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Previous|1|Next Lot #8 Autograph Letter Signed about building a transatlantic iron Steam Boat Heading(American Inventor)AuthorBurden, HenryHeadlineProposal for building a transatlantic iron steam boatDate PublishedDec. 30, 1846 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #14 L’Ere Des Robots [The Era/Age Of Robots] Heading(Artificial Intelligence – Robotics)AuthorDucrocq, AlbertHeadlineInscribed by a pioneering French robotic inventorPublisherJulliardDate Published1953 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #20 Manuscript Guest Book for the Castello Bar in Mondsee, Austria, with hundreds of autographs of actors, authors, musicians, singers, dancers, race car drivers, and others Heading(Autographs)HeadlineAutographs of show business luminaries, etc.Date Published1952-1988 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #21 Two signed letters from Sir Henry Thompson, one excusing himself from a social engagement due to a medical debate. Heading(Autographs)AuthorThompson, HenryHeadlineSir Henry Thompson Signed LetterPublisherNo publisherDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #41 Songs of Nature AuthorBurroughs, John, editorHeadlineInscribed with signature by John BurroughsPublisherMcClure Phillips & Co.Date Published1901 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #51 Arms and the Covenant AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineInscribed by Winston S. ChurchillPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.Date Published1938 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #59 My African Journey AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's travels in Africa, w/ signaturePublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1908 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #61 The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's The River War, 1899, 1st printingPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1899 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold 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 #67 The World Crisis AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineThe World Crisis, 6th Duke of Portland's copyPublisherThornton Butterworth LimitedDate Published[1923-1931] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #82 Autograph Note Signed about a revised edition of his 1872 book on the Coral Islands AuthorDana, JamesHeadlineNote Signed by Leading American Geologist of the 19th centuryDate PublishedApril 4, 1890 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold 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 #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 #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 #120 Die Lehre vom Urteil im Psychologismus: Ein kritisch-positiver Beitrag zur Logik AuthorHeidegger, MartinHeadlinePresentation copy of Heidegger's first bookPublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1914 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold 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 #134 The Owls of North America (North of Mexico) AuthorKaralus, Karl E. and Allan W. EckertHeadlineSigned by Karl E. Karalus and Allan W. EckertPublisherDoubleday & CompanyDate Published1974 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold 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 #142 Note Signed by Joseph Lister AuthorLister, JosephHeadlineJoseph Lister AutographPublisherNo publisherDate Published1897 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #143 Note Signed by Joseph Lister, With Photograph AuthorLister, JosephHeadlineJoseph Lister Photo and AutographPublisherNo publisherDate Published1903 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #158 Autograph Letter Signed about the first Math textbook published in America. Heading(Mathematics)AuthorPike, NicolasHeadlineLetter by the author of the 1st Math textbook in AmericaDate PublishedJan. 1, 1788 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #160 Leaf Signed by Twenty-Three French Physicians and Zoologists Heading(Medicine and Zoology)HeadlineTwenty-Three Autographs of French Physicians & ZoologistsDate PublishedEarly 19th century? View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #165 Large four-sheet indenture document for sale of property, signed by the Earl of Sandwich and others AuthorMontagu, John, 4th Earl of SandwichHeadlineEarl of Sandwich signs a documentDate Published23 March, 1743 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold 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 #173 Autographed letter [framed with] engraved portrait of James Paget AuthorPaget, JamesHeadlineSigned letter and portrait of James PagetDate Published1877 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #193 Two Autograph Letters Signed relating to treatment of insanity in the late 19th century Heading(Psychiatry - Insanity)Headline2 late 19th c. letters relating to treatment of insanityDate Published1876-1892 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #194 Letter on international recognition of ostracized Communist China Heading(Psychology)AuthorFromm, ErichHeadlineNoted psychologist advocates UN recognition of ChinaDate PublishedApril 18, 1963 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold 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 #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 #233 Certificate of Election Signed by John C. Warren Heading(Warren, John C.)HeadlineJohn C. Warren AutographPublisherNo publisherDate Published1821 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #234 Benjamin Waterhouse Clipped Signature AuthorWaterhouse, BenjaminHeadlineBenjamin Waterhouse AutographDate PublishedEarly/mid 19th century View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #239 Fabulas Literarias AuthorYriarte, TomásHeadlineTomás Yriarte's best known work 1782PublisherImprenta RealDate Published1782 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #240 Autograph Letter Signed about the British Museum’s collection of reptiles and amphibians Heading(Zoology and Herpetology)AuthorDumeril, AugusteHeadline1865 Letter from leading French HerpetologistDate PublishedApril 7, 1865 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next