Sale 822: Rare Books & Manuscripts - A PBA Platinum Auction (#822) 09/19/2024 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/19/2024 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 822 702 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 1-31 of 31. Previous|1|Next 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next