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Written by the most Reverend Father in God, George Abbot, late Archbishop of Canterbury View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorAbbot, GeorgeHeadlineDescription of the World by George Abbot 1656PublisherPrinted for W. ShearesDate Published1656 Lot #5 Tipus Orbis Universalis iuxta Ptolemei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes a Petro Apiano Leysnico Elucbrat An. Do. MDXX View details Estimate$30,000 - $40,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorApianus, PeterHeadline1st obtainable map to name America 1520Date Published1520 Lot #6 The origin of building: or, the plagiarism of the heathens detected. In five books View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Architecture)AuthorWood, John, the elderHeadlineArchitecture linked to Solomon's TemplePublisherPrinted by S. and F. Farley, and sold by J. Leake, et al.Date Published1741 Lot #8 The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seuenth. Written by the Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon's King Henry the Seventh 1622PublisherPrinted by W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William BarretDate Published1622 Lot #10 Diversarum nationum habitus nunc primum editi a Pe. Bertellio, quib. addita sunt ordo Romani Imperii ab Othone II institutus pompa regis Turcarum & personatorum vestitus uarii quorum est in Italia frequens usus View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorBertelli, PietroHeadlineRare costume book by Petro Bertelli 1594PublisherApud Alciatum Alcia: et Petrum BertelliumDate Published1594 Lot #11 Die 92 Holzschnitte der Lübecker Bibel aus dem Jahre 1494 von einem unbekannten Meister View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Bible)AuthorWahl, Hanz, editorHeadlineFacsimile color woodcuts of Lubeck BiblePublisherGustav KiepenheuerDate Published1917 Lot #12 [The Holy Byble, conteynyng the olde Testament and the newe. Set foorth by aucthoritie] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineThird folio edition of Bishops' Bible 1574Publisher[Richarde Iugge]Date Published[1574] Lot #13 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] Lot #15 Single Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Bible in Massachuset)Author**HeadlineSingle Leaf from John Eliot's Indian Bible 1663PublisherSamuel Green and Marmaduke JohnsonDate Published1661-63 Lot #17 WITHDRAWN Series Chronologica et Imagines Regum Hispaniae ab Ataulpho ad Carolum II View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorBlondeau, Jacobus, engraverHeadlineSpanish Monarchs from Ataulphus to Charles IIPublisherPetrus de la TourDate Published1698 Lot #19 Mysterium Magnum; or an Exposition of the First Book of Moses, called Genesis... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorBoehme, JacobHeadlineMystical interpretation of Genesis by BoehmePublisherPrinted by M. Simmons for H. BlundenDate Published1654 Lot #20 Dieta salutis Sancti Bonauenture doctoris eminentissimi: aureus libellus: qui dieta salutis communiter nuncupatur:... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBonaventure, SaintHeadlineSaint Bonaventure on Salvation 1518Publisher[Per Cesarem Arriuabenum Venetum]Date Published[24 Dec. 1518] Lot #27 Opera View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorCatullus, Tibullus et PropertiusHeadlineCatullus, Tibullus et Propertius, 1680PublisherSumptibus Rudolphi a ZyllDate Published1680 Lot #28 Opera View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorCatullus - Tibullus - PropertiusHeadlineCatullus - Tibullus - Propertius Opera 1772PublisherBaskervilleDate Published1772 Lot #29 [Don Quixote in English, Parts I & II bound together in period calf] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in English, Parts I & II, 1620PublisherEdward BlountDate Published1620 Lot #30 [Don Quixote in English, i.e.] The history of the valorous and vvitty-knight-errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly corrected and amended View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadline1652 English edition of Don QuixotePublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew CrookeDate Published1652 Lot #31 [Don Quixote in Spanish, facsimile of first edition, i.e:], El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote in Spanish, facsimile first editionPublisherDon Francisco Lopez FabraDate Published1871-1873 Lot #38 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 - $2,500StatusUnsold Author[Cosin, Richard]HeadlineAn Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings 1593PublisherThe Deputies of Christopher BarkerDate Published1593 Lot #44 The Compleat Ambassador, or, Two treaties of the intended marriage of Qu: Elizabeth of glorious memory; comprised in letters of negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham, her resident in France. Together with the answers of the Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho. Smith, and others. Wherein, as in a clear mirror, may be seen the faces of the two courts of England and France, as they then stood, with many remarkable passages of state... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorDigges, Dudley, SirHeadlineIntended marriage of Queen Elizabeth I 1655PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb for Gabriel Bedell and Thomas CollinsDate Published1655 Lot #46 Horatius Christianus View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorDuFour, JeanHeadlineJean DuFour Horatius Christianus 1629PublisherJ. Poinsot & C. BricetDate Published1629 Lot #51 Euclid's Elements of Geometry. In XV. books: with a supplement of divers propositions and corollaries. To which is added, a treatise of regular solids, by Campane and Flussas. Likewise Euclid's data: and Marinus his preface thereunto annexed. Also a treatise of the divisions of superficies, ascribed to Machomet Bagdedine, but published by Commandine, at the request of John Dee of London; whose preface to the said treatise declares it to be the worke of Euclide, the author of these Elements. Published by the care and industry of John Leeke and George Serle, students in the mathematicks View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements 1651PublisherPrinted, by R. & W. Leybourn, for Richard TomlinsDate Published1661 Lot #52 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$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold 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 #61 An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorGodwin, WilliamHeadlineAn Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by GodwinPublisherG.G.J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1793 Lot #65 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 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorHolinshed, RaphaelHeadlineHolinshed's Chronicle 1577PublisherLucas HarrisonDate Published1577 Lot #66 The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, by Geo. Chapman View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineFirst edition in English of HomerPublisherPrinted for Nathaniell ButterDate Published[1611-1615?] Lot #67 Leaf from the editio princeps of the Odyssey View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineLeaf from the editio princeps of the OdysseyPublisher[Bartolommeo du Libri, for Bernardus & Nerius Nerilius]Date Published[1488] Lot #79 [Nummi Familiarum et Imperatorum] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[King, John Glen]HeadlineJohn Glen King Nummi Familiarum et ImperatorumDate Published[c.1787] Lot #82 Joannis Clerici Physica, sive de rebus corporeis libri quinque... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLe Clerc, JeanHeadlineTheological physics from Jean Le Clerc 1705PublisherTypis academicis, sumtibus [sic] Timothei Child & Roberti KnaplockDate Published1705 Lot #84 Epistolarum Seu Sermonum Libri Sex View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorL'Hopital, Michel deHeadlineMichel de Hopital Epistolarum seu SermonumPublisherMamert Patisson, in officina Roberti StephaniDate Published1585 Lot #85 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 Lot #92 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. A work of this nature never yet extant. By Sylvanus Morgan arms-painter View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold AuthorMorgan, SylvanusHeadlineMorgan's Armilogia, the Language or Arms, 1666PublisherPrinted by T. Hewer for Nathaniel BrookDate Published1666 Lot #95 The History of New-England Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorNeal, DanielHeadlineHistory of New-England by Neal Zaehnsdorf w/mapPublisherPrinted for J. Clark, et al.Date Published1720 Lot #96 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et al.Date Published1728 Lot #97 The method of fluxions and infinite series; with its application to the geometry of curve-lines. By the Inventor Sir Isaac Newton, Kt. Late President of the Royal Society. Translated from the author’s Latin original not yet made publick. To which is subjoin’d, a perpetual comment upon the whole work, Consisting of Annotations, Illustrations, and Supplements, In order to make this Treatise A compleat Institution for the use of Learners. By John Colson, M.A. and F.R.S. Master of Sir Joseph Williamson’s free Mathematical-School at Rochester View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$37,500StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Methods of Fluxions large paper 1736PublisherPrinted by Henry Woodfall; and sold by John NourseDate Published1736 Lot #99 Advice to a son; or, Directions for your better conduct, through the various and most important encounters of this life. Under these general heads I. Studies &c. II. Love and marriage. III. Travell. IV. Government. V. Religion. Conclusion. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Osborne, Francis]HeadlineAdvice to a son by Francis Osborne, 1656PublisherPrinted by H[enry]. Hall, printer to the university, for Thomas RobinsonDate Published1656 Lot #100 The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture: Wherein, After a Short Treatise of the Five Orders, Those Observations That are Most Necessary in Building Private-Houses, Streets, Bridges, Piazzas, Xisti, and Temples are Treated of View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorPalladio, AndreaHeadlinePalladio's Four Books of Architecture 1738PublisherIsaac WareDate Published1738 Lot #101 WITHDRAWN Della Natura del Caldo e del Freddo Lettera View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPapa, Giuseppe delHeadlineDella Natura del Caldo e del Freddo LetteraPublisherPiero MatiniDate Published1690 Lot #102 Labyrinte de Versailles. The Labyrinth of Versailles. Der Irr-garte zu Versailles. 't Dool-hof tot Versailles View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Perrault, Charles]HeadlineThe Labyrinth of Versailles c.1690PublisherNicolaus VisscherDate Published[c.1690] Lot #103 Poiesis philosophos [in Greek, then in Latin]: Poesis philosophica, vel saltem, Reliquiae poesis philosophicae, Empedoclis, Parmenidis, Xenophanis, Cleanthis, Timonis, Epicharmi. Adiuncta sunt Orphei illius carmina qui à suis appellatus fuit ho theologos. Item Heracliti et Democriti loci quidam, & eorum epistolae View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Philosophy)Author**HeadlineFragments of Pre-Socratic philosophers 1573PublisherHenr. Stephanus [Henri Estienne]Date Published1573 Lot #104 Recueil de Poesies Fugitves et Contes Nouveaux View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorPiis, Pierre-Antoine-Augustin (17 September 1755, Paris – 22 May 1832, Paris), chevalier de Piis wasHeadlineRecueil de Poesies Fugitves et Contes NouveauxDate Published1781 Lot #106 Platonis Opera View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlinePlato's Opera, 1517Publishera Philippo Pincio MantuanoDate Published1517 Lot #109 The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, the Morals. Written by the Learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated Out of Greeke into English, and Conferred with the Latine Translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. Whereunto are Annexed the Summaries Necessary to be Read Before Every Treatise View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorPlutarchHeadlineFirst Editon in English of Plutarch's Morals 1603PublisherArnold HatfieldDate Published1603 Lot #111 Hieronymi Pradi et Ioannis Baptistae Villalpandi e Societate Iesu In Ezechielem explanationes et Apparatus vrbis ac Templi Hierosolymitani commentarijs et imaginibus illustratus. Opus tribus tomis distinctum. Quid vero singulis contineatur, quarta pagina indicabit View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorPrado, Jerónimo de, & juan Bautista VillalpandoHeadlinePrado's Commentaries on Bible 1596-1604PublisherEx typographia Aloysij Zanetti. Apud S. MarcumDate Published1596-1604 Lot #112 Opus aureum et scholasticvm, in qvo continentvr Pythagoræ, carmina aurea, Phocylidis, Theognidis & aliorum poëmata, quæ sequens pagella enumerabit. Edita omnia stvdio & cura Michaëlis Neandri View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorPythagorasHeadlineWorks of Pythagoras 1577PublisherJohannes SteinmanDate Published1577 Lot #113 Les Oeuvres View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorRabelais, FrancoisHeadlineFrancois Rabelais Les Oeuvres 1663Publisher[Elzevir]Date Published1663 Lot #116 The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the crying and execrable sinne of (wilful and premeditated) Murther. With his miraculous discoveries, and severe punishment thereof. In thirty several tragical histories... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorReynolds, JohnHeadlineTriumphs of Gods Revenge against Murthur 1670PublisherPrinted by A[nne] M[axwell] for William LeeDate Published1670 Lot #117 [Nuremberg Chronicle – Liber Chronicon, i.e.] Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure und Pildnussen von Anbegin der Welt bis auf dise unsere Zeit View details Estimate$80,000 - $120,000StatusUnsold AuthorSchedel, HartmannHeadlineNuremberg Chronicle in early pigskin binding 1493PublisherAnton KobergerDate Published23 December 1493 Lot #119 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$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Author[Serlio, Sebastiano]HeadlineSerlio's Architecture in English 1611PublisherPrinted [by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham] for Robert PeakeDate Published1611 Lot #120 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies View details Estimate$200,000 - $300,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineSecond Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Works 1632PublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for William Aspley... at the signe of the Parrat in Pauls Church-yardDate Published1632 Lot #122 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$100,000 - $150,000Sold for$93,750StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations first edition 1776PublisherPrinted for W. Strahan; and T. CadellDate Published1776 Lot #124 De memorabilibus mundi accuratissime recognitus et indicio alphabetico annotatus View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorSolinus, Gaius JuliusHeadlineRare 16th century printing of SolinusPublisherJehan LambertDate Published[1503] Lot #125 Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorStolcius de Stolcenberg, DanielHeadlineRare hermetic emblem book 1624PublisherSumptibus Lucae Jennisii,Date Published1624 Lot #129 Kort en Bondigh Verhael / Van't geene inden Oorlogh, Tusschen den Koningh van Engelant &c. de H: M: Heeren Staten der vrye Vereenigde Nederlanden, en den Bisschop van Munster is voorgevallen... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Heading(Treaty of Breda)Author**HeadlineRare work on the Treaty of BredaPublisherVoor Marcus Willemsz. DoornickDate Published1667 Lot #132 Pes mechanicus, oder Werckschuch das ist: ein new erfundene weiss allerley sonnen vhren (so von nöten) auss einem aussgetheilten werckschuch gantz leicht zu machen. Zwar allein für die einfältigen vnd jenigen welche zu diser kunst nicht wenig lust aber doch mit dem zirckel vnd linial nit viel vmbgehen: vnd also dieselben auss den geometrischen fundamenten nicht machen können. Ihnen zum besten beschrieben vnnd an den tag gegeben View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorUttenhofer, KasparHeadlineRare German work on sundials 1615PublisherSimon HalbmayernDate Published[1615] Lot #135 Le Siecle de Louis XIV View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Author[Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet]HeadlineVoltaire's Age of Louis XIV 1751 First EditionPublisherHenningDate Published1751 Lot #136 Athenarum Frisiacarum, Libro Duo. Quorum Alter Praeter Historiam Academiae, quae est Franequerae, Elogia Sereniss. & Ampl. Ephororum alter Cl. Professorum,... View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorVriemoet, Emo LuciusHeadlineEmo Lucius Vriemoet Athenarum FrisiacarumPublisherG. CoulonDate Published1758 Lot #137 [Opera, in Greek] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorXenophonHeadlineXenophon in Greek, 1616PublisherPhilippi IuntaeDate Published1516 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next