Christies: Printed Books and Manuscripts. From the Estate of JOHN F. FLEMING., 18Nov1988,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 18, 1988 - November 18, 1988

Page Size: 373 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ACOSTA, JOSE DE.	The Naturall and Morrall Historie of the East and West Indies ...	London	1604	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,210.00
2		STATIUS	Venice	January 1519	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,100.00
3	PETRARCA, FRANCESCO	ALDINE PRESS.	Venice	1546	USD 300.00 - 500.00	1,540.00
4	MOSCHUS, BION and THEOCRITUS	Moschi, Bionis, Theocriti, elegantissimorum poetarum idyllia aliquot	Venice	1555	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,980.00
5	ALEMAN, MATEO	The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, written in Spanish	London	1623	USD 250.00 - 350.00	660.00
6	ALLOTT, ROBERT	Wits Theater of the little World	London	1559	USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	1,100.00
7	MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT; HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN; BACHELLER, IRVING; HAY, JOHN; COBB, SYLVANUS, Jr.; MAJOR, CHARLES	AMERICAN AUTHORS., "Ik Marvel". Reveries of a Bachelor, A Boy's Town, Eben Holden, Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, and Little Breeches, The Gunmaker of Moscow, or Vladimir the Monk, Dream Life, When Knighthood was in Flower	New York's, Boston's, Indianapolis	1850, 1890, 1900, 1871, 1851, 1888, 1898	USD 250.00 - 350.00	605.00
8	BYRNE, DONN; CAWEIN, MADISON; Hon.; DUNNE, FINLEY PETER; MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR; MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER	AMERICAN AUTHORS: PRESENTATION COPIES., Messer Marco Polo, Weeds by the Wall, John Hay, with esteem and admiration. Madison Cawein, Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, Graustark, Travels in Philadelphia	New York, Louisville's, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia	1921, 1901, May 30th, 1901, 1898, 1901, 1920	USD 350.00 - 450.00	462.00
9	WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS; STEINBECK, JOHN; BENNETT, ROBERT; GANNETT, LEWIS; WESCOTT, GLENWAY; BROOKS, VAN WYCK	AMERICAN AUTHORS: PRESENTATION COPIES., Spring and All, Pascal Covici 1888-1964. Written and printed for and by his friends, The Wrath of John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck: Personal and Bibliographical Notes, Apartment in Athens, Days of the Phoenix. The Nin	Paris, New York's, Los Angeles	1923, 1964, 1939, 1939, 1945, 1957	USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
10		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, In Town Meeting assembled ... To which is prefixed, As Introductory, an attested Copy of a Vote of the Town at a preceeding Meeting	Boston	1772	USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
11		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, In Town Meeting assembled ... To which is prefixed, as Introductory, An attested Copy of a Vote of the Town at a preceeding Meeting	Boston	1772	USD 500.00 - 700.00	605.00
12		AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Rules and Regulations for the Massachusetts Army.	Salem	1775	USD 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
13	LOVELL, JAMES; THACHER, PETER; HICHBORN, BENJAMIN; DAWES, THOMAS, Jr.; EDES, PETER, editor	AMERICAN REVOLUTION: BOSTON MASSACRE ORATIONS., An Oration Delivered April 2d, 1771. At the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston; to Commemorate the bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770, An Oration Delivered at Watertown, March 5, 1776 .	Boston's, Watertown	1771, 1776, 1777, 1781, 1785	USD 700.00 - 900.00	990.00
14	AMES, JOSEPH and WILLIAM HERBERT; Thomas Frognall Dibdin	Typographical Antiquities: or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, ... and now greatly enlarged ...	London	1810-19	USD 500.00 - 700.00	825.00
15	ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS, Saint	Summa (with index of Johannes Molitoris)	Strassburg	24 April-4 September 1496	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,320.00
16	ARNOLD, MATTHEW; A.	Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems.	London	1852	USD 400.00 - 600.00	495.00
17	ATHERTON, GERTRUDE	The Conqueror. Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton	New York	1902	USD 150.00 - 200.00	209.00
18	AUDEN, W. H.	The Double Man	New York	1941	USD 350.00 - 450.00	880.00
19	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	Autograph manuscript, "Hospitality in the Woods," comprising Episode XV in Ornithological Biography which accompanied The Birds of America	n.p.	n.d., ca. 1830	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,080.00
20	AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES	Autograph manuscript, "The Lost Portfolio," comprising Episode in Ornithological Biography which accompanied The Birds of America	n.p.	n.d., ca. 1830	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	2,750.00
21	AURBACH, JOHANNES	Summa de auditione confessionis et de sacramentis	Augsburg	1469	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	11,000.00
22	BARLOW, WILLIAM	A Briefe Discovery of the Idle Animadversions of Marke Ridley... upon a Treatise entituled, Magneticall Advertisements	London	1618	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	4,400.00
23	BARRIE, Sir JAMES M.	Margaret Ogilvy	London	1896	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,430.00
24	BARRIE, Sir JAMES M.	The Greenwood Hat. Being a Memoir of James Anon, 1885-1887	n .p.	1930	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,540.00
25	BEAUMONT, Sir JOHN	Bosworth-Field: with a taste of the variety of other poems, left by Sir John Beaumont... set forth by his sonne	London	1629	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,430.00
26	BEDE, the Venerable	Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis Anglorum libri quinque	Antwerp	1550	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,860.00
27	BEERBOHM, MAX	The Works of ... with a Bibliography by John Lane	London, New York	1896	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,180.00
28	BEERBOHM, MAX	Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen. With an Introduction by L. Raven-Hill	London	1896	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,850.00
29	BEERBOHM, MAX	Zuleika Dobson or an Oxford Love Story	London	1911	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	2,200.00
30	BENNETT, ARNOLD	The Old Wives' Tale. A Novel	London	1908	USD 400.00 - 600.00	605.00
31	BENNETT, ARNOLD; DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN	The Old Wives' Tale, The Stark Munro Letters		1908, 1895	USD 250.00 - 350.00	528.00
32	BERKELEY, GEORGE, Bishop of Cloyne	Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher	London	1732	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	528.00
33	BERKELEY, GEORGE, Bishop of Cloyne	Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and divers other subjects connected together and arising from one another	Dublin	1744	USD 700.00 - 900.00	990.00
34	BOLTON, JAMES	An History of Fungusses growing about Halifax	Halifax and Huddersfield	1788-89-91	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	6,600.00
35		BOOK BOX. An English Bible			USD 200.00 - 300.00	715.00
36		Heures a Lusaige de Rome tout au long sans rien requerir	Paris	c. 1520 almanac for 1517-27	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	7,700.00
37		South Germany	Nuremberg	dated at end, on fo. 237: 27 July 1480	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	15,400.00
38	BORRI, CRISTOFORO	Cochin-China [i.e. Vietnam]: Containing many admirable Rarities and Singularities of that Countrey. Extracted out of an Italian Relation, lately presented to the Pope ...	London	1633	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,400.00
39	BOSCHINI, MARCO	L'Arcipelago con tutte le Isole, Scogli secche, e Bassi fondi... che si vedono al tempo presente	Venice	1658	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,300.00
40	BOSWELL, JAMES	The Life of Samuel Johnson	London	1791	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	4,950.00
41	BOYLE, JOHN	The Fifth Ode of the First Book of Horace Imitated	Dublin	1742	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	4,180.00
42	BOZERIAN JEUNE, P., binder. BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, NICOLAS	Oeuvres de Boileau-Despréaux, avec Neuf Figures	Paris	1798	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	2,420.00
43	BRAITHWAITE, RICHARD	The Honest Ghost, or a voice from the vault (--An Age for Apes [and other poems])	London	1658	USD 500.00 - 600.00	638.00
44	GALSWORTHY, JOHN; MASEFIELD, JOHN; COPPARD, A. E.; BEERBOHM, MAX	BRITISH AUTHORS., The Silver Spoon, Ballads, The Black Dog and Other Stories, The Happy Hypocrite	New York	1926, 1903, 1923, 1897	USD 400.00 - 600.00	770.00
45	DUNLAP, JOHN	In Congress, March 23, 1776. Whereas the Petitions of these United Colonies to the King, for the Redress of great and manifest Grievances, have not only been rejected ... etc.	Philadelphia	1776	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,540.00
46		In the House of Representatives, June 7th, 1776. A Resolve of the Late House of Representatives passed on the 10th of May, 1776, That the Inhabitants of each Town in this Colony... etc.	Watertown	1776	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,540.00
47		Colony of Massachusett's Bay, 1776. We the Subscribers, Do each of us severally for ourselves, profess, testify and declare before GOD and the World ... etc.	Watertown, Mass.	1776	USD 700.00 - 900.00	935.00
48	PERRY, Commodore MATTHEW C.	JAPAN EXPEDITION PRESS., Japan Expedition Press. U.S. Steam-Frigate "Powhatan," Simoda, Japan		May 8th, 1854	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	11,000.00
49	BRONTE, CHARLOTTE	Autograph letter signed ("C Bronte"), to her father, the Rev. Patrick Brontë, 76 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park Gardens	London	4 June 1850	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	8,250.00
50	BROOKE, RUPERT	Poems	London	1911	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,850.00
51	BROOKE, RUPERT	1914 and Other Poems	London	1915	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	990.00
52	BROOKE, RUPERT	Fragments Now First Collected, Some Being Hitherto Unpublished	Hartford	1925	USD 700.00 - 900.00	1,540.00
53	BROOKE, RUPERT	Autograph postcard signed (initials) to [Harold Monro]			USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
54	BROOKS, NOAH	The Boy Emigrants	New York	1877	USD 350.00 - 450.00	462.00
55	BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT	The Seraphim, and Other Poems	London	1838	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,420.00
56	BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT	Unfinished Autograph letter (unsigned, but with her name "Miss Barrett" appearing in the text several times), to "My beloved Granny & Nippy," Hope End	London	19 March 1823	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	7,700.00
57	BROWNING, ROBERT	Sordello	London	1840	USD 400.00 - 600.00	990.00
58	BUCK, SAMUEL and NATHANIEL	Antiquities, or Venerable Remains of above 400 Castles and Abbeys in England and Wales	London	1721-42	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,950.00
59	BURNS, ROBERT	Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. The Second Edition. Considerably Enlarged	Edinburgh	1793	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,520.00
60	BURNS, ROBERT. BEATTIE, JAMES	Poems on Several Occasions	Edinburgh	1776	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	12,100.00
61	BURTON, ROBERT	The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it	Oxford	1621	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	4,180.00
62	BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER	Dropped title: "Pigs is Pigs", Dropped title: "Pigs is Pigs,"		1905, 1906	USD 400.00 - 500.00	1,980.00
63	BUTLER, SAMUEL. Hudibras; D'URFEY, THOMAS	The First Part, The Second Part, The Third and last Part, The Third and last Part, The First Part, The Second Part, Butler's Ghost: or, Hudibras. The Fourth Part		1663, 1664, 1678, 1678, 1663, 1664, 1682	USD 600.00 - 700.00	660.00
64	BYAM, LYDIA	A Collection of Exotics, from the Island of Antigua	London	1797	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	7,150.00
65	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, Lord; HAZLITT WILLIAM; CAMOENS, LUIS DE.	English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire, Characters of Shakespear's Plays, Poems ... From the Portuguese ... Fourth Edition	London's	n.d., paper watermarked 1805, 1817, 1805	USD 250.00 - 350.00	462.00
66	CARACCIOLUS, ROBERTUS, DE LICEO	Sermones quadragesimales perutilissimi Roperti de liceo episcopi	Strassburg	3 September 1485	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,080.00
67	CARLYLE, THOMAS	Leben Schillers, aus dem Englischen; eingeleitet durch Goethe	Frankfurt am Main	1830	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	5,500.00
68	CARLYLE, THOMAS	Sartor Resartus (1831).	London	1868	USD 700.00 - 900.00	440.00
69	CARTER, JOHN	Binding Variants in English Publishing 1820-1900	London	1932, Johann Dobneck, Cochlaeus	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,320.00
70	CASSIODORUS SENATOR, FLAVIUS MAGNUS AURELIUS	Antiqua regum Italiae Gothicae gentis rescripta ex 12 libris epistolarum	Leipzig	25 July 1529	USD 600.00 - 900.00	1,870.00
71	CELLINI, BENVENUTO	Due trattati uno interno alle otto principali arti dell' oreficeria, L'altro in materia dell' Arte della Scultura; doue si veggono infiniti segreti nel la uorar le Figure di Marmo, & nel gettarle di Bronzo	Florence	1568	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	3,520.00
72	CHARAS, MOISE	Nouvelles Experiences sur la Vipere, ou l'on verra une description exacte de toutes ses parties, la source de son venin, ses divers effets et les remedes ...	Paris	1669	USD 300.00 - 400.00	660.00
73	CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM	The Religion of Protestants, a Safe Way to Salvation or an Answer to a Booke entitled Mercy and Truth	Oxford	1638	USD 500.00 - 700.00	605.00
74	CIBBER, COLLEY	The Lady's last Stake Or, The English Wife's Resentment. A Comedy	London	n.d., 1708	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,520.00
75	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE; Mark Twain	The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages.	Boston	1882	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,300.00
76	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	Autograph letter signed ("Mark") to an unidentified correspondent (probably Frank Fuller), 111 St. Martin's Lane	London	2 July 1897	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,080.00
77	COKAYNE, GEORGE EDWARD	The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom	London	1910-59	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,430.00
78	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL, TAYLOR	The Plot Discovered; or An Address to the People, Against Ministerial Treason	Bristol	1795	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	5,280.00
79	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	Poems,... Second Edition.	Bristol, London	1797	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	3,080.00
80	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	Poems,... Second Edition.	Bristol, London	1797	USD 600.00 - 800.00	770.00
81	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	Zapolya: A Christmas Tale, in Two Parts	London	1817	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	5,500.00
82	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Under Western Eyes	London	1911	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,760.00
83	CONRAD, JOSEPH	'Twixt Land & Sea. Tales: A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles	London	1912	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,540.00
84	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Chance. A Tale in Two Parts	London	1913	USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	3,850.00
85	CONRAD, JOSEPH	The Rescue. A Romance of the Shallows	London	1920	USD 250.00 - 350.00	165.00
86	CONRAD, JOSEPH, FORD, FORD MADOX HUEFFER	When Blood is Their Argument. An Analysis of Prussian Culture	New York and London	1915	USD 700.00 - 900.00	880.00
87	COOK, Captain JAMES; HAWKESWORTH, JOHN; COOK, JAMES; COOK, JAMES and JAMES KING; KIPPIS, ANDREW	First Voyage: An Account of the Voyages ... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and Successfully Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, Second Voyage:	London's	1773, 1777, 1784, 1788	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	5,280.00
88	COOLIDGE, CALVIN	Have Faith in Massachusetts. A Collection of Speeches and Messages	Boston and New York	1919	USD 200.00 - 300.00	385.00
89	COOPER, Reverend	The History of North America. Containing, a Review of the Customs and Manners of the Original Inhabitants; the First Settlement of the British Colonies, Their Rise and Progress	London	1789	USD 300.00 - 400.00	220.00
90	CORYATE, THOMAS, owner. COOPER, THOMAS	Thesaurus Linguae Romanae & Britannicae, tarn accurate congestus ... toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca ... accesit Dictionarium historicum & poeticum	London	1578	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	770.00
91		COSTUMES.			USD 400.00 - 700.00	1,430.00
92	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, illustrator. MAYHEW, HORACE	The Toothache	London	1849	USD 100.00 - 150.00	440.00
93	D., J., JOHN DAY	The Knave in Graine, new vampt. A witty comedy	London	1640	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,980.00
94	DARWIN, CHARLES	On the Origin of Species ... Third Edition, With Additions and Corrections	London	1861	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	9,350.00
95	DARWIN, CHARLES	Dropped title: Notes on the Fertilization of Orchids. (From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for September 1869)	London	1869	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,300.00
96	DARWIN, CHARLES	Autograph letter signed ("C.L. Darwin") to Professor Külliken	Beckenham, Kent, n.y.	18 April	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,540.00
97		DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. The Pennsylvania Journal; and the Weekly Advertiser, Wednesday, July 10, 1776	Philadelphia	1776	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	4,950.00
98	DE LA MARE, WALTER	Songs of Childhood. By Walter Ramal	London	1902	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,100.00
99	DE LA MARE, WALTER	Songs of Childhood. By Walter Ramal	London	1902	USD 500.00 - 700.00	660.00
100	DE LA MARE, WALTER	Songs of Childhood. By Walter Ramal	London	1902	USD 400.00 - 600.00	528.00

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