Sale 723: PBA Platinum - Rare Books & Manuscripts (#723) 02/18/2021 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/18/2021 11:00 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 1-24 of 24. Previous|1|Next Lot #6 The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey, illustrator)AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasHeadlineLe Morte d'Arthur with Aubrey Beardsley illustrationsPublisherE. P. DuttonDate Published1909 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #7 Album of Thomas Bewick vignettes or 'tale-pieces', presented to Richard Arkwright Heading(Bewick, Thomas, illustrator)HeadlineThomas Bewick vignettes inscribed by the artistDate Published[1824] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #10 Histoire Naturelle, Agricole et Économique du Mäis AuthorBonafous, MatthieuHeadlineFolio monograph on maize with color plates 1836PublisherHazard / BoccaDate Published1836 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #17 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AuthorCarroll, LewisHeadlineAlice in Wonderland, first edition, second issuePublisherD. AppletonDate Published1866 [1865] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #26 "Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection". In: The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History AuthorDarwin, Charles and Alfred R. WallaceHeadlineSeminal papers by Charles Darwin & Alfred WallacePublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #37 Le Morte DArthur: The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Heading(Flint, William Russell, illustrator)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineLe Morte DArthur, full vellumPublisherPhilip Lee Warner / Medici Society Ltd.Date Published1910-11 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #38 The History of Little Goody Twoshoes; otherwise called Mrs. Margery Twoshoes Heading(Goody Two-shoes)HeadlineFirst Worcester Edition of Little Goody Twoshoes 1787PublisherIsaiah ThomasDate Published1787 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #39 Les Fleurs Animées [bound with] Botanique des Dames [and] Culture des Fleurs: Horticulture des Dames Heading(Grandville, J.J.)AuthorDelord, TaxileHeadlineGrandville's Les Fleurs Animées 1847PublisherGabriel de GonetDate Published1847 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 Scenes de la vie Privee et Publique des Animaux AuthorGrandville, [J.J.]HeadlineAn anthropomorphic classic by Grandville, 1842PublisherJ. HetzelDate Published1842 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 Amor und Psyche. Eine Dichtung in Sechs Gesängen AuthorHamerling, RobertHeadlineIn a lovely German publisher's binding, 1882PublisherAdolf TitzeDate Published[1882] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #46 The British Herbal: An history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty AuthorHill, JohnHeadlineHill's British Herbal with 75 plates 1756PublisherPrinted for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, et al.Date Published1756 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #55 Set of twenty-four first editions by Andrew Lang, including all of his Fairy Books AuthorLang, AndrewHeadline24 Andrew Lang First Editions Finely BoundPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1889-1912 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #63 The House at Pooh Corner [with] autograph letter signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard and addressed to an American admirer AuthorMilne, A.A.HeadlineSigned by A.A. Milne, with Ernest H. Shepard ALSPublisherMethuenDate Published[1929] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #65 Mushrooms, Russia and History Heading(Mycology)AuthorWasson, Valentina Pavlovna & R. Gordon WassonHeadlineWassons' Mushrooms, Russia and History, 1957PublisherPantheon BooksDate Published[1957] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #68 Fairy Tales Heading(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator)AuthorAndersen, Hans ChristianHeadlineSigned by Kay Nielsen, 1/500PublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1924] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #69 East of the Sun and West of the Moon Heading(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator)Author[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe]HeadlineKay Nielsen's East of the Sun & West of the MoonPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #70 Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia AuthorOrta, Garcia de, et al.HeadlineBotany of East & West Indies, 1593PublisherEx officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem MoretumDate Published1593 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #80 Aesop's Fables [with] original ink drawing by Arthur Rackham Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorAesopHeadlineSigned by Rackham with an original ink drawing laid inPublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1912 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #81 The Sleeping Beauty Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorEvans, C.S.HeadlineSigned by Arthur Rackham, 1/625PublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #82 The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorGrimm BrothersHeadlineSigned by Arthur Rackham, 1/750PublisherConstable & Co.Date Published1909 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #83 The Ingoldsby Legends Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorIngoldsby, Thomas [pseud. of Richard Barham]HeadlineSigned by Rackham, large paper edition, 1/560PublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1907 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #84 A Midsummer-Night's Dream Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineMidsummer-Night's Dream with Rackham illustrationsPublisherHeinemann / Doubleday, PageDate Published1908 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #109 American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States - complete set AuthorWilson, AlexanderHeadlineAlexander Wilson's American Ornithology, complete setPublisherBradford and Inskeep; Laval & BradfordDate Published1808-25 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #110 Elements of Bacchus: or, Toasts and Sentiments, given by Distinguished Characters. Illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain. With a variety of anecdotes and remarkable traits, prefixed to each portrait. Written and designed by George Murgatroyd [sic] Woodward AuthorWoodward, George MoutardHeadlineColored aquatint plates of inebriated Britons, 1792PublisherPublished by William HollandDate Published1792 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next