Sale 723: PBA Platinum - Rare Books & Manuscripts (#723) 02/18/2021 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/18/2021 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 1-28 of 28. Previous|1|Next Lot #6 The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey, illustrator)AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasHeadlineLe Morte d'Arthur with Aubrey Beardsley illustrationsPublisherE. P. DuttonDate Published1909 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #7 Album of Thomas Bewick vignettes or 'tale-pieces', presented to Richard Arkwright Heading(Bewick, Thomas, illustrator)HeadlineThomas Bewick vignettes inscribed by the artistDate Published[1824] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #14 A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... [with] Supplemental Nights AuthorBurton, Sir Richard F., translatorHeadlineBurton's Arabian Nights finely boundPublisherPrinted by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers onlyDate Published1885-1888 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #17 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AuthorCarroll, LewisHeadlineAlice in Wonderland, first edition, second issuePublisherD. AppletonDate Published1866 [1865] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #23 Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea Author[Dana, Richard Henry]HeadlineFirst issue of Two Years Before the Mast finely boundPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1840 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #25 La Divina Commedia AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineOne of the most coveted miniature books ever producedPublisherSalminDate Published1878 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #27 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz." AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst American Edition, preceding British book editionPublisherCarey, Lea & BlanchardDate Published1836-37 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #35 Essays AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineRalph Waldo Emerson Essays First Edition 1841PublisherJames MunroeDate Published1841 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #36 Essays AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineEmerson's Essays, 1841 1st edition in original clothPublisherJames Munroe and CompanyDate Published1841 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #37 Le Morte DArthur: The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Heading(Flint, William Russell, illustrator)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineLe Morte DArthur, full vellumPublisherPhilip Lee Warner / Medici Society Ltd.Date Published1910-11 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #38 The History of Little Goody Twoshoes; otherwise called Mrs. Margery Twoshoes Heading(Goody Two-shoes)HeadlineFirst Worcester Edition of Little Goody Twoshoes 1787PublisherIsaiah ThomasDate Published1787 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #39 Les Fleurs Animées [bound with] Botanique des Dames [and] Culture des Fleurs: Horticulture des Dames Heading(Grandville, J.J.)AuthorDelord, TaxileHeadlineGrandville's Les Fleurs Animées 1847PublisherGabriel de GonetDate Published1847 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 Scenes de la vie Privee et Publique des Animaux AuthorGrandville, [J.J.]HeadlineAn anthropomorphic classic by Grandville, 1842PublisherJ. HetzelDate Published1842 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 Amor und Psyche. Eine Dichtung in Sechs Gesängen AuthorHamerling, RobertHeadlineIn a lovely German publisher's binding, 1882PublisherAdolf TitzeDate Published[1882] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #50 The Jungle Book / The Second Jungle Book AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineKipling's First and Second Jungle BooksPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1894, 1895 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #55 Set of twenty-four first editions by Andrew Lang, including all of his Fairy Books AuthorLang, AndrewHeadline24 Andrew Lang First Editions Finely BoundPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1889-1912 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #63 The House at Pooh Corner [with] autograph letter signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard and addressed to an American admirer AuthorMilne, A.A.HeadlineSigned by A.A. Milne, with Ernest H. Shepard ALSPublisherMethuenDate Published[1929] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #68 Fairy Tales Heading(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator)AuthorAndersen, Hans ChristianHeadlineSigned by Kay Nielsen, 1/500PublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1924] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #69 East of the Sun and West of the Moon Heading(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator)Author[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe]HeadlineKay Nielsen's East of the Sun & West of the MoonPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #80 Aesop's Fables [with] original ink drawing by Arthur Rackham Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorAesopHeadlineSigned by Rackham with an original ink drawing laid inPublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1912 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #81 The Sleeping Beauty Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorEvans, C.S.HeadlineSigned by Arthur Rackham, 1/625PublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #82 The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorGrimm BrothersHeadlineSigned by Arthur Rackham, 1/750PublisherConstable & Co.Date Published1909 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #83 The Ingoldsby Legends Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorIngoldsby, Thomas [pseud. of Richard Barham]HeadlineSigned by Rackham, large paper edition, 1/560PublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1907 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #84 A Midsummer-Night's Dream Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineMidsummer-Night's Dream with Rackham illustrationsPublisherHeinemann / Doubleday, PageDate Published1908 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #89 Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Being a reproduction in facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623 from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineFacsimile of Shakespeare 1623 First FolioPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1902 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #105 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineHuckleberry Finn, near fine first editionPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #110 Elements of Bacchus: or, Toasts and Sentiments, given by Distinguished Characters. Illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain. With a variety of anecdotes and remarkable traits, prefixed to each portrait. Written and designed by George Murgatroyd [sic] Woodward AuthorWoodward, George MoutardHeadlineColored aquatint plates of inebriated Britons, 1792PublisherPublished by William HollandDate Published1792 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 Poems in Two Volumes AuthorWordsworth, WilliamHeadlineWordsworth Poems in Two Volumes, first editionPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees and OrmeDate Published1807 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next