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Isaac Asimov. Foundation. New York: Gnome Press, [1951]. First edition. Second state binding (with stiff boards) with a first state dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91110 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $687.50
[Original Art]. Garth Williams. Original Ink Sketch: Preliminary Version of Cover Illustration for King Emmett the Second by Mary Stolz. Measuring approximately 11" x 7.5". Working drawing with some erasure marks and pencil notations. Very good. From the estate of Garth Williams.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91390 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $587.50
[Featured Lot]. [Slave Sales]. Peruvian Testimony of Power: Authorization of Slave Purchase Expedition. Parchment manuscript contract in the rule of Felipe the IV. Dated 1654 and 1655, then again in 1660 and 1661. Testimony of power by Don Cristobal de Castilla y Zamora (the Viceroyalty of Peru) to Mr. Francisco Fernandez Baraona, authorizing an expedition to Spain and the sum of 4,521 pesos to buy slaves in the Spanish peninsula for his Bocanegra's Farm. Contains all details and dispensations necessary to the mission: payments, delivery, exception for judicial courts, and even the replacement of Fernandez himself, if killed in transit. Fourteen manuscript pages, stamped and signed. Docketed on verso. Measures approximately 12.5" x 8.75". Some minor toning and creasing, with some roughness along edges and two horizontal folding creases. An exceptional document in very good condition.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91007 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $575.00
[Featured Lot] Liceti, Fortunio. Allegoria Peripetatica De Generatione Amicitia et Privatione In Aristotellicum Aenigma Elia Lelia Crispis. Padua: Gaspar Crivellarius, 1630. 4to. [a]4,b4,A-2X4. [16],321,[31]pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked, duplicate sale stamp from the British Library sale of 1787 on verso of t.p., edges red with title in mss. on front edge,browning to edges of endpapers caused by leather turn-ins, a few edge repairs, else a very clean crisp copy. Large allegorical device on t.p.repeated on b4v. Text woodcuts, 1 full-page. First Edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $850

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91219 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $575.00
[Featured Lot] Matthew of Paris "called Westminster" & Florence of Worcester. Flores Historiarum Per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem Collecti, Praecipu de Rebus Britannicis Ab exordio mundi usque ad annum Domini. MCCCVII. Et Chronicon Ex Chronicis, Ab Initio Mundi Usque Ad annum Domini MCXVIII, deductum: Auctore Florentino Wigorniensi monacho. Cui accessit Continuatio Usque Ad Annum Christi MCXLI. per quendam eiusdem coenobli eruditum. Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel Heirs for Claude de Marne & Heirs of John Aubry, 1601. Folio. (:)4,A-M6,N4 (duplicates of N3&4],O-Z6,2A-2Z6,3A-3O6. [6],290,300-696,[25]p. Old calf, rebacked, modern paper label, bookplate of James Whatman, foxing and paper toning, hole in KK4 (minimal loss). Large printer's device on t.p. and verso of last leaf, woodcut head-pieces, and initials. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $850

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91288 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $531.25

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$797 or more
[Mark Twain]. The Gilded Age; a Tale of Today. Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co., 1874. First edition. With typographical error of Hebrew motto on page 574. Corrected in later editions. Publisher's cloth binding with gilt titles. Housed in custom quarter leather protective slipcase. Corners and spine ends bumped and showing. Front and rear hinges cracked. Some rubbing and edgewear to extremities. Some soiling and wear to slipcase. Very good.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91099 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $475.00
[Featured Lot] John Ashbery. INSCRIBED. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. New York: Viking Press, [1975]. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Author's compliment slip laid in. Publisher's binding and original dust jacket. Binding edges sunned. Jacket a bit edgeworn. Very good. From the collection of I.D. "Nash" Flores III.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91011 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $437.50
[William Shakespeare]. LIMITED. Shakespeare's Sonnets. New Albion Press, 2009. Edition limited to 26 lettered and signed copies. Publisher's quarter leather. Fine.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91081 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $412.50
[Featured Lot]. [Tom Swift]. Victor Appleton. Complete Series of Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Nos. 1-33. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954-1971. Complete series in thirty-three twelvemo volumes. Publisher's pictorial bindings, twelve with dust jackets. Includes sixteen first editions (Nos. 2-12, 15 & 30-33). Series ending numbers 30-33 (1968-1971) are scarce and hard to find in good condition. Number 33 (the last in the series) is quite rare. This copy bumped and rubbed, with spine leaning, but else very good. Condition varies throughout collection. Some with rubbing and edgewear to extremities. Some with owner's ink or pencil inscriptions. Some chipping to dust jackets. Overall very good.

(Total: 33 Items)
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91109 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $406.25
Robert Heinlein. The Door into Summer. Garden City, Doubleday, [1957]. Book club edition. Publisher's cloth binding with original dust jacket. Some toning and chipping to dust jacket, with some biopredation at spine and rear cover. Some toning to endpapers. Very good.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91120 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $406.25

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[Featured Lot] Maffei, [Francis Scipio], Marchese. Arte Magica Dileguata Lettera Del Signor Marchese Maffei Al Padre Innocente Ansaldi Dell'Ordine De' Predicatori. Seconda Edizione. Verona: Agostino Carattoni, 1750. 4to. A-G4. 55, [1]pp. Full old vellum, corners a bit worn, leather label with title in gilt lettering beginning to peel off of spine. Red speckled edges. Endpapers worn with several holes. Very light browning and foxing, with occasional dampstain. Bookplates (2) on front pastedown. Printer's device on t.p., engraved initial and headpiece. Second edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $750

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91225 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $387.50
[Featured Lot] Reinzer, Francisco. Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, Das ist: Philosophiche u. Politische Beschreib- u. ErklŠrung Meteorischen, oder in der obern Lufft erzeugten Dinge... [Augsberg:] [Detleffsen for Jeremiah Wolf,] [1712.] Folio. )(2 [-)(1 t.p.],A-3G4,3H2. [2 of 4],424,[4]p. Contemporary full vellum, inner hinge opening, some light dampstains, foxing, strong impressions of the emblems. Lacks frontispiece, 83 fine large text emblematic engravings by Jacob Mulle, Johann Stridbeck, and Johann Sibylla Krausen after Kadoriza. German edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $850

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91260 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $387.50
Maurice Maeterlinck. News of Spring and Other Nature Studies. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First American edition. Large octavo. Contains twenty tipped in full color plates with descriptive tissue guards, illustrated by Edward J. Detmold. Publisher's pictorial cloth binding with gilt titles and decoration. Deckled edges. Some minor rubbing, soiling and edgewear to extremities. Bookplate. Very good. From the library of Dr. Henry H. Fertig, M.D.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91224 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $362.50
[W. Heath Robinson, illustrator]. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream. London: Constable, 1914. Gorgeous full-page color illustrations with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full decorated leather. Housed in chemise. Fine.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91080 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $350.00
[Featured Lot] [Hagen, Johann Martin, attrib.] [Hundert Acht und Dreissig Gantz Neu-entdeckte GeheimnŸsse Oder Sonderbare bissher unbekannte und noch nie an das Tages-Licht gegebene Secrete, Von allerhand Magischen, Spagyrischen, Sympathetischen und Antipathetischen Kunst-StŸcken, derer eines allein den Collectorem Šffters 12. 20. auch 30. Reichsthaler gekostet: Anjetzo nach dessen Ableiben dem Publico zum Besten im Druck gegeben.] [Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig:] [Johann Martin Hagen,] [1722.] 8vo. [Lacks ¹2, ]A-G8,H4,I6. [T.p. in pen facsimile with incorrect date],[2],132pp. Nineteenth-century morocco, banded spine, 5 leaves of alchemical notes in an old German hand at the rear. Manuscript t.p. in red and black. This is a rare edition of this compilation of magic, alchemy, medicine, and related subjects. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $750

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91198 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $325.00

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$495 or more
[Featured Lot] Ashmole, Elias. The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies Of The Most Noble Order Of The Garter; And A Brief account of all other Military Orders of Knighthood in England, Scotland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Swedenland, Denmark, &c. With the Ensigns of the several Orders... The Catalogue of the Kinghts-Companions and Officers, continued to 1693. London: for Thomas Dring, 1693. Large Folio. 358 x232 mm. ¹2,a4,B-4U4,a-2c2,[2c2 errata page 1/2 blank portion trimmed away.] [12],130, 135-136, 149-720,[104], [1]p. Contemporary calf boards in panel with large blind stamped corner and central pieces; rebacked, title on old black leather label, new endpapers, toned, some foxing, occasional stains, dark stain on last three text leaves before appendix; some plates supplied from a smaller copy (probably from the first edition of 1672.) Lacks portrait of Charles; 22 (of 37) plates; text etching/engravings, head-piece, large historiated initial -- almost all of the plates are by Wenceslaus Hollar. Second Edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $750

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91148 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $325.00

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$495 or more
[Featured Lot] Binet, Benjamin. Traité Historique des Dieux et des Demons du Paganisme. Avec quelques Remarques Critiques sur le Systeme de Mr. Bekker. Delff: Andries Voorstad, 1696. 12mo. *6, A-I12, K6. [12], 227, [1]p. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with old spine laid-on, spine gilt in compartments with repeated floral device, edges red, marbled endpapers, booplate of Bibliotheque de M. Rene Amedie Choppin, De Villy, text block cut a bit askew. Printer's ornaments. First edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $850

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91154 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $325.00
[Limited Editions Club] Sol Lewitt, illustrator. SIGNED. Jorge Luis Borges. Ficciones. Limited Editions Club, [1984]. Edition limited to 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator. Square octavo. Publisher's leather. Fine in a slipcase with some separation at rear hinge.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91156 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $325.00
[San Francisco Earthquake]. Large Archive of Material related to the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Items published in or used as research material for various American Heritage articles. With a collection of fifty reprint photographs, as well as an assortment of safety negatives, photographic transparencies, magazine leaves and clippings, and a Xerographic print, totaling twenty-three additional items. The largest item measures 11 x 17 inches. Some marginal wear, light rubbing, some creasing, some with staple holes, holographic notations, sticker labels to some. Generally very good.
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91385 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $300.00
[Featured Lot] Raleigh [Ralegh], Sir Walter, attributed. The Arts of Empire, And Mysteries of State Discabineted. In Political and Polemical Aphorisms, grounded on Authority and Experience. And Illustrated with the Choicest Examples and Historical Observations. By the ever-renowned Knight Sir Walter Raleigh, published by John Milton Esq; London: G. Croom for Joseph Watts, 1692. 8vo. A4,B-Q8. [8], 238, [2]p. Modern paneled calf in antique design, spine banded, title gilt, some darkening at edges. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $850

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91258 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $287.50
[Limited Editions Club] Robert Ballagh, photographs. James Joyce. Dubliners. Limited Editions Club, [1986]. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by the photographer and Thomas Flanagan, who wrote the introduction. Publisher's quarter leather. Fine in a slipcase with some staining and scuffing.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91044 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $275.00

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$425 or more
[Limited Editions Club] Grant Wood, illustrator. SIGNED. Sinclair Lewis. Main Street. Limited Editions Club, 1937. Edition limited to 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's cloth and glassine dust jacket. Glassine toned, with edgewear. Fine in original slipcase. From the library of John Carroll Collins.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91053 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
Michael Crichton. SIGNED. The Lost World. Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1995. First edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's full leather with gilt titles and decoration. Bookplate. Fine. From the library of John Carroll Collins.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91116 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $262.50
Cragius, Nicolas [Niels Krag]. De Republica Lacedaemoniorum Libri IIII. Opus Antiquitatum Politicarum, acpraefertim Graecarum... [Heildelberg? Geneva?:] Peter Santandrean, 1593. 4to. ¦8,A-R8. [16], 269pp. Contemporary limp vellum, spine torn with piece missing, lack ties, textblock loose in covers, some paper darkening, stamp of Hector Dubois D'Enghien. Large printer's device on t.p. First Edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $400

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91174 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $250.00
[Featured Lot] Court de Gebelin, Antoine & Sanchuniathon. Allegories Orientales, Ou Le Fragment De Sanchoniation, Qui Contient L'Histoire De Saturne, Suivie De Celles De Mercure Et D'Hercule, Et De Ses Douze Travaux, Avec Leur Explication... [bound with:] Plan Général Et Raisonné Des Divers Objets Et Des Découvertes Qui Composent L'Ouvrage Intitulé: Monde Primitif Analyse Et Compare Avec Le Monde Moderne, Ou Recherches Sur Les Antiquites Du Monde.
[bound with:] Monde Primitif, Analysé Et Comparé Avec Le Monde Moderne; Considéré Dans Son Genie Allégorique Et Dans Les Allégories Auxquelles Conduisit Ce Génie; Précédé Du Plan General Des Diverses Parties Qui Composeront Ce Monde Primitif... Paris: For the Author, Boudet, Valleyre l'aine, Veuve Duchesne, Saugrain, & Ruault, 1773. 4to. 3 vols. in 1. a4,A2, B-2M4; ¹2, A-N4; 2¹2, a2, 2a-c4 [suscriber's list], A-Y4. viii, 278;[2],102; [8],xxii,175, [1]p. Contemporary half calf over paste-paper boards, spine banded gilt with floral design, title gilt on red morocco label, some rubbing to covers, edges red, marbled endpapers, bookplate "G. C: v. Fechenbach;" minor stain on first t.p.and next two leaves, a few very minor stains and foxing, clean tear in last leaf repaired, but a clean, fresh copy in excellent state of preservation. Three engraved vignette head-pieces 2 by C. P. Marsillier after J. B. Simonet, A. Romanet & Ch. L. Lingee; 3 full-page engraved plates, one folding table. First Edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $850

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91188 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $250.00
Wecker, Johann Jacob. De Secretis Libri XVII...Tertia hac Editione Non solum ab innumeris mendis, Obscuritateq(ue), purgati, sed & Theodore Zuingeri... Additionibus E Pharmacia & Chymia.... [Basle:] Johann Conradi for Johann Ludovic Konig, 1701. 8vo. (O)6, A-3C8, 3D6 [3D6 blank, present]. [12],764,[32]p. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards on wood, cracks in covers with some loss of paper covering,lacks old paper label, old signature on front paste-down "Ad usum P. Leonii Berenfelder", t.p. soiled, minor edge worming tofirst leaves, occ. foxing. Text cuts and diagrams. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $600

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91287 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1987]. Collector's edition. Publisher's handsomely gilt-decorated red leather. Fine in slipcase. From the library of John Carroll Collins.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91134 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $225.00

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$355 or more
Censorinus Grammaticus. Liber De Die Natali. Hamburg: Michael Hering 1614. 4to.(:)4, [*]2, A-2B4 [-2B4,blank]. [12],174,[22]p. Nineteenth-century half morocco over cloth, gilt title on spine, leather wear, old note on t.p. about edition, corner repair to (:)2-3 (no text affected), some underlining, paper lightly toned. Printer's mark on t.p. First Edition thus. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $650

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91192 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $225.00
[Featured Lot] Hollar, Wenceslaus. The Dance of Death; From The Original Designs of Hans Holbein. London: J. Coxhead, 1816. 8vo. B-E8,F8. [2],70pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, title-label, rubbed, some foxing. Frontispiece and portraits of Hollar & Holbein & 24 hand-colored cuts. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $600

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91207 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $225.00
J. Frank Dobie. INSCRIBED. A Vaquero of the Brush County. Dallas: Southwest Press, 1929. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's binding. Some mild edgewear. Very good. From the library of John Carroll Collins.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91179 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $218.75
Bram Stoker. Lady Athlyne. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First edition. Octavo. 333 pages. Publisher's deep red cloth with black titles, ruling and floral decoration on front panel and gilt titles and ruling on spine. Board edges and spine rubbed. Endpapers somewhat toned with minor soiling. Edges toned. Bookseller's ticket. Otherwise, a very good copy.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91086 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
[Featured Lot] [Charles Olson & Robert Creeley]. George F. Butterick, editor. Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Robert Creeley. Ten volumes. Publisher's quarter cloth. Fine.
(Total: 10 Items)
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91161 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $206.25
J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1966]. First collector's edition. Publisher's full leather with gilt decoration. Fine in slipcase. From the library of John Carroll Collins.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91133 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
[Featured Lot] Guillemain de Saint Victor, Louis. Origine de la Maconnerie Adonhiramite, ou Nouvelles Observations critiques et raisonnées, Sur la Philosophie, les Hiéroglyphes, les Mystéres, la Superstition et les Vices de Mages. Précédée d'un Chapitre sur l'Egypte ancienne et moderne; avec des remarques et des notes sur les Historiens et la Chronologie du monde. Helyopolis [= Paris, André], 1787, (4),164p. ¹2,A-N6,O4.
[bound with:]
Recueil précieux de la Maconnerie Adonhiramite, Contenant les Catéchismes des quatre premiers Grades, et l'Ouverture et Cloture des différentes Loges, l'Instruction de la Table, les Santés générales et particuliéres, ainsi que les devoirs des premiers Officiers en charge; Enrichi d'une infinité de Demandes et de Réponses symboliques, de l'Explication des Emblémes, et d'un grand nombre de Notes aussi curieuses qu'utiles.
[pt.2]...Contenant les trois points de la Maonnerie Ecossaise, le Chevalier de l'Orient, et le vrai Rose-Croix, qui n'ont jamais été imprimés; Précédés des trois Elus, et suivis du Noachite, ou le Chevalier Prussien, traduit de l'Allemand; Enrichie d'une abrégé de l'Histoire de ce grade (...). Par un Chevalier de tous les Ordres Maconniques. "Ë Philadelphie, Chez Philarthe, rue de l'Équerre, á l'Aplomb" [= Paris], 1787, 2 parts in 1 vol., 144; 164,(3 index) p., 1 engr. fold. plate.A-M6 (signature marks erratic);A-O6.
[bound with:]
La vraie Maconnerie d'Adoption, Précédée de quelques Réflexions sur les Loges irrégulires et sur la Société civile, avec des notes critiques et philosophiques, et suivie de Cantiques Maconniques; dédiée aux Dames... Á Philadelphie, Chez Philaréthe, rue de l'Équerre, á l'Aplomb" [= Paris], 1787154,(2)p.A-N6. 12mo. 3 works in 4vols. in 1. Contemporary quarter calf over paste-paper boards, gilt spine, hinges cracked; bookplate of F. van der Harst, old description pasted to f.e.e.p.,owner's
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91197 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
Henry Schliemann. Troja. Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy. New York: Harper's, 1884. First edition. Original cloth binding. Corners and spine ends bumped. Some rubbing to extremities. Very good.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91263 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. LIMITED. The Dialogue of the Dogs. Kentfield, California: The Allen Press, 1969. Edition limited to 140 copies. Original cloth binding. Fine.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91077 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
[H.G. Wells] George Newnes, editor. The Strand Magazine, Vols. XX and XXI. London: George Newnes, 1900, 1901. Featuring the story The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells. Two volumes. Original cloth bindings. Over-opened. Rubbing to extremities. Spines darkened. Very good.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91139 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Smith, Robert Cross.(Raphael) & Members of the Mercurii. The Astrologer, of the Nineteenth Century, Or The Master Key of Futurity, being a Complete System of Astrology, Geomancy, & Occult Science. London: William Charlton Wright, 1825. 8vo. (xii), 560, (4)p. Contemporary green half calf over marbled boards, rubbed edges, chip to head of spine and hinge, gilt title label. Owners signature to ffep. Few ink and pencil notes. Lacks dedication (i-iiii). Hand colored plates of the frontispiece 'Magic Ceremonies,' title page and 2 (of 3?) others, 'Necromany, Edward Kelly' & 'Spirit to Lord Lyttleton.' With many text illustrations. First edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $600

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91269 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
[Featured Lot] Wood, Anthony á . Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History Of All The Writers and Bishops Who have had their Education in The most ancient and famous University Of Oxford, From The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. Representing The Birth, Fortune, Preferment, and Death of all those Authors and Prelates, the great Accidents of their Lives, and the Fate and Character of their Writings. To which are added, The Fasti or Annals, of the said University, For the same time. London: for Thomas Bennet, 1691-2. Folio. 2 vols in 1. ¹1,a2,B-4F4; ¹1,A2,B-2X4,2Y-4E2. Leaves Lll-Mmm2 in volume 2 are replaced with duplicate leaves from volume one and are consequently lacking. [6],200, 219 904cl=452p,[9]; [8],906cl=453p,[10]p. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, new endpapers, old owner's name "Edw. Curteis, Fellow of Oriel College,Oxford" on t.p. (scored), old stains, some edgewear, soiling. T.p.s in red and black, head-piece of Oxford Univ. crest, large historiated initial. First English Edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $875

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91289 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Echard, Laurence. A General Ecclesiastical History From The Nativity Of Our Blessed saviour To The First Establishment Of Christianity By Humane Laws, Under the Emperour Constantine the Great. Containing the Space of about 313 Years. With so much of the Jewish and Roman History as is Necessary and Convenient to illustrate the Work. To which is added, A Large Chronological Table... London: W. Browyer for Jacob Tonson, 1702. Folio. ¹2,a-c2,A-F2, [2]A-3P2, 3Q1 [38],472,[10]p. Contemporary full panelled calf, hinges started, spine ends worn, old poetry quotes on verso of frontispiece, repair on verso of frontispiece. Frontispiece by Vander Grucht, t.p. in red and black, double-page map of Holy Land. First Edition. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $500

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91180 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $181.25
Samuel Beckett. [Works]. New York: Grove Press, [2006]. Grove Centenary Edition. Four volumes. Publisher's bindings. Fine in a slipcase with some scuffing. From the collection of I.D. "Nash" Flores III.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91016 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $175.00
Ken Kesey. SIGNED/LIMITED. The Day after Superman Died. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. Signed by the author. Publisher's quarter cloth. Fine. From the library of John Carroll Collins.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91047 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $175.00
[Folio Society]. Quentin Blake, illustrator. SIGNED. Voltaire. Candide or Optimism. London: The Folio Society, 2011. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's full leather. Fine in slipcase.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91102 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $175.00
Olaf Stapledon and Murray Leinster. Quadratic. Four Science Fiction Novels. Los Angeles: FPCI, 1949 (but actually 1953). First edition. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Edgewear. Very good.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91131 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $175.00
[Featured Lot] Defoe, Daniel, attributed. or William Bond. The History Of The Life And Adventures Of Mr. Duncan Campbell, A Gentleman who tho' Deaf and Dumb, writes down any Stranger's Name at first Sight: with their future Contingencies of Fortune. The Second Edition corrected. London: E.[dward] Curll, 1720. 8vo. A8,a4,B-X8. xix,[1],[4],320pp. Contemporary spotted calf, gilt rules on spine, title on red morocco label, front hinge split at top, rubbed at edges, old royal shelf label on paste-down, foxed, small stain in lower margin of frontispiece. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Vander Grucht afer T. Hill, 4 plates. From the Krown & Spellman Collection.
Krown & Spellman retail: $750

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91175 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $175.00
[J.M.W. Turner]. [Architecture]. Group of Eight Original Hand-Colored Engravings Depicting Various International Architectural Landmarks. New York: D. Appleton and Company, [n.d., ca. 1780s]. Various sizes, largest matted to an overall size of approximately 12" x 15". Some minor rubbing and thumb-soiling, else very good.

Auction 201445 | Lot: 91324 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $175.00
[Books about Books]. [Don Quixote]. D. Clemente Cortejon. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha Compuesto Por Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Primera Edicion Critica con Variantes, y el Diccionario de Todas las Palabras Usadas en la Immortal Novella por D. Clemente Cortejon, Vols. I-IV. Madrid: Victoriano Suarez, 1905-1913. Complete in six large octavo volumes. Contemporary full calf bindings with gilt titles and decoration. Text in Spanish. Some rubbing and edgewear to extremities. Owner's pencil notations. Very good.

(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91024 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $168.75
[Percy Bysshe Shelley] The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. London: Reeves & Turner, 1886. Two volumes, bound in black calf ruled in blind with gilt devices on front covers. Some staining to preliminary leaves. Very good. From the library of John Carroll Collins.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201445 | Lot: 91082 | Nov 6, 2014

Sold For: $162.50

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