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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 #6 Opera AuthorAristotlePublisherJoannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlino for Benedictus FontanaDate Published13 July 1496 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #7 Opuscula dun Augustini longe prestantissima cum duplici indicio rursus parrhisius coimpressa... AuthorAugustine, SaintPublisherJean PetitDate Published1502 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #8 [Works] i.e. Opera Omnia, Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Hactenus Edita, ad Autographorum maxime fidem emendantur, Nonnulla etiam, ex MSS Codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt... AuthorBacon, FrancisPublisherR. GoslingDate Published1730 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold 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 #14 The Great Abuse of Musick. In Two Parts. Containing an Account of the Use and Design of Musick among the Antient Jews, Greeks, Romans, and others; with their Concern for, and Care to prevent the Abuse thereof. And Also and Account of the Immorality and Profaneness, which is occasioned by the Corrupton of the most Nobel Science in the Present Age AuthorBedford, ArthurPublisherPrinted by J.H. for John WyattDate Published1711 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #15 Septetto pour Violin, Alto, Clarinette, Corno, Basson, Violincelle et Contre-Basse composé et dedié à Sa Majesté Marie Therese, L'Imperatrice romaine, Reine d'Hongrie et de Boheme, etc. etc...Oeuvre 20 AuthorBeethoven, Ludwig vanPublisherBureau de Musique de C.F. PetersDate Publishedc.1800? View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #18 Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments, Door Laft der Hoogh-Mog: Heeren Staten Generael... Heading(Bible in Dutch)Author**PublisherPieter Keur and Pieter RotterdamDate Published1719-1720 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #19 Biblia, Das ist: Die Ganze Beilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments... Heading(Bible in German)Author**PublisherEmanuel ShurneysenDate Published1798 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #20 Sermones Gabrielis de festiuitatibus christi [and] Annotatio tituloru[m] de sanctis... [and] Sermones de sanctis magistri Gabrielis AuthorBiel, GabrielPublisherJohann Otmar for Friedrich MeynbergerDate Published1499? View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold 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 #24 The History of Henry the Fifth. And the Tragedy of Mustapha, Son of Solyman the Magnificent. As they were Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theater AuthorBoyle, Roger, First Earl of OrreryPublisherPrinted for H. HerringmanDate Published1668 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold 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 #27 The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language. And Adorned with several Copper Plates AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherPrinted by Thomas Hodgkin, and Sold by William WhitwoodDate Published1687 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #28 Orationum AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusPublisherAldusDate Published1578-1579 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold 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 #36 The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press. Now Published out of the Authors Original Copies AuthorCowley, AbrahamPublisherLondon: Printed by J.M. for Henry HarringmanDate Published1668 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #37 The Ladies History of England; from the Descent of Julius Cæsar, to the Summer of 1780. Calculated for the Use of the Ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland; and Likewise Adapted to General Use, Entertainment, and Instruction AuthorCowley, CharlottePublisherS. BladonDate Published1780 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold 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 #46 Reasons Against a War with France, or an Argument Shewing that the French King's Owning the Prince of Wales as King of England, Scotland and Ireland; is No Sufficient Ground of a War Author[Defoe, Daniel]Date Published1701 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,500StatusSold 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 #48 Viaggi di Pietro della Valle il Pellegrino con minuto raguaglio di tutte le cose notabili osservate in essi, descritti da lui medesimo in 54 lettere familiari, diversi luoghi della intrapresa peregrinatione, mandate in Napoli all'erudito, e fra'più cari, di molti anni suo amico Mario Schipano. Divisi in trè parti, cioè, la Turchia; la Persia, e l'India... AuthorDella Valle, PietroDate Published1650 & 1658 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold 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 #55 Voyage Autour du Monde; at Principalement a la Côte Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique; Fait en 1785, 1786, 1787 et 1788, a bord du King-George et de la Queen-Charlotte, par les Capitaines Portlock et Dixon AuthorDixon, GeorgePublisherChez MaradanDate Published1789 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold 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 #62 Templum Vaticanum et Ipsius Origo, cum Ædificiis maximè conspicuis antiquitùs, & recèns ibidem constitutis; editum ab equite Carolo Fontana...Opus in septem libros distributum, Latinisque literis consignatum a Joanne Jos: Bonnervë de S. Romain... AuthorFontana, CarloPublisherJo: Francisci BuagniDate Published1694 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 Numismata imperatorum romanorum praestantiora a Julio Caesare ad Postumum usque / per Joannem Vaillant ... ; cui accessit appendix a Postumo ad Constantinum Magnum AuthorFoy-Vaillant, JeanPublisherCaroli Barbielli & Venantii MonaldiniDate Published1743 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold 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 #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 #81 The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth. Written by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury AuthorHerbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, BaronPublisherPrinted by E.G. for Thomas WhitakerDate Published1649 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 #83 Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 AuthorHodges, WilliamPublisherPrinted for the Author, and sold by J. EdwardsDate Published1793 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #84 Tempestate Hac Nostra Juris Consultissima in Quatuor Libros, Institutionum Juris Civilis Eruditissima Commentaria AuthorHotman, FrançoisPublisherApud hæredes Melchioris SessæDate Published1569 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #90 De Arte Cabalistica Libri Tres Leoni X. Dicati Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorReuchlin, JohannPublisherApud Thomam Anshelmum, Mense MartioDate Published1517 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold 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 #98 Titi Livii Historiarum quod extat / cum perpetuis Car. Sigonii et J. F. Gronovii notis. Jac. Gronovius probavit, suasque et aliorum notas adjecit AuthorLivius, TitusPublisherDaniel ElzevierDate Published1679 & 1678 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #100 La Filomena con otras diuertas Rimas, Protas, y Vertos AuthorLope de Vega y Carpio, FelixPublisherAlonso Martin for Alonso PerezDate Published1622 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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 #102 [Le Morte Darthur]: The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britaine AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasPublisherR. WilkesDate Published1816 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #105 Opera AuthorMarolois, SamuelPublisherJan JanssenDate Published1633-1662 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #112 Lamindi Pritanii De Ingeniorum Moderatione in Religionis Negotio, Ubi quæ Jura, quæ Frena futura sint Homini Christiano in inquirende & tradenda Veritate.... Author[Muratori, Lodovico Antonio]PublisherJoannis Baptistæ PasqualiDate Published1752 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #113 Collection of 6 pieces of Sheet Music Heading(Music)Author**Date PublishedEarly 19th century View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #115 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica AuthorNewton, IsaacPublisherGuil. & Joh. InnysDate Published1726 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #117 The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia: Begun in the Year M.DC.XXXIII. and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX. Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other Adjacent Countries. With several Publick Transactions reaching neer the Present Times; in VII. Books. Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo, (a Gentleman Belonging to the Embassy) from Persia, into the East-Indies ... in III. books / Written originally by Adam Olearius, Secretary to the Embassy. Faithfully rendred into English, by John Davies AuthorOlaerius, Adam, & John Albert de MandelsloPublisherPrinted for Thomas Dring, and John StarkeyDate Published1662 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold 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 #122 Vite de Plutarco Cheroneo de gli Huomini Illustri Greci et Romani... AuthorPlutarchPublisherGabriel Giolito de' FerrariDate Published1568 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #124 Three Physico-Theological Discourses, Concerning, I. The Primitive Chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The General Deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The Dissolution of the World, and Future Conflagration...The Production and Use of Mountains...Sea-Fishes Bones and Shells found in the Earth; the Effects of particular Floods, and Inundations of the Sea; the Eruptions of Vulcano's; the Nature and Causes of Earthquakes. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England... AuthorRay, JohnPublisherPrinted for William InnysDate Published1713 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #125 Satyres et Aitres Peuvres de Regnier, Accompagnées de Remarques Historiques. Nouvelle Edition considerablement augmentée AuthorRegnier, MathurinPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1733 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #129 Thesaurus Artificiosae Memoriae. Concionatoribus, Philosophis, Medicis, Iuristis, Oratoribus, Produratoribus, cæterisq; bonarum litterarum amatoribus AuthorRosselli, CosmaPublisherAntonius PadovaniDate Published1579 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #133 De natuurlyke historie der insecten; voorzien met naar 't leven getekende en gekoleurde plaaten. Volgens eigen ondervinding beschreeven, door den Heer August Johan Rösel, van Rosenhof, miniatuur-schilder. Met zeer nutte en fraaie aanmerkingen verrykt, door den Heer C. F. C. Kleemann AuthorRösel von Rosenhof, August Johann & Christian Friedrich Carl KleemannPublisherBy C. H. Bohn en H. de Wit, boekverkoopersDate Published[1764-68] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #137 Galic Antiquities: Consisting of a History of the Druids, Particularly Those of Caledonia; A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian; and a Collection of Ancient Poems, Translated from the Galic of Ullin, Ossian, Orran, &c. AuthorSmith, JohnPublisherT. Cadell & C. ElliotDate Published1780 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold 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 #149 Lot of four papers on Mathematics AuthorViéte, FrançoisDate Published1593-1600 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$23,750StatusSold Lot #153 The History of Great Britain, Being the Life and Reign of King James the First, Relating To what passed from his first Access to the Crown, till his Death AuthorWilson, ArthurPublisherPrinted for Richard LowndsDate Published1653 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #157 Zend-Avesta, Ouvrage De Zoroastre, Contenant les Idées Théologiques, Physiques & Morales de ce Législature, les Cérémonies du Culte Religieux qu'il a établi, & plusiers traits importans relatifs à l'ancienne Histoire des Perses... Heading(Zoroaster)AuthorAnquetil Duperron, Abraham HyacinthPublisherN.M. TilliardDate Published1771 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next