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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Poems View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Adams, Ansel)AuthorJeffers, RobinsonHeadlineRobinson Jeffers Poems Signed by Ansel AdamsPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1928 Lot #2 Three books of occult philosophy, written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, of Nettesheim, counseller to Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany: and judge of the Prerogative Court. Translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. 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 #5 Opera View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorArchimedesHeadlineArchimedes, Apollonius & Theodosius 1675PublisherGuil. Goodbid & Rob. ScottDate Published1675 Lot #9 A Coney Island of the Mind View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorFerlinghetti, LawrenceHeadlineFerlinghetti Coney Island of the Mind Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published2005 Lot #16 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 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBeattie, JamesHeadlineBeatties Dissertations Moral & Critical 1783PublisherW. Strahan, T. Cadell, and W. CreechDate Published1783 Lot #21 The Grave, A Poem View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertHeadlineThe Grave 1808 William Blake Engravings folio ed.PublisherT. BensleyDate Published1808 Lot #22 Il Decameron View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineThe Decameron of Boccaccio 1816 Folio EditionPublisherCo' Caratteri di F. DidotDate Published1816 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 #26 A Theory of Natural Philosophy View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorBoscovich, Ruggiero GiuseppeHeadlineBoscovich's Theory of Natural Philosophy 1922PublisherOpen CourtDate Published1922 Lot #27 The Martian Chronicles View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineBradbury's Martian Chronicles, 1st ed with djPublisherDoubledayDate Published1950 Lot #30 Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Calder, Alexander, illus.)AuthorAesopHeadlineAesop's Fables Illustrated by Alexander CalderPublisherHarrison of ParisDate Published1931 Lot #33 A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorCastaneda, CarlosHeadlineSeparate Reality inscribed by Carlos CastanedaPublisherSimon & SchusterDate Published[1971] 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 #45 James and the Giant Peach View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorDahl, RoaldHeadlineRoald Dahl James and the Giant Peach 1st EditionPublisherKnopfDate Published[1961] Lot #46 WITHDRAWN The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorDarwin, Charles WITHDRAWNHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man Presentation copyPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 Lot #48 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$6,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorDescartes, RenéHeadlineDescartes Six Meditations 1st in English 1680PublisherPrinted by B.G. for Benj. TookeDate Published1680 Lot #49 A Christmas Carol View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineEarly Printing of Dickens Christmas Carol 1844PublisherChapman & HallDate Published1844 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 #52 The Hound of the Baskervilles View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineA.C. Doyle Hound of the Baskervilles 1st EdnPublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1902 Lot #54 Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's Theory of Relativity 1916PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1916 Lot #55 The Complete Poems and Plays - Inscribed and with a TLS View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineT.S. Eliot Signed Book and LetterPublisherHarcourt, Brace and CompanyDate Published[1952] 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 #62 Lettera Apologetica del Galileo [i.e. La Difesa di Galileo] View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold Heading(Galileo Galilei)AuthorAverani, BenedettoHeadline17th century manuscript defense of GalileoDate Published[late 17th century] Lot #64 Capita Deorum et Illustrium Hominum Pacis Bellique Artibus Clarissimorum nec non Hieroglyphica, Abraxea et Amuleta Quaedam in Gemmis Antiqua Partim, Partim Recenti Manu Affabre Incisa, Quae Magno Studio Collegit Jo. Martinus Ab Ebermayer [Bound with] Gemmarum Affabre Sculptarum Thesaurus Quem Suis Sumptibus haud Exigvis Nec Parvo Studio Collegit Jo. Mart. Ab Ebermayer View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Gems)AuthorReusch, Erhard [&] Baier, Johann JakobHeadline2 Works on the Gen collection of J.M. EbermayerDate Published1721 & 1720 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 #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 #74 The Torrents of Spring View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineHemingway's Torrents of Spring 1st in jacketPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1926 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 #78 Les Misérables View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineVictor Hugo Les Misérables First Edition 1862PublisherA. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & CeDate Published1862 Lot #87 Maud, a Monodrama View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineKelmscott Press printing of Tennyson's MaudPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published[1893] Lot #88 Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorKildall, GaryHeadlineGary Kildall's Computer Connections 1/50Date Published1993 Lot #89 Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archeaology, and in Science. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorKunz, George FrederickHeadlineIvory and the Elephant Hobby Club EditionPublisherDoubledayDate Published1916 Lot #90 Le Livre de la Fumeé View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorLaloy, LouisHeadlineLaloy Livre de la Fumee inscribedPublisherDorbon-AinéDate Published[1913] Lot #92 The Plays in 37 volumes View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Limited Editions Club)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineLimited Editions Club Shakespeare 37 volumesPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1939-1940 Lot #94 The Seasons View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)AuthorThomson, JamesHeadlineInscribed by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisherLongman, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1842 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 #98 Les Georgiques View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Maillol, Aristide, illustrator)AuthorVirgilHeadlineVirgil's Georgiques Illustrated by MaillolPublisherPhilippe GoninDate Published1937-43 [i.e. 1950] 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 #100 A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorMaxwell, James ClerkHeadlineMaxwell's Treatise on Electricity and MagnetismPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1873 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 #102 Galileo a Madama Cristina di Lorena (1615) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Miniature Book)AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineGalileo in MiniaturePublisherTipogr. SalminDate Published1896 (colophon dated 1897) Lot #104 One Hundred Years of Solitude View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorMárquez, Gabriel GarcíaHeadlineMárquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 1st EdnPublisherHarper & RowDate Published[1970] 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 #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 #116 Goblin Market View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur)AuthorRossetti, Christina GeorginaHeadlineRossetti's Goblin Market Signed by Arthur RackhamPublisherGeorge G. HarrapDate Published[1933] 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 #120 The Little Prince View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold AuthorSaint-Exupéry, Antoine deHeadlineThe Little Prince Signed Limited EditionPublisherReynal & HitchcockDate Published[1943] Lot #124 Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies - First Folio Facsimile View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline1807 Facsimile of Shakespeare's First FolioPublisher[printed by E. and J. Wright]Date Published[1807-8] 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 #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 #141 A Confederacy of Dunces View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorToole, John KennedyHeadlineJ.K. Toole A Confederacy of Dunces 1st EditionPublisherLouisiana State University PressDate Published1980 Lot #142 Door Locks, Knobs, Padlocks, Etc., Illustrated and Described View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Trade Catalog)AuthorMallory, Wheeler & Co.HeadlineScarce Catalog of Door Knobs, Locks, etcPublisherMallory, Wheeler & Co.Date Published1871 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 #149 Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855...1888. Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.)... Portraits from Life... Autograph View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWhitman's Complete Poems & Prose signedDate Published[1888 or 1889] Lot #151 Fables View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Wiley, William T., illustrator)AuthorHannon, MichaelHeadlineFabels by Michael Hannon Signed Limited EditionPublisherTurkey PressDate Published1988 Lot #153 A Streetcar Named Desire View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorWilliams, TennesseeHeadlineTennessee Williams Streetcar Named DesirePublisherNew DirectionsDate Published[1947] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next