Skip to main content
Go to accessibility options
Welcome
Sign-In
|
Register
Contact Us
Home
/
Historical, Books, Nature & Science
/
Search Results
Search Tips
|
Video Tutorial
Start Over
Filters: (6)
Filters: (6)
Department
Department (C)
Sold Collectibles & Art
Sold Collectibles & Art
Archive Status
Auctions
Auction Year
Sale Number
Bid/Buy Formats
Historical Department
Historical Category
Highlights
Auction Type
Special Attributes
Price Range
Sold For
Sessions
Featured Collection
Bid or Buy
Available Items
View Past Sale Prices
Sold Items
List
Gallery
Get Notified of New Matches
Create a Wantlist
Create Wantlist
Have a similar item to sell?
Ask about cash advances.
Free Appraisal
Nathaniel Hawthorne. SIGNED/LIMITED. The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Autograph Edition.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900. First edition limited to 500 numbered copies.
Each volume has a signed frontispiece by a different artist, including: Howard Pyle, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Frank Merrill, and others. Edited and signed by the author's daughter, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.
Complete in 22 volumes, with a biography. 8vo. Publisher's white buckram. Edges uncut. Each volume protected by a mylar sleeve. Mild staining to boards, very slight toning to pages, else very good.
(Total: 23 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91087 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$937.50
Make Offer to Owner
$1,406 or more
[Almanac].
Davy Crockett's Almanack, 1847.
[Cincinnati]: Robinson and Jones, [1847]. Printed wrappers, string bound with tape on binding. Heavy toning and foxing. Slight abrading on edges and corners. Good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91236 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$437.50
Make Offer to Owner
$656 or more
Francois Chevalier and Jacques Taglang. SIGNED/LIMITED.
America's Cup Yacht Designs: 1851-1986.
France, 1987. First edition.
Signed by the authors on the limitation page. From the library of James Strohn Copley, with bookplate.
Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Minor shelf wear and tears, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91169 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$406.25
[Early Twentieth Century]. Group of Six Books.
Various publishers and dates. Rubbing to boards, small tears in dust jackets, else very good.
(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91249 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$406.25
Robert A. Heinlein.
Orphans of the Sky
.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First edition. Octavo. 160 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Small tears to dust jacket corners and edges. Price-clipped. Minor shelfwear, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91089 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$375.00
Charles Burney.
A General History of Music.
London: Payne and Son, Robson and Clark and G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789. Second edition. Four volumes. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Hinges loose. Pages toned. Overall very good.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91166 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$325.00
[Maitres de l'Affiche]. [Antique Posters] Lot of Four Color Lithograph Prints of Extraordinary French Late 19th Century Posters.
[Paris]: Imprimerie Chaix, 1896-1900. 12" x 16". Matted. Some toning, else very good.
Les Maîtres de l'Affiche ("Masters of the Poster")
was a subscription series conceived and edited by the great French poster artist Jules Cheret, the "Father of the Poster" who revolutionized advertising art through his designs and his innovative color lithography techniques. His series reproduced the spectacularly colorful and lively advertising posters that had burst upon the European scene and delighted the public in the waning years of the nineteenth century. Cheret's series reproduced these extremely popular posters in a reduced, manageable version while still retaining the authentic vivid colors of the originals.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91321 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$325.00
John Muir.
Travels In Alaska
.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's binding with minor rubbing and abrading to cloth extremities. Gilt tops. Pages slightly toned, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91206 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$300.00
Stephen King. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Insomnia.
California: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1994.
First edition limited to 1,250 copies signed by the author, artist and designer.
As new in morocco case.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91098 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$281.25
Eudora Welty.
Music from Spain
. Greenville: The Levee Press, 1948.
First edition, one of 750 copies signed by Welty.
8vo. 62 pages. With signed limitation leaf inserted at rear. Publisher's printed paper over boards, printed paper label on spine. Minor rubbing, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91150 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$250.00
H. P. Lovecraft.
Marginalia
.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. First edition. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor bumping and rubbing to edges and corners. Small tears to dust jacket corners and edges. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91108 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$237.50
Make Offer to Owner
$372 or more
H. P. Lovecraft.
The Dunwich Horror and Others:
The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1963. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Minor rubbing to rear panel of dust jacket. A fine copy.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91107 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$225.00
Make Offer to Owner
$355 or more
[Texana] John Graves.
SIGNED/LIMITED. The
Last Running
.
Austin: Encino Press, 1974. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies.
Signed by Graves, William Wittliff, and John Groth, the illustrator
, who has also added an original drawing of a bison to the front flyleaf. Oblong 4to. 47 pp. Quarter morocco and orange cloth over boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated paper title label to front board. Some slight splitting to top and bottom panels of slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91064 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$212.50
L. T. Meade.
The Sorceress of the Strand.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1903. First edition. Publisher's cloth. Rubbing to edges and bumping to corners. Scattered foxing and toning. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91116 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$212.50
[Texana] Judge Orland L. Sims. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Cowpokes, Nesters, & So Forth.
Austin: Encino Press, 1970. First edition limited to 250 copies.
Signed by the author on the limitation page.
Half leatherette and cloth over boards. In slipcase. Minor shelfwear, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91240 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$212.50
[George III] Indenture.
One page with docketing on the verso, approximately 32" x 24", December 14, 1779, Prestbury, Chester, England, manuscript on vellum. The document, a release of part of an estate by Mary Cherry to Matthew Wheelson, is signed and sealed by Cherry at the bottom margin. Some staining and soiling, else very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91011 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
Erle Stanley Gardner. INSCRIBED.
The Case of the Duplicate Daughter.
New York: Morrow, 1960. First edition.
Inscribed by Gardner to his secretary on ffep.
Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Small tears and chips to jacket spine and panels, else very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91058 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
Jack Vance. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Bird Isle
[and]
Take My Face
.
Underwood-Miller, 1988. First edition.
Bird Isle
signed by the author on limitation page. Number 40 of 500 limited signed copies.
Two volume set in gray cloth slipcase. As new in plastic wrapping.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91147 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
Antiphonal Manuscript Leaf on Vellum. [n.d., ca. 1500s]. Large leaf from missal or antiphonal
containing 5 bars of music on each side on red 5 line staves with square music notations. Latin text in black. Two large initials. Measures approximately 20 x 14 inches. Considerable puckering or cockling to the vellum, but still very attractive. Framed and glazed. Not inspected out of the frame, and sold as is. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91157 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
Georges Rouault. LIMITED.
Divertissement
.
Fevrier, 1943. Limited edition, number 922 of 1200 copies printed on Velin d'Arches paper.
With 13 (of 14) lithographs hand-numbered and initialed in pencil by Rouault.
Text and lithographs laid into the publisher'sprinted wrappers. Some staining to wrappers. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91237 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
[Lawrence Washington]. Four books on science from the collection of Lawrence Washington: Rev. P. Keith.
A System of Physiological Botany...
London: Baldwin, 1816. This is Vol 2 only of 2. R. Turner.
An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences.
The First Edition. Philadelphia: Duane, 1805. William Henry.
An Epitome of Chemistry,
in Three Parts. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802. Parker Cleveland.
An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, being an introduction to the Study of these Sciences.....
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. All in contemporary calf, large of small octavo. Various states of repair, but generally with bindings worn and with pages browned. Fair to good condition. Sold with all faults. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91256 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
H. P. Lovecraft & Others.
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1969. First edition. 8vo. 407 pages. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles. Original pictorial dust jacket. Minor shelfwear, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91109 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Robert E. Lee.
Personal Reminiscences of Gen. Robert E. Lee
. D. Appleton and Co., 1875. Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt and black detail. Some rubbing to cover and spine. Corners slightly bumped. Second flypage lacking. Ex-library. Illustrations throughout. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91200 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Land of Terror.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1944. First edition, first printing. Publisher's binding. Mild rubbing to board edges, small tears to dust jacket edges and corners, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91032 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$175.00
Erle Stanley Gardner. INSCRIBED.
The Case of the Mischievous Doll.
New York: Morrow, 1962. First edition.
Inscribed by Gardner to his secretary on ffep.
Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Small tears in dust jacket, else very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91061 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
John Grisham. INSCRIBED.
The Pelican Brief.
New York: Doubleday, [1992]. Later edition.
Inscribed by the author on the half-title page.
Publisher's binding and dust jacket. A fine copy.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91085 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
John Muir.
Our National Parks.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge, [1901]. 8vo. 370 pages. Frontispiece plus 11 inserted plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration. Gilt tops. Mild shelf wear, else very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91120 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
[Almanac].
The American Comic Almanack, 1836.
Boston: Charles Ellms, [1836]. Printed wrappers, string bound. Heavy toning and foxing. Slight abrading to corners and edges. Good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91178 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
John Grisham. INSCRIBED.
The Firm.
New York: Doubleday, [1991]. Later edition.
Inscribed by the author on the half-title page.
Publisher's binding and dust jacket. A fine copy.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91082 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$156.25
Erle Stanley Gardner. INSCRIBED.
The Case of the Demure Defendant.
New York: Morrow, 1956. First edition.
Inscribed by Gardner to his secretary on ffep.
Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Small tears in dust jacket, else very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91060 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands.
The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces
.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1966. First edition. Octavo. 321 pages plus colophon. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles (titles slightly faded)Original pictorial dust jacket with mild toning to edges. A fine copy.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91106 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
John Updike. Barry Moser, illustrator. SIGNED / LIMITED.
In the Cemetery High Above Shillington
.
Concord, NH: Ewert, 1995. One of 100 copies (of a print run of 150) printed on Molino paper, handsewn in wrappers, and
signed by Updike and Moser.
Publisher's wrappers. Fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91142 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
Seymour Dunbar.
A History of Travel in America.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915. First edition. 4 volumes.
From the library of James Strohn Copley, with bookplates.
Publisher's half morocco over maroon boards. Minor rubbing and bumping on edges. Gilt tops. Fine.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91177 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
[Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors]. Charles Dickens. Five Books in Seven Volumes.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850. First editions. Half red smooth calf over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Gilt tops. Minor fading and bumping on edges and corners, else fine.
(Total: 7 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91133 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Silmarillion.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First US edition, first printing. 8vo. 365 pages. Map at end. Publisher's green cloth binding and dust jacket. Slight fading along board edges. Small tear in dj tail, else fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91135 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
Roy. P. Basler [editor].
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953. First edition. 8 volumes and an index.
From the library of James Strohn Copley, with bookplates.
Publisher's binding. Minor shelf wear, else fine.
(Total: 9 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91160 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
Buffalo Bill.
Story of the Wild West and Camp Fire Chats.
John R. Stanton, 1901.
From the library of James Strohn Copley, with bookplate.
B&W illustrations throughout. Publisher's printed cloth. Some scratches to back board, rubbing to corners, and mild bumping on spine edges. Pages toned. Fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91165 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[Almanac].
The American Comic Almanack, 1832.
Boston: Charles Ellms, [1832]. Printed wrappers, string bound. Heavy toning. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91179 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[Almanac].
The American Comic Almanack, 1835.
Boston: Charles Ellms, [1835]. Printed wrappers, string bound. Heavy toning and foxing. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91183 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
Carl Lumholtz.
New Trails in Mexico
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First edition. Profusely illustrated. Folding maps in rear pocket. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles. Minor wear to edges. No ffep. Good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91202 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
E. C. Prudhomme. SIGNED / LIMITED.
Gun Engraving Review
.
Shreveport: Journal Printing Co. for Gun Engraving Review Publishing, 1961.Limited edition, number 87 of 300 copies signed by the author and the notary on the front free endpaper. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's leatherette. Some soiling to covers. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91231 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[Lawrence Washington]. Abbe Raynal.
A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies....
London: Strahan, 1788. Later printing. Complete in eight octavo volumes. Full mottled calf, heavily worn in places and with some boards detached and chipping and rubbing to the leather. Some spotting to edges, sheets browned and foxed, with some dampstaining. A fair to poor set, and sold with all faults. Lawrence Washington's copy, with his signature in the volumes. (Total: 8 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91251 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[Lawrence Washington]. Five miscellaneous volumes from the collection of Lawrence Washington. including:
Anderson's Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce....
volume 5 only (of 6). Dublin: 1790. [and:] Edward's Genuine Edition: The Book, or the proceedings and correspondence upon the subject of the inquiry into the conduct of her royal highness the Princess of Wales.... New-York: 1813. [and:] The Life, Travels and Adventures of Edward Wortley, Montague, esq. [lacking title and prelims]. [and:] Maria Edgeworth.
Patronage
. Volume III (of three). From the second London edition. Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1814.
Annals of Europe....
London: G. Richards, 1808. Volume 2 (of 2). Octavo volumes, contemporary calf but for one volume rebound, Bindings worn and damaged. Poor to fair copies, sold with all faults. (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91254 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[Lawrence Washington]. Four miscellaneous volumes of literature, including two volumes from Rousseau,
Emilius and Sophia: or, a new system of Education
. Dublin: Potts, 1779. [and:] Moliere.
Oeuvres
, tome second. Paris: 1818. [and:] Volume 4 (of 8) of Plutarch's
Lives
....
Philadelphia: Brannan and Morford, 1811. Octavo volumes. Contemporary calf, worn, some sheets browned, soiled and foxed. Three of the four volumes with Lawrence Washington's signature. Fair to good examples. Sold with all faults. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91255 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[British Royal History]. Printed "Proclamation for a General Fast."
London: Bill, Newcomb, and Hills, 1680. Two folio sheets, intended to be joined along a horizontal seam. Each sheet measures 11 x 14 inches. A few corner creases. Near fine.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91272 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[Maitres de l'Affiche]. Henri Meunier (1873-1922), illustrator. French Advertising Poster Print, Circa 1897.
15.75" x 11.5". Matted. From
Les Maitres de l'Affiche
(Masters of the Poster), printed between 1898-1900. Very good.
Les Maîtres de l'Affiche ("Masters of the Poster")
was a subscription series conceived by the great French poster artist Jules Cheret, the "Father of the Poster" who revolutionized advertising art through his designs and his innovative color lithography techniques. His series reproduced the spectacularly colorful and lively advertising posters that had burst upon the European scene and delighted the public in the waning years of the nineteenth century. Cheret's series reproduced these extremely popular posters in a reduced, manageable version while still retaining the authentic vivid colors of the originals.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91313 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
Bram Stoker.
The Lair of the White Worm.
London: William Rider and Son, 1911. First edition. Publisher's green cloth. With five color illustrations (illustration on pp. 294 excised). Bumping and rubbing to edges and corners. Small scratches and wear to boards. Spine slightly leaning. Pages toned. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91131 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$133.75
Charles Dickens.
Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844 Original wraps rebound with half brown morocco over blue boards. Sunned spine and rubbing on edges. Marbled endpapers. Very good.
Auction 201344
| Lot: 91048 | Oct 31, 2013
Sold For:
$131.25
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Results per page:
24
48
72
