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AuthorAlunno, FrancescoHeadlineThe Language of Boccaccio by Alunno, 1543Publisher[colophon: In casa de Figliuoli di Aklo]Date Published[1543] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #5 The Origins of Totalitarianism AuthorArendt, HannahHeadlineArendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, 1st ed.PublisherHarcourt, Brace and CompanyDate Published1951 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #7 Elemens de perspective à l'usage des elèves de l'Académie de Dessin, Peinture & Architecture de la ville de Gand Heading(Art - Perspective)HeadlineLessons in perspective for art students, 1800PublisherChez Bermard PoelmanDate Published[c.1800] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #20 Le Livre facile pour apprendre l'arithmetique de soy mesme et sans maistre: Par des méthodes si courtes si claires et si bien ordonnées qu'il ne s'en est point veu de pareilles AuthorBarrême, FrançoisHeadline17th century mathematics & accountingPublisherChez l'AutheurDate Published1672 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #23 The Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles from the 1583 folio Geneva Bible Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineOld Testament history from 1583 Geneva BiblePublisher[Christopher Barker]Date Published[1583] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #24 Complete texts of the First and Second Books of Maccabees - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineMaccabees from 1566 Great BiblePublisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #25 Complete texts of The Third and Fourth Books of Esdras - from the Great Bible of 1566 Heading(Bible in English)Headline3rd & 4th Books of Esdras Great Bible 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #27 [Biblia Hebraica Rabbinica] Heading(Bible in Hebrew)HeadlineFinal volume of 3rd Bomberg Bible 1548PublisherDaniel BombergDate Published[1548] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #29 Il Decameron di Messer Giouanni Boccacci Cittadino Fiorentino [bound with] Annotationi et Discorsi Sopra Alcuni Luoghi del Decameron di M. Giovanni Boccacci AuthorBoccacio, Giovanni; V. Borghini, A. Benivieni, S. Antinori and A. Guicciardini.HeadlineExpurgated edition of the Decameron, 1573PublisherNella Stamperia de i GiuntiDate Published1573; 1574 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #36 Articles on the Barometer, Baroscope, and other matters by Robert Boyle, in two issues of Philosophical Transactions AuthorBoyle, RobertHeadlineRobert Boyle on the barometer, 1666PublisherRoyal Society of LondonDate Published1666 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #38 Emblemata of Zinne-werck: voorghestelt in Beelden, ghedichten, en breeder uyt-legginghenm tot uyt-druckinghe, en veerbeteringhe van verscheyden feylen onfer eeuwe. AuthorBrune, Johan deHeadlineWith 52 emblem illustrations of Dutch lifePublisherAbraham LathamDate Published[c. 1688] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #43 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineDuncan's Caesar with plates & maps, 1753PublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #48 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The history of the valorous and vvitty-knight-errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly corrected and amended AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English, 1652,PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew CrookeDate Published1652 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes Heading(Civil War)AuthorMiller, Francis Trevelyan, editorHeadlineComplete Photographic History of the Civil WarPublisherThe Review of Reviews Co.Date Published1911-12 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #67 Characaturas. From Drawings by Winceslaus Hollar out of the Portland Museum. AuthorDa Vinci, LeonardoHeadlineWith 64 engraved caricatures by Da VinciPublisherJohn ClarkeDate Published1786 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #72 The Worship of the Serpent Traced Throughout the World, and its Traditions Referred to the Events in Paradise: Proving the Temptation and Fall of Man by the Instrumentality of a Serpent Tempter. AuthorDeane, John BathurstHeadlineTheological treatise on snake worshipPublisherJ. Hatchard and Son; C.J.G. & F. RivingtonDate Published1830 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #83 The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse...Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus AuthorDryden, John, translatorHeadlineDryden translation of Juvenal and Flaccus 1693PublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1693 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #88 The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus Heading(Egypt)AuthorBudge, E.A. WallisHeadlineWallis Budge study of the Rosetta StonePublisherKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.Date Published1904 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #103 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire AuthorGibbon, EdwardHeadlineGibbon's Decline & Fall, First Edition of all vols.PublisherPrinted for W. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1776-1788 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #105 Historia Di M. Bernardo Giustiniano Gentiluomo Vinitiano. Dell Origine de Vinegia, & Delle Cose Fatte da Vinitiani. Nella Quale Anchora Ampiamente Tradotta da Lodovico Domenichi AuthorGiustiniani, BernardoHeadlineGiustiniani's History of Venice, 1545Publisher[Bernardo Bindoni]Date Published[1545] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #113 His Iliads Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby [bound with] His Odysseys Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations... AuthorHomerHeadlineOgilby's Homer translations with 74 platesPublisherJames FlesherDate Published1669 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #115 Windsor Castle. An Architectural History AuthorHope, W. H., St. JohnHeadlineHistory of the Windsor Castle's ArchitecturePublisherCountry LifeDate Published[1913] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #124 The History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Street-Robbers, &c. &c. To Which is Added a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Noted Pirates AuthorJohnson, CharlesHeadlineHighwaymen, Street-Robbers and Pirates 1814PublisherPrinted for John Thomson Jun. and Co., Longman et al.Date Published1814 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #133 Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an Inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians AuthorLayard, Austen HenryHeadlineLayard, Nineveh and Its Remains 1849PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1849 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #136 Anti-Goeze... D.I. Nothgedrungener beytraege zu den Freywillingen betraegen des hrn. past. Goeze. AuthorLessing, Gotthold EphraimHeadlineLessing debates Goeze, 1778Publisher[Waisenhausbuchhandlung]Date Published1778 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #137 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln AuthorLincoln, AbrahamHeadlineWritings of Lincoln, Constitutional EditionPublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published[1905-1906] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #141 The first published work on blood transfusion, in two issues of Philosophical Transactions Heading(Medical)AuthorBoyle, Robert & Richard LowerHeadline1st published account of blood transfusionsPublisherRoyal Society of LondonDate Published1666-1667 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #146 Dissertatio medica inauguralis de partu humano quaedam complectens. Quam, annuente summo numine... D. Georgii Baird S.S.T.P. academiae Edinburgenae praefecti... pro gradu doctoris... Heading(Medical)AuthorCoutto, Josephus Antonius deHeadlineDissertation on human birth, 1794PublisherCum privilegio Typis Gulielmi CreechDate Published1794 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #150 De ortu animae humanae libri tres Heading(Medical)AuthorLiceti, FortunioHeadlineFortunio Liceti on formation of the soul, 1602PublisherIn Aedibus Iosephi PavoniiDate Published1602 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #151 Magni Hippocratis coi Opera Omnia Graece & Latine Edita, Et ad omnes alias Editiones accomodata. Heading(Medical)AuthorLinden, Joan Antonidae Vander, editorHeadlineHippocrates' Works in Greek and Latin, 1665PublisherApud Danielem, Abrahamum & AdrianumDate Published[1665] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #160 Nine original printed leaves from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica Heading(Medical)AuthorVesaliusHeadlineLeaves from Vesalius' Human Anatomy 1543PublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #161 The Works of Robert Whytt, M.D. Late Physician to his Majesty; President of the Royal College of Physicians, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Heading(Medical)AuthorWhytt, RobertHeadlineThe Works of neurophysiologist Robert WhyttPublisherPrinted for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt and J. BalfourDate Published[1768] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #172 Histoire Generale de Normandie. AuthorMoulin, Gabriel duHeadlineHistory of Normandy, 1631PublisherJean OsmontDate Published1631 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #177 Three printed and hand-colored leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) - from the Latin and German editions Heading(Nuremberg Chronicle)AuthorSchedel, HartmannHeadlineThree leaves from the Nuremberg ChroniclePublisher[Koberger, Anton]Date Published[1493] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #186 The Workes of that Famous and Worthy Minister of Christ in the Universitie of Cambridge, M. VV. Perkins. Containing his learned expositions of sundry choice places of Scripture... Third and last volume. AuthorPerkins, WilliamHeadlineIncludes sermon on the Damned Art of WitchcraftPublisherPrinted by Cantrell LeggeDate Published1608-1609 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #187 Segmenta Nobilium Signorum e Statuarum AuthorPerrier, FrançoisHeadline100 engravings of Roman statuary, 1638PublisherF. ChereauDate Published1638 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold 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 in 2 volumes 1634PublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1634 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #190 Προκλου Διαδοχου Πλατωικου εισ την Πλατωνοσ θεολογιαν βιβλια εξ = Procli successoris Platonici in Platonis theologiam libri sex AuthorProclus DiadochuHeadlineMasterwork of Proclus' Platonic philosophy 1618PublisherEt prostant Francofurti apud RulandiosDate Published1618 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #194 Odes, Cantates, Épîtres et Poésies Diverses de J.B. Rousseau. AuthorRousseau, Jean BaptisteHeadlineFirst Didot Printing of Rousseau's PoetryPublisherChez P. DidotDate Published[1790] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #199 The World in Miniature AuthorSchoberl, Frederic, editorHeadlineComplete set, with numerous color platesPublisherR. AckermannDate Published[1821] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #204 Historiarum de occidentali imperio Libri XX. AuthorSigonio, CarloHeadline1578 1st Ed Sigonio's History of Roman EmpirePublisherSocietatem Typographiae BononiensisDate Published1578 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #205 Instructions for the Cultivating and Raising of Flax and Hemp: In a Better Manner, than that generally Practis'd in Ireland. [bound with] Observations made by Richard Hall... Hemp and Flax Dresser:... AuthorSlator, Lionel; Richard HallHeadlineIrish and Dutch methods of Hemp cultivationPublisherPrinted by George GriersonDate Published[1724] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #219 Le Imagini Delle Donne Auguste Intagliate in Istampa di Rame; con le Viteet Ispositioni de Enea Vico, Sopra I Riversi Delle Loro Medaglie Antiche: Libro Primo. AuthorVico, EneaHeadlineWith 61 plates of coins featuring Roman womenPublisherAppresso Enea Vico Parmigiano et Vincenzo ValgrisioDate Published[1557] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #220 The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro, Translated, adorn'd with Sculpture, and illustrated, with Annotations by John Ogilby AuthorVirgilHeadlineOgilby's Virgil in royal binding of Charles IIPublisherPrinted by Thomas Warren for the AuthorDate Published1654 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #227 General planer til fem sätesgårdar, uti koppar stuckne, med deras förklaring. Upritade och til en del anlagde af Carl Wijnblad AuthorWijnblad, CarlHeadlineGarden designs for Swedish mansions, 1765PublisherPeter HesselbergDate Published1765 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #229 The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, Agriculture and Early History... AuthorWilkinson, J.G.HeadlineWilkinson's History of the Egyptians, first editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1837 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #230 Opera Omnia, exegetica, didactica, et polemica. Quorum Seriem versa pagina exhibet. Cum indicibus necessariis. AuthorWolzogen, Johann Ludwig vonHeadlineRadical Reformation commentaries from WolzogenPublisher[Frans Kuyper, & Daniel Bakkamude]Date Published1656 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next