Sale 447: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#447) 02/14/2011 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/14/2011 1:00 PM 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 101-167 of 167. Previous|12|Next Lot #101 De Orbis Situ Libri III AuthorMela, PomponiusHeadlinePomponius Mela De Orbis Situ - Early MapsPublisherSebastianum Henric PetriDate Published[1595] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #102 British Deer and Their Horns AuthorMillais, John GuilleHeadlineBritish Deer and Their Horns J.G. MillaisPublisherHenry SotheranDate Published1897 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #103 Winnie-the-Pooh AuthorMilne, A[lan] A[lexander]HeadlineWinnie-the-Pooh 1/350 large paper signedPublisherMethuenDate Published[1926] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #104 Missale Romanum Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineRare 1484 Missale RomanumPublisherGeorgius Arrivabenus & Paganinus de PaganinisDate Published27 Sept. 1484 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #105 Missale Romanum Heading(Missal)Author**HeadlineMissale Romanum printed by George Stuchs 1484PublisherGeorg StuchsDate Published1484 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #106 “Eurythmic Quartet” Heading(Music)AuthorHenry CowellHeadlineMS Music Henry Cowell Eurythmic QuartetDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #107 "Decoration Day" - photographic copy of the original score Heading(Music)AuthorIves, Charles EdwardHeadlineCharles Ives musical scoreDate Publishedc.1931 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #108 The Psalms of David Heading(Nash, John Henry)Author**HeadlineJohn Henry Nash Printing The Psalms of DavidPublisherJohn Henry NashDate Published1929 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #109 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et al.Date Published1728 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #110 Epistole Longiores Magistri Pauli Niauis AuthorNiavis, PaulusHeadline1494 Epistole Longiores by Paul NiavisPublisherKonrad KachelofenDate Published1494 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #111 The History of the Wars Occasioned by the French Revolution. Including a Sketch of the Early History of France, and the Circumstances Which Led to the Revolution in That Country; Together with a Complete History of the Revolution in France, the War in Spain and Portugal, Russia, Prussia, &c. &c. with Biographical Sketches of All the Public Characters of Europe AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineThe History of the Wars by NicholsonPublisherRichard EvansDate Published1816 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #112 Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlinePoems in English w Illustrations by William BlakePublisherNonesuch PressDate Published1926 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #113 Portfolio of 11 signed woodcut prints by Dirso Jose de Oliveira AuthorOliveira, Dirso Jose de (Brazilian, 1932-2005)Headline11 signed woodcut prints Dirso Jose de OliveiraDate Published1967 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #114 Magistri Stopini poetae Ponzanensis Capriccia macaronica AuthorOrsino, CesareHeadline"macaronic" poetry by Cesare Orsini 1636PublisherApud Gasparum GanassamDate Published1636 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #115 Atlas der griechischen Kunstmythologie... AuthorOverbeck, Johannes AdolfHeadlineAtlasa of Greek Mythology with 26 platesPublisherEngelmannDate Published1872 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #116 Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished by G[eorge] S[andys] AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Metamorphosis in English 1626PublisherPrinted by William StansbyDate Published1626 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #117 Opus de re Medica AuthorPaulus AeginetaHeadlinePaulus Aegineta Opus De re MedicaPublisherArrivabenusDate Published1542 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #118 Arctic Zoology Author[Pennant, Thomas]HeadlineThomas Pennant Arctic ZoologyPublisherHenry HughesDate Published1784-5 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #119 The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture, illustrated by Examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome. AuthorPennethorne, JohnHeadlineGeometry and Optics of Ancient ArchitecturePublisherWilliams and NorgateDate Published1878 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #120 Essais de physique, ou Recueil de plusieurs traitez touchant les choses naturelles. Tome I AuthorPerrault, ClaudeHeadlinePerrault Essais de physique Vol. I 1680PublisherChez Jean Baptiste CoignardDate Published1680 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #121 Statue antiche che sono poste in diversi luoghi nella citta di Roma [bound with] Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eor numismatibus extractae Heading(Porro, Girolamo)Author**HeadlineEngravings of Roman Statuary 1576PublisherGirolamo PorroDate Published1576 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #122 Guilielmi Postelli de Universitate libri duo: in quibus Astronomiae, Doctrinaeve coelistis compendium AuthorPostel, GuilllaumeHeadline1635 Astonomy text by PostellusPublisherJoannis MaireDate Published1635 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #123 Signed check Heading(Presidents)AuthorArthur, Chester A.HeadlineChester A. Arthur signed checkDate PublishedJune 22, 1875 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #124 Typed Letter Signed, as President Heading(Presidents)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineDwight D. Eisenhower Signed LetterDate PublishedJanuary 20, 1958 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #125 Typed Letter Signed, as President Heading(Presidents)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineDwight D. Eisenhower Signed LetterDate PublishedMay 15, 1957 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #126 Autograph Document Signed Heading(Presidents)AuthorVan Buren, MartinHeadlineMartin Van Buren Autograph Document SignedDate Published1829 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #127 Document Signed Heading(Presidents)AuthorVan Buren, MartinHeadlineMartin Van Buren Copyright SignedDate Published1830 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #128 WITHDRAWN Autographs of four consecutive Presidents on one card Heading(Presidents)Author**HeadlineFour presidential autographsDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #129 Autographs of four consecutive Presidents on one card Heading(Presidents)Author**HeadlineFour presidential autographsDate Published1980s View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #130 Die Cosmographia - Facsimile Edition AuthorPtolemaeus, ClaudiusHeadlineDie Cosmographia - Facsimile EditionPublisherJohnson Reprint CorporationDate Published[1983] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #131 Orpheus Britannicus. A collection of all the choicest songs for one, two and three voices, compos'd by Henry Purcell. Together with such symphonies for violins or flutes, as were by him designed for any of them: and a through-bass to each song, figured for the organ, harpsichord, or theorbo-lute AuthorPurcell, HenryHeadlineSongs of Henry Purcell 1706-12PublisherPrinted by William Pearson, and sold by John YoungDate Published1706-1712 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #132 Queen Mary's Psalter: Miniatures and Drawings by an English Artist of the 14th Century Reproduced from Royal MS. 2 B. Vii in the British Museum Heading(Queen Mary's Psalter)Author**HeadlineQueen Mary's PsalterPublisherPrinted for the TrusteesDate Published1912 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #133 The History of the World AuthorRaleigh, WalterHeadlineWalter Raleigh's History of the World 1614 1st edPublisherPrinted for Walter BurrDate Published1614 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #134 Discours sur le Gouvernement des Monarchies et Principautez Souveraines [bound with] Memoires et Advis Concernans les Charges de M. les Chanceliers & Gardes des Sceaux de France AuthorRibier, JacquesHeadlineRibier on the Goverment of Monarchies 1630PublisherSebastien CramoisyDate Published1630 & 1629 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #135 Triumphus crucis de fidei veritate. Post novissimam impressionem alias Venetiis excussam... AuthorSavonarola, GirolamoHeadlineBy Dominicum priest Girolamo Savarola 1521PublisherAlexandrum de BindonisDate Published1521 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #136 [Nuremberg Chronicle – Liber Chronicon, i.e.] Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure und Pildnussen von Anbegin der Welt bis auf dise unsere Zeit AuthorSchedel, HartmannHeadlineNuremberg Chronicle in early pigskin binding 1493PublisherAnton KobergerDate Published23 December 1493 View details Estimate$80,000 - $120,000StatusUnsold Lot #137 Miscellanea Philologica et Theologica. Carmina et Fragmenta Carminum Familiae Caesareae, Hoc est Caesaris Germanici, Quae extant Opera Omnia cum Latina, tum Graeca, nunc primum conjuctim edita cum commentariis integris Hugonis Grotii AuthorSchwarz, Jo. ConradusHeadlineMiscellanea Philologica et TheologicaPublisherPaul GuntherDate Published1715 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #138 The Art of Deer-Stalking; Illustrated by a Narrative of a Few Days' Sport in the Forest of Atholl,... AuthorScrope, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Scrope The Art of Deer-StalkingPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1838 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #139 The first [-fift] booke of architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English Author[Serlio, Sebastiano]HeadlineSerlio's Architecture in English 1611PublisherPrinted [by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham] for Robert PeakeDate Published1611 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #140 The Tragedy of Coriolanus AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Coriolanus from first folio 1623Date Published1623 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #141 Illuminated Ornaments Selected from Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Sixth to the Seventeenth Centuries AuthorShaw, HenryHeadlineHenry Shaw Illuminated Ornaments Large Paper EdnPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1833 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #142 "Pooh and the Windy Day" - preliminary pencil sketch AuthorShepard, Ernest H.HeadlineOriginal pencil sketch by E.H. ShepardDate Published1927 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #143 An History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity AuthorStackhouse, ThomasHeadlineStackhouse's History of the BiblePublisherI. GarnerDate Published1787 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #144 The Grapes of Wrath [Publisher's Dummy Copy] AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineThe Grapes of Wrath [Publisher's Dummy Copy]PublisherVikingDate Published1939 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #145 The Sugar-Plum, or, Sweet amusement for leisure hours: being an entertaining and instructive collection of stories. embellished with curious cuts Heading(Sugar-Plum...)Author**HeadlineRare Juvenile Sugar-Plum 1786PublisherPrinted and sold by J. & M. Robertson and J. DuncanDate Published1786 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #146 Two original pencil drawing by John Tenniel for Punch Magazine AuthorTenniel, JohnHeadlineTwo pencil drawing by John Tenniel for PunchDate PublishedN.d. & 1893 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #147 The Virginians AuthorThackeray, W[illiam] M[akepeace]HeadlineThackeray's The Virginians 1st Edition 1858-59PublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1858-59 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #148 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineVanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero 1st EditionPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1848 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #149 The Kickleburys on the Rhine Heading(Thackeray, William Makepeace)AuthorTitmarsh, M.A. [pseud. William Makepeace Thackeray]HeadlineThe Kickleburys on the Rhine with Thackeray ANSPublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1850 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #150 The hystory, writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls... AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucyides Pelopenessian War 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #151 Elles: elf farbige Steinzeichnungen in Faksimiledruck AuthorToulouse-Lautrec, Henri deHeadlineToulouse-Lautrec Elles [portfolioPublisherGeorg MüllerDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #152 Autograph Letter Signed by Mark Twain as S[amuel] L[anghorne] Clemens, to his English publisher AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineLetter from Mark TwainDate PublishedMarch 10, 1890 View details Estimate$1,000 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #153 Museum Museorum, oder vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung... Aus andern Material-Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost- und West-Indischen Reiss-Beschreibungen AuthorValentini, Michael BernhardHeadlineValentini's Museum Museorum 1704PublisherVerlegung Johann David ZunnerDate Published1704 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #154 Factorum ac dictorum memoralium AuthorValerius Maximus, [Gaius]HeadlineValerius Maximus Factorum ac dictorum 1543PublisherSimon de ColinesDate Published1543 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #155 La Bucolica di Virgilio, Tradotta da Con Girolamo Pallantieri... AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineVirgil's Bucolica in Latin & Italian 1603PublisherVittorio BenacciDate Published1603 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #156 "Hombres" (Hommes) - One of 25 copies on vellum HeadingzzcAuthorVerlaine, PaulHeadline"Hombres" - 25 copies on vellumPublisherImprime sous le manteau et ne se vend nulle part [Messein]Date Published[1903] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #157 The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests or the like, is utterly denied and disproved... AuthorWebster, JohnHeadlineWebster's Witchcraft 1677 presentation copyPublisherPrinted by J.M. [Jonas Moore]Date Published1677 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #158 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Autograph Letter Signed, from Jacob Wyeth, Sr., to his son Charles AuthorWyeth, Jacob, Sr.HeadlineAutograph Letter from Jacob Wyeth, Sr. 1833Date PublishedMarch 27, 1833 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #159 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Two Autograph Letters Signed by Job Wyeth, to Charles Wyeth AuthorWyeth, JobHeadlineTwo Autograph Letters Signed by Job Wyeth 1832Date PublishedDecember 2 & December 22, 1832 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #160 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Autograph Letter Signed, from Nathaniel Wyeth to his brother Charles AuthorWyeth, NathanielHeadlineAutograph Letter from Nathaniel Wyeth 1833Date PublishedJanuary 16, 1833 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #161 SOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY - Autograph Letter Signed, from Jacob Wyeth, Sr., to his son Charles Wyeth AuthorWyeth, Jacob, Sr.HeadlineAutograph Letter from Jacob Wyeth, Sr. 1834Date PublishedFebruary 4, 1834 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #162 Di Zosimo Conte Ed Avvocato Del Fisco Della Nuova Istoria Libri Sei Con Note Tradotti Per La Prima Volta Nella Italiana Lingua AuthorZosimusHeadline1st Italian Edition of Count Zosimus New HistoryPublisherDalla Stamperia di Paolo Andrea MolinaDate Published1850 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #163 Blumen-Buch des Heiligen Lands Palestinae AuthorZwinner, ElectumHeadlineBlumen-Buch des Heiligen Lands PalestinaePublisherJohann WagnerDate Published1661 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #164 Bibliorum Sacrorum Tomus Primus [-sextus]. [with] Novi Testamenti pars prima [- secunda] Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineEight volume folio Bible printed in Pais 1642PublisherE Typographia RetiaDate Published1642 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #165 The Iconographic Dictionary of the most important painters and sculptors, ancient and modern, with examples of their work from public and private collections and specimens of the work of the leading etchers and engravers Heading(Iconographic...)Author**HeadlineIconographic Dictionary of Art 1/26 copies 6 volsPublisherPrinted for Subscribers Only by George Barrie & SonsDate Published1912-13 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #166 Hieronymi Pradi et Ioannis Baptistae Villalpandi e Societate Iesu In Ezechielem explanationes et Apparatus vrbis ac Templi Hierosolymitani commentarijs et imaginibus illustratus. Opus tribus tomis distinctum. Quid vero singulis contineatur, quarta pagina indicabit AuthorPrado, Jerónimo de, & juan Bautista VillalpandoHeadlinePrado's Commentaries on Bible 1596-1604PublisherEx typographia Aloysij Zanetti. Apud S. MarcumDate Published1596-1604 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #167 Die Grundworte des indischen Monismus aus den Upanishads des Veda: Die altindische Philosophie nach den Grundworten der Upanishads: der Gedanke vom All-Selbst in dem Rede-Wettkampf und den drei Lehrgesprächen des Yajnavalkya, und die Brahman-Atman-Lehre in ihren Haupt-Zeugnissen aus zwoelf Upanishads des Veda... Heading(Upanishads)AuthorDeussen, Paul, & Peerdt, Ernst teHeadlineUpanishads in German fine printing 1914PublisherE. DiederichsDate Published1914 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next