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To the King AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon's Twoo Bookes 1605Publisherprinted [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie TomesDate Published1605 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #10 The History and Art of Horsemanship AuthorBerenger, RichardHeadlineBerenger's History and Art of Horsemanship 1771PublisherT. Davies and T. CadellDate Published1771 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #12 The Bible, That Is, The Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament [Geneva Version] Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1610 Geneva BiblePublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1610 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #14 La Sainte Bible, Qui Contient le Vieux et le Nouveau Testament Heading(Bible in French)Author**HeadlineBible in French 1744PublisherAbraham BoyveDate Published1744 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #17 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries 1753 folio editionPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #21 The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language. And Adorned with several Copper Plates AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John NewtonDate Published1687 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #22 A Perfect Narrative of the Whole Proceedings of the High Court of Justice in the Tryal of the King in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20, and Monday the 22 of this Instant January. [with] A Continuation of the Narrative Being the Third and Fourth Days Proceedings [with] A Continuation of the Narrative Being the Last and Final Dayes Proceedings... Heading(Charles I of England)Author**HeadlineTrial of Charles I of England Contemporary AccounPublisherJohn PlayfordDate PublishedJanuary 23, 25, & 29, 1648 [i.e. 1649] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #23 Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son... AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofHeadlineChesterfields Letters to His Son 1st EditionPublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #24 Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts; les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: Par les Missionaires de Pekin Heading(China)AuthorAmiot, Jean Joseph Marie, et al.HeadlineMemoires Chinois 15 vols. 1776-91PublisherNyonDate Published1776-1791 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #25 Journal du voyage de Siam fait en 1685. & 1686. AuthorChoisy, Abbé deHeadlineChoisy's Voyage de Siam 1687PublisherSebastien Mabre-CramoisyDate Published1687 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #41 Savrola AuthorChurchill, WinstonHeadlineWinston Churchill Savrola Signed!PublisherHodder and StoughtonDate Publishedno date View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #42 Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania AuthorChurchill, Winston SpencerHeadlineWinston Churchill Savrola First English EditionPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #58 Wordsworth: An Anthology Heading(Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James)AuthorWordsworth, WilliamHeadlineCobden-Sanderson's copy of WordsworthPublisherRichard Cobden-SandersonDate Published1920 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #60 Series Chronologica Iconum Rom. Pontificum AuthorCoppa, StephanoHeadlinePopes' portraits, engr. 1783 Stephano CoppaPublisherCoppaDate Published1783 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #64 L'Histoire Naturelle Éclairclie dans une de ses Parties Principales la Conchyliologie, Qui Traite des Coquillages de Mer, de Riviere et de Terre... Author[Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine Joseph]HeadlineRare work on Sea ShellsPublisherDe BureDate Published1757 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #66 A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet: containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries AuthorDu Halde, Jean-BaptisteHeadlineDu Halde's Description of China w/ maps & platesPublisherPrinted by T. Gardner...for Edward CaveDate Published1738-1741 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold Lot #67 Euclid’s elements of geometry, from the Latin translation of Commandine. To which is added, a treatise on the nature and arithmetic of logarithms... By Doctor John Keil... AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements in English 1749PublisherPrinted for T. Woodward; and sold by J. OsbornDate Published1749 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #72 Reynard the Fox, A Poem in Twelve Cantos Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorHolloway, E.W., translatorHeadlineReynard the Fox Finely Bound by Kelly & SonsPublisherA.H. Payne / W. FrenchDate Published[1852] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #73 Stat Nominis Umbra [Letters of Junius] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorJunius [pseud.]HeadlineLetters of Junius Finely BoundPublisherT. BensleyDate Published1796 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #75 The Works Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorThackeray, William MakepeaceHeadlineThackeray's Works 13 Finely Bound VolumesPublisherSmith, Elder, & Co.Date Published1905-11 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #82 Ballads and Lays Illustrative of Events in the Early English History Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorMant, F.W.HeadlineWith a fore edge painting of the Tower of LondonPublisherBell and DaldyDate Published1857 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #83 The Pilgrim of Beauty; The Cottager's Sabbath; and Other Poems, Now First Collected Heading(Fore Edge Painting)AuthorMullen, SamuelHeadlineMullen's Poems - Fore Edge PaintingPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1845 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #95 Of the Law of Warre and Peace. With Annotations. III Parts. And Memorials of the Author's Life and Death. AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineHugo Grotius Law of Warre & Peace 1654 EnglishPublisherWilliam LeeDate Published1654 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #100 Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineElzevir edition of William Harvey 1651PublisherElzevirDate Published1651 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #104 The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books AuthorHughes, GriffithHeadlineHughes' Natural History of Barbados 1750PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1750 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #106 Single leaf from the 1462 Bible printed by Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer Heading(Incunabula - Bible Leaf)Author**HeadlineSingle leaf from 1462 BiblePublisherJohann Fust & Peter SchoefferDate Published1462 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #107 Printed Leaf from The Lives of the Fathers, 1495 Heading(Incunabula Leaf - Wynkyn de Worde)AuthorSt. JeromeHeadlineIncunabula leaf printed by Wynkyn de WordePublisherWynkyn de WordeDate Published[before 21 Aug, 1495] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #109 The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineWorks of Josephus Baltimore 1795PublisherPechin and Co.Date Published1795 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #110 The Works of Flavius Josephus: Translated into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knight... AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineLarge Paper Copy of L'Estrange's Josephus 1702PublisherPrinted for Richard SareDate Published1702 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 Dubliners AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJames Joyce, Dubliners 1914 1st Edition, 1 of 746PublisherGrant Richards Ltd.Date Published[1914] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #112 Ulysses AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJoyce's Ulysses in orig wrappers 5th printingPublisherShakespeare and CompanyDate Published1924 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #113 Moby Dick or the Whale Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMoby Dick with Illustrations by Rockwell KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #114 China Monumentis qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturæ & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata.... AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher's China Monumentis 1667 maps & platesPublisherApud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge & Elizeum WeyerstraetDate Published1667 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #115 The Hunter. A Discourse of Horsemanship: Directing the right way to breed, keep, and train a Horse, for ordinary Hunting and Plates Author[Langbaine, Gerard]HeadlineGerarf Langbaine The Hunter 1685PublisherL. LichfieldDate Published1685 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #116 Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical. Made in a late journey through the empire of China, and published in several letters... AuthorLe Comte, LouisHeadlineLe Comte's Memoirs of China 1699PublisherPrinted for Benjamin TookeDate Published1699 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #118 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #126 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost folio 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #128 Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages in Two Embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Vice-Roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi, and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East Tartary… AuthorMontanus, ArnoldusHeadlineMontanus' Atlas Chinensis w/ maps & plates 1671PublisherPrinted by Tho. Johnson for the AuthorDate Published1671 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #129 The Common-Wealth of Utopia: Containing a Learned and pleasant Discourse of the best state of a Publike Weale, as it is found in the Government of the new Ile called Utopia AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineThomas More's Utopia 1639PublisherPrinted by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, and are to be sold by Wil. ShearesDate Published1639 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #130 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 b 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. A work of this nature never yet extant. By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #132 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English, Vol. I, 1729PublisherPrinted for Benjamin MotteDate Published1729 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #133 The history of the conquest of China by the Tartars· Together with an account of several remarkable things, concerning the religion, manners, and customes of both nations, but especially of the latter. First writ in Spanish, by Señór Palafox Bishop of Osma, and Vice-Roy of Mexico. And now rendred English AuthorPalafox y Mendoza, Juan deHeadlinePalafox Conquest of China by Tartars 1671PublisherPrinted by W. Godbid, and sold by M. PittDate Published1671 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #134 Traitez de l'Equilibre des Liqueurs, et de la Pesanteur de la Masse de l'Air AuthorPascal, [Blaise]HeadlineFirst Edition of Pascal's Law 1663PublisherGuillaume DeprezDate Published1663 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #137 Ioannis Revchlin Phorcensis LL. Doc. De Arte Cabalistica libri tres Leoni X. dicati. AuthorReuchlin, JohannesHeadlineReuchlin on Cabalistic Arts 1517PublisherApud Thomam AnshelmumDate Published1517 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #143 WITHDRAWN Three volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etc. with woodcut illustrations Heading(Samurai)Author**HeadlineThree volume work on Samurai armor, swords, etcDate Published18th Century(?) View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #145 The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. VVherein all the particular provinces are accurately described: as also the dispositions, manners, learning, lawes, militia, government, and religion of the people. Together with the traffick and commodities of that countrey AuthorSemedo, AlvaroHeadlineSemedo's History of China 1655 with mapPublisherPrinted by E. Tyler for Iohn CrookDate Published1655 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #146 Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSecond Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Works 1632PublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot... at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yardDate Published1632 View details Estimate$200,000 - $300,000StatusUnsold Lot #147 The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham AuthorShakespeare, William (attrib.)HeadlineShakespeare's John Oldcastle 1734PublisherJ. TonsonDate Published1734 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #148 Business card for Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop Heading(Shakespeare and Company)Author**HeadlineShakesepeare & Co. business card c. 1925Date Published[c.1925] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #150 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations Basil 1791PublisherPrinted for J.J. Tourneisen and J.L. Legrand,Date Published1791 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #152 Voyage aux Indes Orientales et la Chine. Fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. Dans lequel on traite des moeurs de la religion, des sciences & des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins & des Madégasses; suivi d'observations sur le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les isles de France & de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines & les Moluques, & de recherches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays AuthorSonnerat, [Pierre]HeadlineSonnerat's Voyage to India & China w/2 maps 1782PublisherChez l'Auteur, Froule, Nyon, BarroisDate Published1782 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #153 An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [+ 2 others] AuthorStaunton, George LeonardHeadlineStaunton's Embassy to ChinaPublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer for G. NicolDate Published1797 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #154 Narrative of a five years expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the History of that Country, and describing its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, & Roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. AuthorStedman, J[ohn] G[abriel]HeadlineStedman's Revolted Negroes of Surinam 1796PublisherJ. Johnson & J. EdwardsDate Published1796 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #155 [Brobdingnag and New Albion] Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineMap of Brobdingnag and New Albion 1731Date Published[1731?] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #156 Comedie di Terentio nuovamente di Latino in volgare tradotte Author[Terence, Publius Terentius Afer]HeadlineRare 1544 Edition of the Comedies of TerencePublisher[Giovan' Padoano]Date Published1544 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #157 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... AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucyides Pelopenessian War 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #158 Regni Chinensis descriptio. Ex Variis Authoribus AuthorTrigault, NicolasHeadlineTrigault's China from Elzivir Press 1639PublisherOfficina ElzevirianaDate Published1639 & 1631 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #159 Catalogue des Substances Végétales qui Peuvent Servir à la Nourriture de l'Homme., & qui se Trouvent dans les Departemens de l'Isere, la Drome & les Hautes-Alpes AuthorVillar[s], [Dominique]HeadlineCatalogue des Substances Végétales 1793PublisherAlexander GiroudDate Published[1793] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #162 The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats AuthorYeats, W[illiam] B[utler]HeadlineVariorum Edition of the Poems of Yeats signedPublisherMacmillanDate Published1957 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next