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[Napoleon Bonaparte, his copy]. Constantin François Volney.
Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, pendant les années 1783, 1784, et 1785
. Paris, An VII [1799]. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6294
| Lot: 42030 | Jul 25, 2024
Sold For:
$81,250.00
T. E. Lawrence.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph.
[London: For the Author by Manning Pike and H. J. Hodgson, 1926].
Extremely scarce privately printed edition, one of only 170 complete copies, so initialed by Lawrence at p. xix: "Complete copy i.xii.26 T. E. S."
Auction 6085
| Lot: 36256 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$62,500.00
[
Magna Carta
]. By Permission of... [the] Trustees of the Cottonian Library. This Plate being a correct Copy of King John's Great Charter, taken from an Original...
[London]: John Pine, [1733]. First impression.
Auction 6256
| Lot: 43001 | May 7, 2022
Sold For:
$52,500.00
[The Nuremberg Chronicle]. Hartmann Schedel.
Liber cronicarum
cum figuris et ymaginibus.
[Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493]. First Latin edition.
Auction 6201
| Lot: 45271 | Sep 14, 2017
Sold For:
$50,000.00
[Hartmann Schedel.
Liber chronicarum
.
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493].
Auction 6091
| Lot: 36058 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$37,500.00
[Deng Xiaoping, Signed]. Mao Tsetung.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972.
Auction 6294
| Lot: 42026 | Jul 25, 2024
Sold For:
$31,250.00
[Knights Templar].
Processus contra Templarios
.
Exemplaria Praetiosa III.
Auction 6319
| Lot: 45009 | May 9, 2025
Sold For:
$15,625.00
[Law]. Henrici de Bracton.
De Legibus & consuetudinibus Anglia, Libri Quinq...
London
: Richardum Tottellum, 1569. First edition.
Auction 6164
| Lot: 45065 | Sep 15, 2016
Sold For:
$14,375.00
Edward Gibbon.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-1788. First edition. Six quarto volumes. Approximately 11 x 8.5 inches. Second issue of Volume I, first issue of the other volumes. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6085
| Lot: 36033 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$13,750.00
Edward Gibbon.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6278
| Lot: 45071 | Nov 30, 2023
Sold For:
$12,500.00
Samuel Johnson.
A Dictionary of the English Language:
In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar.
London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. First edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45058 | Mar 7, 2018
Sold For:
$11,875.00
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$17,812 or more
The Gentleman's Magazine...
London: [various publishers] 1731-1879. Fourth edition of volume I (dated 1732), second volume is a reprint from 1806, all other volumes are first editions. (Total: 251 Items)
Auction 6201
| Lot: 45264 | Sep 14, 2017
Sold For:
$11,875.00
Winston S. Churchill.
Marlborough.
His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1933-1938]. First edition, limited to 155 copies of which this is number 39, and
signed by the author
in the first volume. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6208
| Lot: 45196 | Mar 6, 2019
Sold For:
$9,375.00
[Winston S. Churchill, Edward VIII, Rudyard Kipling, et al., contributors.] [Captain H. Cotton Minchin, editor].
The Legion Book.
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1929. First edition, limited to 100 total copies, of which this is number sixty-eight; no copies were for sale;
signed by the Edward, Prince of Wales, several political figures and all contributors.
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45305 | Mar 7, 2018
Sold For:
$9,375.00
Winston S. Churchill.
The Second World War.
(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6300
| Lot: 45058 | Dec 11, 2024
Sold For:
$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
Winston Churchill.
Liberalism and the Social Problem
.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition.
Signed by Churchill
on the front free endpaper. Octavo. xxiv, 414 pages. Publisher's plum cloth with gilt titles. Minor shelf wear to the boards. Binding cracked at the title page. Overall, a very good copy of this early collection of Churchill's principal speeches from 1905-09, rarely found signed by Churchill.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 6108
| Lot: 36002 | Apr 2, 2014
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[Winston S. Churchill]. Randolph S. Churchill, compiler.
Arms and the Covenant: Speeches by The Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H. M.P.
Auction 6300
| Lot: 45057 | Dec 11, 2024
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$7,500.00
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$11,250 or more
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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Winston S. Churchill.
A History of the English Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1956-1958]. First trade editions of all four volumes. (Total: 4)
Auction 6212
| Lot: 42099 | Sep 5, 2019
Sold For:
$7,187.50
[Sir] Winston S. Churchill.
The World Crisis
.
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923-1931. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6148
| Lot: 45047 | Nov 4, 2015
Sold For:
$6,875.00
[Madame de Maintenon]. Guillaume Joseph Grelot.
Relation Nouvelle d'un Voyage de Constantinople
.
Paris: en la Boutique de Pierre Rocolet, chez la veuve de Damien Foucault, 1680. First edition. Quarto. With twelve (of thirteen) engraved plates, most folding, and four engraved in-text illustrations. Contemporary full polished calf with the gilt arms of Madame de Maintenon on the covers, a gilt-decorated spine, and a red morocco spine label. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A few repaired tears to some plates. Minor, mostly marginal foxing. Tender joints, but holding firm. A wonderful copy, with a distinguished provenance. An important work, containing the earliest detailed plans of St. Sophia and other monuments in Constantinople.
This copy includes a two-page Autograph Letter Signed by Madame Maintenon to the Duke of Noailles.
From a private collection from New Orleans.
Auction 6108
| Lot: 36482 | Apr 2, 2014
Sold For:
$6,875.00
[Russian Imperial Library]. [Fine Bindings]. Pair Books from the Tsar's Library.
St. Petersburg and Moscow: 1826-1831. Two books, finely bound, both with the
Bibliothèque de Tsarskoe Selo
rubber stamp on the title-page; orphan volumes, one labeled parts one and two, the other part two only, text in Cyrillic. (Total: 2)
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45308 | Mar 7, 2018
Sold For:
$6,562.50
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
Sold For:
$6,250.00
[Shakespeare Sourcebook]. Raphael Holinshed.
The First and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The Description of England, 2 The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3 The Description and Historie of Scotland...
[London: at the expenses of John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587].
[Together with:] Raphael Holinshed.
The Third volume of Chronicles, beginning at duke William the Norman, commonlie called the Conqueror; and descending by degrees of yeares to all the kings and queenes of England in their orderlie successions.
[London: at the expenses of John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587]. Second edition and the true Shakespeare edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6108
| Lot: 36338 | Apr 2, 2014
Sold For:
$6,250.00
Athanasius Kircher.
Oedipus Aegyptiacus.
Hoc Est Universalis Hieroglyphicae Doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae Instauratio. Opus ex omni Orienalium doctrina & sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diversarum linguarum authoritate stabilitum...
Rome: Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654. First edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6112
| Lot: 45069 | Oct 8, 2014
Sold For:
$6,093.75
Samuel Johnson.
Dictionary of the English Language:
in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the beft Writers. To which are prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar.
London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. First edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6222
| Lot: 45104 | Mar 4, 2020
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$5,750.00
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$8,625 or more
[Mexico and California]. Hernán Cortes and Francesco Lorenzana.
Historia de Nueva-España...
México: Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770.
First edition of one of the best books printed in Mexico during the eighteenth century.
Auction 6148
| Lot: 45049 | Nov 4, 2015
Sold For:
$5,625.00
Winston S. Churchill.
The World Crisis
. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, [1923-1931]. First edition.
Volume I signed by
Churchill and dated 1923.
Five octavo volumes in six. 536; 557; 292; [293]-589; 474; 368 pages. Illustrated with numerous maps and charts. Full blue cloth with blindstamped titles and ruling to front cover with gilt-stamped titles and blindrule to spine. Some rubbing to covers and extremities. Light shelfwear with a few bumped corners; somewhat affecting top corner of text block in Volume One. Some light occasional foxing to page edges and throughout with some toning to endpapers. Some volumes have bookseller's ticket. One with armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Volume I with neat contemporary ownership signature and gift inscription. Otherwise, a very good set with Churchill's sought-after signature. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6100
| Lot: 36237 | Oct 17, 2013
Sold For:
$5,312.50
Isaac Titsingh.
Illustrations of Japan;
Consisting of Private Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Dynasty of the Djogouns, or Sovereigns of Japan...
London: Printed for R. Ackerman, 1822.
Auction 6085
| Lot: 36047 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$5,312.50
Sir Winston S. Churchill.
Step by Step.
1936-1939.
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., [1939]. First edition.
Presentation copy, inscribed by Churchill on the front free endpaper: "To P. J. from Winston June 29 1939."
Octavo, [366] pages. With fold-out map inserted at rear. Publisher's full green cloth. Front cover ruled and stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, somewhat worn and rubbed with a few short tears. Cloth spine a bit browned. Still, a near fine copy with a superb Churchill association.
Auction 6085
| Lot: 36246 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$5,312.50
William L. Shirer.
The Rise and Fall of the third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
Auction 6300
| Lot: 45291 | Dec 11, 2024
Sold For:
$5,250.00
Winston Churchill.
Great Contemporaries.
Auction 6289
| Lot: 45103 | Oct 11, 2024
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$5,250.00
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$7,875 or more
[Louis XV]. Johann Martin Weis.
Representation des fetes donnees par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du Roi
...
Paris: Imprime par Laurent Aubert, [1745].
Auction 6108
| Lot: 36503 | Apr 2, 2014
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$5,250.00
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$7,875 or more
Raphaell Holinshed.
The Firste [- Laste] volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande.
London: Imprinted for John Hunne [and Lucas Harrison], 1577. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6155
| Lot: 45354 | Apr 6, 2016
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$5,000.00
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$7,500 or more
Thomas Daniell and William Daniell.
A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810. First edition.
Auction 6174
| Lot: 45154 | Mar 8, 2017
Sold For:
$4,500.00
John Harding.
The Chronicle of John Hardyng, from the firste begynnyng of Englande,
unto the Reigne of Kyng Edward the Fourth wher he made an end of his Chronicle. And from that tyme is added a continuacton of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first imprinted, gathered out of diverse and sondery autours yt have write of the affaires of Englande.
London: Richard Grafton, 1543. First edition. With all of the earliest readings before various revisions.
Auction 6108
| Lot: 36425 | Apr 2, 2014
Sold For:
$4,375.00
Winston S. Churchill.
The Second World War.
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1948-1954]. First British edition, first printings.
Association copy, "Inscribed for Commander L. A. Burt by Winston S. Churchill, 1949" in Volume II.
Complete in six octavo volumes. 640; 684; 818; 917; 673; 716 pages. Illustrated with maps and diagrams. Bound in full black cloth with gilt spine titles. Top edges stained red. Dust jackets. Mild rubbing to covers and extremities. Dust jackets have a touch of wear to edges and very slight fading to a few spines. Volume I has a neat ownership signature to preliminary. A few instances of very minor foxing and light bumping to page edges. Light shelfwear to bottom edge. Otherwise, a better than very good set. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6085
| Lot: 36244 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$4,375.00
Sir Arthur Evans.
The Palace of Minos at Knossos.
A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921-1935. First editions. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6112
| Lot: 45057 | Oct 8, 2014
Sold For:
$4,062.50
[Samuel Johnson].
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works...
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, with "give" on page 135 of the first volume, corrected from "gve." (Total: 2)
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45059 | Mar 7, 2018
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$4,000.00
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$6,000 or more
[Pliny the Elder]. Caius Plinius Secundus.
The Historie of the World.
Commonly Called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus.
Translated into English by Philemon Holland. London: Adam Islip, 1601. First edition in English.
Auction 6201
| Lot: 45273 | Sep 14, 2017
Sold For:
$4,000.00
Sir Winston S. Churchill.
The Centenary Limited Edition of
The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill.
[and:]
The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill
.
[London]: Library of Imperial History, [1973, 1976]. (Total: 39 Items)
Auction 6148
| Lot: 45046 | Nov 4, 2015
Sold For:
$3,875.00
[Leni Riefenstahl, association]. Friedrich Nietzsche.
Dionysos Dithyramben.
[Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1914]. One of 150 copies designed by artist Henry van de Velde and printed by Joh. Enschede. This is copy number 63.
Auction 6155
| Lot: 45362 | Apr 6, 2016
Sold For:
$3,750.00
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$5,625 or more
Mao Zedong. [Tian Xiao Guang, Editor].
Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations from Chairman Mao].
[Possibly Beijing]: General Political Department, [1964]. First edition.
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45307 | Mar 7, 2018
Sold For:
$3,625.00
Winston S. Churchill.
The World Crisis.
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, [1923-1931]. Mixed editions;
signed by the author
in Volume I on the first blank: "Winston S. Churchill / May 24. 1923." (Total: 6)
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45304 | Mar 7, 2018
Sold For:
$3,500.00
[Sun Tzu]. E. F. Calthrop [translator].
The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East [The Art of War].
London: John Murray, 1908. First British edition and first English language translation. Twelvemo. 132 pages. Publisher's full green cloth with stamping in gilt and red. Mild rubbing and bumping to cloth extremities. Spine sunned and some light insect soiling along top page edges. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers. Bookplate. Hinges sound and textblock clean.
Auction 6085
| Lot: 36267 | Apr 11, 2012
Sold For:
$3,500.00
[King George III].
Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Vicesimo Secundo
....
[and]
Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Decimo Nono
....
London: Charles Eyre
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36124 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$3,346.00
Barbara W. Tuchman.
The Guns of August.
Auction 6319
| Lot: 45144 | May 9, 2025
Sold For:
$3,250.00
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