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 1-80 of 80. Previous|1|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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland. AuthorPlinius Secundus, GaiusHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1601PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1601 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #98 The Glasse of Godly Loue. Wherein all maried couples may learne their duties, each toward others, according to the holy Scriptures: Very necessary for all maryed men and women, that feare the Lorde... AuthorPritchard, ThomasHeadlineAdvice on Marriage, 1579Publisher[Richard Iohnes]Date Published[1579] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #99 Tractatvs Astrologicvs de genethliacorvm thematvm ivdiciis pro singulis nati accidentibus... AuthorRantzau, HenrikHeadlineRantzau's Astrology, 1593PublisherApud Joannem WechelumDate Published1593 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #100 A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renovvmed [sic] English nation. By the studie and trauaile of R.V. Author[Rowlands, Richard, alias Verstegan]HeadlineRichard Verstegen on English Antiquities, 1605PublisherRobert Burney, to be sold by John Norton & John BillDate Published1605 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #102 Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX. In quibus & planissima Steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio, abbate Spanheymensi & Herbipolensi, admirandi ingenij viro, magicè & aenigmaticè olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur. Inspersis ubiquè authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis... AuthorSelenus, Gustavus [pseud. of August, Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg]HeadlineRare 17th Century work on CryptographyPublisher[Exscriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum]Date Published1624 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #103 The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineJohnson-Steevens edition of Shakespeare's WorksPublisherPrinted for C. Bathurst, et al.Date Published1778 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #104 The Theory of Moral Sentiments AuthorSmith. AdamHeadlineAdam Smith Theory of Moral Sentiments 1761PublisherA. MillarDate Published1761 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #106 Le Vite De' piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori et Architetti AuthorVasari, GiorgioHeadlineVasari's Lives of the Painters in Italian, 1647PublisherPresso gli Heredi de Euangelista DozzaDate Published1647 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #107 Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt: Including Descriptions of That Country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an Appendix, Containing Official Papers and Documents. AuthorWalsh, Thomas.HeadlineWalsh Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt 1803PublisherT. Cadell & W. DaviesDate Published1803 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #109 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA AuthorWatson, James D.HeadlineDouble Helix signed by James WatsonPublisherReaders Union/Weidenfeld & NicolsonDate Published1969 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #110 The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton AuthorWhite, GilbertHeadlineGilbert White Natural History of SelbornePublisherT. BensleyDate Published1789 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #118 Den Neder-Landschen Herbarius ofte Kruid-Boek AuthorBlankaart, Steph.HeadlineRare 17th century Dutch HerbalPublisherJan ten HoornDate Published1698 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #119 New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical HeadingzzgAuthorBradley, RichardHeadlineBradley's Planting and Gardening 1731PublisherJ. and J. KnaptonDate Published1731 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #122 The Retir'd Gardener. In six parts. The two first being dialogues between a Gentleman and a Gardner... AuthorCarpenter, JosephHeadlineCarpenter's Retir'd Gardener, 1717PublisherJ. TonsonDate Published1717 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #127 On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCharles Darwin On the Fertilization of OrchidsPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1862 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #130 Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets AuthorE[velyn], J[ohn]HeadlineJohn Evelyn on the Pleasures of Salad 1699PublisherB. TookeDate Published1699 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #131 Sylva, Or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber In His Majesties Dominions. To Which is annexed Pomona, Or, An Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider...Also, Kalendarium Hortense... AuthorE[velyn], J[ohn]HeadlineJohn Evelyn Sylva First Edition 1664PublisherJo. Martyn and Ja. AllestryDate Published1664 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #132 Silva: Or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions...together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves... to which is added, Terra: A Philosophical Discourse of Earth AuthorEvelyn, JohnHeadlineEvelyn's Silva with engraved plates, 1786PublisherA. Ward for J. Dodsley, et al.Date Published1786 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #137 Oxalis. Monographia, Iconibus Illustrata AuthorJacquin, Nicolaus Joseph vonHeadlineJacquin's Oxalis with colored plates, 1794PublisherChristianum F. Wappler, et al.Date Published1794 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #143 Every Man His Own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete, Gardener's Kalendar, and General Director, than any one hitherto published... AuthorMawe, ThomasHeadlineMawe's Gardener's Kalendar, 1787PublisherJ. F. and C. RivingtonDate Published1787 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #144 A Monograph of the Genus Crocus AuthorMaw, GeorgeHeadlineMaw's Genus Crocus with colored plates 1886PublisherDulau and Co.Date Published1886 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #149 Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners dictionary, exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraved after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection AuthorMiller, PhillipHeadlineMiller's Beautiful Plants with 300 colored platesPublisherPrinted for the author and sold by John Rivington, et al.Date Published1760 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #150 The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, as also the physic-garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard ... Abridg'd from the two volumes lately published in folio... AuthorMiller, PhillipHeadlineMiller's Gardeners Dictionary, 3 volumes, 1741PublisherPrinted for the author, and Sold by C. RivingtonDate Published1741 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #151 Flora Conspicua: A Selection of the Most Ornamental Flowering, Hardy, Exotic and Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants, for embellishing Flower-Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds AuthorMorris, RichardHeadlineMorris' Flora Conspicua with colored platesPublisherLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and GreenDate Published1826 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #169 Cistineae: The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose, illustrated by coloured figures & descriptions of all the distinct species, and the most prominent varieties, that could be at present procured in the gardens of Great Britain, with the best directions for their cultivation and propagation HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineRobert Sweet's Cistineae with 112 colored platesPublisherJ. RidgwayDate Published1825-1830 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #170 Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species... AuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Flora Australasica with colored platesPublisherJames RidgwayDate Published1827-1828 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #172 Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania, Illustrated by Coloured Figures and Descriptions; Comprising the Numerous and Beautiful Mule-Varieties Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, with Directions for their Treatment HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Geraniaceae, with 400 hand-colored platesPublisherPrinted for James RidgewayDate Published1820-28 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #175 Medical Botany, containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh... HeadingzzcAuthorWoodville, WilliamHeadlineWoodville's Medical Botany with colored platesPublisherPrinted and sold for the author, by J. PhillipsDate Published1790-1794 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next