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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, 1843, 1842.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45077 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$37,500.00
John James Audubon.
The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
.
New York: Published by J. J. Audubon [and] Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. (Total: 7 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45214 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$31,250.00
Ernest Henry Shackleton.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909
.
With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., & an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S.
[Together with:]
The Antarctic Book, Winter Quarters, 1907-1909
.
London: William Heinemann, 1909. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45080 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$30,000.00
Ernest Hemingway.
The Sun Also Rises.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45625 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$27,500.00
Mark Catesby.
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Plants; Particularly, those not hitherto described, or incorrectly figured by former Authors, with their Descriptions in English and French
...
London: for Benjamin White, 1771.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45227 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$25,000.00
Claudius Ptolemaeus [Ptolemy].
Liber Geographiae cum Tabulis et universali figura et cum additione locorum quae a recentioribus reperta sunt diligenti cura emendatus et impressus
.
[Venice: Jacobius Pentius de Leucho, 20 March 1511].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45067 | Apr 8, 2015
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$21,250.00
Rene Descartes.
Discours De La Methode Pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verite dans les sciences.
Plus La Dioptrique. Les Meteores. Et La Geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete Methode.
Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1637.
First edition.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45121 | Apr 8, 2015
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$20,000.00
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A. A. Milne.
Winnie-The-Pooh.
Decorations by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926.
First edition, first printing in publisher's original De Luxe binding (one of only 3,000 copies in this special binding).
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45414 | Apr 8, 2015
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$17,500.00
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$26,250 or more
[Harry Potter]. Cliff Wright (British, born 1963). Original Ink and Watercolor Cover Art for
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(Bloomsbury, 1998). The drawing depicts an early scene in the book, in which Ron Weasley rescues Harry from Number 4 Privet Drive in his father's flying car to take him back to Hogwarts. Drawing is unsigned, but includes Wright's manuscript notes in the upper margin.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45405 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$13,750.00
[H. G. Wells]. Olaf Stapledon. INSCRIBED.
Star Maker
.
London: Methuen & Co., [1937].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45933 | Apr 9, 2015
Sold For:
$13,125.00
[Henry James]. H. G. Wells. INSCRIBED.
Tales of Space and Time.
London: Harper & Brothers, 1900 [i. e. 1899].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45794 | Apr 9, 2015
Sold For:
$12,500.00
Ernest Hemingway.
In Our Time.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45621 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$11,875.00
Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall.
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs.
Volume II. Philadelphia: Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1842. First edition of volume II [only volume present].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45018 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$11,875.00
Ian Fleming.
The Man with the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1965].
First edition, first impression, first issue, first state. (as per Gilbert).
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45527 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$11,250.00
Edward Beyer.
Album of Virginia; Or, Illustration of the Old Dominion
.
[Richmond]: Edward Beyer, 1858.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45004 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Saint Johannes Chrysostomus.
De reparatione lapsi.
[
Crisostomus de Reparat
[
i
]
one lapsi ad Amanticu
[
m
]
lapsum.
]
[Cologne: Ulrich Zell, 1467-1472.] Small quarto.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45114 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Garth Williams
(American, 1912-1996).
The Rabbits' Wedding, original cover art.
[
N.p., n.d., ca. 1958].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45455 | Apr 8, 2015
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$10,000.00
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$15,000 or more
Ernest Hemingway.
SIGNED/LIMITED.
A Farewell to Arms.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45629 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$10,000.00
James Joyce.
Finnegans Wake.
London: Faber & Faber, 1939. First edition,
number 151 of 425 copies signed by the author.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45650 | Apr 8, 2015
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$10,000.00
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$15,000 or more
Cormac McCarthy.
Blood Meridian
or The Evening Redness in the West.
New York: Random House, [1985]. First edition of the author's fifth novel.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45671 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$10,000.00
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. J. M. Barrie.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
(From "The Little White Bird.") With drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45421 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$9,375.00
D.H. Lawrence. Holograph Manuscript of
The Woman Who Rode Away.
[n.d., 1924].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45662 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$9,375.00
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 Mitchell on the front free endpaper.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45679 | Apr 8, 2015
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$9,375.00
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$14,062 or more
[Gradual, with Sanctorale. Manuscript on vellum, in Latin, Franciscan use.
[Portugal, circa 1660].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45374 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$9,375.00
Ian Fleming.
Live and Let Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1954]. First edition, first impression, first issue, first state of the second James Bond novel (as per Gilbert).
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45526 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Jules Verne.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873.
The true first American edition. One of only a small number of copies extant (perhaps fifty copies or less).
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45568 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Harper Lee.
To Kill a Mockingbird
.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1960].
First edition of the author's first and only novel, one of only 5,000 copies printed.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45666 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,750.00
J. D. Salinger.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First edition stated. Octavo. 277 pages.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45697 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Galileo Galilei.
Systema Cosmicum... In quo Quatuor Dialogis,
De Duobus Maximus Mundi Systematibus, Ptolemaico et Copernicano.
Strasbourg: D. Hauttius for Elzevirs, 1635.
First Latin edition of The
Dialogo,
Galileo's exposition and advancement of the Copernican system.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45182 | Apr 8, 2015
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$8,750.00
[Napoleon I]
Pen Sketches of Napoleon I
(Binders Title) Extraordinary Album With Thirty-nine Superb Pen Sketches With Napoleonic Themes, Circa 1820.
No publication data present.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45052 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,437.50
[Photography] Alvin Langdon Coburn.
London.
With an introduction by Hilaire Belloc. London: Duckworth & Co., [1909]. First edition. Folio, approximately 16 x 11.75 inches. 21, [3, blank] pages. Twenty illustrated photogravure plates after Coburn's original photographs, each illustration hand-pulled by him and tipped to a leaf.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45256 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,437.50
Frank Herbert.
Dune.
Philadelphia: Chilton Books, [1965].
First edition, first printing in the first printing dust jacket (as per Currey). Presentation copy, inscribed by Herbert on the title-page in black marker: "For John Pierce/Frank Herbert". Beneath this, Herbert has crossed out his printed name.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45539 | Apr 8, 2015
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$8,125.00
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$17,850 or more
Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo. [Giacomo Filippo Foresti].
Supplementum chronicarum.
Venice: Bernardinus Rizius, 15 May, 1490. Fourth edition, second edition illustrated.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45032 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[Rockwell Kent, illustrator]. Herman Melville.
Moby Dick or The Whale.
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, designed by Rockwell Kent and printed under the supervision of William A. Kittredge at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45357 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Works.
[Various places: publishers, dates].
First editions. Fifty-four volumes. Thirty-three titles in original publisher's dust jackets.
(Total: 54 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45477 | Apr 8, 2015
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$7,812.50
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$8,594 or more
[Robert Frank, photographer].
The Americans
. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1959]. First American edition, hardcover issue.
Signed by Frank on the title page.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45265 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$7,812.50
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$11,719 or more
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Fitzgerald on a supplied front free endpaper: "Faithfully yours/F. Scott Fitzgerald".
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45609 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$7,500.00
Antoninus Florentinus.
Chronicon.
Nurnberg: (Anton Koberger), 1484.
First edition of Antoninus' compendium of history, presented through a series of examples of righteous living.
It extends from the ancient to the modern world, with the most modern examples drawn from Antoninus's contemporaries, Poggio Bracciolini and Leonardo Bruni. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45029 | Apr 8, 2015
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$7,500.00
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$11,250 or more
[H. G. Wells]. H. S. [sic] Wells.
The Time Machine.
An Invention.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1895.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45766 | Apr 9, 2015
Sold For:
$6,875.00
Ayn Rand.
Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, [1957].
First edition. Signed by Rand on the front free endpaper.
Octavo.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45689 | Apr 8, 2015
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$6,875.00
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$10,312 or more
[Walt Disney Studios]. Ward Greene.
Lady and the Tramp.
Pictures by Joe Rinaldi. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1953]. First edition.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45392 | Apr 8, 2015
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$6,875.00
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$10,312 or more
[Ernest Shackleton, 1874-1922]
The Antarctic Book, Winter Quarters, 1907-1909.
London: William Heinemann, 1909. Limited to 300 copies. With 16 signatures of the members of the
Nimrod
expedition, including Ernest Shackleton. Four mounted color portraits and six woodcuts after drawings by the expedition's artist, George Marston.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45079 | Apr 8, 2015
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$6,875.00
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$10,312 or more
John James Audubon and John Bachman.
The Quadrupeds of North America
.
New-York: Published by V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, and 1854. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45217 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$6,875.00
[Gradual. Manuscript on vellum, in Latin.
Spain: sixteenth or seventeenth century].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45375 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$6,875.00
D.H. Lawrence. Holograph Manuscript of
Pictures on the Wall.
[n.d., circa 1929].
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45661 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$6,250.00
Pico [Picus] della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco [Gianfrancesco].
Ioannis Francisci Pici Miranduale de morte Christi & propria cogitanda libri tres. Eiusdem de studio divinae & humanae philosophiae libri duo.
Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris Faelli, 20 July, 1497.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45049 | Apr 8, 2015
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$6,250.00
Hans Sloane.
A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c. Of the last of those Islands
;
To which is prefix'd An Introduction, Wherein is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Waters, Diseases, Trade, &c of that Place, with some Relations concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with The Figures of the Things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved; In large Copper-Plates as big as the Life. In Two Volumes. London: Printed by B. M. for the Author, 1707; London: Printed for the Author, 1725. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45082 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$6,250.00
[Gesta Romanorum].
Gesta Romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac mysticis
.
[Augsburg: Anton Sorg, n.d., ca. 1487.] Chancery Folio. Approximately 10.25 x 7.25 inches. a-c4, d-e6, j-g6, h-i6, k-l8, m-o6.
Complete.
98 leaves; 186 pages.
Auction 6117
| Lot: 45125 | Apr 8, 2015
Sold For:
$6,250.00
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