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 1-36 of 36. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Abbott, Edwin A.]HeadlineE.A. Abbott's Flatland, a geometric fantasy 1884PublisherSeeley & Co.Date Published1884 Lot #9 The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem: with annotations and an astronomical appendix. By Edward Sherburne, Esquire View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold 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 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineKing Arthur by Malory, Beardsley Illus., 1/300PublisherDent & CoDate Published1893-94 Lot #35 Forty-seven volumes from the Bibliotheque Portative Du Voyageur View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Bibliotheque Portative)Author**HeadlineBibliotheque Portative Du Voyageur 47 volumesPublisherT. Desoer, et alDate Published[c. 1802] Lot #36 Opera View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Bodoni Press)AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineBodoni Press edition of Virgil's Works 1793PublisherTypis BodonianisDate Published1793 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSecond English Edition of Don Quixote 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew CookeDate Published1652 Lot #56 Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineDoves Press Milton One of 300 copiesPublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1902 & 1905 Lot #66 Some Modern Etchings View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Etching)AuthorHitchcock, J.R.W.HeadlineSome Modern Etchings 1884PublisherWhite, Stokes, & AllenDate Published1884 Lot #67 Three volumes by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Finely Bound View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellHeadlineThree volumes by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Finely BPublisherJ.M. DentDate Published1907-11 Lot #68 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorSterne, LaurenceHeadlineSterne's Sentimental Journey Finely BoundPublisherGeorge Routledge and SonsDate Published1885 Lot #69 The Lady of the Lake View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineThe Lady of the Lake with Fore Edge PaintingPublisherJohn BallantyneDate Published1810 Lot #76 An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorGray, ThomasHeadlineGray's Elegy, 4th edition, 1751PublisherPrinted for R. Dodsley in Pall-mal; and sold By M. Cooper in Pater-noster-RowDate Published1751 Lot #77 Schola Italica picturae sive selectae quaedam summorum e schola Italica pictorum tabulae View details Estimate$200 - $400Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorHamilton, GavHeadlineEngravings of Italian art 1773Date Published1773 Lot #87 Dubliners View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce, Dubliners 1914 1st Edition, 1 of 746PublisherGrant Richards Ltd.Date Published[1914] Lot #90 Poems Chosen Out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorColeridge, Samuel TaylorHeadlineKelmscott Press Coleridge's Poems Finel BoundPublisher[Kelmscott Press]Date Published[1896] Lot #94 Fables de La Fontaine View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorLa Fontaine, [Jean] deHeadlineFables de La FontainePublisherDe L'Imprimerie de Didot L'AineDate Published1789 Lot #99 Daphnis and Chloe View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Maillol, Aristide)AuthorLongusHeadlineDaphnis & Chloe illustrated by Maillol 1 of 250Publisher[A. Zwemmer]Date Published1937 Lot #108 The Psalms of David View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Nash, John Henry)Author**HeadlineJohn Henry Nash Printing The Psalms of DavidPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1929 Lot #112 Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlinePoems in English w Illustrations by William BlakePublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1926 Lot #113 Portfolio of 11 signed woodcut prints by Dirso Jose de Oliveira View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorOliveira, Dirso Jose de (Brazilian, 1932-2005)Headline11 signed woodcut prints Dirso Jose de OliveiraDate Published1967 Lot #114 Magistri Stopini poetae Ponzanensis Capriccia macaronica View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorOrsino, CesareHeadline"macaronic" poetry by Cesare Orsini 1636PublisherApud Gasparum GanassamDate Published1636 Lot #115 Atlas der griechischen Kunstmythologie... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorOverbeck, Johannes AdolfHeadlineAtlasa of Greek Mythology with 26 platesPublisherEngelmannDate Published1872 Lot #116 Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Metamorphosis in English 1626PublisherPrinted by William StansbyDate Published1626 Lot #121 Statue antiche che sono poste in diversi luoghi nella citta di Roma [bound with] Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eor numismatibus extractae View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Porro, Girolamo)Author**HeadlineEngravings of Roman Statuary 1576PublisherGirolamo PorroDate Published1576 Lot #130 Die Cosmographia - Facsimile Edition View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorPtolemaeus, ClaudiusHeadlineDie Cosmographia - Facsimile EditionPublisherJohnson Reprint CorporationDate Published[1983] Lot #138 The Art of Deer-Stalking; Illustrated by a Narrative of a Few Days' Sport in the Forest of Atholl,... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorScrope, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Scrope The Art of Deer-StalkingPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1838 Lot #140 The Tragedy of Coriolanus View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Coriolanus from first folio 1623Date Published1623 Lot #141 Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorShaw, HenryHeadlineHenry Shaw Illuminated Ornaments Large Paper EdnPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1833 Lot #147 The Virginians View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorThackeray, W[illiam] M[akepeace]HeadlineThackeray's The Virginians 1st Edition 1858-59PublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858-59 Lot #148 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineVanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero 1st EditionPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 Lot #149 The Kickleburys on the Rhine View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Thackeray, William Makepeace)AuthorTitmarsh, M.A. [pseud. William Makepeace Thackeray]HeadlineThe Kickleburys on the Rhine with Thackeray ANSPublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1850 Lot #151 Elles: elf farbige Steinzeichnungen in Faksimiledruck View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorToulouse-Lautrec, Henri deHeadlineToulouse-Lautrec Elles [portfolioPublisherGeorg MüllerDate Published[1931] Lot #152 Autograph Letter Signed by Mark Twain as S[amuel] L[anghorne] Clemens, to his English publisher View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Mark TwainDate PublishedMarch 10, 1890 Lot #155 La Bucolica di Virgilio, Tradotta da Con Girolamo Pallantieri... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineVirgil's Bucolica in Latin & Italian 1603PublisherVittorio BenacciDate Published1603 Lot #156 "Hombres" (Hommes) - One of 25 copies on vellum View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorVerlaine, PaulHeadline"Hombres" - 25 copies on vellumPublisherImprime sous le manteau et ne se vend nulle part [Messein]Date Published[1903] 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Iconographic...)Author**HeadlineIconographic Dictionary of Art 1/26 copies 6 volsPublisherPrinted for Subscribers Only by George Barrie & SonsDate Published1912-13 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next