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 101-167 of 167. Previous|12|Next Lot #101 De Orbis Situ Libri III View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorMela, PomponiusHeadlinePomponius Mela De Orbis Situ - Early MapsPublisherSebastianum Henric PetriDate Published[1595] Lot #102 British Deer and Their Horns View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorMillais, John GuilleHeadlineBritish Deer and Their Horns J.G. MillaisPublisherHenry SotheranDate Published1897 Lot #103 Winnie-the-Pooh View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorMilne, A[lan] A[lexander]HeadlineWinnie-the-Pooh 1/350 large paper signedPublisherMethuenDate Published[1926] Lot #104 Missale Romanum View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineRare 1484 Missale RomanumPublisherGeorgius Arrivabenus & Paganinus de PaganinisDate Published27 Sept. 1484 Lot #105 Missale Romanum View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineMissale Romanum printed by George Stuchs 1484PublisherGeorg StuchsDate Published1484 Lot #106 “Eurythmic Quartet” View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Music)AuthorHenry CowellHeadlineMS Music Henry Cowell Eurythmic QuartetDate PublishedNo date Lot #107 "Decoration Day" - photographic copy of the original score View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Heading(Music)AuthorIves, Charles EdwardHeadlineCharles Ives musical scoreDate Publishedc.1931 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 #109 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et al.Date Published1728 Lot #110 Epistole Longiores Magistri Pauli Niauis View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorNiavis, PaulusHeadline1494 Epistole Longiores by Paul NiavisPublisherKonrad KachelofenDate Published1494 Lot #111 The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, and the Circumstances Which Led to the Revolution in That Country; Together with a Complete History of the Revolution in France, the War in Spain and Portugal, Russia, Prussia, &c. &c. with Biographical Sketches of All the Public Characters of Europe View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineThe History of the Wars by NicholsonPublisherRichard EvansDate Published1816 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 #117 Opus de re Medica View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorPaulus AeginetaHeadlinePaulus Aegineta Opus De re MedicaPublisherArrivabenusDate Published1542 Lot #118 Arctic Zoology View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Pennant, Thomas]HeadlineThomas Pennant Arctic ZoologyPublisherHenry HughesDate Published1784-5 Lot #119 The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture, illustrated by Examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorPennethorne, JohnHeadlineGeometry and Optics of Ancient ArchitecturePublisherWilliams and NorgateDate Published1878 Lot #120 Essais de physique, ou Recueil de plusieurs traitez touchant les choses naturelles. Tome I View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorPerrault, ClaudeHeadlinePerrault Essais de physique Vol. I 1680PublisherChez Jean Baptiste CoignardDate Published1680 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 #122 Guilielmi Postelli de Universitate libri duo: in quibus Astronomiae, Doctrinaeve coelistis compendium View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorPostel, GuilllaumeHeadline1635 Astonomy text by PostellusPublisherJoannis MaireDate Published1635 Lot #123 Signed check View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorArthur, Chester A.HeadlineChester A. Arthur signed checkDate PublishedJune 22, 1875 Lot #124 Typed Letter Signed, as President View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineDwight D. Eisenhower Signed LetterDate PublishedJanuary 20, 1958 Lot #125 Typed Letter Signed, as President View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineDwight D. Eisenhower Signed LetterDate PublishedMay 15, 1957 Lot #126 Autograph Document Signed View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorVan Buren, MartinHeadlineMartin Van Buren Autograph Document SignedDate Published1829 Lot #127 Document Signed View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Presidents)AuthorVan Buren, MartinHeadlineMartin Van Buren Copyright SignedDate Published1830 Lot #128 WITHDRAWN Autographs of four consecutive Presidents on one card View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents)Author**HeadlineFour presidential autographsDate PublishedNo date Lot #129 Autographs of four consecutive Presidents on one card View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Presidents)Author**HeadlineFour presidential autographsDate Published1980s 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 #131 Orpheus Britannicus. A collection of all the choicest songs for one, two and three voices, compos'd by Henry Purcell. Together with such symphonies for violins or flutes, as were by him designed for any of them: and a through-bass to each song, figured for the organ, harpsichord, or theorbo-lute View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorPurcell, HenryHeadlineSongs of Henry Purcell 1706-12PublisherPrinted by William Pearson, and sold by John YoungDate Published1706-1712 Lot #132 Queen Mary's Psalter: Miniatures and Drawings by an English Artist of the 14th Century Reproduced from Royal MS. 2 B. Vii in the British Museum View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Queen Mary's Psalter)Author**HeadlineQueen Mary's PsalterPublisherPrinted for the TrusteesDate Published1912 Lot #133 The History of the World View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorRaleigh, WalterHeadlineWalter Raleigh's History of the World 1614 1st edPublisherPrinted for Walter BurrDate Published1614 Lot #134 Discours sur le Gouvernement des Monarchies et Principautez Souveraines [bound with] Memoires et Advis Concernans les Charges de M. les Chanceliers & Gardes des Sceaux de France View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorRibier, JacquesHeadlineRibier on the Goverment of Monarchies 1630PublisherSebastien CramoisyDate Published1630 & 1629 Lot #135 Triumphus crucis de fidei veritate. Post novissimam impressionem alias Venetiis excussam... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorSavonarola, GirolamoHeadlineBy Dominicum priest Girolamo Savarola 1521PublisherAlexandrum de BindonisDate Published1521 Lot #136 [Nuremberg Chronicle – Liber Chronicon, i.e.] Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure und Pildnussen von Anbegin der Welt bis auf dise unsere Zeit View details Estimate$80,000 - $120,000StatusUnsold AuthorSchedel, HartmannHeadlineNuremberg Chronicle in early pigskin binding 1493PublisherAnton KobergerDate Published23 December 1493 Lot #137 Miscellanea Philologica et Theologica. Carmina et Fragmenta Carminum Familiae Caesareae, Hoc est Caesaris Germanici, Quae extant Opera Omnia cum Latina, tum Graeca, nunc primum conjuctim edita cum commentariis integris Hugonis Grotii View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorSchwarz, Jo. ConradusHeadlineMiscellanea Philologica et TheologicaPublisherPaul GuntherDate Published1715 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 #139 The first [-fift] booke of architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Author[Serlio, Sebastiano]HeadlineSerlio's Architecture in English 1611PublisherPrinted [by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham] for Robert PeakeDate Published1611 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 #142 "Pooh and the Windy Day" - preliminary pencil sketch View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorShepard, Ernest H.HeadlineOriginal pencil sketch by E.H. ShepardDate Published1927 Lot #143 An History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorStackhouse, ThomasHeadlineStackhouse's History of the BiblePublisherI. GarnerDate Published1787 Lot #144 The Grapes of Wrath [Publisher's Dummy Copy] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineThe Grapes of Wrath [Publisher's Dummy Copy]PublisherVikingDate Published1939 Lot #145 The Sugar-Plum, or, Sweet amusement for leisure hours: being an entertaining and instructive collection of stories. embellished with curious cuts View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Sugar-Plum...)Author**HeadlineRare Juvenile Sugar-Plum 1786PublisherPrinted and sold by J. & M. Robertson and J. DuncanDate Published1786 Lot #146 Two original pencil drawing by John Tenniel for Punch Magazine View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorTenniel, JohnHeadlineTwo pencil drawing by John Tenniel for PunchDate PublishedN.d. & 1893 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 #150 The hystory, writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucyides Pelopenessian War 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 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 #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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorValentini, Michael BernhardHeadlineValentini's Museum Museorum 1704PublisherVerlegung Johann David ZunnerDate Published1704 Lot #154 Factorum ac dictorum memoralium View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorValerius Maximus, [Gaius]HeadlineValerius Maximus Factorum ac dictorum 1543PublisherSimon de ColinesDate Published1543 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 #157 The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests or the like, is utterly denied and disproved... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorWebster, JohnHeadlineWebster's Witchcraft 1677 presentation copyPublisherPrinted by J.M. [Jonas Moore]Date Published1677 Lot #158 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Autograph Letter Signed, from Jacob Wyeth, Sr., to his son Charles View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorWyeth, Jacob, Sr.HeadlineAutograph Letter from Jacob Wyeth, Sr. 1833Date PublishedMarch 27, 1833 Lot #159 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Two Autograph Letters Signed by Job Wyeth, to Charles Wyeth View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorWyeth, JobHeadlineTwo Autograph Letters Signed by Job Wyeth 1832Date PublishedDecember 2 & December 22, 1832 Lot #160 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Autograph Letter Signed, from Nathaniel Wyeth to his brother Charles View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorWyeth, NathanielHeadlineAutograph Letter from Nathaniel Wyeth 1833Date PublishedJanuary 16, 1833 Lot #161 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Autograph Letter Signed, from Jacob Wyeth, Sr., to his son Charles Wyeth View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorWyeth, Jacob, Sr.HeadlineAutograph Letter from Jacob Wyeth, Sr. 1834Date PublishedFebruary 4, 1834 Lot #162 Di Zosimo Conte Ed Avvocato Del Fisco Della Nuova Istoria Libri Sei Con Note Tradotti Per La Prima Volta Nella Italiana Lingua View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorZosimusHeadline1st Italian Edition of Count Zosimus New HistoryPublisherDalla Stamperia di Paolo Andrea MolinaDate Published1850 Lot #163 Blumen-Buch des Heiligen Lands Palestinae View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorZwinner, ElectumHeadlineBlumen-Buch des Heiligen Lands PalestinaePublisherJohann WagnerDate Published1661 Lot #164 Bibliorum Sacrorum Tomus Primus [-sextus]. [with] Novi Testamenti pars prima [- secunda] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineEight volume folio Bible printed in Pais 1642PublisherE Typographia RetiaDate Published1642 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 Lot #166 Hieronymi Pradi et Ioannis Baptistae Villalpandi e Societate Iesu In Ezechielem explanationes et Apparatus vrbis ac Templi Hierosolymitani commentarijs et imaginibus illustratus. Opus tribus tomis distinctum. Quid vero singulis contineatur, quarta pagina indicabit View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorPrado, Jerónimo de, & juan Bautista VillalpandoHeadlinePrado's Commentaries on Bible 1596-1604PublisherEx typographia Aloysij Zanetti. Apud S. MarcumDate Published1596-1604 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... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Upanishads)AuthorDeussen, Paul, & Peerdt, Ernst teHeadlineUpanishads in German fine printing 1914PublisherE. DiederichsDate Published1914 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next