Sale 723: PBA Platinum - Rare Books & Manuscripts (#723) 02/18/2021 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/18/2021 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 1-18 of 18. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon... Heading(Alchemy)AuthorAshmole, EliasHeadlineRare first edition of Ashmole's Alchemy, 1652PublisherPrinted by F. Grismond for N. BrookDate Published1652 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #7 Album of Thomas Bewick vignettes or 'tale-pieces', presented to Richard Arkwright Heading(Bewick, Thomas, illustrator)HeadlineThomas Bewick vignettes inscribed by the artistDate Published[1824] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #10 Histoire Naturelle, Agricole et Économique du Mäis AuthorBonafous, MatthieuHeadlineFolio monograph on maize with color plates 1836PublisherHazard / BoccaDate Published1836 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #26 "Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection". In: The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History AuthorDarwin, Charles and Alfred R. WallaceHeadlineSeminal papers by Charles Darwin & Alfred WallacePublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #32 La Visita del Profesor Alberto Einstein Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorCastineiras, Julius R.HeadlineAlbert Einstein visits Argentina, 1925PublisherImprenta y Casa Editora ConiDate Published1925 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #33 Untersuchungen über die theorie der 'Brownschen bewegung' AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's papers on Brownian motionPublisherAkademische verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h.Date Published1922 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #39 Les Fleurs Animées [bound with] Botanique des Dames [and] Culture des Fleurs: Horticulture des Dames Heading(Grandville, J.J.)AuthorDelord, TaxileHeadlineGrandville's Les Fleurs Animées 1847PublisherGabriel de GonetDate Published1847 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #45 Über den bau der atomkerne, I, II, III AuthorHeisenberg, WernerHeadlineHeisenberg's theory of atomic nuclear forcesPublisherVerlag von Julius SpringerDate Published1932-1933 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #46 The British Herbal: An history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty AuthorHill, JohnHeadlineHill's British Herbal with 75 plates 1756PublisherPrinted for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, et al.Date Published1756 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #51 Arithmologia sive, De abditis numerorum mysterijs qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditæ eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post Cabalistarum, Arabum, Gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera & licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher examines mystical numerology, 1665PublisherEx typographia VaresijDate Published1665 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #65 Mushrooms, Russia and History Heading(Mycology)AuthorWasson, Valentina Pavlovna & R. Gordon WassonHeadlineWassons' Mushrooms, Russia and History, 1957PublisherPantheon BooksDate Published[1957] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #67 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, Newton's System of the World; a short comment on, and defence of the Prisipia, by W. Emerson, with the laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English in the original boardsPublisherPrinted for H.D. SymondsDate Published1803 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #70 Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia AuthorOrta, Garcia de, et al.HeadlineBotany of East & West Indies, 1593PublisherEx officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem MoretumDate Published1593 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #85 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Heading(Royal Society of Edinburgh)HeadlineRoyal Society of Edinburgh Transactions, 1799-1888PublisherWilliam & Charles Tait, et al.Date Published1799-1888 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #86 Principia Mathematica AuthorRussell, Bertrand & Alfred North WhiteheadHeadlineRussell's Principia Mathematica 3 volumesPublisherAt the University PressDate Published1925-1927 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #88 Demonstratio Et Constructio Horologiorum Novorum. Radio Recto; Refracto in Aqua; Reflexo in Speculo; solo Magnete Horas Astronomicas, Italicas, Babylonicas indicantium AuthorSchönberger, GeorgHeadlineScarce study of horology, 1622PublisherApud Ioannem StrasserumDate Published1622 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #101 The Tibetan Book of the Dead; or the After-Death Experience on the Bardo Plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering Heading(Tibet)AuthorEvans-Wentz, W.Y., editorHeadlineEvan-Wentz edition of Tibetan Book of DeadPublisherOxford University Press/Humphrey MilfordDate Published1927 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #109 American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States - complete set AuthorWilson, AlexanderHeadlineAlexander Wilson's American Ornithology, complete setPublisherBradford and Inskeep; Laval & BradfordDate Published1808-25 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next