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Previous|1|Next Lot #51 Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorBoyle, RobertHeadlineRobert Boyle on Mineral Waters 1684PublisherSamuel SmithDate Published1684/5 Lot #53 The Jerusalem Windows View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorChagall, MarcHeadlineMarc Chagall Jerusalem Windows w/ 2 color lithos.PublisherAndre SauretDate Published[1962] Lot #55 Veterum Romanorum Religio, Castrametatio, Disciplina Militaris ut & Balneae ex Antiquis Numismatibus & Lapidibus Demonstrata. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorChoul, Guilielmo DuHeadlineGuilielmo Du Choul Veterum Romanorum 1685PublisherJansson-WaesbergDate Published1685 Lot #56 Les Civilisations de L'Inde View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Chromolithographs)AuthorLe Bon, Le Dr. GustaveHeadlineLes Civilisations de L'Inde - 7 chromolithographsPublisherFirmin-Didot & Co.Date Published1887 Lot #58 Doctor Syntax in Paris Or A Tour in Search of the Grotesque View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Author[Combe, William]HeadlineDoctor Syntax in Paris First Edition 1820PublisherW. WrightDate Published1820 Lot #62 Rural Sports. Volumes 1-3, plus Supplement. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorDaniel, Wm. B.HeadlineWilliam Daniel's Rural Sports 1812-13PublisherLongman, et alDate Published1812-13 Lot #65 Bleak House View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineCharles Dickens Bleak House in Original PartsPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1852-53 Lot #66 A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineFirst Issue of Dickens' Christmas CarolPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1843 Lot #69 The Kingdom of the Pearl View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Dulac, Edmund)AuthorRosenthal, LeonardHeadlineThe Kingdom of the Pearl Edmund Dulac Illus.PublisherNisbet & Co.Date Published[c. 1920] Lot #71 The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are Used Instead of letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Heading(Euclid)AuthorByrne, OliverHeadlineByrne's Euclid First Edition 1847PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1847 Lot #90 The Picture of Dorian Gray View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWilde, OscarHeadlinePicture of Dorian Gray Bound by Paul DelruePublisherCharles CarringtonDate Published1908 (i.e. 1910) Lot #93 Exceptional collection of 300 plus offprints and reprints containing articles on genetics from the first third of the 20th century View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Genetics)Author**HeadlineCollection of 300 or more offprints on geneticsDate Publishedc.1900-1935 Lot #94 Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape; with a Poem on Landscape Painting. To These are Now Added Two Essays . . . View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorGilpin, WilliamHeadlineGilpin's Essays on Beauty Travel & Landscape 1794PublisherR. BlamireDate Published1794 Lot #97 A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution... View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorGranger, Rev. J.HeadlineBiographical History of England, 300+ engravingsPublisherPrinted for William Baynes & SonDate Published1824 Lot #101 The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Notebook of Raoul Dubois View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorHamerton, Philip GilbertHeadlineP.G. Hamerton The Sylvan Year Finely BoundPublisherSeeley, Jackson and HallidayDate Published1876 Lot #105 The Graphic Processes: Intaglio, Relief, Planographic With a Set of Actual Prints Illustrative of the Text View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorHolman, Louis A.HeadlineLouis Holman The Graphic Processes 1929PublisherCharles GoodspeedDate Published1929 Lot #106 Opera View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorHoratius Flaccus, Quintus [Horace]HeadlineJohn Pine's Horace First Edition 1733-37PublisherJohn PineDate Published1733-37 Lot #108 London: From the South Side of the Thames View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Illustrated London News)Author**HeadlineView of London From the South Side of the ThamesPublisherIllustrated London NewsDate Published1861 Lot #109 New York: From Bergen Hill, Hoboken View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Illustrated London News)Author**HeadlinePanoramic View of New York 1876PublisherIllustrated London NewsDate Published1876 Lot #110 Enthronement of the One Hundred Twenty-Fourth Emperor of Japan View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Japan)AuthorFleisher, Benjamin W., ed.HeadlineEnthronement of the 124th Emperor of JapanPublisherThe Japan AdvertiserDate Published1928 Lot #116 An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineJohn Locke's Humane Understanding 1694PublisherAwnsham and John Churchil, and Samuel ManshipDate Published1694 Lot #117 Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament. View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Author[Locke, John]HeadlineLocke's Considerations on the Value of Money 1692PublisherAwnsham and John ChurchillDate Published1692 Lot #119 An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils Which It Occasions. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorMalthus, T[homas] R[obert].HeadlineMalthus on Population 3rd Edition 1806PublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1806 Lot #120 Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. IV No. 13 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Matisse, Henri)Author**HeadlineHenri Matisee in Verve Vol. IV, No. 13 1945PublisherVerveDate Published[1945] Lot #121 Der Weiss Kunig: Eine Erzehlung von den Thaten Kaiser Maximilian des Ersten View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Maximilian I)AuthorTrettzsaurwein, MarxHeadlineDer Weiss Kunig 1775 237 Woodcut IllustrationsPublisherJoseph KurzbockDate Published1775 Lot #125 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineFirst illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher for Richard BentlyDate Published1688 Lot #130 Tendances Nouvelles du Theatre View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorMoussinac, LeonHeadlineL. Moussinac Tendances Nouvelles du Theatre 1/600PublisherEditions Albert LevyDate Published1931 Lot #133 Autograph manuscript page by Sir Isaac Newton regarding theological subjects View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineAutograph manuscript page by Sir Isaac NewtonDate PublishedLate 17th/early 18th century Lot #134 An Alphabet View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Nicholson An Alphabet 1898PublisherR.H. RussellDate Published1898 Lot #136 Political Arithmetick, Or A Discourse Concerning, The Extent and Value of Lands, People, Buildings; Husbandry, Manufacture, Commerce, Fishery, Artizans, Seamen, Soldiers; Publick Revenues, Interest, Taxes, Superlucration, Registries, Banks; Valuation of Men, Increasing of Seamen, of Militia's Harbours, Situation, Shipping, Power at Sea, &c. As the Same Relates to Every Country in General, But More Particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and His Neighbors of Holland, Zealand, and France. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorPetty, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Petty Political Arithmetick 1690PublisherRobert Clavel and Hen. MortlockDate Published1690 Lot #137 Annalen der Physik View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Physics)Author**HeadlineAnnalen der Physik 15 vols. with EinsteinPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900-1904 Lot #140 Traite Élémentaire de Mécanique Céleste View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorResal, M. H[enri].HeadlineTraite Élémentaire de Mécanique Céleste 1884PublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1884 Lot #144 Galerie de Rubens, Dite du Luxembourg View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorRubens, Peter PaulHeadlineGalerie de Rubens, Dite du Luxembourg 1809PublisherL'Imprimerie de CrapeletDate Published1809 Lot #145 Original Pen and Ink Comic Strip View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorSchultz, CharlesHeadlineOriginal Charles Schultz Comic Strip 1954Date PublishedFebruary 27, 1954 Lot #148 The Cat in the Hat View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorSeuss, Dr.HeadlineDr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat, 1st Ed 1st Ptg. in djPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1957] Lot #152 Cup of Gold: A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSteinbeck, Cup of Gold, First Ed. 1st issue in djPublisherRobert M. McBrideDate Published1929 Lot #154 Flora Australasica; or a selection of handsome or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea Islands; containing coloured figures and descriptions of some of the choicest species... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Flora Australasica with colored platesPublisherJames RidgwayDate Published1827-1828 Lot #158 New England Manufacturers and Manufactories View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorVan Slyck, J.D.HeadlineVan Slyck on New England Manufacturers 2 vols.PublisherVan Slyck & CompanyDate Published1879 Lot #162 A Treatise Upon the Art of Flying, by Mechanical Means; With a Full Explanation of the Natural Principles by Which Birds are Enabled to Fly: Likewise, Instructions and Plans for Making a Flying Car With Wings, in Which a Man May Sit, and, by Working a Small Lever, Cause Himself to Ascend and Soar Through the Air. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorWalker, ThomasHeadlineWalker's Treatise Upon the Art of Flying 1810PublisherPrinted by Joseph Simmons for Longman, et alDate Published1810 Lot #163 Following Abraham Lincoln View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorWall, BernhardtHeadlineBernhardt Wall Etchings of Lincoln's LifePublisherBernhardt WallDate Published1931 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next