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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Le livre d'Images sans Paroles (Mutus Liber); où toutes les opérations de la philosophie hermétique sont décrites et représentées View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorSaulat, Jacob, sieur des Marez, attrib.HeadlineRare facsimile of major alchemical workPublisherLibrairie Critique Émile NourryDate Published1914 Lot #2 Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon... 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 #3 Il Genio Vagante, Biblioteca Curiosa di Cento e piu Relazioni di Viaggi Stranieri de Nostri Tempi. Parte II View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorAnzi, Aurelio DegliHeadlineWith early map of Louigiana in New FranciaPublisherL. M. RoinetiDate Published1691 Lot #5 Suite of twelve original paintings of the signs of the Zodiac on vellum View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Astrology)HeadlineHand-painted signs of the ZodiacDate Published19th century or earlier Lot #8 A Concordāce, that is to saie, a work wherein by the ordre of the letters of the A.B.C. ye maie redely finde any worde conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it is there expressed or mentioned View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Heading(Bible - Concordance)AuthorMarbecke, JohnHeadlineFirst Concordance in English to Bible, 1550PublisherRichardus Grafton]Date Published1550 Lot #9 The Books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles from the 1583 folio Geneva Bible View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineOld Testament history from 1583 Geneva BiblePublisher[Christopher Barker]Date Published[1583 Lot #22 Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light [with] original holograph manuscript poem from the book View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorCrowley, AleisterHeadlineSigned by Aleister Crowley with manuscript poemPublisherWalter Scott Publishing Co.Date Published1907 Lot #24 La Divina Comedia di Dante, di nuovo alla sua vera lettione ridotta con lo aiuto di molti antichissimi esemplari View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineIllustrated edition of Dante's Divine Comedy 1555PublisherApresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, et FratelliDate Published1555 [colophon dated 1554] 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 #31 Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem Hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin. Mit einem vorworte zum ersten male herausgegeben von R. Lepsius View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Egyptian Book of the Dead)HeadlineFirst printing of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 1842PublisherGeorg WigandDate Published1842 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 #35 Essays View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorEmerson, Ralph WaldoHeadlineRalph Waldo Emerson Essays First Edition 1841PublisherJames MunroeDate Published1841 Lot #41 The Herald of the Coming Good: First Appeal to Contemporary Humanity View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorGurdjieff, Georges IvanovitchHeadlineRare mysticism by G.I. GurdjieffDate Published1933 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 #49 Annvae Litterae Societatis Iesv Anni MDLXXXXII: Ad Patres Et Fratres eiusdem Societatis [bound with] Annvae Litterae Societatis Iesv Anni MDXCIII... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Jesuit letters)HeadlineLetters from Jesuit missionaries in late 1500'sPublisherApud Philippum IunctamDate Published1600 & 1601 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 #57 Nicholas Machiavel's Prince. Also, The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca. And the meanes Duke Valentine us'd to put to death Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto of Fermo Paul, and the Duke of Gravina. Translated out of Italian into English; by E[dward] D[acres]. With some animadversion noting and taxing his errours View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadlineMachiavelli's Prince, 1st in English 1640PublisherR. Bishop for Wil. Hils, and to be sold by Daniel PakemanDate Published1640 Lot #58 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman Emperor, His Meditations Concerning Himselfe: Treating of a Naturall Mans happinesse; Wherein it consisteth, and of the meanes to attaine unto it View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorMarcus Aurelius AntoninusHeadlineMeditations of Marcus Aurelius, 1st edition in EnglishPublisherPrinted by M. Flesher, for Richard MynneDate Published1634 Lot #60 The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an account of the tryals of several vvitches, lately excuted [sic] in New-England: and of several remarkable curiosities therein occurring... View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$22,500StatusSold AuthorMather, CottonHeadlineCotton Mather on the Salem Witch Trials, 1693PublisherPrinted first, at Bostun [sic] in New-England; and reprinted at London, for John Dunton, at the Raven in the PoultryDate Published1693 Lot #64 Philosophical Poems View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorMore, HenryHeadlineThe collected poetry of Henry More, 1647PublisherPrinted by Roger Daniel, Printer to the UniversityDate Published1647 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 #110 Elements of Bacchus: or, Toasts and Sentiments, given by Distinguished Characters. Illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain. With a variety of anecdotes and remarkable traits, prefixed to each portrait. Written and designed by George Murgatroyd [sic] Woodward View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold AuthorWoodward, George MoutardHeadlineColored aquatint plates of inebriated Britons, 1792PublisherPublished by William HollandDate Published1792 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next