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Sir Isaac Newton. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. London: Jussu Societatis Regiæ ac Typis Josephi Streater. Prostant Venales apud Samuelis Smith...nonnullos Bibliopolas, 1687.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37134 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $191,200.00
David Roberts. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia. From Drawings Made on the Spot by David Roberts, R.A. With Historical Descriptions, by the Revd. George Croly, L.L.D. Lithographed by Louis Haghe. London: F. G. Moon, 1842-1849. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37089 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $167,300.00
[Kelmscott Press]. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896].
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37171 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $161,325.00
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. New-York:
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37007 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $143,400.00
Ignatius Sancho. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, by Joseph Jekyll. London: William Sancho, 1803.

Fifth edition. xvi, 310 pages. Tipped in the rear are fifteen of Sancho's original autograph
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37489 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $89,625.00

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Thomas L. McKenney, and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37085 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $77,675.00
Noah Webster. An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and primary signification of English words, as far as they have been ascertained. II. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37024 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $34,655.00
Galileo Galilei. Systema cosmicum ... In quo quatuor dialogis, de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, utriusque rationibus philosophicis ac naturalibus indefinite propositis,
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37130 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $31,070.00
Aubrey Beardsley [illustrator]. Sir Thomas Malory. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur, of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal, (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37139 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $31,070.00
James Joyce. Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1936].

First edition printed in England, one of 100 copies on Mould-made paper, bound in vellum, and signed by James Joyce.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37330 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $25,095.00

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$37,642 or more
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1997].

First edition, first printing, of the first and rarest of the Harry Potter books, with the correct full number line
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37197 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $23,900.00
[Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, publisher]. Complete Collection of Fantasy Press Signed First Editions, including:

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ONLINE DESCRIPTION IDENTIFIES THE CORRECT COPY OF THE COMETEERS BEING SOLD IN THIS LOT, THE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. (Total: 53 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37220 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $23,302.50
Galileo Galilei. Il Saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella libra astronomica e filosofica di Lotario Sarsi Sigensano ... Rome: Appresso Giacomo Mascardi, 1623.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37129 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $22,107.50
Lancelot du Lac. Le Premier Volume (le Second volume, le tiers volume) de Lancelot du Lac nouvellemet imprime a Paris. Paris: Philippe le Noir libraire, 1533.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37307 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $21,510.00
Livio Sanuto. Geografia di M. Livio Sanvto distinta in XII libri. Ne' quali, oltra l'esplicatione di molti luoghi di Tolomeo e della Bussola, e dell' Aguglia; si dichiarano le Provincie, Popoli,
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37495 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $21,510.00
Richard Jobson. The Golden Trade: or, A discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37458 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $16,730.00
Ian Fleming. For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London: Jonathan Cape, [1960].

First edition. Inscribed by Fleming on the front free endpaper, "For John To hack about! from Ian". Octavo. 252 pages.

Publisher's black
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37223 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $15,535.00
A. A. Milne. When We Were Very Young. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1924].

First trade edition (with p. ix unnumbered). Signed by the author in black ink on the title-page: "A. A. Milne [flourish]." (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37183 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $13,145.00
Joseph Conrad. Typhoon. Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1902.

First edition.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37283 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $13,145.00
John Ogilby. Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, The Land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, With all the Adjacent Islands,
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37477 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $13,145.00

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Ian Fleming. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, [1953].

First edition. Octavo. 218 pages.

Publisher's black cloth with front and spine stamped in red. Spine has a slight lean with softly bumped corners. Lightly foxed endpapers and page edges
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37221 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $11,950.00
James Joyce. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.

First edition. One of 750 numbered copies on handmade paper (this copy being No. 540), out of a total edition of 1,000 copies.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37331 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $11,950.00
William Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1765-1769.

First edition, with the "Supplement to the First Edition" which was issued later and is usually lacking. Four quarto (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37032 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $10,755.00
[Hernán] Cortés. De Insulis nuper inventis Ferdinandi Cortesii ad Carolum V. Rom. Imperatorem Narrationes, cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII Pontificem Maximum confimilis argumenti libello. His Accesserunt Epistolæ duæ.... Cologne: Melchoir
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37039 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $10,755.00
Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936.

First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on copyright page and no note of other printings. Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the front free endpaper.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37351 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $10,157.50
John Martin Bernatz. Scenes in Ethiopia. Designed from Nature. By John Martin Bernatz, Artist to the British Mission to the Court of Shoa. With Descriptions of the Plates, and Extracts from a Journal of Travel in that
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37406 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $9,560.00

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$14,340 or more
Eduardo Lopez. Filippo Pigafetta. A Report Of The Kindgome of Congo, a Region of Africa. And of the Countries that border rounde about the same. ... Drawen our of the writings and discourses of Odoardo Lopez
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37469 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $9,560.00
Anne Rice. Manuscript Diary for Feast of All Saints, With Thoughts on the Success of Interview With the Vampire - Signed Twice. Personal diary written in Paris, London, New York City, and Los Angeles: April 15-June 15, 1977.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37243 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $8,962.50
Andrea Palladio. Architettura di Andrea Palladio Vicentino di Nuovo Restampata, E di Figure in Rame diligentemente intagliate arricchita, correta, (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37119 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $8,365.00
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. [Mrs. Edgar Lucas, translator]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. London: Constable & Co., 1909.

First, thus. Octavo. xv, 325 pages. Limited to 750 copies signed by Rackham, this
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37192 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $8,066.25
Olaudah Equiano. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. London: [Olaudah Equiano], [1789].

First edition. Two octavo volumes in one. Octavo. 272; 255 pages.

Contemporary
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37438 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $7,767.50
Thomas McKenney and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37086 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $7,170.00
Joseph Conrad. 'Twixt Land & Sea. Tales. A Smile of Fortune. The Secret Sharer. Freya of the Seven Isles. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1912.

First edition.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37282 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $7,170.00
[Samuel L. Clemens, association]. Zadok Cramer [editor]. The Navigator. Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers; with an Ample Account of These Much Admired Waters,
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37003 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $6,572.50
Albert Einstein. Mein Weltbild. Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Albert Einstein in black ink on the front free endpaper to his friend and mentor, Max Talmey:
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37126 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $6,572.50
Richard F. Burton. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37418 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $5,975.00

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$8,962 or more
John F. Kennedy. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by John F. Kennedy on the front free endpaper: "To a very old friend of the Kennedys with warmest regards - Jack Kennedy."
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37010 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $5,676.25
A. A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. [New York]: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1926].
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37188 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $5,676.25
M. Frédéric Cailliaud. Voyage a Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc, Au-Delà de Fâzoql dans le Midi du Royaume de Sennâr, a Syouah et dans Cinq Autres Oasis; Fait dans les Années 1819, 1820, 1821, et 1822. Paris: Par Autorisation du Roi, 1823, 1826, 1827.

First (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37420 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $5,676.25
H. G. Wells. The Island of Doctor Moreau. London: William Heinemann, 1896.

First edition in trial binding. Octavo. 219 pages.

Publisher's pale green cloth.
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37256 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,780.00

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[Jonathan Swift]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726.

Third octavo edition of "Gulliver's Travels" (Teerink's B (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37379 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,780.00
William J. Burchell. Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa. Two Volumes. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822, 1824.

First edition. Two quarto volumes. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37414 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,780.00
Ed Bateman. The Instinct Never Dies. N.p. [self-published in Texas], 1931.

First edition. Inscribed by the author to his sister on the title page: "To Eulah - With the hope that the pleasures you get from this volume will not arise solely from sisterly
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37152 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,481.25
Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876.

First edition, first printing. Half-title and frontispiece on different leaves. Follows the
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37382 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,200.00
Johannes Leo Africanus. De Totius Africæ descriptione, Libri. IX. Quibus non solùm Africæ regionum, insularum, & oppidorum situs, locorumque intervalla accuratè complexus est,
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37397 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,182.50
Charles Guillain. Documents sur L'Histoire, la Géographie et le Commerce de L'Afrique Orientale. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, [1856-1857].

First edition. Three octavo volumes. xxxi, 628; xxiii, 556; 527 pages. Errata pages. Map and folding table
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37449 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,182.50
Pieter de Marees. Description et recit historial du riche royaume d'or de Gunea, aultrement nommé, la coste de l'or de Mina, gisante en certain endroict d'Africque...
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37472 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $4,182.50

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[Mornay]. A Picture of St. Petersburgh, Represented in a Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People. Taken on the Spot, at the Twelve Different Months of the Year: and Accompanied with an Historical
Auction 6038 | Lot: 37088 | Feb 12, 2010

Sold For: $3,883.75

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