Auction Preview: Fine Books at PBA Galleries, San Francisco, Feb 7
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What: Fine BooksWhere: PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United StatesWhen: Feb 7, 6:00 PM GMTPublic Viewing: Mon, Feb 4th, 1pm - 5pm; Tue, Feb 5th, 9am - 5pm; Wed, Feb 6th, 9am - Noon; Thu, Feb 7th, 8am - 10amTop Lots of the Sale:-Auction Preview: Fine Books at PBA Galleries, San Francisco, Feb 7
What: Fine BooksWhere: PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United StatesWhen: Feb 7, 6:00 PM GMTPublic Viewing: Mon, Feb 4th, 1pm - 5pm; Tue, Feb 5th, 9am - 5pm; Wed, Feb 6th, 9am - Noon; Thu, Feb 7th, 8am - 10amTop Lots of the Sale:- «Aristotles Politiques, or, Discourses of Government», London, 1598 - Aristotle; Translated out of Greeke into French, with Expositions taken out of the best Authours, specially out of Aristotle himselfe, and out of Plato ... by Loys Le Roy, called Regius. Translated out French into English. [30], 393, [5] pp. (A-NN6 [-A1 & NN6]). (folio) 29x18.5 cm (11½x7½«). Estimated Price: $20,000 - $30,000- »Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill«, London, 1651 - Thomas Hobbes; [6], 394 pp. Copper-engraved added pictorial title-page; woodcut ornament on printed title-page (a head with scrolls and tassels); woodcut initial & headpiece; folding table. (folio) 27.8x18.5 cm. (11x7¼»). Estimated Price: $15,000 - $25,000- «Red Harvest» - inscribed, New York, 1929 - Dashiell Hammett. Red cloth with yellow skull and crossbones vignette on front cover, spine stamped in black and yellow, top edge stained yellow-green; housed in custom red cloth clamshell box with paper spine label. First Edition. Estimated Price: $15,000 - $20,000- «Kinder- und Haus-Marchen, Gesammelt Durch die Bruder Grimm», Berlin, 1819-1822 - Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm; 3 volumes. lvi, 439, [1]; lxxxi, [1], 304; vi, 441, [1] pp. Vols. I & II each with engraved frontispiece & added pictorial title page, engraved by L. Haas after Ludwig Emil Grimm. (8vo) 12.8x10 cm (5x4«). Estimated Price: $12,000 - $18,000- »Let Us Compare Mythologies«, Montreal, 1956 - Leonard Cohen; 79. pp. With illustrations by Greda Guttman. (8vo), black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original dust jacket designed by Greda Guttman. One of about 400 copies. First Edition. Estimated Price: $10,000 - $15,000- »Archive relating to Nabokov’s research on the Lepidoptera Lycaenidae, including a lengthy handwritten letter to a noted lepidopterist; inscribed offprints of articles by Nabokov; original sketches; and more«, 1944-1949 - Vladimir Nabokov. Estimated Price: $10,000 - $15,000- »Voyage pittoresque de la Grece«, Paris, 1782, 1809, 1822 - Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel F. A., Comte de; 3 volumes (or parts) bound in 2 volumes. [8], xvi, 204; [8], 346; [6], x, (347)-518, (xi)-xii pp. Half title present in all 3 volumes. Numerous engraved vignette head- and tail-pieces. (folio) 50x32 cm (19¾x12½»). Estimated Price: $10,000 - $15,000- «On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life», London, 1861 - Charles Darwin; xix, [1], 538 + [2] ad pp. Folding diagram. 20x12 cm. (7¾x4¾"), green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers stamped in blind, pale brown endpapers. Third Edition, with Additions and Corrections. (Seventh Thousand). Estimated Price: $8,000 - $12,000For details, visit: https://www.liveauctioneers.comClick on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.https://www.blouinartinfo.comFounder: Louise Blouin Read more