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View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Bartholomew Faire)HeadlineBartholomew Faire 1641PublisherRichard HarperDate Published1641 Lot #5 Two leaves from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible of Alcala View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)HeadlineTwo leaves from Complutensian Polyglot BiblePublisherArnald Guillen de BrocarDate Published1514-1517 Lot #6 The booke of the preacher, otherwyse called Ecclesiastes, which is Solomon the king [and] The Ballet of Ballets of Solomon, called in Latine, Canticum Canticorum View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBishops' Bible Ecclesiates & Song of Songs 1574Publisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] Lot #7 The Gospell of Sayncte Mathewe - from the Great Bible of 1566 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineGospel of St. Matthew 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] Lot #9 [Joshua], i.e. The booke of Iosuah, vvhom the Hebrewes call Iehosuah - from the 1574 folio edition of the Bishops' Bible View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBishops' Bible Joshua 1574Publisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] Lot #10 Nine leaves from the "Great Bible" of 1540 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineLeaves from 1540 New Testament in EnglishPublisher[Thomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas Berthelet]Date Published[1540] Lot #13 Regula Beati Augustini. Constitutiones Fratrum Ordinis Prædicatorum. Cum aliis vt in sequenti pagina View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Blado, Antonio, printer)HeadlineRules of Augustinian Order 1566PublisherApud Antonium Bladum, Impressorem CameloremDate Published1566 Lot #16 Il Solimano Tragedie View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBonarelli, ProsperoHeadlineIl Solimano Tragedie by Prospero Bonarelli 1620PublisherPietro CocconcelliDate Published1620 Lot #18 Mundi Lapis Lydius sive Vanitas per Veritate Falsi Accusata & Conuicata View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorBourgogne, Antoine deHeadlineRare 17th Century Flemish Emblem BooksPublisherJoan CnobbariDate Published1639 Lot #21 Extrauagantes Viginti Joannis Vigesimisecundi una cum Elega[n]ti Apparatu Domini Zenzelini de Cassanis... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Canon Law)HeadlineRare 1549 volume of Canon LawPublisherYolande BonhommeDate Published1549 Lot #22 Single leaf from De consolatione philosophiae, printed by William Caxton View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold Heading(Caxton, William, printer)AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineEarly Caxton printed leafDate Published[1477-1478] Lot #23 Original Leaf from Caxton's Chaucer, being a fragment of The Clerk's Tale View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Heading(Caxton, William, printer)AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineLeaf from Caxton's Chaucer 1476PublisherWilliam CaxtonDate Published1476 Lot #24 Original leaf from the Polycronicon, printed by William Caxton in 1482 at Westminster View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(Caxton, William, printer)AuthorHigden, RanulfHeadlineLeaf printed by William Caxton 1482Date Published[1482] Lot #28 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCharles Darwin The Descent of Man 1st EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 Lot #31 Original illustrated leaf from Virgil's Opera View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Early Printed LeafAuthorVirgilHeadlineIllustrated leaf from 1502 VirgilPublisherJ. GruningerDate Published1502 Lot #32 Eight original printed leaves from the Institutiones of Justinian I, with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Early Printing - Incunabula)AuthorJustinianus [Justinian I]HeadlineLeaves from Justinian's Code, 1468 or 1472PublisherPeter SchoefferDate Published1472, or 1468? Lot #33 Four original printed leaves from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Early Printing)AuthorVesaliusHeadlineFour leaves from Vesalius 1st edition 1543PublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 Lot #34 Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorFreundlich, ErwinHeadlineEinstein's Theory of Relativity analyzed, 1916PublisherVerlag von Julius SpringerDate Published1916 Lot #35 Original Associated Press photograph of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa standing next to a flower-covered float at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlinePhoto of Einstein at Rose Bowl ParadeDate Publishedc.1932 Lot #36 Two original press photographs of Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa relaxing at the El Mirador resort in Palm Springs View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlinePhotos of Albert & Elsa Einstein at California Mission 1932Date Publishedc.1932 Lot #37 Letter from Albert Einstein expressing regret that he did not have time to contribute to a journal View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineAlbert Einstein letter signed 1927Date Published1 Sept. 1927 Lot #39 Small group of original signed letters from Albert Einstein to author Max Fishler, an important correspondence about Immanuel Kant and Relativity View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$62,500StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein letters about Kant and RelativityDate Published1949-1954 Lot #40 Three early papers on special relativity by Albert Einstein in Annalen der Physik, Band 23 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein paper establishing E=mc2PublisherJohann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1907 Lot #41 Apophthegmes, that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges of certain Emperours, Kynges Capitaines, Philosophiers and Oratours, as well Grekes, as Romaines ... First gathered and compiled in Latine by the ryght famous clerke Maister Erasmus of Roterodame. And now translated into Englyshe by N. Udall. B.L. View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorErasmus, DesideriusHeadlineErasmus' Apopthegmes 1st in English 1542PublisherTypis Ricardi GraftonDate Published1542 Lot #42 Euclidis elementorum libri XV. Unà cum scholijs antiquis à Federico Commandino Vrbinate nuper in Latinum conuersi, commentarijsque quibusdam illustrati View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineEarly & desirable edition of Euclid's Elements 1572PublisherJakob Criegher [for Camillo Franceschini]Date Published1572 Lot #43 Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed. With the drawing of the twelue signes, and houres unequall in them all... Of speciall vse and delight, not only for students of the arts mathematicall, but also for diuers artificers, architects, surueyours of buildings, free-Masons and others View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorFale, ThomasHeadlineEarly horological work 1627PublisherImprinted by Felix KyngstonDate Published1627 Lot #44 [De Solaribus Horologiis, i.e.]: Orontii Finei Delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, De solaribus horologiis, & quadrantibus, libri quatuor. Sequens pagina summa librorum capita tibi expediet View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorFiné, OronceHeadlineHorological work by Oronce Finé 1560PublisherApud Gulielmum CauellatDate Published1560 Lot #46 Stile et Prothocolle de la Chancellerie de France, Additione de Plusieurs Lettres Singulieres non Parauant Imprimees View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(France)HeadlineStyle et prothocolle de la chancellerie de FrancePublisherVincen SartenasDate Published1560 Lot #47 Über den Baue der Nervenfasern und Nervenzellen beim Flusskrebs View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorFreud, SigismundHeadlineEarly anatomical paper by Freud 1882PublisherK.K. Hof... in Commission bei Carl Gerold's SohnDate Published1882 Lot #50 Structure of Synthetic Polypeptides: I. The Transform of Atoms on a Helix View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Genetics)AuthorCrick, F[rancis] H.C.; W. Cochran; & V. VandHeadlineRare authors' offprint on DNAPublisherFr. Bagges Kgl. HofbogtrykkeriDate Published1952 Lot #51 Three early 20th century offprints of genetics papers by R.R. Gates, presentation copies View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Genetics)AuthorGates, Reginald RugglesHeadlineGenetics offprints by R.R. GatesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #52 Three offprints of articles by Lawson Anstruther from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Genetics)AuthorLawson, A. AnstrutherHeadlineGenetics offprints by A.S. LawsonPublisherRobert Grant & SonDate Published1911-1912 Lot #53 Three monographs from the Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, London View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Genetics)HeadlineMonographs on EugenicsPublisherPublished by Dulau and Co.Date Published1907-1909 Lot #55 The Experienced Millwright; or, A Treatise on the Construction of Some of he Most Useful Machines, with the Latest Improvements. To Which is Prefixed, a Short Account of the General Principles of Mechanics, and the Mechanical Powers View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorGray, AndrewHeadlineAndrew Gray's Experienced Millwright 1804 1st EditionPublisherArchibald Constable & Co.Date Published1804 Lot #59 Encyclopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse - PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO PHILIP MARHEINEKE View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000StatusUnsold AuthorHegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichHeadlineVery rare Hegel presentation copyPublisherOßwaldDate Published1830 Lot #60 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 Heading(Heraldry)AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 Lot #65 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohnson's Dictionary Third Edition 1765PublisherPrinted by W. Strahan for A. Millar, T. Longman, et alDate Published1765 Lot #69 Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, solius, verae, Christiano-Kabalisticum, Divino-Magicum, nec non Physico-Chymicum, Tertriunum, Catholicon View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold AuthorKhunrath, HeinrichHeadlineRare alchemy book by Heinrich Khunrath 1609PublisherExcudebat Guilielmus Antonius]Date Published[1609] Lot #71 Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Author[La Rochefoucauld, Francois Duc de]HeadlineMaxims of La Rochefoucauld 1678PublisherChez Claude BarbinDate Published1678 Lot #73 Bound volume of four 16th century legal works View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Law)Headline16th century Venetan legal tractsPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1565-1573 Lot #74 Respvblica; siue, Status Regni Poloniæ, Litvaniæ, Prvssiæ, Livoniæ, etc. Diuersorum autorum View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Law)HeadlineElzevir printing of laws of Poland, etc. 1642PublisherEx officina ElzevirianaDate Published1642 Lot #80 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherPrinted for J. S., to be sold by Robert Boulter at the Turks-head in Cornhil, against the Royal ExchangeDate Published1675 Lot #86 Collection of eight directories and calendars of the religious rites of the Franciscan, Augustin and other Orders in Mexico in the 18th century View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Mexico)HeadlineRare 18th century Mexican religious calendarsDate Published1784-1789 Lot #90 Lexicon Juris, Seu Epitome Definitionum & Rerum View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorOldendorp, JohannHeadlineRare 16th Century Legal DictionaryPublisherApud Cominum de Tridino MontisferratiDate Published1555 Lot #93 Ioannis Paduanii Veronensis De compositione, & usu multiformium horologiorum solarium ad omnes totius orbis regiones, ac situs in qualibet superficie... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorPadovani, GiovanniHeadlineSundials by Giovanni Padovani, 1582PublisherApud Franciscum Franciscium SenensemDate Published1582 Lot #99 Procli philosophi Platonici vita, scriptore Marino Neapolitano, quam altera parte de virtutibus Procli theoreticis ac theurgicis auctiorem, et nunc demum integram primus edidit, versionem, breves notas, atque elenchum scriptorum Procli adjecit Joh. Albertus Fabricius... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Philosophy - Neoplatonism)AuthorMarianus NeapolitanusHeadlineEditio Princeps of Proclus biography 1700PublisherApud Godofredum LiebezeitDate Published1700 Lot #100 The Mystical Initiations; or, Hymns of Orpheus translated from the original Greek: with a preliminary dissertation on the life and theology of Orpheus View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Philosophy - Neoplatonism)AuthorOrpheusHeadlineThomas Taylor's Orpheus 1787PublisherPrinted for the author, and sold by T. Payne and Son, et al.Date Published1787 Lot #102 The Six Books of Proclus the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Translated from the Greek; To Which a Seventh Book Is Added, in Order to Supply the Deficiency of Another Book on the Subject, also, a Translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of Theology.... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Philosophy - Neoplatonism)AuthorProclusHeadlineThomas Taylor translation of Proclus 1816PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1816 Lot #112 De Consilio Sapientis, in Forensibus Causis Adhibendo, Libri IIII View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorScala, PaceHeadlineScarce Aldine legal workPublisher[Paulus Manutius]Date Published1560 Lot #113 Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae, Libri IX. In Quibus & Planissima Steganographiae... View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorSelenus, Gustavus [pseud. of August, Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg]HeadlineRare 17th Century work on CryptographyPublisher[Exscriptum typis & impensis Johannis & Henrici fratrum]Date Published1624 Lot #114 The first [-fift] booke of architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Author[Serlio, Sebastiano]HeadlineSerlio's Architecture in English 1611PublisherPrinted [by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham] for Robert PeakeDate Published1611 Lot #115 Eleven contiguous leaves from the second folio edition of "The first Part of King Henry the Sixt" View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineLeaves from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published1632 Lot #117 Horometria: or The compleat diallist. Wherein the whole mystery of the art of dialling is plainly taught three several wayes; two of which are performed geometrically by rule and compass onely: and the third instrumentally, by a quadrant fitted for that purpose. With the working of such propositions of the sphere, as are most usefull in astronomy and navigation, both geometrically and instrumentally... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorStirrup, ThomasHeadlineThomas Stirrup's Compleat Diallist 1659PublisherPrinted by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas PierrepontDate Published1659 Lot #124 Dialogo del molto rever.do P. Don Gio. Battista Vimercato... De gli horologi solari: nel quale con ragioni speculative, et prattiche facilmente s'insegna il modo da fabricar tutte le sorti di horologi View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorVimercato, Giovanni BattistaHeadlineRare work on sun dials 1566PublisherAppresso Gabriel Giolito de'FerrariDate Published1566 Lot #126 Opere di Galileo Galilei nobile fiorentino - signed by Allesandro Volta View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Volta, Allesandro)AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineVolta's copy of GalileoPublisherDalla Società tipografica de' classici italiani contrada del CappuccioDate Published1811 Lot #221 Solitude Considered, In Regard to its Influence upon the Mind and Heart View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorZimmermann, MHeadlineSolitude Considered, In Regard to its Influence upon the Mind and HeartPublisherJohn Fairbairn and Archibald ConstableDate Published1797 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next