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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 De occulta philosophia libri tres View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorAgrippa, Henricus CorneliusPublisher[Johannes Soter]Date PublishedJuly, 1533 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 ... View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorFludd, RobertPublisherAere Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi GalleriDate Published1617-1618 Lot #3 Die Geheimsymbole der Chemie und Medicin des Mittelalters View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorGessmann, G[sutav] W.PublisherFranz C. MicklDate Published1900 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)AuthorValentine, BasilPublisherPierre MoëtDate Published1659 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorAlexander, WilliamPublisherPrinted by J.A. Husband, for S. Price, R. Cross, J. Potts, et al.Date Published1779 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. View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorAnderson, ÆneasPublisherPrinted by T. and J. Swords for Rogers and BerryDate Published1795 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Aristotle, et al.)Author**Publisher[Henrici Quentel?]Date Published[c.1509?] Lot #9 La Saincte Geìographie, c'est-aÌ-dire Exacte Description de la Terre et Veìritable Deìmonstration du Paradis Terrestre... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorAuzoles a La Peyre, Jacques d'PublisherAntoine EstieneDate Published1629 Lot #10 The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisPublisherJ.J. and P. Knapton, et al.Date Published1733 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 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisPublisherImprinted by Iohn BillDate Published1619 Lot #17 The Codex Benedictus: An Eleventh Century Lectionary from Monte Cassino View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorBenedict, SaintPublisherJohnson Reprint Corp./ Harcourt Brace JovanovichDate Published[1982] Lot #18 The Bible in Englyshe of the Largest and greatest volume that is to say, the contentes of all the holye Scripture... View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Bible Title-page)Author**PublisherRichard CarmardenDate Published1566 Lot #19 The Newe Testament of Our Lord Iesus Christ... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Bible Title-page)Author**PublisherPrinted by Thomas BassandyneDate Published1576 Lot #21 [Theogony and Works and Days] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Bodoni Press)AuthorHesiodPublisher[Bodoni Press]Date Published1787 Lot #22 The Remainder of Books Written by Jacob Behme... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBoehme, JakobPublisherPrinted by M.S. for Giles CalvertDate Published1662 Lot #23 [De dialecta]. i.e. Anitii Manlii Seuerini Boethi, Inter Latinos Aristotelis interpretes, & aetate primi, & doctrina praecipui Dialectica... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorBoethiusPublisherApud Hieronymum ScotumDate Published1568 Lot #27 Printed broadside declaring the law against bonfires and fireworks View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Broadside)Author**PublisherAssigns of John Bill, et al.Date Published1682 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBurney, CharlesPublisherPrinted for the Benefit of the Musical Fund; Sold by T. Payne and Son, et al.Date Published1785 Lot #32 Leonora View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBürgher, Gottfried AugustusPublisherPrinted by T. Bensley for J. Edwards, et al.Date Published1796 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.] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorCaesar, JuliusPublisher[William Seres]Date Published[1565] Lot #36 Grunlagen einer Allgemeinen Mannichfaltigkeitslehre. Ein Mathematisch-Philosopischer Versuch in der Lehre des Unendlichen View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorCantor, GeorgPublisherCommissions-Verlag von B.G. TeubnerDate Published1883 Lot #37 The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherJ. and R. TonsonDate Published1749 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 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorChasseneux, Barthelemy dePublisherApud Vincentium ValgrisiumDate Published1571 Lot #42 Tres Libri de Oficiis, una com Hieronymi Wolfii Commentarius... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorCicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.)PublisherPer Ioannem OprinumDate Published1563 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 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorCook, James and James KingPublisherPrinted for G. Nicol and T. CadellDate Published1784 Lot #45 The Historie of Quintus Curtius, conteyning the Actes of the greate Alexander, translated out Latin into Englished by Iohn Brende... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorCurtius Rufus, Quintus.PublisherRichardi TottellDate Published1561 Lot #46 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1859 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Extra Illustrated)AuthorCromwell, OliverPublisherFrancis Peck, compilerDate Published1740 Lot #66 Amelia View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorFielding,HenryPublisherA. MillarDate Published1752 Lot #68 Lot of 16 volumes View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorFoote, SamuelDate Published18th century Lot #85 Quae Exstant. Cum Notis Integris Glareani, Rivii, Ciacconii, Ursini, Carrionis, Manutii, Coleri… View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorSallustius Crispus, Caius, (86-34 B.C.E.)PublisherF. Changuion, J. Catuffe, H. UytwerfDate Published1742 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... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorGeraldinus, AlexanderPublisherTypis G. FacciottiDate Published1631 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold AuthorGerard, [John]PublisherPrinted by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard WhitakersDate Published1636 Lot #93 Die heilige Schrift. Altes und Neues Testaments... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Germantown Bible)Author**PublisherChristoph SaurDate Published1763 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... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorGiustiniani, FranciscoPublisherJaime CertaDate Published1739 Lot #95 The Deserted Village: A Poem - 2 copies, the fourth and sixth editions View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorGoldsmith, Dr. [Oliver]PublisherPrinted for W. Griffin, at Garrick's HeadDate Published1770 Lot #96 Odes View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorGray, [Thomas]PublisherFor R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-MallDate Published1757 Lot #101 Horace His arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs englished : and to the Earle of Ormounte / by Tho. Drant addressed View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorHoracePublisherThomas MarsheDate Published1567 Lot #107 [Hortus sanitatis. De herbis et plantis...] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Heading(Incunable)Author**Publisher[Johann Pruss]Date Publishedc.1497 Lot #108 A Token for Children: Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorJaneway, JamesPublisherPrinted by Robert Sanders, one of Her Majesties PrintersDate Published1703 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... View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorJosephus, FlaviusPublisherWilliam WhistonDate Published1737 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... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorJulianus, EmperorPublisherDenis DuvalDate Published1583 Lot #121 La Philosophie Chrestienne de l'Academie francoise; des vrais seuls moyens de la vie bienheureuse View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorLa Primaudaye, Pierre dePublisherPour Iaques ChouëtDate Published1599 Lot #126 Copies & extracts of some letters... [&] Some Familiar Letters... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorLeeds, Thomas Osborne, & John LockeDate Published1710 & 1708 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorLeigh, CharlesPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1700 Lot #129 The Works of John Locke View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorLocke, JohnPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan, J.F. and C. Rivington, et al.Date Published1777 Lot #132 L'ombre de Charle-Quint apparue aÌ Volcart, ou Dialogue sur les affaires du tems View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Louis XIV)Author**PublisherJ. du BoursDate Published1688 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 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorLyly, JohnPublisherPrinted by Iohn HavilandDate Published1636 Lot #136 [The arte of warre / written in Italian by Nicholas Machiavel; and set foorth in English by Peter VVithorne ...] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloPublisher[W. Williamson, for Ihon Wight]Date Published[1573] 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... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMutius, HuldreichPublisherApud Henricum PetrumDate Published[1539 Lot #145 A General System of Horsemanship in all it's Branches... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorNewcastle, William Cavendish, Duke ofPublisherJ. BrindleyDate Published1743 Lot #147 [Metamorphosis], i.e. The xv Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entituled, Metamorphosis. A work very pleasant and delectable View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorOvidPublisherPrinted by Iohn Windet, and Thomas IudsonDate Published1584 Lot #148 Opera. Buecher und schrifften... [bound with] Chirurgische Buecher und Schrifften View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorParacelsus, TheophrastusPublisherLazarus ZetznerDate Published1616 & 1618 Lot #152 Pestalozzi's sammtliche Schriften View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorPestalozzi, Johann HeinrichPublisherJ.G. Cotta'scher BuchhandlungDate Published1819-1826 Lot #154 Europæisch-Geographische Spiel=Charte/ Darinnen/ Vermittels LII. sonderbarer Blaeten/ all in Europa besindliche Koenigrieche und Laender... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Playing Cards)Author**PublisherJohann HoffmannDate Published1678 Lot #156 An Essay on man in Epistles to a Friend... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Author[Pope, Alexander]PublisherPrinted for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, behind the Chapter-House, St. Paul'sDate Published[1733-1734] Lot #157 Three early 18th century poems & a related work bound together, including Pope's The Rape of the Lock View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorPope, Alexander, et al.Date Published1710-1718 Lot #159 Lot of 11 volumes View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorPrior, MathewDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #160 Psalter in Latin View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Psalms & Psalters)Author**Publisher[Apud Iuntas]Date Published[1601] 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold Author[Richardson, Samuel]PublisherPrinted by S. Richardson : And sold by A. Millar, et al.Date Published1748 Lot #163 Lettres... a quelques-uns des ses Amis, au Sujet de la Magie, des Malefices et des Sorciers... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorSaint-Andre, Francois dePublisherChez Charles OsmontDate Published1725 Lot #164 The Universal Traveller: or, a Compleat Description of the Several Nations of the World... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorSalmon, ThomasPublisherRichard BaldwinDate Published1752-1753 Lot #169 Naturgeschichte... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorSchubert, Gotthilf Heinrich vonPublisherJ. F. SchreiberDate Published1882-84 Lot #171 A Sett of Anatomical Tables with Explanations, and an Abridgement, on the Practice of Midwifery... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorSmellie, WilliamDate Published1754 Lot #172 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Author[Smollett, Tobias]PublisherPrinted for W. Johnson and B. CollinsDate Published1771 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] View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorSpence, [Joseph]PublisherR. DodsleyDate Published1747 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... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesPublisher[William Tylle-Date Published1550 Lot #179 Voyages de C. P. Thunberg au Japon, Par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îles de la Sonde, &c. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorThunberg, C[arl] P[eter] (1743-1828)PublisherDenoît Dandré; Garnery; and ObréDate Published1796 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... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorVega, Georg Freherr vonPublisherWeidmannischen BuchhandlungDate Published1794 Lot #186 [Aeneid], i.e. The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusPublisher[W. Copland]Date Published1553 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorVergilius Maro, PubliusPublisherBy Wyllyam How, for Abraham VealeDate Published1573 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. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWalpole, Horace.PublisherThomas KirgateDate Published1765-1771 Lot #190 An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorWebb, JohnPublisherPrinted for Nath. BrookDate Published1669 Lot #192 The Decorative Painters' and Glaziers' Guide View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorWhittock, NathanielPublisherIsaac Taylor HintonDate Published1828 Lot #193 The Origin of Building, or, The Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected [in five books] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorWood, JohnPublisherPrinted by S. & F. FarleyDate Published1741 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... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorYaggy, [Levi]PublisherWestern Publishing HouseDate Published[1886] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next