Sale 705: Fine & Rare Books - Fine Literature (#705) 07/23/2020 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 07/23/2020 11:00 AM 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 1-35 of 35. Previous|1|Next Lot #9 Stories und Romane. Das ausbruchsichere Paradies. Faktotum. Der Mann mit der Ledertasche. Anmerkungen eines Dirty Old Man AuthorBukowski, CharlesHeadlineBukowski Stories German edition inscribedPublisherZweitausendeinsDate Published1977 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #10 If On a Winter's Night a Traveler AuthorCalvino, ItaloHeadlineIf On a Winter's Night inscribed proofsPublisherHarcourt Brace JovanovichDate Published1981 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #21 Portrait of Charles Dickens Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorBicknell, William Henry Warren, artistHeadlinePortrait of Dickens, etched by W.H.W. BicknellDate Published1907 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #26 Small archive relating to illustrations in Dickens' works Heading(Dickens, Charles)HeadlineDrawing & letters from Dickens illustratorsDate Published19th century View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #30 Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens declining a fundraising subscription for the Saint Martin's Library framed with lithograph portrait of the author AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens autograph letter w/ lithoDate Published1841 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #50 Rejection letter from Charles Dickens declining a submission for publication in Household Words AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineRejected by Charles DickensDate Published1856 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #75 Across the River and Into the Trees AuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineHemingway, Across the River...inscribed association copy.PublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1950 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #79 The Jungle Book AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineSigned & inscribed with verse by KiplingPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1899 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #90 Lonesome Dove AuthorMcMurtry, LarryHeadlineSigned 1st Edition Lonesome DovePublisherSimon and SchusterDate Published[1985] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #111 The Writings of Mark Twain, Definitive Edition AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineThe Innocents Abroad, signed by Mark TwainPublisherGabriel WestDate Published1922 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #113 Four inscribed volumes by John Updike AuthorUpdike, JohnHeadlineFour inscribed volumes by John UpdikePublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #125 The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) AuthorWarhol, AndyHeadlineInscribed with a drawing by Andy WarholPublisherHarcourt Brace JovanovichDate Published[1975] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #127 The Testament of Charles Erskine Scott Wood AuthorWood, Charles Erskine ScottHeadlineTestament of Charles Erskine Scott Wood, signedDate Published[1921] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #148 Death certificate for a Chinese resident in Cuba who succumbed to an opium overdose Heading(Cuba)HeadlineChinese Cuban dies of opium overdoseDate Published23 July 1891 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #149 Eight death certificates for Chinese residents in Cuba, giving their age, place of origin, disease to which they succumbed, and other information Heading(Cuba)HeadlineDeath certificates for Chinese in Cuba, 1880-91Date Published1880-1891 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #150 Eight death certificates for Chinese residents in Cuba, giving their age, place of origin, disease to which they succumbed, and other information Heading(Cuba)HeadlineDeath certificates for Chinese in Cuba, 1870-95Date Published1870-1895 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #151 Six legal documents relating to Chinese residents in Cuban, primarily concerning criminal matters, in the latter 19th century Heading(Cuba)HeadlineLegal documents on Chinese in Cuba 1879-1897Date Published1879-1897 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #152 "Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection". In: The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History AuthorDarwin, Charles and Alfred R. WallaceHeadlineSeminal papers by Charles Darwin & Alfred WallacePublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #153 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineOrigin of Species, 3rd editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1861 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #155 Histoire Litteraire des Fous AuthorDelepierre, OctaveHeadlineForger's copy of Literary History of Madmen, with alsPublisherTrubner & Co.Date Published1860 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #159 Traité Général des Pesches: et Histoire des Poissons qu'Elles Fournissent, Tant pour la Subsistance des Hommes... AuthorDuhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis and L H de La MarreHeadlineTraité Général des Pesches, 1769PublisherSaillant & Nyon / DesaintDate Published1769 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #163 Two works by Albert Einstein, on light, radiation and heat AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein papers on light, radiation & heatPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1906 & 1911 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #166 Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character...as told to Ralph Leighton AuthorFeynman, Richard PhillipsHeadlineSigned by Nobel Prize winner Richard FeynmanPublisherW.W. NortonDate Published[1985] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #175 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates AuthorFranklin, BenjaminHeadlineBen Franklin's Experiments on Electricity 1769PublisherPrinted for David Henry and sold by Francis NewberyDate Published1769 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #178 A Treatise of Practical Surveying; which is demonstrated from its first principles, wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art is fully considered & explained AuthorGibson, RobertHeadlineA Treatise of Practical Surveying, 1798PublisherPrinted by William A. Davis & Co.Date Published1798 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #181 Rift Heading(Grenfell Press)AuthorCole, PeterHeadlineWith additional loose woodcut by Joel ShapiroPublisherThe Grenfell PressDate Published1986 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #192 A Description and Draught of a New-Invented Machine AuthorHulls, JonathanHeadlineA Description and Draught of a New-Invented Machine, reprintPublisher[Printed by Tucker & Co.]Date Published[1855] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #204 Group of letters from noted Boston art dealer Heading(Japanese-American Art Trade)AuthorYatsuhashi, HiromichiHeadline1950s letters group by a Japanese art dealer in BostonDate Published1953-1969 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #208 Naturalis historiae opus novum: in quo tractatur de natura et viribus, fruticum, herbarum, animantiumq[ue]... AuthorLonicer, AdamHeadlineNaturalis historiae opus novum, 1551PublisherApud Chr. EgenolphumDate Published[1551] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #213 Two significant volumes on geometry and its foundations Heading(Mathematics)HeadlineTwo volumes on geometry and its foundationsPublisherThe Open Court Publishing CompanyDate Published1902 & 1916 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #218 Two volumes of works on Alchemy and Hermetics, in French Heading(Occult - Alchemy)HeadlineAlchemy & Hermetics, late 19th centuryDate PublishedLate 19th/early 20th century View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #226 Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes: Twenty-five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (Behaviour) of Animals AuthorPavlov, Ivan PetrovitchHeadlinePavlov's behavioral experiments, 1st Am. Ed.PublisherLiveright Publishing CorporationDate Published[1938] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #227 Two works on Physics Heading(Physics)AuthorEinstein, Albert, and othersHeadlineTwo works on Physics by Einstein & othersDate Published[1930] & 1938 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #231 25th Anniversary Woodstock poster signed by Grace Slick and others Heading(Posters)AuthorSkolnick, ArnoldHeadlineWoodstock poster signed by Grace Slick and othersPublisherArt RockDate Published[c.1992] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #234 Medical Flora; or, Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America AuthorRafinesque, Constantine SamuelHeadlineRafinesque's Medical Flora, 1st Ed.PublisherAtkinson & AlexanderDate Published1828-1830 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next