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Previous|1|Next Lot #3 On Climate in Connection with Husbandry...[with] Review of the Agricultural Statistics of France...[with] On the Construction of a Collar Roof, with Arched Trusses of Bent Timber, at East Horsley Park [together with] two other publications View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Agriculture and Civil Engineering)AuthorLovelace, Earl of, et. al.Headline5 London pubs from 1848-49 bound togetherDate Published1848-49 Lot #5 Réflexions Morales de L'Empereur Marc Antonin View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Antoninus, Marcus)Author**HeadlineMarcus Antoninus reflections 1800 engravingsPublisherDidotDate Published1800 Lot #8 The History of Astronomy, With Its Application to Geography, History, and Chronology; Occasionally Exemplified by the Globes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorCostard, GeorgeHeadlinehistory of astronomy by George Costard 1767PublisherJames ListerDate Published1767 Lot #9 The sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English poem: with annotations and an astronomical appendix. By Edward Sherburne, Esquire View details Estimate$18,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorManilius, MarcusHeadlineManilius Sphere inscribed by trans. Ed. SherburnePublisherPrinted for Nathanael Brooke, at the sign of the Angel in Cornhill, near the Royal ExchangeDate Published1675 Lot #12 Opera Omnia View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon Opera Omnia 1665PublisherJoannis Baptistae SchonwetteriDate Published1665 Lot #13 An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England, From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorBacon, Nathaniel & John SeldenHeadlineDiscourse of the Laws and Government of EnglandPublisherDaniel Browne and Andrew MillarDate Published1739 Lot #16 Les Temples Immergés de la Nubie: The Temple of Derr View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorBlackman, Aylward M.HeadlineTempel of Derr 1913 Lower Nubia by BlackmanPublisherL'Institut Français D'Archéologie OrientaleDate Published1913 Lot #17 The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds, British and Foreign View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBlakston, W.A.; W. Swaysland; & August F. WienerHeadlineThe Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-BirdsPublisherCassell & Co., Ltd.Date Published[c 1880] Lot #18 The True and Eccentric Life of Betty Bolaine, (Late of Canterbury) A Well Known Character for Avarice, Meanness, and Vice; Who Died June 6, 1805, aged Eighty Two, Whilst Eating a Brown Crust; Although Worth Twenty Thousand Pounds! View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Bolaine, Betty)Author**HeadlineLife of Betty BolainePublisherJ. Scales, et alDate Published[c. 1805] Lot #20 Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBrown, ThomasHeadlineThomas Brown Pseudodoxia EpidemicaPublisherEdward DodDate Published1669 Lot #21 The Book of the Dead: Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher, and Netchemet with Supplementary Text From the Papyrus of Nu View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorBudge, E.A. WallisHeadlineThe Book of the DeadPublisherBritish Museum, et alDate Published1899 Lot #24 A Complete Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice, with Original Experiments View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorCavallo, TiberiusHeadlineTreatise on Electricity by Tiberius Cavallo 3d edPublisherC. DillyDate Published1786 Lot #25 Reglamento para el ejercicio y maniobras de la Caballería View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Cavalry)Author**HeadlineSpanish cavalry exercises 1825PublisherImprenta RealDate Published1825 Lot #26 The Second World War View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston S. Churchill The Second World WarPublisherCassell & Co., Ltd.Date Published[1948-1954] Lot #34 An Historical and Political View of the Constitution and Revolutions of Geneva, in the Eighteenth Century View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorD'Ivernois, FrancisHeadlineConstitution and Revolutions of GenevaPublisherT. CadellDate Published1784 Lot #35 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Origin of Species, 2nd editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1860 Lot #40 Six metaphysical meditations; wherein it is proved that there is a God. And that mans mind is really distinct from his body. Written originally in Latin by Renatus Des-Cartes. Hereunto are added the objections made against these meditations. By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. With the authors answers. All faithfully translated into English, with a short account of Des-Cartes’s life. By William Molyneux View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold AuthorDescartes, RenéHeadlineDescartes Six Meditations 1st in English 1680PublisherPrinted by B.G. for Benj. TookeDate Published1680 Lot #41 A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorDibdin, Thomas FrognallHeadlineDibdin's Bibliographical Tour Large Paper EditionPublisherPrinted for the Author by C. RichardsDate Published1838 Lot #48 Typed Letter signed by Albert Einstein, to Frantisek Navara, in German View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineTyped Letter signed by Albert Einstein, 1938Date Published28 August 1938 Lot #49 Signed portrait of Albert Einstein View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineSigned portrait of Albert EinsteinDate Publishedc.1938 Lot #50 Three major papers by Einstein, on Relativity, Quantum, and Atomic Physics. In Annalen der Physik Series 4, Volume 17 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein papers in Annalen der Physik Vol 17 1905PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1905 Lot #51 Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorSchilpp, Paul Arthur, editorHeadlineAlbert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist SIGNEDPublisherThe Library of Living Philosophers, Inc.Date Published1949 Lot #53 De Aquis et Aquaeductibus Veteris Romae Dissertationes Tres View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorFabretti, Raph[aele]Headlineon Roman aqueducts R. Fabretti 1680PublisherJoannes Baptista BussottiDate Published1680 Lot #57 A History of Greece View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorGrote, GeorgeHeadlineGrote's History of Greece 12 volumesPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1884 Lot #59 Literary Association of the English Lakes View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorRawnsley, H.D.HeadlineLiterary Association of the English LakesPublisherMacmillanDate Published1894 Lot #63 A Student's Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorForlong, [James]HeadlineSynchronological Chart Religions for Forlongs bkPublisherScott & FergusonDate Published[c.1883] Lot #64 Parrots of the World View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold AuthorForshaw, Joseph M.HeadlineParrots of the WorldPublisherDoubledayDate Published1973 Lot #66 Mathematical collections and translations, in two parts. From the original copies, of Galileus, and other famous modern authors. By Tho: Salisbury, Esq; The names of the particular treatises follow in the ensuing page View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000StatusUnsold Heading(Galilei, Galileo)AuthorSalusbury, ThomasHeadline1st English printing of Galileo's Dialogo, 1667PublisherPrinted by William Leyborn, for for [sic] George SawbridgeDate Published1667 Lot #71 Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorGrose, FrancisHeadlineGrose's Military AntiquitiesPublisherPrinted for T. Egerton & G. KearsleyDate Published1801 Lot #78 Queen Victoria View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorHolmes, Richard R.HeadlineRichard Holmes Queen VictoriaPublisherBoussod, Valadon & Co.Date Published1897 Lot #79 De Re Metallica - Inscribed by Herbert Hoover View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Hoover, Herbert Clark)AuthorGeorgius AgricolaHeadlineDe Re Metallica - Inscribed by Herbert HooverPublisherThe Mining MagazineDate Published1912 Lot #82 An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With Observations upon Matters of Fact; Tending to Clear the Texts of the Sacred Scriptures, and Confute the Vulgar Errors About that Point... View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold AuthorHutchinson, FrancisHeadlinehistorical essay of witchcraft 1718 first edPublisherR. KnaplockDate Published1718 Lot #83 Old Sword-Play: The Systems of Fence in Vogue During the XVIth, XVIIth. and XVIIIth Centuries with Lessons Arranged from the Works of Various Ancient Masters View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorHutton, AlfredHeadlineAlfred Hutton Old Sword-PlayPublisherGrevel & Co.Date Published1892 Lot #88 The British Bird Book: An Account of All the Birds, Nests, and Eggs Found in the British Isles. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorKirkman, F.B., editorHeadlineF.B. Kirkman The British Bird BookPublisherT.C. & E.C. JackDate Published1911-1913 Lot #92 The Modern Theory and Practice of Physic. Wherein the Antecedent Causes of Diseases; The Rise of the Most Usual Symptoms Incident to Them; And the True Methods of Cure; Are Explain'd... View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold AuthorLangrish, BrowneHeadlinephysician handbook 1738 2nd ed by LangrishPublisherA. BettesworthDate Published1738 Lot #94 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorLodge, EdmundHeadlineLodge's Portraits 12 VolumesPublisherHarding, Mavor and LepardDate Published1823-1835 Lot #99 Éléments de Géologie View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorLyell, CharlesHeadlineFirst French edition of Lyell's GeologyPublisherPitois-LevraultDate Published1839 Lot #100 Hommage de la Romanie A Ferdinand le Grand [&] Ode a la Roumanie par S.M. La Reine Mare de Roumanie View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMarie, Queen of RomaniaHeadlineFabulous velvet & metal bindingDate Published[1922] Lot #104 Medical and Chirugical Observations, as an Appendix to a Former Publication. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorGooch, BenjaminHeadlineBenj. Gooch Medical and Chirugical ObservationsPublisherG. RobinsonDate Published[1773] Lot #105 An essay on the botanical, chemical, and medical properties of the Fucus edulis of Linnaeus... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorGriffen, Augustus R.HeadlineGriffen on Fucus edulis with color plate 1816PublisherVan Winkle and WileyDate Published1816 Lot #106 Memoir on the salubrity of the Isle of Pines. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorHernández, José de la LuzHeadlineSalubrity of the Isle of Pines, Havana 1857Date Published1857 Lot #107 Clinical Experiments, Histories, and Dissections View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorHome, FrancisHeadlineExperiments, Histories, Dissections 2d ed by HomePublisherJ. MurrayDate Published1683 (but 1783) Lot #108 A defence of Dr. Charles T. Jackson's claims to the discovery of etherization. Containing testimony disproving the claims set up in favor of Mr. W. T. G. Morton, in the report of the trustees of the Massachusetts general hospital, and in no. 201 of Littell's living age View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorLord, Joseph L. & Henry C. LordHeadlineLord on Discovery of Etherization 1848PublisherOffice of Littell's Living AgeDate Published1848 Lot #109 The Anatomy of the Humane Bones View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorMonro, AlexanderHeadlineBone Anatomy by Alexander Monro 1st ed 1726PublisherMr. Thomas RuddimanDate Published1726 Lot #110 The Anatomy of the Human Bones and Nerves. With an Account of the Reciprocal Motions of the Heart, and a Description of the Human Lacteal Sac and Duct View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorMonro, AlexanderHeadlineAnatomy of bones & nerves 5th edition Alex MonroPublisherG. HamiltonDate Published1750 Lot #111 The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Gullet, Stomach, and Intestines View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorMonro, AlexanderHeadlineMorbid Anatomy by Alexander Monro 1811PublisherGeorge Ramsay and CompanyDate Published1811 Lot #112 A Compleat History of Druggs...Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal and Mineral; With their Use in Physick, Chymistry, Pharmacy, and Several Other Arts... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorPomet, [Pierre]HeadlineCompleat History of Druggs by Pierre Pomet 1712PublisherR. Bonwicke, et. al.Date Published1712 Lot #113 A Treatise of Medicines Containing an Account of their Chymical Principles... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorTauvry, [Daniel]HeadlineTreatise of Medicines by Daniel Tauvry 1700PublisherRichard WellingtonDate Published1700 Lot #114 Discovery by the late Dr. Horace Wells of the applicability of nitrous oxyd gas, sulphuric ether and other vapors, in surgical operations, nearly two years before the patented discovery of Drs. Charles T. Jackson and W. T. G. Morton View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorWells, J.HeadlineWells discovers Nitrous Oxyd 1852PublisherElihu GeerDate Published1852 Lot #115 Lot of 10 early pamphlets on various medical subjects View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)Author**Headline10 early pamphlets on various medical subjectsDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #116 Assortment of booklets, pamphlets, periodicals, etc., relating to medical matters View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)Author**HeadlineAssortment of booklets etc., relating to medicalDate Published1873-1959 Lot #117 Lot of approx. 35 booklets, pamphlets & offprints on anatomy and related subjects View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Medical - Anatomy)Author**Headline35 pamphlets on anatomy and related subjectsDate Published1875-1868 Lot #118 Lot of 23 pamphets on Homœopathic & Natural Cures, mostly American View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Medical - Homœopathic & Natural Cures)Author**Headline23 pamphets on Homœopathic & Natural CuresDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #119 Lot of three pamphlets on the Insane View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical - Insanity)Author**HeadlineLot of three pamphlets on the InsaneDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #120 Lot of 11 pamphlets & 1 engraving on doctors and physicians View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Medical - Physicians)Author**Headline11 pamphlets on doctors and physiciansDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #121 Lot of 17 booklets & pamphlets on medical procedures, medicines, cures, etc., including a few duplicates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Medical - Procedures & Cures)Author**HeadlinePamphlets on Medical Procedures & CuresDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #122 Lot of 13 pamphets relating to sex and reproduction View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical - Reproductive Systems)Author**Headlinepamphets relating to sex and reproductionDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #123 Lot of 15 booklets and pamphlets on medical societies and educational institutions, etc. View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Medical - Societies and Educational Institutions)Author**HeadlineBooklets on medicals societies and schoolsDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #124 Lot of 30 offprints from the Wistar Institute View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medical - Wistar Institute)Author**HeadlineLot of 30 offprints from the Wistar InstitutePublisherWistar InstituteDate Published1926-1962 Lot #125 The American X-Ray Journal View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Medical - X-Rays)Author**HeadlineAmerican X-Ray Journal 20 issues 1901-1904Date Published1901-1904 Lot #129 The Sphere of Gentry: Deduced from the Principles of Nature... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlinesphere of gentry by Sylvanus Morgan 1661PublisherWilliam LeybournDate Published1661 Lot #130 Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society... of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Author[Morton, Henry, Charles Reuben Hale & S. Huntington Jones]HeadlinePhilomathean Society Rosetta Stone 1st ed 1/400Publisher[Philomathean Society]Date Published[1858] Lot #132 Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, During the Periods of the Directory, the Consulate, and the Empire. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Napoleon)AuthorBourrienne, [Louis Antione Fauvelet de].HeadlinePrivate Memoirs of Napoleon BonapartePublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1830 Lot #133 The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Napoleon)AuthorHazlitt, WilliamHeadlineHazlitt's Life of Napoleon BuonapartePublisherOffice of the Illustrated London LibraryDate Published1852 Lot #134 History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in the Year 1812 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Napoleon)AuthorSegur, Philip deHeadlineNapoleon's Expedition to RussiaPublisherTreuttel and Wurtz, et alDate Published1825 Lot #135 Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum. Observationibus ac Notis variorum Uberioribus illustratae, Accurante Roberto Keuchenio... View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold AuthorNepos, CorneliusHeadlineCornelius Nepos Vitae Excellentium ImperatorumPublisherHackianaDate Published1667 Lot #136 Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica View details Estimate$18,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia, 2nd edition, 1713Date Published1713 Lot #137 An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorMaclaurin, ColinHeadlineSir Isaac Newton's Philosophical DiscoveriesPublisherA. MillarDate Published1750 Lot #139 Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Olympics)Author**Headline1936 Olympics Cigarette Card BookPublisherCigaretten-BilderdienstDate Published[1936] Lot #145 Joseph and Benjamin, a Conversation. Translated from a French Manuscript View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Author[Playfair, William]HeadlineJoseph & Benjamin transl from French MSS 1787PublisherLogographic PressDate Published1787 Lot #149 The Pyramids of Gizeh, From Actual Survey and Admeasurement... Illustrated by notes and references to the several plans with sketches taken on the spot, by E.J. Andrews View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Pyramids)AuthorPerring, James ErnestHeadlinePerring's Pyramids of Gizeh large folio 1839-42PublisherJames FraserDate Published1839-1842 Lot #150 Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(Pyramids)AuthorVyse, [Richard William] HowardHeadlineHoward-Vyse explores Egyptian pyramidsPublisherJames FraserDate Published1840-1842 Lot #151 An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorReid, ThomasHeadlineInquiry in Human Mind by Thos Reid 1765 2d edPublisherA. MillarDate Published1765 Lot #164 Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: Or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorTull, JethroHeadlineJethro Tull of Vegetation and Tillage 1762PublisherA. MillarDate Published1762 Lot #168 The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorWaite, Arthur Edward, ed.Headlinealchemical writings of Aureolus... 1894 2 volsPublisherJames Elliot and Co.Date Published1894 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next