Sale 429: Rare Books & Manuscripts: The Library of Kent Johnson (with additions) (#429) 05/27/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/27/2010 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info 429 107 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-62 of 62. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Conciones de adventu, id est, de omnibus dominicis & festis diebus à dominica vigesimaquarta post Pentecosten [usque] ad Quadragesimam... AuthorAcosta, Jose deHeadlineJose de Acosta Conciones de adventu... 1601PublisherAntonius HieratDate Published1601 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #3 Suma prelucidissima de mirabili eucaristie sacramto disputabilis & pdicabilis deuotissimi fratris alberti magni de ordinis frat[rum] predicato[rum] pfessione incipit AuthorAlbertus MagnusHeadlineRare printing of Albertus Magnus 1474PublisherJohann ZainerDate Published1474 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #7 De Vita Spirituali Perfecte Institutenda Compendium. Ex Operibus V.P. Iacobi Alvarez de Paz, Societatis Jesu, extractum Subauspiciis Augustissimae Deiparae, Eorundem Operum Suffectricis AuthorAlvarez de Paz, P. Jacobi; P. Ioannem Camacho ed.Headlinejesuit catholic mysticism early spanish printingPublisherEx Typographia Claudii Antonio Mace,Date Published1655 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #8 The Map of Man's Misery. Or, The Poor Man's Pocket-Book: Being a Perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations: Or Compleat-Directory, For One Endless Week Heading(American Imprint)AuthorKer, PatrickHeadlineA Previously Unrecorded American Imprint!!!!PublisherPrinted by T.G. [Timothy Green] for [B.] EliotDate Published[c. 1700] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #13 Sylva Sylvarum: or, A naturall history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the history naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon Sylva Sylvarum 1651PublisherPrinted by J. F. for William LeeDate Published1651 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #14 Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini parentis Institutionibus, omniumque Recentiorum & propriis observationibus tertium ad sanguinis circulationem reformata. Cum iconibus novis accuratissimis: accessit huic postremae editioni Th. Bartholini appendix de lacteis thoracicis & vasis lymphaticis AuthorBartholinus, ThomasHeadlineBartholinus Anatomia 1666 with platesPublisherAdriani VlacqDate Published1666 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #15 Thomæ Bartholini ... De unicornu observationes nouæ. Accesserunt de aureo cornu cl. V. Olai Wormii eruditorum iudicia AuthorBartholinus, ThomasHeadlineBartholinus' Unicorns & other strange beasts 1645PublisherTypis CribellianisDate Published1645 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #19 Opere dell'Abate Saverio Bettinelli AuthorBettinelli, SaverioHeadlineOpere of Bettinelli, 1780, Vols. I & IIPublisherDalle Stampe ZattaDate Published1780 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #20 Manuscript Leaf from a Monumental Bible, 13th century Heading(Bible Leaf - Manuscript)Author**HeadlineLeaf from a Monumental Bible, 13th centuryDate Published13th century View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 [Biblie iampridem renouate pars [secunda et quinta], vna cu[m] glosa ordinaria, et litterali moraliq[ue] expositione Nicolai de Lyra, necno[n] additio[n]ibus Burge[n]sis, ac replicis Thoringi, nouisq[ue] distinctionib[us] et marginalib[us] su[m]marijsq[ue] annotatio[n]ib[us]] Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**Headline2 volumes of 1502 Fröben BiblePublisher[Johannes Fröben, et al.]Date Published[1502] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 Biblia, ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recèns castigata... Heading(Bible in Latin - Chained)Author**Headline1574 Chained BiblePublisherapud haeredes Nicolai Beuilaquae, & socios.Date Published1574 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #23 Five circa-13th Century Manuscript Bible Leaves on Vellum Author[Biblio Latina]Headlinemedieval manuscript illuminated msDate Publishedcirca late 13th c. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #24 Defensa de la tradición, y de los santos padres AuthorBossuet, Jacques BenigneHeadlineBossuet Defense of Tradition 1778 Spanish ed.PublisherImprenta de Blas RomanDate Published1778 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #29 Medulla theologiae moralis facili ac perspicua methodo resolvens casus consientiae ex variis probatisque authoribus concinnata... AuthorBusenbaum, HermannHeadlineHermann Busenbaum Medulla theologiae moralisPublisherBernhardi RaesfeldiDate Published1659 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #31 Christianae Religionis libri quatuor AuthorCalvin, JeanHeadlineJean Calvin Christianae Religionis 1617PublisherJohannes Vignon, Petrus & Jacobus ChouetDate Published1617 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #32 Ioannis Caluini in quinque libros Mosis, commentarii, Genesis seorsim: reliqui quatuor in formam harmoniae digesti. Cum triplici indice: quorum primus, Geneseos: alter, quatuor librorum in formam harmoniae dispositorum res notabiliores: tertius, singulorum harmoniae capitum versus sparsim explicatos continet. Eiusdem Caluini in librum Iosue commentarius AuthorCalvin, JeanHeadlineJean Calvin on Book of Moses 1595PublisherIn officina SanctandreanaDate Published1595 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #33 Geminum Sidus Mariani Diadematis, Sive Duplex Disputatio, De infinitâ Dignitate Matris Dei, atque de eius Gratia habituali infinita simpliciter AuthorCardenas, Joanne (Juan) deHeadlinejesuits catholic religion early printed booksPublisherApud Ioannem de Ossuna,Date Published1660 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #34 Rituale carnotense ad romani formam expressum illustriss[imi] ac reverendiss[imi] domini D. Ferdinandi de Nuefville, episcopi carnotensis auctoritate editum Heading(Catholic Church)Author**HeadlineCatholic Church rituales, 1689PublisherClaude PeignéDate Published1689 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #35 The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, The great Cardinall of England, Containing his life and Death, viz. 1. The Originall of his promotion. 2. The Continuance in his Magnificence. 3. His Fall, Death, and Buriall. Composed by one of his owne Servants, being his Gentleman-Usher Author[Cavendish, George]HeadlineNegotiations of Thomas Woolsey 1641PublisherWilliam ShearesDate Published1641 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #40 D. Ioan. Chrysostomi Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani Homiliæ in aliquot veteris Testamenti loca, quorum elenchus sequenti pagina declaratur. Adiectus est index materiarum notabilium. AuthorChrysostom, JohnHeadlinecatholic church saints hagiography early printingPublisherIn ædibus Ioannis Steelsii, Typis Ionnis Graphei,Date Published1553] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #41 Autograph Letter Signed, from Lady Randolph Churchill writing as Jennie Cornwallis-West to Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of Century Magazine Author[Churchill, Lady Randolph] Jennie Cornwallis-WestHeadlineLetter from Churchill's mother to her editorDate PublishedApril 7, 1908 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #44 Constitutiones (cum apparatu Joannis Andreae) [with] Decretales extravagantes AuthorClemens V, Pont. MaxHeadlineConsitutiones of Pope Clemens V 1485PublisherAndreas Torresanus und Bartholomaeus de BlavisDate Published1485 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #45 Pharmacopoea Danica Regia Autoritate Heading(Collegio Medico Hauniensi)Author**HeadlineFirst Danish Pharmacopeia 1772PublisherHeineck & FaberDate Published1772 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #47 Canones et decreta sacrosancti oecumenici, et generalis concilii tridentini, sub Paulo III, Julio III, Pio IIII Pont. Max., et bulla confirmationis, S.D. N. et alia declaratoria. Index dogmatum, et reformationis Heading(Council of Trent)Author**HeadlineScarce work on the Council of Trent 1565PublisherAldusDate Published1565 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #50 Autograph Statement Signed by Andrew Crommelin, relating his observations of eclipses AuthorCrommelin, AndrewHeadlineA. Crommelin letter about observing eclipsesDate PublishedJune 28, 1932 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #52 S. Cyrillvs Patriarcha Alexandrinus In XII. Prophetas. Ex Bibliotheca Vatic. et Bauar. A Iacobo Pontano Societ. Jesv Græce, et Latine nunc primum editus... Cum Notis, et Indice AuthorCyrillus Alexandrinus [Cyril of Alexandria]HeadlineOpera of Cyril of Alexandria 1607PublisherSartoriusDate Published1607 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #54 On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection AuthorDarwin, Charles & Alfred WallaceHeadline1st statement of Darwin's Evolution Theory, 1858PublisherLongman, Brown, et al.Date Published1858 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Lot #55 Resolutionum quotidianarum iuris pontificij, caesarei, & regni neapolis, liber secundus AuthorDe Marinis, Donatus AntoniusHeadlineResolutionum quotidianarumPublisherHonophrius SaviusDate Published1650? View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #59 Theologia Vivificans Cibus Solid[us] AuthorDionysius AreopagitaHeadlineDionysius Areopagita Theologia VivificansDate Published1502 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #60 Lettre du Comte de Comminges a Sa Mere, Suivie d'Une Lettre de Philomele a Progne Author[Dorat, Claude Joseph]HeadlineWith MS fragment by C.J. DoratPublisherSebastien JorryDate Published1764 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #64 Septenario Doloroso de Maria SS.ma. Con un Sermon (Al Fin) de Gracias Por el Hallazgo de la Imagen de N. S.ra de la Asumpcion Heading(Early California - Association Copy)AuthorAndres, AntonioHeadlineearly california mexican period californiosPublisherPor Benito MonfortDate Published1785 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 Three major papers by Einstein, on Relativity, Quantum, and Atomic Physics, in Annalen der Physik Series 4, Volume 17; plus the first separate edition of his cornerstone work on General Relativity AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineMajor papers by Albert EinsteinPublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1905 & 1916 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #66 Collected Poems 1909-1935 - with author's ms. revisions AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineEliot's Collected Poems with ms. revisionsPublisherFaber & FaberDate Published1936 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #67 Enarrationum evangelicarum thesaurus novus, ad Christianae decus pietatis denuò recognitus. Huic accessit index rerum memorabilium Iocupletissimus. Pars aestivalis, de tempore, ac de Sanctorum festis Heading(Enarrationum evangelicarum)Author**HeadlineEnarrationum Evangelicarum Thesaurus Novus 1561PublisherNicolaus PetronillusDate Published1561 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #74 Quarta Centuria Ecclesiasticae historiae, continens descriptionem amplissimarum rerum in regno Christi, quae quarto post eius nativitatem seculo acciderunt, cum imperium romanum gubernarent Constantinus Magnus, eius filij, Julianus, Jovianus, Valentinianus, Valens, Gratianus, Theodosius maior, & multa praeclara lumina doctorum in ecclesia Christi fulgerunt: eodem illustri ordine ac veritate, quo priores Centuriae, ex vetustissimis & optimis historicis, patribus, & aliis scriptoribus contexta: per aliquot studiosos & pios viros in urbe Magdeburgica AuthorFlacius Illyricus, MatthiasHeadlineQuarta Centuria Ecclesiasticae Historiae 1560PublisherIoannem OporinumDate Published1560 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #75 Three volumes from Van Foreest's Observationum & Curationum Medicinalium, bound together AuthorForeest, Pieter vanHeadline3 medical works by Pieter van Foreest 1589-1591PublisherEx officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum RaphelengiumDate Published1589-91 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #76 The "Haddon" MS., in the Possession of Mr. James S. Haddon, of Wellington Heading(Freemasonry)AuthorHaddon, James S., of WellingtonHeadlineRare printing of Freemason Haddon MS. 1895PublisherM.C. PeckDate Published1895 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #77 Archive of letters & other correspondence from Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini to Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder AuthorGiannini, A.P.HeadlineLetters from BofA Pres. Giannini to Sec. TreasuryDate Published1945-1949 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #80 [Dialogus beati Gregorij eiusque diaconi Petri de vita et miraculis patrum Italicorum et de eternitate animarum: cum tabulum nuncnunc a nouo superadditis] Author[Gregory I, Pope Gregory the Great]Headlineearly printing early church hagiographyPublisher(Udalrici Gering & Berchtoldi Rembolt)Date Published(1508) View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #81 Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineElzevir edition of William Harvey 1651PublisherElzevirDate Published1651 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #83 Autograph excerpts from Being and Time AuthorHeidegger, MartinHeadlineAutograph excerpts Heidegger's Being and TimeDate PublishedNo date View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #85 Psalterium universum carmine elegiaco redditum atque explicatum per Helium Eobanum Hessum, publicum academiae Marpurgensis professorum AuthorHessus, Helius Eobanus, trans.HeadlinePsalterium universum 1546PublisherPetrus GalterusDate Published1546 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #86 Epistolae sancti Hieronymi pars secunda AuthorHieronymus, Sophronius EusebiusHeadlineEpistolae sancti Hieronymi 1518PublisherIoacobum SacconDate Published1518 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #89 Manuscript Gradual on paper, in medieval calf & wood binding Heading(Illuminated Manuscript Gradual)Author**HeadlineManuscript Gradual on paper c.1475Date Publishedc.1475 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #90 Bula de Nuestro Santisimo Padre Inocencio Papa XIII. Que Empieza Apostolici Ministerii sobre la disciplina eclesiástica en los Reynos de España AuthorInnocent XIII, PopeHeadlinePapal Bulls of Innocent XIII in Spanish 1771PublisherAndres OrtegaDate Published1771 View details Estimate$250 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #94 Josephus de antiquitatibus ac de bello Judaico AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadline1499 Edition of JosephusPublisherAlbertinum VercellensemDate Published1499 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #100 Conciones Quadragesimales seu Dominicales de Christianismo Labascente AuthorLeone a S. Laurentio, F.Headlinereligion early printed booksPublisherApud Franciscum Metternich, BibliopolamDate Published1717 View details Estimate$250 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #103 [Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M... AuthorLuther, MartinHeadlineMartin Luther's Works, 1566-1570PublisherDonatus Ritzenhayn, Thomas Rebart & Christian RhodiusDate Published1566-1570 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #105 Enameled Gold-Mounted Book of Morning Prayers With the Arms of the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, Circa 1590 Heading(Manuscript Prayer Book)Author**Headline16th century mss prayer bookDate Publishedc. 1590 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000StatusUnsold Lot #109 Viola Sanctorum Heading(Martyrs)Author**HeadlineViola Sanctorum 1496PublisherJohann FroschauerDate Published1496 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #110 Sermones Meffreth, al's, Ortulus regine de tempore. Pars hyemalis - [estiualis] AuthorMeffrethHeadline15th century priting of Meffreth's SermonsPublisher[Anton Koberger?]Date Published[1487?] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #111 [Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, siue Hortulus reginae] AuthorMeffrethHeadlineMeffreth's Sermones 1487 in chained bindingPublisher[Anton Koberger]Date Published[1487] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #115 Enchiridion metaphysicum: sive, de rebus incorporeis succincta & luculenta dissertatio. Pars prima: de existentia & natura rerum incorporearum in genereIn qua quamplurima mundi phænomena ad leges Cartesii mechanicas obiter expenduntur, illiúsque philosophiæ, & aliorum omnino omnium qui mundana phænomena in causas purè mechanicas solvi posse supponunt, vanitas falsitásque detegitur. Per H.M. Cantabrigiensem AuthorMore, HenryHeadlineEnchiridion metaphysicum by Henry More 1671PublisherTypis E. Flesher, prostat apud G. MordemDate Published1671 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #116 Manuscript book in Spanish with treatment of music theory and numerous musical scores Heading(Music)Author**HeadlineMS. book in Spanish on music theory & practiceDate Published18th century View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #126 Concionum Ioannis Osorii Societatis Iesu, tomus secundus AuthorOsorius, JoannesHeadlineConcionum Ioannis Osorii 1594 in pigskin w/claspsPublisherJoannes KeerbergiusDate Published1594 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #130 The Mystery of Jesuitism, Discovered in Certain Letters, Written Upon Occasion of the Present Differences at Sorbonne Between the Jansenists and the Molinists, Displaying the Pernicious Maximes of the Late Casuists Author[Pascal, Blaise]HeadlineBlaise Pascal The Mystery of JesuitismPublisherRichard RoystonDate Published1679 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #139 Epistolae Decretales Summorum Pontificum, a Gregorio Nono Pontifice Maximo collectae. (bound with) Sextus Decretalium Liber, Per Bonifacium octavum pontificem in concilio Lugdunensi æditus: jam reces ex antiquissimis examparibus adamussim castigatus AuthorPope Gregory IX (and) Pope Boniface VIIIHeadlinecatholic church canon law early printingPublisherChristopher Plantin (&) Carolae GuillardDate Published1570 (&) 1541 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #141 Les Privilèges de la Vierge, Mère de Dieu AuthorPriezac, Daniel deHeadlinePriezac's Privileges of the Virgin, 1650PublisherChez P. RocoletDate Published1650 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #146 's Weerelds Gods-diensten of Vertoog van alle de Religien en Ketteryen in Asia, Africa, America en Europa, van 't begin des Weereldts, tot desen tegenwoordigen tijdt toe AuthorRoss, AlexanderHeadlineRoss's history of the world's religionsPublisherMichiel de GrootDate Published1671 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #154 Forgery of Autograph Letters Signed by William Shakespeare, to the actor Richard Cowley Heading(Shakespeare, William)AuthorIreland, William HenryHeadlineFamed forgery of Shakespeare letterDate Publishedc.1794-?? View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #162 Diui Thomae Aquinatis Doctoris Angelici, Tomus Decimus, Complectens Primam Partem Suma Theologiae... AuthorThomas Aquinas, SaintHeadlineWorks of Thomas Aquinas 1593PublisherApud Dominicum Nicolinum, & SociosDate Published1593 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #163 Gallus cantans, das ist: krähender Hauss-Hahn, dem im Sünden-Schlaf ligenden Hauss-Gesind dess grossen Haus-Vatters zum Aufferwecken bestellt und auffgesetzt in Buss- und Passions-Predigten... AuthorTrauner, IgnatioHeadlineIgnatius Trauner Gallus Cantans 1682PublisherJoh. Conrad EmmrichsDate Published1682 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next