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Previous|12|Next Lot #101 [In Hebrew]: Sefer torat sabat: se-liqet ... min ha-Sulhan `aruk u-gedole ha-aharonim Heading(Hebrew Book)AuthorWeill, JacobHeadlineLaws of the Sabath in Hebrew 1839PublisherMalsch & VogelDate Published1839 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #102 The structure and functions of the brain and spinal cord: being the Fullerian Lectures for 1891 AuthorHorsley, VictorHeadlineHorsley on the brain and spinal cord 1892PublisherP. Blakiston, Son & CoDate Published1892 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #103 Catalogue of specimens and travel narrative by the naturalist Ludwig Kumlien while on the Howgate Expedition Heading(Howgate Polar Expedition)AuthorKumlien, LudwigHeadlineLudwig Kumlien's 1877-78 Howgate Exp. journalDate Published[1877-1878] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #104 The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books AuthorHughes, GriffithHeadlineHughes' Natural History of Barbados 1750PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1750 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #105 Sixteenth century illuminated manuscript of Persian poetry, probably produced in Samarkand Heading(Illuminated Manuscript)Author**Headline16th Century Persian Illuminated ManuscriptDate Published[c. 1576] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #106 Single leaf from the 1462 Bible printed by Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer Heading(Incunabula - Bible Leaf)Author**HeadlineSingle leaf from 1462 BiblePublisherJohann Fust & Peter SchoefferDate Published1462 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #107 Printed Leaf from The Lives of the Fathers, 1495 Heading(Incunabula Leaf - Wynkyn de Worde)AuthorSt. JeromeHeadlineIncunabula leaf printed by Wynkyn de WordePublisherWynkyn de WordeDate Published[before 21 Aug, 1495] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #108 Tarpomania & Buck Fever AuthorJohnson, Eldridge ReevesHeadlineTarpomania & Buck FeverPublisherPrivately PrintedDate Published1928 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #109 The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineWorks of Josephus Baltimore 1795PublisherPechin and Co.Date Published1795 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #110 The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knight... AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineLarge Paper Copy of L'Estrange's Josephus 1702PublisherPrinted for Richard SareDate Published1702 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 Dubliners AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce, Dubliners 1914 1st Edition, 1 of 746PublisherGrant Richards Ltd.Date Published[1914] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #112 Ulysses AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJoyce's Ulysses in orig wrappers 5th printingPublisherShakespeare and CompanyDate Published1924 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #113 Moby Dick or the Whale Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby Dick with Illustrations by Rockwell KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #114 China Monumentis qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturæ & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata.... AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher's China Monumentis 1667 maps & platesPublisherApud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & Elizeum WeyerstraetDate Published1667 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #115 The Hunter. A Discourse of Horsemanship: Directing the right way to breed, keep, and train a Horse, for ordinary Hunting and Plates Author[Langbaine, Gerard]HeadlineGerarf Langbaine The Hunter 1685PublisherL. LichfieldDate Published1685 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #116 Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical. Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters... AuthorLe Comte, LouisHeadlineLe Comte's Memoirs of China 1699PublisherPrinted for Benjamin TookeDate Published1699 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #117 "We" AuthorLindbergh, Charles A.HeadlineCharles Lindbergh "We" 1 of 1000 signed copiesPublisherPutnamDate Published1927 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #118 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #119 The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Illustrated with Plates, From Drawings by Mr. W. Nicholson, Reduced from a Series of Portraits from Life, Executed for the Agricultural Museum of the University of Edinburgh, by Mr. W. Shiels AuthorLow, DavidHeadlineLow's Domestic Animals of the British IslandsPublisherLongman, Orme, Brown, Green and LongmanDate Published1842 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #120 The Magic Magic Book: An Inquiry into the Venerable History and Operations of the Oldest Trick Conjuring Volumes, Designated "Blow Books" Heading(Magic)AuthorJay, RickyHeadlineMagic Magic Book 1/300 copiesPublisherWhitney Museum of American ArtDate Published1994 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #121 Won in the Ninth: First in a Series of Stories for Boys on Sports to be Known as the Matty Books AuthorMathewson, ChristyHeadlineChristy Mathewson Won in the NinthPublisherR.J. BodmerDate Published1910 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #122 Ahyouwaighs Chief or the Six Nations AuthorMcKenney, Thomas L. & James HallHeadlineMcKenney & Hall lithograph of Indian ChiefPublisherF.W. GreenhoughDate Published1838 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #123 Waa-Pa-Shaw, a Sioux Chief AuthorMcKenney, Thomas L. & James HallHeadlineMcKenney & Hall lithograph of Indian ChiefPublisherF.W. GreenhoughDate Published1838 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #124 The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by a Series of Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot Author[McLean, Thom.]HeadlineMilitary Costume of Turkey 30 color platesPublisherWilliam MillerDate Published[c. 1833] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #125 A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II, with a glossary of military terms of the Middle Ages AuthorMeyrick, Samuel RushHeadlineMeyrick's Ancient Armour editor's copyPublisherRobert JenningsDate Published1824 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #126 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost folio 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #127 The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria. Displayed in Fifty Coloured Engravings; with Descriptions, and an Introduction AuthorMoleville, Bertrand deHeadlineCostume of Austria 50 hand colored platesPublisherWilliam MillerDate Published1804 [but c. 1819] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #128 Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages in Two Embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East Tartary… AuthorMontanus, ArnoldusHeadlineMontanus' Atlas Chinensis w/ maps & plates 1671PublisherPrinted by Tho. Johnson for the AuthorDate Published1671 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #129 The Common-Wealth of Utopia: Containing a Learned and pleasant Discourse of the best state of a Publike Weale, as it is found in the Government of the new Ile called Utopia AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineThomas More's Utopia 1639PublisherPrinted by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, and are to be sold by Wil. ShearesDate Published1639 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #130 Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto’s to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world. Whereby is discovered what is signified b every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles. A work of this nature never yet extant. By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #131 Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?" AuthorNewman, John HenryHeadlineCardinal John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita SuaPublisherLongman, Green, et alDate Published1864 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #132 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English, Vol. I, 1729PublisherPrinted for Benjamin MotteDate Published1729 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #133 The history of the conquest of China by the Tartars· Together with an account of several remarkable things, concerning the religion, manners, and customes of both nations, but especially of the latter. First writ in Spanish, by Señór Palafox Bishop of Osma, and Vice-Roy of Mexico. And now rendred English AuthorPalafox y Mendoza, Juan deHeadlinePalafox Conquest of China by Tartars 1671PublisherPrinted by W. Godbid, and sold by M. PittDate Published1671 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #134 Traitez de l'Equilibre des Liqueurs, et de la Pesanteur de la Masse de l'Air AuthorPascal, [Blaise]HeadlineFirst Edition of Pascal's Law 1663PublisherGuillaume DeprezDate Published1663 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #135 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669...And a Selection From His Private Correspondence AuthorPepys, SamuelHeadlineSamuel Pepys Memoirs 1st edition 1825PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1825 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #136 Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates Heading(Plato)AuthorGrote, GeorgeHeadlineGrote's Plato, 3 volumes finely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1867 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #137 Ioannis Revchlin Phorcensis LL. Doc. De Arte Cabalistica libri tres Leoni X. dicati. AuthorReuchlin, JohannesHeadlineReuchlin on Cabalistic Arts 1517PublisherApud Thomam AnshelmumDate Published1517 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #138 Her Majesty's Army: A Descriptive Account of the Various Regiments Now Comprising the Queen's Forces From Their First Establishment to the Present Time [and] ...Indian and Colonial Forces... AuthorRichards, WalterHeadlineWalter Richards Her Majesty's ArmyPublisherJ.S. VirtueDate Published[1890s] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #139 The Seven Lamps of Architecture - With annotations in Ruskin's hand AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineRuskin's Seven Lamps Annotated by HimPublisherSmith, Elder, and Co.Date Published1855 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #140 Classified phone book for the Kremlin, with names of purged officials crossed out Heading(Russia - Soviet Era)Author**HeadlineClassified phone book for the KremlinDate Published1955 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #141 Lot of 5 original photographs of Soviet leaders and dignitaries Heading(Russia - Soviet Era)Headline5 original photographs of Soviet leadersDate Publishedc.1919-1960's View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #142 Lot of 8 photographs of St. Petersburg from the Soviet Archive of Movies and Photo Document Heading(Russia - Soviet Era)Author**HeadlineLot of 8 photographs of St. PetersburgDate Publishedc.1905-1920, printed later View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #143 WITHDRAWN Three volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etc. with woodcut illustrations Heading(Samurai)Author**HeadlineThree volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etcDate Published18th Century(?) View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #144 Palais Chateaux Hotels et Maisons de France du XVe au XVIIIe Siecle AuthorSauvageot, ClaudeHeadlineMassive work on the Architecture of FrancePublisherA. MorelDate Published1867 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #145 The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. VVherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people. Together with the traffick and commodities of that countrey AuthorSemedo, AlvaroHeadlineSemedo's History of China 1655 with mapPublisherPrinted by E. Tyler for Iohn CrookDate Published1655 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #146 Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSecond Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Works 1632PublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot... at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yardDate Published1632 View details Estimate$200,000 - $300,000StatusUnsold Lot #147 The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham AuthorShakespeare, William (attrib.)HeadlineShakespeare's John Oldcastle 1734PublisherJ. TonsonDate Published1734 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #148 Business card for Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop Heading(Shakespeare and Company)Author**HeadlineShakesepeare & Co. business card c. 1925Date Published[c.1925] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #149 Bond and Free: Five Sketches Illustrative of Slavery. Photographed by Thomas Annan, Glasgow Heading(Slavery)AuthorPaton, J. NoelHeadlineAnnan photos of Paton sketches of Slavery 1863PublisherMaclure & MacdonaldDate Published1863 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #150 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations Basil 1791PublisherPrinted for J.J. Tourneisen and J.L. Legrand,Date Published1791 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #151 The Costume of Hindostan Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engraving; With Descriptions in English and French, Taken in the Years 1798 and 1799 AuthorSolvyns, [Frans] Balt[asar]HeadlineThe Costume of Hindostan 60 color platesPublisherEdward OrmeDate Published1807 [but circa 1821] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #152 Voyage aux Indes Orientales et la Chine. Fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Dans lequel on traite des moeurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins & des Madégasses; suivi d'observations sur le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de France & de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines & les Moluques, & de recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays AuthorSonnerat, [Pierre]HeadlineSonnerat's Voyage to India & China w/2 maps 1782PublisherChez l'Auteur, Froule, Nyon, BarroisDate Published1782 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #153 An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [+ 2 others] AuthorStaunton, George LeonardHeadlineStaunton's Embassy to ChinaPublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer for G. NicolDate Published1797 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #154 Narrative of a five years expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and describing its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, & Roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. AuthorStedman, J[ohn] G[abriel]HeadlineStedman's Revolted Negroes of Surinam 1796PublisherJ. Johnson & J. EdwardsDate Published1796 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #155 [Brobdingnag and New Albion] Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineMap of Brobdingnag and New Albion 1731Date Published[1731?] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #156 Comedie di Terentio nuovamente di Latino in volgare tradotte Author[Terence, Publius Terentius Afer]HeadlineRare 1544 Edition of the Comedies of TerencePublisher[Giovan' Padoano]Date Published1544 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #157 The hystory, writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls... AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucyides Pelopenessian War 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #158 Regni Chinensis descriptio. Ex Variis Authoribus AuthorTrigault, NicolasHeadlineTrigault's China from Elzivir Press 1639PublisherOfficina ElzevirianaDate Published1639 & 1631 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #159 Catalogue des Substances Végétales qui Peuvent Servir à la Nourriture de l'Homme., & qui se Trouvent dans les Departemens de l'Isere, la Drome & les Hautes-Alpes AuthorVillar[s], [Dominique]HeadlineCatalogue des Substances Végétales 1793PublisherAlexander GiroudDate Published[1793] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #160 Andy Warhol's Index (Book) AuthorWarhol, AndyHeadlineAndy Warhol's Index (Book)PublisherRandom HouseDate Published1967 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #161 Andy Warhol's Exposures AuthorWarhol, Andy with Bob ColacelloHeadlineAndy Warhol's Exposures Signed by WarholPublisherAndy Warhol Books/Grosset & DunlapDate Published[1979] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #162 The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats AuthorYeats, W[illiam] B[utler]HeadlineVariorum Edition of the Poems of Yeats signedPublisherMacmillanDate Published1957 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #163 Street Haunting - Bound by Eleanore Ramsey AuthorWoolf, VirginiaHeadlineStreet Haunting bound by Eleanore RamseyPublisherWestgate PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next