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Heading(Bartholomew Faire)HeadlineBartholomew Faire 1641PublisherRichard HarperDate Published1641 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #5 Two leaves from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible of Alcala Heading(Bible - Polyglot)HeadlineTwo leaves from Complutensian Polyglot BiblePublisherArnald Guillen de BrocarDate Published1514-1517 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #6 The booke of the preacher, otherwyse called Ecclesiastes, which is Solomon the king [and] The Ballet of Ballets of Solomon, called in Latine, Canticum Canticorum Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBishops' Bible Ecclesiates & Song of Songs 1574Publisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #7 The Gospell of Sayncte Mathewe - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineGospel of St. Matthew 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #9 [Joshua], i.e. The booke of Iosuah, vvhom the Hebrewes call Iehosuah - from the 1574 folio edition of the Bishops' Bible Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBishops' Bible Joshua 1574Publisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #10 Nine leaves from the "Great Bible" of 1540 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineLeaves from 1540 New Testament in EnglishPublisher[Thomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas Berthelet]Date Published[1540] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #13 Regula Beati Augustini. Constitutiones Fratrum Ordinis Prædicatorum. Cum aliis vt in sequenti pagina Heading(Blado, Antonio, printer)HeadlineRules of Augustinian Order 1566PublisherApud Antonium Bladum, Impressorem CameloremDate Published1566 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #16 Il Solimano Tragedie AuthorBonarelli, ProsperoHeadlineIl Solimano Tragedie by Prospero Bonarelli 1620PublisherPietro CocconcelliDate Published1620 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #18 Mundi Lapis Lydius sive Vanitas per Veritate Falsi Accusata & Conuicata AuthorBourgogne, Antoine deHeadlineRare 17th Century Flemish Emblem BooksPublisherJoan CnobbariDate Published1639 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #21 Extrauagantes Viginti Joannis Vigesimisecundi una cum Elega[n]ti Apparatu Domini Zenzelini de Cassanis... Heading(Canon Law)HeadlineRare 1549 volume of Canon LawPublisherYolande BonhommeDate Published1549 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #22 Single leaf from De consolatione philosophiae, printed by William Caxton Heading(Caxton, William, printer)AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineEarly Caxton printed leafDate Published[1477-1478] View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold Lot #23 Original Leaf from Caxton's Chaucer, being a fragment of The Clerk's Tale Heading(Caxton, William, printer)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineLeaf from Caxton's Chaucer 1476PublisherWilliam CaxtonDate Published1476 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #24 Original leaf from the Polycronicon, printed by William Caxton in 1482 at Westminster Heading(Caxton, William, printer)AuthorHigden, RanulfHeadlineLeaf printed by William Caxton 1482Date Published[1482] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #31 Original illustrated leaf from Virgil's Opera Heading(Early Printed LeafAuthorVirgilHeadlineIllustrated leaf from 1502 VirgilPublisherJ. GruningerDate Published1502 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #32 Eight original printed leaves from the Institutiones of Justinian I, with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius Heading(Early Printing - Incunabula)AuthorJustinianus [Justinian I]HeadlineLeaves from Justinian's Code, 1468 or 1472PublisherPeter SchoefferDate Published1472, or 1468? View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #33 Four original printed leaves from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica Heading(Early Printing)AuthorVesaliusHeadlineFour leaves from Vesalius 1st edition 1543PublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #41 Apophthegmes, that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges of certain Emperours, Kynges Capitaines, Philosophiers and Oratours, as well Grekes, as Romaines ... First gathered and compiled in Latine by the ryght famous clerke Maister Erasmus of Roterodame. And now translated into Englyshe by N. Udall. B.L. AuthorErasmus, DesideriusHeadlineErasmus' Apopthegmes 1st in English 1542PublisherTypis Ricardi GraftonDate Published1542 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 Euclidis elementorum libri XV. Unà cum scholijs antiquis à Federico Commandino Vrbinate nuper in Latinum conuersi, commentarijsque quibusdam illustrati AuthorEuclidHeadlineEarly & desirable edition of Euclid's Elements 1572PublisherJakob Criegher [for Camillo Franceschini]Date Published1572 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #43 Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed. With the drawing of the twelue signes, and houres unequall in them all... Of speciall vse and delight, not only for students of the arts mathematicall, but also for diuers artificers, architects, surueyours of buildings, free-Masons and others AuthorFale, ThomasHeadlineEarly horological work 1627PublisherImprinted by Felix KyngstonDate Published1627 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #44 [De Solaribus Horologiis, i.e.]: Orontii Finei Delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, De solaribus horologiis, & quadrantibus, libri quatuor. Sequens pagina summa librorum capita tibi expediet AuthorFiné, OronceHeadlineHorological work by Oronce Finé 1560PublisherApud Gulielmum CauellatDate Published1560 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #46 Stile et Prothocolle de la Chancellerie de France, Additione de Plusieurs Lettres Singulieres non Parauant Imprimees Heading(France)HeadlineStyle et prothocolle de la chancellerie de FrancePublisherVincen SartenasDate Published1560 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #60 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 by 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... By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter Heading(Heraldry)AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohnson's Dictionary Third Edition 1765PublisherPrinted by W. Strahan for A. Millar, T. Longman, et alDate Published1765 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #69 Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, solius, verae, Christiano-Kabalisticum, Divino-Magicum, nec non Physico-Chymicum, Tertriunum, Catholicon AuthorKhunrath, HeinrichHeadlineRare alchemy book by Heinrich Khunrath 1609PublisherExcudebat Guilielmus Antonius]Date Published[1609] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Author[La Rochefoucauld, Francois Duc de]HeadlineMaxims of La Rochefoucauld 1678PublisherChez Claude BarbinDate Published1678 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #73 Bound volume of four 16th century legal works Heading(Law)Headline16th century Venetan legal tractsPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1565-1573 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #74 Respvblica; siue, Status Regni Poloniæ, Litvaniæ, Prvssiæ, Livoniæ, etc. Diuersorum autorum Heading(Law)HeadlineElzevir printing of laws of Poland, etc. 1642PublisherEx officina ElzevirianaDate Published1642 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #80 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherPrinted for J. S., to be sold by Robert Boulter at the Turks-head in Cornhil, against the Royal ExchangeDate Published1675 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #86 Collection of eight directories and calendars of the religious rites of the Franciscan, Augustin and other Orders in Mexico in the 18th century Heading(Mexico)HeadlineRare 18th century Mexican religious calendarsDate Published1784-1789 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #90 Lexicon Juris, Seu Epitome Definitionum & Rerum AuthorOldendorp, JohannHeadlineRare 16th Century Legal DictionaryPublisherApud Cominum de Tridino MontisferratiDate Published1555 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #93 Ioannis Paduanii Veronensis De compositione, & usu multiformium horologiorum solarium ad omnes totius orbis regiones, ac situs in qualibet superficie... AuthorPadovani, GiovanniHeadlineSundials by Giovanni Padovani, 1582PublisherApud Franciscum Franciscium SenensemDate Published1582 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #99 Procli philosophi Platonici vita, scriptore Marino Neapolitano, quam altera parte de virtutibus Procli theoreticis ac theurgicis auctiorem, et nunc demum integram primus edidit, versionem, breves notas, atque elenchum scriptorum Procli adjecit Joh. Albertus Fabricius... Heading(Philosophy - Neoplatonism)AuthorMarianus NeapolitanusHeadlineEditio Princeps of Proclus biography 1700PublisherApud Godofredum LiebezeitDate Published1700 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #100 The Mystical Initiations; or, Hymns of Orpheus translated from the original Greek: with a preliminary dissertation on the life and theology of Orpheus Heading(Philosophy - Neoplatonism)AuthorOrpheusHeadlineThomas Taylor's Orpheus 1787PublisherPrinted for the author, and sold by T. Payne and Son, et al.Date Published1787 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #112 De Consilio Sapientis, in Forensibus Causis Adhibendo, Libri IIII AuthorScala, PaceHeadlineScarce Aldine legal workPublisher[Paulus Manutius]Date Published1560 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #113 Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae, Libri IX. In Quibus & Planissima Steganographiae... 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$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #114 The first [-fift] booke of architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English Author[Serlio, Sebastiano]HeadlineSerlio's Architecture in English 1611PublisherPrinted [by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham] for Robert PeakeDate Published1611 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #115 Eleven contiguous leaves from the second folio edition of "The first Part of King Henry the Sixt" AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineLeaves from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published1632 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #117 Horometria: or The compleat diallist. Wherein the whole mystery of the art of dialling is plainly taught three several wayes; two of which are performed geometrically by rule and compass onely: and the third instrumentally, by a quadrant fitted for that purpose. With the working of such propositions of the sphere, as are most usefull in astronomy and navigation, both geometrically and instrumentally... AuthorStirrup, ThomasHeadlineThomas Stirrup's Compleat Diallist 1659PublisherPrinted by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas PierrepontDate Published1659 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #124 Dialogo del molto rever.do P. Don Gio. Battista Vimercato... De gli horologi solari: nel quale con ragioni speculative, et prattiche facilmente s'insegna il modo da fabricar tutte le sorti di horologi AuthorVimercato, Giovanni BattistaHeadlineRare work on sun dials 1566PublisherAppresso Gabriel Giolito de'FerrariDate Published1566 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next