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With a Commentary Embracing a Complete View of the Knowledge Possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on All Subjects Connected with Medicine and Surgery, by Francis Adams AuthorAegineta, PaulusPublisherSydenhamDate Published1844-1847 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #3 Chimia; sive, Traditio summæ Perfectionis et Investigatio Magisterii innumeris locis emendata, à Caspare Hornio ... Accessit ejusdem Medulla Alchimiæ Gebricæ. Omnia edita à Georgio Hornio Heading(Alchemy)AuthorGeberPublisherArnoldo DoudeDate Published1668 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #4 Pretiosa Margarita, novella de thesauro, ac Pretiosissimo Philosophorum Lapide. Artis hucius diuinæ Typus, & Methodus: Collectanea ex Arnaldo, Rhaymundo, Rhasi, Alberto, & Michaele Scoto; per Ianum Lacinium Calabrum nunc primum, cum lucupletissimo indice, in lucem edita Heading(Alchemy)AuthorLacinius, JanusPublisherAldusDate Published1546 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #10 Canadian Scenery Illustrated. From Drawings by W.H. Bartlett Heading(Bartlett, William Henry)AuthorWillis, N.P.PublisherGeorge VirtueDate Published1842 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #12 A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippo Sultaun; Comprising a Narrative of the Operations of the Army under the Command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam AuthorBeatson, AlexanderPublisherG. & W. NicolDate Published1800 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #13 Beauties Treasury: or, the Ladies Vade Mecum. Being a Collection of the Newest, most Select and Valuable Receipts, for making all Sorts of Cosmetick-Washes, Oils, Ungents, Waters, &c. Useful in Repairing lost Beauty, maintaining and improving good Complections, removing Blemishes of any kind, and procuring Handsomness Heading(Beauties Treasury...)AuthorW., J.PublisherS. MalthusDate Published1705 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #22 A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the Principal Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution... AuthorBishop, J[ames] LeanderPublisherEdward Young & Co.Date Published1864 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #23 Anatomia Sambuci: or the Anatomy of the Elder: Cutting out of it Plain, Approved, and Specifick Remedies for most and chiefest Maladies; Confirmed and cleared by Reason, Experience, and History AuthorBlochwitz, MartinPublisherH. BromeDate Published1677 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #25 Exoticarum Aliarumque Minus Cognitarum Plantarum Centuria prima cum Figuris Æneis summo studio elabor AuthorBreyn, JakobPublisherTypis, sumptibus & in ædibus AutorisDate Published1678 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #26 Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 AuthorCarver, J[onathan]PublisherPrinted for the Author, sold by J. Walter & S. CrowderDate Published1778 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #30 Hermippus Redivivus: or, the Sages Triumph over Old Age and the Grave. Wherein, a Method is Laid Down for Prolonging the Life and Vigour of Man. Including, a Commentary upon and Antient Inscription, in which this great Secret is revealed; supported by numerous Authorities AuthorCohausen, Johann HeinrichPublisherJ. NourseDate Published1744 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #34 A Treatise on Domestic Medicine, Intended for Families, in Which the Treatment of Common Disorders are Alphabetically Enumerated. To Which is Added, a Practical System of Domestic Cookery, Describing the Best, Most Economical, and most Wholesome Methods of Dressing Victuals; Intended for the Use of Families Who Do Not Affect Magnificence in Their Style of Living AuthorCooper, ThomasPublisherGeorge GetzDate Published1824 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #39 Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain, ècrites à W. S. Eecuyer, depuis l'année 1770, jusqu'à 1781. Traduites de l'Anglois par *** Author[Crevecœur, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de]PublisherCuchetDate Published1784 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #42 Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection AuthorDarwin, Charles and Alfred R. WallacePublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1855 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #47 The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque: Commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pickpocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia. Came back a Merchant, married four Wives, and five of them prov'd Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is now abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and resolves to dye a General Author[Defoe, Daniel]PublisherJ. Brotherton, et al.Date Published1723 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #49 Opera philosophica: Editio ultima, nunc demum hac Editione diligenter recognita & mendis expurgata AuthorDescartes, RenePublisherBlavianaDate Published1685 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #58 Institutionum Geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies & solida corpora tractaiut, adhibitis designationibus ad eam rem accommodissimis AuthorDurer, AlbertPublisherChristian WechelDate Published9 August, 1532 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #63 Italy, A Poem Heading(Fore-edge Painting - Double)AuthorRogers, SamuelPublisherT. Cadell, et al.Date Published1830 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #66 Two engravings of Benjamin Franklin Heading(Franklin, Benjamin)Author**Date Published1777 & 1780 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #67 The Trial of Spirits, Both in Teachers and Hearers. Wherein in is Held Forth the clear Discovery, and certain Downfall, of the Carnal and Anti-Christian Clergy of these Nations. Testified from the Word of God, to the University Congregation in Cambridge Heading(Franklin, Benjamin, printer)AuthorDell, WilliamPublisherB. Franklin, & D. HallDate Published1760 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #69 The Fundus Oculi with an Ophthalmoscopic Atlas Illustrating its Physiological & Pathological Conditions AuthorFrost, W. AdamsPublisherMacmillanDate Published1896 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #70 Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzio de Grazia, Contro al Trattato del Sig. Galileo Galilei, delle cose che stanno sù l'Acqua, ò che in quella si muouono. All'illvstriss. Sig. Enea Piccolomini Aragona, Signore de Sticciano, &c. Nella quale si contengono molte considerazioni filosofiche remote dalle vulgate opinioni AuthorGalileo, GalileiPublisherCosimo GiuntiDate Published1615 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #78 The Kittens, 1869-1916 AuthorGriswold, F[rank] GrayPublisherPrivately printed by the Plimpton PressDate Published1916 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #80 Sein und Zeit AuthorHeidegger, MartinPublisherMax NiemeyerDate Published1927 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #82 Opera, i.e. Magni Hippocratis Medicorum Omnium Facile Principis, Opera Omnia Quæ Extant... AuthorHippocratesPublisherSamuel ChouëtDate Published1557 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #97 Essais Anatomiques, Contenant L'histoire exacte de toutes les Parties qui composent le Corps de l'Homme, Avec La Maniere de Dissequer AuthorLieutaud, [Joseph]PublisherPierre-Michel HuartDate Published1742 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #99 The Moon Hoax; or a Discovery That the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings. Illustrated with a view of the Moon, as seen by Lord Rosse's Telescope AuthorLocke, Richard AdamsPublisherWilliam GowansDate Published1859 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #101 Saggi di Naturali Esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento sotto la Protezione del serenissimo principe Leopoldo di Toscana e descritte dal segretario di essa accademia AuthorMagalotti, LorenzoPublisherGio. Filippo GecchiDate Published1691 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #105 Opera AuthorMarolois, SamuelPublisherJan JanssenDate Published1633-1662 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #106 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale AuthorMelville, HermanPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1851 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #108 A Route-Book, Adapted to Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic; Comprising Tables of the Principal Rail-Road, Steam-Boat and Stage Routes, Throughout the United States AuthorMitchell, S[amuel] AugustusPublisherS. Augustus MitchellDate Published1846 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #109 De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land, Vervaetende d'Oorsprong der Americaenen en Zuid-landers, gedenkwaerdige togten derwaerds, gelegendheid der vaste Kusten, Eilanden, Steden, Sterkten, Dorpen, Tempels, Bergen, Fonteinen, Stroomen, Huisen, de natuur van Beesten, Boomen, Planten en vreemde Gewasschen, Gods-dienst en Zeden, Wonderlijke Voorvallen, Vereeuwde en Nieuwe Oorloogen: Verciert met Af-beeldsels na 't leven in America gemaekt AuthorMontanus, ArnoldusPublisherJacob MeursDate Published1671 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #110 L'Art D'Empailler Les Oiseaux, Contenant des Principes de théorie nouveaux, et des Procédés de pratique avantageux pour conserver à chaque Famille ses formes et ses attitudes naturelles; Faisant suiteau Traité élémentaire d'Ornithologie AuthorMouton-Fontenille, M[arie] J[acques] P[hilippe]PublisherYvernault et CabinDate Published1811 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #111 The Works of John Muir AuthorMuir, JohnPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-1924 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #114 Document Signed by Newton AuthorNewton IsaacDate PublishedDec. 24, 1718 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #115 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica AuthorNewton, IsaacPublisherGuil. & Joh. InnysDate Published1726 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #119 Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants; or, An Herball of a Large Extent, Containing therein a more ample and exact History and Declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare and strange Plants from all parts of the world... AuthorParkinson, JohnPublisherThos. CotesDate Published1640 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #121 Historique et Description des Procédés du Daguerreotype et du Diorama Heading(Photography)AuthorDaguerre, [Louis Jacques Mandé]PublisherAlphonse GirouxDate Published1839 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #131 The Scientific Outlook AuthorRussell, BertrandPublisherGeorge Allen & UnwinDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #134 Danmarks Fugle med Henblik paa de i Grønland, paa Færøerne og i Kongeriget Island Forekommende Arter AuthorSchioler, E[iler] LehnPublisherGyldendalske boghandelDate Published1925-1931 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #136 Studies of the Human Form for Artists, Sculptors and Scientists AuthorShufeldt, R. W.PublisherF.A. Davis CompanyDate Published[1908] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #138 A Dissertation Upon the Nerves... AuthorSmith, W.PublisherPrinted for the Author, and sold by W. Owen, et al.Date Published1768 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #141 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or the History of a Christian Slave AuthorStowe, Harriet BeecherPublisherPartridge & OakeyDate Published1852 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #147 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and other Sketches AuthorTwain, MarkPublisherC.H. WebbDate Published1868 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #149 Lot of four papers on Mathematics AuthorViéte, FrançoisDate Published1593-1600 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$23,750StatusSold Lot #151 Present State of the Spanish Colonies; Including a Particular Report of Hispañola, or the Spanish Part of Santo Domingo; with a General Survey of the Settlements on the South Continent of America, as Relates to History, Trade, Population, Customs, Manners, &c. with a Concise Statement of the Sentiments of the People on Their Relative Situation to the Mother Country, &c AuthorWalton, WilliamPublisherPrinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1810 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #158 The Conquest of Mount McKinley: The Story of Three Expeditions Through the Alaskan Wilderness to Mount McKinley, North America's Highest and Most Inaccessible Mountain Heading(Mountaineering)AuthorBrowne, BelmorePublisherPutnamDate Published1913 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #162 The Ascent of Mount St. Elias [Alaska] by H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo de Savoia Duke of the Abruzzi Heading(Mountaineering)AuthorFilippi, Filippo dePublisherArchibald ConstableDate Published1900 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next