Sale 363: Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine (#363) 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/13/2007 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-45 of 45. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon... View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorAshmole, EliasHeadlineRare first edition of Ashmole's Alchemy, 1652PublisherPrinted by F. Grismond for N. BrookDate Published1652 Lot #2 The philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire. For a memento mori on his tomb-stone... Also, A brief of the golden calf (the worlds idol.)... With a catalogue of chymical books. View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorCooper, WilliamHeadlineCooper's Epitaph with first Alchemy BibliographyPublisherPrinted by T.R. and N.T. for William CooperDate Published1673 [i.e. 1675] Lot #4 Summa theologiae, secunda pars, pars seconda View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorAquinas, ThomasHeadlineAquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1463PublisherJohann MentelinDate PublishedBefore Advent, 1463 Lot #5 A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, in four books. In which his principal physical and metaphysical dogmas are unfolded; and it is shown, from indubitable evidence, that his philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks. The insufficiency also of the philosophy that has been substituted by the moderns for that of Aristotle, is demonstrated View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Aristotle)AuthorTaylor, ThomasHeadlineThomas Taylor's Dissertation on Aristotle 1812PublisherPrinted for the Author by Robert WilksDate Published1812 Lot #6 Tabula Pascalis diuersarum variationum temporum View details Estimate$18,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorAndreas VeronensisHeadlineRare incunabular astronomy tablesPublisherFranciscus Plato de BenedictisDate Published19 May 1488 Lot #8 Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lodovicus Vivres. Englished first by J.H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and ammended View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorAugustine, SaintHeadlineAugustine's Citie of God, 1620PublisherPrinted by G. Eld and M. FlesherDate Published1620 Lot #11 Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorBeveregium, Guilelm [Beveridge, William]HeadlineWm. Beveridge Institutionum Chronologicarum 1669PublisherThomas RoycroftDate Published1669 Lot #13 A Treatise on Mensuration, both in theory and practice View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Bewick, Thomas)AuthorHutton, CharlesHeadlineThomas Bewick's first illustrations in a bookPublisherPrinted by T. Saint for the authorDate Published1770 Lot #17 The Old Testament [New Testament], Embellished with Engravings, From Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineThe Macklin Bible - 6 Volumes - 1800PublisherPrinted for Thomas Macklin by Thomas BensleyDate Published1800 Lot #24 Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorBreydenbach, Bernhard vonHeadlineTravels in the Holy Land, 1486PublisherErhard ReuwichDate Published11. Feb. 1486 Lot #32 Elementorum Geometricorum Libros Tredecim Isidorum et Hypsiclem & Recentiores de Corporibus Regularibus, & Procli Propositiones Geometricas... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements 1645PublisherHieronymi VerdussiiDate Published1645 Lot #59 The Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church. Being a Complete History of Martyrdom from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Time View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorFox, JohnHeadlineFox's Book of Martyrs with engraved platesPublisherThomas KellyDate Published1814 Lot #60 In Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentaria: Ex interpretatione Anvtii Foesii, & Gvlielmi Plantii, cum annotationibus ejusdem... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorGalenus, ClaudiusHeadlineGalen's commentaries on Hippocrates, 1633Publisherex officina J. MaireDate Published1633 Lot #61 De l'Origine des Lois, des Arts, et des Sciences, et de leurs progrés chez les Anciens Peuples View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorGoguet, Antoine YvesHeadlineLaw, Art & Science of the Ancients, 1758PublisherDesaint & SaillantDate Published1758 Lot #62 Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady : wherein the doctrine of the sphere, uses of the globes, and the elements of astronomy and geography are explain'd in a pleasant, easy and familiar way: with a description of the famous instrument called the orrery View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, JohnHeadlineHarirs's Astronomical Dialogues, 1729PublisherPrinted for A. Bettesworth...and J. BatleyDate Published1729 Lot #69 La Chiromance et Phisionomie, par le regard des membres de l'homme. Mises en François par Antoine du Moulin Masconnois View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorIndagine, Johannes abHeadlinePalmistry by Jean Indagine, 1662PublisherChez Arnould CotinetDate Published1662 Lot #70 Index librorum prohibitorum: cum regulis confectis per Patres à Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctiss. D. N. Pii IIII. Pont. Max. comprobatus View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Index of Prohibited books)Author[Arias, Montanus, editor]HeadlineIndex of Prohibited Books, 1570PublisherEx officina Christophori PlantiniDate Published1570 Lot #72 The Works of Flavius Josephus which are Extant View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineJosephus' Works with plates & maps, 1733PublisherPrinted for R. Penny & J. JanewayDate Published1733 Lot #74 Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanæ usitatâ formâ quæstionum & responsionum conscripta, inq; VII. libros digesta, quorum tres hi priores sunt de doctrina sphæricâ... View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorKepler, JohannesHeadlineKepler's Epitome Astronomiae, 1618-1622Publisherexcudebat J. Plancus, et al.Date Published1618-1622 Lot #75 Dissertation sur les Attributs de Vénus, qui a obtenu l'accessit, au jugement de l'Académie Royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, á la séance publique du mois de novembre 1775 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorLa Chau, Géraud deHeadlineLa Chau's Venus, 1776, with engravingsPublisherDe l'imprimerie de Prault...Et se trouve chez PissotDate Published1776 Lot #76 Propositions Mathematiqves de Monsieur de Laleu. Demonstrees par I. Pvios. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorLaleu, Paul Yvon, Sieur deHeadlineLaleu's Mathematics with Occult engravings 1638PublisherDe l'Imprimerie de Lovis SevestreDate Published1638 Lot #77 Traité sur la Magie, le sortilege, les posessions, obsessions et malefices où l'on en démontre la verité & la réalité; avec une methode sûre & facile pour les discerner, & les reglemens contre les devins, sorciers, magiciens, & c. Ouvrage trés-utile aux ecclesiastiques, aux medecins, & aus juges. Par M. D *** View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)Author[Daugis, Antoine Louis]HeadlineDaugis on Magic and Sorcery, 1732PublisherPierre PraultDate Published1732 Lot #78 Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex, qvibvs continetvr accvrata cvriosarvm artivm, et vanarum superstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, jurisconsultis, medicis, philologis View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)AuthorDel Rio, Martin AntonHeadlineDel Rio's Magic in Six Books, 1657PublisherSumptibus Petri HenningijDate Published1657 Lot #79 De Idololatria Magica, dissertatio View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)AuthorFilesac, JeanHeadlineJean Filesac on Idolotry & Magic, 1609PublisherEx Officina Nivelliana, Apud Sebastianvm Cramoisy...Date Published1609 Lot #80 [A blow at modern sadducism in some philosophical considerations about witchcraft...] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)Author[Glanvill, Joseph]HeadlineGlanvill's Witches & Apparitions, 1668PublisherPrinted by E. C. for James CollinsDate Published1668 Lot #81 An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With observations upon matters of fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred Scriptures and confute the vulgar errors about that point. And also two sermons: one in proof of the Christian religion; the other concerning good and evil angels View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)AuthorHutchinson, FrancisHeadlineHutchinson on Witchcraft, 1720PublisherPrinted for R. Knaplock, et al.Date Published1720 Lot #82 [The discouerie of witchcraft: wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knauerie of coniurors, the impietie of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent fals-hood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practises of pythonists, the curiositie of figurecasters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of alcumystrie, The abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning, the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conueiances of legierdemaine and iuggling are deciphered: and many other things opened, which haue long lien hidden, howbeit verie necessarie to be knowne: heerevnto is added a treatise vpon the nature and substance of spirits and diuels, &c.] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Heading(Magic & Witchcraft)Author[Scot, Reginald]HeadlineScot's Discovery of Witchcraft 1584Publisher[William Brome]Date Published[1584] Lot #86 Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineRare Large Paper Copy of Newton's Principia 1726PublisherGuil. & Joh. InnysDate Published1726 Lot #87 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy... Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, Newton's System of the World; A short comment on, and defence of, the Principia, by William Emerson. With The laws of the moon's motion according to gravity. By John Machin ... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineIsaac Newton's Principia in English, 1803PublisherPrinted for H.D. SymondsDate Published1803 Lot #88 A Lapidary, or, The History of Pretious Stones: With cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with Pretious Stones. View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorNicols, Thomas.HeadlineThe First British Gemological Book 1652PublisherThomas BuckDate Published1652 Lot #91 A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an Account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals by the Egyptians; with Remarks on the Funeral Ceremonies of Different Nations, and Observations on the Mummies of the Canary Islands, of the Ancient Peruvians, Burman Priests, &c. View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorPettigrew, Thomas JosephHeadlinePettigrew's Egyptian Mummies with tinted platesPublisherLongman, Rees, Orme, et al.Date Published1834 Lot #93 Les Oeuvres de Platon View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlinePlato's Works in French, 1699PublisherJean AnissonDate Published1699 Lot #94 The Phædrus of Plato; a Dialogue Concerning Beauty and Love. Translated from the Greek View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlinePlato's Phaedrus in English, 1792PublisherPrinted for Edward Jeffery, et al.Date Published1792 Lot #95 The Works of Plato Abridg'd: With an Account of His Life, Philosophy, Morals, and Politicks... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadline18th century edition of Plato in EnglishPublisherPrinted for D. Midwinter, et al.Date Published1739 Lot #97 Manuscript prayer book with 19 original watercolor illustrations View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Prayer Book)Author**HeadlineManuscript prayerbook with original art 1793Date Published1793 Lot #99 Tractatvs Astrologicvs de genethliacorvm thematvm ivdiciis pro singulis nati accidentibus... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorRantzau, HenrikHeadlineRantzau's Astrology, 1593PublisherApud Joannem WechelumDate Published1593 Lot #102 Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX. In quibus & planissima Steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio, abbate Spanheymensi & Herbipolensi, admirandi ingenij viro, magicè & aenigmaticè olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur. Inspersis ubiquè authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorSelenus, Gustavus [pseud. of August, Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg]HeadlineRare 17th Century work on CryptographyPublisher[Exscriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum]Date Published1624 Lot #109 The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorWatson, James D.HeadlineDouble Helix signed by James WatsonPublisherReaders Union/Weidenfeld & NicolsonDate Published1969 Lot #112 Songs of the Soul View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorYogananda, Swami [Paramahansa]HeadlineSwami Yogananda Songs of the Soul InscribedPublisherSat SangaDate Published1923 Lot #127 On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCharles Darwin On the Fertilization of OrchidsPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1862 Lot #144 A Monograph of the Genus Crocus View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorMaw, GeorgeHeadlineMaw's Genus Crocus with colored plates 1886PublisherDulau and Co.Date Published1886 Lot #151 Flora Conspicua: A Selection of the Most Ornamental Flowering, Hardy, Exotic and Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants, for embellishing Flower-Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorMorris, RichardHeadlineMorris' Flora Conspicua with colored platesPublisherLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and GreenDate Published1826 Lot #169 Cistineae: The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose, illustrated by coloured figures & descriptions of all the distinct species, and the most prominent varieties, that could be at present procured in the gardens of Great Britain, with the best directions for their cultivation and propagation View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineRobert Sweet's Cistineae with 112 colored platesPublisherJ. RidgwayDate Published1825-1830 Lot #170 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 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Flora Australasica with colored platesPublisherJames RidgwayDate Published1827-1828 Lot #172 Geraniaceae. The Natural Order of Gerania, Illustrated by Coloured Figures and Descriptions; Comprising the Numerous and Beautiful Mule-Varieties Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, with Directions for their Treatment View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold HeadingzzcAuthorSweet, RobertHeadlineSweet's Geraniaceae, with 400 hand-colored platesPublisherPrinted for James RidgewayDate Published1820-28 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next