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Neuer und wohlgegründeter Bericht von Ursachen und Erkentnues aller Gebrechen/Schaeden und Maengel der Augen und des Gesichtes AuthorBartisch von Königsbrück, GeorgHeadlineAilments of the face 1583 facsimilePublisherThe Scolar PressDate Published1980 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #38 Natural History, General and Particular AuthorBuffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Le Comte deHeadlineA handsome set of Buffon's Natural History, 1785PublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1785 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #44 Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineA handsome finely bound set of Don QuixotePublisherJ.J. Dubochet & Co.Date Published1837 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #62 Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill, Savrola First U.S. EditionPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #88 Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineAutograph letter signed by Charles DickensDate PublishedApril 1, 1850 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #89 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineMartin Chuzzlewit, First edition, first issuePublisherChapman and HallDate Published1844 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #90 The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineHandsomely bound edition of David CopperfieldPublisherW.F. BurgessDate Published1850 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #102 The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler - With two fore-edge paintings Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorButler, SamuelHeadlineButler's works with Fore Edge PaintingsPublisherPickeringDate Published1835 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #106 The fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of Wm. Weare, and the trial and fate of John Thurtell, the murderer and his accomplices...To which is added, The gambler's scourge: a complete exposé of the whole system of gambling in the metropolis, with memoirs and anecdotes of notorious blacklegs Heading(Gambling & Murder)HeadlineA "true crime" narrative of a rogue's progressPublisherThomas KellyDate Published1824 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #111 West-oestlicher Divan AuthorGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonHeadlinelyrical poems by Goethe 1819Publisherin der Cottaischen BuchhandlungDate Published1819 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #112 The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne AuthorGranville, George, Lord LansdowneHeadlineGeorge Granville verse and prose 1732PublisherPrinted for J. Tonson, and L. GilliverDate Published1732 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #113 Annotationes in Libros Evangeliorum AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineHugo Grotius' Notes on the Gospels 1641PublisherCornelium BlaeuDate Published1641 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #114 Armorial du Bibliophile Avec Illustrations Dans le Texte AuthorGuigard, JoannisHeadlineIllustrated with numerous Armorial bookplatesPublisherLibrairie Bachelin-DeflorenneDate Published1870-1873 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #119 The Works of James Harris, Esq. With an account of his life and character, by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineHarris on philosophy of language, 1801PublisherPrinted by Luke Hansard, for F. WingraveDate Published1801 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #122 Harivansa ou Histoire de la Famille de Hari, ouvrage formant un appendice du Mahabharata... Heading(Hindu Mythology)HeadlineFirst printing of the Harivansa in any languagePublisherOriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and IrelandDate Published1834 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #126 The Iliad of Homer Heading(Homer)AuthorPope, Alexander, translatorHeadlinePope translation of Homer's Iliad, folio editionPublisherW. Boyer for Bernard LintottDate Published1715-1720 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #132 A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.... AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineFourth edition of Johnson's Dictionary, DublinPublisherThomas EwingDate Published1775 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #137 Mémoires d'une femme de qualité, sur Louis XVIII, sa cour et son règne AuthorLamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de, et al.HeadlineMemoirs of French "Lady of Quality" 1829-30PublisherMame et Delaunay-Vallée, librairesDate Published1829-1830 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #140 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's vermischte Schriften nach dessen tode aus den hinterlassenen papieren gesammelt und herausgegeben von Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg und Friedrich Kries... AuthorLichtenberg, Georg ChristophHeadlineLichtenberg's writings on science & more 1800-06PublisherJ.C. Dieterich, etc.Date Published1800-1806 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #150 The Magazine of Art - 1890-1904 Heading(The Magazine of Art)HeadlineThe Magazine of Art, 15 years in 16 volumesPublisherCassell & Company, LimitedDate Published1890-1904 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #156 Illustrations of the Bible AuthorMartin, JohnHeadlineMartin's mezzotint illustrations for the BiblePublisherCharles TiltDate Published1838 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #164 The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet AuthorMonstrelet, Enguerrand deHeadlineThe Chronicles of Engeurrand de MonstreletPublisherHafod PressDate Published1809 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #169 The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works of Apuleius, Translated from the original Latin by Thomas Taylor Heading(Neoplatonism)AuthorApuleiusHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Apuleius, 1822PublisherRobert Triphook...and Thomas RoddDate Published1822 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #172 I Rimedi D'amore di Ovidio AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Remedia Amoris 1584PublisherNella Stamperia NouaDate Published1584 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #182 Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoHeadlinePetrarch's sonnets 1547PublisherPer Comin de Trino di MonferratoDate Published1547 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #195 Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineGulliver's Travels illus. by Arthur RackhamPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.; E.P. Dutton & Co.Date Published1909 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #196 The Century Edition Deluxe of Raemaekers' War Cartoons AuthorRaemaeker, LouisHeadlineWar Cartoons of Louis RaemaekerPublisherCentury Co.Date Published1917 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #205 [Morte d’Arthur, i.e.:] The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur Notwythstondng It Treateth of the Byrth Lyf and Actes of the Sayd Kynge Arthur: of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table... Heading(Shakespeare Head Press)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineFine press edition of Malory, Shakespeare HeadPublisherShakespeare Head PressDate Published1933 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #206 The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Henry VIII from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #207 The Plays of William Shakespeare AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineJohnson's Shakespeare 8 vols. 1768PublisherH Woodfall et al.Date Published1768 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #219 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineGulliver's Travels Woodcuts by GrandvillePublisherHayward and MooreDate Published[c. 1840] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #225 The Altar Book: Containing the Order for the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist According to the Use of the American Church: MDCCCXCII. By Authority Heading(Updike, Daniel Berkeley/ Merrymount Press)HeadlineThe Altar Book Merrymount Press 1/350Publisher[Merrymount Press]Date Published[1896] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #228 On Dreams Heading(Vellum Printing)AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineBrowne On Dreams, 1/21 copies on vellumPublisherPublished by Alexander Moring Limited, the De La More PressDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #229 The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'Avenant, with Prefatory Memoir and Notes Heading(Vellum Printing)AuthorD'Avenant, WilliamHeadlineWilliam D'Avenant 1 of 4 copies on vellumPublisherWilliam Paterson, H. Sotheran & Co.Date Published1872-74 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #239 Fabulas Literarias AuthorYriarte, TomásHeadlineTomás Yriarte's best known work 1782PublisherImprenta RealDate Published1782 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next