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Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorStatius, Publius PapiniuHeadlineStatius' writings, Aldine Press in moroccoPublisherAldusDate Published1519 Lot #10 The Sikander Nāma, E Bará, or Book of Alexander the Great, Written in A.D. 1200 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold 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 Lot #14 The Rhetoric, Poetics, and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, translated from the Greek View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Aristotle)AuthorTaylor, ThomasHeadlineEarly 19th century work on AristotleProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by A.J. ValpyDate Published1818 Lot #16 Bacon's Essays: Sydney Edition View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Ashendene Press)AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrom the library of Charles Harold St. John HornbyPublisherAdam & Charles BlackDate Published1912 Lot #19 The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, in Two Volumes. First Published at Oxford in the Years 1789 and 1790. Vol. II View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Author[Austen, James and Henry Austen]HeadlinePeriodical by brothers of Jane AustenPublisherPrinted for the authorDate Published1790 Lot #38 The Writings of John Burroughs View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBurroughs, JohnHeadlineThe Writings of John Burroughs, Riverby EditionPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and CompanyDate Published1904-1913 Lot #40 L'ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche: Traduction de Filleau de Saint-Martin Revue et Corrigée par Francis Guillot View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorCervantès, Michel deHeadlineGuillot edition of Don Quixote, handsomely boundPublisherChez Francis GuillotDate Published[1935] Lot #41 Bibliografía de Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Cervantes)AuthorPalau y Dulcet, AntonioHeadlinePalau y Dulcet's bibliography of CervantesDate Published1950 Lot #62 The Book of Songs: Translated from the Chinese View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(China)AuthorWaley, ArthurHeadlineThe Book of Songs, first Waley edition in jacketPublisherGeorge Allen & UnwinDate Published[1937] Lot #67 Faust View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Clarke, Harry, illustrator)AuthorGoethe, [Johann Wolfgang von]HeadlineLimited edition signed by Harry ClarkePublisherDingwall-RockDate Published[1925] Lot #68 Scriptores Latini Principes [with] Poetarum Græcorum Sylloge View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Classical Literature)AuthorAmar, Jon. Aug.; Boissonade, Jo. Fr., editorsHeadlineThe Latin and Greek Classics printed by DidotDate Published[1823-1831] 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorCobbett, WilliamHeadlineCobbett, w/ Rural Rides Riviere boundPublisherReeves and Turner; The Folio SocietyDate Published1893; 1968 Lot #78 The Life of Charles Dickens View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorForster, JohnHeadlineLife of Dickens, extra-illustrated + album of 100 letters from ForsterPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1872-1874 Lot #79 The Works of Charles Dickens View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineWorks of Dickens finely bound by Macdonald in 30 volumesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published[1906] 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. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Dictionaries)AuthorFunk, Isaac,HeadlineFunk's Standard Dictionary of the English LanguageProvenanceHenry H. MeyersPublisherFunk & Wagnalls CompanyDate Published1895-1903 Lot #83 Der Doktor Faust: Ein Tanzpoem nebst kuriosen Berichten uber Teufel, Hexen und Dichtkunst View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Divéky, Josef von, illustrator)AuthorHeine, HeinrichHeadlineLimited pochoir edition of Josef von Diveky's Der Doktor FaustPublisherMorawe & Scheffelt VerlagDate Published1912 Lot #84 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, 1892PublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1892 Lot #86 The Waste Land View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineThe Waste Land, Boni and Liveright editionPublisherBoni and LiverightDate Published[1922] Lot #90 Five volumes from The Tudor Facsimile Texts series View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(English Literature - Tudor Facsimile Texts)HeadlineFive volumes of The Tudor Facsimile Texts seriesPublisherThe Tudor Facsimile TextsDate Published1910 Lot #91 Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias [bound with] Tragoedia Hippolytus View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorEuripidesHeadlineEuripides' Lost Plays & HippolytusPublisherJ. Luzac & J. le MairDate Published1767-1768 Lot #98 The Canterbury Tales View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Gill, Eric)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineFacsimile of Golden Cockerel Canterbury TalesPublisher[Folio Society]Date Published[2010] Lot #105 Cent Proverbes View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorGrandville, Jean-JacquesHeadlineCent Proverbs w/ Grandville illustr.PublisherH. FournierDate Published1845 Lot #106 Poems by Mr. Gray View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorGray, ThomasHeadlinePoems by Thomas Gray 1790PublisherPrinted for J. MurrayDate Published1790 Lot #114 The Iliad of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHomerHeadlineLEC Iliad in Pope's translationPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1931 Lot #115 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHomerHeadlineOctavo ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1720 Lot #116 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineQuarto ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1715-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1715-1720 Lot #117 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineFolio large paper ed of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1716-1720 Lot #118 The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineFour volumes from the quarto edition of Pope's IliadPublisherPrinted for George LintottDate Published1715-1720 Lot #119 Five volumes by William D. Howells View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorHowells, William D.Headline5 vols. + envelope w/ Howells' return addressDate Published1867-1891 Lot #123 Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. His acceserunt Corn. Galli fragmenta View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Johann Gryphius)AuthorCatullus, Tibullus, PropertiusHeadlineNeolatin anthology, GryphiusPublisherIoan. GryphiusDate Published1553 Lot #126 Henriette. En Deux Volumes. Traduit de L’Anglois View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Johnson, Samuel)Author[Lennox, Charlotte]Headline1st French edition of HenriettaPublisherChez Marc Michel ReyDate Published1760 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlinePoetical works of Samuel Johnson & Collins 1805PublisherPrinted for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert JohnsonDate Published1805 Lot #128 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineSamuel Johnson bound by RivierePublisherTalboys and WheelerDate Published1825 Lot #131 False Delicacy: A Comedy; as it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane By His Majesty's Servants View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorKelly, HughHeadlineHugh Kelly's False Delicacy, First Edition, 1768PublisherR. Baldwin; W. JohnstonDate Published[1768] Lot #132 Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Depuis son Establissement jusqu'à présent View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold 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- 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... View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineA nicely bound set of Livy's HistoriesPublisherA.J. Valpy, A.M.Date Published1828 Lot #135 Daphnin kai Chloen...cum Proloqvio De Libris Eroticis Antiquorum View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorLongusHeadlineElegant Bodoni imprint of Daphnis & ChloePublisherBodoniDate Published1786 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorMedici, Lorenzo deHeadlineLorenzo di Medici's poetry, Bergamo 1760sPublisherAppresso Pietro LancellottiDate Published1763; 1760 Lot #140 The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineJohn Milton Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 1645Date Published1645 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorMiss Katty N----HeadlineAnon. woman's novel by Miss Katty 1757PublisherJ. NobleDate Published[1757] Lot #142 Scriptores erotici Graeci View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorMitscherlich, Christ. Guil., editorHeadlineNicely bound erotic Greek worksPublisherEx Typographia SocietatisDate Published1792 Lot #143 Album du Jeune Voyageur View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorMöring, MichelHeadlineWith hand-colored lithograph cover after LassalleProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherAlphonse DesessertsDate Published[1853] Lot #146 Les Dionisiaques ou les Metamorphoses les Voyages, les Amours, les Advantres, & les Conquestes de Bacchusaux Indes View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorNonnus, [Panopolitanus]HeadlineNonnus's Les Dionisiaques 1625PublisherRobert FouetDate Published1625 Lot #150 P. Ovidii Nasonis opera omnia: in tres tomos divisa View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Omnia Opera, 1670 LeidenPublisherEx Officina HackianaDate Published1670 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.... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Oxford English Dictionary)AuthorMurray, James A. H., et alHeadlineThe Oxford English Dictionary, revised editionPublisherClarendon PressDate Published[1961] Lot #158 Il Petrarcha con l'Espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesualdo... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlineVenetian Petrarch, w/ hand-colored initialsPublisherAlessandro GriffioDate Published1581 Lot #160 The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorPhalarisHeadlineEpistles of Phalaris, 1749PublisherPrinted for R. FrancklinDate Published1749 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. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorPitt, Christopher and Joseph Warton, translatorsHeadlineThe Works of Virgil in English and Latin, 1753PublisherR. DodsleyDate Published1753 Lot #164 Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta Quae Exstant...Moscou Syrakousiou, Biōnos Smyrnaiou Eidyllia View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Plantin Press)AuthorCallimachusHeadlinePlantin Press Callimachus, 1584PublisherApud Christophorum PlantinumDate Published1584 Lot #165 The Comedies of Plautus. Translated into Familiar Blank Verse View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorPlautusHeadlinePlautus's Comedies, Warner & ThorntonPublisherPrinted for J. Lister, T Becket, P.A. de Hondt, R. Baldwin, T. Davis & R. DavisDate Published1767-1774 Lot #168 The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineLimited Large Paper Library Edition of PoePublisherGeorge Barrie & SonDate Published[c.1900] Lot #173 Four Stories View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorPushkin, AlexanderHeadlineAllen Press, Pushkin, Four Stories, 1/145 copiesPublisherAllen PressDate Published1987 Lot #175 Oberon. Ein romantisches Heldengedicht in 12 Gesängen View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Rabus, Carl)AuthorWieland, Christoph MartinHeadlineWieland's Oberon w/ Rabus etchingsPublisherHesperosDate Published1920 Lot #180 Reynard the Fox: After the German Version of Goethe View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorArnold, Thomas JamesHeadlineReynard the Fox 1887 Roberts Bros.PublisherRoberts BrothersDate Published1887 Lot #182 The History of Reynard the Fox: with Some Account of His Family, Friends, and Associates... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorEllis, F.S.HeadlineReynard the Fox decorative binding 1894PublisherDavid NuttDate Published1894 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorEverdingen, Allart vanHeadlineDrugulin's Everdingen engravings, c. 1660Date Published[c. 1660]; 1873 Lot #184 Reineke Fuchs von Wolfgang von Goethe mit Zeichnungen von Wilhelm von Kaulbach View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorGoethe, Wolfgang vonHeadlineGoethe's Reineke, w/ Kaulbach drawings 1846PublisherVerlag der Literarisch-artistischenDate Published1846 Lot #185 Heinrichs von Alkmar: Reineke der Fuchs, mit schoenen Kupfern... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorGottsched, Johann ChristophHeadline1st Gottsched adaptation of Reynard 1752PublisherVerlegts Peter SchenkDate Published1752 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... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Reynard the Fox)HeadlineEarly English Reynard, in 3 partsPublisherEdward BrewsterDate Published1701; 1681; 1684 Lot #187 Reineke de Vos mit dem Koker View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Reynard the Fox)HeadlineHackmann's Reynard w/ De Koker 1711PublisherGottfried FrietagDate Published1711 Lot #188 Reynaert den Vos ofte Het oordeel der dieren... View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Reynard the Fox)Headline1789 Dutch Reynard, Joannes VinckPublisherJoannes Norbertus VinckDate Published[1789] 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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorSchmidt, Friedrich vonHeadlineKing Wilhelm von Württemberg in Rural PursuitsProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherEbner und SeubertDate Published1865 Lot #195 The Works of Shakespeare with Notes by Charles Knight View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineImperial Edition of Knight's ShakespearePublisherVirtue & Co.Date Published[c.1865] Lot #214 Anna Karénina View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorTolstoï, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy]HeadlineAnna Karenina, first edition in EnglishPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published[1886] Lot #216 Nine volumes on travel, mostly through Europe View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Travel)Headline9 titles on European travelDate Published1862-1911 Lot #217 Six volumes on travel View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Travel)Headline6 works on travelDate Published1880-1915 Lot #219 La François du Siècle View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorUzanne, OctaveHeadlineEngravings, binding, & chemise by Eugéne GaujeanProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherA. QuantinDate Published1886 Lot #220 Son Altesse la Femme View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorUzanne, OctaveHeadlineVellum Bound Uzanne Fine BindingProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherA. QuantinDate Published1885 Lot #221 De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus Fabula Anilis View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Vale Press)AuthorApuleius, LuciusHeadlineVale Press Cupid and Psyche 1901Publisher[The Vale Press]Date Published[1901] Lot #223 Valerii Maximi Dictorum et Factorum Memorabilium Libri Novem View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorValerius MaximusHeadlineNicely bound Valerius Maximus, 1512Date Published1512 Lot #230 The Smithsonian Series View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorAbbot, Charles Greeley, ed.HeadlineThe Smithsonian Series, Charles Greeley Abbot EditionPublisherThe Series Publishers, Inc.Date Published[1944] Lot #231 Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Agriculture)AuthorBurbank, LutherHeadlineIllustrated and nicely bound history of Burbank's scientific worksPublisherLuther Burbank PressDate Published1914-1915 Lot #338 English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorCescinsky, HerbertHeadlineEnglish Furniture of the Eighteenth CenturyPublisherGeorge Routledge & Sons, LimitedDate Published[c. 1911] Lot #360 A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak; The Age of Walnut; The Age of Mahogany; The Age of Satinwood. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorMacQuoid, PercyHeadlineMacQuoid's History of English FurniturePublisherLawrence & BullenDate Published1904-08 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorMéry, François Joseph Pierre André and Le Comte FoelixHeadlineDecorative Perles et Parures Lace-Cut PlatesProvenanceMorris-LevinPublisherG. de GonetDate Published[1850] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next