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Previous|1|Next Lot #13 Christopher Columbus View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorKazantzakis, NikosPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1972 Lot #17 Quartet: Four Stories View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Allen Press)AuthorWharton, EdithPublisherThe Allen PressDate Published1975 Lot #35 The American Practical Dyer's Companion... View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBird, F.J.PublisherHenry Carey Baird & Co.Date Published1882 Lot #48 Recuerdos de Lima. Album tipos, trajes y costumbres View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorBonnaffeì, A.A.Date Published1857 Lot #75 Maggie. A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Author[Crane, Stephen] Smith, Johnston, pseud.Publisher[Printed for the Author]Date Published[1893] Lot #82 Psychology View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold AuthorDewey, JohnPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1887 Lot #99 The Music of Nature View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorGardiner, WilliamPublisherJ.H. Wilkins & R.B. CarterDate Published1837 Lot #117 Manuscript Hebrew grammar book View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(Hebrew)Author**Date Published1861 Lot #122 A Chronicle of Our Years. Commemorating the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Hoover, Herbert)Author(Bohemian Club)Publisher[Printed at the Grabhorn Press]Date Published1947 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. View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$68.75StatusSold AuthorHuygens, ChristiaanPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1912 Lot #138 A Treatise on Artillery... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorLallemand, H.PublisherPrinted by C.S. van WinkleDate Published1820 Lot #148 Sculpture of Boris Lovet-Lorski View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Lovet-Lorski, Boris)AuthorArmitage, MerlePublisherE. Weyhe PublisherDate Published1937 Lot #153 Principles of Political Economy considered with a View to their Practical Application View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorMalthus, T[homas] R[obert]PublisherC. Roworth for John MurrayDate Published1820 Lot #163 [Treatise on Military Affairs] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Military)Author**Date Published[c.1791] Lot #169 The Discovery of Modern Anaesthesia View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorNevius, Laird W.PublisherCooper InstituteDate Published[1894] Lot #170 The Newtonian System of Philosophy; Explained by Familiar Objects, in an Entertaining Manner for the Use of Young Ladies and Gentlemen View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$562.50StatusSold Heading(Newton, Isaac)Author"Telescope, Tom" and "William Magnet"PublisherOgilvy and Son, Vernor and Hood, et alDate Published1798 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorOwen, RobertPublisherEffingham WilsonDate Published1836 Lot #180 Of the Generation of Man. The Twenty Fourth Book View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Paré, Ambroise]Date Published[1634] Lot #181 Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Pennell, Joseph)AuthorWuerth, Louis A.PublisherLittle, Brown, and CoDate Published1928 Lot #186 Tales [&] The Raven and Other Poems View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorPoe, Edgar A[llan]PublisherWiley and PutnamDate Published1845 Lot #193 Hieroclis Philosophi commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Joan. Curterio interprete. [with 2nd part] Aurea Pythagoreorum Carmina. Latine conversa...Theodoro Marcilio View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Pythagoras)AuthorHierocles of Alexandria & PythagorusPublisherSteph. PreuosteauDate Published1583 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... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorReed, Rebecca TheresaPublisherRussell, Odiorne, & Co.Date Published1835 Lot #198 Physica. Latine vertit, recensuit, & adnotationibus ex illustrissimi Isaaci Newtoni philosophia maximam partem haustis, amplificavit & ornavit Samuel Clarke, S.T.P. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorRohault, JacquesPublisherJacobi KnaptonDate Published1718 Lot #217 [Works] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorFiske, JohnPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published[c.1891-1902] Lot #222 Works View details Estimate$700 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorParkman, FrancisPublisherLittle, Brown, and CompanyDate Published1906-09 Lot #229 Works View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Sets)AuthorWhittier, John GreenleafPublisherHoughton, MifflinDate Published[1892] Lot #233 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamPublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1778 Lot #238 Ink & Blood View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorSzyk, ArthurPublisherThe Heritage PressDate Published1946 Lot #241 An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorThornton, HenryPublisherJ. Hatchard, F. & C. RivingtonDate Published1802 Lot #243 Le Parfait ou le Teinturier François View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Tinting and Dying)Author**PublisherPar la CompagnieDate Published1767 Lot #248 De humani corporis fabrica epitome View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorVesalius, Andreas [and Browne, John]PublisherJoannem JanssoniumDate Published1642 Lot #255 Farm on the Hill View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Wood, Grant)AuthorHorn, Madeline DarroughPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1937 Lot #257 The Annals of Philosophy View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Heading(Annals...)Author**PublisherBaldwin, Cradock, & JoyDate Published1823 Lot #258 The Published Writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Baird, Spencer Fullerton)AuthorGoode, George BrownPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1883 Lot #260 Life Histories of North American Birds, With Special Reference to Their Breeding Habits and Eggs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBendire, CharlesPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1892 & 1895 Lot #261 Life Histories of American Birds View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorBent, Arthur ClevelandPublisherGovernment Printing OfficeDate Published1919-1946 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 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorBritton, Nathaniel and Addison BrownPublisherScribnersDate Published1896-1898 Lot #267 [American Ornithological Bibliography] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorCoues, ElliottPublisher[Government Printing Office]Date Published[c.1879-1880] Lot #268 Prodome de la Classification des Reptiles Ophidiens: Memoire lu dans la seance du 2 novembre 1852 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDumeril, A.-M.-ConstantPublisher[Academie des Sciences]Date Published[c.1852] Lot #269 The Rattlesnakes, Genera Sistrurus and Crotalus. A Study in Zoogeography and Evolution View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorGloyd, Howard KayPublisherUniversity of MichiganDate Published1936 Lot #270 The Rattlesnakes, Genera Sistrurus and Crotalus. A Study in Zoogeography and Evolution View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorGloyd, Howard K.PublisherThe Chicago Academy of SciencesDate Published1940 Lot #271 Publications by H.K. Gloyd, 1941-1958 (spine title) View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$175StatusSold AuthorGloyd, Howard KayPublisherAcademy of SciencesDate Published1941-1958 Lot #274 Nereis Boreali-Americana: Or, Contributions to a History of the Marine Algae of North America View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorHarvey, William HenryPublisherSmithsonian InstitutionDate Published1852-53-[57] 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 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorMillspaugh, Charles F[rederick]PublisherBoericke & TafelDate PublishedNo date [c.1884] Lot #282 Cope: Master Naturalist. The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope, with a Bibliography of his Writings Classified by Subject View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorOsborn, Henry FairfieldPublisherPrinceton University PressDate Published1931 Lot #283 An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts... To which is added a Third Part... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorOwen, CharlesPublisherPrinted for the Author, Sold by John GrayDate Published1742 Lot #284 Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorPalmer, Julius A[uboinea], Jr., editorPublisherL. PrangDate Published1885 Lot #285 Bound volume of portions of the Pacific Railroad Reports relating to reptiles,with plates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Reptiles)Author**Date Published[c.1855] Lot #286 Essay sur la Physionomie des Serpens View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorSchlegel, H[ermann]PublisherArnz & Comp.Date Published[c.1837] Lot #287 Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment; Or, Specialties of a Residence above the Clouds View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorSmyth, C[harles] PiazziPublisherLovell ReeveDate Published1858 Lot #291 Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1891 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselPublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1876 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... View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBlunt, Edmund MPublisherEdmund and George W. BluntDate Published1827 Lot #297 La Figure de la terre... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBouguer, [Pierre]PublisherCharles-Antoine JombertDate Published1749 Lot #298 The New American Practical Navigator... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBowditch, NathanielPublisherE. & G.W. BluntDate Published1848 Lot #301 Bound volume with five documents relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1842 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Canada-America Border)Author**PublisherPrinted by T.R. HarrisonDate Published[1843] 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. View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorCook, JamesPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1773 Lot #306 The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms... View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorDana, Richard Henry, Jr.PublisherThomas GroomDate Published1865 Lot #312 The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$93.75StatusSold AuthorFitzGerald, E[dward] A[rthur]PublisherMethuenDate Published1899 Lot #314 The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During the Years 1849-'50-'51-'52 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorGilliss, J[ames] M[elville]PublisherA.O.P. Nicholson, Public PrinterDate Published1855 Lot #316 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorHumboldt, Alexander vonPublisherGeorge Bell & SonsDate Published1884 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... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading[Law, John]Author**Date Published1720 Lot #323 Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U.S. Brig Dolphin, Made nder the Direction of the Navy Department View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold AuthorLee, S[amuel] P[hillips]PublisherBeverley Tucker, Printer to the SenateDate Published1854 Lot #336 Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold AuthorPumpelly, RaphaelPublisherLeyboldt & HoltDate Published1870 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorVancouver, GeorgePublisherJohn StockdaleDate Published1801 Lot #345 Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorWagner, Henry R.PublisherJohn HowellDate Published1926 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorWaterton, CharlesPublisherJ. MawmanDate Published1825 Lot #348 The Yukon Sun and Klondike Pioneer. Official Paper of the Yukon Territory. Special Number View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Yukon)Author**Date PublishedSeptember 1900 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next