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Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Second livre d'architecture Contenant plusieurs et diverses ordonnances de cheminees, lucarnes, portes, fonteines, puis, & pavillons, pour enricher tant le dedans que le dehors de tous edifices AuthorAndrouet du Cerceau, JacquesHeadlineAndrouat's architectural and interior designs, 1561PublisherDe L'Imprimerie d'André WechelDate Published1561 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #5 Aristotle's Art of Poetry. Translated from the original Greek, according to Mr. Theodore Goulston's edition. Together, with Mr. D'Acier's notes translated from the French AuthorAristotleHeadlineAristotle’s Poetics, first edition in English, 1705PublisherPrinted for Dan. Browne and Will. TurnerDate Published1705 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #8 The Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd in Verse... [bound with] Æsopics: or a Second Collection of Fables... AuthorÆsopHeadlineOgilby's Aesop, parts 1 & 2, 1668PublisherPrinted by Thomas RoycroftDate Published1668 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #10 Chimie photographique, contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par les manipulations photographiques. -Les procédés de photographie sur plaque, sur papier sec ou humide, sur verres au collodion et à l'albumine. -La manière de préparer soi-même, d'employer tous les réactifs et d'utiliser les résidus. -Les recettes les plus nouvelles et les derniers perfectionnements. -La gravure et la lithophotographie. AuthorBarreswil, [Charles Louis] et [Alphonse] DavanneHeadlineDefinitive volume on photographic chemistry 1854PublisherMallet-BachelierDate Published[1854] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #14 The London and Country Brewer. Containing the Whole Art of Brewing all Sorts of Malt-Liquors Heading(Beer)Author[Ellis, William]HeadlineThe London and Country Brewer 1759 EditionPublisherT. AstleyDate Published1759 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #17 The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineKing James Bible 1683PublisherPrinted by John HayesDate Published1683 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #19 Der Antichrist und die fünfzehn Zeichen Faksimile-Ausgabe des einzigen erhaltenen chiroxylographishen Blockbuches [The Antichrist and the Fifteen Signs. 2 volumes: Facsimile and Commentary] Heading(Block books)HeadlineDer Antichrist, block book facsimile 1/650PublisherPrestel-VerlagDate Published[1970] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #23 Four early papers on optics by David Brewster in "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCCXV AuthorBrewster, DavidHeadlineFour papers on Optics by David BrewsterPublisherW. BulmerDate Published1815 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #24 Logarithmicall arithmetike. Or Tables of logarithms... [bound with] Arithmetica Logarithmica, sive Logarithmorum chiliades centrum... AuthorBriggs, HenryHeadlineBriggs & Vlacq on logarithms, 1631 & 1628Date Published1631 & 1628 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #29 Poems. Containing The Rosciad. The Apology. Night. The Prophecy of Famine. An Epistle to William Hogarth. And, The Ghost, in Four Books. [Bound With] Poems. Containing The Conference. The Author. The Duelist. Gotham, In Three Books. The Candidate. The Farewell. The Times. Independence. And, Fragment of Journey AuthorChurchill, C.HeadlinePoems of C. Churchill, 1763-5Date Published1763 & 1765 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #33 A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage: together with the sense of antiquity upon this argument AuthorCollier, JeremyHeadlineCollier's English Stage 1698PublisherPrinted for S. Keble... and H. HindmarshDate Published1698 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #37 Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection AuthorDarwin, Charles & Alfred WallaceHeadlineFirst statement of Darwin's Origin of SpeciesPublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #38 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man, handsomely boundPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 Cours Entier de Philosophie, ou Systéme General Selon les Principes de M. Descartes Contenant la Logique, la Metaphysique, la Physique et la Morale Heading(Descartes, Rene)AuthorRegis, Pierre SilvainHeadlinePhilosophies of Descartes 1691PublisherHuguetanDate Published1691 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #47 All For Love: or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal; and Written in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stile 1st Edition AuthorDryden, JohnHeadlineDryden's All for Love 1st ed. 1678PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb, for Henry HerringmanDate Published1678 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #53 Sitzungsberichte der Preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften - containing official announcement of Albert Einstein's resignation from the Prussian Academy of Science Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlineEinstein resigns from Prussian Academy, 1933PublisherVerlag der Akademie der WissenschaftenDate Published1933 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #81 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae... AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Italian History, 22 vols. 1704-1725PublisherVander AaDate Published1704-1725 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #82 Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Siciliae... AuthorGraevius, Joannis Georg and Pieter BurmanHeadlineGraevii's Sicilian History, 15 vols. 1723-1725Date Published1723-1725 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #85 The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the Description and Use of the Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant, and other Instruments. With a Canon of Artificial Sines and Tangents to a Radius of 10.00000 parts, and the Logarithms from Unite to 10000: The Uses whereof are illustrated in the Practice of Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Dialling, and Fortification. And some Questions in Navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, Teacher of Mathematicks in Ratcliff, near London... AuthorGunter, EdmundHeadlineThe works of Edmund Gunter 1673PublisherA. C[lark] for Francis EglesfieldDate Published1673 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #88 The Complete Measurer: or, the whole art of measuring. In two parts. The first part teaching decimal arithmetick, with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: And also the Multiplication of Feet and Inches, commonly called Cross Multiplication. The second part teaching to measure all sorts of superficies and solids, by Decimals; by Cross-Multiplication, and by Scale and Compasses... AuthorHawney, WilliamHeadlineHawney's Complete Measurer 1763PublisherPrinted for J. Knapton, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1763 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #92 [Opera. Ilias & Odyssea. In Greek] AuthorHomerHeadlineFoulis edition of Homer in Greek, 1756-58PublisherExcudebant Robertus et Andreas FoulisDate Published1756 & 1758 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #94 Songes and Sonettes. Written By the Right Honorable Lord Henry Haward, late Earle of Surrey AuthorHoward, Henry, Earl of SurreyHeadlineEarl of Surrey's Sonnets, 1717PublisherRe-printed by E. CurllDate Published1717 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #104 Aufrichtig Teutsch redender Hebräer, welcher gründlich zeiget den Ursprung und die Schicksale des jüdischen Volcks Heading(Judaica)AuthorBodenschatz, Johann Christoph GeorgHeadlineJewish life in 18th century GermanyPublisherMartin GobhardDate Published1756 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #109 The Royal Gauger or Gauging Made Perfectly Easy as it is Actually Practiced by the Officers of His Majesty's Revenue Of Excise in Two Parts AuthorLeadbetter, Charles.HeadlineLeadbetter's Royal Gauger 1760PublisherC.Hitch and L. HawkeDate Published1760 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #111 A Treatise on Painting...Translated from the Original Italian, and Adorn'd with a great Number of Cuts. To Which is prefix'd, The Author's Life; Done from the Last Edition of the French AuthorLeonardo da VinciHeadlineDa Vinci's Treatise on Painting 1721PublisherJ. SenexDate Published1721 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #112 Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in Nine Books AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineLeybourn's textbook of arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, astronomyPublisherThomas Bassett, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham and John CurchillDate Published1690 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #113 Pleasure with profit: consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical... AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineMathematic & scientific recreations, 1694PublisherPrinted for Richard Baldwin, and John DuntonDate Published1694 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #114 Lyttilton tenures truelye translated into Englishe AuthorLittleton, Thomas, SirHeadlineThe 1st textbook on English property lawPublisher[Thomas Marsh]Date Published1556 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #127 The Catalogue of Honor or Treasury of True Nobility Peculiar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine: that is to say: A Collection historicall of all the Free Monarches aswell Kinges of England as Scotland (nowe united togither)... AuthorMilles, ThomasHeadlineMilles' Catalogue of Honor, 1610PublisherPrinted by William JaggardDate Published1610 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #130 Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum. S. Pii V. Jussu editum. Clementis VIII. et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate Recognitum. Et Novis Missis ex Indulto Apostolico Hucusque Concessis Auctum. Heading(Missals)AuthorRoman Catholic ChurchHeadlineHandsomely bound 18th century missalPublisherTypis Sacræ congregationis de propaganda fideDate Published1714 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #134 A Treatise of Gauging: Or, the Modern Practical Gauger Containing Besides All the Principal Rules Usually Given on the Subject, a Great Variety of New and Interesting Improvements...Illustrated with Necessary Examples AuthorMoss, ThomasHeadlineA Treatise of Gauging 1779PublisherPrinted for G. RobinsonDate Published1779 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #135 Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume Heading(Napier, John)AuthorKnott, Cargill GilstonHeadlineTribute to mathematician John NapierPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1915 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #136 An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier Heading(Napier, John)AuthorStewart, David & Walter MintoHeadlineStewart & Minton's Life of John Napier father of logarithmsPublisherR. Morison and Son, et alDate Published1787 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #137 De Arte Logistica AuthorNapier, JohnHeadlineThe father of the LogarithmPublisherImpressum EdinburgiDate Published1839 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #138 Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms AuthorNapier, MarkHeadlineMemoirs of the inventor of LogarithmsPublisherWilliam Blackwood and Thomas CadellDate Published1834 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #147 Äther und relativitäts-theorie: rede gehalten am 5. mai 1920 an der Reichs-universität zu Leiden Heading(Physics)AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein lecture on RelativityPublisherJulius SpringerDate Published1930 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #148 Thermodynamische Begründung des photochemischen Äquivalentgesetzes Heading(Physics)AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's photochemical equivalence lawPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1912 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #149 Ein vermeintlicher Widerspruch des magneto-optischen Faraday-effectes Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineMax Planck examines the Faraday EffectPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #150 Three papers by Max Planck, in Annalen der Physik, Vierte Folge, Band 1 Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineSeminal papers in Planck's Quantum TheoryPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1900 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #151 Grundlinien einer Theorie der Farbenmetrik im Tagessehen Heading(Physics)AuthorSchrodinger, ErwinHeadlineColor theory by Erwin SchrodingerPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1920 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #175 Glossarium archaiologicum: Continens Latino-Barbara, Peregrina, Obsoleta, & Novatae Significationis Vocabula; quae post labefactatas a Gothis, Vandalisque res Europaeas, in ecclesiasticis, profanisque scriptoribus... AuthorSpelman, HenryHeadlineEnglish antiquarian investigations 1664PublisherAliciam WarrenDate Published1664 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #194 Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates: Quibus inserta est Pestiferae adversus Dei Gratiam à Pelagio Britanno in Ecclesiam inductae Haereseos Historia. Accedit Gravissime Questionis De Christianarum Ecclesiarum Successione & Statu Historica Explicatio AuthorUsserio, Jacobo [Ussher, James, Archbishop Of Armagh]HeadlineUssher's account of the Church 1687PublisherImpensis Benj. TookeDate Published1687 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #198 M. Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis poetae, & Albae Episcopi, Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia... AuthorVida, Marco GirolamoHeadlineVida's poetical works, 1537PublisherPer Balthasarem Lasivm & Thomam PlatterumDate Published1537 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #199 Trigonometria Artificialis: sive magnus canon triangulorum logarithmicus, Ad Radium 100 000,00000, & ad dena Scrupula Secunda. AuthorVlacq, AdriaanHeadlineThe first table of logarithmic trigonometric functions.PublisherPetrus RammaseniusDate Published1633 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #205 A Defence of M. Perkins Booke, Called A Reformed Catholike: Against the Cavils of a Popish writer, one D.B.P. or W.B. on his Deformed Reformation AuthorWotton, AnthonyHeadlineAnthony Wotton, A Defence of M. Perkins Booke 1606PublisherFelix. Kyngston, for C. BurleyDate Published1606 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next