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L[ichfield] Printer to the University, for Thomas HugginsDate Published1633 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #9 Le Grand Tableau De l'Univers, ou l'Histoire des Evenemens de l'Eglise depuis la Creation du Monde Jusqu'a l'Apolypse de S. Jean... AuthorBasnage, JacquesPublisherJaques LindenbergDate Published1714 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #16 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 Heading(Bible - Polyglot)Author**Publisher[No publisher stated]Date Published1599 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #18 The Holy Bible... Heading(Bible in English)Author**PublisherDeputies of Christopher BarkerDate Published1589 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #19 Biblia Interprete Sebastiano Castalione Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**PublisherJoannes OporinusDate Published1554 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #20 Novum Testamentum iam Quintum Accuratissima cura recognitum à Des. Erasmo Roter. cum Annatotionibus eiusdem ita locupletatis, ut propémodum opus novum videri possit Heading(Bible - New Testament in Latin & Greek)Author[Erasmus, Desiderius]PublisherFrobenDate Published1535 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #21 Histoire des Rats, pour sevor a l'Histoire Universelle AuthorBourdon de Sigrais, Claude GuillaumeDate Published1737 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #24 Two works by Edmund Burke and one by Richard Tickell bound together AuthorBurke, Edmund & [Richard Tickell]Date Published1777-1778 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #25 Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event AuthorBurke, EdmundPublisherPrinted for J. DodsleyDate Published1790 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #26 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect AuthorBurns, RobertPublisherPrinted by John WilsonDate Published1786 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$43,750StatusSold Lot #30 Vita et historia beatae Mariae Virginis matris Dei AuthorCallot, JacquesPublisherIsrael HenrietDate Published[c.1634] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #32 Letters Written by the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Dresden: Together With Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the Originals in Her Possession AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer StanhopeHeadlineChesterfields Letters 1774PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #40 La Divina Commedia di Dante Allighieri AuthorDante AlighieriPublisherBodoniDate Published1796 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #46 Collection of 8 leaves from the 15th-16th century, folio Heading(Early Printed Leaves)Author**Date Published15th-16th century View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #47 Collection of 18 original leaves in the English language Heading(Early Printed Leaves)Author**Date Published15th-17th centuries View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #50 Diverse Imprese Accomodate a diverse moralita, con Versi che i loreo Significati dichiarano . . . nella lingua Italiana no piu tradotte. Tratte da gli Emblemi dell' Alciato Heading(Emblem Book)AuthorAlciatus, [Andreas]PublisherGulielmo RovillioDate Published1551 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #51 Tou Hagiou Patros hemon Epiphaniou AuthorEpiphenius, Saint; Horapollo; Pomponio BrunelloPublisherAloysius ZannettiDate Published1597-1601 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #52 Set of 4 first editions by Fielding, in 13 volumes, uniformly bound AuthorFielding, HenryHeadlinebookPublisherA. MillarDate Published1742-1755 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #53 A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the Historie of the old and new Testament acted thereon AuthorFuller, ThomasPublisherPrinted by J.F. for John WilliamsDate Published1650 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #57 Observations, Relatively Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on several parts of England; Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland AuthorGilpin, William.PublisherR. BlamireDate Published1786 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #58 An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature AuthorGoldsmith, OliverPublisherJ. NourseDate Published1774 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #61 Epigrammata Graeca, selecta ex Anthologia. Interpreta ad verbum, & carmine, ab Henrico Stephano: quaedam & abaliis. Loci aliquot ab eodem annotationibus illustrati. Ejusdem interpretationes centrum & sex unius distichi, aliorum item quorundam epigrammatum variae Heading(Greek Anthology)Author**PublisherExcudebat Henricus Stephanus [i.e. Henri Estienne]Date Published1570 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #65 The Generall History of Women: Containing the Lives of the Most Holy and Prophane, the most famous and infamous in all ages, exactly described not only from Poeticall Fictions, but from the most Ancient, Modern, and Admired Historians, to our times AuthorH[eywood], T[homas]PublisherPrinted by W.H. for W.H.Date Published1657 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #66 The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek AuthorHomerPublisherBernard LintotDate Published1725-1726 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #67 Esopus in Europa Heading(Hooghe, Romein de)AuthorEsopusPublisher[Sebastian Petzold]Date Published1701-1702 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #69 Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-land to China: Thro' Great Ustiga, Siriana, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, &c. to Peking... AuthorIdes, Evert YsbrantsPublisherPrinted for W. Freeman, et al.Date Published1706 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #71 The Kings Maiesties Declaration to His Subjects, Concerning lawfull Sports to be used Author[James I, King of England]Headlinesports law englandPublisherPrinted by Bonham Norton & John BillDate Published1618 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #72 The Kings Maiesties Declaration to His Subjects, Concerning lawfull Sports to be used HeadingzzgAuthor[James I, King of England]HeadlineThe Kings Maiesties Declaration 1633PublisherRobert Barker and the Assignes of John BillDate Published1633 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #73 A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals... AuthorJohnson, SamuelPublisherHarrison & Co.Date Published1786 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #74 The Harleian Miscellany: Or, a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the late Earl of Oxford’s Library. Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With A Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index AuthorJohnson, Samuel & William Oldys, editorsPublisherT. OsborneDate Published1744-1746 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #76 The Works of Samuel Johnson AuthorJohnson, SamuelPublisherPrinted for T. Longman, et al.Date Published1796 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #81 Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae: In Decem Libros Digesta. Quibus Admirandae Lucis et Umbrae in mundo, atque adeo universa natura, vires effectusque uti nova, ita varia novorum reconditioriumquae speciminum exhibitione, ad varios mortalium usus, panduntur. AuthorKircher, AthanasiusPublisherHermann ScheusDate Published1645 (but 1646) View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #84 [Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies] AuthorLe Brun, CorneliusPublisher[A. Bettesworth, et al.]Date Published[1737] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #86 Collection of 5 leather bound volumes of literature Heading(Literature - Leather Bindings)Author**Date Published1762-1817 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #90 Moreh Nebukim [The Guide of the Perplexed] AuthorMaimonides [Moses Ben Maimon]Publisher[Obadiah?]Date PublishedNo date [circa 1473-75] View details Estimate$70,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold Lot #91 The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of Britaine Author[Malory, Sir Thomas]PublisherPrinted by William Stansby for Jacob BloomeDate Published1634 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #96 Spectaculum Naturae & Artium: in vier Sprachen, Deutsch, Lateinisch, Franzõsisch, Italianisch. Erste Lieferung von 30 Platten und 28 Beschreibungen Author[Meil, Johann Wilhelm]PublisherGeorge Ludwig WinterDate Published1761 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #97 Observations de Monsieur Menage sur la Langue Francoise AuthorMenage, GillesPublisherClaude BarbinDate Published1672 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #98 De Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex... AuthorMercurialis, HieronymusPublisherIuntas [i.e. Giunta]Date Published1587 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #100 The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, Sampson Agonistes, and his Poems on several Occasions. Together with Explanatory Notes on each Book of the Paradise Lost, and a Table never before Printed AuthorMilton, JohnPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1695 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #103 An Essay on the Dropsy and its Different Species AuthorMonro, DonaldPublisherPrinted for A. Millar, et al.Date Published1765 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #106 An Account of the Book entitled Commercium Epistolicum Collinii & aliorum (in "Philosophical Transactions, No. 342) Author[Newton, Isaac]Publisher1715-15 View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #108 Il Corpo-Umano, o Breve Storia Dove con nuovo metodo Si descrivono in Compendio tutti gli Organi suoi, e i loro principali uffizi, Per istruire a bene intendere, secondo il nuovo sistema, la Teorica, e Pratica Medicinale AuthorPascoli, AlessandroPublisherAndrea PolettiDate Published1727 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #110 The Bloudy Rage of that Great Antechrist of Rome and His Superstitious Adherents, against the True Church of Christ and the faithfull professors of his gospell: declared at large in the historie of the Waldenses and Albigenses, apparently manifesting unto the world the visibilitie of our Church of England... AuthorP[errin], J[ohn] P[aul]PublisherNathanael NewberyDate Published1624 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #130 The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides, and Timæus of Plato. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor AuthorPlatoPublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #132 Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady HeadingzzeAuthorPope, AlexanderHeadlinepopePublisherPrinted by J. Wright, for Lawton GilliverDate Published1725 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #134 An Inquiry into the Medicinal Virtues of Bristol-Water: and the Indications of Cure which it answers AuthorRandolph, GeorgePublisherPrinted for R. BaldwinDate Published1750 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #135 Osservazioni Intorno Alle Vipere AuthorRedi, FrancescoPublisherAll' Insegna della StellaDate Published1664 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #144 De Conceptu & Generatione Hominis...Libri Sex, congesti opera Jacobi Rueff, Chirurgi Tigurini HeadingzzfAuthorRueff, JakobHeadlineEarly obstetrics book 1554PublisherChristopher FroschauerDate Published1554 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #147 [Edward IV Year Books] De Termino Michaelis Anno Primo - Anno XXII Author[STC]Publisher[Richard Tottell]Date Published1556-58 View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #151 Bibliothecae Academicae Ingolstadiensis Incunabula Typographica seu Libri Ante Annum 1500 Impressio Circiter Mille et Quadrigenti... AuthorSeemiller, SebastianPublisherJoh. Wilhelmus Krüll Bibliopola Academ.Date Published1787-1792 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #152 The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus AuthorShakespeare, WilliamDate Published[1623] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #153 The Tragedie of Macbeth AuthorShakespeare, WilliamDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #154 Pizarro; a Tragedy, in Five Acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane: Taken from the German Drama of Kotzebue; and Adapted to the English Stage AuthorSheridan, Richard BrinsleyPublisherJames RidgwayDate Published1799 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #157 The Commonwealth of England, and the Manner of Government Thereof AuthorSmith, ThomasPublisherPrinted by Will. Stansby for I. SmethwickDate Published1633 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #159 [Works, i.e.] The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser. In Six Volumes. With a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words AuthorSpenser, EdmundPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1715 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #163 Cosmographicae aliquot descriptionis Ioannis Stofleri Iustingen Mathematici insignis: De Sphaera . . . De Duplici AuthorStoeffler, JohannPublisherEucharius CervicornusDate Published1537 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #166 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships Author[Swift, Jonathan]PublisherPrinted for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-streetDate Published1726 View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000Sold for$204,000StatusSold Lot #168 The Perpetual Laws, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from the Establishment of its Constitution to the First Session of the General Court, A.D. 1788. Compiled, arranged and printed to the wishes of many respectable law characters, and the approbation of the Honourable judges of the Supreme Judicial Court. Carefully compared with the original acts Heading(Thomas, Isaiah, printer)Author**PublisherIsaiah ThomasDate Published1788 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #174 P. Virgili Maronis Codex Antiquissimus. A Rufeo Turcio Aproniano V.C. Distinctus et Emendatus qui nunc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurentiana adservatur Bono Publico AuthorVirgilPublisherTypis MannianisDate Published1741 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next