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	4	Le Ricchezze della lingua volgare.	Alunno, Francesco		The Language of Boccaccio by Alunno, 1543	[1543]	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $593.75	CLOSED!
	15	Mansfield Park: A Novel	Austen, Jane		Austen's Mansfield Park 1837 illus. ed.	1837	$600 - $900	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $531.25	CLOSED!
	16	Northanger Abbey and Persuasion	Austen, Jane		Austen's Northanger Abbey 1837 illus. ed.	1837	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $468.75	CLOSED!
	17	Pride and Prejudice. A Novel	Austen, Jane		Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice 1839	1839	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,375	CLOSED!
	18	Sense and Sensibility: A Novel	Austen, Jane		Austen Sense & Sensibility 1837 illus. edition	1837	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,062.50	CLOSED!
	21	The Handy Reference Atlas of the World	Bartholomew, John, editor		Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe	1928	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $237.50	CLOSED!
	29	Il Decameron di Messer Giouanni Boccacci Cittadino Fiorentino [bound with] Annotationi et Discorsi Sopra Alcuni Luoghi del Decameron di M. Giovanni Boccacci	Boccacio, Giovanni; V. Borghini, A. Benivieni, S. Antinori and A. Guicciardini.		Expurgated edition of the Decameron, 1573	1573; 1574	$700 - $1,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $437.50	CLOSED!
	32	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order...First American from the Fifth London Edition	Boswell, James		First U.S. ed. of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson	1807	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	33	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c. and Notes by Various Hands.	Boswell, James		Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, nicely bound	[1835]	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $375	CLOSED!
	37	A History of the Art of Bookbinding with Some Account of the Books of the Ancients.	Brassington, W. Salt, editor		One of 50 large paper copies, nicely bound	1894	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $312.50	CLOSED!
	39	The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on his Writings. To Which are Prefixed, some Observations on the Character and Condition of The Scottish Peasantry.	Burns, Robert		Nicely bound set of Robert Burns' works	1801	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	40	The Gulistân, or Rose-Garden of The Sheikh Sa'di of Shiraz	Burton, Richard F., translator		Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding of Burton's Sa'di	1928	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	41	A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night...	Burton, Sir Richard F., translator		Arabian Nights, Library Edition, nicely bound	1885	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $812.50	CLOSED!
	42	The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by Thomas Moore, Esq.	Byron, Lord		Nicely bound in 17 volumes by Birdsall	1832-1833	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $625	CLOSED!
	45	The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits	Carroll, Lewis		Hunting of the Snark, bound by Riviere & Son	1876	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $625	CLOSED!
	46	Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America Intended to Contain Descriptions and Figures of All North American Birds...	Cassin, John		Cassin's Birds of California finely bound	1862	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,000	CLOSED!
	47	Don Quixote de la Mancha	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de		Don Quixote, nicely bound by J. Wright	1837	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,625	CLOSED!
	48	[Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The history of the valorous and vvitty-knight-errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly corrected and amended	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de		Don Quixote in English, 1652,	1652	$6,000 - $9,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	49	[Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de		Illustrated Don Quixote 1756 in 2 volumes	1756	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $406.25	CLOSED!
	50	William Roscoe of Liverpool	Chandler, George		Specially bound by Zaehnsdorf after Fazakerley	1953	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	55	The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor		Coleridge's Literary Remains, 1st edition	1836-39	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $500	CLOSED!
	57	The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in Search of the Antique and the Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles	[Combe, William]		With 20 hand-colored aquatint plates	[1821]	$800 - $1,200	Unsold	CLOSED!
	62	Manuscript Expediente regarding a slave as the subject of an inheritance		(Cuba - Slavery)	A slave inherited in Cuba, 1870 manuscript	c.1870	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	63	Manuscript listing on printed form of Chinese indentures servants/slaves being imported into Cuba		(Cuba - Slavery)	Listing of Chinese slaves in Cuba 1862	c.1862	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $312.50	CLOSED!
	64	Manuscript listings of slaves sold in Cuba, both of African and Asian origin		(Cuba - Slavery)	Chinese & Black slaves sold in Cuba	1856-57	$800 - $1,200	Unsold	CLOSED!
	65	Two contracts for Chinese indentured servants/slaves in Cuba		(Cuba - Slavery)	Contracts for Cuban Chinese indentured servants	1872-[1877]	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	66	The Animal Kingdom. Arranged in Conformity with its Organization... with Additional Descriptions of All the Species Hitherto Named, and of Many Not Before Noticed by Edward Griffith and Others.	Cuvier, Baron [Georges]		Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, complete in 16 volumes	[1827-1835]	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,125	CLOSED!
	73	Four Christmas Books by Charles Dickens	Dickens, Charles		Dicken's Christmas books in original cloth	[1845]	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $562.50	CLOSED!
	74	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit	Dickens, Charles		Martin Chuzzlewit, illustrated by Phiz	1844	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	75	Master Humphrey's Clock	Dickens, Charles		First combined edition of Humphrey's Clock	[1840-41]	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $250	CLOSED!
	76	Master Humphrey's Clock	Dickens, Charles		Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock 1840-41	1840-41	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	77	Our Mutual Friend	Dickens, Charles		Our Mutual Friend, first ed. in book form	1865	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	78	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	Dickens, Charles		Nicely bound copy of the Pickwick Papers	1944	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	79	The Works of Charles Dickens	Dickens, Charles		Dickens' Works handsomely bound by Asprey	1897-1899	$5,000 - $8,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	82	The Works of Arthur Conan Doyle - Author's Edition	Doyle, Arthur Conan		Works of Arthur Conan Doyle 1/1000 signed	1903	$8,000 - $12,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	83	The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse...Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus	Dryden, John, translator		Dryden translation of Juvenal and Flaccus 1693	1693	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $200	CLOSED!
	84	Peter Ibbetson	Du Maurier, George		Peter Ibbetson, nicely bound by Knickerbocker	1891	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	85	Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám	Fitzgerald, Edward, translator	(Dulac, Edmund, illustrator)	One of 750 signed by artist Edmund Dulac	[1909]	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $750	CLOSED!
	86	The Bells and Other Poems	Poe, Edgar Allan	(Dulac, Edmund, illustrator)	Poe's The Bells illustrated by Edmund Dulac	[1912]	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $593.75	CLOSED!
	91	The Meaning of Relativity	Einstein, Albert		Inscribed by Einstein to future Baptist minister	1950	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,625	CLOSED!
	92	Family Secrets, or Hints to Those Who Would Make Home Happy	[Ellis, Sarah Stickney]		Family Secrets by Sarah Stickney Ellis	[1841]	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	93	The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson	Emerson, Ralph Waldo		Emerson's Works, nicely bound by M. Albinhac	[1903-1904]	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $687.50	CLOSED!
	94	Tristram and Iseult: A Play	Hare, Amory	(Esherick, Wharton, illustrator)	Signed by Wharton Esherick and Amory Hare	1930	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	95	Song of Solomon		(Esherick, Wharton, illustrator)	Centaur Press Song of Solomon, Esherick woodcuts	[1927]	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $437.50	CLOSED!
	96	The Good Soldier	[Ford] Hueffer, Ford Madox		First Edition of Ford Madox Ford's classic	1915	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $312.50	CLOSED!
	97	The Corsair	Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord	(Fore-edge Painting)	With fore-edge painting	1814	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $375	CLOSED!
	98	Considerazioni al Tasso di Galileo Galilei e discorso di Giuseppe Iseo sopra il poema di m. Torquato Tasso per dimostrazione di alcuni luoghi in diversi autori da lui felicemente emulati		(Galilei, Galileo)	Tasso & Galileo considered, 1793 4to edition	1793	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $750	CLOSED!
	103	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Gibbon, Edward		Gibbon's Decline & Fall, First Edition of all vols.	1776-1788	$30,000 - $50,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	104	American Whalers in the Western Arctic: The Final Epoch of the Great American Sailing Whaling Fleet	Gilkerson, William		With 12 color plates signed by the artist	[1983]	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $406.25	CLOSED!
	108	The Writings of Bret Harte	Harte, Bret		Complete set of Harte's writings, nicely bound	[1896]-1914	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $625	CLOSED!
	109	Hawthorne's Works in Twenty-Five Volumes	Hawthorne, Nathaniel		Hawthorne's Works, nicely bound, Concord edition	1899	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $375	CLOSED!
	113	His Iliads Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby [bound with] His Odysseys Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations...	Homer		Ogilby's Homer translations with 74 plates	1669	$5,000 - $8,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	116	Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest	Hudson, W. H.		Green Mansions, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe	1931	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	117	Selected Pictures From the Book of Gold of Victor Hugo	Hugo, Victor		With 12 illustrations from Hugo's Book of Gold	1885	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	121	Washington Square	James, Henry		Henry James' Washington Square, First edition	1881	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	122	The Naturalist's Library	Jardine, William, editor		With +1000 hand-colored plates of animals	1833-43	$5,000 - $8,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,062.50	CLOSED!
	125	The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical...	Johnson, Samuel, editor		Works of the English Poets, a complete set	[1790]	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	126	The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Johnson, Samuel		Works of Samuel Johnson in 11 volumes	1825	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	127	Thirty Years with the Philippine Head-Hunters	Kane, Samuel		Head-Hunters, Finely Bound	1934	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	129	Beowulf		(Kent, Rockwell, illustrator)	Rockwell Kent's Beowulf w/ 8 lithos		$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $562.50	CLOSED!
	131	The Writings in Prose and Verse	Kipling, Rudyard		The Prose and Poetry of Kipling in 21 volumes	1899-1900	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	132	Love Poems and Others	Lawrence, D.H.		Crowley's copy of Lawrence's Love Poems	1915	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,250	CLOSED!
	137	The Writings of Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln, Abraham		Writings of Lincoln, Constitutional Edition	[1905-1906]	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,000	CLOSED!
	147	Human Longevity: Recording the name, age, place of residence, and year, of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799, comprising a period of 1733 years. With anecdotes of the most remarkable	Easton, James	(Medical)	James Easton records names of long-livers	1799	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $312.50	CLOSED!
	158	Baby and Child Care	Spock, Benjamin	(Medical)	Signed by Dr. Benjamin Spock	[1976]	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	165	Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner	Mizner, Addison		Signed by Addison Mizner, Edicion Imperial 1/100	[1928]	$5,000 - $8,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,437.50	CLOSED!
	168	The Loves of the Angels, A Poem.	Moore, Thomas		First edition of Moore's Loves of the Angels	1823	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	169	Petits Contes en Prose	Moreau, Hégésippe		Moreau's Petits Contes bound by Raparlier	1892	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	171	WITHDRAWN - The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers	Mosher, Thomas Bird, editor		WITHDRAWN - Thomas Bird Mosher The Bibelot Finely Bound	1895-1915	$1,500 - $2,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	176	One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected	Northcote, James		Northcote's One Hundred Fables, 1st series	1828	$600 - $900	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $375	CLOSED!
	179	The Golden Treasury Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes	Palgrave, Francis T., editor		The Golden Treasury, finely bound by Bayntun	1922	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!
	180	The Faces in the Fire; A Story for the Season. By Redgap	[Pardon, George Frederick]		Faces in the Fire, bound by Zaehnsdorf	[c. 1850]	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	193	Works of Charles Reade	Reade, Charles		Reade's Works, expertly bound by Zaehnsdorf	[c. 1900]	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	195	The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or the Frolicks of Fortune		(Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator)	Doctor Comicus with hand-colored plates	1815	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $375	CLOSED!
	196	Chesterfield Travestie; Or School for Modern Manners		(Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator)	Chesterfield, finely bound by Morrell	1808	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	199	The World in Miniature	Schoberl, Frederic, editor		Complete set, with numerous color plates	[1821]	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,250	CLOSED!
	200	The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare	Shakespeare, William		Works of Shakespeare, nicely bound by Bayntun	1856	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $625	CLOSED!
	201	The New Century (Trade-Mark) Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the latest edition of William Aldis Wright...	Shakespeare, William		New Century Shakespeare Works, De Luxe Edition	1900-1901	$3,000 - $5,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	202	Poems of Shelley	Shelley, Percy Bysshe		Shelley's, nicely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe	1922	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $312.50	CLOSED!
	206	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.	Smith, Adam		Smith's Wealth of Nations in 3 vols, 1786	[1786]	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,250	CLOSED!
	207	Vailima Letters, Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 - October 1894	Stevenson, Robert Louis		First Edition of Stevenson's Vailima Letters	1895	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	208	The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh Edition	Stevenson, Robert Louis		34 Finely Bound Works of Stevenson, 1/1035	1895-1898	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	209	The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Vailima Edition	Stevenson, Robert Louis		Excellently bound set of Stevenson's Works	[1921]	$8,000 - $12,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	211	The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond.	Thackeray, William Makepeace		The History of Samuel Titmarsh W.M. Thackeray	[1849]	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	212	The Paris Sketch Book	Thackeray, William Makepeace		Paris Sketch Book, nicely bound by Atchards	1840	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	213	The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray	Thackeray, William Makepeace		Thackeray's Works, bound by Harcourt Bindery	[1900]	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	214	The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes	Thoreau, Henry David		Writings of Henry David Thoreau Finely Bound	1898	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	216	Aphrodite	Louÿs, Pierre	(Tice, Clara, illustrator)	Illustrated by Clara Tice, nicely bound	1926	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $200	CLOSED!
	218	The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'Avenant, with Prefatory Memoir and Notes	D'Avenant, William	(Vellum Printing)	William D'Avenant 1 of 4 copies on vellum	1872-74	$3,000 - $5,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	225	The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman	Whitman, Walt		The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman	1902	$3,000 - $5,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	228	The Works of Oscar Wilde	Wilde, Oscar		Oscar Wilde's Works, bound by Brentanos	[1909]	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	229	The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, Agriculture and Early History...	Wilkinson, J.G.		Wilkinson's History of the Egyptians, first edition	1837	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $937.50	CLOSED!
	231	The Masters of Wood-Engraving	Linton, W.J.	(Wood Engraving)	Signed by W.J. Linton	1889	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	232	Whispers from Eternity: Universal Scientific Prayers and Poems	Yogananda, Paramhansa		Signed with inscription by Swami Yogananda	1935	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $437.50	CLOSED!
	233	The Apocalypse. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. The last book of the New Testament	Dine, Jim, artist	(Arion Press)	Signed by Jim Dine and Andrew Hoyem	1982	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,125	CLOSED!
	235	Tartuffe	Molière	(Arion Press)	Signed by Richard Wlbur and William Hamilton	2004	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $281.25	CLOSED!
	237	Arcadia: A Play	Stoppard, Tom	(Arion Press)	Arion Press Arcadia signed by Tom Stoppard	2001	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $593.75	CLOSED!
	238	Intimacy: Drawing with Light, Drawn from Stone	Heebner, Mary	(Artists' Books)	Intimacy, magnificent artist's book by M. Heebner	2017	$6,000 - $9,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	239	Ars Anatomica: A Medical Fantasia	Baskin, Leonard		Deluxe variant signed by Leonard Baskin	[1972]	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	241	The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill	Hejinian, Lyn	(Clark, Emilie, artist)	Signed by Lyn Hejinian and Emilie Clark	1998	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $187.50	CLOSED!