Sale 303: Rare Books & Manuscripts. With the Autograph Collection of Florence S. Walter, Part I (#303) 02/24/2005 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/24/2005 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 1-75 of 75. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Aesop's Fables, with his Life AuthorAesopPublisherPrinted by R. Newcomb for Francis BarlowDate Published1703 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #2 In Hoc Volumine De Alchemia continentur hæc. Gebri Arabis ... De inuestigatioe pfectionis metallo [Prescription symbol]. Liber I. Summæ perfectionis metallorum, siue perfecti magisterij. Liber II. Quæ sequuntur, omnia nunc primu excusa sunt. Eiusdem De inuentione ueritatis seu perfectionis metallorum. Liber I. De Fornacibus construendis. Liber I. Item. Speculu Alchemiæ, doctissimi iuri Rogerij Bachonis. Correctoriu Alchemiæ doctiss. uiri Richardi Anglici. Rosarius minor, de Alchemia, Incerti authoris. Liber Secretoru Alchemiæ Calidis filij Iazichi Iudæi. Tabula Smaragdina de Alchemia, Hermetis Trismeg. Hortulani philosophi, super Tabulam Smaragdinam Hermetis Commentarius. Omnia collatis exemplaribus, emedatissima ... Heading(Alchemy)AuthorJabir Ibn Hayyan, Roger Bacon, et al.PublisherIoh. PetreiumDate Published1541 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #4 Summa contra gentiles AuthorAquinas, ThomasPublisherAlex. CalcedoniiDate Published7 November 1501 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #5 Super quarto libro Sententiarum AuthorAquinas, ThomasPublisher[Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Jenson et SociiDate Published8 July 1481 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #8 Color proof for the wrappers of Octave Uzanne's "Le Miroir du Monde" AuthorAvril, P[aul]PublisherMaison QuentinDate Published[1888] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #9 Veteres arcus Augustorum triumphis insignes AuthorBellori, Giovanni PietroDate Published1690 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #11 The Grave, a Poem Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertPublisherT. BensleyDate Published1808 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #14 Historical Descriptions of New and Elegant Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England and Wales: Being a Grand Copper-Plate Repository of Elegance, Taste, and Entertainment AuthorBoswell, HenryPublisherAlex HoggDate Publishedc.1790 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #15 A Journey from Edinburgh through Parts of North Britain AuthorCampbell, AlexanderPublisherT.N. Longman & O. Rees; Vernor & HoodDate Published1802 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #16 Theatrum ethnico idolatricum politico-historicum AuthorCartari, VincenzoPublisherLudovici BourgeatDate Published1699 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #17 Regionum indicarum per Hispanos olim devastatarum.... AuthorCasas, Bartolome de lasPublisherWilhelm WalterDate Published1664 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #18 A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library; Together with an Account of Books Burnt or Damaged by a Late Fire... AuthorCasley, DavidPublisherPrinted for the authorDate Published1734 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #19 Flora Virginica exhibens plantas... AuthorClayton, John & J.F. GronoviusDate Published1762 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #21 Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana... AuthorDiaz del Castillo, BernalPublisherEmprenta del ReynoDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #25 A Short View of the late Troubles in England Author[Dugdale, William, Sir]PublisherMoses PittDate Published1681 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #28 Die Impressionisten. Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin AuthorDuret, ThéodorePublisherBruno CassirerDate Published1909 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #29 Edouard Manet. Sein Leben und seine Kunst AuthorDuret, ThéodorePublisherPaul CassirerDate Published1910 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #31 Eustratii et aliorum insignium peripateticorum commentaria in...Artistotelis de moribus ad Nicomachum.... AuthorEustratius, Archbishop of NicaeaPublisherAldusDate PublishedJuly, 1536 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #32 Les Avantures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse AuthorFenelon, Francois de Salignac de la MothePublisherWetstein & Smith / HofhoutDate Published1734 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #33 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling AuthorFielding, HenryPublisherA. MillarDate Published1749 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #34 Galerie du Musée Napoléon AuthorFilhol, Antoine MichelPublisherFilhol / Veuve FilholDate Published1804-1815 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #35 Integrum morborum mysterium: sive medicinae catholicae [bound with] Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum...Portionis Tertiae Pars Tertia AuthorFludd, RobertPublisherWolfgang Hofmann for William FitzerDate Published1631 and 1629 (Pulsus) View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #44 The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorBewick, ThomasPublisherPrinted by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and SonDate Published1818 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #45 A Golden Treasury for the Children of God; Containing Select Texts of the Bible, with Practical Observations, in Prose and Verse, for Every Day of the Year Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorBogatzky, C.H.V.PublisherHamilton, Adams & CoDate Publishedc.1855 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #66 The Book of Common Prayer... Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)Author**PublisherOtridge, Rivington, et alDate Published1816 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #71 Das von der Liebe handelnde Sinn- und Lehr-reiche Pastorellgedicht zum Nuzen und Vergnügen die da lieben und sich verheirathen AuthorHallman, Johann ChristianPublisherJ.A.E. MaschenbauerDate Published1750 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #76 Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill AuthorHobbes, ThomasPublisherAndrew CkookeDate Published1651 [but Amsterdam, c.1651] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #77 Paris a travers les ages AuthorHoffbauer, FedorPublisherFirmin-DidotDate Published1885 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #78 The Iliads of Homer. Prince of Poets. Never before in any languag truely translated [& The Odysses] AuthorHomerPublisherNathaniell ButterDate Published[1611-1613?] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #80 De militia equestri antiqua et nova ad regem Philippum IV. Libri quinque AuthorHugo, HermannusPublisherPlantiniana B. MoretiDate Published1630 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #81 Illuminated manuscript leaf from an Old Testament, on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author[Leber Workshop]Date Published[c.1240-50] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #82 Illuminated manuscript leaf from an Old Testament, on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author[Leber Workshop]Date Published[c.1240-50] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #83 Illuminated manuscript leaf from an Old Testament, on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author[Leber Workshop]Date Published[c.1240-1250] View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #84 Illuminated manuscript leaves from a Psalter, on vellum Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author**Date Published[ca 1400] View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #85 Manuscript record book on vellum, in Italian Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)Author**Date Published16th-18th centuries View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #87 Historiae naturalis [de quadrupedibus; de avibus; de piscibus et cetis; de xanguibus aquaticus; de insectis; de serpentibus et draconibus] AuthorJonston, JohnPublisherJ.J. Fil. SchipperDate Published1657 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #93 Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus; quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturæ in eo distributio, verbo pantámorphou Protei regnum, universæ denique naturæ majestas & divitiæ summa rerum varietate exponuntur. Abditorum effectuum causæ acri indagine inquisitæ demonstrantur; cognitæ per artis & naturæ conjugium ad humanæ vitæ necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo, & ratione applicantur AuthorKircher, AthanasiusPublisherJoannem Janssonium & Elizum WeyerstratenDate Published1665 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold Lot #94 The Holy Qur'an Heading(Koran in Arabic & Persian)Author**Date PublishedLate18th Century View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #95 Manuscript Koran with illuminations Heading(Koran)Author**Date PublishedEarly 19th century? View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #97 La Lauda e i primordi della melodia Italiana AuthorLiuzzi, FernandoPublisherOfficine dell'Istituto PoligraficoDate Published[c.1935] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #98 An Essay concerning Humane Understanding AuthorLocke, JohnPublisherAwnsham and John Churchil, and Samuel ManshipDate Published1694 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #100 Afbeelding der Menschelyke Bezigheden bestaende in Hondert onderscheiden Printverbeeldingen AuthorLuyken, JanPublisherReinier & Josua OttensDate Published[c.1700] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #103 Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes AuthorMilton, JohnPublisherPrinted by J.M. for John StarkeyDate Published1671 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #104 Ordonnance et instruction selon laquelle se doibuent conduire & regler doresenenavant les Changeurs our Collecteurs des pieces d'or & d'argent deffendues... Heading(Money-Changing)Author**PublisherHierosme Verdussen, Imprimeur des Monnoyes de sa MaiesteDate Published1633 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #105 Astrologia Gallica. Principiis & rationibus propriis stabilita... AuthorMorin, Jean-BaptistePublisherAdrian VlacqDate Published1661 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #107 La Alamanna AuthorOliviero, Antonio FrancescoPublisherVincenzo ValgrisiDate Published1567 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #108 Expositio super textu Petri Hispani AuthorOrbellis, NicolausPublisherBernardinus de ChorisDate Published7 November 1489 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #109 De rebus Emmanuelis regis Lusitaniae.... AuthorOsorio da Fonseca, JeronimoPublisherHeirs of Arnold BirckmannDate Published1574 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #110 Opera. Buecher und schrifften... [bound with] Chirurgische Buecher und Schrifften AuthorParacelsus, TheophrastusPublisherLazarus ZetznerDate Published1616 & 1618 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #113 Labyrinte de Versailles. The Labyrinth of Versailles. Der Irr-garte zu Versailles. 't Dool-hof tot Versailles. Author[Perrault, Charles]PublisherNicolaus VisscherDate Published[c.1690] View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #115 The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island; Compiled from Authentic Papers... To which are added, the Journals of Lieutenants Shortland, Watts, Ball, and Capt. Marshall; with an Account of Their New Discoveries AuthorPhillip, ArthurPublisherPrinted by the United Company of BooksellersDate Published[c.1790] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #116 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**PublisherGirolamo PorroDate Published1576 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #117 Propyläen-Kunstgeschichte Heading(Propylaen)Author**Date Published1967-1980 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #119 The Roman History from the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium: that is, To the End of the Commonwealth AuthorRollin, [Charles] & [Jean Baptiste Louis] CrevierPublisherJ. and P. KnaptonDate Published1754 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #120 U.R.S.S.: Bois, Céramique, Bijoux Cuir Heading(Russian Art Exhibit)AuthorArt Populaire RussePublisherErnst Henri, EditeurDate Published[c. 1920's] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #121 Ovid's Metamorphosis AuthorS[andys], G[eorge], translatorPublisherPrinted by William StansbyDate Published1626 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #122 Poems AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisherPrinted by Thomas Cotes to be sold by John BensonDate Published1640 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #124 The Whole Life and Progresse of Henry Walker the Ironmonger AuthorTaylor, JohnDate Published1642 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #126 La pittura e la miniatura nella Lombardia AuthorToesca, PietroPublisherUlrich HoepliDate Published1912 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #128 The Turner Gallery... Heading(Turner, Joseph Mallord William)AuthorMonkhouse, W. CosmoPublisherD. Appleton & Co.Date Publishedc.1880 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #132 Bronze medal in commemoration of Mark Twain's centenary of his birth Heading(Twain, Mark)Author[Flanagan, John]Date Published[1935] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #134 Verve: The French Review of Art - Lot of 8 quarterly issues Heading(Verve)AuthorTériade. E., editorPublisherVerveDate Published1937-1948 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #137 Ornamente aller klassischen Kunstepochen AuthorZahn, WilhelmPublisherDietrich ReimerDate Published1870 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #140 Autograph and Art Album, along with original musical compositions and color drawings Heading(Autograph album)Author**Date Published1897-1939 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #141 Autograph Letter, signed by Constantin Brâncusi, to Jim Ede AuthorBrâncusi, Constantin, (1876-1957)Date Published3/7/1939 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #146 Autograph AuthorDefregger, Franz von, (1835-1921)Date Published1906 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #150 Autograph Note, signed by Édouard Détaille AuthorDétaille, ÉdouardDate PublishedMarch 11, 1891 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #152 Autograph Letter, signed by Frederic W. Farrar to Cyrus W. Field AuthorFarrar, Frederic William. (1831-1903)Date PublishedApril 15, 1887 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #162 Autograph Note, signed by artist Ludwig Knaus, with the original mailing envelope, hand-written and addressed to Florence Schwartz [Walter] by Knaus AuthorKnaus, Ludwig (German Painter, 1829-1910)Date PublishedJune 10, 1906 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #163 Typed Letter, signed by Oskar Kokoschka to a Mrs. Mack of the San Francisco Museum of Art AuthorKokoschka, Oskar (1886-1980)Date Published[c. 1957-58] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #164 Autograph letter signed by Sir Thomas Lawrence AuthorLawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830)Date Published31 July 1827 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #166 Autograph Note, signed with original hand-written mailing envelope, signed by Max Liebermann AuthorLiebermann, Max (1847-1935)Date PublishedJuly 19, 1906 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #168 Autograph Letter, signed by Fernand Leger and J. Ligbot Rout AuthorLéger, Fernand (1881-1955)Date Published[c. 1940's] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #188 Autograph Letter signed by Whistler AuthorWhistler, James Abbot McNeill (1834-1903)Date PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #189 Sketching Without a Master Heading(Wood, Grant)AuthorBrown, J. HullahPublisherT.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd.Date Published[c. 1920] View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next