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DraperDate Published[c. 1750] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #4 Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V Heading(Aesop's Fables)AuthorPhaedrus, Aug[ustus]Headline1701 Edition of Aesop FablesPublisherFrancis HalmaDate Published1701 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #5 The Great Polyglot Bibles, Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17 Heading(Allen Press)AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineThe Great Polyglot Bibles - Allen PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1966 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #6 A Whimsical History of some Part of the Iron-Age, Set for in a Predictical Manner. Or a Prognostical Account: Of some Events that will happen to fall out this Year... AuthorAnonymousHeadlineRare Whimsical History of Iron-Age 1727PublisherPrinted for the Author...Date Published1727 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #7 Apulei Madaurensis Platonici Opera Omnia Quae Exstant. Geverhartus Elemenhorstius ex Mstis & vett. Codd. Recensuit, Librumque Emendationum & Indices absolutissimos adiecit AuthorApuleius, LuciusHeadlineWorks fo Lusius Apuleius 1621PublisherOfficina WechelianaDate Published1621 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #10 A Day in the Bleachers Heading(Arion Press)AuthorHano, ArnoldHeadlineArion Press A Day in the BleachersPublisherArion PressDate Published2006 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #11 Journey Round My Room Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMaistre, Xavier deHeadlineArion Press Journey Round My RoomPublisherArion PressDate Published2007 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #12 Godot, An Imaginary Staging...of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWiley, William T.HeadlineGodot, An Imaginary Staging Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published2006 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #13 Orlando, A Biography Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWoolf, VirginiaHeadlineArion Press Edition of Virginia Woolf's OrlandoPublisherArion PressDate Published2005 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #15 De augmentis scientiarum AuthorBacon, Francis, SirHeadlineBacon's De augmentis scientiarum 1652PublisherAdriani WijngaerdenDate Published1652 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #16 The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineBacons Essays 1696PublisherJ. NewtonDate Published1696 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #18 Dissertations Moral and Critical. On Memory and Imagination. On Dreaming. The Theory of Language. On Fable and Romance. On the Attachments of Kindred. Illustrations on Sublimity. AuthorBeattie, JamesHeadlineBeatties Dissertations Moral & Critical 1783PublisherW. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. CreechDate Published1783 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #19 Bedæ presbyteri et Fredegarii scholastici Concordia ad senioris Dagoberti definiendam monarchiæ periodum, atque ad primæ totius Regum Francorum stirpis chronologiam stabiliendam. In duas partes divisa, quarum prior continet Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum, cum notis & dissertatione de auctore hujus historiæ... AuthorBede, the Venerable, SaintHeadlineBede's Ecclesiastical History 1681PublisherGabrielem MartinumDate Published1681 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #21 Biblia, interprete Sebastiano Castalione. Unà cum eiusdem annotationibus. Totum opus recognouit ipse, & adiecit ex Flauio Iosepho historiæ supplementum ab Esdræ temporibus usq; ad Machabæos, itemq; à Machabæis usq; ad Christum. Accessit quoq[ue] rerum & uerborum tam in ipsis Biblijs, quàm Annotationibus & historiæ supplemento præcipuè memorabilium index Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineBible in Latin ed. by Sebastien Castellion 1556Publisherper Ioannem OporinumDate Published1556 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #23 Il Decamerone de M. Giovanni Boccaccio Nvovamente Corretto et Con Diligentia Stampato AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio Decameron 1729 reprint of 1527 editionPublisher[Pasinello]Date Published[1729] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #24 Consolationis philosophiae libros quinque AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineBoethius' Consolationis philosophiae 1680PublisherLamberium RoullandDate Published1680 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #25 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, during Which He Flourished AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, First EditionPublisherPrinted by Henry BaldwinDate Published1791 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #31 The last confession, prayers and meditations of Lieuten. John Stern, delivered by him on the cart immediately before his execution, to Dr. Burnet. Together with the last confession of George Borosky, signed by him in the prison, and sealed up in the lieutenants pacquet. With which an account is given of their deportment both in the prison and at the place of their execution, which was in the Pall-Mall, on the tenth of March, in the same place in which they had murthered Thomas Thynn, Esquire, the twelfth of February before, 1681/2. Written by Gilbert Burnet, D.D. and Anthony Horneck, D.D. AuthorBurnet, Gilbert & Anthony HorneckHeadlineConfession of John Stern for Murder 1682PublisherRichard ChiswellDate Published1682 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #32 The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and severall cures of it. Author[Burton, Robert]HeadlineBurton's Anatomy of Melancholy 2nd Edition 1624PublisherPrinted by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry CrippsDate Published1624 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #35 Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea: En la qual se contienen de mas de su agradable y dulce estilo muchas sentencias filosofales y auisos muy necessarios para mancebos: mostrandoles los engaños que estan encerrados en siruientes y alcahuetas Heading(Celestina...)Author[Rojas, Fernando de]HeadlineRare Antwerp printing of Celestina 1568PublisherEn casa de Philippo NucioDate Published1568 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #36 Comedias y entremeses de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, el autor del Don Quixote, divididas en dos tomos, con una dissertacion, o prologo sobre las comedias de España AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineCervantes' Comedias y Entremeses 1749PublisherImprenta de Antonio MarinDate Published1749 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #37 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodkinsonne, for Andrew CrookeDate Published1652 View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #38 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English 1742 Jarvis TranslationPublisherJ. and R. TonsonDate Published1742 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #39 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English with 16 plates 1788PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1788 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #40 [Don Quixote in Spanish, i.e.] Vida, y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Qvixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadline1750 Spanish edition of Don QuixotePublisherA costa de Don Pedro Alonso y PadillaDate Published1750 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #41 [Don Quixote in Spanish, i.e.] El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineFacsimile of 1st Ed. of Don Quixote 1886PublisherDon Francisco Lopez FabraDate Published[c.1886?] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 Novelas exemplares de Miguèl de Cervantes Saavedra: dirigidas a la exelentissima Señora condessa de Westmorland, en esta ultima imprecion AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineCervantes Novelas Exemplares 1739 the HaguePublisherJ. NeaulmeDate Published1739 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #47 The Elements of Dramatic Criticism, Containing an Analysis of the Stage Under the Following Heads, Tragedy, Tragi-comedy, Comedy, Pantomime and Farce. AuthorCooke, WilliamHeadlineCooke's Elements of Dramatic CriticismPublisherG. KearslyDate Published1775 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #49 Fables Moral and Political, With Large Explications AuthorCourt, Pieter de laHeadlineFables Moral and Political, With Large ExplicatioDate Published1703 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #51 The English Physician Enlarged With Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, That Were Not in an Impression Until This. AuthorCulpepper, Nich[olas].HeadlineCulpeppers English Physician Enlarged 1784PublisherJ. Bruce, et al.Date Published1784 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #54 The Countrey Justice: Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace out of their Sessions: Gathered for the better help of such Justices of Peace as have not been much conversant in the study of the Laws of this Realm: newly corrected and inlarged AuthorDalton, MichaelHeadlineDalton's Countrey Justice 1622PublisherPrinted [by Adam Islip] for the Societie of Stationers,Date Published1622 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #55 The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner [with] The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life... Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe 2 vols. 1719PublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1719 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #56 The life and most surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner; who lived eight-and-twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque. With an account of his deliverance thence, and his after Surprizing Adventures. Complete in one volume AuthorDefoe, DanielHeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe printed in Chester 1785PublisherPrinted by J. Fletcher, for T. Craig, in NantwichDate Published1785 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #60 A Christmas Carol AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Christmas Carol 1st Edition, 2nd IssuePublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #61 The Mystery of Edwin Drood AuthorDickens, Charles.HeadlineMystery of Edwin Drood in PartsPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #62 The Hound of the Baskervilles AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles 1st EdnPublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1902 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #63 The Return of Sherlock Holmes AuthorDoyle, A. ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle The Return of Sherlock HolmesPublisherGeorge Newnes, Ltd.Date Published1905 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold 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 #67 The Novels of Henry Fielding - Large Paper Edition AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlineThe Novels of Henry Fielding - Large Paper EditioPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1926 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #68 Finden's Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects of the Engravings by W. Brockenden... AuthorFinden, William & Edward Francis FindenHeadlineFinden's Illustrations to the Life of Lord ByronPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1833-34 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #69 Chefs-D'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineChefs-D'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain Finely BoundPublisherGeorge Barrie & SonsDate Published[c. 1900] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #70 [Works] Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Works in 13 Volumes Finely BoundPublisherChapman and HallDate Published[c. 1865] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineWorks of Tennyson Finely BoundPublisherEstes and LauriatDate Published1895-97 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #73 10 finely bound volumes Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**Headline10 fine binding booksDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold 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 #76 Lot of 12 French ordinances, statutes, etc. 17th-18th century Heading(French Royal Ordinances & Laws)HeadlineFrench ordinances, etc. 17th-18th centuryDate Published1673-1784 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #82 The Wind in the Willows AuthorGrahame, KennethHeadlineGrahame The Wind in the Willows first editionPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published[1908] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #84 Gregoriana Super Novum Testame[n]tum ex operibus beati Gregorij gloriosissimi pape et co[n]fessoris: insigne: pium ac religiosum exceptionum opus super Nouum Testame[n]tum ab Alulpho egregio monastice professio[n]is diui B[e]n[e]dicti viro (cuius fuit [et] diuus Gregori[us]) collectu[m]. AuthorGregory I, PopeHeadlineNew Testament Comentary by Pope Gregory IPublisher[Joannem Knoblouch]Date Published1516 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #85 De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineHugo Grotius De Jure Belli Ac PacisPublisherLaurentiDate Published1647 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #86 The Rights of War and Peace, In Three Books. Wherein are explained, The Law of Nature and Nations, and The Principal Points relating to Government AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineRights of War and Peace 1738 by GrotiusPublisherPrinted for W. Innys and R. Manby, et. al.Date Published1738 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #87 The Lord Keeper’s speech to Mr. Serjeant Saunders, at the time he was sworn Lord Chief Justice of His Majestie’s Court of Kings-Bench, Tuesday the 23d. January, 1682 AuthorGuilford, Francis North, BaronHeadlineSpeech by Lord Keeper Guilford 1682PublisherRobert PawletDate Published1682 [i.e. 1683] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #90 The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse Headingzzf(Fine Bindings)AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThe Writings of Thomas Hardy Finely BoundPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #91 Trattato della Cataratta, Del Glaucoma, E Dell'Amaurosi AuthorHeister, LorenzHeadlineTrattato della Cataratta, Del Glaucoma 1783PublisherFrancesco PitteriDate Published1783 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold 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 #96 Vitas Patrum AuthorHieronymusHeadlineHieronymus Vitas Patrum 1512PublisherNicholai de FrackfordiaDate PublishedJan. 15, 1512 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #97 The Dance of Death AuthorHolbein, H[ans]HeadlineDance of Death by Hans Holbein, engr by W HollarPublisher[for James Edwards?]Date Published[c.1794] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #98 The Dances of Death, Through the Various Stages of Human Life: Wherein the Capriciousness of That Tyrant is Exhibited in Forty-Six Copper Plates; Done from the Original Designes, Which Were Cut in Wood, and Afterwards Painted HeadingzzfAuthorHolbein, HansHeadlineHolbein Dances of Death 1803 - 46 copper platesPublisherPrinted by w. Smith and Co. for John ScottDate Published1803 View details Estimate$300 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #100 Icones historicae veteris et novi testamenti, carminibus Latinis & Gallicis illustrata, in quibus exponitur Historia in singulis exhibita figuris. Figures historiques du vieux et du nouveau testament, accompagnées de quadrains en Latin & en Francois, qui exposent l'histoire representée en chaque figure Heading(Icones historicae...)Author[Chappuzeau, Samuel]HeadlineWoodcuts of Biblical scenes 1680PublisherSamuel de TournesDate Published1680 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #103 Moby Dick or the Whale Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineLakeside Press Edition of Moby Dick Rockwell KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold 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 #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 #113 The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing What Works are Necessary to be Performed Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, As Also in the Conservatory and Nursery. AuthorMiller, PhilipHeadlinePhilip Miller The Gardeners Kalendar 1760PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1760 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #114 The Love of the Angels, a Poem Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorMoore, Thomas, the PoetHeadlineMoore's Love of Angels 1823PublisherLongman, Hurst, et al.Date Published1823 View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #115 [Utopia] A Most Pleasant, Fruitful, and Witty Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the new Isle called Utopia... AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineMore's Utopia Large Paper Copy 1st Dibdin EditionPublisherPrinted by William Bulmer, for William MillerDate Published1808 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold 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 #118 An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books. Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorMaclaurin, ColinHeadlineIsaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries 1748PublisherPrinted for the Author's ChildrenDate Published1748 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #120 A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences...In Four Parts Heading(Occult)AuthorSibly, E[benezer]HeadlineIllustration of the Occult Sciences 1793-96PublisherPrinted for the author, and sold by Champante and WhitrowDate Published[1792-1796] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$562.50StatusSold 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 #123 A Compleat System of Opticks in Four Books, viz. A Popular, a Mathematical, a Mechanical, and a Philosophical Treatise... Heading(Optics)AuthorSmith, RobertHeadlineCompleat System of Opticks in Four Books 1738PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1738 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #124 The XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, Entituled, Metamorphosis AuthorOvidHeadline1603 Edition of Ovid in EnglishPublisherW.W[hite]Date Published1603 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #125 The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture: Wherein, After a short Treatoise of the Five Orders, those Observations that are most necessary in Building Private-Houses, Streets, Bridges, Piazzas, Xisti, and Temples are treated of AuthorPalladio, AndreaHeadlinePalladio's Four Books of Architecture 1738PublisherIsaac WareDate Published1738 View details Estimate$4,500 - $5,500Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #126 The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him Absolute in the Most Necessary Commendable Qualities, Concerning Mind, or Body, That May be Required in a Person of Honor. AuthorPeacham, HenryHeadlineThe Compleat Gentleman 1661PublisherPrinted by E. Tyler, for Richard ThraleDate Published1661 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #127 Les Ambassades et Negotiations de l'Illustrissime & Reuerendissime Cardinal du Perron AuthorPerron, [Jacques-Davy] Cardinal duHeadlineAmbassades et Negotiations Cardinal du PerronPublisherAntoine EstieneDate Published1623 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold 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 #135 A satyr against mankind· VVritten by a person of honour Author[Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of]HeadlineRochester's Satyr against manking 1675Date Published[1675?] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #137 Les Mois, Poeme, en Douze Chants AuthorRoucher, [Jean Antoine]HeadlineRoucher, Les Mois, Poeme, en Douze Chants 1779PublisherQuillauDate Published1779 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #138 De Conceptu & Generatione Hominis...Libri Sex, congesti opera Jacobi Rueff, Chirurgi Tigurini HeadingzzfAuthorRueff, JakobHeadlineEarly obstetrics book 1554PublisherChristopher FroschauerDate Published1554 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #140 In Epistolam D. Pauli ad Hebraeos Commentarius AuthorSchmidt, SebastianoHeadlineCommentary on the Book of Hebrews 1680PublisherJoh. Frider, Spoor & Reinh, WaechtlerDate Published1680 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #143 Four plays from the Second Folio AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineFour plays from Shakespeare's Second FolioDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #145 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1796PublisherA. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1796 View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000StatusUnsold Lot #146 Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem. AuthorSophoclesHeadlineTragedies of Sophocles 1603PublisherPaulus StephanusDate Published1603 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #147 The Faerie Queene AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineSpenser's Faerie Queene Fairfax-Muckley IllusPublisherJ.M. DentDate Published1897 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #148 An History of the Holy Bible, From the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity AuthorStackhouse, ThomasHeadlineStackhouse's Bible History 1787PublisherEdward BeethamDate Published1787-88 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #150 Clavis Linguae Sanctae Novi Testamenti Aditum Aperiens... AuthorStock, ChristianHeadlineChristian Stock Clavis Linguae Sanctae Novi TestaPublisherBielckDate Published1730 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #152 Allegorische Vorstellung, Wie Das Geistliche Berg-Werck, Welches Gott Allhier Auff Erden Durch Sein Wort Angerichtet, Mit Dem Irdischen Und Was Demselben Anhängig Ist, In Vielen Stücken Kürtzlich Veralischen Wird... AuthorSuchland, Johann FriederichHeadlineRare volume of sermons for miners 1685PublisherSimon AndreaDate Published1685 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #153 A Tale of A Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which is added, An Account of a Battel Between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineSwift's Tale of a Tub 2nd edition 1704PublisherPrinted for John NuttDate Published1704 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #154 A Tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James’s Library Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineSwift's Tale of a Tub 1711Date PublishedAnno M.DCC.XI [1711] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #155 Verses on the death of Doctor Swift. Written by himself: Nov. 1731 AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineVerses on the death of Doctor Swift 1739PublisherPrinted for C. 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