Sale 855: Rare and Antiquarian Books with Illustrated & Children's Books, and the Dr. Richard R. Rutter Collection of Oz (#855) 01/22/2026 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/22/2026 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 855 760 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 1-39 of 39. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 The Statutes at Large Concerning the Provision for the Poor Heading(Acts of Parliament)HeadlineActs of Parliament 1733PublisherPrinted by J. Baskett, His Majesty's PrinterDate Published1733 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #9 The Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1765 Heading(Annual Register)HeadlineAnnual Register for 1765PublisherPrinted (by Assignment from the Executors of the late Mr. James Dodsley) for W. Otridge and SonDate Published1802 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #10 The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1789 Heading(Annual Register)HeadlineBritish views from the Age of RevolutionsPublisherPrinted for J. DodsleyDate Published1792 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #28 Memoirs of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; or, an impartial review of his private life, his public conduct, his speeches in Parliament, and the different productions of his pen, whether political or literary... Heading(Burke, Edmund)AuthorM'Cormick, CharlesHeadlineBurke's Memoirs, 1798 2nd ed.PublisherPrinted for Lee and HurstDate Published1798 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #29 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Collected in Three Volumes AuthorBurke, EdmundHeadlineBurke's collected Works, 1st London ed. 1792PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1792 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #36 Annals of Scotland From the Accession of Malcolm III to the Accession of The House of Stewart... AuthorDalrymple, Sir David (Lord Hailes)HeadlineNew Edition of Dalrymple's Annals, 1797PublisherPrinted for William CreechDate Published1797 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #38 The Art of Painting, with the Lives and Characters of above 300 of the most Eminent Painters: Containing a Complete Treatise of Painting, Designing, and the Use of Prints. With Reflexions on the Works of the most Celebrated Masters... AuthorDe Piles, [Roger]HeadlineArt of Painting, 2nd ed. 1744PublisherPrinted for Charles MarshDate Published1744 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #47 Angli Malmesburiensis Philosophi Vita [bound with] Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis De Propria Vitra Heading(Hobbes, Thomas and Gerolamo Cardano)AuthorUnattributed; Cardano, GerolamoHeadlineLife of Hobbes bound with Cardano's autobiographyPublisherapud Eleutherium Anglicum [i.e. William Crooke]; apud Joannem RavesteiniumDate Published1681; 1654 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #59 Memoirs of Doctor Burney, Arranged From His Own Manuscripts... Heading(Johnson, Samuel)Author[Burney, Fanny] Madame d'ArblayHeadlineMemoirs of Doctor Burney 1832PublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1832 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #60 Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with other pieces on various subjects Heading(Johnson, Samuel)AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofHeadlineLetters from Chesterfield 1st ed. 1774PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #76 [The famous and memorable workes of Josephus] bound with The Lamentable and Tragicall Historie of the Wars and Utter Ruine of the Jewes AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineFirst edition of Josephus in English finely boundPublisher[Printed by Peter Short at the charges of G. Bishop, S. Waterson, P. Short, and Tho. Adams]Date Published[1602]; 1602 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #81 A True and Particular Relation of the Dreadful Earthquake Which Happen'd at Lima, the Capital of Peru, and the Neighbouring Port of Callao, on the 18th of October, 1746 Author[Lozano, Pedro]HeadlineLozano's 1748 Earthquake of PeruPublisherT. OsborneDate Published1748 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #83 Critical Dissertations on the Origins, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners, and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians, Their Posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish Scots AuthorMacpherson, JohnHeadlineMacpherson on Ancient Caledonians 1768PublisherPrinted for T. Becket, and P.A. De HondtDate Published1768 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #104 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea AuthorPlutarchHeadlineNorth's Plutarch, 4th ed. 1612 & 1610PublisherPrinted by Richard FieldDate Published1610-1612 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #105 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea AuthorPlutarchHeadlineA lovely copy of Plutarch, 1610-12PublisherRichard FieldDate Published1612/1610 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #115 Famiani Stradae Romani è Societate Iesu Eloquentia Bipartitia... AuthorStrada, FamianoHeadlineStrada's eloquence in two parts 1662PublisherTypis Guil. Hall, Impensis Rich. a DavisDate Published1662 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #116 The Irish Rebellion: or An History of the Beginnings and first Progress of the General Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October…1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon… AuthorTemple, Sir JohnHeadlineTemple's Irish Rebellion 1st ed., 1646PublisherPrinted by R. White for Samuel Gellibrand, at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-YardDate Published1646 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #117 Letters written in France, to a Friend in London, between the Month of November 1794, and the Month of May 1795 AuthorTench, Major [Capt. Watkin]HeadlineTench's letters of French imprisonmentPublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1796 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #118 Θουκυδιδου Περι του Πελοποννησιακου Πολεμου Βιβλια Οκτω = Thycydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo AuthorThucydidesHeadlineHighly regarded Bipontine edition of ThucydidesPublisherEx Typographia SocietatisDate Published[1788-89] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #121 The Revolutions of Portugal. Written in French by the Abbot de Vertot, of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions. Done into English from the last French Edition. AuthorVertot, Abbot deHeadlineAbbot Vertot's Revolutions of PortugalPublisherPrinted for W. Taylor and C. RivingtonDate Published1724 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #123 An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England...in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion: Occasion'd by the Ninth Chapter (now the Second Volume) of Dr. Calamy's Abridgment of the Life of Mr. Baxter... AuthorWalker, JohnHeadlineChurch of England, John Walker 1714PublisherPrinted by W.S. for J. Nicholson, et. al.Date Published1714 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #134 Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy... Heading(Archaeology)AuthorSchliemann, HenryHeadlineWith Schliemann in Ancient TroyPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1884 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #135 Rome et Ses Pontifes: Histoire, Traditions, Monuments AuthorArtaud de Montor, ChevalierHeadlineFine Binding Roman Papal HistoryProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherAlfred Mame et FilsDate Published1896 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #137 History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; Comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France during that Period AuthorBaines, EdwardHeadlineBaines, Wars of the French RevolutionPublisherPrinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and James HarperDate Published1817 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #141 The Works of Jeremy Bentham AuthorBentham, JeremyHeadlineBentham's Works in 11 vols., 1843PublisherWilliam TaitDate Published1843 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #145 Chronological and Historical Retrospect of the Memorable Events of the War in the Peninsula [bound with] Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1909... [and] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple AuthorBradford, Rev. Guillaume; Miss SempleHeadlineBradford & Miss Semple's color-plate booksPublisherPrinted for John Booth; Ackermann'sDate Published1812; 1813; 1817 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #147 Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends. A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure from the Negatives of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron and H.H.H. Cameron. Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie Heading(Cameron, Julia Margaret, photographer)AuthorRitchie, Anne ThackerayHeadlineCameron's Tennyson & His Friends portraitsPublisherT. Fisher UnwinDate Published1893 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #159 Die Eroberung Mexikos von Ferdinand Cortes mit 112 federlithographien von Max Slevogt AuthorCortes, FerdinandHeadlineWatercolor Linen Cortez in MexicoProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherBruno CassirerDate Published1918 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #177 Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S...Comprising His Diary from the Year 1641 to 1705-6,...To Which is Subjoined, the Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nichols...Also Between Sir Edward Hyde...and Sir Richard Browne AuthorEvelyn, JohnHeadlineJohn Evelyn's Memoirs, 2nd best ed. 1819PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1819 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #187 Kontsy i nachala / Ends and Beginnings / Концы и начала AuthorHerzen, Alexander writing as "Iskander"HeadlineEnds and Beginnings by Alexander Herzen, first editionPublisherE. BiornströmDate Published1863 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #188 Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated AuthorHitler, AdolfHeadlineMein Kampf 1st Book Club ed. 1939PublisherReynal & HitchcockDate Published1939 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #189 Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland AuthorHolinshed, RaphaelHeadlineHolinshed's Chronicle 1807-8 London ed.PublisherPrinted for J. Johnson; F. C. and J. Rivington; T. Payne et alDate Published1807-1808 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #198 The History of the Rebellion in the Year 1745 Heading(Jacobites)AuthorHome, JohnHeadlineHome's Jacobite history 1stPublisherPrinted by A. Strahan...for T. CadellDate Published1802 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #199 The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and Celebrated Warrior, Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities... AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineThe Works of Flavius Josephus 1848PublisherGrigg, Elliot & Co.Date Published1848 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #218 A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins Heading(Numismatics)AuthorRobinson, E.S.G. et al.HeadlineGulbenkian Collection of Greek CoinsPublisherFundação Calouste GulbenkianDate Published1971-1989 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #228 Du Système social et des lois qui le régissent AuthorQuetelet, AdolpheHeadlineQuetelet's Social System 1st ed. 1848PublisherGuillaumin Et Cie LibrariesDate Published1848 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #241 König Wilhelm von Württemberg in seinen ländlichen Beschäftigungen. Mit Illustrationen in Farblithographie und Holzschnitt nach Julius Schnorr und dem Tiermaler Anton Braith, unter technischer und künstlerischer Leitung des Ersteren AuthorSchmidt, Friedrich vonHeadlineKing Wilhelm von Württemberg in Rural PursuitsProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherEbner und SeubertDate Published1865 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #246 The Thugs or Phansigars of India: Comprising a History of the Rise and Progress of that Extraordinary Fraternity of Assassins... AuthorSleeman, W.HHeadlineThuggee history and society 1839 1stPublisherCarey & HartDate Published1839 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #247 The Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, Selected from Rare Specimens in the Possession of the Author, and Accompanied with Suitable Descriptions and Illustrations AuthorSmith, Charles HamiltonHeadlineSmith's Improved Costumes of Ancient BritainPublisherHenry G. BohnDate Published[1815] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next