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View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorAshmole, EliasHeadlineRare first edition of Ashmole's Alchemy, 1652PublisherPrinted by F. Grismond for N. BrookDate Published1652 Lot #7 Album of Thomas Bewick vignettes or 'tale-pieces', presented to Richard Arkwright View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Bewick, Thomas, illustrator)HeadlineThomas Bewick vignettes inscribed by the artistDate Published[1824] Lot #10 Histoire Naturelle, Agricole et Économique du Mäis View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorBonafous, MatthieuHeadlineFolio monograph on maize with color plates 1836PublisherHazard / BoccaDate Published1836 Lot #26 "Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection". In: The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorDarwin, Charles and Alfred R. WallaceHeadlineSeminal papers by Charles Darwin & Alfred WallacePublisherJohn Van VoorstDate Published1858 Lot #32 La Visita del Profesor Alberto Einstein View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Einstein, Albert)AuthorCastineiras, Julius R.HeadlineAlbert Einstein visits Argentina, 1925PublisherImprenta y Casa Editora ConiDate Published1925 Lot #33 Untersuchungen über die theorie der 'Brownschen bewegung' View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's papers on Brownian motionPublisherAkademische verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h.Date Published1922 Lot #39 Les Fleurs Animées [bound with] Botanique des Dames [and] Culture des Fleurs: Horticulture des Dames View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Grandville, J.J.)AuthorDelord, TaxileHeadlineGrandville's Les Fleurs Animées 1847PublisherGabriel de GonetDate Published1847 Lot #45 Über den bau der atomkerne, I, II, III View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorHeisenberg, WernerHeadlineHeisenberg's theory of atomic nuclear forcesPublisherVerlag von Julius SpringerDate Published1932-1933 Lot #46 The British Herbal: An history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorHill, JohnHeadlineHill's British Herbal with 75 plates 1756PublisherPrinted for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, et al.Date Published1756 Lot #51 Arithmologia sive, De abditis numerorum mysterijs qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditæ eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post Cabalistarum, Arabum, Gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera & licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher examines mystical numerology, 1665PublisherEx typographia VaresijDate Published1665 Lot #65 Mushrooms, Russia and History View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Mycology)AuthorWasson, Valentina Pavlovna & R. Gordon WassonHeadlineWassons' Mushrooms, Russia and History, 1957PublisherPantheon BooksDate Published[1957] Lot #67 The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, Newton's System of the World; a short comment on, and defence of the Prisipia, by W. Emerson, with the laws of the moon’s motion, according to gravity. By John Machin... View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English in the original boardsPublisherPrinted for H.D. SymondsDate Published1803 Lot #70 Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorOrta, Garcia de, et al.HeadlineBotany of East & West Indies, 1593PublisherEx officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem MoretumDate Published1593 Lot #85 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Royal Society of Edinburgh)HeadlineRoyal Society of Edinburgh Transactions, 1799-1888PublisherWilliam & Charles Tait, et al.Date Published1799-1888 Lot #86 Principia Mathematica View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorRussell, Bertrand & Alfred North WhiteheadHeadlineRussell's Principia Mathematica 3 volumesPublisherAt the University PressDate Published1925-1927 Lot #88 Demonstratio Et Constructio Horologiorum Novorum. Radio Recto; Refracto in Aqua; Reflexo in Speculo; solo Magnete Horas Astronomicas, Italicas, Babylonicas indicantium View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSchönberger, GeorgHeadlineScarce study of horology, 1622PublisherApud Ioannem StrasserumDate Published1622 Lot #101 The Tibetan Book of the Dead; or the After-Death Experience on the Bardo Plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Tibet)AuthorEvans-Wentz, W.Y., editorHeadlineEvan-Wentz edition of Tibetan Book of DeadPublisherOxford University Press/Humphrey MilfordDate Published1927 Lot #109 American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States - complete set View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorWilson, AlexanderHeadlineAlexander Wilson's American Ornithology, complete setPublisherBradford and Inskeep; Laval & BradfordDate Published1808-25 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next