Sale 363: Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine (#363) 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 176. Previous|12|Next Lot #1 Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon... Heading(Alchemy)AuthorAshmole, EliasHeadlineRare first edition of Ashmole's Alchemy, 1652PublisherPrinted by F. Grismond for N. BrookDate Published1652 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #2 The philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire. For a memento mori on his tomb-stone... Also, A brief of the golden calf (the worlds idol.)... With a catalogue of chymical books. Heading(Alchemy)AuthorCooper, WilliamHeadlineCooper's Epitaph with first Alchemy BibliographyPublisherPrinted by T.R. and N.T. for William CooperDate Published1673 [i.e. 1675] View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #3 A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas AuthorAnson, GeorgeHeadlineAnson's Voyage Round the World 1748PublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #4 Summa theologiae, secunda pars, pars seconda AuthorAquinas, ThomasHeadlineAquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1463PublisherJohann MentelinDate PublishedBefore Advent, 1463 View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Lot #5 A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, in four books. In which his principal physical and metaphysical dogmas are unfolded; and it is shown, from indubitable evidence, that his philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks. The insufficiency also of the philosophy that has been substituted by the moderns for that of Aristotle, is demonstrated Heading(Aristotle)AuthorTaylor, ThomasHeadlineThomas Taylor's Dissertation on Aristotle 1812PublisherPrinted for the Author by Robert WilksDate Published1812 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #6 Tabula Pascalis diuersarum variationum temporum Heading(Astronomy)AuthorAndreas VeronensisHeadlineRare incunabular astronomy tablesPublisherFranciscus Plato de BenedictisDate Published19 May 1488 View details Estimate$18,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #7 The Birds of America. A Selection of Plates Facsimile. AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineAriel Press Birds of America One of 250 copiesPublisherEdition Leipzig and Ariel PressDate Published[1972-73] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #8 Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lodovicus Vivres. Englished first by J.H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and ammended AuthorAugustine, SaintHeadlineAugustine's Citie of God, 1620PublisherPrinted by G. Eld and M. FlesherDate Published1620 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #9 The Essays, Or Councils, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon...With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse on the Wisdom of the Ancients. AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineEssays of Sir Francis Bacon 1696PublisherJ. NewtonDate Published1696 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #10 Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice, and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon AuthorBelzoni, Giovanni BattistaHeadlineBelzoni's Discoveries within the Pyramids, 1822PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1822 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #11 Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II AuthorBeveregium, Guilelm [Beveridge, William]HeadlineWm. Beveridge Institutionum Chronologicarum 1669PublisherThomas RoycroftDate Published1669 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #12 History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick AuthorBewick, T[homas]HeadlineThomas Bewick's British BirdsDate Published1797 & 1804 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #13 A Treatise on Mensuration, both in theory and practice Heading(Bewick, Thomas)AuthorHutton, CharlesHeadlineThomas Bewick's first illustrations in a bookPublisherPrinted by T. Saint for the authorDate Published1770 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #14 The Seasons by James Thomson: With His Life by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. and a complete glossary and index Heading(Bewick, Thomas)AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineThomson's Seasons with Bewick engravingsPublisherJames WallisDate Published1805 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #15 A New Family Herbal: or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts Heading(Bewick, Thomas)AuthorThornton, Robert John, M.D.HeadlineFamily Herbal with engravings by Thomas BewickPublisherRichard PhillipsDate Published1810 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #16 Thomas Bewick: His Life and Times Heading(Bewick, Thomas)AuthorRobinson, RobertHeadlineRobinson's Life of Thomas BewickPublisherPrinted for R. RobinsonDate Published1887 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #17 The Old Testament [New Testament], Embellished with Engravings, From Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineThe Macklin Bible - 6 Volumes - 1800PublisherPrinted for Thomas Macklin by Thomas BensleyDate Published1800 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #18 Commentaries on the Laws of England AuthorBlackstone, WilliamHeadlineBlackstone's Commentaries 1766-1769PublisherClarendon PressDate Published1766-1769 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #19 The Grave, a Poem Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertHeadlineThe Grave, with William Blake engravingsPublisherT. BensleyDate Published1813 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #20 Opera Heading(Bodoni Press)AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineBodoni Press edition of Virgil's Works 1793PublisherTypis BodonianisDate Published1793 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Account of Corsica 1768PublisherEdward & Charles DillyDate Published1768 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #22 Mutiny on the Bounty Heading(Brando, Marlon)AuthorNordhoff, Charles and James Norman HallHeadlineMutiny on the Bounty - Signed by Movie CastPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1947 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #23 Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. VIII, Nos. 31 et 32 Heading(Braque, Georges)Author**HeadlineDouble Issue of Verve - Georges BraquePublisherVerveDate Published1955 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #24 Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam AuthorBreydenbach, Bernhard vonHeadlineTravels in the Holy Land, 1486PublisherErhard ReuwichDate Published11. Feb. 1486 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #25 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect AuthorBurns, RobertHeadlinePoems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 2nd Edn.PublisherFor the AuthorDate Published1787 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #26 Hudibras, In Three Parts AuthorButler, SamuelHeadlineButler's Hudibras with Hogarth IllustrationsPublisherRobert OwenDate Published1744 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #27 The Jerusalem Windows AuthorChagall, MarcHeadlineMarc Chagall Jerusalem WindowsPublisherAndre SauretDate Published[1962] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #28 Remembering the Moon AuthorCronkite, Walter L.HeadlineWalter Cronkite Remembering the Moon 1/250PublisherThornwillow PressDate Published1989 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #29 A Continuation of Letters Written by a Turkish Spy at Paris Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's Letters by a Turkish Spy 1718PublisherW. TaylorDate Published1718 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #30 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineJohn Donne's Letters First Edition 1651PublisherRichard MarriotDate Published1651 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #31 Shake-Speares Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition Heading(Doves Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineDoves Press edition of Shakespeare's SonnetsPublisherDoves PressDate Published1909 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #32 Elementorum Geometricorum Libros Tredecim Isidorum et Hypsiclem & Recentiores de Corporibus Regularibus, & Procli Propositiones Geometricas... AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements 1645PublisherHieronymi VerdussiiDate Published1645 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #33 Novels of the Sisters Bronte Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBronte, [Charlotte, Emily & Anne]HeadlineNovels of the Bronte Sisters Leather BoundPublisherDowney & Co.Date Published1898-99; 1905 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #34 The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, By Thomas Moore, Esq. Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorByron, [George Gordon Noel], LordHeadlineWorks of Lord Byron 17 Finely Bound VolumesPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1832-33 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #35 [Works] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorByron, [George Gordon Noel], LordHeadlineLord Byron's Works 8 Volumes 1853PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1853 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #36 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great. Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCarlyle, ThomasHeadlineCarlyle's History of Frederick The GreatPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1859-1865 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #37 Cooper's Novels Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorCooper, J. FenimoreHeadlineNovels of J. Fenimore Cooper 34 VolumesPublisherW.A. TownsendDate Published[c. 1860] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #38 Works Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorDe Kock, Charles PaulHeadlineWorks of Charles Paul De Kock 1 of 250 setsPublisherFrederick J. QuinbyDate Published1902-1908 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #39 Tales and Novels Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEdgeworth, MariaHeadlineTales and Novels of Maria Edgeworth 10 VolumesPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1858-60 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #40 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineEmerson's Works Autograph Centenary EditionPublisherRiverside PressDate Published1903-04 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #41 The History of the Norman Conquest of England Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorFreeman, Edward A.HeadlineThe History of the Norman Conquest of EnglandPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1875-79 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #42 The Life of Charlotte Bronte Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorGaskell, E.C.HeadlineLife of Charlotte Bronte 1857 Finely BoundPublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #43 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorGibbon, EdwardHeadlineDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1902PublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1902 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #44 A History of Greece Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorGrote, GeorgeHeadlineGrote's History of Greece 10 volumes 1872PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1872 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #45 Life of Napoleon Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHazlitt, William, Madame Junot and Louis Antoine De BourrienneHeadlineLife of Napoleon Ajaccio Edition 1 of 10 copiesPublisherAnglo-American Publishing Co.Date PublishedNo Date [c. 1900] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #46 Burton Holmes Travelogues Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHolmes, BurtonHeadlineBurton Holmes Travelogues Finely BoundPublisherMcClureDate Published1908 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #47 The History of England Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHume, DavidHeadlineHume's History of England Finely Bound 1826PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1826 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #48 The History of England Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHume, David and Tobias SmollettHeadlineHume and Smollett History of England 10 VolumesPublisherT. CadellDate Published1841 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #49 [Works] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorJefferies, RichardHeadlineWorks of Richard Jefferies Finely Bound SetPublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1890s View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #50 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPepys, SamuelHeadlineDiary of Samuel Pepys 13 Vols Finely BoundPublisherG. Bell and SonsDate Published1923-29 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #51 [Works] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorPrescott, William H.HeadlineWorks of William H Prescott 15 Leather Bound VolsPublisherLippincottDate Published1861-63 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #52 The Works of Shakespere Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineWorks of Shakespeare - Full Leather 1854PublisherWm. S. OrrDate Published1854 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #53 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineThoreau's Writings Manuscript EditionPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1906 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Lot #54 Two Small Sets In Period Fine Bindings Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineTacitus and Racine in Period Fine BindingsDate PublishedVarious Dates View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #55 The Complete Angler Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWalton, Izaak and Charles CottonHeadlineWalton's Complete Angler Finely BoundPublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1887 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #56 Lot 6 Finely Bound Works Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineSmall Group of Finely Bound BooksDate PublishedVarious Dates View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #57 Lot of 4 Finely Bound Works Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineSmall Group of Finely Bound BooksDate PublishedVarious Dates View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #58 Lot of 7 Finely Bound Works Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineSmall Group of Finely Bound BooksDate PublishedVarious Dates View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #59 The Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church. Being a Complete History of Martyrdom from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Time AuthorFox, JohnHeadlineFox's Book of Martyrs with engraved platesPublisherThomas KellyDate Published1814 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #60 In Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentaria: Ex interpretatione Anvtii Foesii, & Gvlielmi Plantii, cum annotationibus ejusdem... AuthorGalenus, ClaudiusHeadlineGalen's commentaries on Hippocrates, 1633Publisherex officina J. MaireDate Published1633 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #61 De l'Origine des Lois, des Arts, et des Sciences, et de leurs progrés chez les Anciens Peuples AuthorGoguet, Antoine YvesHeadlineLaw, Art & Science of the Ancients, 1758PublisherDesaint & SaillantDate Published1758 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #62 Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady : wherein the doctrine of the sphere, uses of the globes, and the elements of astronomy and geography are explain'd in a pleasant, easy and familiar way: with a description of the famous instrument called the orrery AuthorHarris, JohnHeadlineHarirs's Astronomical Dialogues, 1729PublisherPrinted for A. Bettesworth...and J. BatleyDate Published1729 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #63 The History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, sirnamed, the Great AuthorHarte, WalterHeadlineLife of Gustavus Adolphus, 1759PublisherPrinted for the author; and sold by G. HawkinsDate Published1759 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #64 The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England William the first. William the second. Henrie the first. Written by I. H... AuthorH[ayward], J[ohn]HeadlineHayward's Lives of Norman Kings, 1613PublisherImprinted...by R.B[arker]Date Published1613 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #65 The History of Herodotus AuthorHerodotusHeadlineFirst Complete Edition of Herodotus in EnglishPublisherPrinted for Edward Castle & Sam. BuckleyDate Published1709 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #66 [Opera - 2 volumes bound together] AuthorHerodotus & ThucydidesHeadline16th century works of Herodotus and ThucydidesPublisherOfficina HervagianaDate Published1557 & 1540 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #67 Homer His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby, Esq AuthorHomerHeadlineOgilby edition of Homer's Odyssey, 1669PublisherPrinted by James Flesher, for the AuthourDate Published1669 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #68 Q. Horatii Flacci poetae Venvsini, Omnia Poemata cvm ratione carminvm, & argumentis vbique insertis, interpretibus Acrone... AuthorHoraceHeadlineHorace's Poetry, 1567PublisherApud Ionnem Mariam BonellumDate Published1567 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #69 La Chiromance et Phisionomie, par le regard des membres de l'homme. Mises en François par Antoine du Moulin Masconnois AuthorIndagine, Johannes abHeadlinePalmistry by Jean Indagine, 1662PublisherChez Arnould CotinetDate Published1662 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #70 Index librorum prohibitorum: cum regulis confectis per Patres à Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctiss. D. N. Pii IIII. Pont. Max. comprobatus Heading(Index of Prohibited books)Author[Arias, Montanus, editor]HeadlineIndex of Prohibited Books, 1570PublisherEx officina Christophori PlantiniDate Published1570 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #71 The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands AuthorJordan, David Starr, & Barton W. EvermannHeadlineThe Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian IslandsPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1905 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #72 The Works of Flavius Josephus which are Extant AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineJosephus' Works with plates & maps, 1733PublisherPrinted for R. Penny & J. JanewayDate Published1733 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #73 Utopia Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineKelmscott Press Utopia by Thomas MorePublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1893 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #74 Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanæ usitatâ formâ quæstionum & responsionum conscripta, inq; VII. libros digesta, quorum tres hi priores sunt de doctrina sphæricâ... AuthorKepler, JohannesHeadlineKepler's Epitome Astronomiae, 1618-1622Publisherexcudebat J. Plancus, et al.Date Published1618-1622 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Lot #75 Dissertation sur les Attributs de Vénus, qui a obtenu l'accessit, au jugement de l'Académie Royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, á la séance publique du mois de novembre 1775 AuthorLa Chau, Géraud deHeadlineLa Chau's Venus, 1776, with engravingsPublisherDe l'imprimerie de Prault...Et se trouve chez PissotDate Published1776 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #76 Propositions Mathematiqves de Monsieur de Laleu. Demonstrees par I. Pvios. AuthorLaleu, Paul Yvon, Sieur deHeadlineLaleu's Mathematics with Occult engravings 1638PublisherDe l'Imprimerie de Lovis SevestreDate Published1638 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #77 Traité sur la Magie, le sortilege, les posessions, obsessions et malefices où l'on en démontre la verité & la réalité; avec une methode sûre & facile pour les discerner, & les reglemens contre les devins, sorciers, magiciens, & c. Ouvrage trés-utile aux ecclesiastiques, aux medecins, & aus juges. Par M. D *** Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)Author[Daugis, Antoine Louis]HeadlineDaugis on Magic and Sorcery, 1732PublisherPierre PraultDate Published1732 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #78 Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex, qvibvs continetvr accvrata cvriosarvm artivm, et vanarum superstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, jurisconsultis, medicis, philologis Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)AuthorDel Rio, Martin AntonHeadlineDel Rio's Magic in Six Books, 1657PublisherSumptibus Petri HenningijDate Published1657 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #79 De Idololatria Magica, dissertatio Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)AuthorFilesac, JeanHeadlineJean Filesac on Idolotry & Magic, 1609PublisherEx Officina Nivelliana, Apud Sebastianvm Cramoisy...Date Published1609 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #80 [A blow at modern sadducism in some philosophical considerations about witchcraft...] Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)Author[Glanvill, Joseph]HeadlineGlanvill's Witches & Apparitions, 1668PublisherPrinted by E. C. for James CollinsDate Published1668 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #81 An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With observations upon matters of fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred Scriptures and confute the vulgar errors about that point. And also two sermons: one in proof of the Christian religion; the other concerning good and evil angels Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)AuthorHutchinson, FrancisHeadlineHutchinson on Witchcraft, 1720PublisherPrinted for R. Knaplock, et al.Date Published1720 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #82 [The discouerie of witchcraft: wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knauerie of coniurors, the impietie of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent fals-hood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practises of pythonists, the curiositie of figurecasters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of alcumystrie, The abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning, the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conueiances of legierdemaine and iuggling are deciphered: and many other things opened, which haue long lien hidden, howbeit verie necessarie to be knowne: heerevnto is added a treatise vpon the nature and substance of spirits and diuels, &c.] Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)Author[Scot, Reginald]HeadlineScot's Discovery of Witchcraft 1584Publisher[William Brome]Date Published[1584] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #83 The Juggler of Notre Dame AuthorMaybeck, BernardHeadlineOriginal Bernard Maybeck Watercolor PaintingDate Published1907 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #84 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton Paradise Lost 1st Edition 1668 Title PagePublisherPrinted by S. SimmonsDate Published1668 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #85 Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Regain'd First Edition 1671PublisherPrinted by J.M. for John StarkeyDate Published1671 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #86 Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineRare Large Paper Copy of Newton's Principia 1726PublisherGuil. & Joh. InnysDate Published1726 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold Lot #87 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy... Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, Newton's System of the World; A short comment on, and defence of, the Principia, by William Emerson. With The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity. By John Machin ... AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineIsaac Newton's Principia in English, 1803PublisherPrinted for H.D. SymondsDate Published1803 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #88 A Lapidary, or, The History of Pretious Stones: With cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with Pretious Stones. AuthorNicols, Thomas.HeadlineThe First British Gemological Book 1652PublisherThomas BuckDate Published1652 View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #89 The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia AuthorNolan, E.H.HeadlineIllustrated History of the War Against RussiaPublisherVirtueDate Published[c. 1857] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #90 WITHDRAWN An Epistle to a Friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness; and prolonging the life of man to its natural period... AuthorPeale, Charles W[illson]HeadlinePeale on Preserving Health, with ms. recipesPublisherFrom the press of the late R. AitkenDate Published1803 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #91 A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an Account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals by the Egyptians; with Remarks on the Funeral Ceremonies of Different Nations, and Observations on the Mummies of the Canary Islands, of the Ancient Peruvians, Burman Priests, &c. AuthorPettigrew, Thomas JosephHeadlinePettigrew's Egyptian Mummies with tinted platesPublisherLongman, Rees, Orme, et al.Date Published1834 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #92 Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. VIII, Nos. 29 et 30 Heading(Picasso, Pablo)Author**HeadlineDouble Issue of Verve - Pablo PicassoPublisherVerveDate Published[1954] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #93 Les Oeuvres de Platon AuthorPlatoHeadlinePlato's Works in French, 1699PublisherJean AnissonDate Published1699 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #94 The Phædrus of Plato; a Dialogue Concerning Beauty and Love. Translated from the Greek AuthorPlatoHeadlinePlato's Phaedrus in English, 1792PublisherPrinted for Edward Jeffery, et al.Date Published1792 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #95 The Works of Plato Abridg'd: With an Account of His Life, Philosophy, Morals, and Politicks... AuthorPlatoHeadline18th century edition of Plato in EnglishPublisherPrinted for D. Midwinter, et al.Date Published1739 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #96 The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. 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