Sale 287: Fine & Rare Books including Travel & Exploration (#287) 06/10/2004 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/10/2004 1:00 PM PDT Auction Info 287 256 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-55 of 55. Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Self-Propelled Vehicles. A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction, Operation, Care and Management of all forms of Automobiles Heading(Automobiles)AuthorHomans, James E.PublisherTheo. Audel & Co.Date Published1905 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #6 Dissertatio de corde... AuthorBack, Jacobus dePublisherArnoldi LeersDate Published1648 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #40 The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals AuthorDarwin, CharlesPublisherD. AppletonDate Published1873 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$93.75StatusSold Lot #41 A Compendious System of Midwifery, Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the Inquiries of those who may be pursuing this branch of Study... AuthorDewees, William P[otts]PublisherH.C. Carey & L. LeaDate Published1824 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #53 An Act for widening, cleansing, and lighting the several Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Ways and other publick Passages, within the Town of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford... Heading(England - Laws)Author**PublisherPrinted by Charles Eyre and William StrahanDate Published1777 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #55 Grundriss des Eigenthümlichen Wissenschaftslehre in Rükficht auf das theoretische Vermögen AuthorFichte, Johann GottliebPublisherChristian Ernst GablerDate Published1795 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #59 Polycronycon AuthorHigden, RanulfusPublisherPeter Treveris at ye expences of John ReynesDate Published16 May 1527 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 An Original Leaf from the Polycronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482: The Life and Works of William Caxton, with an historical reminder of fifteenth century England by Benjamin P. Kurtz together with a Note on the Polycronicon by Oscar Lewis & an Appreciation...by Edwin Grabhorn Heading(Incunable Leaf)AuthorCaxton, William, printerPublisher[Book Club of California]Date Published1938 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #62 Single leaf from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author[Colonna, Francesco]Publisher[Aldus]Date Published[1499] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #63 Single leaf from a Bible in Latin Heading(Incunable Leaf)Author**Publisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #67 Historiae Philippicae cum integris Commentariis AuthorJustininus, [Marcus Junianus]PublisherTh. HaakDate Published1719 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #69 The Golden Legend Heading(Kelmscott Press)Author[Voragine, Jacobus de]PublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1892 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #72 Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum... AuthorKircher, AthanasiusPublisherPrinted by Ludovici Grignani for Hermann ScheusDate Published1641 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #73 An Account of the Worship of Priapus, lately existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples... AuthorKnight, R[ichard] P[ayne]PublisherPrinted by T. SpilsburyDate Published1786 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #75 A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible 1535 Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorWikgren, Allen PPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1974 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #76 Lot of two engraved architectual views of Oxford AuthorLoggan, D[avid]Date Publishedc.late 17th century View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #77 Intrigues du serail, histoire turque AuthorMalebranche, [Nicolas]Date Published1739 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #79 The Life and Military History of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Roman Empire and Generalissimo of the British Forces, in the late Reign of her Majesty Queen Anne Heading(Marlborough, Duke of)Author**PublisherM. Cooper, W. Reeve, and C. SympsonDate Published1753 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #82 Lot of four titles Heading(Medical Botany)Author**Date Published1820's-60's View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #100 Relation de la Bataille de Marengo, Gagnée le 25 Prairial An 8, par Napoléon Bonaparte Heading(Napoleonic Wars)AuthorBerthier, Alexandre, Prince de WagramPublisherDe l'Imprimerie ImpérialeDate Published1806 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #103 The Second Usurption of Buonaparte; or a History of the Causes, Progress and Termination of the Revolution in France in 1815: Particularly Comprising a Minute and Circumstantial Account of the Ever-memorable Victory of Waterloo... Heading(Napoleonic Wars)AuthorBoyce, EdmundPublisherSamuel LeighDate Published1816 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #104 Les Infortunes de Plusieurs Victimes de la Tyrannie de Napoléon Buonaparte, ou Tableau des Malheurs de Soixante-onze Français Déportés sans Jugement aux îles Séchelles, à l'Occasion de l'Affaire de la Machine Infernale, du 3 Nivose an IX (24 décembre 1800) ; Par l'une des deux seules victimes qui aient survécu à la déportation Heading(Napoleonic Wars)Author[LeFranc, Jean-Baptiste-André]PublisherChez Mm. Ve. LepetitDate Published1816 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #107 Northern Campaigns from the Commencement of the War in 1812, to the Armistice Signed and Ratified June 4, 1813... Heading(Napoleonic Wars)AuthorPhilippart, JohnPublisherPatrick Martin, et al.Date Published1813 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #110 Memoirs of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson... Heading(Nelson, Lord)AuthorLloyd, FrederickPublisherPrinted by C. GoodchildDate Published1806 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #113 Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients AuthorOppianusPublisherPrinted at the TheaterDate Published1722 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #114 The Architecture of A. Palladio; Book the Fourth. Part the Second AuthorPalladio, A[ndrea]PublisherPrinted by John WattsDate Publishedc.1730's View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #116 Lot of three hand-colored engravings Heading(Perspective Views)Author**Date PublishedMid-late 18th century View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #118 The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary AuthorPhillips, EdwardPublisherJ. Phillips, N. Rhodes and J. TaylorDate Published1706 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #119 Statue antiche che sono poste in diversi luoghi nella citta di Roma [bound with] Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eor numismatibus extractae Heading(Porro, Girolamo)Author**PublisherGirolamo PorroDate Published1576 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #122 The Marrow of Historie, Or an Epitome of All Historical Passages from the Creation, to the end of the last Macedonian War AuthorRaleigh, Sir WalterPublisherPrinted by W. Du-gard, for John StephensonDate Published1650 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #124 Generation harmonique, ou Traité de musique theorique et pratique AuthorRameau, [Jean Philippe]PublisherPrault filsDate Published1737 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #126 Three autograph letters signed to Miriam Koshland AuthorReik, TheodorDate Published1949-1951 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #129 The Natural History of Aleppo and Parts Adjacent AuthorRussell, Alex[ander]PublisherA. MillarDate Published"1856" [i.e. 1756] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #130 Libro primo [-terzo] d'architettura AuthorSerlio, SebastianoPublisherGio. Battista et Marchio SessaDate Published1560 & 1544 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #131 Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals AuthorSeton, Ernest E. ThompsonPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1896 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #140 Popular Mineralogy AuthorSowerby, HenryPublisherReeve and BenhamDate Published1850 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #148 A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas AuthorAnson, GeorgePublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #153 A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship The Bounty Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies AuthorBligh, WilliamPublisherGeorge NicolDate Published1792 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #154 The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary. Containing a Description of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics, Provinces, Cities, Chief Towns, Forts, Fortresses, Castles, Citadels, Seas, Harbours, Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Capes, and Promontories in the Known World... AuthorBrookes, R[ichard]PublisherJ.F.C. Rivington, et al.Date Published1791 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #155 Voyage de Découvertes dans la Partie Septentrionale de l'Ocean Pacifique...pendant les Années 1795, 1796, 1797, et 1798; Dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d'Asie.... AuthorBroughton, W[illiam] R[obert]PublisherDentuDate Published1807 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #162 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 Carteret, 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.; by John Hawkesworth LL.D. AuthorCook, JamesPublisherW. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1773 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #163 An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere...Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.; by John Hawkesworth LL.D. AuthorCook, JamesPublisherJames WilliamsDate Published1775 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #164 A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux's Narrative of the Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships.... AuthorCook, JamesPublisherW. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1777 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #174 A New Voyage Round the World... AuthorDampier, WilliamPublisherJames KnaptonDate Published1697-1699-1703-1709 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #177 A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon AuthorDixon, GeorgePublisherPublished by Geo. GouldingDate Published1789 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #178 Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise, enrichie des Cartes Générales et Particulieres... AuthorDu Halde, J. B.PublisherHenri ScheurleerDate Published1736 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #181 History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North AuthorForster, John ReinholdPublisherLuke White & Pat ByrneDate Published1786 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #185 Cosmographie in four Books Containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World and all the Principal Kingdoms Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof AuthorHeylyn, PeterPublisherPhilip ChetwindDate Published1670 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #190 A New and Universal Geographical Grammar: Or, a Complete System of Geography AuthorJones, E.PublisherG. Robinson and T. EvansDate Published1772 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #195 A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 AuthorLa Perouse, Jean Francois de GalaupPublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1798 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #202 Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West Passage; and some account of the Trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain AuthorMeares, JohnPublisherLogographic PressDate Published1790 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #206 Journal of a Voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America, Northward of California...in the King's Schooner, called the Sonora, and commanded by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega AuthorMourelle, Francisco AntonioPublisher[J. Nichols]Date Published[1781] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #212 A Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748 Author[Noble, Charles Frederick?]PublisherT. Becket, P.A. Dehondt & T. DurhamDate Published1762 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #214 A General Itinerary of England and Wales, with part of Scotland; Containing All the Direct, and Principal Cross Roads to Every City and Market Town.... AuthorOgilvy, David, Jr.PublisherG. & J. Robinson, et al.Date Published1804 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #216 A Collection of Voyages and Travels, consisting of Authentic Writers in our own Tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other Collections... from the curious and valuable Library of the late Earl of Oxford... AuthorOsborne, Thomas, publisherPublisherPrinted for and Sold by Thomas OsborneDate Published1745 View details Estimate$2,500 - $4,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next