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Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorStatius, Publius PapiniuHeadlineStatius' writings, Aldine Press in moroccoPublisherAldusDate Published1519 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #10 The Sikander Nāma, E Bará, or Book of Alexander the Great, Written in A.D. 1200 Heading(Alexander the Great)Author[Niẓāmī Ganjavī] Abū Muhammad Bin Yusuf Bin Mum Ayyid-I-Nizāmu-'d-DīnHeadlineFirst English translation of The Book of Alexander the GreatPublisherW.H. Allen & Co.Date Published1881 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #14 The Rhetoric, Poetics, and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, translated from the Greek Heading(Aristotle)AuthorTaylor, ThomasHeadlineEarly 19th century work on AristotleProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by A.J. ValpyDate Published1818 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #16 Bacon's Essays: Sydney Edition Heading(Ashendene Press)AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrom the library of Charles Harold St. John HornbyPublisherAdam & Charles BlackDate Published1912 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #19 The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, in Two Volumes. First Published at Oxford in the Years 1789 and 1790. Vol. II Author[Austen, James and Henry Austen]HeadlinePeriodical by brothers of Jane AustenPublisherPrinted for the authorDate Published1790 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #38 The Writings of John Burroughs AuthorBurroughs, JohnHeadlineThe Writings of John Burroughs, Riverby EditionPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and CompanyDate Published1904-1913 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #40 L'ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche: Traduction de Filleau de Saint-Martin Revue et Corrigée par Francis Guillot Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorCervantès, Michel deHeadlineGuillot edition of Don Quixote, handsomely boundPublisherChez Francis GuillotDate Published[1935] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #41 Bibliografía de Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Heading(Cervantes)AuthorPalau y Dulcet, AntonioHeadlinePalau y Dulcet's bibliography of CervantesDate Published1950 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #62 The Book of Songs: Translated from the Chinese Heading(China)AuthorWaley, ArthurHeadlineThe Book of Songs, first Waley edition in jacketPublisherGeorge Allen & UnwinDate Published[1937] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #67 Faust Heading(Clarke, Harry, illustrator)AuthorGoethe, [Johann Wolfgang von]HeadlineLimited edition signed by Harry ClarkePublisherDingwall-RockDate Published[1925] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #68 Scriptores Latini Principes [with] Poetarum Græcorum Sylloge Heading(Classical Literature)AuthorAmar, Jon. Aug.; Boissonade, Jo. Fr., editorsHeadlineThe Latin and Greek Classics printed by DidotDate Published[1823-1831] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #71 Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford...[with] Cobbett's England: A Selection from the Writings of William Cobbett AuthorCobbett, WilliamHeadlineCobbett, w/ Rural Rides Riviere boundPublisherReeves and Turner; The Folio SocietyDate Published1893; 1968 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #78 The Life of Charles Dickens Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorForster, JohnHeadlineLife of Dickens, extra-illustrated + album of 100 letters from ForsterPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1872-1874 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #79 The Works of Charles Dickens AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineWorks of Dickens finely bound by Macdonald in 30 volumesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published[1906] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #80 A Standard Dictionary of the English Language: Upon Original Plans Designed to Give, in Complete and Accurate Statement, in the Light of the Most Recent Advances in Knowledge, and in the Readiest Form for Popular Use, the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Etymology of All the Words and the Meaning of Idiomatic Phrases in the Speech and Literature of the English-Speaking Peoples. Heading(Dictionaries)AuthorFunk, Isaac,HeadlineFunk's Standard Dictionary of the English LanguageProvenanceHenry H. MeyersPublisherFunk & Wagnalls CompanyDate Published1895-1903 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #83 Der Doktor Faust: Ein Tanzpoem nebst kuriosen Berichten uber Teufel, Hexen und Dichtkunst Heading(Divéky, Josef von, illustrator)AuthorHeine, HeinrichHeadlineLimited pochoir edition of Josef von Diveky's Der Doktor FaustPublisherMorawe & Scheffelt VerlagDate Published1912 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #84 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, 1892PublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1892 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #86 The Waste Land AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineThe Waste Land, Boni and Liveright editionPublisherBoni and LiverightDate Published[1922] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #90 Five volumes from The Tudor Facsimile Texts series Heading(English Literature - Tudor Facsimile Texts)HeadlineFive volumes of The Tudor Facsimile Texts seriesPublisherThe Tudor Facsimile TextsDate Published1910 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #91 Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias [bound with] Tragoedia Hippolytus AuthorEuripidesHeadlineEuripides' Lost Plays & HippolytusPublisherJ. Luzac & J. le MairDate Published1767-1768 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #98 The Canterbury Tales Heading(Gill, Eric)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineFacsimile of Golden Cockerel Canterbury TalesPublisher[Folio Society]Date Published[2010] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #105 Cent Proverbes AuthorGrandville, Jean-JacquesHeadlineCent Proverbs w/ Grandville illustr.PublisherH. FournierDate Published1845 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #106 Poems by Mr. Gray AuthorGray, ThomasHeadlinePoems by Thomas Gray 1790PublisherPrinted for J. MurrayDate Published1790 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #114 The Iliad of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineLEC Iliad in Pope's translationPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1931 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #115 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineOctavo ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1720 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #116 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineQuarto ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1715-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1715-1720 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #117 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineFolio large paper ed of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1716-1720 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #118 The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineFour volumes from the quarto edition of Pope's IliadPublisherPrinted for George LintottDate Published1715-1720 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #119 Five volumes by William D. Howells AuthorHowells, William D.Headline5 vols. + envelope w/ Howells' return addressDate Published1867-1891 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #123 Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. His acceserunt Corn. Galli fragmenta Heading(Johann Gryphius)AuthorCatullus, Tibullus, PropertiusHeadlineNeolatin anthology, GryphiusPublisherIoan. GryphiusDate Published1553 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #126 Henriette. En Deux Volumes. Traduit de L’Anglois Heading(Johnson, Samuel)Author[Lennox, Charlotte]Headline1st French edition of HenriettaPublisherChez Marc Michel ReyDate Published1760 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #127 The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. with the Life of the Author [bound with] The Poetical Works of William Collins with the Life of the Author AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlinePoetical works of Samuel Johnson & Collins 1805PublisherPrinted for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert JohnsonDate Published1805 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #128 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineSamuel Johnson bound by RivierePublisherTalboys and WheelerDate Published1825 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #131 False Delicacy: A Comedy; as it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane By His Majesty's Servants AuthorKelly, HughHeadlineHugh Kelly's False Delicacy, First Edition, 1768PublisherR. Baldwin; W. JohnstonDate Published[1768] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #132 Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Depuis son Establissement jusqu'à présent Heading(L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)HeadlineHistoire de L'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Depuis son Establissement jusqu'à présentPublisherL'Imprimerie RoyaleDate Published1736- View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #134 T. Livii Patavini Historiarum Libri Qui Supersunt, Ex Editione G.A. Ruperti Cum Supplementis Notis Et Interpretations in Usum Delphini Variis Lectionibus Notis Variorum Recensu Editionum et Codicum... AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineA nicely bound set of Livy's HistoriesPublisherA.J. Valpy, A.M.Date Published1828 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #135 Daphnin kai Chloen...cum Proloqvio De Libris Eroticis Antiquorum AuthorLongusHeadlineElegant Bodoni imprint of Daphnis & ChloePublisherBodoniDate Published1786 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #139 Poesie del Magnifico Lorenzo De' Medici in Questa Edizione nei Luoghi Mancanti e Scorretti Compiute [bound with] Rime Sacre del Magnifico Lorenzo De' Medici... AuthorMedici, Lorenzo deHeadlineLorenzo di Medici's poetry, Bergamo 1760sPublisherAppresso Pietro LancellottiDate Published1763; 1760 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #140 The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineJohn Milton Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 1645Date Published1645 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #141 The History of Miss Katty N----: Containing a faithful and particular relation of her amours, adventures, and various turns of fortune, in Scotland, Ireland, Jamaica, and in England. Written by herself AuthorMiss Katty N----HeadlineAnon. woman's novel by Miss Katty 1757PublisherJ. NobleDate Published[1757] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #142 Scriptores erotici Graeci AuthorMitscherlich, Christ. Guil., editorHeadlineNicely bound erotic Greek worksPublisherEx Typographia SocietatisDate Published1792 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #143 Album du Jeune Voyageur AuthorMöring, MichelHeadlineWith hand-colored lithograph cover after LassalleProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherAlphonse DesessertsDate Published[1853] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #146 Les Dionisiaques ou les Metamorphoses les Voyages, les Amours, les Advantres, & les Conquestes de Bacchusaux Indes AuthorNonnus, [Panopolitanus]HeadlineNonnus's Les Dionisiaques 1625PublisherRobert FouetDate Published1625 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #150 P. Ovidii Nasonis opera omnia: in tres tomos divisa AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Omnia Opera, 1670 LeidenPublisherEx Officina HackianaDate Published1670 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #151 The Oxford English Dictionary. Being a Corrected Re-Issue With an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography, of A New English Dictionary of Historical Principles.... Heading(Oxford English Dictionary)AuthorMurray, James A. H., et alHeadlineThe Oxford English Dictionary, revised editionPublisherClarendon PressDate Published[1961] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #158 Il Petrarcha con l'Espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesualdo... AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlineVenetian Petrarch, w/ hand-colored initialsPublisherAlessandro GriffioDate Published1581 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #160 The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. AuthorPhalarisHeadlineEpistles of Phalaris, 1749PublisherPrinted for R. FrancklinDate Published1749 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #163 The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English. The Original Text correctly printed from the most authentic Editions, collated for this Purpose...In Four Volumes. AuthorPitt, Christopher and Joseph Warton, translatorsHeadlineThe Works of Virgil in English and Latin, 1753PublisherR. DodsleyDate Published1753 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #164 Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta Quae Exstant...Moscou Syrakousiou, Biōnos Smyrnaiou Eidyllia Heading(Plantin Press)AuthorCallimachusHeadlinePlantin Press Callimachus, 1584PublisherApud Christophorum PlantinumDate Published1584 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #165 The Comedies of Plautus. Translated into Familiar Blank Verse AuthorPlautusHeadlinePlautus's Comedies, Warner & ThorntonPublisherPrinted for J. Lister, T Becket, P.A. de Hondt, R. Baldwin, T. Davis & R. DavisDate Published1767-1774 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #168 The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineLimited Large Paper Library Edition of PoePublisherGeorge Barrie & SonDate Published[c.1900] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #173 Four Stories AuthorPushkin, AlexanderHeadlineAllen Press, Pushkin, Four Stories, 1/145 copiesPublisherAllen PressDate Published1987 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #175 Oberon. Ein romantisches Heldengedicht in 12 Gesängen Heading(Rabus, Carl)AuthorWieland, Christoph MartinHeadlineWieland's Oberon w/ Rabus etchingsPublisherHesperosDate Published1920 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #180 Reynard the Fox: After the German Version of Goethe Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorArnold, Thomas JamesHeadlineReynard the Fox 1887 Roberts Bros.PublisherRoberts BrothersDate Published1887 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #182 The History of Reynard the Fox: with Some Account of His Family, Friends, and Associates... Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorEllis, F.S.HeadlineReynard the Fox decorative binding 1894PublisherDavid NuttDate Published1894 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #183 Engraved suite of 57 prints by Everdingen illustrating Reynard the Fox [with] Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment son oeuvre gravé Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorEverdingen, Allart vanHeadlineDrugulin's Everdingen engravings, c. 1660Date Published[c. 1660]; 1873 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #184 Reineke Fuchs von Wolfgang von Goethe mit Zeichnungen von Wilhelm von Kaulbach Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorGoethe, Wolfgang vonHeadlineGoethe's Reineke, w/ Kaulbach drawings 1846PublisherVerlag der Literarisch-artistischenDate Published1846 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #185 Heinrichs von Alkmar: Reineke der Fuchs, mit schoenen Kupfern... Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorGottsched, Johann ChristophHeadline1st Gottsched adaptation of Reynard 1752PublisherVerlegts Peter SchenkDate Published1752 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #186 The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged, from all grossness in Phrase and Matter. Augmented and Enlarged with sundry Excellent Morals and Expositions upon every several Chapter, To which is now be added a Second Part of the said History [bound with] The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox. The Second Part... [and] The Shifts of Reynardine the Son of Reynard the Fox, or a Pleasant History of his Life and Death... Heading(Reynard the Fox)HeadlineEarly English Reynard, in 3 partsPublisherEdward BrewsterDate Published1701; 1681; 1684 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #187 Reineke de Vos mit dem Koker Heading(Reynard the Fox)HeadlineHackmann's Reynard w/ De Koker 1711PublisherGottfried FrietagDate Published1711 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #188 Reynaert den Vos ofte Het oordeel der dieren... Heading(Reynard the Fox)Headline1789 Dutch Reynard, Joannes VinckPublisherJoannes Norbertus VinckDate Published[1789] View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #192 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$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #195 The Works of Shakespeare with Notes by Charles Knight AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineImperial Edition of Knight's ShakespearePublisherVirtue & Co.Date Published[c.1865] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #214 Anna Karénina AuthorTolstoï, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy]HeadlineAnna Karenina, first edition in EnglishPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published[1886] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #216 Nine volumes on travel, mostly through Europe Heading(Travel)Headline9 titles on European travelDate Published1862-1911 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #217 Six volumes on travel Heading(Travel)Headline6 works on travelDate Published1880-1915 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #219 La François du Siècle AuthorUzanne, OctaveHeadlineEngravings, binding, & chemise by Eugéne GaujeanProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherA. QuantinDate Published1886 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #220 Son Altesse la Femme AuthorUzanne, OctaveHeadlineVellum Bound Uzanne Fine BindingProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherA. QuantinDate Published1885 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #221 De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis Heading(Vale Press)AuthorApuleius, LuciusHeadlineVale Press Cupid and Psyche 1901Publisher[The Vale Press]Date Published[1901] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #223 Valerii Maximi Dictorum et Factorum Memorabilium Libri Novem AuthorValerius MaximusHeadlineNicely bound Valerius Maximus, 1512Date Published1512 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #230 The Smithsonian Series AuthorAbbot, Charles Greeley, ed.HeadlineThe Smithsonian Series, Charles Greeley Abbot EditionPublisherThe Series Publishers, Inc.Date Published[1944] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #231 Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application Heading(Agriculture)AuthorBurbank, LutherHeadlineIllustrated and nicely bound history of Burbank's scientific worksPublisherLuther Burbank PressDate Published1914-1915 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #338 English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century AuthorCescinsky, HerbertHeadlineEnglish Furniture of the Eighteenth CenturyPublisherGeorge Routledge & Sons, LimitedDate Published[c. 1911] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #360 A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak; The Age of Walnut; The Age of Mahogany; The Age of Satinwood. AuthorMacQuoid, PercyHeadlineMacQuoid's History of English FurniturePublisherLawrence & BullenDate Published1904-08 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #362 Perles et parures: Les Parures Fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry, histoire de la mode par Le Cte Foelix [with] Les Joyaux Fantaisie par Gavarni, texte par Méry, minéralogie des dames par Le Cte Foelix AuthorMéry, François Joseph Pierre André and Le Comte FoelixHeadlineDecorative Perles et Parures Lace-Cut PlatesProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherG. de GonetDate Published[1850] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next