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... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astrology)AuthorCardano, GirolamoHeadlineFortune telling by lines in forehead, 1658PublisherApud Thomam IollyDate Published1658 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. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astrology)AuthorRamesey, WilliamHeadlineAstrology from William Ramesey 1653PublisherPrinted for Robert WhiteDate Published1653 Lot #7 Sense and Sensibility: A Novel View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineAusten Sense & Sensibility 1833 illus. editionPublisherRichard Bentley, et al.Date Published1833 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 View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English - Great "She" Bible)HeadlineKing James Great "She" Bible, 1613-1611PublisherRobert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent MaiestieDate Published1613-1611 Lot #10 Original Leaves from Famous Bibles: Nine Centuries 1121-1935 A.D. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Bible)AuthorEge, Otto F. compilerHeadlineOtto Ege, Leaves from Famous Bibles 1121-1935Date Publishedc.1950 Lot #12 The Life of Samuel Johnson View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Johnson, 1791 2 volsPublisherPrinted by Henry Baldwin for Charles DillyDate Published1791 Lot #14 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries with 85 superb copperplatesPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 Lot #22 The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote, 1/200 large paper copiesPublisherWilliam PatersonDate Published1879-1884 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSuite of most famous Quixote illustrationsPublisherJacques-François ChereauDate Published[c.1747-1770 Lot #40 The Penny Pickwick View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorPrest, Thomas PeckettHeadlineSweeny Todd author rips off Dickens' PickwickPublisherPrinted and published by E. Lloyd for J. GravesDate Published1837-1839 Lot #41 The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Dickens, Charles, his book)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineDickens' copy of Shakespeare playsPublisherF. C. and J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1821 Lot #42 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Christmas Carol, first edition, first issuePublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorDixon, GeorgeHeadlineDixon's voyage round the world, 1789PublisherPublished by Geo. GouldingDate Published1789 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] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold 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 Lot #49 Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerHeadlineUncle Remus in rare binding variantPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1881 Lot #53 Iliad and Odyssey. Translated into German by Carl Edmund Richter View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorHomerHeadlineGerman manuscript of Homer, c.1830Date Published1828-1832 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... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Turris Babel 1679PublisherJanssonio-WaesbergianaDate Published1679 Lot #57 Fables Choisies Mises en Vers Par J. De La Fontaine View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean deHeadlineProfusely illust. edition of Fontaine's FablesPublisherChez Des LauriersDate Published1765-1775 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Law)HeadlineRare guide on English manor courts, 1544PublisherWilliam MiddiltonDate Published1544 Lot #60 The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadlineMachiavelli's works in English, 1675PublisherPrinted for John StarkeyDate Published1675 Lot #61 Dissertatione de Generatione Fungorum View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorMarsili, Luigi FerdinandoHeadlineEarly microscopic analysis of fungi, 1714PublisherEx Officina Typographica Francisci GonzagaeDate Published1714 Lot #64 The Differential Method: or, a Treatise Concerning Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Mathematics)AuthorStirling, JamesHeadlineJames Stirling's principal math contributionPublisherPrinted for E. CaveDate Published1749 Lot #67 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books [with] Paradise Regain'd View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery LaneDate Published1688 Lot #69 Utopia: Containing an excellent, learned, wittie, and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publick weale... View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineMore's Utopia in English 1624PublisherPrinted by Bernard AlsopDate Published1624 Lot #76 Philosophical transactions: giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)HeadlinePhilosophical Transactions, 1668--1669PublisherPrinted by T.N. for John MartynDate Published1669-1670 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorRaphael [Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino]HeadlineRare engraving of Raphael "Cartoons" 1720Date Published[1707]-1720 Lot #80 Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, in the Collection of Lt. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Rogers, Bruce, designer)AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlinePrivate Papers J. Boswell, Isham EditionPublisher[Privately Printed]Date Published[1928-1934] Lot #82 Papillons: Vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron donnant 81 papillons et 16 compositions décoratives View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold AuthorSeguy, E.A.HeadlineE.A. Seguy Papillons portfolio of Pochoir illustrationPublisherTolmer EditeurDate Published[c.1928] Lot #84 Treasure Island View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineStevenson Treasure Island. 1st editionPublisherCassell & Co., Ltd.Date Published1883 Lot #85 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly [with] autographed letters signed by H.B. Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorStowe, Harriet BeecherHeadline1st issue Uncle Tom's Cabin with Stowe A.L.S.PublisherJohn P. Jewett & CompanyDate Published1852 Lot #86 The XII Aeneids of Virgil, the most renowned Laureat Prince of Latine Poets; Translated into English deca-syllables, by John Vicars View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorVirgilHeadlineVicars' translation of Aeneid 1632PublisherAre to be sold by Ni. AlsopDate Published1632 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next