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6
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    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Machiavelli, Niccolo
  • Headline
    The Prince by Machiavelli, 1540 Aldine Edition
  • Publisher
    [Sons of Aldo]
  • Date Published
    [1540]
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
Sold for$46,875
StatusSold
10
  • Heading
    (Alexander the Great)
  • Author
    [Niẓāmī Ganjavī] Abū Muhammad Bin Yusuf Bin Mum Ayyid-I-Nizāmu-'d-Dīn
  • Headline
    First English translation of The Book of Alexander the Great
  • Publisher
    W.H. Allen & Co.
  • Date Published
    1881
Estimate$800 - $1,200
StatusUnsold
11
  • Heading
    (Allen Press)
  • Author
    Herodotus
  • Headline
    Allen Press, Herodotus on Egypt
  • Publisher
    Allen Press
  • Date Published
    [1989]
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$468.75
StatusSold
12
  • Author
    Allen, Thomas
  • Headline
    Extra-illustrated History of London 1827
  • Publisher
    Cowie and Strange
  • Date Published
    1827
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$531.25
StatusSold
13
  • Author
    Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Headline
    Ammianus's Rerum Gestarum, 1693
  • Publisher
    Apud Petrum Vander
  • Date Published
    1693
Estimate$700 - $1,000
Sold for$437.50
StatusSold
14
  • Heading
    (Aristotle)
  • Author
    Taylor, Thomas
  • Headline
    Early 19th century work on Aristotle
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    Printed by A.J. Valpy
  • Date Published
    1818
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$137.50
StatusSold
15
  • Author
    Artaud de Montor, Chevalier
  • Headline
    Fine Binding Roman Papal History
  • Provenance
    Morris-Levin
  • Publisher
    Alfred Mame et Fils
  • Date Published
    1896
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
19
  • Author
    [Austen, James and Henry Austen]
  • Headline
    Periodical by brothers of Jane Austen
  • Publisher
    Printed for the author
  • Date Published
    1790
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
20
  • Author
    Basilio, Sancho de Sana Justa y Rufino
  • Headline
    Early Manila rice paper, archbishop's address
  • Publisher
    En la Imprenta del Seminario Eclesiastico
  • Date Published
    1783
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
38
  • Author
    Burroughs, John
  • Headline
    The Writings of John Burroughs, Riverby Edition
  • Publisher
    Houghton, Mifflin and Company
  • Date Published
    1904-1913
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
39
  • Heading
    (Cameron, Julia Margaret, photographer)
  • Author
    Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
  • Headline
    Cameron's Tennyson & His Friends portraits
  • Publisher
    T. Fisher Unwin
  • Date Published
    1893
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$500
StatusSold
40
  • Heading
    (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
  • Author
    Cervantès, Michel de
  • Headline
    Guillot edition of Don Quixote, handsomely bound
  • Publisher
    Chez Francis Guillot
  • Date Published
    [1935]
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$406.25
StatusSold
41
  • Heading
    (Cervantes)
  • Author
    Palau y Dulcet, Antonio
  • Headline
    Palau y Dulcet's bibliography of Cervantes
  • Date Published
    1950
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
44
  • Heading
    (China)
  • Author
    Bredon, Juliet
  • Headline
    Peking by Bredon, 1st edition
  • Publisher
    Kelly and Walsh, Limited
  • Date Published
    1920
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
48
  • Heading
    (China)
  • Author
    Couvreur, Seraphin
  • Headline
    Couvreur's Chou King, 1934
  • Publisher
    Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique
  • Date Published
    1934
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
51
  • Heading
    (China)
  • Author
    de Groot, J.J.M.
  • Headline
    de Groot's Sectarianism in China, 1903-4
  • Publisher
    Johannes Muller
  • Date Published
    1903-1904
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
67
  • Heading
    (Clarke, Harry, illustrator)
  • Author
    Goethe, [Johann Wolfgang von]
  • Headline
    Limited edition signed by Harry Clarke
  • Publisher
    Dingwall-Rock
  • Date Published
    [1925]
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$468.75
StatusSold
68
  • Heading
    (Classical Literature)
  • Author
    Amar, Jon. Aug.; Boissonade, Jo. Fr., editors
  • Headline
    The Latin and Greek Classics printed by Didot
  • Date Published
    [1823-1831]
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
69
  • Author
    Cobbett, William
  • Headline
    2 by Cobbett on America
  • Publisher
    C. Clement; B. Bensley
  • Date Published
    1821; 1828
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$137.50
StatusSold
71
  • Author
    Cobbett, William
  • Headline
    Cobbett, w/ Rural Rides Riviere bound
  • Publisher
    Reeves and Turner; The Folio Society
  • Date Published
    1893; 1968
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
72
  • Author
    Cobbett, William
  • Headline
    Cobbett's Sermons w/ 2 copies of Cottage Econ.
  • Publisher
    John Doyle; Anne Cobbett; Douglas Pepler
  • Date Published
    1844; 1850; 1916
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
73
  • Author
    Cobbett, William
  • Headline
    Works by Cobbett's Peter Porcupine pseud.
  • Publisher
    Thomas Bradford; The Nonesuch Press
  • Date Published
    1796; 1927
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
75
  • Author
    Davila, Henrico Caterino
  • Headline
    History of the Civil Wars of France, 1647 trans.
  • Publisher
    Printed by R. Raworth
  • Date Published
    1647
Estimate$800 - $1,200
StatusUnsold
76
  • Author
    Davis, Richard Harding
  • Headline
    9 works by journalist Richard Harding Davis
  • Publisher
    Various publishers
  • Date Published
    1894-1907
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
78
  • Heading
    (Dickens, Charles)
  • Author
    Forster, John
  • Headline
    Life of Dickens, extra-illustrated + album of 100 letters from Forster
  • Publisher
    Chapman and Hall
  • Date Published
    1872-1874
Estimate$15,000 - $25,000
StatusUnsold
79
  • Author
    Dickens, Charles
  • Headline
    Works of Dickens finely bound by Macdonald in 30 volumes
  • Publisher
    Chapman & Hall
  • Date Published
    [1906]
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
83
  • Heading
    (Divéky, Josef von, illustrator)
  • Author
    Heine, Heinrich
  • Headline
    Limited pochoir edition of Josef von Diveky's Der Doktor Faust
  • Publisher
    Morawe & Scheffelt Verlag
  • Date Published
    1912
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
84
  • Author
    Doyle, Arthur Conan
  • Headline
    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, 1892
  • Publisher
    George Newnes
  • Date Published
    1892
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$1,250
StatusSold
87
  • Heading
    (Elizabeth I)
  • Headline
    On Elizabeth I's love life, 1695
  • Publisher
    Printed for the Will with the Wisp
  • Date Published
    1695
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$375
StatusSold
90
  • Heading
    (English Literature - Tudor Facsimile Texts)
  • Headline
    Five volumes of The Tudor Facsimile Texts series
  • Publisher
    The Tudor Facsimile Texts
  • Date Published
    1910
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
91
  • Author
    Euripides
  • Headline
    Euripides' Lost Plays & Hippolytus
  • Publisher
    J. Luzac & J. le Mair
  • Date Published
    1767-1768
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
95
  • Author
    Foy-Vaillant, Jean
  • Headline
    Foy-Vaillant's numismatics of antiquity
  • Publisher
    G. Gallet
  • Date Published
    1701
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
96
  • Author
    Frazer, J.G.
  • Headline
    2nd ed. of Frazer's Pausanias
  • Publisher
    Macmillan and Co.
  • Date Published
    1913
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
98
  • Heading
    (Gill, Eric)
  • Author
    Chaucer, Geoffrey
  • Headline
    Facsimile of Golden Cockerel Canterbury Tales
  • Publisher
    [Folio Society]
  • Date Published
    [2010]
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
103
  • Author
    Gossellin, Pascal François Joseph
  • Headline
    Geography of the ancient Greeks
  • Publisher
    De l'Imprimerie de Didot
  • Date Published
    1790
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
105
  • Author
    Grandville, Jean-Jacques
  • Headline
    Cent Proverbs w/ Grandville illustr.
  • Publisher
    H. Fournier
  • Date Published
    1845
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
106
  • Author
    Gray, Thomas
  • Headline
    Poems by Thomas Gray 1790
  • Publisher
    Printed for J. Murray
  • Date Published
    1790
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
107
  • Heading
    (Greek War of Independence)
  • Author
    Friedel, Adam de
  • Headline
    22 Adam de Friedel portraits from the Greek Revolution
  • Publisher
    A. Friedel
  • Date Published
    1825-1826
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$2,500
StatusSold
115
  • Author
    Homer
  • Headline
    Octavo ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720
  • Publisher
    W. Bowyer
  • Date Published
    1720
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
116
  • Author
    Homer
  • Headline
    Quarto ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1715-1720
  • Publisher
    W. Bowyer
  • Date Published
    1715-1720
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
117
  • Author
    Homer
  • Headline
    Folio large paper ed of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720
  • Publisher
    W. Bowyer
  • Date Published
    1716-1720
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
118
  • Author
    Homer
  • Headline
    Four volumes from the quarto edition of Pope's Iliad
  • Publisher
    Printed for George Lintott
  • Date Published
    1715-1720
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$175
StatusSold
119
  • Author
    Howells, William D.
  • Headline
    5 vols. + envelope w/ Howells' return address
  • Date Published
    1867-1891
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
121
  • Heading
    (India)
  • Author
    Curzon, George Nathaniel
  • Headline
    Deluxe limited edition of Curzon's British Government in India
  • Publisher
    Cassell & Co. Ltd.
  • Date Published
    [1925]
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
124
  • Heading
    (Johnson, Samuel)
  • Author
    Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl of
  • Headline
    Letters from Chesterfield 1st ed. 1774
  • Publisher
    J. Dodsley
  • Date Published
    1774
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
126
  • Heading
    (Johnson, Samuel)
  • Author
    [Lennox, Charlotte]
  • Headline
    1st French edition of Henrietta
  • Publisher
    Chez Marc Michel Rey
  • Date Published
    1760
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
127
  • Author
    Johnson, Samuel
  • Headline
    Poetical works of Samuel Johnson & Collins 1805
  • Publisher
    Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson
  • Date Published
    1805
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
128
  • Author
    Johnson, Samuel
  • Headline
    Samuel Johnson bound by Riviere
  • Publisher
    Talboys and Wheeler
  • Date Published
    1825
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
129
  • Author
    Josephus, Flavius
  • Headline
    The Works of Flavius Josephus 1848
  • Publisher
    Grigg, Elliot & Co.
  • Date Published
    1848
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
131
  • Author
    Kelly, Hugh
  • Headline
    Hugh Kelly's False Delicacy, First Edition, 1768
  • Publisher
    R. Baldwin; W. Johnston
  • Date Published
    [1768]
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
132
  • Heading
    (L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
  • Headline
    Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Depuis son Establissement jusqu'à présent
  • Publisher
    L'Imprimerie Royale
  • Date Published
    1736-
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$531.25
StatusSold
Estimate$600 - $900
StatusUnsold
135
  • Author
    Longus
  • Headline
    Elegant Bodoni imprint of Daphnis & Chloe
  • Publisher
    Bodoni
  • Date Published
    1786
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$937.50
StatusSold
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$593.75
StatusSold
140
  • Author
    Milton, John
  • Headline
    John Milton Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 1645
  • Date Published
    1645
Estimate$700 - $1,000
Sold for$500
StatusSold
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$1,625
StatusSold
146
  • Author
    Nonnus, [Panopolitanus]
  • Headline
    Nonnus's Les Dionisiaques 1625
  • Publisher
    Robert Fouet
  • Date Published
    1625
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
151
  • Heading
    (Oxford English Dictionary)
  • Author
    Murray, James A. H., et al
  • Headline
    The Oxford English Dictionary, revised edition
  • Publisher
    Clarendon Press
  • Date Published
    [1961]
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
152
  • Heading
    (Palaeography)
  • Author
    Forster, Charles
  • Headline
    In search of the Primeval Language
  • Publisher
    Richard Bentley
  • Date Published
    1852-1854
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$375
StatusSold
160
  • Author
    Phalaris
  • Headline
    Epistles of Phalaris, 1749
  • Publisher
    Printed for R. Francklin
  • Date Published
    1749
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
163
  • Author
    Pitt, Christopher and Joseph Warton, translators
  • Headline
    The Works of Virgil in English and Latin, 1753
  • Publisher
    R. Dodsley
  • Date Published
    1753
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$237.50
StatusSold
165
  • Author
    Plautus
  • Headline
    Plautus's Comedies, Warner & Thornton
  • Publisher
    Printed for J. Lister, T Becket, P.A. de Hondt, R. Baldwin, T. Davis & R. Davis
  • Date Published
    1767-1774
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
166
  • Author
    Plutarch
  • Headline
    1676 Plutarch's Lives of Grecians & Romans
  • Publisher
    John Hayes for George Sawbridge
  • Date Published
    1676
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
167
  • Author
    Plutarch
  • Headline
    North's Plutarch, 4th ed. 1612 & 1610
  • Publisher
    Printed by Richard Field
  • Date Published
    1610-1612
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
168
  • Author
    Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Headline
    Limited Large Paper Library Edition of Poe
  • Publisher
    George Barrie & Son
  • Date Published
    [c.1900]
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
169
  • Author
    Poivre, Pierre
  • Headline
    Poivre's complete works, travels etc. 1797
  • Publisher
    Chez Fuchs
  • Date Published
    1797
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
171
  • Author
    Polybius
  • Headline
    Polybius' history in Greek and Latin, 1549
  • Publisher
    Per Ioannem Heruagium / Johannes Herwagen
  • Date Published
    [1549]
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
173
  • Author
    Pushkin, Alexander
  • Headline
    Allen Press, Pushkin, Four Stories, 1/145 copies
  • Publisher
    Allen Press
  • Date Published
    1987
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$500
StatusSold
178
  • Heading
    (Republic of Geneva)
  • Author
    Commission Revolutionnaire
  • Headline
    Genevan revolutionary broadside, 1794
  • Publisher
    Egalite Genevoise
  • Date Published
    1794
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
180
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Author
    Arnold, Thomas James
  • Headline
    Reynard the Fox 1887 Roberts Bros.
  • Publisher
    Roberts Brothers
  • Date Published
    1887
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$437.50
StatusSold
182
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Author
    Ellis, F.S.
  • Headline
    Reynard the Fox decorative binding 1894
  • Publisher
    David Nutt
  • Date Published
    1894
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$375
StatusSold
183
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Author
    Everdingen, Allart van
  • Headline
    Drugulin's Everdingen engravings, c. 1660
  • Date Published
    [c. 1660]; 1873
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
StatusUnsold
184
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Author
    Goethe, Wolfgang von
  • Headline
    Goethe's Reineke, w/ Kaulbach drawings 1846
  • Publisher
    Verlag der Literarisch-artistischen
  • Date Published
    1846
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
185
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Author
    Gottsched, Johann Christoph
  • Headline
    1st Gottsched adaptation of Reynard 1752
  • Publisher
    Verlegts Peter Schenk
  • Date Published
    1752
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
187
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Headline
    Hackmann's Reynard w/ De Koker 1711
  • Publisher
    Gottfried Frietag
  • Date Published
    1711
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
188
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Headline
    1789 Dutch Reynard, Joannes Vinck
  • Publisher
    Joannes Norbertus Vinck
  • Date Published
    [1789]
Estimate$600 - $900
StatusUnsold
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$750
StatusSold
195
  • Author
    Shakespeare, William
  • Headline
    Imperial Edition of Knight's Shakespeare
  • Publisher
    Virtue & Co.
  • Date Published
    [c.1865]
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
208
  • Author
    Squire, Samuel
  • Headline
    Squire on Anglo-Saxon government
  • Publisher
    Printed by W. Bowyer
  • Date Published
    1745
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$406.25
StatusSold
210
  • Author
    Strutt, Joseph
  • Headline
    Strutt's Chronicle of England, 2 vols., 18th c.
  • Publisher
    Printed by Joseph Cooper
  • Date Published
    1777-1778
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
213
  • Author
    Tancoigne, Joseph Michel
  • Headline
    Tancoigne's Persia, with folding map
  • Publisher
    Printed for William Wright
  • Date Published
    1820
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
214
  • Author
    Tolstoï, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy]
  • Headline
    Anna Karenina, first edition in English
  • Publisher
    Thomas Y. Crowell
  • Date Published
    [1886]
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$687.50
StatusSold
216
  • Heading
    (Travel)
  • Headline
    9 titles on European travel
  • Date Published
    1862-1911
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
217
  • Heading
    (Travel)
  • Headline
    6 works on travel
  • Date Published
    1880-1915
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
221
  • Heading
    (Vale Press)
  • Author
    Apuleius, Lucius
  • Headline
    Vale Press Cupid and Psyche 1901
  • Publisher
    [The Vale Press]
  • Date Published
    [1901]
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$375
StatusSold
297
  • Author
    Jardine, William, editor
  • Headline
    17 Volumes from Jardine's Naturalist's Library
  • Publisher
    Lizars, et al.
  • Date Published
    [c.1833-1843]
Estimate$800 - $1,200
Sold for$1,000
StatusSold
298
  • Author
    Jenkins, C. Francis
  • Headline
    Inscribed by one of the inventors of television
  • Publisher
    [C. Francis Jenkins]
  • Date Published
    1931
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
350
  • Heading
    (Fashion)
  • Author
    Bar, Jacques Charles
  • Headline
    With numerous hand-colored plates of Monastic costumes
  • Publisher
    J. Ch. Bar
  • Date Published
    1779
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$625
StatusSold
352
  • Heading
    (Fashion)
  • Headline
    With over 200 hand-colored lithographs of fashion
  • Publisher
    Aubert & Cie.
  • Date Published
    [1842-1843]
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
Sold for$1,875
StatusSold
353
  • Heading
    (Fashion)
  • Author
    Giafferri, Paul Louis De
  • Headline
    100 pochoir plates of French fashion throughout the ages
  • Publisher
    Reign Publications.
  • Date Published
    [1927]
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
355
  • Heading
    (Fashion)
  • Headline
    With 100 hand-colored plates of English and Austrian fashion c. 1800
  • Publisher
    John Murray; William Miller
  • Date Published
    [1821; 1835]
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
357
  • Author
    Giafferri, Paul Louis de
  • Headline
    Pochoir plates of French fashion from Middle Ages to Second Empire
  • Publisher
    Editions Nilsson
  • Date Published
    1922-23
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
358
  • Heading
    (Heraldry)
  • Headline
    Book of hand-painted Italian crests
  • Date Published
    c. 1825
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$375
StatusSold
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$281.25
StatusSold
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