Sale 553 - Rare Books & Manuscripts with Early Medical Works from the George Bray Collection (At Oakland, Sunday, 8:00 am) (#553) 02/08/2015 8:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/08/2015 8:00 AM PST Auction Info 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)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-35 of 35. Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Poems of W.B. Yeats View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorYeats, William ButlerHeadlineArion Press Yeats' PoemsPublisherArion PressDate Published[1990] Lot #7 [Chronicles of London, i.e.] In this booke is conteyned the names of ye baylifs, custos, mairs, and sherefs of the cite of Londo[n] from the tyme of King Richard the Furst & also thartycles of the chartur & libarties of the same cyte, and of the chartur and libarties off England wyth odur dyuers mat's good and necessary for euery citeze[n] to vndir stond and knowe ... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorArnold, RichardHeadlineChronicles of London 1503Publisher[A. van Berghen]Date Published1503 Lot #11 Orlando Furioso - one of only 100 large paper copies View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$4,167.50StatusSold Heading(Baskerville, John)AuthorAriosto, LodovicoHeadlineLarge Paper Baskerville Printing of Orlando FuriosoPublisherJohn Baskerville for P. and G. MoliniDate Published1773 Lot #13 Recherches sur les Theatres de France, Depuis l'année onze cens soixante & un; jusques à present View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorBeauchamps, Pierre Francois Godard deHeadlineHistory of French Theatre 1735PublisherChez Prault, PereDate Published1735 Lot #14 Two leaves from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible of Alcala View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,125StatusSold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)Headline2 leaves from Complutensian Polyglot BiblePublisherArnald Guillen de BrocarDate Published1514-1517 Lot #15 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Appointed to be read in churches. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineKing James Bible 1628PublisherBonham Norton and Iohn BillDate Published1628 Lot #17 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in Latin)HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] Lot #22 Sanctorum Peregrinatiionum in Hierusalem Opusculum View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBreydenbach, Bernhard vonHeadlineEarliest account of a pilgrimage to the Holy LandPublisherPeter DrachDate Published24 November 1502 Lot #24 The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Caesar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia and the countries bordering vppon the same translated oute of latin into English by Arthur Goldinge G. View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorCaesar, JuliusHeadlineFirst in English of Caesar's Gallic WarsPublisherWillyam SeresDate Published1565 Lot #29 William Caxton - with an original leaf printed by Caxton View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorDuff, E. GordonHeadlineWith original 1576 Caxton leafPublisherCaxton ClubDate Published1905 Lot #41 California Native Wildflowers View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorEvans, HenryHeadlineHenry Evans California Native WildflowersPublisherPrinted for the SubscribersDate Published[1985] Lot #43 [The exact surveyor: or, The whole art of surveying of land. Shewing how to plot all manner of grounds... and how exactly to prove the truth thereof. And also how to finde the area, or content of any land; to protract, reduce, and divide the same, as required to take the plot of a whole mannor, and to make a perfect map or chart thereof...] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorEyre, JohnHeadlineEarly surveying manual 1654Publisher[Printed for N. Brook]Date Published[1654] Lot #47 Two rare booklets on the coronation of Charles IX of France, 1561 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(France)HeadlineCoronation of Charles IX of France 1561Date Published1561 Lot #52 Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music Painting and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness. By J.H. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineTreatises on Art, Music and HappinessPublisherPrinted by J. Woodfall, jun., for J. Nourse and P. VaillantDate Published1744 Lot #53 The Works of James Harris, Esq. With an account of his life and character, by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineEnglish grammarian James HarrisPublisherPrinted by Luke Hansard, for F. WingraveDate Published1801 Lot #62 Bifolium on vellum from "The Wood Beyond the World" View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineKelmscott bifolium on vellumPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published[1894] Lot #67 Fables and Tales from La Fontaine, in French and English. Now First Translated. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLa Fontaine, Jean deHeadlineFables of La Fontaine in French and English 1734PublisherA. Bettsworth and C. Hitch, and C. DavisDate Published1734 Lot #78 The xv. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso: entituled, Metamorphosis.A worke verie pleasant and delectable. Translated out of Latin into English meeter, by Arthur Golding Gentleman View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid as Shakespeare source 1593PublisherPrinted by John DanterDate Published1593 Lot #82 [Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst Plato in Greek 1513Publisher[In aedib. Aldi, et Andreae Soceri],Date Published[1513] Lot #86 The History of the World View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorRaleigh, WalterHeadlineWalter Raleigh's History of the World 1614 1st edPublisherPrinted [by William Stansby] for Walter BurrDate Published1614 Lot #89 "If" and "Recessional" View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold Heading(Sangorski, Alberto)AuthorKipling, RudyardHeadlineIlluminated Manuscript by Alberto SangorskiDate Published[c. 1928] Lot #92 Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies View details Estimate$120,000 - $180,000Sold for$118,750StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSecond Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Works 1632PublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot... at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yardDate Published1632 Lot #104 The Principles of Christian Religion; with a Large Body of Divinity... Together with Immanuel, or the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God... To which is now added Twenty Sermons, Preached at Oxford, before his Majesty, and elsewhere. View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorUsher, JamesHeadlineUsher's Principles of Christian Religion 1678PublisherNathaniel RanewDate Published1678 Lot #126 De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgò the rickets dicitur, tractatus... adscitis in operis societatem Georgio Bate, & Ahasuero Regemortero View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold AuthorGlisson, FrancisHeadline1st book on ricketts 1650PublisherTypis Guil. Du-gardi; impensis Laurentii Sadler & Roberti BeaumontDate Published1650 Lot #128 De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio... View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineHarvey on blood 1639 3rd editionPublisherEx officina Joannis MaireDate Published1639 Lot #129 De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus anatomica exercitatio, cui postrema hac editione accesserunt... Iohannis VValaei... Epistolae duae, quibus Harveii doctrina roboratur View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineHarvey on blood 1689 3rd editionPublisherApud CadorinumDate Published1689 Lot #136 A Treatise of the Scurvy. In three parts. Containing an inquiry into the nature, causes, and cure of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$68,750StatusSold AuthorLind, JamesHeadlineRare work on Scurvy 1753PublisherPrinted by Sands, Murray and Cochran. for A. Kincaid & A.D. DonaldsonDate Published1753 Lot #138 De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica... Accedit dissertatio eiusdem de polypo cordis View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorMalpighi, MarcelloHeadlineMalphigi's classic treatise on the kidney 1666PublisherGiacomo MontiDate Published1666 Lot #141 De honesta voluptate: et valitudine View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorPlatina, BartholomaeusHeadlineFirst cookery book 1480PublisherGerardus de Lisa de FlandriaDate Published1480 Lot #145 Elementorum myologiæ specimen, seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariæ dissectum caput, et dissectus piscus ex canum genere View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorSteno, Nicolaus [Niels Stensen]HeadlineMuscles & Shark Teeth 1667PublisherEx typographia sub signo StellæDate Published1667 Lot #152 Two American Printing History Association Leaf Books View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(APHA Leaf Books)Headline2 APHA Leaf Books deluxe copies of books about typefacesPublisherAmerican Printing History AssociationDate Published1997-1998 Lot #154 Le Livre des compte-faits, ou tarif general des monnoies View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBarreme, Francois Bertrand deHeadlineRare Handbook on Exchange RatesPublisherChez les Libraires AssociesDate Published1771 Lot #157 Three Bird & Bull Press Books View details Estimate$300 - $400Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Bird & Bull Press)HeadlineThree Bird & Bull Press BooksPublisherBird & Bull PressDate PublishedVarious Dates Lot #164 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 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorCumberland, RichardHeadline1757 Les loix de la nature by Richard CumberlandPublisherChez Theodore HaakDate Published1757 Lot #179 Three Limberlost Press Books View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Limberlost Press)HeadlineThree Limberlost Press BooksPublisherLimberlost PressDate Published2000 - 2006 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next