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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... |
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Ashmole, Elias |
(Alchemy) |
Rare first edition of Ashmole's Alchemy, 1652 |
1652 |
$10,000 - $15,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,000 |
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Il Genio Vagante, Biblioteca Curiosa di Cento e piu Relazioni di Viaggi Stranieri de Nostri Tempi. Parte II |
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Anzi, Aurelio Degli |
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With early map of Louigiana in New Francia |
1691 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Unsold |
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The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All |
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Malory, Sir Thomas |
(Beardsley, Aubrey, illustrator) |
Le Morte d'Arthur with Aubrey Beardsley illustrations |
1909 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,280 |
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Album of Thomas Bewick vignettes or 'tale-pieces', presented to Richard Arkwright |
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(Bewick, Thomas, illustrator) |
Thomas Bewick vignettes inscribed by the artist |
[1824] |
$7,000 - $10,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,200 |
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A ConcordaĢce, that is to saie, a work wherein by the ordre of the letters of the A.B.C. ye maie redely finde any worde conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it is there expressed or mentioned |
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Marbecke, John |
(Bible - Concordance) |
First Concordance in English to Bible, 1550 |
1550 |
$12,000 - $18,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $9,600 |
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The Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles from the 1583 folio Geneva Bible |
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(Bible in English) |
Old Testament history from 1583 Geneva Bible |
[1583 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Unsold |
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... [with] Supplemental Nights |
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Burton, Sir Richard F., translator |
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Burton's Arabian Nights finely bound |
1885-1888 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,600 |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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Carroll, Lewis |
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Alice in Wonderland, first edition, second issue |
1866 [1865] |
$7,000 - $10,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,100 |
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea |
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[Dana, Richard Henry] |
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First issue of Two Years Before the Mast finely bound |
1840 |
$3,000 - $5,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,300 |
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La Divina Comedia di Dante, di nuovo alla sua vera lettione ridotta con lo aiuto di molti antichissimi esemplari |
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Dante Alighieri |
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Illustrated edition of Dante's Divine Comedy 1555 |
1555 [colophon dated 1554] |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,400 |
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Le Morte DArthur: The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table |
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Malory, Thomas |
(Flint, William Russell, illustrator) |
Le Morte DArthur, full vellum |
1910-11 |
$4,000 - $6,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,300 |
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The History of Little Goody Twoshoes; otherwise called Mrs. Margery Twoshoes |
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(Goody Two-shoes) |
First Worcester Edition of Little Goody Twoshoes 1787 |
1787 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,680 |
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Les Fleurs Animées [bound with] Botanique des Dames [and] Culture des Fleurs: Horticulture des Dames |
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Delord, Taxile |
(Grandville, J.J.) |
Grandville's Les Fleurs AnimƩes 1847 |
1847 |
$8,000 - $12,000 |
Unsold |
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Scenes de la vie Privee et Publique des Animaux |
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Grandville, [J.J.] |
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An anthropomorphic classic by Grandville, 1842 |
1842 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
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Amor und Psyche. Eine Dichtung in Sechs Gesängen |
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Hamerling, Robert |
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In a lovely German publisher's binding, 1882 |
[1882] |
$1,500 - $2,500 |
Unsold |
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Annvae Litterae Societatis Iesv Anni MDLXXXXII: Ad Patres Et Fratres eiusdem Societatis [bound with] Annvae Litterae Societatis Iesv Anni MDXCIII... |
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(Jesuit letters) |
Letters from Jesuit missionaries in late 1500's |
1600 & 1601 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
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Arithmologia sive, De abditis numerorum mysterijs qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditæ eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post Cabalistarum, Arabum, Gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera & licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur |
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Kircher, Athanasius |
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Kircher examines mystical numerology, 1665 |
1665 |
$6,000 - $9,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,600 |
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Set of twenty-four first editions by Andrew Lang, including all of his Fairy Books |
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Lang, Andrew |
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24 Andrew Lang First Editions Finely Bound |
1889-1912 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,200 |
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Nicholas Machiavel's Prince. Also, The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca. And the meanes Duke Valentine us'd to put to death Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto of Fermo Paul, and the Duke of Gravina. Translated out of Italian into English; by E[dward] D[acres]. With some animadversion noting and taxing his errours |
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Machiavelli, Niccolo |
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Machiavelli's Prince, 1st in English 1640 |
1640 |
$20,000 - $30,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $30,000 |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman Emperor, His Meditations Concerning Himselfe: Treating of a Naturall Mans happinesse; Wherein it consisteth, and of the meanes to attaine unto it |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, 1st edition in English |
1634 |
$8,000 - $12,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $14,400 |
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The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an account of the tryals of several vvitches, lately excuted [sic] in New-England: and of several remarkable curiosities therein occurring... |
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Mather, Cotton |
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Cotton Mather on the Salem Witch Trials, 1693 |
1693 |
$20,000 - $30,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $21,600 |
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The House at Pooh Corner [with] autograph letter signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard and addressed to an American admirer |
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Milne, A.A. |
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Signed by A.A. Milne, with Ernest H. Shepard ALS |
[1929] |
$4,000 - $6,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,200 |
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Philosophical Poems |
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More, Henry |
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The collected poetry of Henry More, 1647 |
1647 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Unsold |
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Fairy Tales |
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Andersen, Hans Christian |
(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator) |
Signed by Kay Nielsen, 1/500 |
[1924] |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,280 |
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon |
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[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe] |
(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator) |
Kay Nielsen's East of the Sun & West of the Moon |
[1914] |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,920 |
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Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia |
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Orta, Garcia de, et al. |
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Botany of East & West Indies, 1593 |
1593 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000 |
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Aesop's Fables [with] original ink drawing by Arthur Rackham |
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Aesop |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Rackham with an original ink drawing laid in |
1912 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,700 |
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The Sleeping Beauty |
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Evans, C.S. |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Arthur Rackham, 1/625 |
[1920] |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,080 |
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm |
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Grimm Brothers |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Arthur Rackham, 1/750 |
1909 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000 |
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The Ingoldsby Legends |
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Ingoldsby, Thomas [pseud. of Richard Barham] |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Rackham, large paper edition, 1/560 |
1907 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $780 |
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A Midsummer-Night's Dream |
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Shakespeare, William |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Midsummer-Night's Dream with Rackham illustrations |
1908 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $960 |
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Demonstratio Et Constructio Horologiorum Novorum. Radio Recto; Refracto in Aqua; Reflexo in Speculo; solo Magnete Horas Astronomicas, Italicas, Babylonicas indicantium |
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SchoĢnberger, Georg |
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Scarce study of horology, 1622 |
1622 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $600 |
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Elements of Bacchus: or, Toasts and Sentiments, given by Distinguished Characters. Illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain. With a variety of anecdotes and remarkable traits, prefixed to each portrait. Written and designed by George Murgatroyd [sic] Woodward |
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Woodward, George Moutard |
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Colored aquatint plates of inebriated Britons, 1792 |
1792 |
$30,000 - $50,000 |
Unsold |
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