Sale 785: Rare & Antiquarian: Fine Press, Fine Bindings, Illustrated Books, Science, Medicine & More (#785) 04/06/2023 11:00 AM PDT


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24 "A Leaf from The First of May" - A Fairy Masque: With An Essay on Walter Crane Johnson, Carolyn (D'Ambrosio, Joseph) Signed by the author, colorist and printer 1988 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
296 "Ongania" le vere da pozzo in Venezia Ongania, Ferdinando Marble well-curbs of Venice 1911 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
169 ,WITHDRAWN - Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince of Denmark Shakespeare, William (Austen, John, illustrator) WITHDRAWN - Hamlet, illustrated by John Austen [1922] $500 - $800
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208 6 books on color and color printing (Color Printing) Early chromolithography & color standards 1838-1948 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
53 A Bag of Possibles Koss, Jim (Piece of Moon Press) Signed by Jim Koss, w/ additional illustration 1979 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
189 A compendious system of astronomy in a course of familiar lectures... Also trigonometrical and celestial problems, with a key to the ephemeris, and a vocabulary of the terms of science used... Bryan, Margaret Astronomy textbook for young women, 1797 1797 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
2 A Delicate Balance Albee, Edward (Arion Press) Albee's A Delicate Balance Arion Press 2011 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $250
(4 bids)
269 A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton-House Kennedy, James 25 engravings of classical busts & statues 1769 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
265 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 Johnson's English Dictionary 1755 1755 $4,000 - $6,000
Starting bid:
$2,000
29 A fine press miscellany (Fine Press) A Miscellany of 11 fine press works Various dates $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
346 A Lecture On Earthquakes; Read in the Chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, N.E. November 26th 1755. On the Occasion of the Great Earthquake Which Shook New England the Week Before Winthrop, John John Winthrop on the New England Earthquake 1755 1755 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
Current absentee: $400
(1 bid)
6 A Moral Fable-Talk Golding, Arthur (Arion Press) Moral Fable-Talk from The Arion Press 1987 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
340 A New System of Husbandry, from many Years Experience... To which are annexed a few Hints humbly offered for the perusal of the Legislators of America, shewing How to put a stop to runaway Servants Varlo, Charles Varlo's System of Husbandry, Philadelphia 1785 1785 $700 - $1,000
Starting bid:
$350
161 A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy Sterne, Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey 1828 1827 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
315 A State of the Evidence in the Cause between His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and Others, Pursuers, and Archibald Douglas, of Douglas, Esquire, Defender. With Remarks Richardson, Robert Influential Scottish land inheritance case 1769 1769 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
347 A System of Aeronautics, Comprehending its Earliest Investigations, and Modern Practice and Art Wise, John Wise's History of Aeronautics, 1850 1st ed 1850 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
177 A System of Operative Surgery, Founded on the Basis of Anatomy Bell, Charles Operative surgery by Charles Bell 1812 1812 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
179 A Treatise on Mensuration, both in Theory and Practice Hutton, Charles (Bewick, Thomas, illustrator) Thomas Bewick's first book illustrations 1770 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
212 A Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children Dewees, William P. First American textbook on pediatric medicine 1825 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
336 A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow Fever... Tytler, James 18th cent. U.S. treatise on plague & yellow fever 1799 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
61 A Tree Sequence Norris, Leslie (Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill) Signed by Leslie Norris and Gretchen Daiber 1984 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
207 Ackermann's Repository of Arts, First Series 1809-1815 (Color Plate Book) Colored plates from Ackerman's Repository 1809-1815 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
131 Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays Stevenson, Robert Louis (Zaehnsdorf) Across the Plains, bound by Zaehnsdorf 1887; 1892 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
149 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [&] Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Carroll, Lewis (Minia Press) Alice's Adventures miniature 1950 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
244 An abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: vvritten by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie, haue not the vse of so necessary an history Foxe, John Abridgment of Foxe's Martyrs 1589 1589 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
186 An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land Cooper, Frederic Taber, editor (Bransom, Paul, illustrator) Signed large paper edition, in jacket & box [1921] $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
250 An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness Godwin, William Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness 1796-1798 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
326 An Essay on the Medicinal Nature of Hemlock Storck, Anthony Hemlock for venereal disease in men, 1762 1762 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
171 An Universal Etymological English Dictionary Bailey, Nathan Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 1753 1753 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
58 Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries Kenyon, Frederic G. (Rogers, Bruce) Printed by Bruce Rogers for the Caxton Club 1927 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
164 Andreae Alciati Emblematum Libellus Alciati, Andrea Alciati emblem book, 1535 1535 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
192 Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum et Poëmatum, sive, Catalecta Poëtarum Latinorum Burmannus, Petrus, editor Collection of Latin poetry 1759-1773 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
170 Apuntamientos para la Historia Natural de los Quadrúpedos del Paragüay y Rio de la Plata Azara, Félix de Mammals of Paraguay & Rio de la Plata 1802 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
16 Arcadia: A Play Stoppard, Tom (Arion Press) Arion Press Arcadia signed by Tom Stoppard 2001 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $250
(2 bids)
313 Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography Latimore, Sarah Briggs & Grace Clark Haskell (Rackham, Arthur) Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography Limited Edition 1936 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
236 Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics Ferguson, James Ferguson's Astronomy with 18 folding copperplates 1794 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
52 At Low Water: An Intertidal Memoir Chamlee, Rebecca (Pie in the Sky Press) Letter A of 5 deluxe copies, At Low Water 2017 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
Current absentee: $800
(2 bids)
166 Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum Libri Undeviginti Gellius, Aulus (Aldine Press) One of the last books of Aldus Manutius 1515 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
206 Bartender's Friend (cover title) Thomas, Nick, editor (Cocktail Manuals) Scarce 1946 vest pocket cocktail manual 1946 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
97 Beaux & Belles of England: Nell Gwyn Cunningham, Peter, editor Nell Gwyn, Royal Mistress, handsomely bound n.d. $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
180 Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, Complectens Textus Originals Hebraicum, cum Pentateucho Samaritano, Caldaicum, Graecum. Versionumque antiquarumm Samaritano, Graecae LXXII Interp., Caldaicae, Syriacae, Arabicae, Aethiopicae, Persicae, Volg. Lat... Walton, Brian (Bible - Polyglot) Walton Polyglot Bible 1657, vol. 2 1655 [i.e. 1657] $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
183 Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Sixti V. Pontificis Max. Jussu Recognita... (Bible in Latin) 1532 Vulgate Bible with woodcut illustrations 1732 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
26 Birds in Paradise, Or, Life Upon a Japanese Screen D'Ambrosio, Joseph Wally Dawes' copy of Birds of Paradise 1984 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
Current absentee: $300
(1 bid)
243 Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. Foster, Birket & Tom Taylor Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape [1863] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
188 Black and White Brown, Margaret Wise First Edition from author of Goodnight Moon 1944 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
106 Books and Bookmen Lang, Andrew Lang's Bookmen finely bound LP copy 1886 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
187 Buda Citerioris Hungariae Caput Regni avita sedes. vulgo Ofen. (Braun, G., and F. Hogenberg) c.1617 View of Budapest, featuring battles 1617 $700 - $1,000
Starting bid:
$350
107 Calendario de las Señoritas Megicanas para el Año 1838 Galvan Rivera, Mariano, editor (Mexico – Gift Book Almanac) Rare Mexican gift book in fine binding 1837-1838 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
5 Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston, related by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, four versions of events in 1697 Duston, Hannah (Arion Press) Signed by Richard Bosman 1987 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $190
(2 bids)
56 Carmina Anglica: Latene Reddidit - 4 copies Richardson, Leon Josia Leon Josia Richardson's Latin translations 1899 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
162 Carta pastoral... de la Expulsion de los Regulares de la exinguida Orden de la Compañía Abad Illana, Manuel Spanish King: persecutor of God & Saints, 1775 1775 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
198 Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-6 (China) Large Chinese Art exhibition in London [1936] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
114 Charles I Skelton, Sir John (Riviere) Charles I by Skelton, bound by Riviere & Son 1898 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
89 Charles II Airy, Osmund (Bickers & Son) Charles II by Airy, bound by Bickers 1901 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
217 Clinical Lectures on Surgery, Delivered at Hotel Dieu in 1832... Dupuytren, Guillaume Doctor who treated Napoleon's piles 1833 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
31 Collection of fine press items related to Vance Gerry (Gerry, Vance) Fine press designed by Vance Gerry with bio 1986-2014 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
159 Collection of miniature books and newspapers from Shackman and other publishers (Shackman) Miniature novelty books and newspapers 1960s, mostly $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
153 Collection of miniature pamphlets, catalogs, and related ephemera (Miniature Books - Miscellaneous) Miniature pamphlets, catalogs, and ephemera Various dates $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
344 Collection of vodka labels from California (Vodka labels) Approx. 175 lithographed Vodka labels 20th century $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
85 Collection of Zamorano Club keepsake volumes (Zamorano Club) 22 Zamorano Club keepsakes 1934-2018 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
291 Commentarii de Rebus in Scientia Naturali et Medicina Gestis (Natural Sciences) Late 18th century natural science texts 1774-1779 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
219 Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light Einstein, Albert Einstein Nobel Prize-winning paper on photons 1905 $6,000 - $9,000
Starting bid:
$3,000
Current absentee: $3,000
(1 bid)
300 Constitusiones de la Sagrada Religion Bethlemitica (Peru - Lima) 17th c. Bethlehemite manuscript compilation c.1711-1758 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
322 Continuum Smith, Clarice Martin Clarice Smith, artist, in marbled leather binding 1989 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
317 Corpus Juris Civilis (Roman Law) Elzevir 1664 Amsterdam ed. Corpus juris civilis 1663-1664 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
260 Corrigendi emendandiq[ue] psalterij prologus Beati Brunonis Ep[iscop]i herbipolen[sis]. breuis co[m]mendatio... Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg (Incunabula) Incunable German Psalter, c. 1485 [c.1485-1489] $3,000 - $5,000
Starting bid:
$1,500
71 Cracked Sidewalks Wagener, Richard (Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions) Cracked Sidewalks signed by R. Wagener 2006 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
72 Cracked Sidewalks Wagener, Richard (Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions) Signed deluxe edition with extra suite of prints 2006 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
Current absentee: $750
(1 bid)
241 Cups and Their Customs [Porter, Henry and George E. Roberts] (Food and Drink) Skål! Cups and Their Customs, 1863 1853 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
211 Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino historiado Dante Alighieri Extensive Dante commentary w/ marginalia 1507 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
Current absentee: $500
(1 bid)
274 Das Deutsche Bilderbuch No 2. Marienkind Lefler, Heinrich and Josef Urban With 8 chromolithographs by Lefler and Urban [c. 1904] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
283 De Philippi Melanchthonis Ortu, Totius Vitae Curriculo et Morte Camerarius, Joachim (Melanchthon, Philipp) First biography of Melanchthon, first edition 1566 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
284 De Puerorum Morbis Tractatus Locupletissimi Mercurialis, Hieronymus Two medical works in Latin 1584 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
302 Delle vite de Pontefici, dal Salvator Nostro sino a Paolo II. Ampliato con le Historie de'Papi moderni da Sisto IV, sino a Paolo V... [with] La Cronologia Ecclestiastica... Platina Lives of popes, church history timeline 1643 1643 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
173 Die Gegenstandslose Welt Malewitsch, Kasimir (Bauhaus) The Non-objective world of Bauhaus art, 1927 [1927] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
324 Domestic Architecture. A Series of Views of Cottages and Farm Houses, in England and Wales, built chiefly during the dynasty of the House of Stuart. (Stevens, Francis, etcher) With 53 plates of Architectural views [c. 1850] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
143 Don Quijote de la Mancha Cervantes, Miguel de (Ediciones Castilla) Don Quijote in miniature 1952 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $110
(2 bids)
49 Double-Headed Creature Features Yau, John, Max Gimblett, and Tobin Hines (Makeshift Press) Artists' book by Yau, Gimblett, and Hines 2001 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
203 Drinks as They are Mixed: A Manual of Quick Reference [Grein and Pahls Drink Mixer's Manual - cover title] Lowe, Paul E., editor (Cocktail Manuals) Grein and Pahls Drink Mixer's Manual [c. 1904] $700 - $1,000
Starting bid:
$350
202 Drinks of All Kinds: Hot and Cold for All Seasons Davies, Frederick (Cocktail Manuals) Cocktail culture in England during U.S. Prohibition [c. 1929] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
279 Dris Martini Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia: or, Dr Martin Luther's Divine Discourses at his Table, &c. Which in his Life Time hee Held with Divers Learned Men... Conteining Questions and Answers Touching Religion... Luther, Martin Luther's Divine Discourses in English, 1652 1652 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
316 East African Big Game Pictures: A Souvenir Riddell, W.H East African Big Game Pictures 1915 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
293 East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North [Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe] (Nielsen, Kay, illustrator) In the scarce original jacket [1922] $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
133 Eight miniature almanacs (Almanacs) Eight miniature almanacs 1883-1914 1883-1914 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
220 Einstein on the quantum theory of radiation Einstein, Albert Einstein: theoretical basis for the laser 1917 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
221 Einstein paper on opalescence Einstein, Albert Einstein shows why the sky is blue 1910 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
222 Einstein papers on quantum theory and thermodynamics Einstein, Albert Einstein on quantum theory of solids, 1907 1907 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
328 El paludismo en México Terrés, José Mexican book on malaria, 1893 1893 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
168 Elémens de Musique Théorique et Pratique, suivant les Principes de M. Rameau, éclairis, développées et simplifiés Alembert, Jean le Rond d' Alembert's Elements of Music 1766 1766 $400 - $700
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
147 Eleven miniatures and micro-miniatures by Jack Levien or his Trader's Press (Levien, Jack R. - Trader's Press) 11 miniature books from Jack R. Levien Various dates $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
121 Eleven volumes of Sir Walter Scott's Poetry from the library of Edward Smith-Stanley Scott, Sir Walter Edward Smith-Stanley's copies of Scott's poetry 1851-1854 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
165 Epistolae Clarorum Virorum, Selectae de Quamplurimis Optimae, ad Indicandam Nostrorum Temporum Eloquentiam (Aldine Press) Aldine ed. of learned correspondence 1556 1556 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
298 Esposicion Sumaria del Sistema Frenológico del Doctor Gall Pacheco, José Ramón 19th c. Mexican medical text 1835 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
231 Essays Emerson, Ralph Waldo First edition of Emerson's Essays, 1841 1841 $3,000 - $5,000
Starting bid:
$1,800
259 Facsimiles of Choice Examples Selected from Illumination Manuscripts, Unpublished Drawings and Illustrated Books of Early Date (Illuminated Manuscripts) Quaritch's facsimiles of illumination, pts. III & V-X 1890-1891 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
295 Familiae romanae in antiquis numismatibus [Orsini, Fulvio] (Numismatics) Roman family coins, 253 plates 1663 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
193 Farmacopea Veterinaria y Formulario Magistral, con unos preceptos generales sobre el arte de formular... Casas de Mendoza, Nicolás Spanish veterinary manual, 1843 1843 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
60 Farmers: Wood Engravings—Interviews [with] Farmers Progressive Proofs Schanilec, Gaylord Farmers by Schanilec with progressive proofs [1989]; 1992 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
158 Fifteen miniature books from the Press of Ward Schori (Press of Ward Schori) 15 miniature books from Ward Schori $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
140 Fifty Cracker Jack miniature books (Cracker Jack Miniatures) 50 Cracker Jack miniature books 1960s $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100