Sale 271: Fine & Rare Books with Medical Books, Travel & Exploration (#271) 10/02/2003 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 10/02/2003 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 365. Previous|1234|Next Lot #1 Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions AuthorAbbott, Edwin AbbottPublisherSeeley & Co.Date Published1884 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #2 Anacreon, Sapho, Bion et Moschus, Traduction Nouvelle en Prose, Suivie de la Veillée des Fêtes de Vénus. et d'un choix de Piéces de différens Auteurs. Par M. M*** C**. AuthorAnacreon, et al.PublisherChez le BoucherDate Published1773 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #3 Radius Paupertatis, qui clarè, ac subtiliter humanas & divinas operationes velut per transennam scrutatur... AuthorAnastasius PragensisPublisherUrban GoliaschDate Published1669 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #4 Euclide's Elements; the whole Fifteen Books...to which is added Archimedes Theorems Of the Sphere and Cylinder, investigated by the Method of Indivisibles Heading(Archimedes)AuthorBarrow, Isaac, edPublisherPrinted by E. RedmayneDate Published1705 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #5 Collectio Geniturarum; or, a collection of nativities in CL Genitures... Heading(Astrology)AuthorGadbury, JohnPublisherJames CottrelDate Published1662 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #6 Der gelehrte Criticus über allerhand curieuse Dubia und Fragen aus dem Jure Publico des Roemisch-Teutschen Reichs AuthorAuden, HermannPublisherJoh. Ludwig EleditschDate Published1714 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #7 Of Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J.H. AuthorAugustine, SaintPublisherPrinted by G. Eld, and M. FlesherDate Published1610 View details Estimate$700 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #8 Bodies For Automobiles Etc. Heading(Automobiles - Catalogue)AuthorThe Barndt-Johnson Auto Supply Co.PublisherBarndt-Johnson Auto Supply Co.Date Published[c. 1910] View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #9 The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes Heading(Badminton Library)AuthorBeaufort, Henry Somerset, Duke of, and A.E.T. Watson, edsPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1886-1896 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #10 Vingt-Cinq Costumes pour le Théatre AuthorBarbier, GeorgePublisherChez Camille Bloch & Jules MeynialDate Published1927 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #11 The World's Parliament of Religions AuthorBarrows, John Henry, ed.PublisherParliament Publishing CompanyDate Published1893 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #12 Recherches sur une Propriété Nouvelle de la Matiére. Activité Radiante Spontanée ou Radioactivité de la Matiére AuthorBecquerel, A. HenriPublisherFirmin-DidotDate Published1903 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #13 The History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa...with their Genuine Letters AuthorBerington, JosephPublisherM. Swinney for Robinson and FaulderDate Published1787 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #14 Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 [bound with] The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon Heading(Bhagavad-Gita)AuthorHodges, William and Charles WilkinsDate Published1793 & 1785 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #15 The Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle Heading(Binding)AuthorCarlyle, ThomasPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published[c. 1910] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #16 The Cricket on the Hearth Heading(Golden Cockerel Press)AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherGolden Cockerel Press for the Limited Editions ClubDate Published1933 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #17 The Works of George Eliot Heading(Binding)AuthorEliot, GeorgePublisherDana Estes & Co.Date Published[c. 1890] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #18 Mademoiselle Dafne Heading(Binding)AuthorGautier, TheophilePublisherG. CharpentierDate Published1881 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$106.25StatusSold Lot #19 The Complete Writings Heading(Binding)AuthorHawthorne, NathanielPublisherHoughton Mifflin by the Riverside PressDate Published[1900] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #20 Mirabeau's Letters during his Residence in England Heading(Binding)AuthorMirabeau, [Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de]PublisherEffingham WilsonDate Published1832 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #21 Urformen der Kunst: Photographische Planzenbilder von Professor Karl Blossfeldt AuthorBlossfeldt, KarlPublisherErnst WasmuthDate Published[no date, 1928] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #22 Decameron AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniPublisherNeufeld & HeniusDate Published[1924] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #23 The Officina Bodoni: The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work Heading(Bodoni)Author**PublisherEditiones Officinae BodoniDate Published1929 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #24 Mysterium Magnum, oder Erklaerung uber das erste Buch Mosis... AuthorBoehme, JacobDate Published1640 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #25 Lot of three wooden book presses Heading(Bookbinding)Author** View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #26 American Victorian Bookcase Heading(Bookcase)Author**Date Published19th century View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #27 The Art of Manual Defence; or, System of Boxing: Perspicuously explained in a series of Lessons...by a Pupil of both Humphreys and Mendoza Heading(Boxing)Author**Date Published1796 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #28 The Growth of Love Author[Bridges, Robert]Publisher[H. Daniel]Date Published[1890] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #29 A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiousities of Rome AuthorBurton, EdwardPublisherL. MoliniDate Published1830-31 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #30 A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night AuthorBurton, Richard F.PublisherKamashastra Society for private subscribersDate Published1885-88 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #31 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third AuthorByron, George Gordon Noel, LordPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1816 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #32 Manfred, A Dramatic Poem AuthorByron, George Gordon Noel, LordPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1817 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #33 The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems AuthorByron, George Gordon Noel, LordPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1816 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #34 The Commentaries...of his Warres in Gallia, and the Civile Warres betwixt him and Pompey AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusPublisherprinted by R[oger] Daniel for Henry Twyford, Nathaniel Elkins and John PlaceDate Published16[5]5 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #35 Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reelen algebraischen Zahlen AuthorCantor, [Georg]PublisherGeorg ReimerDate Published1874 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #36 Evenings at Haddon Hall Heading(Cattermole, George)AuthorDe Calabrella, Baroness, edPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1846 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #37 Single leaf from Disticha de moribus Heading(Caxton, William)Author[Cato, Marcus Porcius]Publisher[William Caxton]Date Published[1484] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #38 A Paper:-Of Tobacco; treating of the Rise, Progress, Pleasures, and Advantages of Smoking...by Joseph Fume Author[Chatto, William Andrew]PublisherChapman and HallDate Published1839 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #39 Concordantiae bibliorum AuthorConradus de HalberstadtPublisherJohann MentelinDate Published[c. 1470, not after 1474] View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 Traité de Radioactivité AuthorCurie, Madame P. [Marie Sklodowska]PublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1910 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #41 Le Polonium et Le Radium. Leur découvert par les Rayons de Becquerel et les nouvelles substances radioactives AuthorCurie, [Marie] SklodowskaPublisherBureau de la RevueDate Published[1899] View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 The Secret Life of Salvador Dali AuthorDali, SalvadorPublisherDial PressDate Published1942 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #43 Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea AuthorDana, Richard Henry, JrPublisherLakeside PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #44 Lispet, Lispett and Vaine AuthorDe la Mare, WalterDate Published1923 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #45 The History of Don Quixote Heading(Doré, Gustave)AuthorCervantes [Saavedra, Miguel de]PublisherCassell, Petter, and GalpinDate Published[c. 1880's] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #46 The Doré Gallery Heading(Doré, Gustave)Author**PublisherCassell, Petter, and GalpinDate Published[1870] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #47 Lucrece Heading(Doves Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisher[Doves Press]Date Published1915 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #48 The Tragedie of Julius Caesar Heading(Doves Press)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamPublisher[Doves Press]Date Published[1913] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #49 La Colombiade, ou La foi porteé au nouveau monde.... AuthorDuboccage, [Marie Anne Fiquet]PublisherDesaint & Saillant and DurandDate Published1756 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #50 The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, from the Old French Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorQuiller-Couch, Sir ArthurPublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published[c. 1909] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #51 Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie AuthorEinstein, AlbertPublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1916 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #52 The Pleasures of Coition; or, the Nightly Sports of Venus...translation of the Pervigilium Veneris of the Celebrated Bonefonius Heading(Erotica)Author[Bonnefons, Jean]PublisherE[dmund] CurilDate Published1721 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #53 Elementorum. Libri XV. breviter demonstrati AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements 1659PublisherR. Daniel for [William] NealandDate Published1659 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #54 Megarense philosopho solo introduttore delle scientie mathematice AuthorEuclidPublisherCurtio TroianoDate Published1565 [colophon dated 1566] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #55 Fantascope. Invented by Prof'r Plateau Heading(Fantascope - Optical Toy)AuthorPlateau, [Joseph Ferdinand]PublisherAckermann & Co.Date Published[July 1833] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #56 Icones Farlowianae. Illustrations of the Larger Fungi of Eastern North America-WITHDRAWN AuthorFarlow, William GilsonPublisherFarlow Library and Herbarium of Harvard University PressDate Published1929 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #57 Of the Imitation of Christ Heading(Fore-edge painting)AuthorKempis, ThomasPublisherHenry FrowdeDate Published1902 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #58 Proper Lessons: To be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer Heading(Fore-edge painting)Author**PublisherUniversity PressDate Published1840 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #59 The Poetical Works Heading(Fore-edge painting)AuthorShelley, Percy ByshhePublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1847 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #60 The Book of Praise from the Best English Hymn Writers Heading(Fore-edge painting)Author**PublisherMacmillanDate Published1891 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #61 Arbeiten aus dem zoologisch-vergleichend-anatomischen Institute der Universität Wien. VII. Beobachtungen über Gestaltung und feineren Bau der als Hoden beschriebenen Lappenorgane des Aals AuthorFreud, SigmundPublisherKarl Gerold's SonDate Published1877 View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #62 Raccolta di cento pensieri diversi di Anton Domenico Gabbiani, pittor Fiorentino fatti intagliare in rame da Ignazio Enrico Hugford, pittore, e suo discepolo, nel modo, e forma, che sono gli originali esistenti nella di lui collezione in Firenze... Heading(Gabbiani, Anton Domenico)AuthorHugford, Ignazio EnricoPublisherMoückianaDate Published1762 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #63 The Alphabet: Fifteen Interpretative Designs [and] Elements of Lettering AuthorGoudy, Frederic W.PublisherMitchell KennerleyDate Published1922 & 1926 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #64 The Plantin-Moretus Museum: A Printer's Paradise Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorDe Vinne, Theodore L[ow]PublisherGrabhorn PressDate Published1929 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #65 Eden Anto Heading(Grabhorn Press)AuthorFogazzaro, AntonioPublisherRoxburghe ClubDate Published1930 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #66 Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus Author[Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques] and Sylvain MarechalPublisherPavardDate Published1788 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #67 A Description of the Early Printed Books Owned by the Grolier Club... Heading(Grolier Club)Author**PublisherThe Grolier ClubDate Published1895 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #68 The Life of Charles Henry Count Hoym...Eminent French Bibliophile Heading(Grolier Club)AuthorPichon, JeromePublisherThe Grolier ClubDate Published1899 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #69 Two fragments on vellum from Gutenberg's Catholicon Heading(Gutenberg, Johannes)AuthorBalbus, JohannesPublisherJohannes Gutenberg[?]Date Published1460[?] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #70 Sein und Zeit AuthorHeidegger, MartinPublisherMax NiemeyerDate Published1927 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #71 Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik AuthorHelmholtz, H.PublisherFriedrich Vieweg und SohnDate Published1863 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #72 Recollections of Travel (Tabi No Kaiso) Heading(Japanese Prints)AuthorHiratsuka, Un-IchiPublisherMeiji-ShoboDate Published1951 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #73 Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou recueil de gravures d'après les plus beaux ouvrages de ce fameux peintre Heading(Holbein, Hans)Author**PublisherGuillaume Haas for Chrétien de MechelDate Published1780-[94] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #74 Abdrücke in Helldunkel, nach verschieden Meister Zeichnungen... AuthorHoltzmann, Carl FriedrichDate Published[c. 1790] View details Estimate$700 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #75 The Etching of Figures Heading(Hunter, Dard)AuthorBradley, William AspenwallPublisherDard HunterDate Published1915 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #76 He Drew As He Pleased: A Sketchbook by Albert Hurter AuthorHurter, AlbertPublisherSimon and SchusterDate Published[1948] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #77 Vellum fragment from Liber sextus decretalium.... Heading(Incunable Leaf)AuthorBoniface VIII, PopePublisher[Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1465] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #78 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #79 Single leaf from the Gart der Gesundheit Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author**Publisher[Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1485] View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #80 Single vellum leaf from the Missale Moguntium Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author**Publisher[Peter Schoffer]Date Published[1493] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #81 Sermoniarum de poenitentia per adventum et quadragesimam [bound with] Opera varia Heading(Incunabula)AuthorCarcano, Michael de [&] Robertus CaracciolusPublisher[Nicolaus de Frankfordia] & [Joannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio]Date Published[11 December 1487] & [15 March 1490] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #82 La Pucelle ou la France delivree. Poëme heroïque Heading(Joan of Arc)AuthorChapelain, [Jean]PublisherAugustin Courbé, [printed by Jean Roger]Date Published1656 View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold Lot #83 The Press of the Renaissance in Italy AuthorJohnson, James SydneyPublisher[The Brothers Johnson at the Windsor Press]Date Published1927 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #84 Kabbala denudata seu doctrina hebraeorum transcendentalis et metaphysica... Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorKnorr Von Rosenroth, Baron ChristianPublisherJohann David Zunner from the type of A. Lichtenthaler, Sulzbach (Vol. I) and B.C. Wust (Vol. II)Date Published1677-78-84 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #85 [Sefer Yetzirah] Heading(Kabbalah)Author**Publisher[Jacob of Gazolo]Date Published[1562] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #86 Über das Geistige in der Kunst insbesondere in der Malerei AuthorKandinsky, W.PublisherR. PiperDate Published1912 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #87 Syr Perecyvelle of Gales Heading(Kelmscott Press)Author**Publisher[Kelmscott Press]Date Published[1895] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #88 Candide Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorVoltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arouet dePublisherRandom HouseDate Published1928 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$106.25StatusSold Lot #89 Le médecin interprète de la nature, ou recueil de pronostics sur le caractère des maladies... AuthorKlein, Louis-GeofroiPublisherMusier, FilsDate Published1775 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #90 The Eglinton Tournament Heading(Knights)AuthorNixon, John HenryPublisherColnachi & PuckleDate Published1843 View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold Lot #91 Die Rittersaal. Eine Geschichte des Ritterthums, seines Entstehens und Fortgangs, siner Gebräuche und Sitten Heading(Knights)AuthorReibisch, Friedrich Martin vonPublisherCarl HoffmanDate Published1842 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #92 The Great Polyglot Bibles, Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17 Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorHall, BasilPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1966 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #93 The Chimes Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorDickens, CharlesPublisherGeorge W. Jones for the Limited Editions ClubDate Published1931 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #94 Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorHearn, LafcadioPublisherShimbi Shoin for the Limited Editions ClubDate Published1932 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #95 Notre-Dame de Paris Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorHugo, VictorPublisherR. Coulouma for the Limited Editions ClubDate Published1930 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #96 Batouala Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorMaran, RenéPublisherThe Limited Editions ClubDate Published1932 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #97 The Travels of Baron Munchausen Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorRaspe, Rudolph ErichPublisherThe Limited Editions ClubDate Published1929 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #98 The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorSwift, JonathanPublisherThe Limited Editions ClubDate Published1929 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #99 An Essay concerning Humane Understanding AuthorLocke, JohnPublisherAwnsham and John Churchil, and Samuel ManshipDate Published1694 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #100 The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus-Pocus Laid Open and Explained, by Those Renowed Masters Sena Sama, Hamed Ben-Alla, and all the Celebrated and Mysterious Professors of the Art of Natural Magic, with Full Instructions How to Preform the Various Tricks on Cards, Dice, Birds, Eggs, Rings, &c. Heading(Magic)AuthorSama, Sena and Hamed Ben-AllaPublisherN. C. NafisDate Published1833 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next