Sale 806: Rare Books & Manuscripts - A PBA Platinum Auction (#806) 02/08/2024 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/08/2024 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 806 676 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 1-28 of 28. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Archive of letters from the wife of the owner of the Avondale estate in Maryland, to a relative the Rosewell Plantation of Gloucester, Virginia, with much reference to their slaves Heading(African American - Slavery archive)AuthorVan Bibber, Elizabeth (Betty) CarterHeadlineArchive with slave wedding at Maryland mansionDate Published1848-1853 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #5 I Fioretti del Glorioso Poverello di Cristo S. Francesco di Assisi Heading(Ashendene Press)AuthorSt. FrancisHeadlineAshendene Press St. Francis 1922PublisherAshendene PressDate Published1922 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #13 Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange Heading(Calder, Alexander, illustrator)AuthorAesopHeadlineAesop's Fables Illustrated by Alexander CalderPublisherHarrison of ParisDate Published1931 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #19 Large archive of materials relating to Joseph L. Orlowski (Madison) and his employment by Claire Chennault’s Civil Air Transport, which was purchased by the Central Intelligence Agency and operated as Air America Heading(Civil Air Transport – Air America)AuthorOrlowski, Joseph L., compilerHeadlineAir America/CAT archive 1945-1975Date Publishedc.1945-1975 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #22 Theologie Curieuse Heading(Cosmology Manuscript)AuthorOsorio da Fonseca, JeronimoHeadlineRare 17th century Cosmology manuscriptDate Publishedc.1660 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #23 Archive of 13 letters by a soldier who served in the British infantry during the Crimean War Heading(Crimean War)AuthorPedder, JamesHeadlineLetters from the Crimean WarDate Published1853-1857 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #25 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers bound for Cuba in 1867Date Published1 April 1868 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #26 Selenarchia. Or, the Government of the World in the Moon: A Comical History. Written by that famous wit and cavaleer of France, Monsieur Cyrano Bergerac: and done into English by Tho. St. Serf, Gent. AuthorCyrano de Bergerac, Savinien deHeadlineAstronomical fantasy by Cyrano de Bergerac 1659PublisherPrinted by J. Cottrel, and are to be sold by Hum. RobinsonDate Published1659 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #27 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineRosebury copy of John Donne's lettersPublisherPrinted by J. Flesher, for Richard MarriotDate Published1651 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #28 Pseudo-Martyr. Wherein out of Certaine Propositions and Gradations, this Conclusion is Evicted. That those which are of the Romane Religion in this Kindome, may and ought to take the Oathe of Allegeance AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineJohn Donne's 1st book, Pseudo-Martyr, 1610PublisherPrinted by W. Stansby for Walter BurreDate Published1610 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #30 Mammoth Collection of Dun Emer / Cuala Press Heading(Dun Emer / Cuala Press)AuthorYeats, W.B. et al.HeadlineMammoth collection of Dun Emer / Cuala PressPublisherDun Emer Press; Cuala PressDate Published1903-1946 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000StatusUnsold Lot #37 Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners AuthorFlaubert, GustaveHeadlineEnglish edition of Madame BovaryPublisherVizetelly & Co.Date Published1886 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #39 Poems on Various Subjects Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorMurry, AnnHeadlineMurry's Poems with double fore-edge paintingsPublisherPrinted for the Author, and sold by Edward and Charles DillyDate Published1779 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #41 The Prophet AuthorGibran, KahlilHeadlineInscribed copy of Gibran's ProphetPublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1924 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #45 In Search of the Miraculous Heading(Gurdjieff)AuthorOuspensky, Peter D.HeadlineGurdjieff in custom binding by Philip SmithPublisherRoutledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.Date Published1950 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #49 Kabbala Denudata Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRosenroth, Christian Knorr, Baron von, compiler & translatorHeadlineGreat 17th century text of the KabbalahDate Published1677 & 1684 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #50 The Jungle Book / The Second Jungle Book AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineKipling's First & Second Jungle Books finely boundPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1894-1895 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #55 Rabbi Mosis Majemonidis liber [Hebrew phrase] Doctor perplexorum: ad dubia & obscuriora Scripturæ loca rectiùs intelligenda veluti clavem continens, prout in praefatione, in quâ de authoris vitâ, & operis totius ratione agitur, pleniùs explicatur AuthorMaimonides, MosesHeadlineMaimonides Guide to Perplexed 1629PublisherSumptibus & impensis Ludovici König, excudebat J.J. GenathDate Published1629 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #56 Le Signe de Vie Heading(Matisse, Henri, artist)AuthorTzara, TristanHeadlineSigned by Tristan Tzara & Henri Matisse, Signe de ViePublisherBordasDate Published1946 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #61 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books [with] Paradise Regain'd AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery LaneDate Published1688 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #63 Anacalypsis, an attempt to draw aside the veil of the Saitic Isis, or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions Heading(Occult)AuthorHiggins, GodfreyHeadlineGodfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis 1st ed. 1836PublisherLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and LongmanDate Published1836 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #69 Seven-Times-The-Colour-Of-Fire: The ancient American mythology of The Popol Vuh Heading(Popol Vuh)AuthorWeatherwax, John M. and Clara F., translatorsHeadlineTypescript of 1st English language Popol VuhDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 The Odyssey of Homer Heading(Rogers, Bruce)AuthorHomerHeadlineBruce Rogers prints T.E. Lawrence's Odyssey trans.PublisherSir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce RogersDate Published1932 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #75 Shane AuthorSchaefer, JackHeadlineShane 1st ed. proof jacket, film studio copyPublisherHoughton Mifflin CompanyDate Published1949 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #76 The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida [&] The Tragedy of Coriolanus AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo tragedies from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #83 Walden; Or, Life in the Woods AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineHenry David Thoreau Walden First EditionPublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1854 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #92 Peter Ibbetson. Lyric Drama in Three Acts AuthorDu Maurier, GeorgeHeadlineDeluxe copy of Peter Ibbetson, Lyric DramaPublisherJ. Fischer & Bro.Date Published1930 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #93 Two finely bound volumes Heading(Fine Bindings)Headline2 finely bound - Balzac and PetrarchDate Published1823-1906 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next