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Previous|12|Next Lot #1 The Official Central Avenue District Directory: A Business and Professional Guide Heading(African American)AuthorVinston, Warren C., compilerHeadlineGuide to LA African American district 1940PublisherThe New Age Publishing CompanyDate PublishedNovember 1940 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #2 Mutus Liber in quo tamen tota Philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur, ter optimo maximo Deo misericordi consecratus, solisque filiis artis dedicatus, authore cujus nomen est Altus Heading(Alchemy)AuthorAltusHeadlineLiber Mutus, legendary illustrated AlchemyDate Publishedc.1978? View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #3 Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens... Heading(Alchemy)HeadlineMusaeum Hermeticum with folding alchemical platesDate Published1749 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #4 Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J.H. AuthorAugustine, SaintHeadlineAugustine Citie of God 1st in English 1610PublisherPrinted by George EldDate Published1610 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #5 Pride and Prejudice. A Novel AuthorAusten, JaneHeadline1st 1-vol. illus. ed. of Pride & Prejudice 1833PublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1833 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #6 Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In Three Volumes Author[Austen, Jane]HeadlinePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1st editionProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for T. EgertonDate Published1813 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$93,750StatusSold Lot #7 Scenes from the Principal Histories of the Old and New Testaments [Taferelen der Voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament] Heading(Bible Illustrations)AuthorPicart, Bernard, et al., illustratorsHeadlineExtra-illustrated Picart BiblePublisherPieter de HondtDate Published1728-1729 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #8 Biblj Cžeská, to gest: Swaté Pjsmo, podle Starožitného, a Obecného Latinského [with] Druhý djl Biblj totižto Nowý Zákon podlé starého obecného latinského textu Heading(Bible in Czech)Headline2-volume Jesuit Czech Bible, 1769-1771ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherNákladem Dědictví Sv. Václava... v Jana Karla HrabyDate Published1769-1771 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #9 The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin Heading(Bible in English)Headline1st Edition Douay-Rheims New Testament, 1582PublisherJohn FognyDate Published1582 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #10 Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive libri canonici... Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti... Heading(Bible in Latin)AuthorTremellius, Immanuel and Franciscus Junius, translatorsHeadline1st complete Latin Bible printed in England, 1580PublisherExcudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis W.N.Date Published1580 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #11 Voyage dans les quatres principales îles des mers d'Afrique pendant les années neuf et dix de la République (1801 et l802), avec l'histoire de la traversée du Capitaine Baudin jusqu'au Port-Louis de l'île Maurice AuthorBory de St.-Vincent, Jean-Baptiste Geneviève MarcellinHeadlineWith Bory de St.-Vincent in the Indian OceanPublisherChez F. BuissonDate Published1804 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #12 Derrier Le Miroir: Calder Stabiles AuthorCalder, AlexanderHeadlineSigned by Alexander Calder w/ 7 lithographsPublisherMaeght EditeurDate Published1963 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #13 Manuscript document on vellum regarding a land claim by Antonio Maria Pico and Henry M. Naglee Heading(California - Land Grant)HeadlineSan Joaquin Co. land grant 1865Date PublishedMarch 10, 1865 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #14 Archive of 24 original land patents verifying and itemizing grants made to the Western Pacific Railroad and its successor Central Pacific Railroad as compensation for construction of a portion of the transcontinental railroad Heading(California - Railroad Land Grants)HeadlineRailroad land grants in Calif., 1867-1915Date Published1867-1915 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #15 Early Days in San Francisco: The Days of Old, The Days of Gold, The Days of Forty Nine. Scenes Familiar to Every Pioneer. A Limited Edition Only Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorKnapp, E.B., publisherHeadlineAlbumen photos of early S.F. printsPublisherE.B. KnappDate PublishedUndated (c.1860-1880?) View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #16 Archive of material relating to California pioneer Harmon J. (H.J.) Tilden and his family Heading(California - Tilden Family Archive)HeadlineCalifornia archive Judge H.J. Tilden familyDate Published1852-c.1935 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #17 Archive of 14 deeds for land in San Francisco, plus an abstract of title and a manuscript survey map. Heading(California – San Francisco)HeadlineSan Francisco land deeds, 1851-1875Date Published1851-1875 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #18 Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 AuthorCarver, JonathanHeadlineCarver's Travels, w/ 2 maps of N. America 1778PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1778 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #19 William Caxton and the First English Press: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay... Together with an Original Leaf of the Polycronicon Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorWinship, George ParkerHeadlineRare leaf book with 1482 Caxton leafPublisherEdmund Byne Hackett / The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc.Date Published1938 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #20 Illustrations to Don Quixote. Designed by Henry Alken. Engraved by John Zeitter. And Dedicated to the Memory of Cervantes Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorAlken, Henry ThomasHeadlineEtchings by Alken for Don QuixotePublisherS.H. Hawkings, printerDate Published1831 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorFernández de Avellaneda, AlonsoHeadlineContinuation of Don Quixote in English 1705PublisherPrinted for Jeffery Wale and John SenexDate Published1705 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineA lovely illustrated edition of Don QuixotePublisherDon Joaquin IbarraDate Published1780 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #23 Les principales aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte, representees en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maitres; avec les explications des XXXI planches... AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSumptuous illustrated edition of Don QuixotePublisherJ.F. BassompierreDate Published1776 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #24 The Shop Signs of Peking Heading(China)AuthorFung, H.K.HeadlineShop Signs of Peking with hand-colored illus.PublisherChinese Painting Association of PekingDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #25 Artillery shell from the Battleship Maine, the sinking of which in Havana Harbor triggered the Spanish American War Heading(Cuba - Spanish American War)HeadlineShell from the battleship "Maine"PublisherWinchester Repeating Arms Co.Date Publishedc.1898 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #26 Álbum de la Revolución Cubana: 1952-1959 Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Revolution Album Illustrated with Graphic Non-sports CardsPublisherRevista CinegraficoDate Publishedc.1960 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #27 Document signed by Che Guevara as Jefe Depto Inscrucción Heading(Cuba)AuthorGuervara, Ernesto "Che"HeadlineDocument signed by Che GuevaraDate PublishedJanuary 5, 1960 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #28 Historia de Cuba (cover title) Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban history in tobacco cardsPublisherTabacalera Cubana, S.A.Date Published1935 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #29 Manuscript conveying the request of a freed black slave in Cuba to form a "brotherhood" of freed black slaves Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban society for freed black slaves, 1852Date Published1852 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #30 Manuscript roster of a company in the 2nd "Battallon de Orden Publico" in Cuba 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 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #31 Pierre Curie AuthorCurie, MarieHeadlineMarie Curie's bio of her husband w/signed cardPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1923 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #32 Le Déplacement Polaire Preuves des Variations de l'Axe Terrestre Heading(Darwin, Charles, his book)AuthorCarret, JulesHeadlineDarwin's copy of Carret on Earth's axisPublisherLibrairie F. SavyDate Published1877 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #33 Two books inscribed by Jacques Derrida to Hubert Dreyfus AuthorDerrida, JacquesHeadline2 books signed and inscribed by DerridaProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1967 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #34 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$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #35 The English Stage. Being Vol. III of The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare Heading(Dickens, Charles, his book)AuthorMalone and ChalmersHeadlineDickens' copy of Shakespeare playsPublisherF. C. and J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1821 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #36 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [and] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineHolmes' Adventures & Memoirs in first edition.PublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1892; 1894 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #37 The Complete Sherlock Holmes AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineComplete Sherlock Holmes signed by DoylePublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc.Date Published1953 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #38 Sister Carrie AuthorDreiser, TheodoreHeadline1st edition of Sister Carrie by Theodore DreiserPublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #39 Panthéon Égyptien, collection des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments, avec un texte explicatif... Heading(Egypt)AuthorChampollion, Jean-FrançoisHeadlineHand-colored Egyptology figuresPublisherDe L'imprimerie de Firmin DidotDate Published[1821-1825] View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 Eine einfache Anwendung des Newtonschen Gravitationsgesetzes auf die kugelförmigen Sternhaufen AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein applies Newton to star clustersPublisherVerlag Julius SpringerDate Published1921 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #41 Two French publications of Einstein papers that belonged to his son AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's son's copies of his papersPublisherGauthier-Villars et Cie.Date Published1921 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #42 Set of 12 first editions of works by George Eliot and one work about her AuthorEliot, George [pseud. of Mary Ann Evans]HeadlineSet of first editions of George EliotPublisherVarious publishersDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry Heading(Feynman, Richard P., his copy)Author[Feynman, Richard P.]; Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson, Jr.HeadlineFeynman's copy of Quantum Mechanics textbookPublisherMcGraw-Hill Book CompanyDate Published1935 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #44 Ship's Papers for the whaling ship "Nassau", signed by Millard Fillmore as President of the United States and Secretary of State Daniel Webster AuthorFillmore, MillardHeadlineWhaling ship papers signed by Millard FillmoreDate PublishedAugust 6, 1850 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #45 Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe Heading(Fine Press - Ashendene)AuthorLongusHeadlineAshendene Daphnis and Chloe, 1933PublisherThe Ashendene PressDate Published1933 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #46 The English Bible, Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First... Heading(Fine Press - Doves)HeadlineMasterpiece of the Doves Press: The English BibleProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherDoves PressDate Published1903-1905 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #47 Paradise Lost Heading(Fine Press - Doves)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineDoves Press Paradise Lost, 1902PublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1902 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #48 The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke Heading(Fine Press - Doves)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineDoves Press Hamlet, 1909ProvenanceArnold Schweitzer and Christian Heuer.PublisherDoves PressDate Published1909 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 Tam O'Shanter Heading(Fine Press - Essex House)AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlineEssex House, Burns' Tam O'Shanter, 1902PublisherEssex House Press for Edward Arnold and Samuel BuckleyDate Published1902 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #50 The Flower and the Leaf Heading(Fine Press - Essex House)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineEssex House, The Flower and the Leaf, 1902PublisherEssex House Press for Edward Arnold and Samuel BuckleyDate Published1902 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #51 Alexander's Feast; or The Power of Music Heading(Fine Press - Essex House)AuthorDryden, JohnHeadlineEssex House, Alexander's Feast by Dryden, 1904PublisherEssex House PressDate Published1904 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #52 Comus, A Mask Heading(Fine Press - Essex House)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineEssex House Comus, 1901PublisherEssex House Press for Edward ArnoldDate Published1901 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #53 Epithalamion Heading(Fine Press - Essex House)AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineEssex House Epithalamion, 1901PublisherEssex House Press for Edward Arnold and Samuel BuckleyDate Published1901 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #54 Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Heading(Fine Press - Essex House)AuthorWordsworth, WilliamHeadlineEssex House, Wordsworth's Intimations of ImmortalityPublisherEssex House Press for Edward Arnold and Samuel BuckleyDate Published1903 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #55 Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair Heading(Fine Press - Kelmscott)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineKelmscott Press Child Christopher & Goldilind the FairProvenanceThomas Edmund HarveyPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1895 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #56 Hand & Soul Heading(Fine Press - Kelmscott)AuthorRossetti, Dante GabrielHeadlineKelmscott printing of RossettiPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published[1895] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #57 The Holy Gospel According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Heading(Fine Press - Officina Bodoni)HeadlineThe Gospel according to Officina Bodoni, 1962PublisherOfficina BodoniDate Published1962 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #58 Le Decameron de Jean Boccace Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio with 5 cherubic fore-edge paintingsPublisher[chez Pierre Prault]Date Published1757-1761 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #59 Fore-edge painting of The Flight into Egypt [on] Táng lèi hán (唐類函) Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorLu Hongnian (Hung-Nien), artistHeadlineRare 20th c. Chinese Christian fore-edge paintingDate Published17th century? (Painting: c.1936-1942) View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #60 Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratæ. Per Benedictum de Spinoza... Heading(Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich)AuthorSpinoza, BaruchHeadlineGauss' copy of Spinoza's 1st bookPublisherJohannem RiewertsDate Published1663 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London AuthorGerard, JohnHeadlineGerard's massive Herbal, 1633PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #62 A Brief History of Time AuthorHawking, Stephen W.HeadlineStephen Hawking's copy of his own bookPublisherBantam BooksDate Published[1990] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #63 Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie... AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' De Cive, first in English, 1651PublisherPrinted by J.G. for R. RoystonDate Published1651 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #64 On the Plains in '65... Twelve Months in the Volunteer Cavalry Service, among the Indians of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Thrilling Adventures, Fine Scenery, and How the Boys Put in the Time in the Far West AuthorHolliday, George H.HeadlinePost-Civil War soldiering on the PlainsPublisher[G.H. Holliday?]Date Published1883 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 17 original photographs of race horses Heading(Horses)HeadlinePhotos of 1920s race horsesDate Publishedc.1920s View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #66 Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding Author[Hume, David]Headline1st edition of Hume's Human UnderstandingProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for A. MillarDate Published1748 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #67 Manual do Fazendeiro, ou Tratado Domestico sobre as Enfermidades dos Negros AuthorImbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban]HeadlineMedical treatment for slaves in Brazil, 1834PublisherNa typ. imp. e const. de Seignot-PlancheretDate Published1834 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #68 Short Notes of a short Tour in Ireland by Charles Piesse Heading(Ireland)AuthorPiesse, CharlesHeadlineManuscript account of Ireland in 1842PublisherImprimatur. Guil. MathesonDate Published1842 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #69 Album of ten double-page erotic woodblock prints Heading(Japanese Erotic Shunga Prints)AuthorEisen, Keisai, attrib.HeadlineErotic Japanese woodblock prints by EisenDate Published19th century View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #70 The West-India Atlas; or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies... AuthorJefferys, ThomasHeadlineJefferys Atlas of the West Indies, completePublisherRobert Sayer and John BennettDate Published1775 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #71 Ulysses AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineUlysses 1 of 250 signed by Joyce & Matisse L.E.C.PublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1935 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 Typescript letter by Jack Kerouac, 1947 AuthorKerouac, JackHeadlineKerouac 1947 original letterDate Published1947 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #73 Journal du Voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'Équateur [with] Mesure des Trois Premiers Degres du Méridien dans l'Hemisphere Austral AuthorLa Condamine, Charles-Marie deHeadlineLa Condamine maps Ecuador, 1751PublisherDe l'Imprimerie RoyaleDate Published1751 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #74 Philosophie Zoologique AuthorLamarck, Jean-Baptiste deHeadlinePhilosophie Zoologique inscribed by LamarckProvenanceProfessor George Starr Collection; Frank Mace MacFarlandPublisherDentuDate Published1809 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #75 15th century illuminated manuscript leaf with full-page illustration of the Crucifixion Heading(Leaf, circa 1475)HeadlineFull-page 15th c. illumination of CrucifixionDate Publishedc.1475 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #76 Illuminated printed hours leaf on vellum Heading(Leaf, circa 1533)HeadlinePrinted book of hours leaf with large paintingPublisherGermain and Gillet Hardoyn?Date Publishedc.1533-1541 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #77 To Kill a Mockingbird AuthorLee, HarperHeadlineTo Kill a Mockingbird first edition in djPublisherJ.B. LippincottDate Published[1960] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #78 Five court transcripts and legal briefs relating to a lawsuit brought by the Fidelity Loan and Mortgage Company of Oakland against Jack London for breach of contract Heading(London, Jack)HeadlineJack London sued for breach of contractPublisherR.B. Kitchener, printerDate Published1916 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #79 Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864 Heading(Loyal Publication Society of New York)HeadlineNY Loyal Publication Society tracts, 1863-4PublisherLoyal Publication SocietyDate Published1864-1865 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #80 Machivel's Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius, Translated out of the Italian. To which is added his Prince. With some Marginal Animadversions Noting and Taxing his Errors. By E.D. AuthorMachiavelli, NiccolòHeadlineMachiavelli's Discourses & Prince 1661-3PublisherPrinted for Thos. DringDate Published1663; 1661 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #81 The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England [with] Acts and Laws, of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England Heading(Massachusetts)HeadlineFirst printing of 1726 Massachusetts charterPublisherPrinted by B. Green... for Benjamin EliotDate Published1726-1731 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #82 History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington AuthorMcKenney, Thomas L. & James HallHeadlineOctavo Edition of McKenney & Hall complete w/ 120 PlatesPublisherD. Rice & A.N. HartDate Published1858 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #83 Moby-Dick; or, the Whale AuthorMelville, HermanHeadline1st U.S. edition of Moby Dick by MelvillePublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1851 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #84 [Aphorisms) AuthorMesmer, FranzHeadlineMs. of Mesmer's Magnetic HealingDate PublishedLate 18th-early 19th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #85 Gone With the Wind AuthorMitchell, MargaretHeadlineGone With the Wind, first edition in dust jacketPublisherMacmillan CompanyDate Published1936 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #86 Sei Quintetti Per due Violini Alto et due Violoncelli Concertanti [with other works] Heading(Music)AuthorBoccherini, Luigi; Ignaz PleyelHeadlineBoccherini scores for violin, viola, violoncelloPublisherChez M. Venier et al.Date Published[c. 1770's-80's] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #87 Historical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast, Illustrated Heading(New Jersey)AuthorRose,T. F., H. C. Woolman, and T. T. PriceHeadlineScarce Atlas of New Jersey Coast 1878PublisherWoolman & RoseDate Published1878 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #88 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, Newton's System of the World; a short comment on, and defence of the Principia, by W. Emerson, with the laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English 1803PublisherPrinted for H.D. SymondsDate Published1803 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #89 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)PublisherSumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm VerbeekDate Published1714 [&] 1732 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #90 A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's System of the World, 1738PublisherPrinted for F. FayramDate Published1728 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #91 Select Icelandic Poetry, translated from the originals; with notes Heading(Norse Saga)AuthorHerbert, Willian, translatorHeadlineHerbert's translation of Norse sagaPublisherPrinted for T. Reynolds... by I. GoldDate Published1804-1806 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #92 California mining-related archive of E.B. Hawkins of Applegate, Oregon Heading(Oregon)AuthorHawkins, E.B.HeadlineMining archive early 20th c. southern OregonDate Publishedc.1910-1924 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #93 Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States AuthorPerry, Matthew CalbraithHeadlinePerry's Japan Expedition 3 vols. 1856ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherA.O.P. Nicholson, Printer/Beverley Tucker, Senate PrinterDate Published1856 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #94 Archive of documents regarding the pious fund of the Colegio Maximo de San Pablo de Lima, c.1750 Heading(Peru)HeadlineDocuments regarding pious fund in Peru, 1750Date Publishedc.1750-1760 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #95 The History of the Bucaniers of America; from their First Original down to this Time; written in several languages, and now collected into one volume. [bound together with] Lussan, Raveneau de. A Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, by the Bucaniers or Freebooters of America in the Year 1684 to 1689... Heading(Pirates)Author[Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]HeadlineBuccaneers of America, 1699 editionPublisherPrinted for Tho. Newborough, et al.Date Published1699 & 1698 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #96 The Republic of Plato. In ten books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst edition in English of Plato's RepublicPublisherRobert and Andrew FoulisDate Published1763 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #97 Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory Panoramic Advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets AuthorRae, Julio H.HeadlineRae's Chestnut St. Panoramic Advertiser 1851PublisherJulio H. Rae, PublisherDate Published1851 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #98 Collection of photographs, broadsides, books, pamphlets, documents, maps, and other items pertaining to railroads in the United States from the mid-19th century the first half of the 20th Heading(Railroad Archive)HeadlinePhotos & ephemera on U.S. RailroadsDate Publishedc.1851-1930s View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #99 Three books inscribed from Richard Rorty to Hubert Dreyfus AuthorRorty, RichardHeadline3 books inscribed by Richard Rorty to Hubert DreyfusProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1979-1991 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #100 The Red Pony AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineLimited edition Red Pony, signed by SteinbeckProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherCovici FriedeDate Published1937 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next