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View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorAgrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich CorneliusHeadlineAgrippa's Occult Philosophy 1651PublisherPrinted by R.W. for Gregory MouleDate Published1651 [i.e. 1650] Lot #3 Alcune Decorazioni di Nobili Sale ed Altri Ornamenti [bound following] Miscellanea per i Giovani Studioso del Disegno View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorAlbertolli, GiocondoHeadlineRare work on Architecture by AlbertolliDate Published1787 & 1796 Lot #4 Quaestiones Naturales et Morales, et de Fato... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorAphrodisiensis, AlexandriHeadlineQuaestiones Naturales et Morales 1555PublisherJoan. GryphiusDate Published1555 Lot #5 Opera View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorArchimedesHeadlineArchimedes, Apollonius & Theodosius 1675PublisherGuil. Goodbid & Rob. ScottDate Published1675 Lot #10 Comoediae Novem [with the Scholia, edited by Marcus Musurus]. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold AuthorAristophanesHeadlineIncuable edition of Aristophanes 1498 AldinePublisherAldus ManutiusDate Published1498 Lot #11 [Organon] View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorAristotleHeadlineAristotle's Organon 1483 in Grand FormatPublisherAndreas Torresanus et Bartholomaeus de BlauisDate Published1483 Lot #12 Opera Omnia View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon Opera Omnia 1665PublisherJoannis Baptistae SchonwetteriDate Published1665 Lot #13 Da Asia View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBarros, Joao de & Diogo de CoutoHeadlineBarros and Couto Da Asia 1777-1788PublisherRegia Officina TypograficaDate Published1777-1788 Lot #14 De Armillis Veterum Schedion [with] Antiquitatum Veteris Puerperii Synopsis [with] De Inauribus Veterum Syntagma View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorBartholinus, Thomas & CasparHeadlineThree works by Thomas & Caspar Bartholinus 1676PublisherHenricus WetsteniusDate Published1676 Lot #15 Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws, Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorBartram, WilliamHeadlineBartram's Travels First English Edition 1792PublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1792 Lot #17 The Newe Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Greek by Theo. Beza...Englished by L. Tomson [bound with] The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins & Others... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English - Geneva Version)Author**Headline1583 New Testament in English With PsalmsPublisherChristopher Barker [&] John DayDate Published1583 Lot #18 The Four Gospels - 1613 King James Bible New Testament View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1613 folio King James Bible Four GospelsPublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 Lot #19 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in English with Cole engravings)Author**HeadlineBible with J. Cole's historical engravings 1723PublisherPrinted by John Baskett, Printer to the UniversityDate Published1723 Lot #20 Commentaries on the Laws of England View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorBlackstone, WilliamHeadlineBlackstone's Commentaries 4th Edition 1790PublisherClarendon PressDate Published1770 Lot #23 Rime di Francesco Petrarca View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Bodoni)AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoHeadlineBodoni printing of Petrarca's Rimes 1799PublisherCo' Tipi BodonianiDate Published1799 Lot #24 In Funere Caroli III Hispaniar. Regis Catholici Oratio View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Bodoni)AuthorRidolfi, BernardinoHeadlineScarce Officina Bodoni Work By RidolfiPublisherEx Regio TypographeoDate Published1789 Lot #25 The Book of Common Prayer...Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David [with] A New Version of the Psalms of David View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Book of Common Prayer)AuthorChurch of IrelandHeadline1722 Dublin Edition of the Book of Common PrayerPublisherA. RhamesDate Published1722 Lot #29 The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorButler, JosephHeadlineJoseph Butler The Analogy of Religion 1736PublisherJames, John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1736 Lot #31 Le Imagini De i Dei de Gli Antichi View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCartari, VincenzoHeadlineScarce work on classical Iconography 1587PublisherFrancesco ZilettiDate Published1587 Lot #34 Nouvelle Methode Pour Dresser les Chevaux, en Suivant la Nature & Mesme la Perfectionnant par la Subtilite de l'Art View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Author[Cavendish, William, Duke of Newcastle]HeadlineWm. Cavendish on Equestrian Training 1677PublisherGervais ClouzierDate Published1677 Lot #35 [Don Quixote in English, i.e. The history of Don-Quichote. The first parte] View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineEarly English edition of Don Quixote 1620Publisher[Ed. Blounte]Date Published[1620?] Lot #36 The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant, Don Quixote, of the Mancha [with] The Second Part of the History... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Author[Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de]HeadlineEarly English Edition of Don QuixotePublisherR. Scot, et al [&] Richard HodgkinsonDate Published1675 Lot #39 Les Characteres des Passions View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorChambre, [Marin Cureau] de laHeadlineLes Characteres des Passions 1648PublisherP. RocoletDate Published1648, 1660, 1659 Lot #42 Set of Cook’s Three Voyages, first editions, with Atlas View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzcAuthorCook, JamesHeadlineCook’s Three Voyages, first editions, with AtlasPublisherW. Strahan & T. Cadell, et al.Date Published1773, 1777, 1784 Lot #44 Notae Graecorum Sive Vocum et Numerorum Compendia... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorCorsini, EduardoHeadlineEduardo Corsini Notae Graecorum 1749PublisherE Typographio ImperialiDate Published1749 Lot #50 Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts Mechaniquies, avec Leur Explication View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorDiderot, Denis & Jean le Rond d'AlembertHeadlinePlate volume to Diderot's Encyclopedie 1769PublisherBriasson & Le BretonDate Published1769 Lot #57 Collection of approximately 330 engraved title-pages, dedication leaves, etc. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Engravings)Author**HeadlineLarge collection of title pages 16th-18th CenturyDate Published16th-18th centuries Lot #59 Epitome Adagiorvm post novissimam D. Erasmi Rot. exquisitam recognitionem, per Eberhardum Tappium ad numerum adagiorum magni operis nunc primum aucta View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorErasmus Roterodamus, DesideriusHeadlineErasmus Adagiorum 1542PublisherGymnicusDate Published1542 Lot #60 De Re Vestiaria View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorFerrari, OttavioHeadlineFerrari on Roman Costume 1654PublisherPauli FrambottiDate Published1654 Lot #61 The Life of Cardinal Wolsey View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorFiddes, RichardHeadlineThe Life of Cardinal Wolsey 1724PublisherJohn BarberDate Published1724 Lot #70 Histoire Anatomique des Parties Genitales de L'Homme et de la Femme, qui Servent a la Generation View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorGraaf, [Regnier de]HeadlineFrench Edition of Graafs works 1699PublisherEmanuel Jean George KonigDate Published1699 Lot #71 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 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorGregory I, PopeHeadlineNew Testament Comentary by Pope Gregory IPublisher[Joannem Knoblouch]Date Published1516 Lot #72 The Federalist: on the New Constitution, by Publius, Written in 1788. To Which is Added, Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Wrtten in 1793. Likewise, the Federal Constitution, with All the Amendments. Revised and Corrected View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold AuthorHamilton, Alexander, et al.HeadlineFederalist Papers, Revised Edition, 1802PublisherGeorge F. HopkinsDate Published1802 Lot #73 Lexicon Technicum: Or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: Explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, JohnHeadlineHarris' Lexicon Technicum 2 vols Large Paper CopyPublisherDan. Brown, et al.Date Published1704-1710 Lot #75 The Original Works of William Hogarth View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorHogarth, WilliamHeadlineBoydell's Hogarth Third Folio EditionPublisherJohn and Josiah BoydellDate Published1790 [but c. 1805] Lot #76 Homer His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby, Esq. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineOgilby edition of Homer's Odyssey, 1669PublisherPrinted by James Flesher, for the AuthourDate Published1669 Lot #86 Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorJones, Inigo and Wm. KentHeadlineSome Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. KentPublisherJohn VardyDate Published1744 Lot #96 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1680 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherJohn Starkey, Charles Harper, and John AmeryDate Published1680 Lot #97 Observations Upon the Laws and Customs of Nations, as to Precedency [bound with, as usual] The Science of Herauldry, Treated as a Part of the Civil Law and Law of Nations View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorMackenzie, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge MacKenzie on Precedence and Herauldry 1680PublisherHeir of Andrew AndersonDate Published1680 Lot #99 [Le Morte d'Arthur, i.e.]: The most ancient and famous history of the renowned prince Arthur King of Britaine, vvherein is declared his life and death, with all his glorious battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and pagans, which (for the honour of his country) he most worthily atchieued. As also all the noble acts, and heroicke deeds of his valiant knights of the Round Table. Newly refined, and published for the delight, and profit of the reader View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineEarly English edition of Le Morte d'ArthurPublisherPrinted by William Stansby, for Iacob BloomeDate Published1634 Lot #101 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost folio 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 Lot #105 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English, Vol. I, 1729PublisherPrinted for Benjamin MotteDate Published1729 Lot #106 The method of fluxions and infinite series; with its application to the geometry of curve-lines. By the Inventor Sir Isaac Newton, Kt. Late President of the Royal Society. Translated from the author’s Latin original not yet made publick. To which is subjoin’d, a perpetual comment upon the whole work, Consisting of Annotations, Illustrations, and Supplements, In order to make this Treatise A compleat Institution for the use of Learners. By John Colson, M.A. and F.R.S. Master of Sir Joseph Williamson’s free Mathematical-School at Rochester View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Methods of Fluxions large paper 1736PublisherPrinted by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John NourseDate Published1736 Lot #113 Le Temple des Muses View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Picart, Bernard)Author**HeadlinePicart's Temple of Muses with engravingsPublisherZacharie ChatelainDate Published1733 Lot #114 Opera View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorPlautus, [Titus Maccius]HeadlineWorks of Plautus edited by Lambin 1577PublisherJean MaceDate Published1577 Lot #115 The Historie of the World; Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Author[Pliny the Elder] Plinius Secundus, GaiusHeadlinePliny's History of the World 1601PublisherImpensis G.B. [Printed by Adam Islip]Date Published1601 Lot #117 Iconologia Overo View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorRipa, CesareHeadlineSecond Edition of Ripa's IconologiaPublisherLepido FaeijDate Published1603 Lot #118 Delle Rime Del S. Berardino Rota [bound with] Delle Egloghe Pescatorie del S. Berardino Rota View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorRota, BerardinoHeadlineRhymes of Berardino Rota 1572PublisherGiuseppe Cacchii dell AquilaDate Published1572 Lot #122 Letters on Egypt, With a Parallel Between the Manners of its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, the Present State, the Commerce, the Agriculture, and Government of the Country View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorSavary [Claude Etienne]HeadlineSavary's Letters on Egypt 1786 First English EdnPublisherG. G. J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1786 Lot #123 Habes hic lector, dialogū de Fratre Hieronymi Nicolai Sauonarola Ferrariensi... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorSavonarola, GirolamoHeadlineSavonarola's Last Moments 1521Publisher[Johannes Rhau-Grunenberg]Date Published1521 Lot #125 The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Richard III, 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #126 The Winters Tale View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Winters Tale 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #127 The life and death of King John View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's King John 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #128 Twelfe Night, Or what you will View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Twelfe Night 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #131 An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations 2nd Amer. Edn.PublisherThomas DobsonDate Published1796 Lot #133 De Pileo, Caeterisque Capitus Tegminibus Tan Sacris, Quam Profanis View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorSolerius, Anselmus [Raynaud, Theophile]HeadlineScarce works on head wear, togas, etcPublisherAndreae FrisiiDate Published1672 Lot #135 Opera Posthuma: Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorSpinoza, Baruch deHeadlineSpinoza's posthumas works, 1677Publisher[J. Rieuwertsz]Date Published1677 Lot #136 A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Author[Sterne, Laurence]HeadlineSterne's Sentimental Journey 1768PublisherT. Becket and P.A. De HondtDate Published1768 Lot #137 Comoediae. Recensuit, Notasque Suas et Gabrielis Faerni addidit Richardus Bentleius. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading[Terence]AuthorP. Terentii AfriHeadlineTerence's Comedies 1727PublisherR. & J. Wetstein & G. SmithDate Published1727 Lot #138 Commentaria sancti thome super libros physicor[um] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorThomas AquinasHeadlineRare incunabula of Thomas Aquinas on AristotlePublisherJoanem & Gregoriuu[n] de Gregoriis fratresDate Published1492 Lot #139 Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Peloponnesian Warre 1629PublisherImprinted for Hen: SeileDate Published1629 Lot #144 The .xiii. bookes of Æneidos. The first twelue beeinge the woorke of the diuine poet Virgil Maro, and the thirtenth the supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English verse to the fyrst thirdpart of the tenth booke, by Thomas Phaër Esquire: and the residue finished, and now the second time newly setforth for the delite of such as are studious in poetrie: by Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineVirgil's Aeneid in English 1584PublisherWilliam How for Abraham VealeDate Published1584 Lot #148 Les Dix Livres d'Architecture Corrigez et Traduits Nouvellement en Francois, Avec des Notes & des Figures. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorVitruvius. [Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus]Headline1673 Edition of Vitruvius d'ArchitecturePublisherJean Baptiste CoignardDate Published1673 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next