Sale 720: Fine Books (#720) 01/21/2021 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/21/2021 11:00 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)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-45 of 45. Previous|1|Next Lot #44 Seven works on Alchemy and Hermetics, in French, bound together View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & the Occult)HeadlineFrench alchemy & hermeticsDate PublishedLate 19th/early 20th century Lot #50 Sefer Ha-Tamar: Das Buch von der Palme, des Abu Aflah aus Syracus, Ein Text aus der arabischen Geheimwissenschaft. Nach der allein erhaltenen hebraischen Uebersetzung View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorScholem, Gerschom, translatorHeadlineGerman translation of the Sefer Ha-TamarPublisherUniversity of JerusalemDate Published1927 Lot #64 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineOrigin of Species in prize bindingPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1897 Lot #81 A History of British Birds View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorYarrell, WilliamHeadlineYarrell's British Birds finely boundPublisherJohn Van BoorstDate Published1843 Lot #82 The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener: Containing A New Method of Improving Estates and Gardens... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorAgricola, [Georg Andreas]HeadlineAgricola's The Experimental Husbandman and GardenerPublisherW. MearsDate Published1726 Lot #83 The History of Esculent Fish View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorAlbin, Eleazar and Roger NorthHeadlineHistory of Esculent Fish 18 plates by Albin 1794PublisherEdward Jeffery, et. al.Date Published1794 Lot #84 Botanical Illustrations of the Twenty-four Classes in the Linnaean System of Vegetables, by Select Specimens of English Plants View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Botanical)HeadlineDarton Harvey and Darton Botanical IllustrationsPublisherDarton, Harvey, and DartonDate Published1813 Lot #85 Twenty-two hand-colored botanical and entomological prints published by Thomas and Samuel Curtis View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorCurtis, Thomas and EdwardHeadlineTwenty-two hand-colored botanicals from Curtis MagazinePublisherThomas and Edward CurtisDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #86 [Collection of plates from] Flora Londinensis...a History of the Plants Indigenous to Great Britain View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorCurtis, WilliamHeadlineEleven hand-colored botanical engravingsDate Published[c. 1777] Lot #87 Twelve hand-colored botanical engravings published by William Curtis View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)AuthorCurtis, WilliamHeadlineTwelve hand-colored botanicals published by W. CurtisPublisherWilliam CurtisDate Published1789-97 Lot #88 Forty-eight botanical color plates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorEaton, Mary EmilyHeadlineForty-eight botanical color plates by Mary Emily EatonPublisherAddisonia: A Publication of the New York Botanical GardenDate PublishedNo date Lot #89 Botanical Prints with Excerpts from the Artist's Notebooks [with] folding broadside signed by Henry Evans View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorEvans, HenryHeadlineBotanical Prints by Henry Evans with signed broadsidePublisherW.H Freeman and CompanyDate Published[1977] Lot #90 Four linocuts by Henry Evans with two broadsides and miscellaneous ephemera View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorEvans, HenryHeadlineFour linocuts by Henry Evans with broadsides & ephemeraPublisher[Peregrine Press]Date PublishedVarious dates Lot #91 Five hand-colored botanical and entomological lithographs from drawings by F.E. Guérin View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorGuérin, [Félix Édouard]HeadlineFive hand-colored plates by F.E, GuérinDate PublishedNo date Lot #92 Seven miscellaneous 19th century botanical prints, some hand-colored View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)Headline7 miscellaneous colored botanical printsDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #93 Six folio hand-colored botanical engravings - two from William Curtis's Flora Londinensis View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)HeadlineSix folio hand-colored engraved botanicalsDate Published[Late 18th century] Lot #94 Sixteen nineteenth century hand-colored botanical plates View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)HeadlineSixteen 19th century hand-colored botanical platesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #95 Fifteen hand-colored botanical engravings by James Sowerby, many with letterpress descriptions View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)AuthorSowerby, JamesHeadlineFifteen hand-colored botanical engravings by SowerbyPublisherJames SowerbyDate Published[c 1800] Lot #96 Twelve hand-colored botanical engravings by James Sowerby, nine of which with letterpress descriptions View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorSowerby, JamesHeadlineTwelve hand-colored botanicals by James SowerbyPublisherJames SowerbyDate Published1812; 1863 Lot #97 Thirty seven botanical plates - some hand-colored View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Botanical)Headline37 botanical color platesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #98 Three hand-colored copper engravings from Deliciae Naturae Selectae View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Conchology)AuthorKnorr, Georg WolfgangHeadlineThree hand-colored engravings of shellsDate Published[c. 1770] Lot #99 A Practical Treatise of Husbandry: Wherein are contained, many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations in the New Husbandry, Collected during a Series of Years, by the Celebrated... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDuhamel du Monceau, [Henri-Louis]HeadlineA Practical Treatise of Husbandry by Duhamel du MonceauPublisherJ. Whiston and B. WhiteDate Published1759 Lot #100 [Thirty-seven lithograph plates from] Vol. V of Natural History of New York View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorEmmons, EbeneezerHeadlineWith 34 hand-colored plates of butterflies and insectsPublisherPrinted by C. Van BenthuysenDate Published1854 Lot #101 Diodon Atinga [with] Blennius Gunellus/Blennius Pholis - two plates from Okonomische Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Auslandischen Fische View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Ichthyology)AuthorBloch, Marcus ElieserHeadlineTwo late 18th century ichthyological plates, hand-coloredDate Published[1786-87] Lot #102 [Twenty hand-colored lithographs from] Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen: Darstellung und Beschreibung der im Arzneibuche für das Deutsche Reich erwähnten Gewächse View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Kohl, F.G., artist)AuthorBerg, O.C., K. Schumann, et al.HeadlineTwenty hand-colored botanical lithos by F.G. KohlPublisherVerlag von Arthur FelixDate Published[1890's] Lot #103 Soma and the Fly-Agaric; Mr. Wasson's Rejoinder to Professor Brough View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Mycology)HeadlineSoma and the Fly-AgaricPublisherBotanical Museum of Harvard UniversityDate Published1972 Lot #104 Twenty-four volumes on mushrooms: medicinal, delectable, and magical—even magickal View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Mycology)HeadlineA mycological cornucopiaDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #105 Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Mycology)AuthorWasson, R. GordonHeadlineSoma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, 1st trade editionPublisherHarcourt Brace JovanovichDate Published[1968] Lot #106 Assorted collection of over fifty natural history plates, many hand-colored View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Natural History)HeadlineOver fifty natural history plates, many hand-coloredDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #107 Seven miscellaneous hand-colored natural history plates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Natural History)HeadlineSeven hand-colored natural history platesDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #108 A Group of Auriculas - plate IX from the Temple of Flora View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorThornton, RobertHeadlineA Group of Auriculas plate from Temple of FloraPublisherPublished by the authorDate Published[c. 1810] Lot #109 Annalen der Physik Volumes 7 & 10 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Physics)AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineEarly quantum physics articles by Max PlanckPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1902-1903 Lot #132 The Life of Sir Isaac Newton View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorBrewster, DavidHeadlineBrewster's classic biography of Isaac NewtonPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published[1831] Lot #160 Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorSchilpp, Paul Arthur, editorHeadlineThe science & philosophy of Albert EinsteinPublisherThe Library of Living Philosophers, Inc.Date Published1949 Lot #161 Äther und Relativitäts - Theorie. Rede gehalten am 5. Mai 1920 an der Reichs - Universität zu Leiden View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein speech on Ether & Relativity, 1920PublisherJulius SpringerDate Published1920 Lot #163 Analytical Essay on the Construction of Machines Translated from the French of M.M. Lanz & Bétancourt View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Engineering)AuthorLanz, [José María de] and [Agustín de] BétancourtHeadlineWith twelve folding plates and a table of movementsPublisherR. AckermannDate Published[1817] Lot #166 Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics: With the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorFerguson, JamesHeadlineLectures on Mechanics, Hydrostatics, etc. 1764PublisherA. MillarDate Published1764 Lot #171 Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorGray, HenryHeadlineGray's Anatomy, 1st American EditionPublisherBlanchard and LeaDate Published1859 Lot #184 Tracts on mathematical and philosophical subjects, comprising among numerous important articles, the theory of bridges, with several plans of recent improvement; also the results of numerous experiments on the force of gunpowder, with applications to the modern practice of artillery View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorHutton, CharlesHeadlineHutton's mathematical & philosophical tractsPublisherF.C. and J. RivingtonDate Published1812 Lot #194 The Book of the Pearl View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorKunz, George Fredrick & Charles Hugh StevensonHeadlineKunz & Stevenson The Book of the PearlPublisherThe Century Co.Date Published1908 Lot #205 Four title on Mathematics View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Mathematics)HeadlineHistory & philosophy of MathematicsDate Publishedvarious dates Lot #206 One Thousand American Fungi, How to Select and Cook the Edible; How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poisonous View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorMcIlvaine, CharlesHeadlineOne Thousand American Fungi author's edition 1900PublisherBowen-MerrillDate Published[1900] Lot #207 A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body Accompanied with Descriptions, and Physiological, Pathological, and Surgical Observations. New and Improved Edition with a Supplement View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorLizars, JohnHeadlineWith 111 stunning hand-colored lithographsPublisherW.H. LizarsDate Published1857 Lot #216 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English, Vol. I, 1729PublisherPrinted for Benjamin MotteDate Published1729 Lot #245 The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides, and Timæus of Plato. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorTaylor, Thomas, translatorHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Plato, 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next