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Reprinted from the Revised Version of the Apocrypha View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Flint, William Russell, illustrator)HeadlineJudith illus. by William Russell Flint 1/100PublisherThe Haymarket PressDate Published1928 Lot #30 Four volumes printed by or about Bruce Rogers View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Rogers, Bruce)Headline4 vols printed by or about Bruce RodgersPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1902-1925 Lot #34 Bibliopola. Bilder und Texte aus der Welt des Buchhandels. Pictures and Text about the Book Trade. Images et Texte sur la Libririe View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorTaubert, SigfredHeadlineTaubert, Bibliopola, the book trade 1st Ed. 1966PublisherNew York: R. R. Bowker Co.Date Published[1966] Lot #37 The Altar Book: Containing the Order for the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist According to the Use of the American Church: MDCCCXCII. By Authority View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Updike, Daniel Berkeley/ Merrymount Press)HeadlineThe Altar Book Merrymount Press 1/350Publisher[Merrymount Press]Date Published[1896] Lot #43 Madame de Pompadour View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorCapefigue, J. B. H. R.HeadlineNicely bound copy of Madame de PompadourPublisherArthur L. HumphreysDate Published1908 Lot #58 The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorKinglake, Alexander WilliamHeadlineKinglake's Invasion of Crimea handsomly boundPublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1863-1887 Lot #63 Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795, Written by Himself: with a Continuation, to the time of his Decease, By his Son, Joseph Priestley... / Four Discourses Intended to Have Been Delivered at Philadelphia... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlineMemoirs of Joseph Priestley bound by BayntunPublisherJ. Johnson; John BinnsDate Published1806 Lot #64 Memoirs of the Duc De Saint-Simon on the Times of Louis XIV. and the Regency View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorSaint-Simon, [Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de]HeadlineMemoirs of Saint-Simon bound by BaytunPublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1899 Lot #66 Quo Vadis, roman des temps Néroniens View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSienkiewicz, HenrykHeadlineQuo Vadis in French, bound by Flammarion, 1904PublisherErnest FlammarionDate Published[1904] Lot #67 The Historie of Tvvelve Cæsars, Emperours of Rome: VVritten in Latine by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, and newly translated into English, by Philêmon Holland, Doctor in Physicke. Together with a Marginall Glosse, and other briefe Annotations there-upon View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorSuetonius Tranquillus, CaiusHeadlineSuetonius' Twelve Caesars, 1st in English 1606PublisherPrinted [by Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew LownesDate Published1606 Lot #78 The Manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Americana Manuscripts)Author[Hewlett, W.O., editor]Headline3 vol Manuscripts of the Earl of DartmouthPublisherPrinted for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Eyre and SpottiswoodeDate Published1885-1887 Lot #80 A Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland, From A.D. 1536, 1784, with Critical Remarks by Hugo Arnot View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorArnot, HugoHeadlineArnot's Celebrated Scottish Trials, 1785PublisherPrinted for the author by William SmellieDate Published1785 Lot #84 A Chronicle of the Kings of England. From the Time of the Romans Government, unto the Death of King James. Whereunto is added, The Reign of King Charles the First, and The First Thirteen Years of His Sacred Majesty, King Charles the Second... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorBaker, Sir RichardHeadlineA Chronicle of the Kings of England 1684PublisherH. SawbridgeDate Published1684 Lot #88 Observations upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius. With some Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Ancients. And a short Description of the Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Naples. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$593.75StatusSold Author[Bellicard,Jerome Charles & Charles Cochin]HeadlineObservations on paintings and sculpture, 1753PublisherPrinted for D. Wilson, and T. DurhamDate Published1753 Lot #93 Book of Numbers - from the Great Bible of 1566 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineBook of Numbers- from the Great Bible of 1566Publisher[R. Carmarden]Date Published[1566] Lot #94 The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English out of the Authentical Latin...By the English College of Doway View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineDouai Old Testament 1609-10PublisherLaurence KellamDate Published1609 Lot #95 The Holy Bible View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineFirst quarto edition of the King James Bible 1612PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1612 Lot #98 Title page the New Testament of the 1611 folio King James Bible View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Headline1611 New Testament, illustrated title pagePublisherRobert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent MajestieDate Published1611 Lot #99 Le Nouveau Testament en Latin et en Français, Traduit par Sacy View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin and French)HeadlineBible in Latin and French 1793PublisherImprimerie de Didot JeuneDate Published1793 Lot #100 The Jonah Legend: A Suggestion of Interpretation / The Story of Samson and its Place in the Religious Development of Mankind View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Bible Myth)Headline2 Historical texts on religious storiesPublisherOpen Court Publishing Company; Grant RichardsDate Published1899, 1917 Lot #105 The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to that which is to come... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorBunyan, JohnHeadlineA Pilgrim's Progress, 1796PublisherPrinted for C. CookeDate Published[1796] Lot #107 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries with 85 superb copperplatesPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 Lot #115 Written on Bamboo and Silk: The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(China)AuthorTsien, Tsuen-HsuinHeadlineWritten on Bamboo and Silk, 1st ed in djPublisherUniversity of Chicago PressDate Published1962 Lot #116 The Sermon on the Mount View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Chromolithography)AuthorStanesby, Samuel, IlluminatorHeadlineSermon on the Mount illum. by Samuel StanesbyPublisherC. Courtier & SonsDate Publishedca. 1850 Lot #122 Quintus Curtius, His History of the Wars of Alexander. To which is prefix'd Freinshemius's Supplement View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCurtius Rufus, QuintusHeadlineDigby Translation of Curtius 1726PublisherBernard LintotDate Published1725 Lot #136 Six religiously-themed 16th century plays from the Tudor Facsimile Texts View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Early English Printing)Headline6 Tudor Facsimile plays concerning religionPublisherTudor Facsimile TextsDate Published1907-1912 Lot #137 The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: containing News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages, Criticism, Translations, Philosophy, Mathematicks, Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Early Periodicals)HeadlineEarly monthly culture and society periodicalPublisherJohn Hinton at the King's ArmsDate Published[1748] Lot #139 The Egyptian Book of the Dead Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Heading(Egyptian Book of the Dead)AuthorAllen, Thomas George, editorHeadlineThe Egyptian Book of the Dead Documents 131 platesPublisherThe University of Chicago PressDate Published1960 Lot #154 Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion by Nath. Hodges, M.D. and Fellow of the College of Physicians, who resided in the City all that Time... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorHodges, Nathaniel & John QuincyHeadlineHodges' account of London's Great PlaguePublisherPrinted for E. Bell & J. OsbornDate Published1720 Lot #156 A translation of the Confucian [Yih king] or the "Classic of Change", with notes and appendix View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Heading(I-Ching)AuthorMcClatchie, Rev. Canon [Thomas], translatorHeadlineI-Ching printed in China 1876PublisherAmerican Presbyterian Mission PressDate Published1876 Lot #163 Machiavels Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadlineFirst edition of Machiavelli's Discourses in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Thomas Paine for William Hills and Daniel PakemanDate Published1636 Lot #167 The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, Beginning with Caius Julius Caesar, and Successively Ending with Rodulph the Second Now Raigning View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorMexia, PedroHeadlinePedro Mexia's History of the Roman Emperors, 1604PublisherMatthew LownesDate Published1604 Lot #168 The Gold Under the Grass View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold AuthorMiller, Basil W.HeadlineGold Under the Grass in original dust jacketPublisherCokesbury PressDate Published1930 Lot #170 Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Missale Romanum)HeadlineRoman Missal, 1710 printed in VenicePublisherSumptibus Pauli BalleoniiDate Published1707 Lot #171 The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold AuthorMonstrelet, Enguerrand deHeadlineThe Chronicles of Engeurrand de MonstreletPublisherHafod PressDate Published1809 Lot #173 Document signed by Alexandre Berthier as Ministre de la Guerre, and secretarially signed "Bonaparte" as premier Consul de la République, promoting a lieutenant in the army View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Napoleonic Era)HeadlineMilitary appointment signed by Napoleon BonaparteDate Publishedc.1803 Lot #174 Letter from General Sir Thomas Picton, written to his agent in London following his arrival in Lisbon, Portugal, describing conditions there View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Napoleonic Era)AuthorPicton, ThomasHeadlineLetter from British General in Peninsular War, 1810Date Published9th Feby. 1810 Lot #179 Collection of the Works of William Penn. To Which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life. With Many Original Letters and Papers not before Published. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorPenn, WilliamHeadlineWorks of William Penn 2 vols. 1726PublisherJ. SowleDate Published1726 Lot #181 Pictorial History of Ancient Pharmacy; with Sketches of Early Medical Practice View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorPeters, HermannHeadlineIllustrated history of Pharmacology, 1889PublisherG.P. Engelhard & CompanyDate Published1889 Lot #185 Collection of French Consulate plays, many by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Pixérécourt, René-Charles Guilbert de)AuthorVarious authorsHeadline2 volumes of Consulate era French TheatrePublisherVarious publishersDate Published1801-1805 Lot #186 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorPlutarchHeadlineA lovely copy of Plutarch, 1610-12PublisherRichard FieldDate Published1612; 1610 Lot #187 The Worthies of the World, or, The Lives of the most Heroick Greeks and Romans compared, to which are added More Lives, out of Aemilius Probus and others View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorPlutarchHeadlinePlutarch's Lives, 1665 editionPublisherPrinted for John Williams, William Gilbertson, and Henry MarshDate Published1665 Lot #190 A Comparison of the Institutions of Moses with Those of the Hindoos and other Ancient Nations; with Remarks on Mr Dupui's Origin of all Religions... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlineJoseph Priestley on Judaism & Hinduism, 1799PublisherPrinted for the author by A. KennedyDate Published1799 Lot #191 Discourses on the Evidence of Revealed Religion. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestley's Discourses on Revealed ReligionsPublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1794 Lot #192 An Essay on the First Principles of Government; and on the Nature of Political, Civil, and Religious Liberty, Including Remarks on Dr. Brown's Code of Education and on Dr. Balguy's Sermon on Church Authority. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestley's first substantial political workPublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1771 Lot #193 An Examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, Dr. Beattle's Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, and Dr. Oswald's Appeal to Common Sense in Behalf of Religion. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestley's analysis of contemporary peersPublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1775 Lot #195 An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, Compiled from Original Writers; Proving that the Christian Church was at First Unitarian. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestley's Early Opinions of Jesus ChristPublisherPrinted for the author by Pearson and RollasonDate Published1786 Lot #196 Lectures on History, and General Policy: to which is prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestley's Lectures on History and EducationPublisherWhite & ByrneDate Published1791 Lot #197 Lectures on History, and General Policy: to which is prefixed, an Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life. and an Additional Lecture on the Constitution of the United States View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestley's Lectures on History and EducationPublisherPrinted for P. ByrneDate Published1803 Lot #198 Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its Neighbourhood, on Subjects Interesting to the Author, and to Them. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestley's Letters to Northumberland, 1801PublisherPrinted by John Bioren for John Conrad; M. & J. Conrad; Rapine, Conrad & Co.Date Published1801 Lot #199 Three works by Joseph Priestley View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlineJoseph Priestley, memoirs, lectures, lettersPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1791-1809 Lot #200 WITHDRAWN - The Early Years of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort Compiled Under The Direction of Her Majesty The Queen - presentation copy inscribed by Queen Victoria View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Queen Victoria)AuthorGrey, Lieut-General The Hon C.HeadlineWITHDRAWN - Inscribed by Queen VictoriaPublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1867 Lot #203 In the Evening of His Days, a Study of Mr. Gladstone in Retirement, With Some Account of St. Deiniol's Library and Hostel View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, artist)Author[Friederichs, Hulda]HeadlineStudy of Mr. Gladstone in Retirement, 1896Publisher"Westminster Gazette"Date Published1896 Lot #212 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Shakespeare Head Press)AuthorPlutarchHeadlinePlutarch's Lives, large paper edition, 1/500PublisherShakespeare Head Press for Houghton MifflinDate Published1928 Lot #226 The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle for the Year 1745 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorUrban, SylvanusHeadline1745 Magazine w/ early article on electricityPublisherJohn NicholsDate Published1791 Lot #227 The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle for the Year 1791 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorUrban, SylvanusHeadlineThe Gentleman's Magazine for 1791PublisherJohn NicholsDate Published1791 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next