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Omnia edita à Georgio Hornio View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorGeberPublisherArnoldo DoudeDate Published1668 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 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorLacinius, JanusPublisherAldusDate Published1546 Lot #6 Opera View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorAristotlePublisherJoannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlino for Benedictus FontanaDate Published13 July 1496 Lot #7 Opuscula dun Augustini longe prestantissima cum duplici indicio rursus parrhisius coimpressa... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorAugustine, SaintPublisherJean PetitDate Published1502 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... View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold AuthorBacon, FrancisPublisherR. GoslingDate Published1730 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Beauties Treasury...)AuthorW., J.PublisherS. MalthusDate Published1705 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBedford, ArthurPublisherPrinted by J.H. for John WyattDate Published1711 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorBeethoven, Ludwig vanPublisherBureau de Musique de C.F. PetersDate Publishedc.1800? 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... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Dutch)Author**PublisherPieter Keur and Pieter RotterdamDate Published1719-1720 Lot #19 Biblia, Das ist: Die Ganze Beilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in German)Author**PublisherEmanuel ShurneysenDate Published1798 Lot #20 Sermones Gabrielis de festiuitatibus christi [and] Annotatio tituloru[m] de sanctis... [and] Sermones de sanctis magistri Gabrielis View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBiel, GabrielPublisherJohann Otmar for Friedrich MeynbergerDate Published1499? 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorBlochwitz, MartinPublisherH. BromeDate Published1677 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBoyle, Roger, First Earl of OrreryPublisherPrinted for H. HerringmanDate Published1668 Lot #25 Exoticarum Aliarumque Minus Cognitarum Plantarum Centuria prima cum Figuris Æneis summo studio elabor View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorBreyn, JakobPublisherTypis, sumptibus & in ædibus AutorisDate Published1678 Lot #26 Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorCarver, J[onathan]PublisherPrinted for the Author, sold by J. Walter & S. CrowderDate Published1778 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel dePublisherPrinted by Thomas Hodgkin, and Sold by William WhitwoodDate Published1687 Lot #28 Orationum View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusPublisherAldusDate Published1578-1579 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorCohausen, Johann HeinrichPublisherJ. NourseDate Published1744 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorCowley, AbrahamPublisherLondon: Printed by J.M. for Henry HarringmanDate Published1668 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorCowley, CharlottePublisherS. BladonDate Published1780 Lot #39 Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain, ècrites à W. S. Eecuyer, depuis l'année 1770, jusqu'à 1781. Traduites de l'Anglois par *** View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Author[Crevecœur, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de]PublisherCuchetDate Published1784 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,500StatusSold Author[Defoe, Daniel]Date Published1701 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 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$5,000StatusSold Author[Defoe, Daniel]PublisherJ. Brotherton, et al.Date Published1723 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... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorDella Valle, PietroDate Published1650 & 1658 Lot #49 Opera philosophica: Editio ultima, nunc demum hac Editione diligenter recognita & mendis expurgata View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorDescartes, RenePublisherBlavianaDate Published1685 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 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorDixon, GeorgePublisherChez MaradanDate Published1789 Lot #58 Institutionum Geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies & solida corpora tractaiut, adhibitis designationibus ad eam rem accommodissimis View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorDurer, AlbertPublisherChristian WechelDate Published9 August, 1532 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... View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold AuthorFontana, CarloPublisherJo: Francisci BuagniDate Published1694 Lot #65 Numismata imperatorum romanorum praestantiora a Julio Caesare ad Postumum usque / per Joannem Vaillant ... ; cui accessit appendix a Postumo ad Constantinum Magnum View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorFoy-Vaillant, JeanPublisherCaroli Barbielli & Venantii MonaldiniDate Published1743 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Franklin, Benjamin, printer)AuthorDell, WilliamPublisherB. Franklin, & D. HallDate Published1760 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 View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold AuthorGalileo, GalileiPublisherCosimo GiuntiDate Published1615 Lot #81 The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth. Written by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorHerbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, BaronPublisherPrinted by E.G. for Thomas WhitakerDate Published1649 Lot #82 Opera, i.e. Magni Hippocratis Medicorum Omnium Facile Principis, Opera Omnia Quæ Extant... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorHippocratesPublisherSamuel ChouëtDate Published1557 Lot #83 Travels in India, During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorHodges, WilliamPublisherPrinted for the Author, and sold by J. EdwardsDate Published1793 Lot #84 Tempestate Hac Nostra Juris Consultissima in Quatuor Libros, Institutionum Juris Civilis Eruditissima Commentaria View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorHotman, FrançoisPublisherApud hæredes Melchioris SessæDate Published1569 Lot #90 De Arte Cabalistica Libri Tres Leoni X. Dicati View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorReuchlin, JohannPublisherApud Thomam Anshelmum, Mense MartioDate Published1517 Lot #97 Essais Anatomiques, Contenant L'histoire exacte de toutes les Parties qui composent le Corps de l'Homme, Avec La Maniere de Dissequer View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorLieutaud, [Joseph]PublisherPierre-Michel HuartDate Published1742 Lot #98 Titi Livii Historiarum quod extat / cum perpetuis Car. Sigonii et J. F. Gronovii notis. Jac. Gronovius probavit, suasque et aliorum notas adjecit View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorLivius, TitusPublisherDaniel ElzevierDate Published1679 & 1678 Lot #100 La Filomena con otras diuertas Rimas, Protas, y Vertos View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorLope de Vega y Carpio, FelixPublisherAlonso Martin for Alonso PerezDate Published1622 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 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorMagalotti, LorenzoPublisherGio. Filippo GecchiDate Published1691 Lot #102 [Le Morte Darthur]: The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britaine View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorMalory, Sir ThomasPublisherR. WilkesDate Published1816 Lot #105 Opera View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorMarolois, SamuelPublisherJan JanssenDate Published1633-1662 Lot #112 Lamindi Pritanii De Ingeniorum Moderatione in Religionis Negotio, Ubi quæ Jura, quæ Frena futura sint Homini Christiano in inquirende & tradenda Veritate.... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Author[Muratori, Lodovico Antonio]PublisherJoannis Baptistæ PasqualiDate Published1752 Lot #113 Collection of 6 pieces of Sheet Music View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Music)Author**Date PublishedEarly 19th century Lot #115 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold AuthorNewton, IsaacPublisherGuil. & Joh. InnysDate Published1726 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 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorOlaerius, Adam, & John Albert de MandelsloPublisherPrinted for Thomas Dring, and John StarkeyDate Published1662 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... View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorParkinson, JohnPublisherThos. CotesDate Published1640 Lot #122 Vite de Plutarco Cheroneo de gli Huomini Illustri Greci et Romani... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorPlutarchPublisherGabriel Giolito de' FerrariDate Published1568 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... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorRay, JohnPublisherPrinted for William InnysDate Published1713 Lot #125 Satyres et Aitres Peuvres de Regnier, Accompagnées de Remarques Historiques. Nouvelle Edition considerablement augmentée View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorRegnier, MathurinPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1733 Lot #129 Thesaurus Artificiosae Memoriae. Concionatoribus, Philosophis, Medicis, Iuristis, Oratoribus, Produratoribus, cæterisq; bonarum litterarum amatoribus View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorRosselli, CosmaPublisherAntonius PadovaniDate Published1579 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 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorRösel von Rosenhof, August Johann & Christian Friedrich Carl KleemannPublisherBy C. H. Bohn en H. de Wit, boekverkoopersDate Published[1764-68] 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. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorSmith, JohnPublisherT. Cadell & C. ElliotDate Published1780 Lot #138 A Dissertation Upon the Nerves... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorSmith, W.PublisherPrinted for the Author, and sold by W. Owen, et al.Date Published1768 Lot #149 Lot of four papers on Mathematics View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$23,750StatusSold AuthorViéte, FrançoisDate Published1593-1600 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorWilson, ArthurPublisherPrinted for Richard LowndsDate Published1653 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... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Zoroaster)AuthorAnquetil Duperron, Abraham HyacinthPublisherN.M. TilliardDate Published1771 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next