Sale 553 - Rare Books & Manuscripts with Early Medical Works from the George Bray Collection (At Oakland, Sunday, 8:00 am) (#553) 02/08/2015 8:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/08/2015 8:00 AM PST 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 1-28 of 28. Previous|1|Next Lot #7 [Chronicles of London, i.e.] In this booke is conteyned the names of ye baylifs, custos, mairs, and sherefs of the cite of Londo[n] from the tyme of King Richard the Furst & also thartycles of the chartur & libarties of the same cyte, and of the chartur and libarties off England wyth odur dyuers mat's good and necessary for euery citeze[n] to vndir stond and knowe ... AuthorArnold, RichardHeadlineChronicles of London 1503Publisher[A. van Berghen]Date Published1503 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #11 Orlando Furioso - one of only 100 large paper copies Heading(Baskerville, John)AuthorAriosto, LodovicoHeadlineLarge Paper Baskerville Printing of Orlando FuriosoPublisherJohn Baskerville for P. and G. MoliniDate Published1773 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$4,167.50StatusSold Lot #13 Recherches sur les Theatres de France, Depuis l'année onze cens soixante & un; jusques à present AuthorBeauchamps, Pierre Francois Godard deHeadlineHistory of French Theatre 1735PublisherChez Prault, PereDate Published1735 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #14 Two leaves from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible of Alcala Heading(Bible - Polyglot)Headline2 leaves from Complutensian Polyglot BiblePublisherArnald Guillen de BrocarDate Published1514-1517 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #15 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Appointed to be read in churches. Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineKing James Bible 1628PublisherBonham Norton and Iohn BillDate Published1628 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #17 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible Heading(Bible in Latin)HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #22 Sanctorum Peregrinatiionum in Hierusalem Opusculum AuthorBreydenbach, Bernhard vonHeadlineEarliest account of a pilgrimage to the Holy LandPublisherPeter DrachDate Published24 November 1502 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #24 The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Caesar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia and the countries bordering vppon the same translated oute of latin into English by Arthur Goldinge G. AuthorCaesar, JuliusHeadlineFirst in English of Caesar's Gallic WarsPublisherWillyam SeresDate Published1565 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #29 William Caxton - with an original leaf printed by Caxton Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorDuff, E. GordonHeadlineWith original 1576 Caxton leafPublisherCaxton ClubDate Published1905 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 [The exact surveyor: or, The whole art of surveying of land. Shewing how to plot all manner of grounds... and how exactly to prove the truth thereof. And also how to finde the area, or content of any land; to protract, reduce, and divide the same, as required to take the plot of a whole mannor, and to make a perfect map or chart thereof...] AuthorEyre, JohnHeadlineEarly surveying manual 1654Publisher[Printed for N. Brook]Date Published[1654] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #47 Two rare booklets on the coronation of Charles IX of France, 1561 Heading(France)HeadlineCoronation of Charles IX of France 1561Date Published1561 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #52 Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music Painting and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness. By J.H. AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineTreatises on Art, Music and HappinessPublisherPrinted by J. Woodfall, jun., for J. Nourse and P. VaillantDate Published1744 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #53 The Works of James Harris, Esq. With an account of his life and character, by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineEnglish grammarian James HarrisPublisherPrinted by Luke Hansard, for F. WingraveDate Published1801 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #67 Fables and Tales from La Fontaine, in French and English. Now First Translated. AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean deHeadlineFables of La Fontaine in French and English 1734PublisherA. Bettsworth and C. Hitch, and C. DavisDate Published1734 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #78 The xv. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso: entituled, Metamorphosis.A worke verie pleasant and delectable. Translated out of Latin into English meeter, by Arthur Golding Gentleman AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid as Shakespeare source 1593PublisherPrinted by John DanterDate Published1593 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #82 [Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera] AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst Plato in Greek 1513Publisher[In aedib. Aldi, et Andreae Soceri],Date Published[1513] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #86 The History of the World AuthorRaleigh, WalterHeadlineWalter Raleigh's History of the World 1614 1st edPublisherPrinted [by William Stansby] for Walter BurrDate Published1614 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #92 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$120,000 - $180,000Sold for$118,750StatusSold Lot #104 The Principles of Christian Religion; with a Large Body of Divinity... Together with Immanuel, or the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God... To which is now added Twenty Sermons, Preached at Oxford, before his Majesty, and elsewhere. AuthorUsher, JamesHeadlineUsher's Principles of Christian Religion 1678PublisherNathaniel RanewDate Published1678 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #126 De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgò the rickets dicitur, tractatus... adscitis in operis societatem Georgio Bate, & Ahasuero Regemortero AuthorGlisson, FrancisHeadline1st book on ricketts 1650PublisherTypis Guil. Du-gardi; impensis Laurentii Sadler & Roberti BeaumontDate Published1650 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #128 De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio... AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineHarvey on blood 1639 3rd editionPublisherEx officina Joannis MaireDate Published1639 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Lot #129 De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus anatomica exercitatio, cui postrema hac editione accesserunt... Iohannis VValaei... Epistolae duae, quibus Harveii doctrina roboratur AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineHarvey on blood 1689 3rd editionPublisherApud CadorinumDate Published1689 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #136 A Treatise of the Scurvy. In three parts. Containing an inquiry into the nature, causes, and cure of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject AuthorLind, JamesHeadlineRare work on Scurvy 1753PublisherPrinted by Sands, Murray and Cochran. for A. Kincaid & A.D. DonaldsonDate Published1753 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$68,750StatusSold Lot #138 De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica... Accedit dissertatio eiusdem de polypo cordis AuthorMalpighi, MarcelloHeadlineMalphigi's classic treatise on the kidney 1666PublisherGiacomo MontiDate Published1666 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #141 De honesta voluptate: et valitudine AuthorPlatina, BartholomaeusHeadlineFirst cookery book 1480PublisherGerardus de Lisa de FlandriaDate Published1480 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #145 Elementorum myologiæ specimen, seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariæ dissectum caput, et dissectus piscus ex canum genere AuthorSteno, Nicolaus [Niels Stensen]HeadlineMuscles & Shark Teeth 1667PublisherEx typographia sub signo StellæDate Published1667 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #154 Le Livre des compte-faits, ou tarif general des monnoies AuthorBarreme, Francois Bertrand deHeadlineRare Handbook on Exchange RatesPublisherChez les Libraires AssociesDate Published1771 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #164 Les loix de la nature, expliquées par le Docteur Richard Cumberland…Traduits du Latin, par Monsieur Barbeyrac…Avec des notes du traducteur AuthorCumberland, RichardHeadline1757 Les loix de la nature by Richard CumberlandPublisherChez Theodore HaakDate Published1757 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next