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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Descrittione di tvtta Italia AuthorAlberti, LeandroHeadlineLeandro Alberti's descritions of Italy 1557PublisherPer Domenico de' FarrDate Published1557 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #3 The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals Heading(Alchemy)AuthorGlauber, Johann RudolfHeadlineThe Works of John Rudolph Glauber, 1689PublisherPrinted by Thomas MilbourneDate Published[1689] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #5 A New Light of Alchymie: Taken out of the fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience. To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur: Written by Micheel Sandivogius... Also Nine Books of the Nature of Things, written by Paracelsus... Also a Chymicall Dictionary... Heading(Alchemy)AuthorSendivogius, MichaelHeadlineFamous work by Polish alchemist, 1650PublisherPrinted by Richard Cote for Thomas WilliamsDate Published1650 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #6 The Last Will and Testament of Basil Valentine, Monke of the Order of St. Bennet... To Which is added Two Treatises. The First declaring his Manual Operations. The Second shewing things Natural and Supernatural Heading(Alchemy)AuthorValentinus, BasiliusHeadlineLast Will and Testament of Basil ValentinePublisherPrinted by S.G. and B.G. for Edward BrewsterDate Published1671 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #7 Traité Général des Horloges AuthorAllexandre, JacquesHeadlineart of time-pieces 27 folding platesPublisherHippolyte-Louis GuerinDate Published1734 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #9 The Roman Historie, Containing Such Acts and Occurrents as Passed Under Constantius, Julianus, Jovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, Emperours AuthorAmmianus MarcellinusHeadlineThe first edition in English, 1609PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1609 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #11 Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta & annotationibus marginalibus illustrata... AuthorApianus, PetrusHeadlineApianus' Cosmographia with volvelles, 1574PublisherApud Haeredes Arnoldi BirckmanniDate Published1574 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #13 Grammaire Générale Et Raisonnée: Contenant Les Fondemens De L'art De Parler Expliqués D'une Manière Claire Et Naturelle... AuthorArnauld, AntoineHeadlineFrench Grammar 1780PublisherDurand neveuDate Published1780 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #18 [Genethlialogia, or, the doctrine of nativities: containing the whole art of directions, and annual revolutions... also, tables for calculating the planets places for any time, either past, present, or to come; together with the doctrine of horarie questions... Heading(Astrology)AuthorGadbury, JohnHeadline17th century astrologyDate Published1658-[1661] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #25 Thomae Bartholini Archiatri Danici Anatome AuthorBartholin, ThomasHeadlineThomas Bartholin's Anatomy 1677PublisherSumpt. Joan Ant. HuguetanDate Published1677 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #29 [Biblia Hebraica Rabbinica] Heading(Bible in Hebrew)Headline16th Century Bomberg Bible with ProphetsPublisherDaniel BombergDate Publishedc.1547-49 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #30 Bible in Romanian Heading(Bible)Headline18th century Bible in RomanianDate Published[c. 1794] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #32 Consolationis Philosophiae Libri V AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineConsolations of Philosophy 1671PublisherEx Officina HackianaDate Published1671 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #36 The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine AuthorBoyle, RobertHeadlineWorks of Robert Boyle 3 vols.1738PublisherW. Innys and R. Manby, and T. LongmanDate Published1738 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #37 Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, And Commonly Presumed Truths AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlinePseudodoxia Epidemica by Thomas Browne 1650PublisherPrinted by A. Miller for Edw. Dod and Nath. EkinsDate Published1650 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #43 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries with 85 superb copperplatesPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #44 Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineA handsome finely bound set of Don QuixotePublisherJ.J. Dubochet & Co.Date Published1837 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #62 Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill, Savrola First U.S. EditionPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #68 M. Tullii Ciceronis Sententiae Insigniores, et Pia Apophthegmata... [and] Isocratis Atheniensis Oratoris & Philosophi clarisimi... AuthorCicero, Marcus Tullius, Isocrates, et alHeadlineClassical aphorisms 1565PublisherApud Nicolaum BeuilacquamDate Published1565 [and] 1569 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #69 Ten volumes of writings by Cicero published primarily by Sebastianus Gryphius in the mid-16th century AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusHeadlineScarce 16th century printings of CiceroPublisherApud Seb. Gryphium, etc.Date Publishedc.1546-1567 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #88 Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineAutograph letter signed by Charles DickensDate PublishedApril 1, 1850 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #89 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineMartin Chuzzlewit, First edition, first issuePublisherChapman and HallDate Published1844 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #90 The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineHandsomely bound edition of David CopperfieldPublisherW.F. BurgessDate Published1850 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #91 Physica Vetus Et Vera: Sive Tractatus De Naturali Veritate Hexaemeri Mosaici AuthorDickinson, EdmundHeadlineThe Syncratic beliefs of Edmund Dickinson, 1702PublisherHenri RibotteauDate Published1702 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #94 Herbarum Imagines Vivae AuthorEgenolff, ChristianHeadlineFacsimile of herbal illustrations from 1535Publisher[Editions Medicina Rara]Date Published[1985] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #102 The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler - With two fore-edge paintings Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorButler, SamuelHeadlineButler's works with Fore Edge PaintingsPublisherPickeringDate Published1835 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #103 La Constitution Française, décrétée par l'Assemblée Nationale constituante, aux année 1789, 1790, 1791 Heading(France)AuthorAssemblée NationaleHeadlineFrench Constitution of 1791Publisherchez GarneryDate Published1791 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #105 Printed leaf from Galen Ascripti Libri Qui Variam Artis Medicae framed with facsimile title page. AuthorGalen [Claudius Galenus]HeadlineFramed w/ facsimile title pagePublisherHieronymum Frobenium et Nicolaum EpiscopiumDate Published[c. 1515] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #111 West-oestlicher Divan AuthorGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonHeadlinelyrical poems by Goethe 1819Publisherin der Cottaischen BuchhandlungDate Published1819 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #112 The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne AuthorGranville, George, Lord LansdowneHeadlineGeorge Granville verse and prose 1732PublisherPrinted for J. Tonson, and L. GilliverDate Published1732 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #113 Annotationes in Libros Evangeliorum AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineHugo Grotius' Notes on the Gospels 1641PublisherCornelium BlaeuDate Published1641 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #119 The Works of James Harris, Esq. With an account of his life and character, by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineHarris on philosophy of language, 1801PublisherPrinted by Luke Hansard, for F. WingraveDate Published1801 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #121 The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Written by Himself AuthorHerbert, Edward, Lord of CherburyHeadlineLord Herbert of Cherbury 1770PublisherPrinted for J. DodsleyDate Published1770 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #122 Harivansa ou Histoire de la Famille de Hari, ouvrage formant un appendice du Mahabharata... Heading(Hindu Mythology)HeadlineFirst printing of the Harivansa in any languagePublisherOriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and IrelandDate Published1834 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #126 The Iliad of Homer Heading(Homer)AuthorPope, Alexander, translatorHeadlinePope translation of Homer's Iliad, folio editionPublisherW. Boyer for Bernard LintottDate Published1715-1720 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #127 Examen de Ingenios: or, the Tryal of Wits. Discovering the great Difference of Wits among Men, and what Sort of Learning suits best with each Genius. AuthorHuartes, JuanHeadlineExplaining the mind through the Humors, 1698PublisherRichard SareDate Published[1698] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #128 The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688 AuthorHume, DavidHeadlineHume's History of England, 1779PublisherT. CadellDate Published1789 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #130 Chiromantia Metoposcopia and Physiognomia Odeer Kurtze Anweisung, Wieman Aus Denen Vier Haupt-Lineen in der Hand AuthorIngebern, JohannHeadlineIllustrated guide to palm reading, 1724PublisherWilhelm ForsterDate Published1724 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #132 A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.... AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineFourth edition of Johnson's Dictionary, DublinPublisherThomas EwingDate Published1775 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #137 Mémoires d'une femme de qualité, sur Louis XVIII, sa cour et son règne AuthorLamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de, et al.HeadlineMemoirs of French "Lady of Quality" 1829-30PublisherMame et Delaunay-Vallée, librairesDate Published1829-1830 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #140 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's vermischte Schriften nach dessen tode aus den hinterlassenen papieren gesammelt und herausgegeben von Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg und Friedrich Kries... AuthorLichtenberg, Georg ChristophHeadlineLichtenberg's writings on science & more 1800-06PublisherJ.C. Dieterich, etc.Date Published1800-1806 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #145 Pharsalia sive de Bello Civili Caesaris et Pompeii Libri X AuthorLucanus, Marcus AnnaeusHeadlineLucan's Pharsalia 1614PublisherEx officina Plantiniana RaphelengiiDate Published1614 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #146 Zacuti Lusitani Medici, et Philosophi praestanssimi. De medicorum principum historia... AuthorLuisitannis, ZacutusHeadlineZacutus Lusitanus 1638PublisherSumpt. Henr. LaurentiiDate Published1638 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #163 Dell'arte Di Vedere Nelle Belle Arti Del Disegno Secondo I Principii Di Sulzer E Di Mengs - Opera AuthorMilizia, FrancescoHeadlineFrancesco Militia on drawing 1798PublisherNella stamperia di Pietro Qm. Gio. Batta PasqualiDate Published1798 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #169 The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works of Apuleius, Translated from the original Latin by Thomas Taylor Heading(Neoplatonism)AuthorApuleiusHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Apuleius, 1822PublisherRobert Triphook...and Thomas RoddDate Published1822 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #172 I Rimedi D'amore di Ovidio AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Remedia Amoris 1584PublisherNella Stamperia NouaDate Published1584 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #182 Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoHeadlinePetrarch's sonnets 1547PublisherPer Comin de Trino di MonferratoDate Published1547 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #183 L' Africa Del Petrarca In Ottava Rima Insieme Col Testo Latino AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoHeadlinePtutrarch's Africa 1570Publisherappresso Domenico FarriDate Published1570 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #187 [Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera] AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst Plato in Greek 1513Publisher[In aedib. Aldi, et Andreae Soceri]Date Published[1513] View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #188 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 with rare variant title pagePublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1635-1634 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #189 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romains, Compared together by that grave learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea: Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot... and out of French into English, By Sir Thomas North Knight AuthorPlutarchHeadlineThe first complete version of Plutarch in EnglishPublisherPrinted by George Miller...sold by Robert AllottDate Published1631 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #190 Pantheum Mythicum, seu Fabulosa Deorum Historia, hoc Primo Epitomes eruditionis volumine breviter dilucide que comprehensa AuthorPomey, FranciscoHeadlineThe Mythical Pantheon 1752PublisherGeorg. Christoph WeberDate Published1752 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #197 Essai sur les Maladies des Artisans AuthorRamazzini, BernardinoHeadlineOn Diseases of Craftsmen 1777PublisherMoutardDate Published1777 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #199 The Practice of Physick in Two Volums, Very much Enlarged. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several Sorts of Signs: Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man. In Twenty and Four Books. AuthorRiverius, Lazarus, Nicholas Culpeper, and Abdiah ColeHeadline1658 Practice of PhysickPublisherPeter ColeDate Published1658 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #203 Printed leaf from 'Vollatandige und Nutzreiche Apotheke' framed with facsimile title page and plate. AuthorSchröder, Johann; Friedrich Hoffman; George Daniel KoschwitzHeadlineFramed w/ facsimiles of title page and woodcutPublisherJ. HoffmansDate Published1693 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #205 [Morte d’Arthur, i.e.:] The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur Notwythstondng It Treateth of the Byrth Lyf and Actes of the Sayd Kynge Arthur: of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table... Heading(Shakespeare Head Press)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineFine press edition of Malory, Shakespeare HeadPublisherShakespeare Head PressDate Published1933 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #206 The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Henry VIII from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #207 The Plays of William Shakespeare AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineJohnson's Shakespeare 8 vols. 1768PublisherH Woodfall et al.Date Published1768 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #217 History of Philosophy: Containing the Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of every Sect. Illustrated with the Effigies of divers of Them AuthorStanley, ThomasHeadlineStanley's History of Philosophy, 1687PublisherPrinted for Thomas Bassett, et al.Date Published1687 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #219 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineGulliver's Travels Woodcuts by GrandvillePublisherHayward and MooreDate Published[c. 1840] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #223 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 citezeine and goldesmyth of London AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFirst edition in English of Thucydides, 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #229 The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'Avenant, with Prefatory Memoir and Notes Heading(Vellum Printing)AuthorD'Avenant, WilliamHeadlineWilliam D'Avenant 1 of 4 copies on vellumPublisherWilliam Paterson, H. Sotheran & Co.Date Published1872-74 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #239 Fabulas Literarias AuthorYriarte, TomásHeadlineTomás Yriarte's best known work 1782PublisherImprenta RealDate Published1782 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next