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[Jean Lerond d']PublisherClaude-Antoine JombertDate Published1777 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #8 Cosmographicus Liber Petri Apiani Mathematici, iam denuo integritati resitutus per Gemmam Phrysium, item eiusdem Gemmae Phrysii Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione, et de eorum distantiis inveniendis, nunquam ante hac visus AuthorAppianusPublisherJohannes Grapheus for Arnold BirckmannDate Published1533] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #33 Oeuvres completes De Buffon AuthorBuffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte dePublisherRapet et Cie.Date Published1817-1818 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #40 Commentarii de bello Gallico AuthorCaesar, JuliusDate Published1463 View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000Sold for$50,000StatusSold Lot #42 Maniere de Fortifier de Mr. de Vauban AuthorCambray, __ de, ChevalierPublisherPieter MortierDate Published1689 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #44 Critical ands Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished AuthorCarlyle,ThomasPublisherJames FraserDate Published1840 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #45 18th Century Devotional Manuscript Heading(Catholic devotional book with engravings by Martin Engelbrecht)Author**Date Published1789 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #50 4 author offprints - 2 inscribed presentation copies AuthorChampollion-Figeac, Jean-JacquesPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1823-1857] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #51 Notice Descriptive des Monumens Egyptiens du Musee Charles X AuthorChampollion le Jeune, (Jean-François)PublisherCrapeletDate Published1827 View details Estimate$1,500 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #56 Continuation of The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon; From The Restoration of the Royal Family in the Year 1660, to his Banishment in the Year 1667. Inclusive. With many Curious Anecdotes concerning Publick and Private Transactions preceding and during that Period. Copied from the Original Manuscript in his own Hand Writing. Author[Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of]Date PublishedNo date, possibly late 18th century] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1881 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #77 Underweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt, in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen Corporenmit dem zirckel un richtscheyt in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen corporen, durch Albrecht Dürer zusamen getzoge, und zu nutz alle kunstliebhabenden mit zu gehörigen figuren, in truck gebracht im jar 1525 AuthorDurer, AlbrechtPublisherHieronymus Formschneyder]Date Published1525 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$22,500StatusSold Lot #78 Annalen der Physik. Volumes 8, 11, 14 Author(Einstein, Albert)PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1902, 1903, 1904 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #79 Annalen der Physik Volume 20 Author(Einstein, Albert)PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1906 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #80 Original pencil portrait drawing of Albert Einstein, signed by Einstein and by the artist, framed Heading(Einstein, Albert)Author''Swamy,'' artistDate Published1950 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #83 Elementa Euclidea Geometriae, Planae ac Solidae; et Selecta Archimede Theoremata, quibus Accedit Trigonometria Auctore Andrea Tacquet AuthorEuclidPublisherTypographia HerzianaDate Published1737 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #91 L'Art du XVIII Siècle Heading(Extra Illustrated)AuthorDe Goncourt, Edmond & JulesPublisherE. DentuDate Published1869-75 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #101 Autobiographical Recollections. By the Late Charles Robert Leslie, R.A... Heading(Extra Illustrated)AuthorLeslie, Charles RobertPublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1860 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #111 Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo Matematico Supremo dello Studio di Padova, e Pisa. El Filosofo, e Matematico . . . sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico e Copernico . . . Accresciuto di una Lettera dello stesso, no piu stampata . . . AuthorGalilei, Galileo.PublisherNo publisher statedDate Published1710 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #119 Japanese Fairy Tales AuthorHearn, LafcadioPublisherT. Hasegawa/Y. NishinomiyaDate Publishedc.1905 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #121 Autograph note relating to Double Stars Author[Herschel, Sir William]Date PublishedNo date] circa 1810 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #123 The Hippocratic Oath (in Latin MS) - also a portion of Aretini's Punic War Author[Hippocrates]Date PublishedNo date [circa late 15th century] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #127 The Complete Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes AuthorHolmes, Oliver Wendell.PublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1892 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #131 Miniature manuscript illuminated Book of Hours Heading(Horae B.V.M.)Author**Date Published15th Century View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #133 The New Royal Encyclopaedia and Cyclopaedia; or, Complete Modern and universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. On an Entirely New and Improved Plan, and Including All the Modern Improvements and Latest Discoveries on the Various Subjects . . . etc. AuthorHoward, George SelbyPublisherPrinted for Alex. HoggDate PublishedNo Date (circa 1790) View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #140 Typed letter signed by Rockwell Kent AuthorKent, RockwellDate PublishedMarch 29, 1948 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #141 Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East. AuthorKinglake, Alexander WilliamPublisherJohn OlliverDate Published1844 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #143 Manuscript Koran leaf on leather Heading(Koran Leaf - 10th century)Author**Date Publishedc. 10th century View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #144 Manuscript Koran [Qu'ran] Heading(Koran)Author**Date Publishedc.17th century? View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #148 Autograph letter to astronomer Sir William Herschel AuthorLaplace, Pierre SimonDate Published1799] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #156 Stereoscopic Studies of Anatomy, Prepared under authority of the University of Edinburgh Heading(Medical - Stereo Views)AuthorCunningham, D.J.PublisherKeystone View CompanyDate PublishedNo date [c.1910] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #164 Archive of eight letters (7 A.L.s. and 1 T.L.s.) from Nehru to Syt Anupchand Shah AuthorNehru, JawaharlalDate Published1937-1938 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #168 [Key of Solomon] Clavicula Magica et cabalistica Sapientis Regis Salomonis. Ou, La Clavicule Magique et Cabalistique du Sage Roy Salomon. Traduite du texte Original Hebraique en Latin par le Suivant Negromancier Cornille Agrippa, et (?) en francais par Rabin Nazar chef d la Societe de La Grande cabal de la ville d'Arles; (?) est traitte la maniere de faire des talismans, Pentacles, figures, charectere, Magiques, et Pactes pour les Invocations, conjurations et apparitions des Esprits, Suivant le principe du grimoire. Le tout exactement copie sur l'Original qui est conserve dans la Biblioteque de Florence L'An 1632 Heading(Occult manuscript)Author**PublisherNo publisherDate Published1632 (but possibly later 17th century) View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #171 An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts... To which is added a Third Part... AuthorOwen, CharlesPublisherPrinted for the Author, Sold by John GrayDate Published1742 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #176 Secrets Reveal'd: or an Open Entrance to the Shut-Palace of the King: Containing, the Greatest Treasure in Chymistry, Never yet so plainly Discovered. Composed by a most famous English-man styling himself Anonymous, or Eyræneus Philaletha Cosmopolita: Who, by Inspiration and Reading, attained to the Philosophers Stone at his Age of Twenty three Years, Anno Domini, 1645 AuthorPhilalethes, Eirenaeus [pseud.]PublisherPrinted by W. Godbid for William CooperDate Published1669 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #177 Le Temple des Muses...ou sont representes les Evenemens les plus remarquables de l'Antiquite Fabuleuse Heading(Picart, Bernard)Author**PublisherZacharie ChatelainDate Published1733 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #187 The Natural Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke AuthorPlinyPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1635, 1634 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #195 Markstein: Aus der Weltlitteratur in Originalschriften…Zur Erinnerung an Das Fünfhundertjährige Geburstsfest des Altmeisters Johannes Gutenberg… Heading(Printing Art)AuthorBaensch-Drugulin, Johannes, editorPublisherW. DrugulinDate Published1902 View details Estimate$500 - $700Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #196 ''Old Sultan'' - original pen-and-ink drawing for Grimm's Fairy Tales, signed AuthorRackham, ArthurDate Published1900 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #201 [Works, i.e.] The Complete Works of John Ruskin AuthorRuskin, JohnPublisherGeorge AllenDate Published1903-1912 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #214 A Biographical Dictionary; Containing an Historical Account of all the Engravers, from the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Time; and a Short List of their Most Esteemed Works. With the Cyphers, Monograms, and Particular Marks, Used by Each Master... AuthorStrutt, JosephPublisherRobert FaulderDate Published1785-86 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #223 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published1906 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #229 Photograph signed by Mark Twain with inscribed note to his long-time friend John Garth, during his final visit to Hannibal, Missouri, framed Heading(Twain, Mark)Author**PublisherBarnett, H. Walter, photographerDate Published1902 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #232 M. and Madame Curie "Radium" Heading(Vanity Fair lithograph)Author**PublisherVanity FairDate Published1904 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #238 Ten Thousand a-Year Author[Warren, Samuel]PublisherWilliam Blackwood & SonsDate Published1841 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #243 Signature of Walt Whitman, framed with an original first edition, first state Leaves of Grass leaf and portrait AuthorWhitman, WaltDate Published[1855-1880] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #245 The Diamond Mines of South Africa: Some Account of Their Rise and Development AuthorWilliams, Gardner F.PublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1902 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #246 Foundations of Mathematics AuthorWittgenstein, Dr. L[udwig]Date Published1951 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #247 The Blue Book AuthorWittgenstein, Ludwig J.Date Published1933–34 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next