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View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineAldine Press Dante 1502PublisherAldusDate Published1502 Lot #8 Eureka, a Prose Poem: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineArion Press Eureka Edgar Allan Poe 1/250PublisherArion PressDate Published1991 Lot #15 Opera Praestantiora View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorBasini, [Basinio]HeadlineThe Works of Basinio Basini of Parma 1794PublisherTypographia AlbertinianaDate Published1794 Lot #16 Alciphron, or, the Minute Philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian religion against those who are called free-thinkers View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBerkeley, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Berkeley Alciphron 2 vols. 1732PublisherPrinted for J. Tonson in the StrandDate Published1732 Lot #18 The Holy Bible. containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By His Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in Churches View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineMassive "Vinegar" Bible 1717PublisherPrinted by John BaskettDate Published1717-1716 Lot #19 Bibliorum Sacrorum Tomus Primus [-sextus]. [with] Novi Testamenti pars prima [- secunda] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineEight volume folio Bible printed in Pais 1642PublisherE Typographia RetiaDate Published1642 Lot #22 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorBurton, Richard F.HeadlineBook of the Thousand Nights & Night 1/1000PublisherPrinted by the Burton Club for Private SubscribersDate PublishedNo date Lot #23 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorCarroll, LewisHeadlineLewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass 1st Ed.PublisherMacmillanDate Published1872 Lot #26 The Historie of the Uniting of the Kingdom of Portugall to the Crowne of Castill: Containing the Laste Warres of the Portugals against the Moores of Africke, the end of the House of Portugall, and change of that Government. The Description of Portugall, their Principall Townes, Castles, Places, Rivers, Bridges, Passages, Forces, Weaknesses... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthor[Conestaggio, Girolamo Franchi di]HeadlineHistorie of Uniting of Portugal Conestaggio 1600PublisherArn. Hatfield for Edward BlountDate Published1600 Lot #28 Physico-Theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons preached in St. Mary le Bow-church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle's lectures, in the years 1711 and 1712. With large notes and many curious observations View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorDerham, W.HeadlinePhysico-Theology by W. Derham, 1714 2nd editionPublisherPrinted for W. InnysDate Published1714 Lot #29 [Set of the five Christmas Books] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens - the five Christmas BooksDate Published1843-1848 Lot #34 [Works, comprised of 8 first editions in 15 volumes, uniformly bound] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadline8 first editions of George Eliot's WprksPublisherWilliam Blackwood & SonsDate Published1858-1885 Lot #37 [Works] in five volumes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineJane Austen works in 5 vols 1908-14 fine bindingsPublisherMacmillanDate Published1908-1914 Lot #38 [Works, i.e.]: The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. Barrie View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBarrie, J[ames] M[atthew]HeadlineNovels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. BarriePublisherScribner'sDate Published1909-1911 Lot #39 The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBeaumont, Francis & John FletcherHeadlineWorks of Beaumont & Fletcher finely bound 1711PublisherPrinted for Jacob TonsonDate Published1711 Lot #40 The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher...With Notes and a Biographical Memoir by The Rev. Alexander Dyce View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBeaumont, [Francis] and [John] FletcherHeadlineWorks of Beaumont & Fletcher 11 finebound volsPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1843-1846 Lot #41 Boswell's Live of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell Life of Johnson 6 vols. finely boundPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1887 Lot #43 Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBrontë, Charlotte, Emily and AnneHeadlineWorks of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters 7volsPublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1872-1877 Lot #45 [Arabian Nights, i.e.:] A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a terminal essay upon the history of The Nights [with] The Supplemental Nights View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBurton, Richard F., translatorHeadlineFinely bound Arabian Nights in 16 volumes 1885-8PublisherKamashastra SocietyDate Published[1885-1888] Lot #46 The Poetical Works of Lord Byron View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorByron, LordHeadlinePoetical Works of Lord Byron finely bound 6volsPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1855-1856 Lot #47 The Works of Joseph Conrad in Twenty Volumes View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorConrad, JosephHeadlineWorks of Joseph Conrad 20 vols bound by FrostPublisherJohn GrantDate Published1925 Lot #48 The Works of Charles Dickens View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineWorks of Charles Dickens 38 vols. finely boundPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1907 Lot #49 The Complete Works of John Keats [and] The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Twelve volume set View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorDole, Nathan Haskell, editorHeadline12 vols finely bound works Shelley & Keats 1/1000PublisherVirtue & CompanyDate Published[1904-1906] Lot #50 The Complete Works View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineComplete Works of Emerson finely bound 12 vols.PublisherRiverside PressDate Published[1903-04] Lot #51 The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorField, EugeneHeadlineWritings in Prose & Verse of Eugene Field finePublisherScribner'sDate Published1896-1897 Lot #52 Three finely bound volumes by or about Henry Fielding View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorFielding, HenryHeadline3 finely bound bks by or about Henry FieldingDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #55 The Works of Oliver Goldsmith View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineWorks of Oliver Goldsmith finely bound 1854 1stPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1854 Lot #56 The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, With Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlineComplete Works of Hawthorne 25 finely bound volsPublisherHoughton Miffling and CompanyDate Published1892-1895 Lot #60 [Works] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthHeadlineLongfellow Works finely bound in 10 volumesPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[c.1913] Lot #62 [Works. i.e.]: The Argonaut Manuscript Limited Edition of Frank Norris' Works View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorNorris, FrankHeadlineFrank Norris' Works Manuscript Edition 10 vols.PublisherDoubleday, Doran and Co.Date Published1928 Lot #63 The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night [with] Tales from the Arabic View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPayne, John, translatorHeadlineBook of Thousand & One Nights vellumPublisherRichard WorthingtonDate Published1884 Lot #64 The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineThe Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe leather setPublisherThe Werner Co.Date Published[1908] Lot #66 The Waverley Novels View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineScott's Waverly Novels 25 vols. finely boundPublisherAdam & Charles BlackDate Published1892-94 Lot #67 The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, from the correct edition of Isaac Reed, Esq. With copious annotations View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Plays 12 vols. finely bound 1820PublisherPrinted for J. Walker, et al.Date Published1820 Lot #68 The Family Shakespeare, In Ten Volumes; In Which Nothing is Added to the Original Text; But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted Which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's World Bowdlerized in 10 volumesPublisherLongman, Hurst, et al.Date Published1825 Lot #69 The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are added, Notes, by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Revised and Augmented by Isaac Reed, with a Glossarial Index. The Sixth Edition View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineFinely bound set of Shakespeare in 21 vols. 1813PublisherJ. Nichols, F. C. & J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1813 Lot #70 The Works of William Shakespeare View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineWorks of William Shakespeare 21 vols, 1/1500PublisherEdwin C. HillDate Published1906 Lot #71 The Works of William Shakespeare: Imperial Edition View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineWorks of William Shakespeare: Imperial EditionPublisherVirtue & Co.Date Publishedc.1865 Lot #72 The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShelley, Percy BlyssheHeadlinePoetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 5 vols.PublisherGeorge Bell & SonsDate Published1901-1910 Lot #74 The Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. With Memoirs of His Life View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorSmollett, TobiasHeadlineWorks of Tobias Smollett 1872 in 8 volumesPublisherBidkers & Son & H. SotheranDate Published1872 Lot #76 The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorSwinburne, Algernon CharlesHeadlinePoems of Algernon Charles Swinburne finely boundPublisherChatto & WindusDate Published1909 Lot #77 Six finely bound volumes View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineSix finely bound volumesDate PublishedVarious places Lot #81 Le Capitaine Fracasse View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Headingzzf(Fine Bindings)AuthorGautier, TheophileHeadlineLe Capitaine Fracasse Robert Hoe's CopyPublisherLibrairie des BibliophilesDate Published1884 Lot #84 The Deserted Village View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineOliver Goldsmith The Deserted VillagePublisher[Geo. W. Jones]Date Published[1913] Lot #98 The Origin of the English Drama, Illustrated in its Various Species, viz. Mystery, Morality, Tragedy, and Comedy, by Specimens from our Earliest Writers: With Explanatory Notes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorHawkins, ThomasHeadlineOrigin of the English Drama 1773PublisherClarendon PressDate Published1773 Lot #99 The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorHogarth, WilliamHeadlineHogarth's Analyis of Beauty 1753PublisherJ. Reeves for the AuthorDate Published1753 Lot #104 The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. With Critical Observations on Their Works View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohson's Lives of English Poets 1st ed 1781PublisherPrinted for C. Bathurst, et al.Date Published1781 Lot #105 De antiquitate judaica [with] De bello judaico View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadline1481 edition of JosephusPublisherReynaldus de NovimagioDate Published31 March 1481 & 10 May '1400' [i.e. c.1481-82] Lot #108 Utopia View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineKelmscott Press Utopia by Thomas MorePublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1893 Lot #111 The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles: An account of its inception, purpose, contributors, contents, publication, revision and influence on William Shakespeare View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorBooth, StephenHeadlineHolinshed's Chronicles Leaf BookPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1968 Lot #112 A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal printed by Christopher Plantin View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Leaf Book)Author(Dodoens, Rembert)HeadlineLeaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal BCCPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1977 Lot #113 The Great Polyglot Bibles, Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineThe Great Polyglot Bibles - Allen PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1966 Lot #115 The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer: An Account of the Publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorMuscatine, CharlesHeadlineLeaf Book - The Book of Geoffrey ChaucerPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1963 Lot #116 The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorSchulz, H.C.HeadlineGothic Script of the Middle Ages Leaf BookPublisherDavid MageeDate Published1939 Lot #117 A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible 1535 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorWikgren, Allen P.HeadlineCoverdale Bible (1535) leaf book, Limited 1/425PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1974 Lot #123 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 #126 Doctor Faust: A Play - Based Upon Old German Puppet Versions View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorOwens, Harry J.HeadlineHarry J Owens Doctor Faust 1953Publisher[Caxton Club]Date Published1953 Lot #127 The Architecture of A. Palladio; in four books. Containing, a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building, as also the different construction of private and publick houses, highways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights. To which are added several notes and observations made by Inigo Jones, never printed before; revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni... Translated from the Italian original View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorPalladio, AndreaHeadlinePalladio's Architecture in English 1715PublisherPrinted by John Watts, for the AuthorDate Published1715-[1720] Lot #129 The expedicion into Scotla[n]de of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward, Duke of Soomerset, vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord ye ki[n]ges Maiestie Edvvard the. VI. goouernour of hys hyghnes persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, dominions [and] and [sic] subiectes: made in the first yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reign, and set out by way of diarie, by W. Patten Londoner View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorPatten, WilliamHeadlineAccount of English invasion of Scotland 1548Publisher[Richard Grafton]Date Published[June 30, 1548] Lot #130 English Notes: A Rare and Unkown Work Being a Reply to Charles Dickens's "American Notes" View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Poe, Edgar Allan, attributed]HeadlineEnglish Notes - Attributed to Edgar Allan PoePublisherLewis M. ThompsonDate Published1920 Lot #131 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 #133 Proportional architecture; or, the five orders; regulated by equal parts: after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Author[Robinson, William]HeadlineRobinson's Proportional Architecture 1733PublisherA. Bettesworth and C. HitchDate Published1733 Lot #144 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 #145 The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in eight volumes. Adorn’d with cutts. Revis’d and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq; to this edition is added, a table of the most sublime passages in this author View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineRowe's edition of Shakespeare, 9 volumes 1714PublisherPrinted for Jacob TonsonDate Published1714 Lot #150 The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorTrollope, FrancesHeadlineTrollope's Michael Armstrong w/ALSPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1840 Lot #151 [Works], i.e., The Writings of Mark Twain View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineTwains Works 25 vols. signed with djsPublisherGabriel WellsDate Published1922-1923 Lot #153 Collection of approx. 22 AQ postal sheets from 17th century Venice, Italy View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Venice, Italy - AQ Sheets)Author**Headline20 AQ postal sheets from 17th century VeniceDate Published17th-18th century Lot #173 Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthor[Beckford, Peter]HeadlinePeter Beckford Thoughts on Hunting 1781PublisherPrinted by E. Easton, Sold by P. Elmsly, et alDate Published1781 Lot #316 Three sporting novels by "Wanderer" View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthor"Wanderer" [pseud. Emil H. D'Avigdor]HeadlineThree sporting novels by "Wanderer"PublisherBradbury, Agnew & Co.Date Published1880s Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next