Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Auction Info 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 1-46 of 46. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE Author[Abbott, Edwin A.]HeadlineE.A. Abbott's Flatland, a geometric fantasy 1884PublisherSeeley & Co.Date Published1884 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #5 Valenti Angelo: Author + Illustrator + Printer. A Checklist of His Work from 1926 to 1970 Heading(Angelo, Valenti)Author**HeadlineValenti Angelo A Checklist 1 of 50 copies SgdPublisher[Privately printed by Angelo]Date Published1970 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #9 The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem: with annotations and an astronomical appendix. By Edward Sherburne, Esquire Heading(Astronomy)AuthorManilius, MarcusHeadlineManilius' Sphere trans. Ed. Sherburne 1675PublisherPrinted for Nathanael Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal ExchangeDate Published1675 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #13 [Le Morte Darthur, i.e.] The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte DArthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of the World of them All Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineKing Arthur by Malory, Beardsley Illus., 1/300PublisherDent & CoDate Published1893-94 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #16 Bible, Dat is de Gantsche H. Schrifture, Vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden des Nieuwen Testaments Heading(Bible in Dutch)Author**HeadlineBible in Dutch 1729PublisherPiter en Jacob KeurDate Published1729 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #22 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments [with] The Book of Common Prayer Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1738 Baskett Bible Extra IllustratedPublisherJohn BaskettDate Published1738 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #23 The Holy Bible. The Old Testament [&] The New Testament, Embellished with Engravings from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineMassive Macklin Bible in 6 volumes 1800PublisherPrinted for Thomas Macklin by Thomas BensleDate Published1800 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #34 Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V. Pontificis Maximi Jussu Recognita; et Clementis VIII Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineBible in Latin 1705PublisherFrancis Barbier, et alDate Published1705 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #35 Forty-seven volumes from the Bibliotheque Portative Du Voyageur Heading(Bibliotheque Portative)Author**HeadlineBibliotheque Portative Du Voyageur 47 volumesPublisherT. Desoer, et alDate Published[c. 1802] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #36 Opera Heading(Bodoni Press)AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineBodoni Press edition of Virgil's Works 1793PublisherTypis BodonianisDate Published1793 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #44 The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly Corrected and Amended AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSecond English Edition of Don Quixote 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew CookeDate Published1652 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #46 The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlinePlantin Press Prologue to Chaucer 1/115Publisher[Plantin Press]Date Published[1965] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #56 Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd Heading(Doves Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineDoves Press Milton One of 300 copiesPublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1902 & 1905 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #58 Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis AuthorEgan, PierceHeadlinePierce Egan Life in LondonPublisherG. VirtueDate Published[c. 1830] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #66 Some Modern Etchings Heading(Etching)AuthorHitchcock, J.R.W.HeadlineSome Modern Etchings 1884PublisherWhite, Stokes, & AllenDate Published1884 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #68 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorSterne, LaurenceHeadlineSterne's Sentimental Journey Finely BoundPublisherGeorge Routledge and SonsDate Published1885 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #69 The Lady of the Lake Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineThe Lady of the Lake with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherJohn BallantyneDate Published1810 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #75 Galerie Francaise, ou Collection de Portraits des Hommes et des Femmes Heading(Galerie Francaise)Author**HeadlineGalerie Francaise 1821 Lithograph portriatsPublisherFirmin DidotDate Published1821 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #76 An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard AuthorGray, ThomasHeadlineGray's Elegy, 4th edition, 1751PublisherPrinted for R. Dodsley in Pall-mal; and sold By M. Cooper in Pater-noster-RowDate Published1751 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #81 His Iliads [Odysses] translated, adorn'd with Sculpture, and illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby AuthorHomerHeadlineOgilby's translation of Iliad & Odyssey 1669PublisherPrinted by James Flesher, for the AuthourDate Published1669 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #82 Figures de la Bible AuthorHondt, Pierre deHeadlineFigures de la Bible 212 plates by Picart, etc.PublisherPierre de HondtDate Published1728 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #87 Dubliners AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce, Dubliners 1914 1st Edition, 1 of 746PublisherGrant Richards Ltd.Date Published[1914] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #90 Poems Chosen Out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorHeadlineKelmscott Press Coleridge's Poems Finel BoundPublisher[Kelmscott Press]Date Published[1896] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #94 Fables de La Fontaine AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean] deHeadlineFables de La FontainePublisherDe L'Imprimerie de Didot L'AineDate Published1789 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #99 Daphnis and Chloe Heading(Maillol, Aristide)AuthorLongusHeadlineDaphnis & Chloe illustrated by Maillol 1 of 250Publisher[A. Zwemmer]Date Published1937 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #102 British Deer and Their Horns AuthorMillais, John GuilleHeadlineBritish Deer and Their Horns J.G. MillaisPublisherHenry SotheranDate Published1897 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #103 Winnie-the-Pooh AuthorMilne, A[lan] A[lexander]HeadlineWinnie-the-Pooh 1/350 large paper signedPublisherMethuenDate Published[1926] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #108 The Psalms of David Heading(Nash, John Henry)Author**HeadlineJohn Henry Nash Printing The Psalms of DavidPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1929 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #112 Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlinePoems in English w Illustrations by William BlakePublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1926 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #114 Magistri Stopini poetae Ponzanensis Capriccia macaronica AuthorOrsino, CesareHeadline"macaronic" poetry by Cesare Orsini 1636PublisherApud Gasparum GanassamDate Published1636 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #116 Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys] AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Metamorphosis in English 1626PublisherPrinted by William StansbyDate Published1626 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #140 The Tragedy of Coriolanus AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Coriolanus from first folio 1623Date Published1623 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #141 Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries AuthorShaw, HenryHeadlineHenry Shaw Illuminated Ornaments Large Paper EdnPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1833 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #142 "Pooh and the Windy Day" - preliminary pencil sketch AuthorShepard, Ernest H.HeadlineOriginal pencil sketch by E.H. ShepardDate Published1927 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #143 An History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity AuthorStackhouse, ThomasHeadlineStackhouse's History of the BiblePublisherI. GarnerDate Published1787 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #145 The Sugar-Plum, or, Sweet amusement for leisure hours: being an entertaining and instructive collection of stories. embellished with curious cuts Heading(Sugar-Plum...)Author**HeadlineRare Juvenile Sugar-Plum 1786PublisherPrinted and sold by J. & M. Robertson and J. DuncanDate Published1786 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #146 Two original pencil drawing by John Tenniel for Punch Magazine AuthorTenniel, JohnHeadlineTwo pencil drawing by John Tenniel for PunchDate PublishedN.d. & 1893 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #147 The Virginians AuthorThackeray, W[illiam] M[akepeace]HeadlineThackeray's The Virginians 1st Edition 1858-59PublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858-59 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #148 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineVanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero 1st EditionPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #149 The Kickleburys on the Rhine Heading(Thackeray, William Makepeace)AuthorTitmarsh, M.A. [pseud. William Makepeace Thackeray]HeadlineThe Kickleburys on the Rhine with Thackeray ANSPublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1850 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #152 Autograph Letter Signed by Mark Twain as S[amuel] L[anghorne] Clemens, to his English publisher AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Mark TwainDate PublishedMarch 10, 1890 View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #153 Museum Museorum, oder vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung... Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen AuthorValentini, Michael BernhardHeadlineValentini's Museum Museorum 1704PublisherVerlegung Johann David ZunnerDate Published1704 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #155 La Bucolica di Virgilio, Tradotta da Con Girolamo Pallantieri... AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineVirgil's Bucolica in Latin & Italian 1603PublisherVittorio BenacciDate Published1603 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #156 "Hombres" (Hommes) - One of 25 copies on vellum HeadingzzcAuthorVerlaine, PaulHeadline"Hombres" - 25 copies on vellumPublisherImprime sous le manteau et ne se vend nulle part [Messein]Date Published[1903] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #165 The Iconographic Dictionary of the most important painters and sculptors, ancient and modern, with examples of their work from public and private collections and specimens of the work of the leading etchers and engravers Heading(Iconographic...)Author**HeadlineIconographic Dictionary of Art 1/26 copies 6 volsPublisherPrinted for Subscribers Only by George Barrie & SonsDate Published1912-13 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #167 Die Grundworte des indischen Monismus aus den Upanishads des Veda: Die altindische Philosophie nach den Grundworten der Upanishads: der Gedanke vom All-Selbst in dem Rede-Wettkampf und den drei Lehrgesprächen des Yajnavalkya, und die Brahman-Atman-Lehre in ihren Haupt-Zeugnissen aus zwoelf Upanishads des Veda... Heading(Upanishads)AuthorDeussen, Paul, & Peerdt, Ernst teHeadlineUpanishads in German fine printing 1914PublisherE. DiederichsDate Published1914 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next