Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium, 401049, Columbia

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 15, 2026 - February 15, 2026
Page Size: 101 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Holy Bible Contributor(s): Christoph Matthaeus Pfaff; Martin Luther

Bibelwerks : mit erkla?rungen, nutz-anwendungen und gebeten

Speyer 1767--1770. USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 130.00
27 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakespeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 160.00
28 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakspeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 125.00
29 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakespeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 100.00
30 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakespeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 90.00
31 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakespeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 60.00
32 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakespeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 82.00
33 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakspeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 82.00
34 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakespeare

Dublin 1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 360.00
35 John Dryden Contributor(s): Virgil (source)

Works of Dryden

Edinburgh 1773 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 165.00
36 Catholic Church

Officio della beatissima Vergine Maria da dirsi nelle compagnie de secolari secondo la riforma di papa Pio V

Vercelli MDCCLXCII (likely 1782) USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 60.00
37 Benjamin Schmolck

Das Himmlische Vergnugen in Gott, oder vollstandiges Gebat-Buch

Basel 1782 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 140.00
38 Jean-Jacques Barthelemy Contributor(s): Jean Denis Barbie? du Bocage (cartographer)

Recueil de cartes geographiques, plans, vues et me?dailles de lancienne Gre?ce, relatifs au voyage du jeune Anacharsis

Sanson et Compagnie 1791 USD 795.00 - 1,600.00 USD 76.00
39 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Contributor(s): Roger LEstrange (Translator)

Senecas Morals, by Way of Abstract: To Which is Added a Discourse under the Title of An After-Thought

Keene [N.H.] 1806 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 80.00
40 Nicholas Culpeper

The Complete Herbal, to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities

London 1815 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 160.00
41 Edward Baines

History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815

London 1817 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 250.00
42 Thomas Smith Illustrator(s): Thomas Smith

The young artists assistant in the art of drawing in water colours

London ca.1929 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 86.00
43 Jean-Baptiste Say Contributor(s): C.R. Prinsep (Translator); Clement C. Biddle (Notes)

A Treatise on Political Economy: or, the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Philadelphia 1832 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 68.00
44 I. Daniel Rupp

The Geographical Catechism of Pennsylvania, and the Western States

Harrisburg, Pa. 1836 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 78.00
45 Homer

Homeri Odyssea

Lipsiae 1839 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 235.00
46 Anonymous

Life of William Henry Harrison (of Ohio), the Peoples Candidate for the Presidency; With a History of the Wars with the British and Indians on Our North-Western Frontier

Philadelphia 1840 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 225.00
47 Noah Webster Contributor(s): John Walker (pronunciation guide)

An American dictionary of the English language : exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definition of words

[New Haven] N. Haven. 1846 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 330.00
48 Benjamin Franklin

The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin; Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary

New York 1851 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 250.00
49 United States Contributor: Hickey, W. Illustrator: E Weber & Co Balt

The Constitution of the United States of America, With an Alphabetical Analysis; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation; the Prominent Political Acts of George Washington; Electoral Votes for All the Presidents and Vice-presidents;

Philadelphia 1851 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 215.00
50 Daniel S. Curtiss

Western Portraiture, and Emigrants Guide: A Description of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa; with Remarks on Minnesota, and Other Territories

New York 1852 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 80.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.