upon a Late Libel, Called A Letter from a Person of Quality to His Friend, Concerning the Kings Declaration, &c. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Restoration)AuthorHalifax, George Saville, First Marquess ofHeadlineRestoration political tract on Parliament, 1681PublisherPrinted for C.M.Date Published1681 Lot #35 Four works of seventeenth-century English theater View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(England - Theater)HeadlineFour pieces of 17th century English theaterDate Published1679-1691 Lot #36 The Answre of the Vicechancelour, The Doctors, both of the Proctors, and other the Heads of Houses in the Universitie of Oxford View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(England)HeadlineOxford Answere of the Vicechancelour 1603PublisherPrinted by Joseph Barnes, and are to by sold... by James WatersonDate Published1603 Lot #37 A Thankfull Remembrance of Gods Mercy View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(England)AuthorCarleton, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Carleton on God's Mercy, 1627PublisherPrinted by M. Flesher for Robert Mylbourne and Humphrey RobinsonDate Published1627 Lot #38 Five contemporary books on 17th century English history View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(England)Headline5 period books on 17th c. English historyDate Published1679-1698 Lot #39 His Majesties Speach in the Starre-Chamber, The xx. of June. Anno 1616 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(England)AuthorJames I, King of EnglandHeadlineKing's speech Star-Chamber 20 June 1616PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1616 Lot #40 Witt against Wisdom. Or a Panegyrick upon Folly View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorErasmus [Desiderius]HeadlineWitt against Wisdom by Erasmus, 1683PublisherPrinted by L. Lichfield for Anthony StephensDate Published1683 Lot #41 The Man of Mode, or Sr Fopling Flutter. A Comedy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorEtherege, GeorgeHeadlineEtherege, Sir Fopling Flutter 1676 1st ed.PublisherPrinted by J. Macock, for Henry HerringmanDate Published1676 Lot #43 Publick Employment and an Active Live with all its Appanages, Such as Fame, Command, Riches, Conversation, &c. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorEvelyn, JohnHeadlineEvelyn's Publick Employment 1st & 2nd issuesPublisherPrinted by J.M. for H. HerringmanDate Published1667 Lot #44 Ex Otio Negotium: Or, Martiall His Epigrams Translated. With Sundery Poems and Fancies... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorFletcher, R., translatorHeadlineFletcher's translation of Martial, 1656PublisherPrinted by T. Mabb, for William ShearsDate Published1656 Lot #46 The Post-Boy robb'd of his mail or, The Pacquet Broke Open. Consisting of letters of love and gallantry, and all miscellaneous subjects: In which are Discover'd The Vertues, Vices, Follies, Humours and Intrigues of Mankind. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Author[Gildon, Charles]HeadlineCharles Gildon's Post-boy Robb'd, 1706PublisherPrinted by B. Mills for John SprintDate Published1706 Lot #47 Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorGlanvill, JosephHeadlineGlanvill's Essays 1676, on witchcraft et al.PublisherPrinted by J.D. for John Barker... and Henry MortlockDate Published1676 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$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorGreville, Fulke, Baron BrookeHeadlineSir Fulke Greville Certaine Workes 1633PublisherPrinted by E.P. for Henry SeyleDate Published1633 Lot #50 Il Pastor Fido, The Faithfull Shepheard. With an Addition of divers other Poems Concluding with a short Discourse of the long Civill Warres of Rome. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Author[Guarini, Giovanni Baptista]HeadlineGiovanni Guarini's The Faithful Shepard, 1648PublisherPrinted for Humphrey MoseleyDate Published1648 Lot #52 The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Years After Christ View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorHanmer, Meredith, translatorHeadlineEcclesiastical Histories, trans. Hanmer 1619PublisherPrinted by Richard FieldDate Published1619 Lot #55 The Iliads and Odysses of Homer View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineHomer translated by Thomas Hobbes, 2nd ed.PublisherPrinted for Will. CrookDate Published1677 Lot #58 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineWorks of Samuel Johnson 1825, nine vols.PublisherPrinted for William PickeringDate Published1825 Lot #60 Flauij Josephi... Historien vnd Bücher: Von alten jüdischen Geschichten... Vom Jüdischen Krieg... Vom alten Herkommen der Jüden wider den Apion... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorJosephusHeadlineJosephus, German 1571 in blind-tooled calfProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionPublisher[George Raben und Weygand Hanen Erben]Date Published1571 Lot #68 The Nuremberg Chronicle. A Pictorial World History from the Creation to 1493. With a leaf from the pirated Augsburg Latin edition of 1497 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Leaf Books - Nuremberg Chronicle)AuthorShaffer, EllenHeadlineWith original leaf from Nuremberg ChroniclePublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1950 Lot #70 Breydenbach, Bernhard von View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Leaves, 1486)AuthorCorevn [in] Peregrinationes in Terram SanctamHeadlineReurwich woodcut of Corfu, 1486ProvenancePurchased from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & ManuscriptsPublisherErhard ReuwichDate Published1486 Lot #71 Leaf from an incunable edition of Aesop View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Leaves, 1489)HeadlineIncunable leaf w/ 2 woodcuts c.1489ProvenanceCollection of Phil Lenna; purchased from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & ManuscriptsPublisherJacobus Wolff, de PforzheimDate Publishedc.1489 Lot #72 Leaf from Cronecken der Sassen View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Leaves, 1492)Author[Bote, Konrad or Hermann]HeadlineHand-colered Leaf, Peter Schöffer 1492ProvenancePurchased from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & ManuscriptsPublisherPeter SchöfferDate Published1492 Lot #73 Printed leaf with colored woodcut of Buda from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(Leaves, 1493)AuthorSchedel, HartmannHeadlineWoodcut of Buda Nuremburg Chronicle 1493PublisherKoberger, AntonDate Published1493 Lot #74 An Appeal to the Parliament; Or Sions Plea Against the Prelacie [bound with] two other political works by Humphrey Prideaux and William Allen View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Author[Leighton, Alexander]HeadlineA. Leighton Appeal to Parliament 1628Date PublishedPrinted the year & moneth wherin Rochell was lost [i.e. 1628] Lot #75 The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. Or a Direction to the Husbandman... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMarkham, GervaseHeadlineShort English farming guide 1664PublisherPrinted by W. Wilson, for George SawbridgeDate Published1664 Lot #76 The Rehearsal Transpros'd View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorMarvell, AndrewHeadlineAndrew Marvell's Rehearsal Transpros'd 1672-3PublisherPrinted by J.D. for the Assigns of John Calvin and Theodore Beza [and] Printed for Nathaniel PonderDate Published1672-1673 Lot #77 Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne. In Three Books. With Marginal Notes and Quotations of the Cited Authors View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorMontaigne, Michel Eyquem deHeadlineCharles Cotton's trans. of Montaigne's EssaysPublisherPrinted for T. Basset and M. Gilliflower and W. HensmanDate Published1693 Lot #80 Plautus's Comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicus, and Rudens, Made English: With Critical Remarks Upon Each Play View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Plautus, Titus Maccius]HeadlineFirst edition of Plautus in English, 1694PublisherPrinted for Abel Swalle and T. ChildDate Published1694 Lot #81 Eight volumes of early 19th-century poetry View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Poetry)HeadlineEight volumes of early 19th century poetryDate Published1819-1845 Lot #82 Five volumes of 18th century poetry View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Poetry)HeadlineFive volumes of 18th-century poetryDate Published1768-1811 Lot #83 The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes Complete [with] The Iliad and The Odyssey View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorPope, Alexander and HomerHeadlineAlexander Pope 20 vol. set, Works + HomerPublisherJ. & P. Knapton, et al. [and] T. Osborne, et al.Date Published1752 Lot #84 The History of Gustavus Adolphus, Surnamed the Great, King of Sueden, With the Life and Reign of His Successor after Christina, Carolus Gustavus, Count Palatin View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorPrade, Jean Le Royer, sieur deHeadlineHistory of Gustavus & Carolus Adolphus, 1689PublisherPrinted by J.B. and to be sold by Mr. Clavell [et al.]Date Published1689 Lot #86 The Tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorRowe, NicholasHeadlineRowe, Tragedy Lady Jane Gray 1715PublisherPrinted for Bernard LintottDate Published1715 Lot #88 Rights of the Kingdom; Or, Customs of Our Ancestours: Touching the Duty, Power, Election, or Succession, of our Kings and Parliaments View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Author[Sadler, John]HeadlineJohn Sadler Rights Kingdom, 1649PublisherPrinted by Richard BishopDate Published1649 Lot #89 The Whole Comical Works of Monsr. Scarron View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorScarron, PaulHeadlineWhole Comical Works of Scarron, 1700 EnglishPublisherPrinted for S. and J. Sprint..., J. Nicholson..., R. Parker..., and Benj. TookeDate Published1700 Lot #90 Bellamira, or the Mistress, a Comedy View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorSedley, CharlesHeadlineBellamiraPublisherPrinted by D. Mallet, for L.C. and Timothy GoodwinDate Published1687 Lot #91 Bury-Fair. A Comedy View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorShadwell, ThomasHeadlineShadwell, Bury-Fair. A Comedy, 1689PublisherPrinted for James KnaptonDate Published1689 Lot #92 The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSheridan, Richard BrinsleyHeadlineSheridan, Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsal 1781PublisherPrinted for T. BecketDate Published1781 Lot #94 The Royall Master; As it was Acted in the New Theater in Dublin View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorShirley, JamesHeadlineShirley's 1st play: The Royall Master 1638PublisherPrinted by T. Cotes, and are to be sold by John Crooke, and Richard SergerDate Published1638 Lot #95 Two letters from Lydia H. Sigourney View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSigourney, Lydia H.HeadlineTwo letters from Lydia H. Sigourney, 1841 & 46Date Published1841-1846 Lot #96 Killing no Murder: Briefly Discoursed in Three Questions View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Author[Silas, Titus and Edward Sexby]Headline1689 repub. of Cromwell assassination pamphletPublishern.p.Date Published1689 Lot #99 Relief of Apprentices Wronged by their Masters View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Author[Stephens, Edward]HeadlineRare pamphlet on protecting apprentices 1687Date Published1687 Lot #100 The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set Forth in their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: With some Observations on the Seasonableness, Candor, Erudition, and Style of that Treatise View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineJonathan Swift Publick Spirit 1714 uncensoredPublisherPrinted for John MorphewDate Published1714 Lot #102 The Newcomes View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Thackeray, William Makepeace)AuthorPendennis, Arthur, ed., pseud.HeadlineFirst Edition in original partsPublisherBradbury and EvansDate PublishedOctober 1853-August 1855 Lot #103 The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and his Greatest Enemy View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineFirst Edition, in original partsPublisherBradbury & EvansDate PublishedNovember, 1848-December, 1850 Lot #105 Bellum Peloponnesiacum. Ex Editione Wassii et Dukeri View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFouls Press octavo Thucydides 8 vols. 1759PublisherRobertus et Andreas FoulisDate Published1759 Lot #106 Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Peloponnesian Warre 1634 HobbesPublisherImprinted for Richard MynneDate Published1634 Lot #107 Gli Otto Libri di Thucydide Atheniense, delle Guerre Fatte tra Popoli della Morea... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFirst editions of Thucydides in Italian, 3 copiesPublisherVincenzo Valgrisi, et al.Date Published1545-1550 Lot #110 Θουκυδιδου Περι του Πελοποννησιακου Πολεμου Βιβλια Οκτω = Thycydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Duceri, 1731 2 vols.PublisherApud R. & J. Wetstenios & Gul. SmithDate Published1731 Lot #111 Θουκυδιδου περι του Πελοποννησιακου Πολέμον Βιβλία ῆ. Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri VIII View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineSecond Estienne ed. Thucydides, 1588PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1588 Lot #113 Two nineteenth century editions of Thucydides in Greek View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineTwo 19th century eds. Thucydides in GreekDate Published1809-1835 Lot #115 The Substance of That Which was Delivered in a Sermon before the Commons House of Parliament View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorUsher, JamesHeadlineJames Usher Substance of Sermon 1621PublisherFelix Kyngston, for John BartletDate Published1621 Lot #116 O Conscious Heart... for Miss Eliza Mum View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorWillis, Nathaniel ParkerHeadlineUnpublished Nathaniel Parker Willis ms poemDate Publishedc.1826-1830 Lot #118 Cosmographicus Liber Petri Apiani Mathematici, iam denuo integritati resitutus per Gemmam Phrysium View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorApian, PeterHeadlineEarly edition of Apianus, Cosmographicus LiberPublisherIoan. Grapheus [for Arnold Birckmann]Date Published1533 Lot #130 An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China: Comprising Figures and Descriptions of Upwards of One Hundred New, Singular, and Beautiful Species View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorDonovan, EdwardHeadlineDonovan's Chinese Insects 1798, beautiful illus.PublisherPrinted for the Author, by T. BensleyDate Published1798 Lot #159 Three early titles on medicine View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Medicine)Headline3 titles on medicine published 1610-1754Date Published1610-1754 Lot #160 Joaquin, Et Al. View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorMiller, Cincinnatus H. [Joaquin]HeadlineFirst Edition w/ additional copy in custom boxPublisherS.J. McCormickDate Published1869 Lot #161 First Fam'lies of the Sierras View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMiller, JoaquinHeadlineWith bookplate inscribed and signed by MillerPublisherJansen, McClurg & Co.Date Published1876 Lot #172 Four 19th-century works on art criticism View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Art criticism)HeadlineFour works on 19th-century art and literatureDate Published1817-1915 Lot #173 Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince of Denmark View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Austen, John, illustrator)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineJohn Austen's Hamlet in scarce jacketPublisherSelwyn & BlountDate Published[1922] Lot #200 The first, second, and third Tours of Doctor Syntax View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Author[Combe, William]HeadlineTour of Doctor Syntax - Three Vols, 1st & 3rd Eds.PublisherR. Ackermann's Repository of the ArtsDate Published1812-1821 Lot #202 The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert a Beckett, the Brothers Mayhew View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Cruikshank, George, illustrator)HeadlineComplete, illustrated by George CruikshankPublisherJohn Camden Hotten; Chatto & WindusDate Published[1871, 1874] Lot #203 Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Cruikshank, George, illustrator)AuthorInglis, H.D.HeadlineFirst edition, illust. by George CruikshankPublisherWhittaker and Co.Date Published1837 Lot #205 A Dickens Atlas: Including Twelve Walks in London with Charles Dickens View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorHopkins, Albert A. and Newbury Frost ReadHeadlineMaps of Dickens' LondonPublisherHatton Garden PressDate Published1923 Lot #206 American Notes for General Circulation View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineWith signature of Charles DickensPublisherChapman and HallDate Published[1850] Lot #207 The Battle of Life: A Love Story View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineWith illustrations by Doyle, Leech, and othersPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published[1846] Lot #208 A Child's History of England View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst Edition, complete in three volumesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-1854 Lot #209 A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineTauchnitz edition of Dickens' Christmas talesPublisherTauchnitzDate Published1843-47 Lot #210 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst edition in book formPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1839 Lot #214 Stories from Hans Andersen View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Dulac, Edmund, illustrator)AuthorAndersen, Hans ChristianHeadlineWith 16 color plates by Edmund DulacPublisherGeorge H. Doran CompanyDate Published[1923] Lot #226 Fables of La Fontaine View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Grandville, J.J., illustrator)AuthorFontaine, Jean de laHeadlineProfusely illustrated by J.J. GrandvillePublisherElizur Wright; Tappan and DennetDate Published[1841] Lot #232 Authors of the United States View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorHicks, Thomas, artistHeadlineMezzotint of 44 U.S. Authors, 1866Date Published1866 Lot #235 Barnabae Itinerarium or Barnabee's Journal View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Hodgson)AuthorBrathwaite, RichardHeadlineBarnabee's Journal, nicely bound by HodgsonPublisherPrinted by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. for Private CirculationDate Published1876 Lot #253 Illustration: Portfolio No. 1 Illustrating "When the Gods Slept" by Lord Dunsany View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Lord Dunsany)HeadlineIllustrating Dunsany's When the Gods SleptPublisherThe Arthur Wesley Dow AssociationDate Published1925 Lot #274 Aesop's Fables View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)HeadlineAesop, with 13 color plates by Arthur RackhamPublisherWilliam Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1912 Lot #290 A Romance of a Mince-Pie View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Sangorski & Sutcliffe)AuthorReach, Angus B.HeadlineSangorski & Sutcliffe binding, w/ Phiz illus.PublisherD. BogueDate Published1848 Lot #295 Collection of poster art and posters for theatrical productions of John Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Steinbeck, John)HeadlineThe Moon is Down original poster artDate Publishedc.1942 Lot #297 Works of Jane Austen View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Thomson, Hugh)AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineWorks of Jane Austen universally boundPublisherMacmillan and Company, LimitedDate Published1908-1914 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next