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Archive of thirty-two photographs from the research voyage of the Albatross to Alaska and the Philippines 1907-10 |
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(Alaska & Philippines) |
Photographs from The Albatross voyage 1907 |
[1907-10] |
$3,000 - $5,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000 |
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A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas |
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Anson, George |
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Anson's Voyage Around the World 1748 |
1748 |
$3,000 - $5,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,700 |
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Book of Hours (Horae B.V.M.) printed on vellum, with "Dance of Death" illustrations by Philippe Pigouchet |
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(Book of Hours) |
Horae BVM with famed "Dance of Death" suites |
c.1500 |
$10,000 - $15,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,000 |
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On Dreams |
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Browne, Thomas |
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Browne On Dreams, 1/21 copies on vellum |
[1920] |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Unsold |
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Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D. late of Norwich... |
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Browne, Thomas |
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Thomas Browne's Posthumous Works 1712 |
1712 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $900 |
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Ten volumes of writings by Cicero published primarily by Sebastianus Gryphius in the mid-16th century |
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius |
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Scarce 16th century printings of Cicero |
c.1546-1567 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Unsold |
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On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection |
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Darwin, Charles & Alfred Russel Wallace |
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First statement of Darwin's Evolution Theory |
1859 |
$30,000 - $50,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $18,000 |
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Two items by Albert Einstein, with ownership stamps of his son Hans Albert Einstein |
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Einstein, Albert |
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Rare Einstein articles, presented to his son |
1922 & 1924 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $780 |
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Systema cosmicum, in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite ac solide differitur.... |
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Galileo Galilei |
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Galileo's Systema Cosmicum, 1699 |
1699 |
$3,000 - $5,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,040 |
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Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux en Général, et du Cerveau en Particulier... |
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Gall, Franz Joseph and Johann Gaspar Spurzheim |
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F.J. Gall advances science and phrenology |
1810-19 |
$10,000 - $15,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,000 |
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Mechanik des Himmels |
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Laplace, Pierre Simon de |
(Gauss, Carl Friedrich) |
Gauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanics |
1800 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000 |
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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 |
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Johnson, Samuel |
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First edition of Johnson's Dictionary |
1755 |
$8,000 - $12,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,400 |
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Herophilus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin |
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Marx, Carl Friedrich Heinrich |
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Herophilus & the anatomy of the brain |
1838 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,440 |
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[Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera] |
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Plato |
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First Plato in Greek 1513 |
[1513] |
$20,000 - $30,000 |
Unsold |
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Principia Mathematica |
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Russell, Bertrand & Alfred North Whitehead |
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First edition of Russell's Principia Mathematica |
1910, 1912, 1913 |
$20,000 - $30,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $14,400 |
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The life and death of King John |
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Shakespeare, William |
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Shakespeare King John from 2nd folio 1632 |
[1632] |
$4,000 - $6,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,400 |
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The Winters Tale |
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Shakespeare, William |
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Shakespeare Winters Tale from 2nd folio 1632 |
[1632] |
$6,000 - $9,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,500 |
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