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Rare Books & Manuscripts

129 items

Lot Description Estimates
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1001
Lot 1001
Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human B


Author: Albinus, Bernard Siegfried [47] text leaves (including...

2,000
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3,000
1002
Lot 1002
Dogs of Character


Author: Aldin, Cecil vii, [1], 116. [2] pp. With 2 inserted full...

1,000
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1,500
1003
Lot 1003
The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in


Author: Lane, Edward William, translator 3 volumes. xxxii...

500
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800
1004
Lot 1004
The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Con


Author: ** [2], 99, [1] pp. With 17 hand-colored aquatint plates...

1,500
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2,000
1005
Lot 1005
Manuscript leaf on vellum, in Kufic Arabic Script


Author: ** 16 lines on each side of 14¼x10½" sheet of vellum or...

1,000
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1,500
1006
Lot 1006
Manuscript leaf on vellum, in Kufic Arabic Script


Author: ** 10 lines on each side of 9¾x7½" sheet of vellum, in ink...

1,000
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1,500
1007
Lot 1007
De Categoriae [and] De Interpretatione


Author: Aristotle [bound with] Boethius. Liber de Divisione and De...

80,000
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120,000
1008
Lot 1008
A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle


Author: Berners, Dame Juliana With full-page illustration from an...

1,000
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1,500
1009
Lot 1009
The Quadrupeds of North America


Author: Audubon, John James and John Bachman 3 volumes. viii...

7,000
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10,000
1010
Lot 1010
Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini parentis Institut


Author: Bartholin, Thomas [16], 592, [13] pp. With 65 numbered...

500
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800
1011
Lot 1011
Biblioglyphé sive Icones Biblicae, Arte Chalcogra


Author: Ammon, Johan, editor 3 parts in...

6,000
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9,000
1012
Lot 1012
The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament, and


Author: ** Unpaginated A8, A-Sss8 (no Hhh). With two engraved...

1,000
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1,500
1013
Lot 1013
Sonnets


Author: Various authors 238, [2] pp. 11½x7¾, custom-bound by Mary...

1,000
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1,500
1014
Lot 1014
The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain


Author: Birch, Thomas [4], 216 pp. With 108 copper-engraved plates...

3,000
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5,000
1015
Lot 1015
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending


Author: Boswell, James 2 volumes. [i-ii], [ix]-xii, [iii]-vii...

4,000
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7,000
1016
Lot 1016
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.


Author: Boswell, James 4 volumes. With engraved frontispiece...

2,000
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3,000
1017
Lot 1017
Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bel


Author: [Bronte, Charlotte] 3 volumes. [2], 302 [of...

7,000
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10,000
1018
Lot 1018
Les Regles du Dessein et du Lavis, pour les Plans


Author: Buchotte, M., Ingenieur du Roi [20], 130, [6] pp. With...

800
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1,200
1019
Lot 1019
Three items that once belonged to Jean Armour, wi


Author: ** Includes: Handerchief once owned by Jean Armour Mrs...

1,500
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2,500
1020
Lot 1020
The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commo


Author: Byron, John [4], viii, 257 pp. Copper-engraved...

500
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800
1021
Lot 1021
Hand-colored lithographed plate from Views of Anc


Author: Catherwood, Frederick Image is 10¼x14¼, on card stock...

3,000
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5,000
1022
Lot 1022
Hand-colored lithographed plate from Views of Anc


Author: Catherwood, Frederick Image is 10¼x14¼, on card stock...

3,000
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5,000
1023
Lot 1023
De Oratore, Ciceronis ad Q. Fratrem Libri III. Co


Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius 136 [i.e. 137], [1] leaves. Woodcut...

500
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1024
Lot 1024
Marcus Tullius Ciceroes three bookes of duties to


Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius [10], 56, 55-62, [1], 66-168 leaves...

1,000
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1,500
1025
Lot 1025
Cast iron copy press from 1865


Author: ** Cast iron press with ornamental dolphins. Approx...

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1026
Lot 1026
Punch and Judy, with Illustrations Drawn and Engr


Author: Collier, John Payne [2], 141, [1], [6] pp. With 24 etched...

500
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800
1027
Lot 1027
The Comic Almanack...an Ephemeris in Jest and Ear


Author: Cruikshank, George 13 volumes. Each with 12 engraved...

500
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800
1028
Lot 1028
David


Author: D'Ambrosio, Joe & Michelangelo Buonarroti Illustrations...

600
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900
1029
Lot 1029
[Divine Comedy, i.e.] The Comedy of Dante Alighie


Author: Dante Alighieri 4 volumes including: Inferno. * Purgatorio...

1,000
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1,500
1030
Lot 1030
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater


Author: [De Quincey, Thomas] 183 pp. 6x3½, original boards, later...

500
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800
1031
Lot 1031
The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkabl


Author: [Defoe, Daniel] [16], 272 pp. Folding table...

500
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800
1032
Lot 1032
Bleak House


Author: Dickens, Charles 2 volumes, bound from the original...

800
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1,200
1033
Lot 1033
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story


Author: Dickens, Charles [8], 166 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with...

10,000
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15,000
1034
Lot 1034
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club


Author: Dickens, Charles xiv, [2], 609 pp. With 77 total etched...

700
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1,000
1035
Lot 1035
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life,


Author: Dickens, Charles viii, 377 + [19] ad pp. Illustrated with...

5,000
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8,000
1036
Lot 1036
A Tale of Two Cities


Author: Dickens, Charles viii, 254, [2] pp. Illustrated with...

1,500
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2,500
1037
Lot 1037
The Village Coquettes. A Comedy with Songs. In Tw


Author: Dickens, Charles [3]-54, [1] pp. 5x3½, later cloth-backed...

500
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800
1038
Lot 1038
Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart. Selected


Author: Humphreys, H. Noel With illuminated added title-page...

1,000
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1,500
1039
Lot 1039
Myographiae Comparatae Specimen, or, A Comparativ


Author: Douglas, James xxxvi, 216, 16 pp...

700
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1,000
1040
Lot 1040
Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem


Author: Dryden, John [blank leaf], [4], 32 pp...

500
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800
1041
Lot 1041
Epicurus's morals, collected partly out of his ow


Author: Epicurus [44] (incl. copper-engraved frontispiece...

1,500
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2,000
1042
Lot 1042
Shakespeare's Works


Author: Shakespeare, William 7 volumes. 11¼x7½, quarter thonged...

4,000
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6,000
1043
Lot 1043
[Elements, i.e.] The Elements of Geometrie of the


Author: Euclid [26 (of 28)], 452 (of 464 [i.e. 463]) leaves...

10,000
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15,000
1044
Lot 1044
Granite & Cypress


Author: Jeffers, Robinson 33 leaves. 12¾x17¼, full Naturgewebe (a...

6,000
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9,000
1045
Lot 1045
Introduction à la Geographie avec une Descr


Author: Fer, Nicolas de [2], 197, [9] pp. With 6 folding...

2,500
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3,500
1046
Lot 1046
Printed Pages from English Literature: A Portfoli


Author: Brown, G.M.L. 15 printed folders, each containing an...

500
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800
1047
Lot 1047
Printed Pages from European Literature: A Portfol


Author: Brown, G.M.L. 15 printed folders, each containing an...

500
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800
1048
Lot 1048
Specimens of Oriental MSS and Printing: A Portfol


Author: Brown, G.M.L. 15 printed folders, each containing one or...

700
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1,000
1049
Lot 1049
Specimens of Woodcuts and Engravings: A Portfolio


Author: Brown, G.M.L. 15 printed folders, each containing an...

700
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1,000
1050
Lot 1050
Female Piety: Or the Young Woman's Friend and Gui


Author: James, John Angell 324 pp. 6¼x3¼, full polished brown calf...

500
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800
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