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1062: Online-Only Bookworm Sale
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Online-Only Sale of Rare, Antiquarian, & Vintage Books
Auction lots (312)
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Estimate: 0** Our online-only "Bookworm" auctions are not to be confused with our regular live auctions. The post-sale process is...
Edgar Allan Poe, The Works
Estimate: 1 1000With an Introduction and Memoir by Richard Henry Stoddard. London: George Rutledge, 1896. 8vo, 6 vol. set. The...
[Art Deco Illustration] Rubaiyat of Omar
Estimate: 1 1000Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, With Decorations by Fish (i.e. Anne...
1668, Nostradamus, Prophecies
Estimate: 1 1000Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus. Amsterdam: Jean Jansson, 1668. 5" x 2.75". ...
Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues
Estimate: 1 1000Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. By Jules Verne. London: James Nisbet and Co., n.d. (ca. 1910s.) 7.5"...
Rackham, Undine, 1st Trade Ed.
Estimate: 1 1000Fouque, Friedrich de la Motte; Rackham, Arthur (ill.) Undine. London & New York: William Heinemann &...
Dulac Illustration, Edmund Dulac's
Estimate: 1 1000 Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. London, NY, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, [1915.] 4to. With 20...
[Eunice Bagster Annotated Work, Rare]
Estimate: 1 1000An Analytical Index to the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, by William Stroud. London, 1857, clipped,...
1st ed., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Estimate: 1 1000New York: Charles Webster, 1885-1886. 2 vol. set. Tall 8vo, illustrated with plates and maps, including two...
Russell Flint, Limited Ed., Mixes.
Estimate: 1 1000Minxes Admonished or Beauty Reproved, An Album of Deplorable Caprices Faithfully Narrated & Modestly Embellished...
[Large 19th c. Bible, Chromolithographs]
Estimate: 1 1000The Holy Bible with the Commentaries of Scott and Henry edited by John Eadie. London: Walter Scott, n.d. (ca....
1574, Plutarch, Works
Estimate: 1 1000Plutarchus. Les Oeuvres Morales. Paris, 1574. 12mo, 3 vols. Later full calf, intact. Very Good. Small-format...
19th c. Rare Mansell Valentine, Silk, Fringed
Estimate: 1 1000A rare valentine by Joseph Mansell, circa mid-1800s. Front with embossed flower design on a foil paper lace,...
Arthur Rackham, Ingoldsby Legends, 1st ed.
Estimate: 1 1000The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London & New York, 1907. 1st trade...
[Cigarette Cards, 1930s, Katharine Hepburn]
Estimate: 1 1000A collection of 28 cigarette cards featuring various stage and screen actors. Includes: ** 13 cards from the...
[Binding] Poems by Christina Rossetti
Estimate: 1 1000London: Robt. Riviere and Son, c. 1915. 5.75" H. Finely bound by Riviere and Son in full polished calf,...
[Early American Bible, Tyson Family]
Estimate: 1 1000Biblia Das Ist. Philadelphia, 1829. 4to, 10.5" x 8.75". German Bible printed in PA, illustrated with plates,...
Rackham, Poe, Tales of Mystery, 1st ed.
Estimate: 1 1000Tales of Mystery and Imagination. By Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Harrap, 1935. ...
[Rare Russian Poetry]
Estimate: 1 1000Polzi Ulitka (Crawl Snail.) By Vecheslav Kazakevich. Moscow, 2004. 12mo, illustrated, original softcovers. ...
[1742, Ignatius on Immaculate Conception]
Estimate: 1 1000Lampridius ad Trutinam Revocatus Dissertatio Theologica de Immaculatae Mariae Conceptionis Certitudine. ...
1829, Ancient Christmas Carols
Estimate: 1 1000Some Ancient Christmas Carols, with the Tunes to Which they were Formerly Sung. Collected by Davies Gilbert. ...
Rackham, Milton, Comus, 1st ed.
Estimate: 1 1000Comus, by John Milton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London and New York: Heinemann and Doubleday, [1921.] ...
Nicholson, Signed Limited Ed., Polly
Estimate: 1 1000Polly. By Mr. Gay. Illustrated by William Nicholson. London: Heinemann, 1923. 10.25" H. One of 380 copies,...
[Slavery] An Essay on Liberty and Slavery
Estimate: 1 1000By Albert Taylor Bledsoe. Philadelphia, 1856. 8vo, original cloth, contents foxed, else about Good.The...
18th c. American Regimental Order, Signed
Estimate: 1 1000Scituate (Massachusetts), September 15th, 1792. Manuscript order, signed by Captain Elijah Turner. Brown ink...
1709, Poems and Translations, With
Estimate: 1 1000 The Sophy, a Tragedy. By John Denham. London: Tonson, 1709. 8vo. Front blank wanting but otherwise collated...
RARE, Medieval MSS, Miniatures
Estimate: 1 1000La Miniature du XIIe Siecle a L'Abbaye de Citeaux D'Apres les Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque de Dijon. By C....
[Fishing] 1700, The Angler's Vade Mecum
Estimate: 1 1000 Or, a Compendius, yet full, Discourse of Angling. By James Chetham. London: for Battersby, 1700. 12mo, with...
[Swedenborg, on the Universe, Angels, etc]
Estimate: 1 1000Swedenborg, Emanuel. The Earths in the Universe, and their Inhabitants; Also, their Spirits and Angels: From...
1714, The Apologeticks of the Learned
Estimate: 1 1000 Athenian Philosopher Athenagoras Against the Scepticks and Infidels of that Age. Edited by David Humphreys. ...
[Manuscript Navy Logbook]
Estimate: 1 1000A lengthy manuscript logbook used for the HMS Resistance, 1870s. 4to. With printed journal title at front...
Rackham, Barrie, Peter Pan
Estimate: 1 1000Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. By J. M. Barrie. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton,...
[Whaling, Illustration] Greasy Luck
Estimate: 1 1000 A Whaling Sketch Book by Gordon Grant. London: Martin Hopkinson, 1932. 1st edition. 10.25" H. Loaded with...
[Lithography] The Night Before Christmas
Estimate: 1 1000Published by Raphael Tuck and Sons, n.d. (ca. first half 20th c.) 4to, original pictorial wrappers, contents...
Early Boston Primer, late 18th c.
Estimate: 1 1000The New England Primer. Boston: John W. Folsom, [ca. 1790s.] 4" x 3". 15 leaves only, incomplete (as often...
William Butler Yeats, On the Boiler
Estimate: 1 1000Dublin: Cuala Press, [1939.] 4to in original wrappers. Worming to upper right corners, else Good.Condition:...
Silk Cigarette Cards, ca. 1920s-1930s
Estimate: 1 1000Collection of 27 cigarette cards on silk or linen. Includes 7 silks from Kensitas Cigarettes British Empire...
Geology and Mineralogy, William Buckland
Estimate: 1 1000In Two Volumes. Philadelphia, 1837. 8vo, 2 volume set, with numerous engraved plates (some folding, at least...
John Speed's England, A Coloured Facsimile
Estimate: 1 1000... of the Maps and Text.... Part II. London: Phoenix House Limited, 1953. 1st ed. thus. Folio hardcover in...
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Estimate: 1 1000Lot includes 3 books: * 1: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: MacMillan, 1869. Thirteenth Thousand. ...
Scarce Serial Publication, Bible Society
Estimate: 1 1000Gleanings for the Young. August, 1881. Published by the British and Foreign Bible Society, [1881.] 8vo, in...
The Eve of St. Agnes, By John Keats
Estimate: 1 1000New York, 1860. Illustrated. Period morocco, intact, Very Good.The additional description and commentary below...
1634, History of the Present Warres
Estimate: 1 1000 of Germany. London: Harper, 1634. [by William Watts] 7" x 5". Collated, first and last blank leaves...
[Movie Production[ Tarzan's Quest
Estimate: 1 1000By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzana, CA, 1936. 8vo hardcover in original jacket (price-clipped.) Jacket with...
[Lenin on Marxism, Engels, Russian Works]
Estimate: 1 1000Lot of 3 softcover pamphlets in Russian, all printed in Moscow, in 1985, 1988, and 1989. 12mo, original covers,...
1792, Boston, Psalms of Watts
Estimate: 1 1000Watts. The Psalms of David. Boston, 1792. Bound with Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Boston, 1792 (this second...
[Books on Books] The Great Book-Collectors
Estimate: 1 1000By Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893. 8vo, original...
[Slavery] A South-Side View of Slavery
Estimate: 1 1000 Or, Three Months in the South, in 1854. By Nehemiah Adams. Third ed. Boston, 1855. 12mo, ads at rear,...
15th c. Manuscript on Vellum
Estimate: 1 1000A 15th century manuscript on vellum, being a leaf from a prayerbook. 7.75" x 5.5". Very Good.Condition: For...
Rackham, Ibsen, Peer Gynt, 1st ed.
Estimate: 1 1000Peer Gynt. By Henrik Ibsen. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Harrap, 1936. 1st trade ed. 4to. ...
Whistler Illustration, Fairy Tales
Estimate: 1 1000Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. London: Bodley Head, 1959. 8vo,...
Mark Twain, Signed Book, Forged
Estimate: 1 1000Clemens, S. L. (Mark Twain.) King Leopold's Soliloquy. Boston, 1905. 12mo, early 1/2 morocco, publisher's...
Rare Turkish Caricature Album, 1949
Estimate: 1 1000Karikatur Albumu. No. 1. Istanbul, 1949. 4to, original illustrated wrappers, heavily illustrated throughout. ...
1733, Medicine, Operations
Estimate: 1 1000A Course of Chirurgical Operations, Demonstrated in the Royal Garden at Paris... by Monsieur Dionis Translated...
[Prize Binding, Tree Calf]
Estimate: 1 1000Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. By Gilbert White. London: MacMillan, 1897. 12mo, illustrated. ...
1658, The Mystery of Dreames
Estimate: 1 1000 Historically Discoursed; or a Treatise; Wherein is clearly Discovered, the secret yet certain Good or Evil of...
[Steam Engines] Lives of the Engineers
Estimate: 1 1000The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson. By Samuel Smiles. London, 1879. 12mo, illustrated. Handsome...
Practical Agriculture; Or, A Complete
Estimate: 1 1000 System of Modern Husbandry. By R. W. Dickson. London: Phillips, 1805. 2 vol. set, 4to, 10.5" H. Heavily...
1676, Quakers, A Collection of the...
Estimate: 1 1000 Several Wrightings of that True Prophet William Bayly. [London], 1676. 7" x 5.5". Period calf boards...
1627, Games of the Ancients
Estimate: 1 1000De Ludis Privatis, ac Domesticis Veterum. By Julius Caesar Bulenger. 12mo. Lyon, 1627. Collated: [8], 80,...
1749, Universal Magazine of Knowledge
Estimate: 1 1000 and Pleasure. Volume 4. London: John Hinton, [ca. 1749.] 8vo, with numerous engraved plates (mostly...
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Estimate: 1 1000New York: Charles Webster, 1885. 8.5" x 6.5". Illustrated throughout. Period sheep, rebacked, intact but worn....
[Illustration] Arabian Nights
Estimate: 1 1000Tales from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by A. E. Jackson. London: Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. [1st half 19th...
Large Bible, Bagster, 1827
Estimate: 1 1000The Comprehensive Bible. London: for Samuel Bagster, 1827. 13.25" x 10.5". Period 1/2 vellum, intact, clean...
Huxley's Method and Results
Estimate: 1 1000Method and Results. Essays by Thomas Huxley. London, 1904. 12mo. From Huxley's collected essays. Nicely...
[Sci-Fi, Review Copy, Philip K. Dick]
Estimate: 1 1000The Man Who Japed. By Philip K. Dick. Eyre Methuen, 1978. 12mo. A review copy from the publisher, "cased...
Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
Estimate: 1 1000London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. 12mo. 2 volumes bound in 1, each volume with frontispiece. Nicely bound in...
[Benjamin Franklin Printing]
Estimate: 1 1000The Pennsylvania Gazette. Numb. 1808. August 18, 1763. First page only present here. Printed by Benjamin...
[Russian Anti-Semitism, St. Petersburg Printing]
Estimate: 1 1000Chto nam v nih ne nravitsya (What We Don't Like About Them.) By V.V. Shulgin. St. Petersburg, 1992. 12mo,...
Francis Bacon, The Historie of the Raigne
Estimate: 1 1000 of King Henry the Seventh. By Francis Bacon. London: Stansby, 1622. Folio, 11" H. Lacks portrait and front...
16th c. Hand-Colored Bible Leaf, Revelation
Estimate: 1 1000Hand-colored Bible leaf from the Sacra Biblia, printed in Venice, 1588. 8" x 5.75". Includes the first page of...
[1788, North Carolina] Sermons, & c.
Estimate: 1 1000By Henry Pattillo, A.M. of Granville, North-Carolina. Wilmington: for James Adams, 1798. 6" H. Bound in 20th...
[Relic + Others] Pius X Reliquary Card
Estimate: 1 1000A collection of ephemera, 19th to 20th century, including: ** A reliquary card containing (affixed) a small...
1833, Webster, Dictionary
Estimate: 1 1000A Dictionary for Primary Schools. BY Noah Webster. New York, 1833. 5.5" H. Period sheep binding, intact,...
[Books on Books and Authors, Literature]
Estimate: 1 1000Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English...
1675, Venning's Remains, Or, Christ's School
Estimate: 1 1000 By Ralph Venning. London, for John Hancock, 1675. 12mo. Period sheep, intact, Good-.The additional...
Saint Alphonsus Liguori: Or, Extracts
Estimate: 1 1000 Translated From the Moral Theology of the Romish Saint. By R. P. Blakeney. London, 1852. 12mo. Original cloth...
1709, Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis
Estimate: 1 1000By John Leland. Oxford, 1709. 12mo. 2 volume set, collated complete: [16], 255, [3], 257-486, [28] pp. ...
1758, Philadelphia Imprint, Sermons
Estimate: 1 1000Sermons on Important Subjects; Adapted to the Perilous State of the British Nation, lately Preached at...
1718, Large Paper Folio, Prior's Poems
Estimate: 1 1000Poems on Several Occasions. By [Matthew Prior.] London: Jacob Tonson, 1718. With engraved frontis and...
Dwight's Journal of Music
Estimate: 1 1000John S. Dwight, Editor. Boston, Edward Balch, 1857. 12.5" H. Period 1/2 morocco, intact, Very Good.The...
The Christian Philosopher or, the
Estimate: 1 1000 Connection of Science and Philosophy with Religion. By Thomas Dick. Hartford, 1834. 12mo, with frontispiece...
Plantation Workers, Stereoview Card
Estimate: 1 1000A stereoview card, ca. 1910, depicting coffee pickers at a plantation in the French West Indies. 7" x 3.5". ...
Day's American Ready Reckoner
Estimate: 1 1000By B. H. Day. New York, n.d. (ca. 1866.) 12mo, original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, intact,...
1714, The London Prodigal. A Comedy
Estimate: 1 1000[London] 1714. Disbound 12mo, engraved frontis, final leaf with large chip to bottom but no loss of text. ...
1560, Postillae sive Conciones
Estimate: 1 1000 Reverendi Patris D. Ioannis Feri Pars Tertia. Antwerp, 1560. 6.25" H. Disbound text-block, contents...
1796, La Coltivazione del Riso, Del Marchese
Estimate: 1 1000 Gian Battista Spolverini. Verona: Stamperia Giuliari, 1796. 4to 11.25" x 8.5". Bound with: Le Merope...
The Outcast Poets, Number 8
Estimate: 1 1000Number 8 of The Outcast Poets, 1947, envelope containing loose sheets with poetry by P.K. Thomajan, Miriam Allan...
1753, The Life of Bernard Gilpin
Estimate: 1 1000By William Gilpin. London, 1753. 8" H. Engraved frontis and title vignette. Bound with The Life of Hugh...
1789, A Free Enquiry into the
Estimate: 1 1000 into the Authenticity of the First and Second Chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel By John Williams. London, 1789....
Large 18th c. Manuscript Document
Estimate: 1 1000A large 18th century manuscript legal document on vellum, in English. 32" x 28". Three leaves. A...
[Jesuits, Rules/Regulations, 1637]
Estimate: 1 1000[Loyola, I.] REGULAE SOCIETATIS JESU. Lyon: Roussin, 1607. 4.75" x 3". Observed 2 leaves lacking about 3/4...
Stories from Dante, By Susan Cunningham
Estimate: 1 1000With Illustrations in Colour by Evelyn Paul. New York, Crowell, n.d. (early 1900s.) 8vo, illustrated with...
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail
Estimate: 1 1000By Arthur Thompson. Boston, 1925. 8vo, original cloth, illustrated with color plates. Very Good.Condition: For...
H.G. Wells, Time Machine, Special Edition
Estimate: 1 1000The Time Machine. BY H.G. Wells. NY, Random House, 1931. Tall 8vo, original hardcovers. A special edition...
Robin Hood and His Merry Men
Estimate: 1 1000Retold by Sara Hawks Sterling, Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1921. 8vo,...
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Estimate: 1 1000New York: Scribner's, 1921. 8vo, color frontis and other plates along with illustrations in-text. Bound in...
Memoirs of the Life and Campaigns of
Estimate: 1 1000 The Hon. Nathaniel Greene. By Charles Caldwell. Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1819. 8vo. With engraved...
[Binding] Shelley, Minor Poems
Estimate: 1 1000London, 1855. 5.75" H. Front pastedown with label of Stacy Brothers Booksellers and Bookbinders. Bound in...
Dickens. Christmas Carol
Estimate: 1 1000Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. (ca. 1873.) 16mo, in original paper...