Sale 694: Rare Books & Manuscripts at the Pasadena Book Fair (#694) 02/06/2020 10:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/06/2020 10:00 AM PST Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-24 of 24. Previous|1|Next Lot #21 La Science des Negocians et Teneurs de Livres AuthorDe la Porte, M.Headline18th c. French handbook for men of businessPublisherChez Jean de NullyDate Published1748 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #63 Asconii Pediani explanatio in Ciceronis orationes in C. Verrem, in orat. pro C. Cornelio, in orat. contra competitores, in orat. pro M. Scauro, in orat. contra L. Pisonem, in orat. pro Milone Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorAsconius Pedianus, QuintusHeadlineQuintus Asconius Pedianus from Aldine PressPublisherPaulus ManutiusDate Published1563 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #64 Ciceronis De oratore libri III. Orator. De claris oratoribus Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorCiceroHeadlineAldine edition of Cicero, 1559PublisherPaulus ManutiusDate Published1559 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #68 Manuscript book of horoscopes with charts of over 200 European personages of note, including Galileo Heading(Astrology)HeadlineRare manuscript book of horoscopes, 17th centuryDate Published17th century View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandment Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineQuarto edition of King James Bible 1613 with mapPublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #73 [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement. Appointed to be read in Churches] Heading(Bible in English)Headline"She" Bible issue of King James Bible, 1613-1611Publisher[Robert Barker]Date Published[1613-1611] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #92 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$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #101 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Origin of Species, 2nd editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1860 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #103 Letter from Moritz Schlick to Albert Einstein, addressing topics relating to modern physics Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorSchlick, MoritzHeadlineLetter to Einstein from Moritz Schlick about physicsDate PublishedJune 9, 1920 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #104 Autograph note signed by Albert Einstein, with an envelope addressed by him and a birthday poem written for him AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein note as he turns 75Date Published1954 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 [Elements, i.e.] The English Euclide, being the First Six Elements of Geometry, Translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and useful Supplements, by Edmund Scarburgh, M.A. AuthorEuclidHeadlineHandsomely printed Euclid's Elements, 1705PublisherPrinted at the TheaterDate Published1705 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #113 Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character...as told to Ralph Leighton AuthorFeynman, Richard PhillipsHeadlineSigned by Nobel Prize winner Richard P. FeynmanPublisherW.W. NortonDate Published[1985] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #115 Letter from Sigmund Freud to a colleague about a prospective female patient, stating she is not a good candidate for psychoanalysis AuthorFreud, SigmundHeadlineLetter from Sigmund Freud with reference to Carl JungDate PublishedJune 8, 1910 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #117 Nine Chains to the Moon AuthorFuller, R. BuckminsterHeadlineInscribed copy of Buckminster Fuller's 1st bookPublisherJ.B. Lippincott CompanyDate Published[1938] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #120 Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical AuthorGray, HenryHeadlineGray's Anatomy, 1st American EditionPublisherBlanchard and LeaDate Published1859 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #127 Archive of 37 incunabula leaves from different 15th century books Heading(Incunabula)HeadlineArchive of 37 incunable leaves, 1470-1500Date Published1470-1500 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #128 Isocratis Orationes omnes, quae quidem ad Nostram Aetatem Pervenervunt, Vna Et Viginti Nvmero, Vna Cvm Novem eiusdem Epistolis, e Graeco in Latinum conuersae, per Hieronymvm VVolfivm Oetingsem... AuthorIsocratesHeadlineWolf's translation of Isocrates, 1548PublisherPer Ioannem Oporinum.Date Published1548 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #142 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, 1634 2nd edition in EnglishPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #144 Absconditorum a constitutione mundi clavis, qua mens humana tam in divinis quam in humanis pertinget ad interiora velminis aeternae veritatis AuthorPostel, GuillaumeHeadlinePostel's Absconditorum, 1547 first editionPublisher[apud Joann. Oporinum]Date Published[1547] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$2,437.50StatusSold Lot #154 The Comedie of Errors AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Comedie of Errors 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #155 Measure for Measure AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Measure for Measure 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #157 The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman AuthorSterne, LaurenceHeadlineTrustam Shandy with Laurence Stern's signatures, 1760-1767PublisherR. & J. Dodsley/ T. Becket & P.A. DehontDate Published1760-1767 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #159 Letter from Nikola Tesla to William T. Schley about a photograph to be taken of an "apparatus" AuthorTesla, NikolaHeadlineLetter from Nikola TeslaDate PublishedMay 20, 1896 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #167 Envelope hand-addressed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, to Moritz Schlick AuthorWittgenstein, LudwigHeadlineWittgenstein writes to Moritz Schlick in BerkeleyDate Published1931 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next