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Previous|1|Next Lot #13 Christopher Columbus Heading(Allen Press)AuthorKazantzakis, NikosPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1972 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #17 Quartet: Four Stories Heading(Allen Press)AuthorWharton, EdithPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1975 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #35 The American Practical Dyer's Companion... AuthorBird, F.J.PublisherHenry Carey Baird & Co.Date Published1882 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #48 Recuerdos de Lima. Album tipos, trajes y costumbres AuthorBonnaffeì, A.A.Date Published1857 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #75 Maggie. A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) Author[Crane, Stephen] Smith, Johnston, pseud.Publisher[Printed for the Author]Date Published[1893] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Lot #82 Psychology AuthorDewey, JohnPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1887 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #99 The Music of Nature AuthorGardiner, WilliamPublisherJ.H. Wilkins & R.B. CarterDate Published1837 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #117 Manuscript Hebrew grammar book Heading(Hebrew)Author**Date Published1861 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #122 A Chronicle of Our Years. Commemorating the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco Heading(Hoover, Herbert)Author(Bohemian Club)Publisher[Printed at the Grabhorn Press]Date Published1947 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #125 Treatise on light, in which are explained the causes of that which occurs reflexion and in refraction, and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal. AuthorHuygens, ChristiaanPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1912 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$68.75StatusSold Lot #138 A Treatise on Artillery... AuthorLallemand, H.PublisherPrinted by C.S. van WinkleDate Published1820 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #148 Sculpture of Boris Lovet-Lorski Heading(Lovet-Lorski, Boris)AuthorArmitage, MerlePublisherE. Weyhe PublisherDate Published1937 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #153 Principles of Political Economy considered with a View to their Practical Application AuthorMalthus, T[homas] R[obert]PublisherC. Roworth for John MurrayDate Published1820 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #163 [Treatise on Military Affairs] Heading(Military)Author**Date Published[c.1791] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #169 The Discovery of Modern Anaesthesia AuthorNevius, Laird W.PublisherCooper InstituteDate Published[1894] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #170 The Newtonian System of Philosophy; Explained by Familiar Objects, in an Entertaining Manner for the Use of Young Ladies and Gentlemen Heading(Newton, Isaac)Author"Telescope, Tom" and "William Magnet"PublisherOgilvy and Son, Vernor and Hood, et alDate Published1798 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #173 The Book of the New Moral World, Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and Society AuthorOwen, RobertPublisherEffingham WilsonDate Published1836 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #180 Of the Generation of Man. The Twenty Fourth Book Author[Paré, Ambroise]Date Published[1634] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #181 Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell Heading(Pennell, Joseph)AuthorWuerth, Louis A.PublisherLittle, Brown, and CoDate Published1928 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #186 Tales [&] The Raven and Other Poems AuthorPoe, Edgar A[llan]PublisherWiley and PutnamDate Published1845 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #193 Hieroclis Philosophi commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Joan. Curterio interprete. [with 2nd part] Aurea Pythagoreorum Carmina. Latine conversa...Theodoro Marcilio Heading(Pythagoras)AuthorHierocles of Alexandria & PythagorusPublisherSteph. PreuosteauDate Published1583 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #196 Supplement to "Six Months in a Convent," Confirming the Narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed, by the Testimony of More that One Hundred Witnesses... Containing a Minute Account of the Elopement of Miss Harrisson... and an Exposition of the System of Cloister Education... AuthorReed, Rebecca TheresaPublisherRussell, Odiorne, & Co.Date Published1835 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #198 Physica. Latine vertit, recensuit, & adnotationibus ex illustrissimi Isaaci Newtoni philosophia maximam partem haustis, amplificavit & ornavit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. AuthorRohault, JacquesPublisherJacobi KnaptonDate Published1718 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #217 [Works] Heading(Sets)AuthorFiske, JohnPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[c.1891-1902] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #222 Works Heading(Sets)AuthorParkman, FrancisPublisherLittle, Brown, and CompanyDate Published1906-09 View details Estimate$700 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #229 Works Heading(Sets)AuthorWhittier, John GreenleafPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published[1892] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #233 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations AuthorSmith, AdamPublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1778 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #238 Ink & Blood AuthorSzyk, ArthurPublisherThe Heritage PressDate Published1946 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #241 An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain AuthorThornton, HenryPublisherJ. Hatchard, F. & C. RivingtonDate Published1802 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #243 Le Parfait ou le Teinturier François Heading(Tinting and Dying)Author**PublisherPar la CompagnieDate Published1767 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #248 De humani corporis fabrica epitome AuthorVesalius, Andreas [and Browne, John]PublisherJoannem JanssoniumDate Published1642 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #255 Farm on the Hill Heading(Wood, Grant)AuthorHorn, Madeline DarroughPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1937 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #257 The Annals of Philosophy Heading(Annals...)Author**PublisherBaldwin, Cradock, & JoyDate Published1823 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #258 The Published Writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882 Heading(Baird, Spencer Fullerton)AuthorGoode, George BrownPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1883 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #260 Life Histories of North American Birds, With Special Reference to Their Breeding Habits and Eggs AuthorBendire, CharlesPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1892 & 1895 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #261 Life Histories of American Birds AuthorBent, Arthur ClevelandPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1919-1946 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #265 Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions, from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian AuthorBritton, Nathaniel and Addison BrownPublisherScribnersDate Published1896-1898 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #267 [American Ornithological Bibliography] AuthorCoues, ElliottPublisher[Government Printing Office]Date Published[c.1879-1880] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #268 Prodome de la Classification des Reptiles Ophidiens: Memoire lu dans la seance du 2 novembre 1852 AuthorDumeril, A.-M.-ConstantPublisher[Academie des Sciences]Date Published[c.1852] View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #269 The Rattlesnakes, Genera Sistrurus and Crotalus. A Study in Zoogeography and Evolution AuthorGloyd, Howard KayPublisherUniversity of MichiganDate Published1936 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #270 The Rattlesnakes, Genera Sistrurus and Crotalus. A Study in Zoogeography and Evolution AuthorGloyd, Howard K.PublisherThe Chicago Academy of SciencesDate Published1940 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #271 Publications by H.K. Gloyd, 1941-1958 (spine title) AuthorGloyd, Howard KayPublisherAcademy of SciencesDate Published1941-1958 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #274 Nereis Boreali-Americana: Or, Contributions to a History of the Marine Algae of North America AuthorHarvey, William HenryPublisherSmithsonian InstitutionDate Published1852-53-[57] View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #281 American Medicinal Plants; an Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to The American Plants used as Homoeopathic Remedies: Their History, Preparation, Chemistry, and Psychological Effects AuthorMillspaugh, Charles F[rederick]PublisherBoericke & TafelDate PublishedNo date [c.1884] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #282 Cope: Master Naturalist. The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope, with a Bibliography of his Writings Classified by Subject AuthorOsborn, Henry FairfieldPublisherPrinceton University PressDate Published1931 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #283 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$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #284 Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous AuthorPalmer, Julius A[uboinea], Jr., editorPublisherL. PrangDate Published1885 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #285 Bound volume of portions of the Pacific Railroad Reports relating to reptiles,with plates Heading(Reptiles)Author**Date Published[c.1855] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #286 Essay sur la Physionomie des Serpens AuthorSchlegel, H[ermann]PublisherArnz & Comp.Date Published[c.1837] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #287 Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment; Or, Specialties of a Residence above the Clouds AuthorSmyth, C[harles] PiazziPublisherLovell ReeveDate Published1858 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #291 Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1891 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #292 The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1876 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #296 The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands, on the Coast of North and South America... AuthorBlunt, Edmund MPublisherEdmund and George W. BluntDate Published1827 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #297 La Figure de la terre... AuthorBouguer, [Pierre]PublisherCharles-Antoine JombertDate Published1749 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #298 The New American Practical Navigator... AuthorBowditch, NathanielPublisherE. & G.W. BluntDate Published1848 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #301 Bound volume with five documents relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1842 Heading(Canada-America Border)Author**PublisherPrinted by T.R. HarrisonDate Published[1843] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #303 An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Cartaret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour. Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. AuthorCook, JamesPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1773 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #306 The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms... AuthorDana, Richard Henry, Jr.PublisherThomas GroomDate Published1865 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #312 The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys AuthorFitzGerald, E[dward] A[rthur]PublisherMethuenDate Published1899 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #314 The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52 AuthorGilliss, J[ames] M[elville]PublisherA.O.P. Nicholson, Public PrinterDate Published1855 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #316 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804 AuthorHumboldt, Alexander vonPublisherGeorge Bell & SonsDate Published1884 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #320 Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX... Heading[Law, John]Author**Date Published1720 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #323 Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U.S. Brig Dolphin, Made nder the Direction of the Navy Department AuthorLee, S[amuel] P[hillips]PublisherBeverley Tucker, Printer to the SenateDate Published1854 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #336 Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China AuthorPumpelly, RaphaelPublisherLeyboldt & HoltDate Published1870 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #344 Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the Command of Captain George Vancouver AuthorVancouver, GeorgePublisherJohn StockdaleDate Published1801 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #345 Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements AuthorWagner, Henry R.PublisherJohn HowellDate Published1926 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #346 Wanderings in South America, The North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. The Original Instructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History AuthorWaterton, CharlesPublisherJ. MawmanDate Published1825 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #348 The Yukon Sun and Klondike Pioneer. Official Paper of the Yukon Territory. Special Number Heading(Yukon)Author**Date PublishedSeptember 1900 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next