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 1-87 of 87. 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 #3 Illustrations to Popular Songs AuthorAlken, HenryPublisherThomas M'LeanDate Published1823 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold 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 #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 #26 Les Trois Mousquetaires AuthorDumas, Alexandre, perePublisherC. MuquardtDate Published1844 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #27 Le Comte de Monte-Christo AuthorDumas, Alexandre, perePublisherC. MuquardtDate Published1846 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$531.25StatusSold 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 #37 The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral and Wisdom of the Ancients Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorBacon, FrancisPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1845 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #38 Legends and Lyrics Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorProcter, Adelaide AnnePublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1870-71 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #39 The Poetical Works Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorShelley, Percy BysshePublisherE. MoxonDate Published1871 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #40 The Cabinet Album; a Collection of Original and Selected Literature Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)Author**PublisherW.S. OrrDate Published1837 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #41 The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber Heading(Fore-edge Painting)AuthorHeber, ReginaldPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1854 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #46 The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettPublisherHenry FrowdeDate Published1910 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #47 The Pleasures of Hope with other Poems Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorCampbell, ThomasPublisherLongman, Hurst, et al.Date Published1821 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #48 English Songs and other Small Poems Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorCornwall, BarryPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1851 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #49 The Poetical Works Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorCowper, WilliamPublisherFrederick WarneDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #51 The Poetical Works Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorGray, ThomasPublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1853 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #52 Poems Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorHemens, FeleciaPublisherWilliam Blackwood & SonsDate Published[c.1878] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #54 The Poetical Works of John Milton Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorMilton, JohnPublisherRoutledge, Warne, and RoutledgeDate Published1862 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #55 Poetical Works Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorMoore, ThomasPublisherGeorge Routledge & SonsDate Publishedc.1860 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #56 Songs, Ballads, and Sacred Songs Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorMoore, ThomasPublisherLongman, Brown, Green & LongmansDate Published1849 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #58 Opera Quae Supersunt Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorOvid [Publius Ovidius Naso]PublisherJ. BarbouDate Published1762 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #59 Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorProcter, Adelaide AnnePublisherGeorge Bell & SonsDate Published1890 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #62 The Poetical Works Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorScott, Sir WalterPublisherGall & InglisDate Published[c.1890's] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #64 Idylls of the King Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorTennyson, Alfred, LordPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1864 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #65 Idylls of the King Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorTennyson, Alfred, LordPublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1859 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold 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 #72 Plantation Pageants AuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1899 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #73 Two copies of Uncle Remus AuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerDate Published1881; [1927] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #88 The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane Heading(Kelmscott Press)Author**PublisherPrinted by William Morris at the Kelmscott PressDate Published1893 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$11,250StatusSold Lot #90 Kim AuthorKipling, RudyardPublisherMacmillanDate Published1901 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #91 The Jungle Book AuthorKipling, RudyardPublisherMacmillanDate Published1895 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #92 The Second Jungle Book AuthorKipling, RudyardPublisherMacmillanDate Published1895 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold 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 #96 The Odyssey of Homer Author[Lawrence, T.E.]PublisherOxford University PressDate Published1932 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #125 Walden; Or, Life in the Woods AuthorThoreau, Henry D[avid]PublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1854 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #127 The Last Chronicle of Barset AuthorTrollope, AnthonyPublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published[1866]-1867 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #129 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) AuthorTwain, MarkPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #130 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer AuthorTwain, MarkPublisherThe American Publishing Co.Date Published1877 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #131 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court AuthorTwain, MarkPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1889 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold 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 #133 The Mysterious Island. The Modern Robinson Crusoe AuthorVerne, JulesPublisherScribner, ArmstrongDate Published1876 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #142 Autograph Note, signed by Robert Buchanan AuthorBuchanan, Robert W. (1841-1901)Date Published[c. 1880's] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #147 Autograph Letter, signed by Charles Dickens to Henry Kermot AuthorDickens, CharlesDate Published14 May 1841 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #149 Autograph Note with Original Autograph Envelope, signed by Arthur Conan Doyle AuthorDoyle, Arthur Conan, SirDate Published[1925 or later] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #160 Autograph Poem, signed by Mary Howitt AuthorHowitt, Mary (1799-1888)Date PublishedAugust 24, 1868 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #167 Autograph Manuscript of "The Children's Hour", signed by Henry W. Longfellow AuthorLongfellow, Henry W.Date Published10 March 1864 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #169 Autograph Note, signed by French novelist, Paul Margueritte AuthorMargueritte, Paul (1860-1918)Date PublishedJune or July 7, 1901 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #173 Autograph Letter, signed by novelist Lady Sydney Morgan AuthorMorgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady (1783-1859)Date Published[c. 1830-1840's] View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #184 Autograph Letter, signed by John Ruskin AuthorRuskin, John (1819-1900)Date Published[c. 1870-1880's] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next