Sale 709: PBA Platinum: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Art (#709) 09/10/2020 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/10/2020 11:00 AM PDT 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 1-30 of 30. Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Aromatum & Medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorAcosta, Cristoval deHeadlineMedicinal plants of India, 1582PublisherChristopher PlantinDate Published1582 Lot #3 The Fables of Æsop. Volume I. Paraphras'd in Verse, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations. By John Ogilby, Esq... [bound with] Æsopicks: or, a Second Collection of Fables... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorAesopHeadlineRare octavo edition of Ogilby's Aesop, 1683-4PublisherPrinted for T. Bassett, et al.Date Published1683 & 1684 Lot #7 Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorAppian of AlexandriaHeadlineGelenius' Latin translation of Appian, 1554PublisherFrobenDate Published1554 Lot #13 Inedited Works of Bakst View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Bakst, Leon)AuthorReau, Louis, Denis Roche, V. Svietlov & A. TessierHeadlineHand-colored plates by Leon BakstPublisherBrentano'sDate Published1927 Lot #16 The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte DArthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of the World of them All View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineBeardsley illustrates King Arthur, 1/1500 copiesPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1893-94 Lot #18 The Grave, a Poem View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertHeadlineWilliam Blake engravings for Blair's Grave 1808PublisherPrinted by T. Bensley... for the Proprietor, R.H. CromekDate Published1808 Lot #19 Illustrations to the Book of Job. The Engravings and related material with Essays, Catalogue of States and printings, Commentary on the Plates and Documentary Record by David Bindman, Barbara Bryant, Robert Essick, Geoffrey Keynes and Bo Lindberg. Edited by David Bindman View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Book of Job, 1 of 250 copies fom the Trianon PressPublisherWilliam Blake TrustDate Published1987 [printed c.1974] Lot #29 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 - $9,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Thomas Hodgkin, and sold by William WhitwoodDate Published1687 Lot #35 The Botanic Garden. A Poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Darwin, Erasmus]HeadlineDarwin's Botanic Garden with Blake plates, 1791PublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1791 Lot #39 Traitez Nouveaux & Curieux du Cafe du Thé et du Chocolate View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorDufour, Philippe SylvestreHeadlineRare early work on Chocolate 1685PublisherJean Girin & B. RiviereDate Published1685 Lot #43 La Perspectiua, y Especularia de Euclides. Traduzidas en vulgar castellano, y dirigidas a la S.C.R.M. Rey don Phelippe nuestro señor. Por Pedro Ambrosio Onderiz su criado View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineEarly Spanish edition of Euclid 1585PublisherEn casa de la viuda de Alonso GomezDate Published1585 Lot #46 Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorFroissart, JohnHeadlineFroisart's Chronicles Extra IllustratedPublisherWilliam SmithDate Published1848 Lot #47 Gazette du Bon Ton. Art, Modes & Frivolites View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Gazette du Bon Ton)AuthorVogel, Lucien, editor & publisherHeadlineGazette du Bon Ton with pochoir platesDate Published1912-1922 Lot #52 The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, in XVII Books. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English, by that learned divine Doctor Everard View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorHermes TrismegistusHeadlineCorpus Hermitica of Hermes Trismegistus, 1650PublisherPrinted by Robert White, for Tho. Brewster, and Greg MouleDate Published1650 Lot #53 Herodotou logoi ennea, oiper epipalountai Mousai/ Herodoti Libri novem, qvibvs Mvsarvm indita svnt nomina... Ad haec View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorHerodotusHeadlineHerodutus in Greek 1557Publisherex officina HeruagianaDate Published1557 Lot #54 Morokoshi Kinmozui View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Japan)AuthorHirazumi, Sen'anHeadlineEncyclopedia of Chinese life, 1719Date Published1719 Lot #57 En'oh Gafu View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Japan)AuthorOhkyo, MaruyamaHeadlineThe En'oh Picture BookDate Published1837 Lot #58 Moshi Hinbutsu Zuko View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Japan)AuthorOka, GenpoHeadlineA guide to the medicinal properties of various plants and animalsDate Published1785 Lot #59 Yosan Jijitsu View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Japan)AuthorSakai, YoshitaneHeadlineIllustrated book on silk productionPublisherToshundoDate Published1873 Lot #60 Seicha Zukai View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Japan)HeadlineAn Illustrated Guide to Tea-makingDate Published1871 Lot #62 Ulysses View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineUlysses 1 of 250 signed by Joyce & Matisse L.E.C.PublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1935 Lot #63 Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, dezima musa, poetisa Americana, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, religiosa professa en el Convento de San Geronimo de la imperial ciudad de Mexico View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorJuana Inés de la Cruz, SisterHeadlinePoems by Mexican philosopher-nun, 1714PublisherImprenta de Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, a costa de Francisco LasoDate Published1714 Lot #71 The Paradise Lost of Milton with illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineJohn Martin mezzotints in Paradise Lost 1827PublisherSeptimus ProwettDate Published1827 Lot #72 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Moser, Barry, illustrator)AuthorBaum, L. FrankHeadlineWith a signed pencil drawing and additional signed printPublisherPennyroyal PressDate Published1985 Lot #82 Lysistrata: A New Version by Gilbert Seldes View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Picasso, Pablo)AuthorAristophanesHeadlinePicasso's Lysistrata from the Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1934 Lot #87 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1634 2nd edition in EnglishPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 Lot #89 The Tempest View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Tempest Arthur Rackham Signed with jacketPublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd.Date Published[1926] Lot #90 [The Ground of Artes teachyng the worke and practise of arithmetike, bothe in whole numbres and fractions after a more easyer and exacter sorte than any lyke hath hytherto been sette forth. With diuers new additions as by the table doeth partely appeere made by M. Robert Recorde...] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorRecorde, RobertHeadlineRare 16th cent. English arithmetic textPublisherImprinted...by Reynolde WolffDate Published1552 Lot #93 The History of the World: The Second Part, in Six Books Being a Continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight...Together with A Chronologie of those Times View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorRoss, AlexanderHeadlineThe History of the World: The Second Part, 1652PublisherJohn SaywellDate Published1652 Lot #101 Trattato delle Lodi et della Coltivatione de gl'Ulivi, di Nuovo Ristampato View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorVettori, PieroHeadlineVettori's Treatise on Olives, 2nd Ed, 1574PublisherGuintiDate Published1574 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next