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View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorAddison, JosephHeadlineBaskerville Printing of Addison's Works 1761PublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1761 Lot #6 Les Oeuvres Diverses De Monsieur De Cyrano Bergerac View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBergerac, CyranoHeadlineLes Oeuvres Diverses de Cyrano BergeracPublisherDaniel PainDate Published1699 Lot #8 Biblioglyphé sive Icones Biblicae, Arte Chalcographica & Poetica praecipues S. Scripturae Historias perquam eleganter representanter. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)AuthorAmmon, Johan, editorHeadlineStriking Biblical engravings, 1643PublisherTypis Caspari Rötelii, impensis Johannis AmmoniiDate Published1643 Lot #9 Novum Testamentum D[omi]ni N[ost]ri Jesu Christi. Syriacè, Ebraicè, Græcè, Latinè, Germanicè, Bohemicè, Italicè, Hispanicè, Gallicè, Anglicè, Danicè, Polonicè. Studio & Labore Eliæ Hutter View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)Author**HeadlineHutter's Polygot Bible Nuremberg 1599Publisher[No publisher stated]Date Published1599 Lot #10 The True Difference Betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion: Wherein the Princes Lawfull Power to Commaund for Trueth, and Indeprivable Right to Beare the Sword are Defended Against the Popes Censures and the Jesuits Sophismes Uttered in Their Apologie and Defence of English Catholikes... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorBilson, ThomasHeadlineSecond Book Published by Oxford University 1585PublisherJoseph Barnes, Printer to the UniversitieDate Published1585 Lot #11 Architectura Curiosa Nova. Das ist: Neue Ergotzliche Sinn- und Kunstreiche Auch Nutzliche Bau- und Wasser-Kunst... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorBoeckler [Böckler], George AndreasHeadlineRare 17th Century Work on FountainsPublisherPaul FurstensDate Published[1664] Lot #13 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 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, First EditionPublisherPrinted by Henry BaldwinDate Published1791 Lot #16 Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Bronte, Charlotte]HeadlineFirst edition of Bronte's Jane EyrePublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1847 Lot #17 Villette View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Bronte, Charlotte] Bell, CurrerHeadlineCharlotte Bronte Villette First Edition 1853PublisherSmith, Elder & Co.Date Published1853 Lot #18 Poems View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Bronte, Charlotte, Emily and Anne)AuthorBell, Currer, Ellis, and ActonHeadlinePoems by the Bronte Sisters 1st Edition 2nd IssuePublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1846 [but 1848] Lot #19 The Works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineBrowne's Works, First Collected EditionPublisherPrinted for Thomas Basset et al.Date Published1686 Lot #20 Scholar Gipsies View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBuchan, JohnHeadlineBuchan's Scholar Gipsies, Art Nouveau BindingPublisherJohn LaneDate Published1896 Lot #22 Dissertatio historico-juridica In XVII. Priora Aureae Caroli IV. Bullae capita... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBuxtorff, Gerlacus, et al.HeadlineVolume of early 17th century judicial worksPublisherc.1588-1613 Lot #24 His Advice to the King of Spain for Attaining the Universal Monarchy of the World. Particularly concerning England, Scotland and Ireland, how to raise division between King and Parliament, to alter the government from a kingdome to a commonwealth. Thereby embroiling England in civil war to divert the English from disturbing the Spaniard in bringing the Indian treasure into Spain... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorCampanella, Thomas, An Italian Friar and Second Machiavel.HeadlineCampanella's Advice to the King of Spain 1659PublisherPhilemon StephensDate Published1659 Lot #25 Gran Simulacro Dell'arte e Dell'uso Della Scherma View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorCapoferro da Cagli, RidolfoHeadlineRidolfo Capoferro on fencing 1610PublisherSalvestro Marchetti & Camillo TuriDate Published1610 Lot #26 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorCasanova, JacquesHeadlineThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Privately PrintedDate PublishedNo date Lot #28 Que in hoc opusculo habentur: Duellum epistolare: Gallie & Italie antiquitates summatim complectens. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorChampier, SymphorienHeadlineQue in Hoc Opusculo Habentur by Champier 1519Publisher[J. Giunta] for J. Fyroben and J. Divineur "Alemanos"Date Published1519 Lot #29 [The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, with dyuers workes whiche were neuer in print before: as in the table more playnly dothe appere. Cum priuilegio] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorChaucer, GeofferyHeadline1550 edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's WorksDate Publishedc.1550 Lot #30 Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorCheselden, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Cheselden's OsteographiaPublisher[for the author]Date Published1733 Lot #31 Myotomia Reformata: or an Antatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorCowper, WilliamHeadlineCowper's Treatise on the Muscles 1724PublisherRichard KnaplockDate Published1724 Lot #33 A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Countries of England and in Scotland View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorDibdin, Thomas FrognallHeadlineDibdin's Northern Tour inscribed original boardsPublisherPrinted for the Author by C. RichardsDate Published1838 Lot #34 Bleak House View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens Bleak House in the Original PartsPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-1853 Lot #35 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Nicholas Nickleby Extra-IllustratedPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1839 Lot #36 Little Dorritt View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens' Little Dorrit in Original PartsPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1855-1857 Lot #37 Little Dorrit View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Little Dorrit First EditionPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1857 Lot #38 Master Humphrey's Clock View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold HeadingzzkAuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Master Humphrey's Clock First Paris Edn.PublisherA. and W. GalignaniDate Published1841 Lot #39 Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz" View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineDickens Oliver Twist First Edition Finely BoundPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 Lot #40 The Pic Nic Papers. By Various Hands View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold HeadingzzkAuthorDickens, Charles, ed.HeadlineDickens Pic Nic Papers First EditionPublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1841 Lot #41 Eroffnung unterschiedlicher Heimlichkeiten der Natur View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDigby, KenelmHeadlineDigby's Eroffnung 1714PublisherWustDate Published1714 Lot #42 The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Regis: From March 8, 1748-9, to February 6, 1761 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorDodington, George BubbHeadlineThe Diary of the Late George Bubb DodingtonPublisherE. EastonDate Published1784 Lot #43 Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Doves Press)AuthorCarlyle, ThomasHeadlineDoves Press Thomas Carlyle Sartor ResartusPublisherDoves PressDate Published1907 Lot #45 Autographed Manuscript and Letter View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorDumas, Alexandre (père)HeadlineAlexandre Dumas Autograph Manuscripts SignedDate Published19th century Lot #46 9 Early English Leaves and a Legal Document from 1400 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Early Printed Leaves)Author**HeadlineEarly English Leaves incl. Wynkyn de WordeDate Published[Various dates] Lot #47 10 hand-colored and rubricated leaves and 1389 French document View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Early Printed Leaves)Author**Headline10 hand-colored and rubricated leavesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #49 Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorEdgeworth, Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthHeadlineRichard Lovell Edgeworth's MemoirsPublisherPrinted for R. HunterDate Published1820 Lot #56 Theatro Moral De La Vida Humana en Cien Emblemas Con el Enchiridion de Epicteto y la Tabla de Cebes, Philosofo Platonico. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Emblem Book)Author[Vaenius, Otto]HeadlineEmblem Book Theatro Moral De La Vida HumanaPublisherHenrico y Cornelio VerdussenDate Published1701 Lot #58 Euclid’s Elements of Geometry. In XV. books: with a supplement of divers propositions and corollaries. To which is added, a treatise of regular solids, by Campane and Flussas. Likewise Euclid’s data: and Marinus his preface thereunto annexed. Also a treatise of the divisions of superficies, ascribed to Machomet Bagdedine, but published by Commandine, at the request of John Dee of London; whose preface to the said treatise declares it to be the worke of Euclide, the author of these Elements. Published by the care and industry of John Leeke and George Serle, students in the mathematicks View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements 1661 with portraitPublisherPrinted, by R. & W. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge at the Bible upon Ludgate-hillDate Published1661 Lot #59 De la Maladie D'Amour, ou Melancholie Erotique View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorFerrand, JacquesHeadlineScarce work on the love-sick 1623PublisherDenis MoreauDate Published1623 Lot #60 The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Large Paper Edition View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Headingzzk(Fine Bindings)AuthorAldrich, Thomas BaileyHeadlineWritings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich Finely BoundPublisherRiverside PressDate Published1897 Lot #61 Almanach Royal, Annee Bissextile M.DCC.LXXXVIII View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorD'Houry, Laurent, editorHeadline1788 Almanach Royal in Armorial BindingPublisherD'Houry & DebureDate Published1788 Lot #62 Novels of George Eliot View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEliot, GeorgeHeadlineNovels of George Eliot Finely BoundPublisherWilliam BlackwoodDate Publishedno date Lot #63 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineEmerson's Works Autograph Centenary EditionPublisherRiverside PressDate Published1903-04 Lot #64 The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Artist's Edition View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Headingzzk(Fine Bindings)AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellHeadlineWorks of Oliver Wendell Holmes Finely BoundPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and CompanyDate Published[1892-96] Lot #65 Uffizio Della B.V. Maria per Tutti i Tempi Dell'anno,... View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorMazzinelli, Alessandro, editorHeadline1783 B.V.M in beautiful armorial bindingPublisherLuigi Perego SalvioniDate Published1783 Lot #66 Elaine View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorTennyson, AlfredHeadlineTennyson's Elaine Illus. by Gustave DorePublisherEdward MoxonDate Published1867 Lot #67 Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sans-Souci View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorFrederick II King of PrussiaHeadlineFrederick II King of Prussia's OeuvresPublisherHenri Louis BroennerDate Published1762 Lot #68 Artzney-Buch: Darinnen vast für alle des Menschlichen Leibes Anliegen... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGaebelkhover, OswaldHeadlineGaebelkhover, Oswald Artzney-Buch Medical 1680PublisherJohann Peter ZubrodtDate Published1680 Lot #69 Galeni Omnivm Opervm Sexta Classis [Part Six only] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorGalenHeadlineGalen's Omnium Operum, Part SixPublisherVincentium ValgrisiumDate Published1562 Lot #70 Gore Ot Uma View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorGriboedov, Aleksandr SergeevichHeadlineGriboedov's masterpiece Gore Ot UmaPublisherNicolay TiblenDate Published1862 Lot #71 The Most Excellent Hugo Grotius. His Three Books Treating of the Rights of War & Peace View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineGrotius' Three Books on Rights of War and PeacePublisherThomas Basset and Ralph SmithDate Published1682 Lot #72 Pars tertia de Belgica faederata View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorGuicciardino, LudovicoHeadlinePars Tertia de Belgica with 32 CopperplatesPublisherJacob MeursDate Published1660 Lot #74 Les Misérables View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineLes Miserables First Edition Brussels 1862PublisherA. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & CeDate Published1862 Lot #75 Les Misérables View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineVictor Hugo Les Misérables First American EditionPublisherCarletonDate Published1862 Lot #76 Toilers of the Sea View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorHugo, VictorHeadlineVictor Hugo Toilers of the Sea 1st English EdnPublisherSampson, Low, Son, & MarstonDate Published1866 Lot #79 Framed Leaf Printed by Henricus Ariminensis View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Incunabula Leaf)Author**HeadlineFramed Leaf Printed by Henricus AriminensisPublisherHenricus AriminensisDate Publishedc. 1473 Lot #80 A Genuine Caxton Leaf from Higden's 'Policronicon', Westminster 1482 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Incunabula Leaf)AuthorHigden (Ranulph)HeadlineGenuine Caxton Leaf Policronicon 1482PublisherDawson's BookshopDate Published[1934] Lot #81 Framed Leaf from Latin Bible, Printed by Caspar Hochfeder View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Incunabula Leaf)Author**HeadlineLeaf from Latin Bible, Printed Nuremberg c. 1494PublisherCaspar HochfederDate Publishedc. 1494 Lot #82 Framed Leaf, Printed by Nicolaus Jenson View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Incunabula Leaf)Author**HeadlineFramed Leaf Printed by Nicolaus Jenson in 1477PublisherNicolaus JensonDate Published1477 Lot #83 Framed Leaf by Octavianus Scotus, Venice 1482 View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Incunabula Leaf)Author**HeadlineFramed Leaf by Octavianus Scotus, Venice 1482PublisherOctavianus ScotusDate Published1482 Lot #84 An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Illustrating the Words in Their Different Significations, by Examples from Ancient and Modern Writers...[Plus Supplement] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorJamieson, JohnHeadlineJamieson's Scottish Dictionary 1808 + SupplementPublisherUniversity PressDate Published1808 & 1825 Lot #86 Sepher Yetsirah View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Kabbalah)Author**HeadlineEditio Princeps of Kabbalah in Hebrew 1562PublisherYa'akov ben Naphtali GazoloDate Published1562 Lot #87 Essays on Song-Writing; with Collection of such English Songs as are most Eminent for Poetical Merit. A New Edition, with additions and corrections, and a supplement, by R.H. Evans View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Keats, John - his signed copy)AuthorAikin, JohnHeadlineJohn Keats' Signed CopyPublisherR.H. EvansDate Published1810 Lot #89 Les Caracteres de Theophraste Traduits du Grec View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLa Bruyère, Jean deHeadlineLa Bruyère's Les Caracteres de TheophrastePublisherJean LeonardDate Published1693 Lot #90 Tales and Novels in Verse View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean deHeadlineTales of La Fontaine Extra IllustratedPublisherJ. Lemonnyer & E.F. BonaventureDate Published1883 Lot #91 Rerum In Gallia Ob Religionem Gestarum, Libris Tres View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Author[La Place, Pierre de]HeadlineRerum In Gallia Ob Religionem GestarumDate Published1570 Lot #93 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 Lot #94 The Royal Charter of Confirmation Granted by King Charles II to the City of London. View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(London)AuthorGent, S.G., translatorHeadlineCharter of the City of London 1680PublisherPrinted for Samuel Lee and Benjamin AlsopDate Published[1680] Lot #95 The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorMachiavel, NicholasHeadlineFirst Edition Farneworth's Works of MachiavelliPublisherPrinted for Thomas DaviesDate Published1762 Lot #96 Father Malebranche his Treatise Concerning the Search After Truth...To Which is Added the Author’s Treatise of Nature and Grace...Together With his Answer to the Animadversions Upon the First Volume: his Defence Against the Accusations of Monsieur De la Ville, &c...With the Addition, of a Short Discourse Upon Light and Colours... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorMalebranche, [Nicolas]HeadlineMalebranche's Treatise on Truth 1700PublisherPrinted by W. Bowyer, for Thomas Bennet, et alDate Published1700 Lot #97 L'Espion dans le Cours des Princes chrétiens View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorMarana, Giovanni-PaoloHeadlineL'Espion dans le Cours des Princes chrétiensPublisherErasmus KinkiusDate Publishedvarious dates Lot #99 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illus. edition of Milton's Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard BentlyDate Published1688 Lot #101 Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?" [With the 2 preceding pamphlets] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorNewman, John Henry, Cardinal and Charles KingsleyHeadlineJohn Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita SuaPublisherLongman, Green, et alDate Published1864 Lot #102 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)PublisherSumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm VerbeekDate Published1714 [&] 1732 Lot #105 The Iliad [&] The Odyssey View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Nonesuch Press)AuthorHomerHeadlineNonesuch Press Iliad & Odyssey of HomerPublisherThe Nonesuch PressDate Published1931 Lot #106 Qvae hoc in libro continentur. Orignis in Genesim...in Exodum ... in Leviticum ... in Numeros ... Iesum Nave .. in Librum Iudicum Homiliae. Diuo Hieronymo interprete. View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorOrigenHeadlineRare edition of Origen's Homilies 1503PublisherAldus [for Andrea Torresanus],Date PublishedFebruary, 1503 Lot #107 [Metamorphoses in English, i.e.]: The .xv. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, by Arthur Golding Gentleman, a worke very pleasaunt and delectable View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold AuthorOvidHeadline1567 edition of Ovid's MetamorphosisPublisherWillyam SeresDate Published1567 Lot #120 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys...Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669...And a Selection From His Private Correspondence View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorPepys, SamuelHeadlineMemoirs of Samuel Pepys 1825PublisherHenry ColburnDate Published1825 Lot #121 Conciones et Orationes Ex Historicis Latinis Excerptae View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorPerion, JoachimHeadlineElsevier Printing of Latin OrationsPublisherLouis ElsevierDate Published1653 Lot #122 A Salve for a Sicke Man, or, A Treatise Containing the Nature, Differences, and Kindes of Death, as Also the Right Manner of Dying Well: And it May Serve for Spirituall Instruction to 1. Mariners When They Goe to Sea. 2. Souldiers When They Goe to Battell. 3. Women When They Trauell of Childe. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Perkins, William]HeadlineA Salve for a Sicke Man 1597PublisherJohn LegatDate Published1597 Lot #123 Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edififj... View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorPiranesi, GiambattistaHeadlinePiranesi's Diverse Maniere d'adornarePublisherGeneroso SalomoneDate Published1769 Lot #124 Oeuvres de Plutarque View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold HeadingzzkAuthorPlutarchHeadlineWorks of Plutarch in French 25 volumesPublisherImprimerie de CussacDate Published1801-1805 Lot #125 An Interpretation of the Number 666 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorPotter, FrancisHeadlineInterpretation of the Number 666 by Potter 1642PublisherLeonard LichfieldDate Published1642 Lot #126 Ptolemaei Planisphaerium. Jordani Planisphaerium. [with, as issued] In Planisphaerium Ptolemaei Commentarius. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Ptolemy)AuthorCommandino, FredericoHeadlineRare Work by Ptolemy 1558 Aldine EditionPublisher[Paulus Manutius]Date Published1558 Lot #127 An Abstract of all the Penal Statutes Which be General, in Force and Use, Wherein is Conteyned the Effect of all Those Statutes Which do Threaten to the Offendors Thereof the Losse of Life, Member, Landes, Goods, or Other Punishment or Forfaiture Whatsoeuer. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorPulton, FerdinandHeadlineEarly compilation of English Law by Pulton 1581PublisherChristopher BarkerDate Published1581 Lot #129 Iconologia Overo View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorRipa, CesareHeadlineSecond Edition of Ripa's IconologiaPublisherLepido FaeijDate Published1603 Lot #130 Opera Medica Universa View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorRivière, LazareHeadlineLazare Riviere's Opera Medica UniversaPublisherAnisson and Joannis PosüelDate Published1698 Lot #131 Ivanhoe; A Romance View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold HeadingzzkAuthorScott, Sir WalterHeadlineSir Walter Scott Ivanhoe 1st EdnPublisherFor Archibald Constable; and Hurst, Robinson & Co.Date Published1820 Lot #132 Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorShaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd EarlHeadlineBaskerville Press Shaftesbury's CharacteristicksPublisherJohn BaskervilleDate Published1727 Lot #133 The Tragedie of Julius Caesar View details Estimate$50,000 - $70,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Julius Caesar from 1st folio 1623Date Published1623 Lot #134 All's Well, that Ends Well View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineAll's Well, that Ends Well from 2nd Folio EdnPublisher[Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot, et al]Date Published[1632] Lot #135 Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorShelley, Mary W[ollstonecraft]HeadlineThird Edition of Frankenstein 1831PublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1831 Lot #136 The Works of that Famous English Poet Mr. Edmond Spenser View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorSpenser, EdmondHeadlineFirst Folio Edition of Spenser's WorksPublisherHenry Hills for Jonathan EdwinDate Published1679 Lot #137 Opera Posthuma: Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorSpinoza, Baruch deHeadlineSpinoza's posthumas works, 1677Publisher[J. Rieuwertsz]Date Published1677 Lot #138 The Historie of Tvvelve Cæsars, Emperours of Rome: VVritten in Latine by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, and newly translated into English, by Philêmon Holland, Doctor in Physicke. Together with a Marginall Glosse, and other briefe Annotations there-upon View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorSuetonius Tranquillus, CaiusHeadlineSuetonius' Twelve Caesars, 1st in English 1606PublisherPrinted [by Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew LownesDate Published1606 Lot #139 A Sermon Preached at St. George's Church, Hanover-Square; on Sunday, the fourth of April, being the first Sunday of Opening the Church after Consecration View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorTrebeck, A.HeadlineSermon Bound in Armorial Binding of George IIPublisherW. and J. InnysDate Published1725 Lot #140 [Works] - Inscribed by Mark Twain to his wife View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Heading(Twain, Mark)AuthorMeredith, GeorgeHeadlineGift from Mark Twain to his wife OliviaPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1901 Lot #141 Vergilius cum coentariis quinque [Opera] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusHeadlineVirgils Works 1493 Venice Edition IncunabulaPublisherBartholomaeus de Zanis, for Octavianus Scotus and Lucantontonio GiuntaDate Published31 July, 1493 Lot #142 [Aeneid in English, i.e.]: 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 third part 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$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorVirgilHeadlineEarly English edition of Virgil's Aeneid 1584PublisherWilliam How for Abraham VealeDate Published1584 Lot #144 The Religion of Nature Delineated View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorWollaston, WilliamHeadlineThe Religion of Nature DelineatedPublisherPrinted by S. PalmerDate Published1725 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next