Sale 579 - Rare Books & Manuscripts - Sunday at Pasadena (#579) 02/14/2016 8:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/14/2016 8:00 AM 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 1-39 of 39. Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Aristotelous hapanta [in Greek] - Aristotelis summi semper uiri, et in quem unum uim suam uniuersam contulisse natura reru[m], opera, quæcunq[ue] impressa hactenus extiterunt omnia, summa cum uigilantia excusa AuthorAristotleHeadlineAristotle's Opera in Greek 1531PublisherApud Io. Beb. [Johann Bebel]Date Published1531 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #6 [Works] AuthorAusten, JaneHeadlineJane Austen's NovelsPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1869 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #7 Collection of some 165 autographed items, most by late 19th-early 20th century American authors, with a few illustrators and actors Heading(Autographs)HeadlineAutographs of Authors 1898Date Publishedc.1898-1899 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #13 The booke of the prophete Ezechiel [&] The booke of the Prophet Danyel - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBooks of Ezekiel & Daniel 1566 BiblePublisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #14 The Gospell of Saynte Jhon - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineGospel of St. John 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #16 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Appointed to be read in churches Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineKing James Bible 1628PublisherBonham Norton and Iohn BillDate Published1628 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #17 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches Heading(Bible in English)PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1617 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #18 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible Heading(Bible in Latin)HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #23 Britannia: or a chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent islands AuthorCamden, WilliamHeadlineCamden's Britannia with Morden maps 1722PublisherPrinted by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and sold by William TaylorDate Published1722 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #24 The History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire... Containing the growth of the Othman Empire, from the reign of Othman the founder, to the Reign of Mahomet IV. That is from the year 1300, to the Siege of Vienna, in 1683. Written originally in Latin, by Demetrius Cantemir, late Prince of Moldavia. Translated into English, from the author’s own manuscript, by N. Tindal... AuthorCantemir, Dimitrie, Voivode of MoldaviaHeadlineCantemir's History of Othman EmpirePublisherPrinted by James, John, and Paul KnaptonDate Published1734-1735 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #25 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [&] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There AuthorCarroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]HeadlineAlice in Wonderland & Through the Looking GlassPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1929 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #26 Original drawing by Lewis Carroll in illustration of "The Hunting of the Snark," and an autograph letter from him to the book's illustrator critiquing his designs - bound into a copy of the book AuthorCarroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]HeadlineWith letter and drawing by Lewis CarrollPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1876 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Lot #27 Single leaf from De consolatione philosophiae, printed by William Caxton Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineEarly Caxton printed leafDate Published[c.1478] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #32 The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno - Purgatorio - and Paradiso AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineDante's Divine Comedy 1st in English 1802PublisherPrinted by A. Strahan for T. Cadell jun. and W. DaviesDate Published1802 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #33 New Ballads - with a manuscript verse laid in AuthorDavidson, JohnHeadlineWith a manuscript poem by John DavidsonPublisherJohn Lane, The Bodley HeadDate Published1897 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #34 Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres AuthorDiderot, Denis & Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, editorsHeadlineComplete Diderot EncyclopedieDate Published1751-1780 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 An Essay on the History of Civil Society AuthorFerguson, AdamHeadlineFerguson's Essay on the History of Civil SocietyPublisherA. Millar, et alDate Published1767 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 Les Fleurs du Mal Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBaudelaire, CharlesHeadlineBaudelaire in a fine French bindingPublisherA. Ferroud - F. FerroudDate Published1910 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #44 Salammbô - in a superb painted binding by Madame Marot-Rodde Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorFlaubert, GustaveHeadlineFinely bound by Madame Marot-RoddePublisherLe LivreDate Published1923 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #45 Genesis: Die Schopfung der Welt - in a full morocco exhibition binding by Kurt Londenberg Heading(Fine Bindings)HeadlineKurt Londenberg Exhibition BindingPublisherGotthard de BeauclairDate Published1965 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #46 The Vicar of Wakefield - in a full morocco inlaid pictorial binding by Bayntun Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorGoldsmith, OliverHeadlineVicar of Wakefield in a stunning inlaid bindingPublisherJohn C. NimmoDate Published1889 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #61 Cyrupædia: The Institution and Life of Cyrus...King of Persians Heading(Gregynog Press)AuthorXenophonHeadlineXenophon's Life of Cyrus Gregynog PressPublisherGregynog PressDate Published1936 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #68 Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women; Inscribed by ye Names of ye Nine Muses AuthorHeywood, ThomasHeadlineNine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women 1624PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1624 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #70 His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby AuthorHomerHeadlineJohn Ogilby's Translation of Homer's OdysseyPublisherJames FlesherDate Published1669 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #78 Cornelis de Bruins Reizen over Moskovië door Persië en Indië: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die daar gevonden worden: voor al derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlyke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door befaemde Hof van Persepolis, by den Persianen Tchilminar genaemt AuthorLe Brun, CorneliusHeadlineLe Brun's Travels to Moscow & the East 1714PublisherRudolph en Gerard Wetstein, et al.Date Published1714 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #80 The Song of Hiawatha AuthorLongfellow, Henry WadsworthHeadlineLongfellow's Song of Hiawatha First EditionPublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1855 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #83 Consuetudo, vel, Lex Mercatoria, or, The Antient Law-Merchant...[Bound with] The Merchants Mirrour: or, Directions for the Perfect Ordering and Keeping of his Accounts... by Richard Dafforne. AuthorMalynes, GerardHeadlineThe Antient Law-Merchant...[Bound with] The Merchants MirrourPublisherAdam Islip / R. YoungDate Published1636 / 1635 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #85 Collection of 28 titles published in, and/or about, the Mascarene Island group (Mauritius and Reunion) located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar Heading(Mauritius & Reunion)HeadlineMauritius Collection with rare imprintsDate Published1773-1901 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #86 Paradise Lost. A Poem Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost 1749PublisherPrinted for J. and R. Tonson and S. DraperDate Published1749 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #87 The Square Egg AuthorMunro, H.H. ("Saki")HeadlineH.H. Munro The Square Egg First Edition in djPublisherJohn Lane, The Bodley HeadDate Published[1924] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #91 The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland AuthorPlinius Secundus, GaiusHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1601PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1601 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #94 Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present... AuthorPurchas, SamuelHeadlineFirst edition of Purchas His Pilgrimage 1613PublisherPrinted by William Stansby for Henrie FetherstoneDate Published1613 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #97 Bernardi Sacci Patritij Papiensis De Italicarum rerum varietate et elegantia libri .X. In quibus multa scitu digna recensentur, de populorum vetustate, dominio, & mutatione. Item de prouinciarum proprietate, & Ro. Ecclesiae amplificatione. Cum indice capitulorum in fine operis AuthorSacco, BernardoHeadlineSacco's 1565 Italian history in English armorial bindingPublisherApud Hieronymum Bartholum.Date Published1565 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #99 Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineFine copy of Shakespeare Second Folio 1632PublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for William Aspley and are to be sold at the signe of the Parrat in Pauls Church-yardDate Published1632 View details Estimate$200,000 - $300,000Sold for$180,000StatusSold Lot #104 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineEarly issue of Mark Twain's Huckleberry FinnPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #105 Lucensium Oratio luculentissima Pont. maximo Alexandro sexto per Nicolaum Tygrinu[m] Lucensem vtriusq[ue] iuris doctore[m]: elegantissime habita in Co[n]sistorio publico pro obedie[n]tia p[rae]standa. Anno .Mccclxxxxij. die .xxv. mensis Octobris. Emendata. AuthorTygrinus, NicolausHeadline1492 speech lauding new PopePublisher[Andreas Freitag]Date PublishedOctober 25th, 1492 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #111 Juris et Judicii Fecialis, Sive Juris Inter Gentes,... AuthorZouch, RichardHeadline1650 textbook on international lawPublisherH. HallDate Published1650 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #195 The Confessions of Jean J. Rousseau AuthorRousseau, Jean JacquesHeadlineFinely Bound The Confessions of Jean J. RousseauPublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1904 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #217 La Parfaite Grammaire Royale Italienne, et Françoise, Tirée du Maître Italien, du sieur Veneroni AuthorVeneroni, [Giovanni] Sieur deHeadlineLa Parfaite Grammaire Royale 1745PublisherDan l'imprimerie LerzianDate Published1745 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next