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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Descrittione di tvtta Italia AuthorAlberti, LeandroHeadlineLeandro Alberti's descritions of Italy 1557PublisherPer Domenico de' FarrDate Published1557 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #7 Traité Général des Horloges AuthorAllexandre, JacquesHeadlineart of time-pieces 27 folding platesPublisherHippolyte-Louis GuerinDate Published1734 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #9 The Roman Historie, Containing Such Acts and Occurrents as Passed Under Constantius, Julianus, Jovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, Emperours AuthorAmmianus MarcellinusHeadlineThe first edition in English, 1609PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1609 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #26 Ophtalmodouleia das ist Augendienst. Neuer und wohlgegründeter Bericht von Ursachen und Erkentnues aller Gebrechen/Schaeden und Maengel der Augen und des Gesichtes AuthorBartisch von Königsbrück, GeorgHeadlineAilments of the face 1583 facsimilePublisherThe Scolar PressDate Published1980 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #28 Halifax, and its Gibber-Law Placed in a true Light. With a Description of the Town...with an Account of the Gentry...with Many other Matters and Things of great Remark... AuthorBentley, JohnHeadlineHistory of Halifax's unique execution devicePublisherPrinted by P. Darey for John BentleyDate Published[1761] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #38 Natural History, General and Particular AuthorBuffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Le Comte deHeadlineA handsome set of Buffon's Natural History, 1785PublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1785 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #39 A Voyage to the South-Seas in the Years 1740-1. Containing, a faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the WAGER on a desolate island... AuthorBulkeley, John & John CumminsHeadlineVoyage to the South-Seas in the Years 1740-1PublisherJacob RobinsonDate Published1743 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #43 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries with 85 superb copperplatesPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #46 Memoires d'Outre-Tombe AuthorChateaubriand, François-RenéHeadlineChateaubriand from beyond the grave, 1848-1850PublisherB.Behr & F.A. Brockhaus, et al.Date Published1848-1850 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #47 Encyclopédie des échecs ou résumé comparatif en tableaux synoptiques des meilleurs ouvrages écrits sur ce jeu par les auteurs français et étrangers, tant anciens que modernes, mis à l'usage de toutes les nations par le langage universel des chiffres. Heading(Chess)AuthorAlexandre, AronHeadline1st book of chess openings 1837PublisherChez d'Urtubie , Worms et CieDate Published1837 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #48 Good Companion (Bonus Socius): Xiiith Century Manuscript Collection of Chess Problems Heading(Chess)AuthorMagee, James F. Jr., editorHeadlineFacsimile of 13th century chess manuscriptPublisherTipografia GiuntinaDate Published1910 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #50 An Address by Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Delivered Before Members of the Congress of the United States - 19 May, 1943 AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's Address before Congress May 1943PublisherOverbrook PressDate Published1943 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #51 Arms and the Covenant AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineInscribed by Winston S. ChurchillPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.Date Published1938 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #52 The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill - The Centenary Limited Edition - Volume XIX - The War Speeches, Volume One May 1938-June 1941 AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineVol. XIX of Centenary collection of ChurchillPublisherLibrary of Imperial HistoryDate Published[1975] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #53 The Great War AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's Great War 1st Illustrated EditionPublisherGeorge Newnes LimitedDate Published[1933-34] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #54 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineComplete set handsomely bound by BayntunPublisherCassell and CompanyDate Published[1956-1958] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #55 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineNicely bound by BayntunPublisherCassell and CompanyDate Published[1956-1957] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #56 Ian Hamilton's March AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineThe companion to 'London to Ladysmith'PublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #57 London to Ladysmith, via Pretoria AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineLondon to Ladysmith, via Pretoria 1st EditionPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #58 Lord Randolph Churchill AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston S. Churchill's bio of Lord RandolphPublisherMacmillan and Co. LimitedDate Published1906 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #59 My African Journey AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's travels in Africa, w/ signaturePublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1908 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #60 My Early Life, A Roving Commission AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill My Early LifePublisherThornton Butterworth LimitedDate Published[1930] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #61 The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's The River War, 1899, 1st printingPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1899 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #63 The Second World War and an Epilogue on the Years 1945 to 1957 AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineNicely bound edition of The Second World WarPublisherCassell & Company, LimitedDate Published[1959] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #64 Step By Step, 1936-1939 AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston S. Churchill Step by StepPublisherThornton Butterworth Ltd.Date Published[1939] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #65 The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill's 1st book, 1st editionPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1898 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #66 Thoughts and Adventures AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill Thoughts and AdventuresPublisherThornton Butterworth LimitedDate Published[1932] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #67 The World Crisis AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineThe World Crisis, 6th Duke of Portland's copyPublisherThornton Butterworth LimitedDate Published[1923-1931] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #68 M. Tullii Ciceronis Sententiae Insigniores, et Pia Apophthegmata... [and] Isocratis Atheniensis Oratoris & Philosophi clarisimi... AuthorCicero, Marcus Tullius, Isocrates, et alHeadlineClassical aphorisms 1565PublisherApud Nicolaum BeuilacquamDate Published1565 [and] 1569 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #85 The History Of The Great Plague In London, In The Year 1665, Containing Observations And Memorials Of The Most Remarkable Occurrences, Both Public And Private, That Happened During That Dreadful period. By A Citizen Who Lived The Whole Time In London AuthorDefoe, DanielHeadlineDefoe's history of the London PlaguePublisherPrinted By H. TeapeDate Published1819 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #90 The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineHandsomely bound edition of David CopperfieldPublisherW.F. BurgessDate Published1850 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #98 Lathams Falconry: Or The Faulcon's Lure and Cure: in Two Books Heading(Falconry)AuthorLatham, SymonHeadlineSigned by S. Kent Carnie at prefacePublisher[The Bate and Slice Society]Date Published[1957] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #99 Römische Studien AuthorFernow, Carl LudwigHeadlineGerman archaeologist studies Rome, 1806-08PublisherBei H. GessnerDate Published1806-1808 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #102 The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler - With two fore-edge paintings Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorButler, SamuelHeadlineButler's works with Fore Edge PaintingsPublisherPickeringDate Published1835 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #103 La Constitution Française, décrétée par l'Assemblée Nationale constituante, aux année 1789, 1790, 1791 Heading(France)AuthorAssemblée NationaleHeadlineFrench Constitution of 1791Publisherchez GarneryDate Published1791 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #104 Illustrierte Sittengeschichte von Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart AuthorFuchs, E.HeadlineIllustrated Moral History from the Middle AgesPublisherAlbert LangenDate Published[c.1909] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #106 The fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of Wm. Weare, and the trial and fate of John Thurtell, the murderer and his accomplices...To which is added, The gambler's scourge: a complete exposé of the whole system of gambling in the metropolis, with memoirs and anecdotes of notorious blacklegs Heading(Gambling & Murder)HeadlineA "true crime" narrative of a rogue's progressPublisherThomas KellyDate Published1824 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #110 L'Histoire du Costume Feminin Francais de l'an 1037 a l'an 1870 AuthorGiafferri, Paul Louis deHeadlineWith numerous Pochoir plates of French fashionPublisherEditions NilssonDate Published[1922-23] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #114 Armorial du Bibliophile Avec Illustrations Dans le Texte AuthorGuigard, JoannisHeadlineIllustrated with numerous Armorial bookplatesPublisherLibrairie Bachelin-DeflorenneDate Published1870-1873 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #116 The Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing a More Accurate and Interesting Account of the Religion, Government, Military Establishment, Manners, Customs, and Amusements, of the Turks... AuthorHabesci, EliasHeadlineWith accounts of plague in the Ottoman EmpirePublisherPrinted for R. BaldwinDate Published[1784] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #121 The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Written by Himself AuthorHerbert, Edward, Lord of CherburyHeadlineLord Herbert of Cherbury 1770PublisherPrinted for J. DodsleyDate Published1770 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #128 The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688 AuthorHume, DavidHeadlineHume's History of England, 1779PublisherT. CadellDate Published1789 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #135 The Invasion of the Crimea: its Origin and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan AuthorKinglake, Alexander WilliamHeadlineKinglake's Invasion of CrimeaPublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1863-1887 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #150 The Magazine of Art - 1890-1904 Heading(The Magazine of Art)HeadlineThe Magazine of Art, 15 years in 16 volumesPublisherCassell & Company, LimitedDate Published1890-1904 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #156 Illustrations of the Bible AuthorMartin, JohnHeadlineMartin's mezzotint illustrations for the BiblePublisherCharles TiltDate Published1838 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #164 The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet AuthorMonstrelet, Enguerrand deHeadlineThe Chronicles of Engeurrand de MonstreletPublisherHafod PressDate Published1809 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #166 Crime Against Children: An Aspect of Sexual Criminology AuthorMorland, NigelHeadlineCrime Against Children 1939 scarcePublisherCassell & CompanyDate Published[1939] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #171 Selections from Mr. Nicholson's Journal: A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineUnique selecrtion of works by William NicholsonDate Publishedc. 1806 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #188 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History with rare variant title pagePublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1635-1634 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #189 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romains, Compared together by that grave learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea: Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot... and out of French into English, By Sir Thomas North Knight AuthorPlutarchHeadlineThe first complete version of Plutarch in EnglishPublisherPrinted by George Miller...sold by Robert AllottDate Published1631 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #195 Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineGulliver's Travels illus. by Arthur RackhamPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.; E.P. Dutton & Co.Date Published1909 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #196 The Century Edition Deluxe of Raemaekers' War Cartoons AuthorRaemaeker, LouisHeadlineWar Cartoons of Louis RaemaekerPublisherCentury Co.Date Published1917 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #201 Mycenæ; A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns AuthorSchliemann, HenryHeadlineSchliemann in Mycenae, first editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1878 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #202 Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns. The Results of the Latest Excavations AuthorSchliemann, HenryHeadlineScliemann at Tiryns, first American editionPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1885 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #205 [Morte d’Arthur, i.e.:] The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur Notwythstondng It Treateth of the Byrth Lyf and Actes of the Sayd Kynge Arthur: of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table... Heading(Shakespeare Head Press)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineFine press edition of Malory, Shakespeare HeadPublisherShakespeare Head PressDate Published1933 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #209 Antiquities of Westminster: The Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (Now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing 246 Engravings of Topographical Objects, of Which 122 No Longer Remain. AuthorSmith, John ThomasHeadline1st lithograph used to illustrate a book 1807PublisherPrinted By T. Bensley, for J. T. SmithDate Published1807 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #217 History of Philosophy: Containing the Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of every Sect. Illustrated with the Effigies of divers of Them AuthorStanley, ThomasHeadlineStanley's History of Philosophy, 1687PublisherPrinted for Thomas Bassett, et al.Date Published1687 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #219 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineGulliver's Travels Woodcuts by GrandvillePublisherHayward and MooreDate Published[c. 1840] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #222 The History of the French Revolution AuthorThiers, M.A.HeadlineA History of the French Revolution in Five VolumesPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #223 The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls citezeine and goldesmyth of London AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFirst edition in English of Thucydides, 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next