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Previous|12|Next Lot #1 The Comic History of England [and] The Comic History of Rome View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Leech, John)AuthorA'Beckett, Gilbert AbbottHeadlineComic History of England & Rome 1st EditionsDate Published1847-48, [1852] Lot #3 The Spectator View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Addison, Steele, et al]HeadlineThe Spectator in 8 volumes mid-18th CenturyPublisherJ. and R. Tonson and S. DraperDate Published[c. 1750] Lot #4 Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Aesop's Fables)AuthorPhaedrus, Aug[ustus]Headline1701 Edition of Aesop FablesPublisherFrancis HalmaDate Published1701 Lot #5 The Great Polyglot Bibles, Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineThe Great Polyglot Bibles - Allen PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1966 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... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorAnonymousHeadlineRare Whimsical History of Iron-Age 1727PublisherPrinted for the Author...Date Published1727 Lot #7 Apulei Madaurensis Platonici Opera Omnia Quae Exstant. Geverhartus Elemenhorstius ex Mstis & vett. Codd. Recensuit, Librumque Emendationum & Indices absolutissimos adiecit View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorApuleius, LuciusHeadlineWorks fo Lusius Apuleius 1621PublisherOfficina WechelianaDate Published1621 Lot #10 A Day in the Bleachers View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorHano, ArnoldHeadlineArion Press A Day in the BleachersPublisherArion PressDate Published2006 Lot #11 Journey Round My Room View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorMaistre, Xavier deHeadlineArion Press Journey Round My RoomPublisherArion PressDate Published2007 Lot #12 Godot, An Imaginary Staging...of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWiley, William T.HeadlineGodot, An Imaginary Staging Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published2006 Lot #13 Orlando, A Biography View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorWoolf, VirginiaHeadlineArion Press Edition of Virginia Woolf's OrlandoPublisherArion PressDate Published2005 Lot #15 De augmentis scientiarum View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBacon, Francis, SirHeadlineBacon's De augmentis scientiarum 1652PublisherAdriani WijngaerdenDate Published1652 Lot #16 The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineBacons Essays 1696PublisherJ. NewtonDate Published1696 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... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBaker, RichardHeadlineBaker's Chronicles of the Kings of EnglandPublisherSamuel BallardDate Published1733 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. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorBeattie, JamesHeadlineBeatties Dissertations Moral & Critical 1783PublisherW. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. CreechDate Published1783 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBede, the Venerable, SaintHeadlineBede's Ecclesiastical History 1681PublisherGabrielem MartinumDate Published1681 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineBible in Latin ed. by Sebastien Castellion 1556Publisherper Ioannem OporinumDate Published1556 Lot #23 Il Decamerone de M. Giovanni Boccaccio Nvovamente Corretto et Con Diligentia Stampato View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio Decameron 1729 reprint of 1527 editionPublisher[Pasinello]Date Published[1729] Lot #24 Consolationis philosophiae libros quinque View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineBoethius' Consolationis philosophiae 1680PublisherLamberium RoullandDate Published1680 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 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, First EditionPublisherPrinted by Henry BaldwinDate Published1791 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. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBurnet, Gilbert & Anthony HorneckHeadlineConfession of John Stern for Murder 1682PublisherRichard ChiswellDate Published1682 Lot #32 The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and severall cures of it. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Author[Burton, Robert]HeadlineBurton's Anatomy of Melancholy 2nd Edition 1624PublisherPrinted by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry CrippsDate Published1624 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Heading(Celestina...)Author[Rojas, Fernando de]HeadlineRare Antwerp printing of Celestina 1568PublisherEn casa de Philippo NucioDate Published1568 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineCervantes' Comedias y Entremeses 1749PublisherImprenta de Antonio MarinDate Published1749 Lot #37 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodkinsonne, for Andrew CrookeDate Published1652 Lot #38 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English 1742 Jarvis TranslationPublisherJ. and R. TonsonDate Published1742 Lot #39 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English with 16 plates 1788PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1788 Lot #40 [Don Quixote in Spanish, i.e.] Vida, y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Qvixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadline1750 Spanish edition of Don QuixotePublisherA costa de Don Pedro Alonso y PadillaDate Published1750 Lot #41 [Don Quixote in Spanish, i.e.] El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineFacsimile of 1st Ed. of Don Quixote 1886PublisherDon Francisco Lopez FabraDate Published[c.1886?] Lot #42 Novelas exemplares de Miguèl de Cervantes Saavedra: dirigidas a la exelentissima Señora condessa de Westmorland, en esta ultima imprecion View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineCervantes Novelas Exemplares 1739 the HaguePublisherJ. NeaulmeDate Published1739 Lot #47 The Elements of Dramatic Criticism, Containing an Analysis of the Stage Under the Following Heads, Tragedy, Tragi-comedy, Comedy, Pantomime and Farce. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCooke, WilliamHeadlineCooke's Elements of Dramatic CriticismPublisherG. KearslyDate Published1775 Lot #49 Fables Moral and Political, With Large Explications View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCourt, Pieter de laHeadlineFables Moral and Political, With Large ExplicatioDate Published1703 Lot #50 Military Instructions for the Cavallrie: Or Rules and Directions for the Service of Horse View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Author[Cruso, John]HeadlineMilitary Instructions for the Cavallrie 1644PublisherRoger DanielDate Published1644 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. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCulpepper, Nich[olas].HeadlineCulpeppers English Physician Enlarged 1784PublisherJ. Bruce, et al.Date Published1784 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDalton, MichaelHeadlineDalton's Countrey Justice 1622PublisherPrinted [by Adam Islip] for the Societie of Stationers,Date Published1622 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe 2 vols. 1719PublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1719 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 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorDefoe, DanielHeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe printed in Chester 1785PublisherPrinted by J. Fletcher, for T. Craig, in NantwichDate Published1785 Lot #60 A Christmas Carol View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Christmas Carol 1st Edition, 2nd IssuePublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 Lot #61 The Mystery of Edwin Drood View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDickens, Charles.HeadlineMystery of Edwin Drood in PartsPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1870 Lot #62 The Hound of the Baskervilles View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles 1st EdnPublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1902 Lot #63 The Return of Sherlock Holmes View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, A. ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle The Return of Sherlock HolmesPublisherGeorge Newnes, Ltd.Date Published1905 Lot #65 Seven 17th century English speeches and Parliament proceeding publications View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(England - 17th Century)Author**Headlineseven 17th cent. English parliament docsDate Published1642-1649 Lot #67 The Novels of Henry Fielding - Large Paper Edition View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlineThe Novels of Henry Fielding - Large Paper EditioPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1926 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... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorFinden, William & Edward Francis FindenHeadlineFinden's Illustrations to the Life of Lord ByronPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1833-34 Lot #69 Chefs-D'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**HeadlineChefs-D'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain Finely BoundPublisherGeorge Barrie & SonsDate Published[c. 1900] Lot #70 [Works] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Works in 13 Volumes Finely BoundPublisherChapman and HallDate Published[c. 1865] Lot #72 The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineWorks of Tennyson Finely BoundPublisherEstes and LauriatDate Published1895-97 Lot #73 10 finely bound volumes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)Author**Headline10 fine binding booksDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #75 Lettres galantes de Monsieur le Chevalier d'Her*** View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de]HeadlineFontenelle's Lettres Galantes 1699PublisherMichel BrunetDate Published1699 Lot #76 Lot of 12 French ordinances, statutes, etc. 17th-18th century View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Heading(French Royal Ordinances & Laws)HeadlineFrench ordinances, etc. 17th-18th centuryDate Published1673-1784 Lot #82 The Wind in the Willows View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorGrahame, KennethHeadlineGrahame The Wind in the Willows first editionPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published[1908] 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]. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorGregory I, PopeHeadlineNew Testament Comentary by Pope Gregory IPublisher[Joannem Knoblouch]Date Published1516 Lot #85 De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineHugo Grotius De Jure Belli Ac PacisPublisherLaurentiDate Published1647 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineRights of War and Peace 1738 by GrotiusPublisherPrinted for W. Innys and R. Manby, et. al.Date Published1738 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGuilford, Francis North, BaronHeadlineSpeech by Lord Keeper Guilford 1682PublisherRobert PawletDate Published1682 [i.e. 1683] Lot #90 The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Headingzzf(Fine Bindings)AuthorHardy, ThomasHeadlineThe Writings of Thomas Hardy Finely BoundPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published[1920] Lot #91 Trattato della Cataratta, Del Glaucoma, E Dell'Amaurosi View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorHeister, LorenzHeadlineTrattato della Cataratta, Del Glaucoma 1783PublisherFrancesco PitteriDate Published1783 Lot #94 [Opera - 2 volumes bound together] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHerodotus & ThucydidesHeadline16th century works of Herodotus and ThucydidesPublisherOfficina HervagianaDate Published1557 & 1540 Lot #96 Vitas Patrum View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorHieronymusHeadlineHieronymus Vitas Patrum 1512PublisherNicholai de FrackfordiaDate PublishedJan. 15, 1512 Lot #97 The Dance of Death View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorHolbein, H[ans]HeadlineDance of Death by Hans Holbein, engr by W HollarPublisher[for James Edwards?]Date Published[c.1794] 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 View details Estimate$300 - $600StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorHolbein, HansHeadlineHolbein Dances of Death 1803 - 46 copper platesPublisherPrinted by w. Smith and Co. for John ScottDate Published1803 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Icones historicae...)Author[Chappuzeau, Samuel]HeadlineWoodcuts of Biblical scenes 1680PublisherSamuel de TournesDate Published1680 Lot #103 Moby Dick or the Whale View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Kent, Rockwell)AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineLakeside Press Edition of Moby Dick Rockwell KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 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. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Law)Author**HeadlineCollection of Interesting Trials 1775-76PublisherR. SnaggDate Published1775-76 Lot #110 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherprinted for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-BarDate Published1675 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. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorMiller, PhilipHeadlinePhilip Miller The Gardeners Kalendar 1760PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1760 Lot #114 The Love of the Angels, a Poem View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorMoore, Thomas, the PoetHeadlineMoore's Love of Angels 1823PublisherLongman, Hurst, et al.Date Published1823 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... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineMore's Utopia Large Paper Copy 1st Dibdin EditionPublisherPrinted by William Bulmer, for William MillerDate Published1808 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et alDate Published1728 Lot #118 An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorMaclaurin, ColinHeadlineIsaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries 1748PublisherPrinted for the Author's ChildrenDate Published1748 Lot #120 A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences...In Four Parts View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Occult)AuthorSibly, E[benezer]HeadlineIllustration of the Occult Sciences 1793-96PublisherPrinted for the author, and sold by Champante and WhitrowDate Published[1792-1796] 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... View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineOgilby's Africa 1670PublisherPrinted by Tho. Johnson for the authorDate Published1670 Lot #123 A Compleat System of Opticks in Four Books, viz. A Popular, a Mathematical, a Mechanical, and a Philosophical Treatise... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Optics)AuthorSmith, RobertHeadlineCompleat System of Opticks in Four Books 1738PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1738 Lot #124 The XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, Entituled, Metamorphosis View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorOvidHeadline1603 Edition of Ovid in EnglishPublisherW.W[hite]Date Published1603 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 View details Estimate$4,500 - $5,500Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorPalladio, AndreaHeadlinePalladio's Four Books of Architecture 1738PublisherIsaac WareDate Published1738 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. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorPeacham, HenryHeadlineThe Compleat Gentleman 1661PublisherPrinted by E. Tyler, for Richard ThraleDate Published1661 Lot #127 Les Ambassades et Negotiations de l'Illustrissime & Reuerendissime Cardinal du Perron View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorPerron, [Jacques-Davy] Cardinal duHeadlineAmbassades et Negotiations Cardinal du PerronPublisherAntoine EstieneDate Published1623 Lot #131 Five titles in prize bindings View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Prize Bindings)Author**Headline6 vols of prize binding booksDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #132 Grundsätze und Regeln der Kriegs-Kunst View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorPuysegur, [François-Jacques-Maximilien de Chastenet]HeadlinePuysegur's Art of War in German 1753PublisherJohann Friedrich GeditschensDate Published1753 Lot #133 The History of the World View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorRaleigh, WalterHeadlineRaleigh's History of the World 1652Publisherprinted for R: Best Jo. Place & Sam: CartwrightDate Published1652 Lot #135 A satyr against mankind· VVritten by a person of honour View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Author[Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of]HeadlineRochester's Satyr against manking 1675Date Published[1675?] Lot #137 Les Mois, Poeme, en Douze Chants View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorRoucher, [Jean Antoine]HeadlineRoucher, Les Mois, Poeme, en Douze Chants 1779PublisherQuillauDate Published1779 Lot #138 De Conceptu & Generatione Hominis...Libri Sex, congesti opera Jacobi Rueff, Chirurgi Tigurini View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorRueff, JakobHeadlineEarly obstetrics book 1554PublisherChristopher FroschauerDate Published1554 Lot #140 In Epistolam D. Pauli ad Hebraeos Commentarius View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorSchmidt, SebastianoHeadlineCommentary on the Book of Hebrews 1680PublisherJoh. Frider, Spoor & Reinh, WaechtlerDate Published1680 Lot #143 Four plays from the Second Folio View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineFour plays from Shakespeare's Second FolioDate Published[1632] Lot #145 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000StatusUnsold AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1796PublisherA. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1796 Lot #146 Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem. View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorSophoclesHeadlineTragedies of Sophocles 1603PublisherPaulus StephanusDate Published1603 Lot #147 The Faerie Queene View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineSpenser's Faerie Queene Fairfax-Muckley IllusPublisherJ.M. DentDate Published1897 Lot #148 An History of the Holy Bible, From the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorStackhouse, ThomasHeadlineStackhouse's Bible History 1787PublisherEdward BeethamDate Published1787-88 Lot #150 Clavis Linguae Sanctae Novi Testamenti Aditum Aperiens... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorStock, ChristianHeadlineChristian Stock Clavis Linguae Sanctae Novi TestaPublisherBielckDate Published1730 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... View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorSuchland, Johann FriederichHeadlineRare volume of sermons for miners 1685PublisherSimon AndreaDate Published1685 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineSwift's Tale of a Tub 2nd edition 1704PublisherPrinted for John NuttDate Published1704 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineSwift's Tale of a Tub 1711Date PublishedAnno M.DCC.XI [1711] Lot #155 Verses on the death of Doctor Swift. Written by himself: Nov. 1731 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineVerses on the death of Doctor Swift 1739PublisherPrinted for C. 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