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Previous|1|Next Lot #3 The Crowning of Nature (Coronatio Naturae) - illustrated manuscript Heading(Alchemy)HeadlineAlchemy manuscript with 67 color illustrationsDate PublishedEarly-to-mid 17th century View details Estimate$100,000 - $150,000StatusUnsold Lot #6 Recherches sur differens points importans du systeme du monde AuthorAlembert, Jean le Rond d'HeadlineAlembert's work on lunar motion 1754-56PublisherChez David l'ainéDate Published1754-1756 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #8 Manuscript book of horoscopes with charts of over 200 European personages of note Heading(Astrology)HeadlineRare manuscript book of horoscopes, 17th centuryDate Published17th century View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #10 De a Mesure du Temps, ou Supplement au Traite des Horloges Marines, et a l'Essai sur l'Horologie [bound with] Eclaircissemens sur l'Invention, la Theorie, la Construction, et les Epreubes des Nouvelles Machines Proposees en France, pour la Determination des Longitudes en Mer par la Mesure du Temps. AuthorBerthoud, FerdinandHeadlineTwo rare works on watchmakingPublisherJ.G. Merigot, & Didot Fils / J.B.G. MusierDate Published1787 / 1773 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #20 An Account of Two Successful Operations for Restoring a Lost Nose from the Integuments of the Forehead, in the Cases of Two Officers of His Majesty's Army: To Which are Prefixed, Historical and Physiological Remarks on the Nasal Operation, Including Descriptions of the Indian and Italian Methods, AuthorCarpue, Joseph ConstantineHeadlineFirst modern work on Rhinoplasty by CarpuePublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1816 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 A History of the High Operation for the Stone, by Incision Above the Pubis; With Observations on the Advantages Attending it and an Account of the Various Methods of Lithotomy, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time. AuthorCarpue, Joseph ConstantineHeadlineJoseph Carpue on the High Operation for the StonePublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1819 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #22 An Introduction to Electricity and Galvanism with Cases, shewing their Effects in the Cure of Diseases. To Which is Added, a Description of Mr. Cuthbertson's Plate Electrical Machine AuthorCarpue, Joseph ConstantineHeadlineJoseph Carpue on the use of Electricity in MedicinePublisherA. PhillipsDate Published1803 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #29 L'Histoire Naturelle éclaircie dans deux de ses Parties Principales. La Lithologie et la Conchyliologie AuthorDezallier d'Argenville, Antoine JosephHeadlineEarly work on classifying corals and shells w/32 platesPublisherChez de Bure l'AineDate Published1742 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #32 “Possible Relation between DNA and Protein Structure” - rare author offprint Heading(DNA)AuthorGamow, GeorgeHeadlineRare author offprint on DNA by GamowPublisherPrinted by Fisher, Knight & Co.Date Published1954 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #37 Original ink portrait of Albert Einstein by Josef Scharl, signed by Einstein in ink Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorScharl, JosefHeadlineSigned portrait of Albert EinsteinDate PublishedFebr. 9, 1950 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #39 Des Maladies Mentales considérées sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-légal AuthorEsquirol, Jean Etienne DominiqueHeadlineOne of the first modern texts on psychiatryPublisherJ.B. BailliereDate Published1838 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #42 Metropolitan Museum: Poeme par Robert Choquette. Avec Bois de Edwin H. Holgate. Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorChoquette, RobertHeadlineChoquette's Metropolitan Museum bound by Monique LallierPublisher[Herald Press]Date Published1931 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #53 Astronomiae Physicae & Geometricae Elementa AuthorGregory, DavidHeadlineGregory's Astronomy with Newton's Lunar Theory, 1702PublisherTheatro SheldonianoDate Published1702 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #68 Méchanique Analitique; par M. de La Grange, de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris AuthorLagrange, Joseph LouisHeadlineLagrange's foundation work on analytical mechanics, 1788PublisherChez la veuve Desaint, libraireDate Published1788 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #69 Oeuvres de Laplace - Traité de Mécanique Céleste AuthorLaplace, Pierre SimonHeadlineComplete Mecanique Celestial in Laplace's OeuvrePublisherImprimerie RoyaleDate Published1843-4 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #70 Traité de Mécanique Céleste AuthorLaplace, Pierre SimonHeadlineLaplace's Celestial Mecaniques, first editionPublisherJ.B.M. Duprat / CourcierDate Published1798-1805 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #77 Institutiones ad vsum & examen eorum, quiluxatoriam exercentartem. In Quibus Explicantur Variae Differentaecum Articulationum tum Moderum, quibus solent articuli deprauari...In quibus Denique Agitur De Ossium fractura & curatione. AuthorMercado, Luis de.HeadlineDirections for the official examination of the bone-setters 1625PublisherTypis Hartm. PaltheniiDate Published1625 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #81 Alturas De Macchu Picchu AuthorNeruda, Pablo and Martin ChambiHeadlinePablo Neruda's Alturas De Macchu Picchu signed 1/1000PublisherNascimentoDate Published1954 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #82 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy... Book the first. Translated into English, and illustrated with a commentary, by Robert Thorp AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English 1802PublisherPrinted by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. DaviesDate Published1802 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #84 Abhandlung über die leichteste und bequemste Methode die Bahn eines Cometen aus einigen Beobachtungen zu berechnen AuthorOlbers, WilhelmHeadlineOlbers on calculating a comet's orbit, 1797PublisherIm Verlage des Industrie-ComptoirsDate Published1797 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #85 Ueber eine Verbesserung der Wien'schen Spectralgleichung [“On an Improvement of Wien’s Radiation Law"] AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineMax Planck provides the origin of quantum theory, 1900PublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #128 Angel AuthorBudd, HaroldHeadlineAngel, Poems by Harold Budd Finely Printed by Heavenly MonkeyPublisherHeavenly MonkeyDate Published2012 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #142 Mexican Standoff AuthorEverson, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Everson Mexican StandoffPublisherThe Lapis PressDate Published1989 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #143 River-Root A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States AuthorEverson, WilliamHeadlineDeluxe Limited Edition of Everson's River-RootPublisherOyezDate Published1976 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #158 The Principles of Psychology AuthorJames, WilliamHeadlineJames' The Principles of Psychology, 1890PublisherHenry Holt and CompanyDate Published[1890] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #166 Physical Geography of the Sea AuthorMaury, Matthew FontaineHeadlineFirst major textbook in modern oceanographyDate Published1857 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #178 The Principles and Practice of Medicine. Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine AuthorOsler, WilliamHeadlineOsler's Principles & Practice of Medicine, 1894PublisherD. Appleton & CoDate Published1894 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #179 Rerum memorabilium sive deperditarum AuthorPanciroli, GuidoHeadlinePanciroli's 1660 encyclopaedic history of arts & technologyPublisherHeirs of G. SchoenwetterDate Published1660 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #184 La callipédie, traduite du poème latin AuthorQuillet, ClaudeHeadline1st French edition of Quillet's poem on producing beautiful childrenPublisherchez Durand & PissotDate Published1749 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #185 Geological Papers, 1887 to 1905 AuthorRaisin, Catherine A.HeadlinePioneering Female Geologist, Catherine Raisin's PapersDate Publishedc. 1905 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #193 Lyrical Poems of Shelley AuthorShelley, Percy ByssheHeadlineLyrical Poems of Shelley in Zaehnsdorf bindingPublisherBallantine Press/Vale PressDate Published[1898] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next