Sale 715: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#715) 11/19/2020 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 11/19/2020 11:00 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 1-52 of 52. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 A Lexicon of Alchemy or Alchemical Dictionary... Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorRuland, Martin, the ElderHeadlineDictionary of AlchemyPublisherJohn M. WatkinsDate Published[1964] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$500.25StatusSold Lot #3 Seven works on Alchemy and Hermetics, in French, bound together Heading(Alchemy & Occult)HeadlineFrench alchemy & hermeticsDate PublishedLate 19th/early 20th century View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #12 A General History of Birds and Quadrupeds AuthorBewick, ThomasHeadlineBewick's General History of Birds and Quadrupeds 1824PublisherRobert DesilverDate Published1824 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$324.75StatusSold Lot #13 Two leaves from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible of Alcala Heading(Bible - Complutensian)HeadlineLeaves from Complutensian Polyglot Bible 1514-17PublisherArnald Guillen de BrocarDate Published1514-1517 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #14 The books called Apocrypha, conteining these that follow... Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineApocrypha from largest black letter English Bible 1583Publisher[Christopher Barker]Date Published[1583 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #15 Ecclesiastes & Song of Songs - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineSong of Songs & Ecclesiastes from Great Bible of 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #16 A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes & "The Printing of the King James Bible" by Louis I. Newman Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineLeaf from the 1611 King James BiblePublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1937 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$324.75StatusSold Lot #17 A leaf from the King James Bible, the great "She" Bible of 1613-1611 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineLeaf from 1613 King James BiblePublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #19 "The Reuelation of S. John the Diuine" - from a 1621 quarto Bible Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineRevelation of St. John, 1621 printingPublisherBonham Norton and John BillDate Published1621 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #20 De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum. Prælectiones Academicæ Osonii Habitæ... Heading(Biblical)AuthorLowth, RobertHeadlineLowth on Hebrew Poetry 1753PublisherPublisher: E Typographeo ClarendonianoDate Published1753 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #21 Anatomia Humani Corporis AuthorBidloo, GodefridiHeadlineBidloo's Anatomy 1685 105 platesPublisherJoannis a Someren, et alDate Published1685 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,323StatusSold Lot #23 Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, Delivered in the University of Edinburgh by the Late Joseph Black, M.D. AuthorBlack, JosephHeadlineJoseph Black Lectures on the Elements of ChemistryPublisherMathew CareyDate Published1806-7 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$471StatusSold Lot #28 The Bible of the Anaesthetist AuthorBullard, F.W.HeadlineTongue-in-cheek essay by Anaesthetist, 1903Date Published[ca. 1903] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Lot #36 Vita di Benvenuto Cellini. Orefice e scultore fiorentino, da lui medesimo scritta... AuthorCellini, BenvenutoHeadlineBenvenuto Cellini's autobiography, 1792PublisherPer Pietro MarteloDate Published[1792] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$295.50StatusSold Lot #66 Origine de tous les Cultes ou Religion Universelle AuthorDupuis, Charles FrançoisHeadlineDupuis on Universal Religion, 1795PublisherChez H. AgasseDate PublishedL'an III [1795] View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #67 Original leaf from the Polycronicon, printed by William Caxton in 1482 at Westminster Heading(Early Printing - William Caxton)AuthorHigden, RanulfHeadlineLeaf printed by William Caxton 1482Date Published[1482] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,407StatusSold Lot #68 Archive of nineteen original leaves from fifteen 17th century English printed books Heading(Early Printing)Headline17th century printed leaves from EnglandDate Published17th century View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$558.75StatusSold Lot #69 Archive of twelve examples of 16th century printing from continental Europe Heading(Early Printing)Headline16th century printing from continental EuropeDate Publishedvarious dates View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$237StatusSold Lot #70 Facsimile printings of the Gutenberg Bible and the Nuremberg Chronicle Heading(Early Printing)HeadlineGutenberg Bible & Nuremberg Chronicle facsimilesDate Published1968 & 1979 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$178.50StatusSold Lot #71 Leaves from the first and second editions of Holinshed's Chronicles Heading(Early Printing)AuthorHolinshed, RaphaelHeadlineLeaves from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577 & 1587Date Published1577 & 1587 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #72 Original leaves from Johnson's Dictionary and Gibbon's Roman Empire Heading(Early Printing)HeadlineOriginal leaves from Johnson & GibbonDate Published1755 & 1788 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #73 Six original leaves of 16th century English printing Heading(Early Printing)Headline16th century English printed leavesDate Published16th century View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #76 Thesaurus Eruditionis Scholasticae: sive Supellex instructissima Dicionum, Verborum, Phrasium, Adagiorum, Sententiarum, Exemplorum, Rerumq... AuthorFaber, BasilHeadlineFaber's massive lexiconPublisherSumptibus Johannis FritzschiiDate Published1680 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #77 Author's offprint from Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity, from the Philosophical Transactions, inscribed by Michael Faraday AuthorFaraday, MichaelHeadlinePresentation copy of Michael Faraday offprint 1833PublisherPrinted by Richard TaylorDate Published1833 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,718StatusSold Lot #85 Nueva teorica y practica del beneficio de los metales de oro y plata por fundicion y amalgamacion AuthorGarces y Eguia, JosephHeadlineSpanish colonial mining 1802PublisherMariano de Zuniga y OntiverosDate Published1802 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$412.50StatusSold Lot #89 The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century Heading(Greek Printing)AuthorProctor, RobertHeadlineProctor's 15th Century Greek TypePublisherPrinted for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University PressDate Published1900 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #96 Hogarth Moralized. Being a complete edition of Hogarth’s works. Containing near fourscore copper-plates, most elegantly engraved. With an explanation, pointing out the many beauties that may have hitherto escaped notice; and a comment on their moral tendency... Now First Published, With the Approbation of Jane Hogarth, Widow of the late Mr. Hogarth Heading(Hogarth, William)Author[Trusler, John]HeadlineHogarth Moralized, 1st edition, 1768PublisherSold by S. Hooper... and, Mrs. HogarthDate Published1768 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$500.25StatusSold Lot #99 His Iliads Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby AuthorHomerHeadlineOgilby's trans. of Homer's Iliad with 50 platesPublisherThomas RoycroftDate Published1660 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,323StatusSold Lot #108 The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior... AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineGenuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus 1792PublisherC. CookeDate Published[1792] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$237StatusSold Lot #109 The Works of Flavius Josephus AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineThe Works of Flavius Josephus 1777PublisherFielding and WalkerDate Published1777-8 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$190.20StatusSold Lot #110 The Works of Flavius Josephus AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineThe Works of Flavius Josephus 1777PublisherFielding and WalkerDate Published1777-8 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$266.25StatusSold Lot #111 Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, dezima musa, poetisa Americana, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, religiosa professa en el Convento de San Geronimo de la imperial ciudad de Mexico AuthorJuana Inés de la Cruz, SisterHeadlinePoems by Mexican philosopher-nun, 1714PublisherImprenta de Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, a costa de Francisco LasoDate Published1714 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,758StatusSold Lot #112 The Collected Works of C.G. Jung AuthorJung, Carl GustavHeadlineWorks of C.G. Jung 21 volumesPublisherPrinceton University PressDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,407StatusSold Lot #124 Oxonia illustrata, sive Omnium celeberrimæ istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecæ Bodleianæ, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis totius scenographia. Delineavit & sculpsit Dav: Loggan Univ. Oxon. Chalcographus AuthorLoggan, DavidHeadlineThe finest 17th century engraved views of OxfordPublisherTheatro SheldonianoDate Published1675 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,323StatusSold Lot #125 Διονυσιον Λογγινου Πέρι Υψουσ Υπομνημά. Dionysii Longini de Sublimitate Commentarius, Quem Nova Versione donavit, Notis illustravit, & partim Manuscriptorum ope, partim conjectura emendavit (additis etiam omnibus ejufdem Auctoris Fragmentis) AuthorLonginusHeadline1st c. Greek literary criticism translated into LatinPublisherJacobi Tonson & Johannis WattsDate Published1732 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #126 Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe AuthorLongusHeadlineLes Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe 1718Publisher[Cramoisy]Date Published1718 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$237StatusSold Lot #130 Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers Heading(Mathematics)AuthorCantor, GeorgHeadlineGeorg Cantor on transfinite numbersPublisherThe Open Court Publishing CompanyDate Published1915 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,718StatusSold Lot #131 The Latin translation of the Arabic Version of Euclid's Elements, commonly ascribed to Gerard of Cremona Heading(Mathematics)AuthorEuclidHeadlineLatin translation of Euclid's ElementsPublisherE. J. BrillDate Published1984 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #132 Introduction to Arithmetic Heading(Mathematics)AuthorNichomachus of Gerasa.HeadlineClassic of ancient Greek mathematicsPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1926 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$190.20StatusSold Lot #133 Early Editions of Euclid's Elements Heading(Mathematics)AuthorThomas-Stanford, CharlesHeadlineWith incunabula leaf from EuclidPublisherAlan Wofsy Fine ArtsDate Published1977 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$412.50StatusSold Lot #157 Introductiones latinae, cum commento AuthorNebrija, Antonio deHeadlineRare incunable Latin grammar from SpainPublisher[Typ. Nebrissensis]Date Published[30 septiembre, 1495] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$5,643StatusSold Lot #161 Common Sense; Addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects. I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English constitution. II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession. III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs. IV. Of the present ability of America; with some miscellaneous reflections... AuthorPaine, ThomasHeadlineEnglish edition of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 1776PublisherPhiladelphia, printed; London, re-printed, for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House in PiccadillyDate Published1776 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$7,323StatusSold Lot #165 "On a criterion which may serve to test various theories of inheritance." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume LXXIII AuthorPearson, KarlHeadlineVariability criterion between theories of inheritancePublisherHarrison and SonsDate Published1904 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #166 “Pictorial delineations by light: solar, lunar, stellar, and artificial, called Photogenic and the art Photography” Heading(Photography)HeadlineEarly American account of Photography, 1839PublisherSold by A.H. Maltby and B. & W. Noyes, et al.Date Published1839 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,618StatusSold Lot #168 Zeitschrift für Physik, Volumes 151-152 Heading(Physics)Author[Mossbauer, Rudolph Ludwig]HeadlineFirst appearance of the Mossbauer effectPublisherSpringer VerlagDate Published1958 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$120StatusSold Lot #169 Five articles by Max Planck in three volumes of Annalen der Physik, several relating to his early work on quanta Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineEarly articles by Max Planck on quantaPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900-1903 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$997.50StatusSold Lot #170 The Lives of the Nobel Grecians & Romans AuthorPlutarchHeadlineThe Lives of the Nobel Grecians & RomansPublisherJohn Hayes for George SawbridgeDate Published1676 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$529.50StatusSold Lot #191 Manual Bibliográfico de Cancioneros y Romanceros. Impresos Durante el Siglo XVI [with] Impresos Durante el Siglo XVII AuthorRodriguez-Monino, AntonioHeadlineBibliographic source for 16th and 17th c. Spanish language novelsPublisherCastaliaDate Published1973-1977 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #196 Ivlii Caesaris Scaligeri Exotericarum exercitationvm liber XV. De subtilitae, ad Hieronymvm Cardanvm sententias nobiliores: alter opulentissimus, pené omnia complectens AuthorScaligero, Giulio CesareHeadlineScaligero refutes the natural philosophies of CardanoPublisherApud haeredes Andr. WechelusDate Published1582 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$295.50StatusSold Lot #200 The Tragedy of Cymbeline - title leaf from the third folio edition of Shakespeare's Works AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTitle leaf to Shakespeare 3rd folio play, 1663Date Published1663 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$295.50StatusSold Lot #205 Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus, e Patribus Graecis Ordine Alphabetico exhibens: Quaecunque Phrases, Ritus, Dogmata, Haeareses, & hujusmodi alia spectant... AuthorSuicer, Johann CasparHeadlineSuicer's magnum opus of Greek ecclesiastical termsPublisherJohann Heinrich WettsteinDate Published1682 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$412.50StatusSold Lot #219 The Origin of Building, or, The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected [in five books] AuthorWood, JohnHeadlineAnalysis of ancient architecture by Stonehenge scholarPublisherPrinted by S. & F. FarleyDate Published1741 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next