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Previous|1|Next Lot #5 Manuscript Document Signed by Charles Biddle as Vice President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, presided over by Benjamin Franklin, offering aid to Chinese sailors in U.S. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(1785 First Chinese immigrants to the new American nation)AuthorBiddle, CharlesHeadlineMss doc signed about early Chinese 1786Date PublishedMay 30, 1786 Lot #25 The Fables of Æsop Paraphras’d in Verse, and adorn’d with Sculpture, by John Ogilby View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Aesop)AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineEarly edition of Ogilby's AesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas Warren for Andrew CrookDate Published1651 Lot #26 Exercitaciones anatomicas y esenciales operaciones de cirugia, con un breve resumen de los instrumentos y vendages. El modo de circular la sangre y un riñon extraordinario y algunos remedios; con las laminas finas y mas essenciales de la anatomia è instrumentos de las operaciones View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBeaumont, BlasHeadlineEarly Spanish medical instrumentsPublisherConvento de Nuestra Señora de la MercedDate Published1728 Lot #28 The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineLargest 16th century English BiblePublisherChristopher BarkerDate Published1583 Lot #29 The first [seconde] booke of the Machabees - from the 1574 folio edition of the Bishops' Bible View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBishops' Bible Machabees 1574Publisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] Lot #32 [Biblia Hebraica Rabbinica] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(1568 Bible in Hebrew)Headline1516 Hebrew Bible printed by Daniel BombergPublisherBomberg PressDate Published[1568] Lot #36 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$6,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John NewtonDate Published1687 Lot #48 An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, of Late Times by Some Chalenged, and Also Diversly by Them Impugned. By Which Apologie (in Their Severall Due Places) All the Reasons and Allegations Set Downe as Well in a Treatise, as in Certaine Notes (That Goe From Hand to Hand) Both Against Proceeding Ex Officio, and Against Oaths Ministred to Parties in Causes Criminall... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Author[Cosin, Richard]HeadlineAn Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings 1593PublisherThe Deputies of Christopher BarkerDate Published1593 Lot #50 The comical history of the states and empires of the worlds of the moon and sun. Written in French by Cyrano Bergerac. And newly Englished by A. Lovell, A.M View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorCyrano de Bergerac, Savinien deHeadline17th cent. SciFi by Cyrano de BergeracPublisherPrinted for H[enry] RhodesDate Published1687 Lot #58 The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000StatusUnsold Heading(Federalist)Author[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay]HeadlineFirst Edition of Federalist Papers, 1788, Vol. IIPublisherPrinted and Sold by J. and A. M'LeanDate Published1788 Lot #80 The firste[-Laste] volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. Conteyning, the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest. The description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde. 1571. The description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that nation, vntill the yeare. 1547. Faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorHolinshed, RaphaelHeadlineHolinshed's Chronicle 1577PublisherLucas HarrisonDate Published1577 Lot #82 Odyssey - Book XVII - Complete text from the first printed edition View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHomerHeadline1488 printing of Homer's Odyssey, Book 17PublisherBernardus Nerlius & D. DamilasDate Published1488 Lot #93 [The arte of warre, written in Italian by Nicholas Machiauel, and set foorth in English by Peter VVithorne, stude[n]t at Graies Inne: vvith other like martial feates and experiments, as in a table in the ende of the booke may appeare] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccolòHeadlineMachiavelli's Art of War 1573Publisher[VV. VVilliamson: for Ihon VVight]Date Published[1573 & 1574] Lot #101 Vocabvlario en Lengva Castellana y Mexicana... / Vocabvlario en Lengua Mexicana y Castellana... View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorMolina, Alonso deHeadline1st Spanish-Aztec Dictionary 1571PublisherEn casa de Antonio de SpinosaDate Published1571 Lot #102 Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto’s to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world. Whereby is discovered what is signified by every honourable partition, ordinary, or charge, usually born in coat-armour, and mythologized to the heroical theam [sic] of Homer on the shield of Achilles... By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 Lot #119 Poems on Several Occasions View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorPrior, MatthewHeadlineMatthew Prior Poems on Several Occasions Large PaperPublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1718 Lot #132 Arte Nueva de Escribir, Inventada por el Insigne Maestro Pedro Diaz Morarante, e Ilustrada con Muestras Nuevas, y Varios Discursos Conducentes al Verdadero magisterio de Primeras Letras View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorSantiago Palomares, Francisco Xavier deHeadlineArte Nueva de Escribir 1776PublisherD. Antonio de SanchaDate Published1776 Lot #136 The Life of King Henry the Fift View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlinePlay from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #137 A Midsommer Nights Dreame View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlinePlay from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #138 [Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies] View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSecond Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Works 1632Publisher[Printed by Tho. Cotes...]Date Published[1632] Lot #141 Traite de l'Apparition des Esprits. A scavoir des ames separees, fantosmes, prodiges & accidens merveilleux, qui precedent quelquefois la mort des grands personnages, ou signifient changemens de la chose publique. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorTaillepied, NoëlHeadlineRare early work on ghosts and extraordinary phenomenaPublisherChez Jean OsmontDate Published1602 Lot #145 De re Militari Libri Quatuor. Sextus Julius Frontini viri consularis de stragematis libri totidem; Aelianus: de instruendis aciebus liber unus; Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris liber item unus. Item picturae bellicae CXX passim Vegetio adiectae. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maxime Budaei quod testabitur Aelianus View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold AuthorVegetius Renatus, FlaviusHeadline16th century Military treatise with woodcutsPublisherChristianum WechelumDate Published1532 Lot #159 Le Livre des compte-faits, ou tarif general des monnoies View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold AuthorBarreme, Francois Bertrand deHeadlineRare Handbook on Exchange RatesPublisherChez les Libraires AssociesDate Published1771 Lot #160 Histoire de la Reformation de L'Englise D'Angleterre View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorBurnet, GilbertHeadlineBurnet's History of the Reformation, Church of EnglandPublisherChiswel & PittDate Published1683 & 1685 Lot #163 Les loix de la nature, expliquées par le Docteur Richard Cumberland…Traduits du Latin, par Monsieur Barbeyrac…Avec des notes du traducteur View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorCumberland, RichardHeadline1757 Les loix de la nature by Richard CumberlandPublisherChez Theodore HaakDate Published1757 Lot #174 In Auli Persii Flacci Satyras commentarius, ad Petrum Ramum, eloquentiae & philosophiae Regium Lutetiae professorem View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorFouguelin, AntoineHeadline1st Ed of the very rare commentary on Satires of PersiusPublisherA. WechelDate Published1555 Lot #175 Euclidis Elementorum libri XV Graecè & Latinè: Quibus, cum ad omnem Mathematicae scientiae partem, tum ad quam libet Geometriae tractationem, facilis comparatur aditus… View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorGracilis, Stephanus; Jean MagnienHeadlineSecond Edition of Euclidis Elementorum libri XVPublisherApud viduam & Gulielmum Cauellat, sub Pellicano, monte D. HilarijDate Published1598 Lot #183 Alea, Sive De Curanda Ludendi In Pecuniam Cupiditate View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorJoostens, PaquierHeadlineAlea, Sive De Curanda Ludendi In Pecuniam CupiditatePublisherJoannem OporinumDate Published[1561] Lot #184 Satyre, cum annotat, Th. Farnabii (Comm. Thomas Farnaby) View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorJuvenal & PersiusHeadlineWith an interesting provenancePublisherJ. BlaeuDate Published1668 Lot #211 Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench, Beginning Michaelmas Term, 25 Geo. 2 [i.e. 1751], Ending Trinity Term, 29 & 30 Geo. 2 [i.e., 1756]. View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold AuthorSayer, JosephHeadline1775 Reports of Cases Adjudged by Joseph SayerPublisherPrinted by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall…for P. Uriel…and T. CadellDate Published1775 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next