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DraperDate Published[c. 1750] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #14 The National and Domestic History of England AuthorAubrey, William Hickman SmithHeadlineNational & Domestic Hist. of England - 3 volsPublisherJames HaggerDate Published[1867-1870] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #17 A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time of the Roman Government, to the Death of King James the First...with a Continuation to the Year 1660 by E. Phillipe...Whereto Will be Added a Second Continuation... AuthorBaker, RichardHeadlineBaker's Chronicles of the Kings of EnglandPublisherSamuel BallardDate Published1733 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #26 The Life of Samuel Johnson Headingzzf(Fine Bindings)AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineLife of Samuel Johnson Temple Bar EditionPublisherGabriel WellsDate Published1922 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #43 A History of the English Speaking Peoples AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineA History of the English Speaking Peoples SignedPublisherCassellDate Published[1956-1958] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #44 Marlborough, His Life and Times AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's Biography of Marlborough Finely BoundPublisherGeorge G. HarrapDate Published[1933-38] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #45 The Second World War AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston S. Churchill The Second World War SignedPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published1948-53 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #46 The World Crisis AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The World Crisis SignedPublisherThornton ButterworthDate Published1923-31 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #50 Military Instructions for the Cavallrie: Or Rules and Directions for the Service of Horse Author[Cruso, John]HeadlineMilitary Instructions for the Cavallrie 1644PublisherRoger DanielDate Published1644 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #57 A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain. Divided into Circuits or Journies. AuthorDefoe, Daniel, Mr. [Samuel] Richardson, et alHeadlineA Tour Through the Island of Great Britain 1778PublisherW. Strahan, et alDate Published1778 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #64 History of the World From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Collected and Arranged by the Best Authorities AuthorDuyckinck, Evert A.HeadlineHistory of the World 4 vols by Duyckinck 1871-73PublisherJohnson, Fry and CompanyDate Published[1871-1873] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #65 Seven 17th century English speeches and Parliament proceeding publications Heading(England - 17th Century)Author**Headlineseven 17th cent. English parliament docsDate Published1642-1649 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #71 Lives of the Queens of England Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorStrickland, AgnesHeadlineStrickland's Lives of the Queens of EnglandPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1841-1848 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #73 10 finely bound volumes Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**Headline10 fine binding booksDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #74 Rhein-Album AuthorFoltz, F.HeadlineRhein-Album 22 engraved plates by F. FoltzPublisherKarl NeulandDate Published[c.1890] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #75 Lettres galantes de Monsieur le Chevalier d'Her*** Author[Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de]HeadlineFontenelle's Lettres Galantes 1699PublisherMichel BrunetDate Published1699 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #77 Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany Flanders and the Adjoining Countries... AuthorFroissart, JeanHeadlineFroissart's Chronicles 1812 EditionPublisherF.C. and J. Rivington, et alDate Published1812 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #78 Seven black and white photographs by Wang Gangfeng AuthorGangfeng, WangHeadline7 black and white photographs by Wang GangfengDate Published[1980s?] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #79 The History of England: Under the Reign of George III., George IV., William IV., and Queen Victoria AuthorGaspey, ThomasHeadlineGaspey's History of EnglandPublisherLondon Printing and Publishing CompanyDate Published[c. 1860] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #83 History of the English People; and A Short History of the English People AuthorGreen, John RichardHeadline2 eds of History of English People 1880, 1902PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1880-1903 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #89 View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages - 2 editions AuthorHallam, HenryHeadlineView of Europe during Middle Ages, 2 eds H HallamPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1837-1848 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #94 [Opera - 2 volumes bound together] AuthorHerodotus & ThucydidesHeadline16th century works of Herodotus and ThucydidesPublisherOfficina HervagianaDate Published1557 & 1540 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #95 The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call’d, the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: With the Best Accounts the People could give of their Antiquities. Collected from the original relations sent to the kings of Spain. By Antonio de Herrera, Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. Translated into English by Capt. John Stevens. ... Illustrated with cutts and maps AuthorHerrera y Tordesillas, Antonio deHeadlineHerrera's History of America 6 vols. 1725-6PublisherPrinted for Jer. Batley, at the Dove in Pater-Noster-RowDate Published1725-6 View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #99 The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the End of the Reign of James II AuthorHume, David and Tobias Smollett, et. al.HeadlineHistory of England 3 vols. finely boundPublisherJames S. VirtueDate Published[c.1850] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #101 Japanese Dictionary printed with woodblocks Heading(Japanese Dictionary)Author**HeadlineJapanese Dictionary printed with woodblocks 1783Date Published1783 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #106 A Collection of the Most Remarkable and Interesting Trials. Particularly of Those Persons Who Have Forfeited Their Lives to the Injured Laws of Their Country. In Which the Most Remarkable of the State Trials Will be Included. With the Defence and Behaviour of the Criminals, Before and After Condemnation. Intended Not Only to Point Out the Crimes of the Great, Which are at Present but Little Farther Known Than Their Own Families; But Also Those of Inferior Criminals, Who Only are Handed Down as Examples to Posterity. Heading(Law)Author**HeadlineCollection of Interesting Trials 1775-76PublisherR. SnaggDate Published1775-76 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #107 A History of England in the Eighteenth Century AuthorLecky, William Edward HartpoleHeadlineHistory of England in 18th Cent. 8 vols by LeckyPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1878-1890 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #109 The History of England From the Accession of James II; and Critical and Historical Essays AuthorMacaulay, Thomas BabingtonHeadlineEngland From the Accession of James II - 5 volsPublisherLongman, Brown, GreenDate Published1846-1861 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #110 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherprinted for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-BarDate Published1675 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #117 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et alDate Published1728 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #119 A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Heading(Newton, Isaac)Author[Pemberton, Henry]HeadlineA View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy 1728PublisherS. PalmerDate Published1728 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #121 Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea... Collected and translated from most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations; illustrated with notes, and adorn’d with peculiar maps, and proper sculptures... AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineOgilby's Africa 1670PublisherPrinted by Tho. Johnson for the authorDate Published1670 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #128 Collection of 34 manuscript leaves with paintings from Persia or Mughal India Heading(Persian/Mughal Manuscript Leaves)Author**Headline34 Persian/Mughal Manuscript LeavesDate PublishedEarly 19th century? View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #131 Five titles in prize bindings Heading(Prize Bindings)Author**Headline6 vols of prize binding booksDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #132 Grundsätze und Regeln der Kriegs-Kunst AuthorPuysegur, [François-Jacques-Maximilien de Chastenet]HeadlinePuysegur's Art of War in German 1753PublisherJohann Friedrich GeditschensDate Published1753 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #133 The History of the World AuthorRaleigh, WalterHeadlineRaleigh's History of the World 1652Publisherprinted for R: Best Jo. Place & Sam: CartwrightDate Published1652 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #136 A Treatise on Navigation by Steam, Comprising a History of the Steam Engine, and an essay towards a system of the Naval tactics peculiar to steam navigation, as applicable to both commerce and maritime warfare AuthorRoss, JohnHeadlineJohn Ross on Steam Navigation 1837PublisherJohn WealeDate Published1837 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #151 Lives of the Queens of England AuthorStrickland, AgnesHeadlineLives of the Queens of England new revised, edPublisherLongman, Brown, GreenDate Published1857 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #160 Plan and Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Universal History, Ancient and Modern, Delivered in the University of Edinburgh AuthorTytler, AlexanderHeadlineLectures on Universal History by Alexander TytlerPublisherPrinted for William CreechDate Published1782 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #165 The History of France Under the Bourbons. A.D. 1589-1830 AuthorYonge, Charles DukeHeadlineFrance Under the Bourbons - 4 vols 1866-67PublisherTinsley BrothersDate Published1866-1867 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #173 Czarism at Bay - Autograph Manuscript HeadingzzcAuthorBlind, KarlHeadlineCzarism at Bay - Autograph MS. by Karl BlindDate Published[1904] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #176 Manuscript copies of three letters (2 are on on 1 four-page lettersheet, the other a single sheet) circulated by the followers of James II, to prove that Charles II was a supporter of the Catholic Church HeadingzzcAuthorCharles II, King of EnglandHeadline17th century copies of letters by Charles IIDate Published17th century View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #184 Extracts out of the Recordes wherein may be Collected by what means the Kinges of England have and may raise Moneys Headingzzc(England)Author**Headline17th cent. Ms. on English taxationDate Publishedc.17th century View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #199 Autograph Letter signed by McClure, to his wife, written from the Polar Sea HeadingzzcAuthorMcClure, RobertHeadlineLetter from Arctic Explorer Robert McClure 1853Date PublishedApril 15th, 1853 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #202 Lot of three letters to Professor Bernard Moses, relating to his service as U.S. Commissioner in the Philippines Headingzzd(Philippines)Author**HeadlineLetters to Philippines Commissioner MosesDate Published1900-1908 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #206 Menu for a dinner given for Shackleton, Amundsen and Peary at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, signed in ink by the three explorers HeadingzzcAuthorShackleton, Ernest H.; Roald Amundsen; Robert E. PearyHeadlineMenu signed by Shacklelton, Amundsen and PearyDate Published1913 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #208 Manuscript listing of missionaries and crew aboard the Ship Duff, bound for Tahiti, at the end of a commonplace book kept by one of the missionaries Headingzzc(Tahiti)Author**HeadlineMs. list of Tahitian missionaries 1796Date Publishedc.1796-99 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #216 Lot of 17 responses to the question of whether the United States could or should maintain her neutrality during the World War Heading(World War I - U.S. Neutrality)Author**HeadlineMS. responses on U.S. neutrality in WWIDate PublishedAugust 1915 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next