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Dictionaries, English/Italian and English/French, Four Volumes, 1750s.
Lot: 117Sold for: $180$150Dictionaries, English/Italian and English/French, Four Volumes, 1750s. Joseph Barretti's A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages, London: for Strahan, et al., 1751, in two volumes, more ...
Dom Bedos de Celles, Francois (1709-1779) L'Art du Facteur d'Orgues
Lot: 118Sold for: $2,880$2,400Dom Bedos de Celles, Francois (1709-1779) L'Art du Facteur d'Orgues. [Paris: Delatour, 1766-1778]. Folio, with the half-title only, lacking the main title page [?cancel], text not collated, 676 more ...
Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) Monasticon Anglicanum
Lot: 119Sold for: $510$425Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) Monasticon Anglicanum. London: by Harbin for Browne, et al., 1718. Three folio volumes, regular paper copy, with added engraved title in volume one, illustrated more ...
Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London
Lot: 120Sold for: $1,080$900Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London. London: Warren, 1658. First edition, folio, lacking final ?blank, engraved portrait of Dugdale opposite the title, more ...
Duret, Theodore (1838-1937) Lautrec
Lot: 121Sold for: $480$400Duret, Theodore (1838-1937) Lautrec. Paris: Bernheim-Jenue & Co., 1920. Quarto, limited edition, number 53 of 100 copies printed on japon paper, illustrated with thirty-eight plates, including one more ...
Early Books, Decorative Bindings, Thirteen Volumes:
Lot: 122Sold for: $450$375Early Books, Decorative Bindings, Thirteen Volumes: Madame de Stael's Corrine ou l'Italie, Paris: Nicolle, 1807, octavo, in three volumes, brown three-quarter leather, tooled in gilt; Dryden's more ...
Early Books, Eight.
Lot: 123Sold for: $210$175Early Books, Eight. Small-format French book of psalms, c. 1630, lacking the title page; Milton's Paradise Lost, illustrated, 1711; Les Avantures de Telemaque, 1751, two volumes bound as one, more ...
Early Continental Imprints, Four Volumes, 1613-1657.
Lot: 124Sold for: $338$275Early Continental Imprints, Four Volumes, 1613-1657. Jacques Davy Duperron's (1556-1618) Histoire de L'Election et Couronnement du Roy des Romains, Paris: Sanlecque, 1613, octavo, in two parts, in more ...
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Ethan Frome
Lot: 125Sold for: $240$200Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Ethan Frome. New York: Scribners, 1911. First edition, first issue, in red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board, top edge gilt, with four pages of ads at the more ...
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Five Titles:
Lot: 126UnsoldEdith Wharton (1862-1937) Five Titles: The Greater Inclination, New York: Scribners, 1899, rebacked; Italian Backgrounds, New York: Scribners, 1905, in original decorative cloth; The House of more ...
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Italian Villas and their Gardens
Lot: 127Sold for: $240$200Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Italian Villas and their Gardens. New York: Century Co., 1904. Large octavo, in decorative publisher's boards, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. [and] Charles Latham's more ...
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Age of Innocence
Lot: 128Sold for: $800$650Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Age of Innocence. New York and London: D. Appleton & Co., 1920. First edition, first issue, with "Forasmuch" on page 186, line seven, and "(1)." after the text ends more ...
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Twelve Poems
Lot: 129Sold for: $1,560$1,300Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Twelve Poems London: for the Medici Society [in the Riccardi Press Fount by the Chiswick Press], 1926. Signed, first, limited edition, with Edith Wharton's signature on more ...
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) The Meaning of Relativity
Lot: 130Sold for: $3,240$2,700Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) The Meaning of Relativity, Signed. London: Methuen & Co., [1950]. Octavo, fourth edition (with further appendix) Einstein's signature dated 1951 at top of title, more ...
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) Three Signed Limited Edition Titles.
Lot: 131Sold for: $840$700Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) Three Signed Limited Edition Titles. Animula, London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1929, illustrated with wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes, large paper edition, on more ...
English Literature, 17th Century, Three Small Folio Volumes:
Lot: 132Sold for: $554$450English Literature, 17th Century, Three Small Folio Volumes: Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie, London: by Haviland for Lee, 1639, engraved portrait and title, in more ...
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) and Paul Eluard (1895-1952) Misfortunes of the Immortals, trans. Hugh Chisholm.
Lot: 132AUnsoldErnst, Max (1891-1976) and Paul Eluard (1895-1952) Misfortunes of the Immortals, trans. Hugh Chisholm. New York: Black Sun Press, 1943. Quarto, limited edition (610 copies),twenty-two full-paged more ...
Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Intruder in the Dust
Lot: 133UnsoldFaulkner, William (1897-1962) Intruder in the Dust. New York: Random House, 1948. Stated first printing, in a very good jacket, ex libris the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, Culver City, California, more ...
Firishta (1560-1620) The History of Hindostan. trans. Alexander Dow (1736-1779)
Lot: 134Sold for: $480$400Firishta (1560-1620) The History of Hindostan. trans. Alexander Dow (1736-1779). London: for Becket and de Hondt, 1770. Second edition, two large quarto volumes, with a frontispiece in volume one more ...
Five Book Safes, or "Blooks," 18th Century.
Lot: 135Sold for: $660$550Five Book Safes, or "Blooks," 18th Century. Former books in gold-tooled leather bindings, converted to use as book safes, the insides hollowed out for hiding valuables, one folio-format, the other more ...
Fore-edge Painting, Double, Prize Book. Henry Drury's Arundines Cami
Lot: 136Sold for: $660$550Fore-edge Painting, Double, Prize Book. Henry Drury's Arundines Cami. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, & Co., 1860. Octavo, presented to Francis Champney of Winton College in July 1861, the two more ...
Fore-edge Painting, Prize Book. The Holy Bible
Lot: 137Sold for: $840$700Fore-edge Painting, Prize Book. The Holy Bible. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1866. Large octavo, presented by the Diocesan School in Byculla, India, to George Robottom for religious knowledge at more ...
Framed Indenture, and Printed Prayer Book Leaf, 17th Century.
Lot: 138Sold for: $185$150Framed Indenture, and Printed Prayer Book Leaf, 17th Century. A land transfer manuscript indenture on parchment, dated 7 November 1613, signed and sealed by Philip, with signatures of John, and more ...
Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
Lot: 139Sold for: $120$100Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Come In and other Poems, New York: Henry Holt, 1943, inscribed, stated first printing, in a tattered dust jacket; On Making Certain Anything has Happened, New York: Holt more ...
Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) Photographic Sketch Book of the War
Lot: 140Sold for: $192,000$160,000Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Washington, D.C.: Philip & Solomons, [1866]. Two oblong folio volumes, first edition, first issue, with the phrase, "Incidents more ...
Gay, John (1685-1732) Fables, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates.
Lot: 141Sold for: $420$350Gay, John (1685-1732) Fables, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates. London: for Stockdale, 1793. Two large octavo volumes, illustrated with a total of sixty-eight more ...
Gay, John (1685-1732) The Beggar's Opera , [bound with] Polly
Lot: 142UnsoldGay, John (1685-1732) The Beggar's Opera, [bound with] Polly. London: for John Watts [and] for the Author, 1729. Quarto, two volumes bound as one, each with typographical text followed by engraved more ...
Gell, Sir William (1777-1836) Pompeiana: the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii
Lot: 143UnsoldGell, Sir William (1777-1836) Pompeiana: the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii. London: Lewis, 1835-1852. Three octavo volumes, illustrated throughout, bound in uniform half leather, more ...
Gentry, Thomas G. (1843-1905) Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States. Illustrated
Lot: 144Sold for: $480$400Gentry, Thomas G. (1843-1905) Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States. Illustrated. Philadelphia: Wagenseller, [1882]. Illustrated with a colorful lithographic title, and fifty-four more ...
George IV, King of Great Britain (1762-1830); Alexander I, Emperor of Russia (1777-1825); and Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1
Lot: 145UnsoldGeorge IV, King of Great Britain (1762-1830); Alexander I, Emperor of Russia (1777-1825); and Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1770-1840) An Account of the Visit of His Royal Highness the more ...