Sale 242: Fine & Rare Books with a Collection of Charles Dickens (#242) 05/23/2002 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/23/2002 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-100 of 205. Previous|123|Next Lot #1 A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America AuthorAdams, JohnPublisherC. DillyDate Published1787 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #2 The Town and Country Almanack for the Year MDCCLXXX Heading(Almanac)Author**PublisherJ. MennonsDate Published[1779] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #3 Le Vatican et la Basilique de St. Pierre de Rome...Monographie Mise en Ordre et Completee par M. Alphonse Simil (Architecte Attache a la Commission des Monuments Historiques) Heading(Architecture - Vatican)AuthorLetarouilly, PaulPublisherJ.H. JansenDate Published[c.1890] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #4 Orlando Furioso AuthorAriosto, LodovicoPublisherG. BaskervilleDate Published1773 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #5 First Report of a Book-Collector; Comprising: A Brief Answer to the frequent question "Why First Editions?" With Some Remarks on the common supposition that mere scarcity is a reason for collecting them; and Five Egotistical Chapters of Anecdote and Advice addressed to the beginner in book-collecting; Followed by An Account of Book-Worms. AuthorArnold, William HarrisPublisherMarion PressDate Published1897-1898 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #6 Keramic Art of Japan AuthorAudsley, George Ashdown and James Lord BowesPublisherPublished for the Subscribers by the AuthorDate Published1875 View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #7 The Flower Art of Japan AuthorAverill, MaryPublisherJohn Lane Co.Date Published1915 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #8 Set of Six English Muggletonian Planetary Oil Colour Prints Heading(Baxter Color Prints)AuthorFrost, IsaacPublisherG. BaxterDate Publishedc.1846 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #9 The Beatles Souvenir Program, Manila, Philippines, Rizal Memorial Football Stadium, July 4, 1966 Heading(Beatles)Author**Publisher[Vertex Press, Inc.]Date Published1966 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #10 Autographed signature with a self-portrait sketch Heading(Beatles)AuthorLennon, JohnDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #11 Poster "The Beatles Live in Concert" Author(Beatles)PublisherHeld at the Chrysler ArenaDate PublishedOctober 14, 1965 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #12 The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher...with Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the Reverend William Law, M.A. AuthorBehmen, JacobPublisherM. RichardsonDate Published1764 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #13 Original Printed Leaf from the Complutensian Bible of Alcala Heading(Bible Leaf - Complutensian)Author**Publisher[Arnald Guillen de Brocar]Date Published[1514-1517] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #14 Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1887. Part II Heading(Bison Extinction)Author**PublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1889 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #15 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherJ.M. Dent/E.P. DuttonDate Published1927 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #16 Poetical Sketches. Now First Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1783 AuthorBlake, WilliamPublisherBasil Montagu PickeringDate Published1868 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #17 De Consolatione Philosophiae AuthorBoethiusDate Published14th century View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #18 Peter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King AuthorBradley, WillPublisherDodd, MeadDate Published1906 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #19 The Encyclopedia Britannica Heading(Britannica)Author**PublisherScribner'sDate Published1878-1888 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #20 Sonnets from the Portuguese AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherDodge PublishingDate Published[1916] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #21 Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy, in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; in Which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors AuthorBrownlow, William G.PublisherPublished for the AuthorDate Published1856 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #22 Historie Naturelle De Buffon AuthorBuffon, [Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de]PublisherChez DetervilleDate Published1802 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #23 Mazeppa, A Poem AuthorByron, George Gordon Noel, LordPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1819 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #24 Sepher Ha-Nikkud ve Sod Ha-hasmal [Book of punctuation and Secret of the Electrum] Heading(Cabbala)AuthorGikatallaDate Published18th century View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #25 Original Autographed Manuscript of Anagrams AuthorCarroll, Lewis [pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]Date PublishedNo date View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #26 Eikon Basilike: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings: Together with His Private Prayers, used in the time of his Restraint, and delivered to D. Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death AuthorCharles I, King of EnglandDate Published1649 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #27 The Charters of the British Colonies in America Heading(Charters)Author**PublisherJ. AlmonDate Published[1774] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #28 Génie du Christianisme, ou Beautés de la Religion Chrétienne AuthorChateaubriand, [Francois Rene de]PublisherLe Normant, Imprimeur-LibraireDate Published1823 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #29 The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: Being a large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture, in the Most Fashionable Taste... AuthorChippendale, ThomasPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1762 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #30 The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War: Its Causes, Origin, Conduct and Results... Heading(Civil War)AuthorWilson, John LairdPublisherThe National Publishing Co.Date Published[1881] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #31 Collection of Four Titles in Five Volumes AuthorClemenceau, GeorgesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #32 Portfolio of Indian Art, Objects Selected from the Collections of the Museum [of Fine Arts, Boston] AuthorCoomaraswamy, Ananda K[entish]PublisherMuseum of Fine ArtsDate Published1923 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #33 Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives. Thèse Présentée a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le grade de Docteur ès Sciences Physiques AuthorCurie, Madame SklodowskaPublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1904 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #34 Two pamphlets from from Madame Curie's Library: Fundamental Properties of the Elements & Etude des Trajectoires Heading(Curie, Marie)AuthorRichards, Theodore W. & Perrin, FrancisPublisherGovt. Ptg. Office & Les Presses UnversitairesDate Published1912 & 1922 View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #35 Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Works of Don Diego de Silva Velazquez AuthorCurtis, Charles B.PublisherJ.W. Bouton/Sampson, Low, et al.Date Published1883 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #36 Edward Weston in Los Angeles AuthorDanly, Susan and Weston J. NaefPublisherThe Huntington LibraryDate Published1986 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #37 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1872 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #38 Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherHarperDate Published1846 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #39 Curiositates Eroticae Physiologiae; or, Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated. In Six Essays AuthorDavenport, JohnPublisherPrivately printedDate Published1875 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #40 Fabre's Book of Insects Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" Heading(Detmold, Edward J.)AuthorStawell, Mrs. RodolphPublisherTudor Publishing Co.Date Published[1937] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #41 Fundus Oculi: Ophthalmoskopische Diagnose AuthorDi Marzio, Q[uirino]PublisherRosenberg & SellierDate Published[c.1941] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #42 American Notes for General Circulation AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1842 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #43 The Battle of Life: A Love Story AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #44 Bleak House AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-1853 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #45 Bleak House AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1853 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #46 The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1845 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #47 Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate PublishedNo date [after 1867] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #48 The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #49 Dombey and Son AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846-1848 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #50 Dombey and Son AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #51 Hard Times. For These Times AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1854 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #52 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #53 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1844 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #54 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1838-1839 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #55 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1839 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #56 Little Dorritt AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1855-1857 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #57 Little Dorrit AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1857 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #58 Master Humphrey's Clock AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1840-1841 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #59 Master Humphrey's Clock AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1840-1841 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #60 The Mystery of Edwin Drood AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #61 The Mystery of Edwin Drood AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #62 Our Mutual Friend AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1865 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #63 The Personal History of David Copperfield AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1850 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #64 Pictures from Italy AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1846 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #65 The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #66 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1836 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #67 Seven Extra Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round AuthorDickens, CharlesDate Published1855-1867 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #68 The Story of Little Dombey AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #69 A Tale of Two Cities AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1859 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #70 The Uncommercial Traveller AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1861 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #71 The Works of Charles Dickens AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherR.G. Newbegin Co.Date Published1902 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 De medicinali materia libri sex AuthorDioscorides, PedaniusPublisher[Balthazarem Arnolletum]Date Published[1550 or 1552] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #73 In Principio Erat Verbum et Verbum Erat Apud Deum et Deus Erat Verbum Heading(Doves Press)Author**PublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1911 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #74 The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson. Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, & Italy AuthorDoyle, RichardPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1855 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #75 The History of Scotland, From the year 1423, until the year 1542. Containing the Lives and Reigns of James the I, the II, the III, the IV, the V. With several Memorials of State During the Reigns of James VI & Charles I AuthorDrummond, WilliamPublisherPrinted by Henry Hills, for Rich. TomlinsDate Published1655 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #76 Villette Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorBronte, CharlottePublisherJ.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.Date Published1922 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #77 Greenfield Hill: A Poem AuthorDwight, TimothyPublisherChilds and SwaineDate Published1794 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #78 Le Parfait ou le Teinturier François Heading(Dying)Author**PublisherPar la CompagnieDate Published1767 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #79 Autographed Letter from Einstein to his wife, signed with his initials AuthorEinstein, AlbertDate PublishedDec. 21, 1937 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #80 The Works of George Eliot AuthorEliot, GeorgePublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published[c.1878-1885] View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #81 Letters of Andrew Ellicot 1785 to 1819. Being copies of the letters that were presented to the Library of Congress Washington D.C., June 30, 1960 by Charles B. Curtis, Isabella W. Day, Ronald Eliot Curtis, great great grandchildren of Andrew Ellicott AuthorEllicott, AndrewDate Published1957 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #82 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published[1903] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #83 A Collection of all the Statutes in Force, Relating to the Duties upon Foreign Salt, after the 25th of December, 1730. With so much of the Laws of Excise, as are particularly refferr'd to in the said Statutes. Together with the Duties on Red and White Herrings for home Consumption. As also the Bounty on Fish, Beef, and Pork, exported Heading(English Laws)Author**PublisherAssigns of His Majesty's PrinterDate Published1730 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #84 Silva: Or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions...together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. Terra, a Philosophical Essay of Earth... AuthorEvelyn, JohnPublisherJ. Walthoe, et al.Date Published1729 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #85 Sentimental Education: A Young Man's History AuthorFlaubert, GustavePublisherH.S. Nichols Ltd.Date Published1898 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #86 Le Morte D'Arthur: The History of King Arthur Heading(Flint, W. Russell)AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasPublisherPhilip Lee Warner for the Medici SocietyDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #87 Superbowl Programs I-XXXV Heading(Football)Author**PublisherNational Football League Properties, Inc.Date Published1967-2001 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #88 Fox's Book of Martyrs: A Universal History of Christian Martyrdom: From the Birth of Our Blessed Saviour to the Latest Periods of Persecution AuthorFox, Rev. JohnPublisherKey, Mielke & BiddleDate Published1832 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #89 Die Suggestion und Ihre Heilwirkung Heading(Freud, Sigmund)AuthorBernheim, H[ippolyte]PublisherFranz DeutickeDate Published1896 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #90 Fables AuthorGay, [John]PublisherJ. Tonson and J. WattsDate Published1728 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #91 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London AuthorGerard, [John]PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #92 Pictures of People AuthorGibson, Charles DanaPublisherR.H. Russell & SonDate Published1896 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #93 The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals: also, Various Cheap and Easie Ways of making Salt-Petre, and Improving of Barren-Land, and the Fruits of the Earth. Translated into English, and Published for Publick Good by...Christopher Packe AuthorGlauber, Johann RudolfPublisherThomas MilbournDate Published1689 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #94 The Book of Esther: From the King James Version of the Holy Bible Heading(Golden Cross Press)Author**PublisherThe Golden Cross PressDate Published1935 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #95 The Rival Sisters: or, The Violence of Love, A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty's Servants AuthorGould, [Robert]PublisherRicard BentleyDate Published1696 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #96 Eros and Psyche: A Poem in XII Measures Heading(Gregynog Press)AuthorBridges, RobertPublisherGregynog PressDate Published1935 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #97 German Popular Stories, Translated from the Kinder und haus Märchen, collected by M.M. Grimm from Oral Tradition AuthorGrimm BrothersPublisherC. Baldwyn/James RobinsDate Published1823 & 1826 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #98 Della Historia D'Italia di M. Francesco Guicciardini, Gentiluomo Fiorentino AuthorGuicciardini, M. FrancescoPublisherAppresso Michele KluchDate Published1775-1776 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #99 Original Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible Heading(Gutenberg Bible Leaf)Author**PublisherJohann GutenbergDate Publishedc.1450-1455 View details Estimate$40,000 - $50,000Sold for$37,500StatusSold Lot #100 De Jure Manium, Seu De Ritu, More, et Legibus Prisci Funeris. Libri tres. Cum Qvatuor Indicibus Annexoqve Tractatu Eiusdem De Orbitate Toleranda AuthorGutherius, Jacobus [Jacques Goutiére]PublisherSumptibus haered. Schürerianorum & Joh. FritzschiiDate Published1671 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$212.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next