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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 De occulta philosophia libri tres Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorAgrippa, Henricus CorneliusPublisher[Johannes Soter]Date PublishedJuly, 1533 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #2 Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia: in duo volumina secundum cosmi differentiam diuisa / authore Roberto Flud aliaÌs de Fluctibus ... Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorFludd, RobertPublisherAere Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi GalleriDate Published1617-1618 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #3 Die Geheimsymbole der Chemie und Medicin des Mittelalters Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorGessmann, G[sutav] W.PublisherFranz C. MicklDate Published1900 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #4 Les Dovze Clefs de Philosophie de Frere Basile Valentin, Religieux de l'Ordre de Sainct Benoist. Traictant de la vraye Medicine Metalique. Plus l'Azoth, ou le moyen de faire l'Or caché des Philosophes. Traduction Francoise Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorValentine, BasilPublisherPierre MoëtDate Published1659 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #5 The History of Women, From the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time; Giving Some Account of almost every interesting Particular concerning that Sex, among all Nations, ancient and modern AuthorAlexander, WilliamPublisherPrinted by J.A. Husband, for S. Price, R. Cross, J. Potts, et al.Date Published1779 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #6 A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, In the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794; containing the Various Circumstances of the Embassy, with Accounts of Customs and Manners of the Chinese; and a Description of the Country, Towns, Cities, &c. &c. AuthorAnderson, ÆneasPublisherPrinted by T. and J. Swords for Rogers and BerryDate Published1795 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #8 Autoritates Aristotelis olim recte philosophatiu facile principis insuper platonis. Boetii, Senece, Apulei Aphricani, Porphirii, Auerroys, Gilberti Porritani necnon quorundam aliorum nouissimi castiozi studio recognite et pigmentate Heading(Aristotle, et al.)Author**Publisher[Henrici Quentel?]Date Published[c.1509?] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #9 La Saincte Geìographie, c'est-aÌ-dire Exacte Description de la Terre et Veìritable Deìmonstration du Paradis Terrestre... AuthorAuzoles a La Peyre, Jacques d'PublisherAntoine EstieneDate Published1629 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #10 The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans... AuthorBacon, FrancisPublisherJ.J. and P. Knapton, et al.Date Published1733 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #11 The Wisedome of the Ancients, Written in Latine by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Baron of Verulum, and Lord Chancellor of England. Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight AuthorBacon, FrancisPublisherImprinted by Iohn BillDate Published1619 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #17 The Codex Benedictus: An Eleventh Century Lectionary from Monte Cassino AuthorBenedict, SaintPublisherJohnson Reprint Corp./ Harcourt Brace JovanovichDate Published[1982] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #18 The Bible in Englyshe of the Largest and greatest volume that is to say, the contentes of all the holye Scripture... Heading(Bible Title-page)Author**PublisherRichard CarmardenDate Published1566 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #19 The Newe Testament of Our Lord Iesus Christ... Heading(Bible Title-page)Author**PublisherPrinted by Thomas BassandyneDate Published1576 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #21 [Theogony and Works and Days] Heading(Bodoni Press)AuthorHesiodPublisher[Bodoni Press]Date Published1787 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #22 The Remainder of Books Written by Jacob Behme... AuthorBoehme, JakobPublisherPrinted by M.S. for Giles CalvertDate Published1662 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #23 [De dialecta]. i.e. Anitii Manlii Seuerini Boethi, Inter Latinos Aristotelis interpretes, & aetate primi, & doctrina praecipui Dialectica... AuthorBoethiusPublisherApud Hieronymum ScotumDate Published1568 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #27 Printed broadside declaring the law against bonfires and fireworks Heading(Broadside)Author**PublisherAssigns of John Bill, et al.Date Published1682 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #30 An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3d, and 5th, 1784. In Commemoration of Handel AuthorBurney, CharlesPublisherPrinted for the Benefit of the Musical Fund; Sold by T. Payne and Son, et al.Date Published1785 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #32 Leonora AuthorBürgher, Gottfried AugustusPublisherPrinted by T. Bensley for J. Edwards, et al.Date Published1796 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #33 [De bello Gallico, i.e. The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Caesar : conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia and the countries bordering vppon the same / translated oute of Latin into English by Arthur Goldinge G.] AuthorCaesar, JuliusPublisher[William Seres]Date Published[1565] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #36 Grunlagen einer Allgemeinen Mannichfaltigkeitslehre. Ein Mathematisch-Philosopischer Versuch in der Lehre des Unendlichen AuthorCantor, GeorgPublisherCommissions-Verlag von B.G. TeubnerDate Published1883 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #37 The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherJ. and R. TonsonDate Published1749 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #38 Catalogus gloriae mundi, D. Bartholomaei Cassanaei, ... opvs in libros XII. divisvm, quibus omnis humanae gloriae summa breuiter, artificioseqì continetur. Nunc veroÌ ita auctum, emendatum, figurisqìue illustratum, vt caeteras editiones omnes longe superare videatur AuthorChasseneux, Barthelemy dePublisherApud Vincentium ValgrisiumDate Published1571 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #42 Tres Libri de Oficiis, una com Hieronymi Wolfii Commentarius... AuthorCicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.)PublisherPer Ioannem OprinumDate Published1563 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerk, and Gore, in his Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingPublisherPrinted for G. Nicol and T. CadellDate Published1784 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #45 The Historie of Quintus Curtius, conteyning the Actes of the greate Alexander, translated out Latin into Englished by Iohn Brende... AuthorCurtius Rufus, Quintus.PublisherRichardi TottellDate Published1561 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #46 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1859 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Lot #63 Memoirs of the Life and Actions of Oliver Cromwell: As delivered in Three Panegyrics of Him, Written in Latin: The First, as laid, by Don Juan Roderiquez de Saa Meneses...The Second, as affirmed, by a certain Jesuit...composed by Mr. John Milton...as was the Third. With an English Version of each...To all which is added, A Collection of divers curious Historical Pieces relating to Cromwell... Heading(Extra Illustrated)AuthorCromwell, OliverPublisherFrancis Peck, compilerDate Published1740 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #66 Amelia AuthorFielding,HenryPublisherA. MillarDate Published1752 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #68 Lot of 16 volumes AuthorFoote, SamuelDate Published18th century View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #85 Quae Exstant. Cum Notis Integris Glareani, Rivii, Ciacconii, Ursini, Carrionis, Manutii, Coleri… Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorSallustius Crispus, Caius, (86-34 B.C.E.)PublisherF. Changuion, J. Catuffe, H. UytwerfDate Published1742 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #90 Itinerarium ad Regiones sub Æquinoctiali Plaga constitutas...Opus Antiquitates, Ritus, Mores, & Religiones Populoru, Æthiopie, Africæ, Atlantici Oceani, Indicarumque Regionum complectens: Nunc primo editit... AuthorGeraldinus, AlexanderPublisherTypis G. FacciottiDate Published1631 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #91 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London AuthorGerard, [John]PublisherPrinted by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard WhitakersDate Published1636 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #93 Die heilige Schrift. Altes und Neues Testaments... Heading(Germantown Bible)Author**PublisherChristoph SaurDate Published1763 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #94 El Atlas Abreviado ò El Nuevo Compendio de la Geografia Universal, Politicia, Historica, i Curiosa, segun el estado presene del Mundo, Illustrado con Quarenta i tres Mapas... AuthorGiustiniani, FranciscoPublisherJaime CertaDate Published1739 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #95 The Deserted Village: A Poem - 2 copies, the fourth and sixth editions AuthorGoldsmith, Dr. [Oliver]PublisherPrinted for W. Griffin, at Garrick's HeadDate Published1770 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #96 Odes AuthorGray, [Thomas]PublisherFor R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-MallDate Published1757 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #101 Horace His arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs englished : and to the Earle of Ormounte / by Tho. Drant addressed AuthorHoracePublisherThomas MarsheDate Published1567 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #107 [Hortus sanitatis. De herbis et plantis...] Heading(Incunable)Author**Publisher[Johann Pruss]Date Publishedc.1497 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #108 A Token for Children: Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children AuthorJaneway, JamesPublisherPrinted by Robert Sanders, one of Her Majesties PrintersDate Published1703 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #116 The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian...Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, with the Appendix, or LIfe of Josephus, written by himself: Seven Books of the Jewish War: and Two Books against Apion... AuthorJosephus, FlaviusPublisherWilliam WhistonDate Published1737 View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #117 [Opera], i.e. Juliani Imperatoris Opera quae extant omnia / a Petro Martinio ... & Carolo Cantoclaro ... Latina facta, emendata & aucta ; ejusdem Martinii praefatio de vita Juliani ; additus praeterea est a Carolo Cantoclaro liber ejusdem Iuliani Peri basileias... AuthorJulianus, EmperorPublisherDenis DuvalDate Published1583 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #121 La Philosophie Chrestienne de l'Academie francoise; des vrais seuls moyens de la vie bienheureuse AuthorLa Primaudaye, Pierre dePublisherPour Iaques ChouëtDate Published1599 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #126 Copies & extracts of some letters... [&] Some Familiar Letters... AuthorLeeds, Thomas Osborne, & John LockeDate Published1710 & 1708 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #127 The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in Those Parts AuthorLeigh, CharlesPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1700 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #129 The Works of John Locke AuthorLocke, JohnPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan, J.F. and C. Rivington, et al.Date Published1777 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #132 L'ombre de Charle-Quint apparue aÌ Volcart, ou Dialogue sur les affaires du tems Heading(Louis XIV)Author**PublisherJ. du BoursDate Published1688 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #135 Euphues the anatomie of Wit: Very pleasant for all gentlemen to read, and most necessary to remember. Wherein are contained the delights that wit followeth in his youth, by the pleasantnesse of loue: and the happinesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnesse of wisdome. By Iohn Lylie, Master of Art AuthorLyly, JohnPublisherPrinted by Iohn HavilandDate Published1636 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #136 [The arte of warre / written in Italian by Nicholas Machiavel; and set foorth in English by Peter VVithorne ...] AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloPublisher[W. Williamson, for Ihon Wight]Date Published[1573] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #144 De Germanorum prima origine, moribus, institutis, legibus & memorabilibus pace & bello gestis omnibus omnium seculorum usos ad mensem Augustum anni trigesimi noni supra millesimum quingentesimum, libri Chronici XXXI exprobatioribus Germanicis scriptoribus in Latinam linguam tralati... AuthorMutius, HuldreichPublisherApud Henricum PetrumDate Published[1539 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #145 A General System of Horsemanship in all it's Branches... AuthorNewcastle, William Cavendish, Duke ofPublisherJ. BrindleyDate Published1743 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #147 [Metamorphosis], i.e. The xv Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entituled, Metamorphosis. A work very pleasant and delectable AuthorOvidPublisherPrinted by Iohn Windet, and Thomas IudsonDate Published1584 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #148 Opera. Buecher und schrifften... [bound with] Chirurgische Buecher und Schrifften AuthorParacelsus, TheophrastusPublisherLazarus ZetznerDate Published1616 & 1618 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #152 Pestalozzi's sammtliche Schriften AuthorPestalozzi, Johann HeinrichPublisherJ.G. Cotta'scher BuchhandlungDate Published1819-1826 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #154 Europæisch-Geographische Spiel=Charte/ Darinnen/ Vermittels LII. sonderbarer Blaeten/ all in Europa besindliche Koenigrieche und Laender... Heading(Playing Cards)Author**PublisherJohann HoffmannDate Published1678 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #156 An Essay on man in Epistles to a Friend... Author[Pope, Alexander]PublisherPrinted for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, behind the Chapter-House, St. Paul'sDate Published[1733-1734] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #157 Three early 18th century poems & a related work bound together, including Pope's The Rape of the Lock AuthorPope, Alexander, et al.Date Published1710-1718 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #159 Lot of 11 volumes AuthorPrior, MathewDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #160 Psalter in Latin Heading(Psalms & Psalters)Author**Publisher[Apud Iuntas]Date Published[1601] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #162 Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the most important concerns of private life: and particularly shewing, the distresses that may attend the misconduct both of parents and children, in relation to marriage / published by the editor of Pamela Author[Richardson, Samuel]PublisherPrinted by S. Richardson : And sold by A. Millar, et al.Date Published1748 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #163 Lettres... a quelques-uns des ses Amis, au Sujet de la Magie, des Malefices et des Sorciers... AuthorSaint-Andre, Francois dePublisherChez Charles OsmontDate Published1725 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #164 The Universal Traveller: or, a Compleat Description of the Several Nations of the World... AuthorSalmon, ThomasPublisherRichard BaldwinDate Published1752-1753 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #169 Naturgeschichte... AuthorSchubert, Gotthilf Heinrich vonPublisherJ. F. SchreiberDate Published1882-84 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #171 A Sett of Anatomical Tables with Explanations, and an Abridgement, on the Practice of Midwifery... AuthorSmellie, WilliamDate Published1754 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #172 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Author[Smollett, Tobias]PublisherPrinted for W. Johnson and B. CollinsDate Published1771 View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #174 Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets, And the Remains of the Antient Artists. Being An Attempt to illustrate them mutuall from one another. In Ten Books [bound in one volume] AuthorSpence, [Joseph]PublisherR. DodsleyDate Published1747 View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #178 The hystory, writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls... AuthorThucydidesPublisher[William Tylle-Date Published1550 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #179 Voyages de C. P. Thunberg au Japon, Par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îles de la Sonde, &c. AuthorThunberg, C[arl] P[eter] (1743-1828)PublisherDenoît Dandré; Garnery; and ObréDate Published1796 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #185 Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus, ex Arithmetica Logarithmica, et ex Trigonometria Artificiali Adriani Vlacci collectus... [and also in German] Vollständige Sammlung grösserer logarithmisch-trigonometrischer Tafeln, nach Adrian Vlack's arithmetica logarithmica und trigonometria artificialis verbessert... AuthorVega, Georg Freherr vonPublisherWeidmannischen BuchhandlungDate Published1794 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #186 [Aeneid], i.e. The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusPublisher[W. Copland]Date Published1553 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #187 The whole .xii. bookes of the Æneidos of Vergill. Whereof the first .ix. and part of the tenth, were conuerted into English meeter by Thomas Phaer esquier, and the residue supplied, and the whole worke together newly set forth, by Thomas Twyne gentleman. There is added moreouer to this edition, Virgils life out of Donatus, and the argument before euery booke AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusPublisherBy Wyllyam How, for Abraham VealeDate Published1573 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #189 Anecdotes of Painting In England; With some Account of the principal Artists; and incidental Notes on other Artists. Collected by the late Mr. George Vertue, and now digested and published from his original MSS. AuthorWalpole, Horace.PublisherThomas KirgateDate Published1765-1771 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #190 An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language AuthorWebb, JohnPublisherPrinted for Nath. BrookDate Published1669 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #192 The Decorative Painters' and Glaziers' Guide AuthorWhittock, NathanielPublisherIsaac Taylor HintonDate Published1828 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #193 The Origin of Building, or, The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected [in five books] AuthorWood, JohnPublisherPrinted by S. & F. FarleyDate Published1741 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #194 Yaggy's Anatomical Study; presenting the skeleton, muscles, arteries, veins and nerves, also four life-size manikins of the body, the head, the eye and the ear with additional manikins of arm and leg... AuthorYaggy, [Levi]PublisherWestern Publishing HouseDate Published[1886] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next