Sale 715: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#715) 11/19/2020 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 11/19/2020 11:00 AM PST 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 1-71 of 71. Previous|1|Next Lot #7 Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner Heading(Architecture - Florida)AuthorMizner, AddisonHeadlineSigned by Addison Mizner, Edicion Imperial 1/100Publisher[H.H. Smith Publications]Date Published[1928] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #11 Le Antiche Lucerne Sepolcrali Figurate Raccolte dalle Caue sotterranee, e Grotte di Roma... AuthorBellori, Giovanni PietroHeadlineStudy of the ancient Roman sepulchral lampsPublisherNella Stamparia di Gio: Francesco BuagniDate Published1691 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #18 The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineProfusely illustrated New Testament, 1883PublisherLongman's, Green, and Co.Date Published1883 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #22 The Battle of the Standards: Labor, Capital, Gold and Silver. AuthorBirch, ShannonHeadlineBook arguing on behalf of bimetallism, 1896Publisher[J.R.S. Birch]Date Published[1896] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #25 The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy Heading(Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh)HeadlineBigamy in Georgian EnglandPublisherCharles BathurstDate Published1776 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #26 A New Library of Poetry and Song AuthorBryant, William Cullen, editorHeadlineBryant's New Library of Poetry and Song 1877PublisherFords, Howard, & HulbertDate Published[1877] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #28 The Bible of the Anaesthetist AuthorBullard, F.W.HeadlineTongue-in-cheek essay by Anaesthetist, 1903Date Published[ca. 1903] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #29 A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night AuthorBurton, Richard F., translatorHeadlineBurton's Arabian Nights finely boundPublisherPrinted by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers OnlyDate Published[c. 1900] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #33 California As It Is. Written by Seventy of the Leading Editors and Authors of the Golden State for the Weekly Call. Heading(California)HeadlineCalifornia's economy by county, 1882PublisherSan Francisco Call CompanyDate Published1882 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #34 Resident and Business Tri-city Directory of Glendale, Tropico and Casa Verdugo Heading(California)AuthorWilkinson, F.HeadlineScarce Glendale tri-city Directory 1916PublisherValley Publicity BureauDate Published1916 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #38 Early English Furniture & Woodwork AuthorCescinsky, Herbert and Ernest R. GribbleHeadlineEarly English Furniture & Woodwork 2 vols 1922PublisherWaverly Book CompanyDate Published1922 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #42 The Life of Hon. William F. Cody. Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide AuthorCody, William F.HeadlineRare 1st ed autobiography of Buffalo BillPublisherFrank E. BlissDate Published[1879] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #43 The Peerage Of England; Containing A Genealogical And Historical Account Of all the Peers of England, Now Existing, Either by Tenure, Summions, or Creations: Their Descents and Collateral Lines: Their Births, Marriages, and Issues: Famous Actions Both in War and Peace. AuthorCollins, ArthurHeadlineCollins' Peerage Of England 1756PublisherPrinted for W. Innys, et al.Date Published1756 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #44 The Rover AuthorConrad, JosephHeadlineJoseph Conrad's last book bound by BayntunPublisherT. Fisher UnwinDate Published[1923] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #61 Alfred Sisley, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre Peint AuthorDaulte, FrançoisHeadlineAlfred Sisley's Catalogue RaisonnéPublisherÉditions Durand-RuelDate Published[1959] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #63 The Theatre of the Greeks, a Series of Papers Relating to the History and Criticism of the Greek Drama. AuthorDonaldson, John WilliamHeadlineHistory and Criticism of the Greek Drama 1836PublisherFor J. & J.J. Deighton; T. Stevenson; et al.Date Published1836 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #64 Paradise Lost Heading(Doré, Gustave, illustrator)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineParadise Lost illustrated by Gustave DoréPublisherCassell, Petter & GalpinDate Published[ca. 1890] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #65 The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineWorks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 24 vols. signedPublisherDoubleday, DoranDate Published1930 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 Leaves from the first and second editions of Holinshed's Chronicles Heading(Early Printing)AuthorHolinshed, RaphaelHeadlineLeaves from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577 & 1587Date Published1577 & 1587 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #78 Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III by various Persons of Rank or Consequence... AuthorFenn, JohnHeadlinePolitical intrigue in Medieval EnglandPublisherG. G. J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1787 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #79 Maerchen vom Zaren Saltan [Tales of the Tsar Saltan] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPushkin, AlexanderHeadlineFine binding and printing, 1921 GermanyPublisherEuphorion VerlagDate Published1921 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #95 Think and Grow Rich AuthorHill, NapoleonHeadlineNapoleon Hill's Think & Grow Rich, signedPublisherThe Ralston SocietyDate Published1937 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #104 Public Bath at Simoda - Suppressed plate from the report of Perry's Expedition to Japan Heading(Japan - Perry Expedition)AuthorHeine, WilhelmHeadlineSuppressed plate from Perry's reportPublisherP.S. Duval and Co.Date Published1854 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #108 The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior... AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineGenuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus 1792PublisherC. CookeDate Published[1792] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #109 The Works of Flavius Josephus AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineThe Works of Flavius Josephus 1777PublisherFielding and WalkerDate Published1777-8 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #110 The Works of Flavius Josephus AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineThe Works of Flavius Josephus 1777PublisherFielding and WalkerDate Published1777-8 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #113 The Poems of John Keats AuthorKeats, JohnHeadlineNicely bound Poems of John KeatsPublisherBrentano'sDate Published[1928] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #115 Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospect of the Republic of Texas. In Two Volumes. AuthorKennedy, WilliamHeadlineRise/Prospects of the Republic of Texas, 1841PublisherR. HastingsDate Published1841 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #123 Five works by Justus Lipsius bound together AuthorLipsius, JustusHeadlineFive early works by Justus LipsiusPublisherEx officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem & Ioannem MoretosDate Published1617-1621 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #124 Oxonia illustrata, sive Omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis totius scenographia. Delineavit & sculpsit Dav: Loggan Univ. Oxon. Chalcographus AuthorLoggan, DavidHeadlineThe finest 17th century engraved views of OxfordPublisherTheatro SheldonianoDate Published1675 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #129 Practical Window Dressing for Shoe Stores Heading(Marketing)HeadlineScarce guide to window dressing, 1896PublisherM.T. Richardson Co., PublishersDate Published1896 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #134 The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, Called the Magnificent Heading(Medici, Lorenzo de)AuthorRoscoe, WilliamHeadlineThe Life of Lorenzo de' Medici 1796PublisherPrinted for A. Strahan, etc.Date Published1796 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #135 The Life of Josiah Wedgwood; from His Private Correspondence and Family Papers... AuthorMeteyard, Eliza, editorHeadlineNicely bound biography of Josiah WedgwoodPublisherHurst and Blackett, PublishersDate Published1865 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #138 Zadig Heading(Mossa, Gustave-Adolphe, illustrator)AuthorVoltaireHeadlineFinely bound Zadig illustrated by MossaPublisherLibrairie des AmateursDate Published[1924] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #139 Letter from Major General Berthier to General Caffarelli, then in Spain Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorBerthier, Louis-AlexandreHeadlineLetter from Napoleon's Chief of StaffDate Published18 Fevrier 1811 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #141 Document signed by Daure as chief commissary of the French expeditionary forces in Egypt Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorDaure, Jean-Pierre-Paulin-HectorHeadlineDocument from the French expedition to Egypt, 1799Date Published1799 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #142 Document signed by Alexandre Berthier as Ministre de la Guerre, and secretarially signed "Bonaparte" as premier Consul de la République, promoting a lieutenant in the army Heading(Napoleonic Era)HeadlineMilitary appointment signed by Napoleon BonaparteDate Publishedc.1803 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #143 Manuscript document signed by Brigadier General François Dutertre Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorDutertre, FrançoisHeadlineDocument signed by notorious Napoleonic generalDate PublishedUndated View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #144 Letter signed by Jean Denis Le Doyen and François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorKellermann, François-Étienne-ChristopheHeadlineSigned by prominent military leaders of the Armée des AlpesDate Published1797 View details Estimate$300 - $400Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #145 Letter from Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, to Le Comte Dupont Heading(Napoleonic Era)HeadlineLetter from general under Napoleon, 1814Date Published26 Juillet 1814 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #146 Document signed by Jacques MacDonald as chancellor of the Legion of Honour, appointing Leopold Ferdinand de Zychlinsky as Capitaine d'Infantrie Legere Saxonne Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorMacDonald, Étienne Jacques Joseph AlexandreHeadlineDocument signed by Napoleonic General MacDonaldDate Published26 Mai 1816 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #147 Autograph Letter Signed by MacDonald Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorMacDonald, Étienne Jacques Joseph AlexandreHeadlineAutograph Letter Signed by Napoleonic War leader MacdonaldDate Published1820 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #148 Letter from August de Marmont, Duc de Raguse, a recommendation for an officer Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorMarmont, Auguste deHeadlineNapoleonic general recommends an officer in 1822Date Published1822 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #149 Letter from Lieutenant-General Moncey to Brigadier-General Charpentier, nominating him a major-general Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorMoncey, Bon-Adrien Jeannot deHeadlineAppointment of major-general in Napoleon's Italy ArmyDate Published31 May 1801 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #150 Letter by Murat as King of Naples signed Joachim Napoleon Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorNapoleon, JoachimHeadlineLetter signed by Joachim Napoleon Murat, King of NaplesDate PublishedMarch 21,1809 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #152 Original French Revolution document appointing a lieutenant in the "citizens army" Heading(Napoleonic Era)HeadlineDocument from the French RevolutionDate Published1795 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #153 Letter from General Sir Thomas Picton, written to his agent in London following his arrival in Lisbon, Portugal, describing conditions there Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorPicton, ThomasHeadlineLetter from British General in Peninsular War, 1810Date Published9th Feby. 1810 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #154 Letter from Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult to the president of the French Chamber of Deputies, about the establishment of the French Foreign Legion Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorSoult, Jean-de-DieuHeadlineBeginnings of the French Foreign LegionDate Publishedc.1830-34 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #155 Official document thanking Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc for his service as Vice-Consul in America Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorTalleyrand, Charles-Maurice deHeadlineSigned by Talleyrand in 1797Date Published1797 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #156 Document signed by General Dominique-Joseph René Vandamme Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorVandamme, DominiqueHeadlinePassport signed by Napoleon's General VandammeDate Published1807 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #159 Facts of Interest about the Port of New Orleans Second Port U.S.A. Heading(New Orleans)AuthorCass, Frank T. (compiler)HeadlinePort of New Orleans before Industrial CanalPublisherBoard of Commissioners Port of New OrleansDate Published1922 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #160 John Perona's El Morocco Family Album Heading(New York)HeadlineCelebrity nightlife during Prohibition-era NYPublisherPrinted Privately, Federal Printing ServiceDate Published1937 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #162 The One Primeval Language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents... Heading(Palaeography)AuthorForster, CharlesHeadlineIn search of the Primeval LanguagePublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1852-1854 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #163 An Introduction to Green and Latin Palaeography Heading(Palaeography)AuthorThompson, Edward MaundeHeadlineClassic of Green & Latin PalaeographyPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1912 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #164 An examination of the ancient orthography of the Jews and of the original state of the text of the Hebrew Bible... [with] Proofs of the Interpolation of the Vowel-Letters in the Text of the Hebrew Bible... Heading(Palaeography)AuthorWall, Charles WilliamHeadlineOrthography of the Hebrew BiblePublisherWhittaker and Co.Date Published1835-1857 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #170 The Lives of the Nobel Grecians & Romans AuthorPlutarchHeadlineThe Lives of the Nobel Grecians & RomansPublisherJohn Hayes for George SawbridgeDate Published1676 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #174 Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Heading(Presidents, 1861)AuthorStephenson, Nathaniel WrightHeadlineAccount of President Lincoln's personal lifePublisherThe Bobbs-Merrill Company PublishersDate Published1922 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #175 A History of the American People Heading(Presidents, 1913)AuthorWilson, WoodrowHeadlinePresident Woodrow Wilson's history of AmericaPublisherHarper & Brothers, PublishersDate Published[1903] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #176 Journal as Ambassador to Great Britain Heading(Presidents, 1929)AuthorDawes, Charles G.HeadlineDawes' Ambassador to Great Britain, inscribedPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1939 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #177 An American Epic Heading(Presidents, 1929)AuthorHoover, HerbertHeadlineHoover's American Epic complete, inscribedPublisherHenry Regnery CompanyDate Published1959-1964 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #178 Three Volumes of Addresses Upon the American Road Heading(Presidents, 1929)AuthorHoover, HerbertHeadlineHerbert Hoover's speeches 3 vols, 2 inscribedPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1938 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #179 The Hoover Policies Heading(Presidents, 1929)AuthorWilbur, Ray Lyman & Arthur Mastick HydeHeadlineHoover administration's explanations of policyPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1937 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #180 Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates AuthorPyle, HowardHeadlinePyle's Book of Pirates finely boundPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1921 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #182 Undine Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorFouqué, De La MotteHeadlineArthur Rackham signed limited Undine finely boundPublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1909 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #185 The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood - with holograph letter Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorSwinburne, Algernon CharlesHeadlineSigned by Rackham w/original letter by SwinburnePublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd.Date Published[1918] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #186 The History of England. [With] The Continuation AuthorRapin de Thoyras, [Paul] & N[icholas] TindalHeadlineRapin's History of England 1732 & 1751PublisherKnaptonDate Published1732 & 1751 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #187 Life of A.P. Dostie; or, The Conflict in New Orleans AuthorReed, Emily HazenHeadlineBiography of Civil Rights advocate from 1860sPublisherWM. P. TomlinsonDate Published1868 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #188 Kriegsbriefe Gefallener Deutscher Juden Heading(Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten)HeadlineLetters from Jewish soldiers who died in World War IPublisherVortrupp VerlagDate Published1935 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #197 Grammatica Aegyptiaca Utriusque Dialecti Quam Breviavit, Illustravit, Edidit Carolus Godofredus Woide AuthorScholtz, ChristianHeadlineGrammatica Aegyptiaca 1778PublisherE typographeo ClarendonianoDate Published1778 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #201 The Complete Plays & Prefaces of Bernard Shaw AuthorShaw, [George] BernardHeadlinePlays & Prefaces of Shaw bounds by BayntunPublisherConstable and Company LimitedDate Published1931,1934 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #207 The Works of Jonathan Swift AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineWorks of Jonathan Swift, 19 volumesPublisherBickers & SonDate Published1883 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$3,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next