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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Frederick Douglass' Paper: Devoted to the Rights of All Mankind, Without Distinction of Color, Class, or Clime Heading(African-American, 1855)AuthorDouglass, FrederickHeadlineFrederick Douglass' Newspaper, 1855Date Published1855 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #2 Autograph letter signed by Nathanael Greene Heading(American Revolution)AuthorGreene, NathanaelHeadlineLetter signed by Nathanael Greene, 1781Date Published1781 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #3 Les Mosquees de Samarcande, Fascicule I: Gour-Emir (all published) Heading(Asia)AuthorShchusev, Alekseĭ Viktorovich; Pokryshkin, Pëtr PetrovichHeadlineElaborate study of Timur's Tomb in SamarkandPublisherPublié par la Commission Impériale AchéologiqueDate Published1905 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #4 H. Cardani medici Mediolanensis Metoposcopia libris tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa... Heading(Astrology)AuthorCardano, GirolamoHeadlineFortune telling by lines in forehead, 1658PublisherApud Thomam IollyDate Published1658 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #5 Astrologia Restaurata; or, Astrologie Restored: Being An Introduction To The General and Chief Part of the Language of the Stars. In Four Books. Heading(Astrology)AuthorRamesey, WilliamHeadlineAstrology from William Ramesey 1653PublisherPrinted for Robert WhiteDate Published1653 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #6 The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineComplete 8vo edition of Audubon's Birds in full moroccoPublisherPublished by V.G. AudubonDate Published1856 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #7 Sense and Sensibility: A Novel AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineAusten Sense & Sensibility 1833 illus. editionPublisherRichard Bentley, et al.Date Published1833 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #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)HeadlineKing James Great "She" Bible, 1613-1611PublisherRobert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent MaiestieDate Published1613-1611 View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold Lot #9 The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments according to the Authorized Version. Illustrated by Modern Artists Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineCecil B. DeMille's copy of an illustrated BibleProvenanceCecil B. DeMille (bookplate); Sotheby's (his sale, October 1988)PublisherIllustrated Bible SocietyDate Publishedc.1900 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #10 Original Leaves from Famous Bibles: Nine Centuries 1121-1935 A.D. Heading(Bible)AuthorEge, Otto F. compilerHeadlineOtto Ege, Leaves from Famous Bibles 1121-1935Date Publishedc.1950 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #11 Illustrations to the Book of Job. The Engravings and related material with Essays, Catalogue of States and printings, Commentary on the Plates and Documentary Record by David Bindman, Barbara Bryant, Robert Essick, Geoffrey Keynes and Bo Lindberg. Edited by David Bindman Heading(Blake, William - Trianon Press)HeadlineBlake's Book of Job, Trianon Press, 1987PublisherThe William Blake TrustDate Published1987 [printed c.1974] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #12 The Life of Samuel Johnson AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Johnson, 1791 2 volsPublisherPrinted by Henry Baldwin for Charles DillyDate Published1791 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #13 Autograph letter signed by Buffalo Bill to his sister [with] photograph of Buffalo Bill's family HeadingBuffalo Bill [i.e. William Frederick Cody]HeadlineAutograph letter signed, Buffalo Bill to sisterDate Published1881 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #14 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries with 85 superb copperplatesPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #15 Auburn, Cal. Heading(California - Auburn)AuthorCook, C.P., artistHeadlineBird's-eye view of Auburn, Cal.PublisherW.W. ElliottDate Published[c.1879] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #16 Swimming Championships of the Pacific Coast: Sutro Baths, Friday, July 4, 1913 Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSwim Meet with Duke Kahanamoku in S.F. 1913PublisherThe James H. Barry Co.Date Published1913 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #17 Insurance Map of San Francisco, California. Volume One. Published by Dakin Publishing Company, 320 Sansome Street, San Francisco, 1887 Heading(California – San Francisco)HeadlineRare 40-sheet insurance map of S.F. 1887PublisherDakin Publishing CompanyDate Published1887-[1892] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #18 Memoria del Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de la Guerra, presentada a las Camaras en enero de 1825 Heading(California)AuthorMier y Teran, Manuel de,HeadlineMilitary affairs in California 1825PublisherImprenta del Supremo Gobierno de los Estados-unidos mexicanos, en PalacioDate Published1825 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #19 Theoria Lunae, eius Motum per Eccentricum et Epicyclum Demonstrans AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlinePtolemaic model of lunar motion, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #20 Theoria Solis per Eccentricum sine Epicyclo AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlineChart showing Sun's orbit around the Earth, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineBrussels edition of Don Quixote 1607PublisherPor Roger VelpiusDate Published1607 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote, 1/200 large paper copiesPublisherWilliam PatersonDate Published1879-1884 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #23 Les Principales avantures de l’incomparable chevalier errant Don Quichotte de La Manche; peintes par Charles Coypel, premier peintre du roi, Et gravées, sous sa direction, par les plus habiles Artistes en ce genre AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSuite of most famous Quixote illustrationsPublisherJacques-François ChereauDate Published[c.1747-1770 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #24 Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada faits par le Sr Champlain Xainctongeois, Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marine du Ponant, & toutes les Descouvertes qu'il a faites en ce païs depuis l'an 1603 jusques en l'an 1629. AuthorChamplain, Samuel deHeadlineChamplain's voyages in rare first state, 1632PublisherChez Louis SevestreDate Published1632 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$37,500StatusSold Lot #25 Lettre à M. Dacier... relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques [with] Lettres à M. le Duc de Blacas d’Aulps... relatives au Musée Royal Egyptien de Turin AuthorChampollion, Jean-FrançoisHeadlineChampollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphicsPublisherFirmin DidotDate Published1822-1826 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #26 "Little Sheaves" Gathered while Gleaning after Reapers. Being letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and ending in 1873 AuthorChurchill, Caroline M.HeadlineProgressive woman's travels in California 1874Date Published1874 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #27 Diary of a Kentucky woman during the American Civil War, 1862-1864 Heading(Civil War)HeadlineU.S. Civil War diary of KY woman, 1862-64Date Published1862-1864 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #28 An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour. Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.; by John Hawkesworth LL.D. Heading(Cook, James)AuthorHawkesworth, JohnHeadlineCook's first voyage, second edition 1773PublisherW. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1773 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #29 Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America. To Which are added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Between Russia and China AuthorCoxe, WilliamHeadlineCoxe's account of Russian Discoveries 1780PublisherJ. Nichols for T. CadellDate Published1780 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #30 Ship Manifest from the Spanish Ministry of War listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana, Cuba Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers embark for Cuba, 1861Date Published1861 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #31 A file of proceedings ("expediente diligiencias") regarding a request by African Carabali slaves "of this class," i.e. bozales, who wish to celebrate a traditional holiday with festivities and dancing Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineRitual celebration by slaves in Cuba 1814Date Published1814 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #32 Legal file relating to a manumitted slave who is not being supplied proper documents or a promised stipend Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineMorena slave liberated in Cuba, 1880Date Published1880 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #33 Manifest listing 133 African slaves ("bozales") embarked on the steamer "Cristobal Colon" apparently bound for Caño, Cuba, or possibly the Philippines Heading(Cuba - Slavery)Headline"Bozales" African slaves shipped to CubaDate PublishedJuly 10, 1866 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #34 Manuscript listing in table format of some 217 escaped or rebellious slaves (“Cimarrónes”) who had been freed under the lottery and were now to be given identification papers. Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineList of Cuban slaves freed through lottery, 1886Date Publishedc.1886 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #35 Manuscript roster of a Company in the 2nd "Battallon de Orden Publico" in Cuba of black, white and Chinese soldiers at the start of the Little War (Guerra Chiquita) between Cuban rebels and Spain Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRecruits from jail fight Cuban rebels, 1879Date Published1879 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #36 Pierre Curie AuthorCurie, MarieHeadlineMarie Curie's bio of her husband w/signed cardPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1923 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #37 La Divina Commedia AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineDante's Divine Comedy by G. GnocchiPublisherG. GnocchiDate Published1878 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #38 Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's journal of Beagle voyagePublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1839 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold Lot #39 The Existence of Evil Spirits Proved; and Their Agency, Particularly in Relation to the Human Race. Explained and Illustrated Heading(Demonology)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineWalter Scott on Evil Spirits, 1845PublisherJackson and WalfordDate Published1845 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 The Penny Pickwick Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorPrest, Thomas PeckettHeadlineSweeny Todd author rips off Dickens' PickwickPublisherPrinted and published by E. Lloyd for J. GravesDate Published1837-1839 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare... Heading(Dickens, Charles, his book)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineDickens' copy of Shakespeare playsPublisherF. C. and J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1821 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #42 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Christmas Carol, first edition, first issuePublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #43 A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon AuthorDixon, GeorgeHeadlineDixon's voyage round the world, 1789PublisherPublished by Geo. GouldingDate Published1789 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #44 Les Arts au Moyen Age AuthorDu Sommerard, AlexandreHeadlinePlate volumes to Sommerard's Arts au Moyen AgePublisherHotel de ClunyDate Published1838-1846 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #45 Galileo a Madama Cristina di Lorena (1615) AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineOnce the smallest printed book in the worldProvenanceCarrol Atwood WilsonPublisherTipogr. SalminDate Published1896 (colophon dated 1897) View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #46 Para verte mejor, America Latina [To See You More Clearly, Latin America] AuthorGasparini, Paolo, photographerHeadlinePhotographic journey through Latin America in turmoil, 1972PublisherSiglo veintiuno EditoresDate Published1972 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #47 The arraignment, trials, conviction and condemnation of Sir Rich. Grahme... and John Ashton, Gent. for high treason against... King William and Queen Mary... [bound with 13 other works relating to the uprising and subsequent rebellious actions] Heading(Great Britain - Jacobite rebellions of 1689 & 1696)HeadlinePlots to restore Jame II to British throne, 1691-96PublisherPrinted for Samuel Heyrick and Thomas CockerilDate Published1691 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #48 Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineBasil Hall's Voyage to Korea & Okinawa, 1818PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1818 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #49 Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation AuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerHeadlineUncle Remus in rare binding variantPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1881 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #50 Specimens of Hawaiian Kapa Assembled from Various Institutions and Private Collections Heading(Hawaii & Polynesia)AuthorSeverson, Donald R.HeadlineSeverson's Hawaiian Kapa from Arion PressPublisher[Published by the Author]Date Published1978 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #51 Specimens of Polynesian Tapa assembled from various institutions and private collections Heading(Hawaii & Polynesia)AuthorSeverson, Donald R.HeadlineSeverson Polynesian Tapa from Arion PressPublisher[Published by the Author]Date Published1984 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #52 A Farewell to Arms AuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineFarewell to Arms first edition in djPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1929 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #53 Iliad and Odyssey. Translated into German by Carl Edmund Richter AuthorHomerHeadlineGerman manuscript of Homer, c.1830Date Published1828-1832 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #54 Sharh al-Mawaqif Heading(Islam)AuthorJurjānī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-SharīfHeadlineArabic printed theological text by JurjaniPublisherBulaq PressDate Published1850 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #55 Printed poster instructing persons of Japanese ancestry in San Francisco to report to the Civil Control Station at 1530 Buchanan Street Heading(Japanese-American Internment)AuthorDeWitt, Lt. Gen. J.LHeadlineJapanese Exclusion Act broadsidePublisherU.S. ArmyDate PublishedMay 5, 1942 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #56 Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, consusio linguarum, inde gentium transmigrationis... AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Turris Babel 1679PublisherJanssonio-WaesbergianaDate Published1679 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #57 Fables Choisies Mises en Vers Par J. De La Fontaine AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean deHeadlineProfusely illust. edition of Fontaine's FablesPublisherChez Des LauriersDate Published1765-1775 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #58 The Maner of Kepynge a Court Baron & a Lete: With Dyvers Fourmes of Entreis, Playntes, Processes, Presentementes & Other Matters Determynable There. Newely Imprynted and Corrected Heading(Law)HeadlineRare guide on English manor courts, 1544PublisherWilliam MiddiltonDate Published1544 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #59 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator AuthorLefèvre, EdwinHeadlineEdwin Lefèvre's speculative investment classicPublisherGeorge H. Doran CompanyDate Published1923 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #60 The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadlineMachiavelli's works in English, 1675PublisherPrinted for John StarkeyDate Published1675 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #61 Dissertatione de Generatione Fungorum AuthorMarsili, Luigi FerdinandoHeadlineEarly microscopic analysis of fungi, 1714PublisherEx Officina Typographica Francisci GonzagaeDate Published1714 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #62 Des Principes et Dimensions Geometriques et de la figure circulaire et partie d'icelle Heading(Mathematics)AuthorBouvells, Charles deHeadlineRemarkable 17th cent. Geometry manuscriptDate Publishedc.17th century View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #63 Über das Unendliche ¹). Heading(Mathematics)AuthorHilbert, DavidHeadlineDavid Hilbert on the infinite, rare offprint, 1925Publisher[Julius Springer]Date Published1925 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #64 The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series Heading(Mathematics)AuthorStirling, JamesHeadlineJames Stirling's principal math contributionPublisherPrinted for E. CaveDate Published1749 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 Bootleggers' Map of the United States: "Honi soit qui mal y pints!" AuthorMcCandlish, Edward, cartographerHeadlineBootleggers pictorial map of U.S. 19267Date Published1926 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #66 Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West Passage; and some account of the Trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain AuthorMeares, JohnHeadlineMeares on NW Coast of America, 1790PublisherPrinted at the Logographic Press and sold by J. WalterDate Published1790 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #67 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$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #68 Il Etait une Petite Pie AuthorMiró, Joan and Lise Hirtz (pseud. of Lise Delharme)HeadlineJoan Miro & Lise Delharme's first artist bookPublisherÉditions Jeanne BucherDate Published1928 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,750StatusSold Lot #69 Utopia: Containing an excellent, learned, wittie, and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publick weale... AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineMore's Utopia in English 1624PublisherPrinted by Bernard AlsopDate Published1624 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #70 Stencil typescript letter signed by Indian trader John B. Moore, to John M. Long in Eaton, Indiana, sending a copy of his first Navajo catalogue (not present) and offering for sale the rugs and blankets listed therein Heading(Navajo Trader – New Mexico)AuthorMoore, John BradfordHeadlineNew Mexico Indian Trader offers Navajo textilesDate PublishedMarch 15, 1905 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las Misiones que Fundo en la California Septentrional, y Nuevos Establecimientos de Monterey AuthorPaloú, FranciscoHeadlinePalou's Biography of Serra First EditionPublisherFelipe de Zúñiga y OntiverosDate Published1787 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 File of mine registration documents from sixteenth century Peru, for mercury mines in Huancavelica Heading(Peru - Quicksilver Mines)HeadlineMercury mining in Peru, 1577 ms. archiveDate Published1577 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #73 Expediente del Marques de Casa Hermosa 1793 (cover title) Heading(Peru)AuthorMesa y Ponte Pagés, Francisco José de, 1st Marquis of Casa HermosaHeadlineRebuilding Peru after Tupac uprising 1793Date Published1793 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #74 Archive of approximately 75 letters written by Robert F. Long, a Corporal in the 45th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Heading(Philippine-American War - Letter Archive)AuthorLong, Robert F.HeadlineAmerican soldier's view of Filipino insurrectionDate Published1898 – 1901 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #75 Photograph album of the Philippine insurrection, compiled by Robert F. Long Heading(Philippine-American War – Photographs)AuthorLong, Robert F.HeadlinePhilippine-American War soldier's photo albumDate Published1899-1902 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #76 Philosophical transactions: giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)HeadlinePhilosophical Transactions, 1668--1669PublisherPrinted by T.N. for John MartynDate Published1669-1670 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #77 Il Vaticano Descritto ed Illustrato AuthorPistolesi, ErasmoHeadlinePostolesi's Vatican Art & Architecture, 8 vols.ProvenanceCecil B. DeMille; George BancroftPublisherTipografia della Società editriceDate Published1829-1838 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #78 The Whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall ... Heading(Psalter)HeadlineOnly known copy of 1589 PsalterPublisherprinted by Iohn Wolfe, for the Assignes of Richard DayDate Published1589 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #79 The Seven Famous Cartons [sic] of Raphael Urbin, Drawn at the Command of Pope Leo the 10th as Patterns for Tapestry... in 1707... AuthorRaphael [Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino]HeadlineRare engraving of Raphael "Cartoons" 1720Date Published[1707]-1720 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #80 Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, in the Collection of Lt. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham Heading(Rogers, Bruce, designer)AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlinePrivate Papers J. Boswell, Isham EditionPublisher[Privately Printed]Date Published[1928-1934] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #81 Insectes, vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron donnant quatre-vingts insectes et seize compositions décoratives AuthorSeguy, E.A.HeadlineSeguy's Insects in 20 pochoir platesPublisherEditions du Chartre et van BuggenhoudtDate Published[c.1926] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #82 Papillons: Vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron donnant 81 papillons et 16 compositions décoratives AuthorSeguy, E.A.HeadlineE.A. Seguy Papillons portfolio of Pochoir illustrationPublisherTolmer EditeurDate Published[c.1928] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #83 The Pastures of Heaven AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSteinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven in rare jacketPublisherRobert O. BallouDate Published1932 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #84 Treasure Island AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineStevenson Treasure Island. 1st editionPublisherCassell & Co., Ltd.Date Published1883 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #85 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly [with] autographed letters signed by H.B. Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher AuthorStowe, Harriet BeecherHeadline1st issue Uncle Tom's Cabin with Stowe A.L.S.PublisherJohn P. Jewett & CompanyDate Published1852 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #86 The XII Aeneids of Virgil, the most renowned Laureat Prince of Latine Poets; Translated into English deca-syllables, by John Vicars AuthorVirgilHeadlineVicars' translation of Aeneid 1632PublisherAre to be sold by Ni. AlsopDate Published1632 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #87 Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality AuthorWasson, R. GordonHeadlineWasson's Soma, inscribed to Stella KramrischPublisherMoutonDate Published[1968] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #88 THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING TODAY'S AUCTION HeadlineTHANK YOU FOR ATTENDING TODAY'S AUCTION View details StatusCLOSED! Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next