Sale 674: Fine Books & Manuscripts - Food & Drink (#674) 05/30/2019 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/30/2019 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 1-50 of 50. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 An Essay of Electricity, Explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and describing the Instruments... AuthorAdams, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Adams on Electricity 1799PublisherJ. Dillon for W. and S. JonesDate Published1799 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #6 De Praesagienda Vita & Morte Aegrotantium Libri Septem... Cum Praefatione Hermanni Boerhaave. Editio nova... AuthorAlpini, ProsperHeadlineRenaissance classic on prognosis 1710PublisherIsaac SeveriniDate Published1710 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #27 In Pandean Vale: A Suite of Sonnets Heading(Bayros, Franz von)AuthorSephton, GeoffreyHeadline8 color plates by Franz von Bayros 1/500PublisherAmalthea PublishingDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #37 The Holy Bible Heading(Bibles)HeadlineHoly Bible finely bound 1653PublisherPrinted by John FieldDate Published1653 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #38 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised Heading(Bibles)HeadlineBible with scenic fore-edge painting 1823PublisherSamuel Collingwood and Co.Date Published1823 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #40 The Holy Bible, Containing The Old Testament, and The New; Translated out of The Original Tongues [and] The Book of Common Prayer.. Heading(Bibles)HeadlineFinely bound Holy Bible and Book of Pyaer 1816-18PublisherPrinted for George Eyre and Andrew StrahanDate Published1816-18 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #41 The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments - finely bound Heading(Bibles)HeadlineThe Holy Bible finely bound by Zaehnsdorf of LondonPublisherGeorge E. Eyre and William SpottiswoodeDate Published[c.1860s] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #43 The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Translated from the Latin Vulgate: A Revision of the Challoner-Rheims Version Heading(Bibles)HeadlineRevision of the Challoner-Rheims New Testament 1/1000PublisherSt Anthony Guild PressDate Published1941 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #44 Pentateuchum Moysi, nempe Genesis, Exodus, Liviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomium. Heading(Bibles)HeadlinePentateuch, 1592Date Published1592 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #62 Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology AuthorBuckland, WilliamHeadlineGeology and Mineralogy Considered 1841PublisherLea & BlanchardDate Published1841 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #70 Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Philosophi Ac Medici Celeberrimi Opera Omnia... AuthorCardano, Girolamo and Charles SponHeadlineWorks of Gerolamo Cardano 1663PublisherHuguetan & RavaudDate Published1663 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #75 L'office De La Semaine Sainte, A L'usage De La Maison Du Roi, Conformément aux Bréviaires & Messels Romain & Parisien... Heading(Catholic Church)HeadlineHoly Week Rite finely bound 1766PublisherRue S. JacquesDate Published1766 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #77 Pontificale Romanum Summorum Pontificum Jussu Editum et a Benedicto XIV Pont Max Recognitum et Castigatum Heading(Catholicism)HeadlinePontificale Romanum 1848PublisherTypis Rev. Camerae Apostolicae apud SalviuccioDate Published1848 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #79 The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre AuthorCentlivre, SusannaHeadlineThe Celebrated Mrs. CentlivrePublisherJ. Knapton, C. Hitch and L. HawesDate Published1760-1761 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #88 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill's History of English Speaking PeoplePublisherCassell and CompanyDate Published[1956-1958] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #98 The Fallen Leaves AuthorCollins, WilkieHeadlineOne of Wilkie Collins' scarcest novelsPublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1879 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #110 The Descent of Man AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man First American EditionPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1871 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #112 Traite de nomographie. Théorie des abaques. Authord’Ocagne, MauriceHeadlineTheories by the creator of normographyPublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1899 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #116 The Writings Of Charles Dickens With Critical And Bibliographical Introductions And Notes By Edwin Percy Whipple And Others. Illustrated With Steel Portraits And Engravings From The Original Designs By Browne, Cruikshank, Leech, And Others AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineThe Writings of Dickens 32 volumesPublisherHoughton, Mifflin & Co.Date Published[1894-1900] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #134 Essays Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBirrell, AugustineHeadlineAugustine Birrell bound by BayntonPublisherArthur L. HumphreysDate Published1912 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #135 Industrial Psychology Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHarrell, Thomas WillardHeadlineHarrell's Industrial Psychology finely boundPublisherRinehart & Company, IncDate Published1954 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #136 Of Aucassin and Nicolette Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHousman, Laurence, translatorHeadlineOf Aucassin and Nicolette bound by RivierePublisherChatto & WindusDate Published1930 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #137 Kim Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineKipling's Kim finely bound by BayntunPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1958 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #138 Semain Sainti [spine title, i.e. "Semaine sainte, à l'usage de la Maison de la Reine" - from Approbation at rear] Heading(Fine Bindings)HeadlineObservance of Holy Week, in royal French bindingPublisher[Office de la Semaine Sainte]Date Published[1739] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #139 English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTrevelyan, George MacAulayHeadlineTrevelyan's English Social History finely boundPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published[1944] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #140 History of England Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTrevelyan, George MacAulayHeadlineTrevelyan's History of England finely boundPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1927 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #141 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWhistler, James M.HeadlineThe Gentle Art of Making Enemies finely boundPublisherDover PublicationsDate Published1967 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #142 The Pilgrims' Progress: From This World to That Which is to Come Heading(Fore-edge Painting)AuthorBunyan, JohnHeadlinePilgrims' Progress finely bound w/fore-edge painting 1893PublisherBickers & SonDate Published1893 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #144 The Lady of the Lake Heading(Fore-edge Painting)AuthorScott, WalterHeadlineWalter Scott Lady of the Lake w/fore-edge painting 1810PublisherJohn BallantyneDate Published1810 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #145 A Small Collection of Private Devotions for Persons of All Ages Heading(Fore-edge Painting)HeadlineDouble fore-edge painting with manuscript prayersPublisherT. ReynoldsDate Published1802 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #146 The Seasons Heading(Fore-edge Painting)AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineThomson The Seasons finely bound w/double fore-edge painting 1825PublisherPrinted for John SharpeDate Published1825 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #149 Le Drame de Varennes. Juin 1791. D'Apres des Documents inedits et les Relations des Temoins oculaires. Portraits, Plans, Dessins inedits de Gerardin. Gravures sur Bois de Deloche. Heading(French Revolution)AuthorLenotre, G.HeadlineLe Drame de Varennes w/signed plate 1/160PublisherLibrairie Academique DidierDate Published1905 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #154 The Shepherd's Week in Six Pastorals AuthorGay, JohnHeadlineGay's The Shepherd's Week in Six PastoralsPublisherR. BurleighDate Published1714 (but 1716) View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #167 Poems AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellHeadline1st UK Edition of 1st book by Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisherO. Rich & SonsDate Published1846 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #187 The Collected Works of C.G. Jung AuthorJung, Carl GustavHeadlineWorks of C.G. Jung 21 volumesPublisherPantheon BooksDate Published[1967-1989] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #188 Abhandlung Über den Croup, Welche den am Vierten Juni 1807 von dem Vormaligen Kaiser Napoleon Ausgesetzten Preis Getheilt Hat. AuthorJurine, LudwigHeadlineJurine, Abhandlung Über den Croup, 1807PublisherGeorg Joachim GöschenDate Published1816 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #192 Manuel Complet du Vétérinaire Heading(Kofoid, Charles Atwood)AuthorLebeaud, M.HeadlineManuel du Vétérinaire w/Charles Atwood Kofoid bookplatePublisherLa Librairie Encyclopédique de RoretDate Published1833 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #195 A Description of the Genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other barks of a similar quality are taken. Illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered... AuthorLambert, Aylmer BourkeHeadlineBotany of malaria cure, 1797PublisherPrinted for B. and J. WhiteDate Published1797 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #202 Napoleon AuthorLudwig, EmilHeadlineNapoleon, 1927, finely boundPublisherGeorge Allen & Unwin Ltd.Date Published[1927] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #207 British Mathematician, called 'America's 1st Jewish Professor', rare letter to the Doctor of Poe and Melville, after a harrowing American "adventure" Heading(Mathematics, Judaica)AuthorSylvester, J.J. [James Joseph]Headline'America's 1st Jewish Professor', Mathematician, letter to Poe's DoctorDate PublishedJune 13, 1846 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #208 Carte de visite and handwriting sample from Jacob Doorn, a Dutch man with two prosthetic arms. Heading(Medical devices - prosthetics)HeadlineCdV of man with two prosthetic arms, and handwriting sampleDate Published1883 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #219 The Works of Arthur Murphy, Esq. AuthorMurphy, ArthurHeadlineWorks of Irish writer Arthur Murphy, 7 vols. 1786PublisherPrintred for T. CadellDate Published1786 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #220 Jeanne d'Arc: Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France AuthorMurray, T. DouglasHeadlineJeanne d'Arc, 1902, in elaborate pictorial leather bindingPublisherWilliam HeinemanDate Published1902 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #221 The Complete Conveyancer; or, the Theory and Practice of Conveyancing in All its Branches. AuthorNewnam, WilliamHeadlineRare lawyer's reference book 3 vols. 1781PublisherPrinted for S. BladonDate Published1781 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #232 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 #238 An American Genius. The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence - signed by ten Nobel laureates Heading(Physics)AuthorChilds, HerbertHeadlineLife of Ernest Orlando Lawrence - signed by ten Nobel laureatesPublisherE. P. DuttonDate Published1968 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #253 Gallantry: An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies... Heading(Pyle, Howard)AuthorCabell, James BranchHeadlineIllustrated by Pyle, finely boundPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1907 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #267 Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd Mathematicks. Illustrated by a variety of examples AuthorSimpson, ThomasHeadlineSimpson's mathematical curiosities, 1740PublisherPrinted by H. Woodfall, jun. for J. NourseDate Published1740 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #273 East of Eden AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineJohn Steinbeck East of Eden Finely BoundPublisherVikingDate Published1952 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #412 The Poetical Works AuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineWorks of Sir Walter Scott 12 finely bound volumesPublisherRobert CadellDate Published1833-4 View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$112.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next