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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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 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