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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Letter "leasing" slaves of Daniel Boone's Revolutionary War friend and Indian battle companion Heading(African-American, 1817 – Tennessee slaves, Daniel Boone)AuthorPleasant HendersonHeadlineLetter "leasing" slaves of Daniel Boone's Revolutionary War friend and Indian battle companionDate PublishedDec. 27, 1817 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$471StatusSold Lot #3 Ten vellum antiphonal leaves (i.e. five bifolia) with two inhabited initials and an elaborate title leaf Heading(Antiphonal Leaves)HeadlineLarge vellum antiphonal leavesDate Published1740 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$558.75StatusSold Lot #25 Letter from Miguel Costanzo to the Viceroy of New Spain, requesting arms for the cavalry corps of the northern provinces, plus a manuscript payment voucher for Costanzo AuthorCostanzo, MiguelHeadlineLetter from Miguel Costanzo to Viceroy of New SpainDate Published1810 & 1794 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #28 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCharles Darwin The Descent of Man 1st EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,268StatusSold Lot #34 Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorFreundlich, ErwinHeadlineEinstein's Theory of Relativity analyzed, 1916PublisherVerlag von Julius SpringerDate Published1916 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$588StatusSold Lot #35 Original Associated Press photograph of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa standing next to a flower-covered float at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlinePhoto of Einstein at Rose Bowl ParadeDate Publishedc.1932 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$201.90StatusSold Lot #36 Two original press photographs of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa relaxing at the El Mirador resort in Palm Springs Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlinePhotos of Albert & Elsa Einstein at California Mission 1932Date Publishedc.1932 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$295.50StatusSold Lot #37 Letter from Albert Einstein expressing regret that he did not have time to contribute to a journal AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineAlbert Einstein letter signed 1927Date Published1 Sept. 1927 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,226StatusSold Lot #38 Letter from Albert Einstein to physicist, astronomer, and author Kenneth Heuer regarding distribution of heavy metals on the surface of Earth AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein commentson distribution of heavy metalsDate PublishedOctober 20, 1952 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$6,763StatusSold Lot #39 Small group of original signed letters from Albert Einstein to author Max Fishler, an important correspondence about Immanuel Kant and Relativity AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein letters about Kant and RelativityDate Published1949-1954 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$55,243StatusSold Lot #40 Three early papers on special relativity by Albert Einstein in Annalen der Physik, Band 23 AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein paper establishing E=mc2PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1907 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Sold for$705StatusSold Lot #42 Euclidis elementorum libri XV. Unà cum scholijs antiquis à Federico Commandino Vrbinate nuper in Latinum conuersi, commentarijsque quibusdam illustrati AuthorEuclidHeadlineEarly & desirable edition of Euclid's Elements 1572PublisherJakob Criegher [for Camillo Franceschini]Date Published1572 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #43 Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed. With the drawing of the twelue signes, and houres unequall in them all... Of speciall vse and delight, not only for students of the arts mathematicall, but also for diuers artificers, architects, surueyours of buildings, free-Masons and others AuthorFale, ThomasHeadlineEarly horological work 1627PublisherImprinted by Felix KyngstonDate Published1627 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$705StatusSold Lot #47 Über den Baue der Nervenfasern und Nervenzellen beim Flusskrebs AuthorFreud, SigismundHeadlineEarly anatomical paper by Freud 1882PublisherK.K. Hof... in Commission bei Carl Gerold's SohnDate Published1882 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #50 Structure of Synthetic Polypeptides: I. The Transform of Atoms on a Helix Heading(Genetics)AuthorCrick, F[rancis] H.C.; W. Cochran; & V. VandHeadlineRare authors' offprint on DNAPublisherFr. Bagges Kgl. HofbogtrykkeriDate Published1952 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500.25StatusSold Lot #51 Three early 20th century offprints of genetics papers by R.R. Gates, presentation copies Heading(Genetics)AuthorGates, Reginald RugglesHeadlineGenetics offprints by R.R. GatesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #52 Three offprints of articles by Lawson Anstruther from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Heading(Genetics)AuthorLawson, A. AnstrutherHeadlineGenetics offprints by A.S. LawsonPublisherRobert Grant & SonDate Published1911-1912 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #53 Three monographs from the Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, London Heading(Genetics)HeadlineMonographs on EugenicsPublisherPublished by Dulau and Co.Date Published1907-1909 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #55 The Experienced Millwright; or, A Treatise on the Construction of Some of he Most Useful Machines, with the Latest Improvements. To Which is Prefixed, a Short Account of the General Principles of Mechanics, and the Mechanical Powers AuthorGray, AndrewHeadlineAndrew Gray's Experienced Millwright 1804 1st EditionPublisherArchibald Constable & Co.Date Published1804 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #56 Autograph Letter, signed, and a sheet of manuscript musical notations AuthorHalévy, FromentalHeadlineFromental Halevy Letter and Musical ManuscriptDate PublishedOctober, 1849 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #57 Letter by American woman missionary, Maui, on anti-slavery, "adulterous" natives, and naval threat of French Catholicism Heading(Hawaii, 1840)AuthorMary Kittredge Clark [Mrs. Ephraim Clark]Headline1840 Hawaii letter by American woman missionary - anti-slavery and French Catholic threatDate PublishedJuly 12, 1840 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$705StatusSold Lot #58 Letter by anti-missionary British-Hawaiian 49er who acquired Sacramento land from John Sutter and later befriended King Kamehameha Heading(Hawaii, California Gold Rush, 1849)AuthorGeorge S.[eymour] KenwayHeadline1849 Hawaii Letter by an anti-missionary British merchant who visited Gold Rush CaliforniaDate PublishedOct. 11, 1849 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$822StatusSold Lot #59 Encyclopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse - PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO PHILIP MARHEINEKE AuthorHegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichHeadlineVery rare Hegel presentation copyPublisherOßwaldDate Published1830 View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000StatusUnsold Lot #60 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 by 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... By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter Heading(Heraldry)AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #67 Institutionum Civilium libri quatuor - manuscript copy AuthorJustinianus I, EmperorHeadlineManuscript copy of the Institutiones of Justinian IDate Published(17th Century?) View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$646.50StatusSold Lot #72 Statutes of Venice - manuscript on vellum Heading(Law Manuscript - Venice, Italy, 1580)HeadlineRare manuscript statutes of Venice 1580Date Published1580 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #76 Manuscript notebook with 39 ink and watercolor drawings in illustration of 39 manuscript limericks AuthorLear, Edward, attrib.HeadlineManuscript Limericks & Drawings with Lear attbutionDate Published19th century View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #77 Personal accounting ledger, 1843-1844, of merchant captain and California pioneer William A. Leidesdorff AuthorLeidesdorff, William AlexanderHeadlineAccounting ledger of W.A. Leidesdorff 1843-44Date Published1843-1844 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #88 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineWritings of John Muir Manuscript Edition DeluxePublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,758StatusSold Lot #93 Ioannis Paduanii Veronensis De compositione, & usu multiformium horologiorum solarium ad omnes totius orbis regiones, ac situs in qualibet superficie... AuthorPadovani, GiovanniHeadlineSundials by Giovanni Padovani, 1582PublisherApud Franciscum Franciscium SenensemDate Published1582 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$588StatusSold Lot #97 Archive of 26 manuscript letters signed by King Philip IV of Spain, to Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste, his Viceroy in New Spain, written from February 1651 to February 1653 AuthorPhilip IV, King of SpainHeadlinePhilip IV writes his Viceroy in New Spain 1651-1653Date Published1651-1653 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000StatusUnsold Lot #102 The Six Books of Proclus the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Translated from the Greek; To Which a Seventh Book Is Added, in Order to Supply the Deficiency of Another Book on the Subject, also, a Translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of Theology.... Heading(Philosophy - Neoplatonism)AuthorProclusHeadlineThomas Taylor translation of Proclus 1816PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1816 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$588StatusSold Lot #117 Horometria: or The compleat diallist. Wherein the whole mystery of the art of dialling is plainly taught three several wayes; two of which are performed geometrically by rule and compass onely: and the third instrumentally, by a quadrant fitted for that purpose. With the working of such propositions of the sphere, as are most usefull in astronomy and navigation, both geometrically and instrumentally... AuthorStirrup, ThomasHeadlineThomas Stirrup's Compleat Diallist 1659PublisherPrinted by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas PierrepontDate Published1659 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$588StatusSold Lot #124 Dialogo del molto rever.do P. Don Gio. Battista Vimercato... De gli horologi solari: nel quale con ragioni speculative, et prattiche facilmente s'insegna il modo da fabricar tutte le sorti di horologi AuthorVimercato, Giovanni BattistaHeadlineRare work on sun dials 1566PublisherAppresso Gabriel Giolito de'FerrariDate Published1566 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #126 Opere di Galileo Galilei nobile fiorentino - signed by Allesandro Volta Heading(Volta, Allesandro)AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineVolta's copy of GalileoPublisherDalla Società tipografica de' classici italiani contrada del CappuccioDate Published1811 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #221 Solitude Considered, In Regard to its Influence upon the Mind and Heart AuthorZimmermann, MHeadlineSolitude Considered, In Regard to its Influence upon the Mind and HeartPublisherJohn Fairbairn and Archibald ConstableDate Published1797 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next