Sale 739: PBA Platinum: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Art

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	1	Archive of thirty-two photographs from the research voyage of the Albatross to Alaska and the Philippines 1907-10		(Alaska & Philippines)	Photographs from The Albatross voyage 1907	[1907-10]	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000	CLOSED!
	2	A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas	Anson, George		Anson's Voyage Around the World 1748	1748	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,700	CLOSED!
	3	The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume I	Audubon, John James		Vol. I of Audubon's Birds, 1840, 1st Octavo	1840	$6,000 - $9,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,700	CLOSED!
	4	The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume II	Audubon, John James		Vol. II of Audubon's Birds 1841 1st Octavo	1841	$7,000 - $10,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,200	CLOSED!
	5	The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume III	Audubon, John James		Vol. III of Audubon's Birds, 1841, 1st Octavo	1841	$7,000 - $10,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,200	CLOSED!
	6	The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume IV	Audubon, John James		Volume 4 of Audubon's Birds 1842 1st Octavo	1842	$8,000 - $12,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,800	CLOSED!
	7	The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume VII	Audubon, John James		Vol. VII of Audubon's Birds 1844 1st Octavo	1844	$6,000 - $9,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,600	CLOSED!
	8	Manuscript Guest Book for the Castello Bar in Mondsee, Austria, with hundreds of autographs of actors, authors, musicians, singers, dancers, race car drivers, and others		(Autographs)	Autographs of show business luminaries, etc.	1952-1988	$10,000 - $15,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	9	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	(Birk, Sandow, artist)	Sandow Birk's complete Divine Comedy	2003-05	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,000	CLOSED!
	10	Paradiso	Dante Alighieri	(Birk, Sandow, artist)	Dante's Paradiso illustrated by Sandow Birk	2005	$2,500 - $3,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	11	Book of Hours (Horae B.V.M.) printed on vellum, with "Dance of Death" illustrations by Philippe Pigouchet		(Book of Hours)	Horae BVM with famed "Dance of Death" suites	c.1500	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,000	CLOSED!
	12	Trout Fishing in America	Brautigan, Richard		Brautigan's Trout Fishing inscribed	1970	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,920	CLOSED!
	13	On Dreams	Browne, Thomas		Browne On Dreams, 1/21 copies on vellum	[1920]	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	14	Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D. late of Norwich...	Browne, Thomas		Thomas Browne's Posthumous Works 1712	1712	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $900	CLOSED!
	15	[Picture Book: Progressive Artists's Proofs]	Charlot, Jean		Charlot progressive artist's proofs, original watercolor	1933	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,600	CLOSED!
	16	Ten volumes of writings by Cicero published primarily by Sebastianus Gryphius in the mid-16th century	Cicero, Marcus Tullius		Scarce 16th century printings of Cicero	c.1546-1567	$5,000 - $8,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	17	A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780	Cook, James and James King		Cook's Third Voyage with Atlas Volume 1785	1785	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,800	CLOSED!
	18	The Pilgrim's Progress	Bunyan, John	(Cresset Press)	Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress from Cresset Press	1928	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $960	CLOSED!
	19	On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection	Darwin, Charles & Alfred Russel Wallace		First statement of Darwin's Evolution Theory	1859	$30,000 - $50,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $18,000	CLOSED!
	20	Charles Darwin Framed Signature	Darwin, Charles		Darwin's Signature		$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,040	CLOSED!
	21	Bratʹia Karamazovy: roman v chetyrekh chastiakh s ėpilogom [The Brothers Karamazov - Братья Карамазовы: роман в четырех частях с эпилогом]	Dostoevsky, Fyodor		Dostoevsky's Brother's Karamazov, 1st edition in Russian	1881 [but Dec. 1880]	$30,000 - $50,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $20,400	CLOSED!
	22	Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel	Dostoevsky, Fyodor		First in English. of Crime & Punishment	1886	$7,000 - $10,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,200	CLOSED!
	23	Two items by Albert Einstein, with ownership stamps of his son Hans Albert Einstein	Einstein, Albert		Rare Einstein articles, presented to his son	1922 & 1924	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $780	CLOSED!
	24	The Hĕĕtōpădēs of Vĕĕshnŏŏ-Sărmā, in a series of connected fables, interspersed with moral, prudential, and political maxims; translated from an ancient manuscript in the Sanskreet language. With explanatory notes	Wilkins, Charles, translator	(Fables - Indian)	Fables by the Indian Aesop, 1787	1787	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,320	CLOSED!
	25	Systema cosmicum, in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite ac solide differitur....	Galileo Galilei		Galileo's Systema Cosmicum, 1699	1699	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,040	CLOSED!
	26	Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux en Général, et du Cerveau en Particulier...	Gall, Franz Joseph and Johann Gaspar Spurzheim		F.J. Gall advances science and phrenology	1810-19	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,000	CLOSED!
	27	Mechanik des Himmels	Laplace, Pierre Simon de	(Gauss, Carl Friedrich)	Gauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanics	1800	$5,000 - $8,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000	CLOSED!
	28	The Bells: A Numerical Exploration	Poe, Edgar Allan	(Glaister, Donald)	Number 1 in a signed édition variée of 12	2014	$5,000 - $8,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,600	CLOSED!
	29	3 in Search of the Universe: Rumi Walt Whitman and the Voyager spacecrafts wonder at The Quest	Glaister, Donald		No. 1 of 10 numbered copies	2016	$6,000 - $9,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	30	Angelique and the Pearl Necklace: An Homage to Sail	Glaister, Donald		Signed by Donald Glaister, no. 1 in the edition	2007	$5,000 - $8,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	31	Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song	Glaister, Donald		Copy no. 1, limited edition signed by Glaister	2002	$5,000 - $8,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,300	CLOSED!
	32	A Few Questions	Glaister, Donald		Number 1 in a signed édition variée of 12	2009	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,400	CLOSED!
	33	The Works of James Harris, Esq. With an account of his life and character, by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury	Harris, James		Harris on philosophy of language, 1801	1801	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	34	Mules and Men	Hurston, Zora Neale		African American folklore by Zora Neale Hurston	1936	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $960	CLOSED!
	35	Y-King: Antiquissimus Sinarum Liber Quem Ex Latina Interpretatione P. Regis Alorumque ex Soc. Jesu P.P. Edidit Julius Mohl	Mohl, Julius, editor	(I Ching)	First edition of the I-Ching, 1834-39	1834 & 1839	$20,000 - $30,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $16,800	CLOSED!
	36	Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts	Westwood, J.O.	(Illuminated Manuscripts)	Chromolithographs of miniatures in massive format	1868	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $600	CLOSED!
	37	Album with 12 original paintings on silk, featuring artisanal crafts, occupations, etc.		(Japan)	Paintings on silk of Japanese industry	19th century?	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	38	Album with 62 original paintings on silk, featuring pastoral scenes, artisanal crafts, occupations, etc.		(Japan)	Japanese artisanal crafts painted on silk	19th century	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,800	CLOSED!
	39	Autograph Letter signed to his brother William, Georges Coffee House, Temple Bar, London, England	Elwyn, Thomas	(Jefferson, Thomas)	Expatriate British aristocrat defends Thomas Jefferson	March 14-17, 1805	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $660	CLOSED!
	40	A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar	Johnson, Samuel		First edition of Johnson's Dictionary	1755	$8,000 - $12,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,400	CLOSED!
	41	Sefir Yesirah	Fuchs, Ernst, artist	(Kabbalah)	Livre d'artiste of Kabbalah text by Ernst Fuchs	1978	$8,000 - $12,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	42	Original sepia ink drawing by Edward Lear - Egyptian vignette	Lear, Edward		Original drawing signed by Edward Lear	[1848-49]	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	43	Original sepia ink drawing by Edward Lear - Egyptian vignette amid pyramids	Lear, Edward		Original drawing signed by Edward Lear	[1848-49]	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,200	CLOSED!
	44	Herophilus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin	Marx, Carl Friedrich Heinrich		Herophilus & the anatomy of the brain	1838	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,440	CLOSED!
	45	Cien años de soledad	Márquez, Gabriel García		True first of Marquez' Solitude	[1967]	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,700	CLOSED!
	46	Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West	McCarthy, Cormac		McCarthy's classic, first edition in fine jacket	[1985]	$2,500 - $3,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,300	CLOSED!
	47	Carnival Songs	Medici, Lorenzo de'		Beautiful large format artist book of Carnival Songs	2000	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,800	CLOSED!
	48	El Ecmo. Sr. Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos me ha dirigido el decreto que sigue... Sabed: que el Congreso general ha decretado lo siguiente... 1.o El gobierno hará públicar tanto en el pais como en las naciones... que se va a emprender la comunicacion de los dos occeanos por el istmo de Tehuantepec...	Victoria, Guadalupe	(Mexico)	Mexican plan to navigate the Isthmus, 1824	1824	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	49	Large four-sheet indenture document for sale of property, signed by the Earl of Sandwich and others	Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich		Earl of Sandwich signs a document	23 March, 1743	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	50	[Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera]	Plato		First Plato in Greek 1513	[1513]	$20,000 - $30,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	51	Phaedrus: a dialogue by Plato	Plato		Greenwood Press Phaedrus, 1 of 150 copies	1976	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,320	CLOSED!
	52	Hand-Book to Kansas Territory and the Rocky Mountains' Gold Region; Accompanied by Reliable Maps and a Preliminary Treatise on the Pre-Emption Laws of the United States	Redpath, James		Pikes Peak Gold Region Guide and Map	1859	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,200	CLOSED!
	53	Principia Mathematica	Russell, Bertrand & Alfred North Whitehead		First edition of Russell's Principia Mathematica	1910, 1912, 1913	$20,000 - $30,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $14,400	CLOSED!
	54	The life and death of King John	Shakespeare, William		Shakespeare King John from 2nd folio 1632	[1632]	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,400	CLOSED!
	55	The Winters Tale	Shakespeare, William		Shakespeare Winters Tale from 2nd folio 1632	[1632]	$6,000 - $9,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,500	CLOSED!
	56	Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John		Grapes of Wrath 1st inscribed	[1939]	$15,000 - $25,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $12,000	CLOSED!
	57	"If This be Treason—"	Steinbeck, John		Steinbeck unpublished MS. on McCarthy era	[c.1954]	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,440	CLOSED!
	58	Nothing So Monstrous	Steinbeck, John		Steinbeck Nothing So Monstrous 1/6 copies	1936	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,200	CLOSED!
	59	The Pastures of Heaven	Steinbeck, John		Fine copy of Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven	1932	$12,000 - $18,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $11,400	CLOSED!
	60	The Red Pony - Cutting Continuity script	Steinbeck, John		The Red Pony - Cutting Continuity script	[1948]	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,320	CLOSED!
	61	A Russian Journal	Steinbeck, John		Signed by John Steinbeck with Pigasus sketch	1948	$5,000 - $8,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,500	CLOSED!
	62	To A God Unknown	Steinbeck, John		Signed by Steinbeck and inscribed to his sister	[1933]	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $9,600	CLOSED!
	63	Zapata: A Narrative, in dramatic form, of the life of Emiliano Zapata - special copy with text of publisher James Robertson's Address to the Steinbeck Festival August 14 1992 in custom box	Steinbeck, John		Zapata with James Robertson text on Steinbeck	[1991]	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,200	CLOSED!
	64	Mt. Tamalpais in Distance, Point Bonita in Middle Distance, Looking North from Lands End, S.F., Cal	Stuart, James Everett		Signed by artist James Everett Stuart	[1914]	$7,000 - $10,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	65	Viva la Independencia...		(Texas)	Texas-Santa Fe expedition captured, 1841	1841	$6,000 - $9,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,600	CLOSED!
	66	A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication Between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795...under the Command of Captain George Vancouver	Vancouver, George		Vancouver's A Voyage of Discovery, First Edition 1798	1798	$7,000 - $10,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,200	CLOSED!
	67	General Washington	Trumbull, John, artist	(Washington, George)	Engraving of Trumbull's George Washington 1796	June 1796	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,800	CLOSED!
	68	An American Dictionary of the English Language... To Which are Prefixed, an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin, History and Connection of the Languages of Western Asia and of Europe, and a Concise Grammar of the English Language	Webster, Noah		Webster's American Dictionary 1st ed. 1828	1828	$5,000 - $8,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $9,600	CLOSED!
	69	Archive of 137 gelatin silver print photographs from World War I		(World War I)	Album of World War I photographs, 1918-19	[c. 1918-19]	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,800	CLOSED!
	70	Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravée et lithographiée de Zao Wou-Ki, 1949-1954	Jacometti, Nesto	(Wou-ki, Zao)	With original etching signed by Zao Wou-Ki	1955	$2,500 - $3,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,700	CLOSED!
	71	Auction catalogs for the sale of Yamanaka & Co. property seized during World War II		(Yamanaka Collection)	Auction Catalogs of Seized Japanese-American Property	1943-44	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000	CLOSED!