Sale 624: Rare Books & Manuscripts, with the Fred Bennett Collection of the Book Club of California (#624) 09/07/2017 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/07/2017 11:00 AM PDT 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 1-30 of 30. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Francisci-Josephi Desbillions Fabulae Aesopiae: Curis Posterioribus Omnes Ferè Emendatae: Quibus Accesserunt Plus Quam clxx Novae. AuthorAesopHeadlineLatins translation of Aesop's Fables 1769PublisherTypis J. BarbouDate Published1769 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #5 Bibliotheca Belgica: De Belgis vita scriptisq. claris. Praemissa topographica Belgii totius sev Germaniae inferioris descriptione AuthorAndré, Valère [Valerius Andreas]HeadlineEarly bio-bibliography of Flemish authors, 1643PublisherZegersDate Published1643 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #8 The Little Minister AuthorBarrie, J.M.HeadlineJ.M Barrie's Little Minister 1st Edition 1st IssuePublisherCassell & CompanyDate Published1891 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #11 The booke of Ruth [&] The first [second] booke of Samuel - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBooks of Ruth & Samuel from Great Bible of 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$295.50StatusSold Lot #12 The booke of Tobias [&] The booke of Judith - from the 1572 folio edition of the Bishops Bible Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineTobias & Judith from 1572 folio Bishops BiblePublisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1572] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #13 [Chronicles, i.e.] The first [second] booke of the Chronicles... - from the 1574 folio edition of the Bishops' Bible Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBishops' Bible Book of Chronicles 1574Publisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #16 [Joshua], i.e. The booke of Iosuah, vvhom the Hebrewes call Iehosuah - from the 1574 folio edition of the Bishops' Bible Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBishops' Bible Joshua 1574Publisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #19 A Survey of History: Or, A Nursery for Gentry. Contrived and Comprized in an Intermixt Discourse upon Historicall and Poetical Relations... AuthorBraithwaite, RichardHeadlineBraithwaite's Survey of History 1638PublisherBy J. Okes for Jasper EmeryDate Published1638 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$354StatusSold Lot #22 Manfred: A Dramatic Poem AuthorByron, LordHeadlineLord Byron's Manfred 1817PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1817 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Lot #23 Commentarii in Librum Psalmorum nec non in Jesaiam Prophetam AuthorCalvin, JeanHeadlineJohn Calvin's Bible commentary 1667PublisherJohannem Jacocobi SchipperDate Published1667 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #35 Monasticon Anglicanum: Or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales... AuthorDugdale, William, Sir, & John StevensHeadlineDugdale on English Monasteries 1718-1723PublisherPrinted by R. Harbin, for D. Browne and J. Smith, et al.Date Published1718, 1722, 1723 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$2,618StatusSold Lot #37 The Waste Land AuthorEliot, T. S.HeadlineFirst edition of Eliot's Waste LandDate Published1922 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 The Dynasts AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThomas Hardy The Dynasts signed limited editionPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1927 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$412.50StatusSold Lot #58 Oeuvres Completes D'Helvetius AuthorHelvetius, Claude AdrienHeadlineComplete works of Helvétius 14 volumesPublisherP. Didot Ll'aîneDate Published1795-1796 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #60 Opera AuthorHoratius Flaccus, Quintus [Horace]HeadlineJohn Pine's Horace, finely engraved, beautifully boundPublisherJohn PineDate Published1733-37 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,173StatusSold Lot #62 A History of New-York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, Containing Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter Author[Irving, Washington] Knickerbocker, Diedrich (pseud)HeadlineDeidrich Knickerbocker's A History of New-YorkPublisherInskeep & BradfordDate Published1809 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,893StatusSold Lot #102 Herman Melville's older brother and mentor launches his ill-fated political career while the future author is still at sea Heading(Melville, Herman)AuthorMelville, GansevoortHeadlineHerman Melville's older brother - rare 1844 political letterDate Published1844 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #113 Issue of Philosophical Transaction with a review of The English Vine-Yard Vindicated by John Rose, plus experiments on refrigeration and other subjects Heading(Philosophical Transactions)HeadlineRefrigeration in Philosophical Transactions 1666PublisherRoyal Society of LondonDate PublishedJuly 18, 1666 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$155.10StatusSold Lot #115 Two issues of Philosophical Transactions with accounts of Optick Glasses, telescopes, whaling, etc. Heading(Philosophical Transactions)HeadlineWhaling and more in Philosophical Transactions 1665PublisherRoyal Society of LondonDate PublishedNovember 6, 1665 & January 8, 1665/6 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$295.50StatusSold Lot #116 Two issues of Philosophical Transactions with observations on barometers, an earthquake near Oxford, Jupiter, etc. Heading(Philosophical Transactions)HeadlineBarometers in Philosophical Transactions 1666PublisherRoyal Society of LondonDate PublishedMarch 12, 1665/6 & April 2, 1666 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$295.50StatusSold Lot #117 Two issues of Philosophical Transactions with observations on predicting the motion of comets, "Optick Glasses", whale-fishing, killing rattle snakes, and much more Heading(Philosophical Transactions)HeadlineComets & more in Philosophical Transactions 1665PublisherRoyal Society of LondonDate PublishedMarch 6, 1664/5 & May 8, 1665 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$237StatusSold Lot #126 Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. AuthorPindarHeadline1697 Oxford printing of PindarPublisherSheldonian TheatreDate Published1697 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500.25StatusSold Lot #128 The Republic of Plato. In ten books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst edition in English of Plato's RepublicPublisherRobert and Andrew FoulisDate Published1763 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #134 The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare Henry IV pt. 2 from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #135 The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida [&] The Tragedy of Coriolanus AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo plays from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #136 The Tragedy of King Lear - 12 consecutive leaves from the second folio AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's King Lear from second folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,758StatusSold Lot #139 De Republica Helvetiorum libri duo... Describvntvr vero in his libris no tantum communis totius Heluetiae politia... AuthorSimler, JosiasHeadlineThe first history of Switzerland, 2nd edition, 1577PublisherChris. FroschauerDate Published1577 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #140 The New Book of Martyrs; or Complete Christian Mythology. Containing an Authentic and Genuine Historical Account of the Many Dreadful Persecutions Against the Church of Christ, All Parts of the World, by Pagans, Jews, Turks, Papists, and others, From the Earliest Ages of the Church to the Present Period. AuthorSouthwell, HenryHeadlineSouthwell's The New Book of MartyrsPublisherJ. CookeDate Published[n.d. c.1790?] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$190.20StatusSold Lot #146 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineFirst Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,290StatusSold Lot #147 Le Declamationi Sillane di Gio. Lodovico Vives Valentiano. Tradotte di Latino in volgare per Gio. Domenico Tarsia Iustinopolitano AuthorVives, Juan LuisHeadlineBy the "Father of Psychology" 1549PublisherNelle case di Pietro de Nicolini da SabbioDate Published1549 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$471StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next