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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 #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 #13 Prajnaparamita sutra - Japanese woodblock-printed Scroll Kamakura View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Heading(Buddhism)HeadlinePrajnaparamita sutra on Japanese scroll, 1250Date Publishedc.1250 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 #30 Le Temple de l'Homme: Apet du Sud à Louqsor View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Egypt)AuthorSchwaller de Lubicz, R.A.HeadlineClassic study of ancient EgyptPublisherCaractéresDate Published[1957] 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 #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 #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 #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 #71 Relacion Historica de la Vida Y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, Y de las Misiones que Fundo en la California Septentrional, y Nuevos Establecimientos de Monterey View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold AuthorPaloú, FranciscoHeadlinePalou's Biography of Serra First EditionPublisherFelipe de Zúñiga y OntiverosDate Published1787 Lot #72 Dr. Joseph Goebbels View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Photographs)AuthorEisenstaedt, AlfredHeadlineGoebbels caught by a remarkable Jewish photographer, 1933Date Published1933 Lot #87 Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans. The Result of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and Throughout the Troad in the Years 1871-72-73-78-79 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorSchliemann, HenryHeadlinePresentation copy of Schliemann's IliosPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1880 Lot #98 The Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorStuart, James and Nicholas RevettHeadlineStunning survey of Greek antiquities, 1762-1816PublisherJohn Haberkorn; John Nichols; T. Bensley for J. TaylorDate Published1762; 1787; 1794; 1816 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 #102 [Tibetan Buddhist Sutra for recitation in rituals of the white parasol Goddess] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,375StatusSold Heading(Tibetan Buddhism)HeadlineTibetan sutra in praise of the white parasol GoddessDate Published[ca. 1450?] Lot #107 Noticia de la California y de su Conquista Temporal y Espiritual hasta el Tiempo Presente View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorVenegas, MiguelHeadlineNoticia de la California by Miguel Venegas, 1757PublisherManuel FernandezDate Published1757 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next