Sale 739: PBA Platinum: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Art (#739) 09/02/2021 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/02/2021 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-18 of 18. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Archive of thirty-two photographs from the research voyage of the Albatross to Alaska and the Philippines 1907-10 Heading(Alaska & Philippines)HeadlinePhotographs from The Albatross voyage 1907Date Published[1907-10] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #2 A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas AuthorAnson, GeorgeHeadlineAnson's Voyage Around the World 1748PublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #13 On Dreams AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineBrowne On Dreams, 1/21 copies on vellumPublisherPublished by Alexander Moring Limited, the De La More PressDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #17 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingHeadlineCook's Third Voyage with Atlas Volume 1785PublisherPrinted by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol... and T. CadellDate Published1785 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #19 On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection AuthorDarwin, Charles & Alfred Russel WallaceHeadlineFirst statement of Darwin's Evolution TheoryPublisherLongman, Brown, et al.Date Published1859 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #23 Two items by Albert Einstein, with ownership stamps of his son Hans Albert Einstein AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineRare Einstein articles, presented to his sonDate Published1922 & 1924 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #24 The Hĕĕtōpădēs of Vĕĕshnŏŏ-Sărmā, in a series of connected fables, interspersed with moral, prudential, and political maxims; translated from an ancient manuscript in the Sanskreet language. With explanatory notes Heading(Fables - Indian)AuthorWilkins, Charles, translatorHeadlineFables by the Indian Aesop, 1787PublisherPrinted by R. Cruttwell, and sold by C. Nourse, et al.Date Published1787 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #25 Systema cosmicum, in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite ac solide differitur.... AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineGalileo's Systema Cosmicum, 1699PublisherFredericum Haaring et Davidem SeverinumDate Published1699 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #26 Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux en Général, et du Cerveau en Particulier... AuthorGall, Franz Joseph and Johann Gaspar SpurzheimHeadlineF.J. Gall advances science and phrenologyPublisherF. SchoellDate Published1810-19 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #27 Mechanik des Himmels Heading(Gauss, Carl Friedrich)AuthorLaplace, Pierre Simon deHeadlineGauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanicsPublisherF.T. LaGardeDate Published1800 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #38 Album with 62 original paintings on silk, featuring pastoral scenes, artisanal crafts, occupations, etc. Heading(Japan)HeadlineJapanese artisanal crafts painted on silkDate Published19th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #42 Original sepia ink drawing by Edward Lear - Egyptian vignette AuthorLear, EdwardHeadlineOriginal drawing signed by Edward LearDate Published[1848-49] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 Original sepia ink drawing by Edward Lear - Egyptian vignette amid pyramids AuthorLear, EdwardHeadlineOriginal drawing signed by Edward LearDate Published[1848-49] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #44 Herophilus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin AuthorMarx, Carl Friedrich HeinrichHeadlineHerophilus & the anatomy of the brainPublisherD.R. Marx'sche Buch- und KunsthandlungDate Published1838 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #53 Principia Mathematica AuthorRussell, Bertrand & Alfred North WhiteheadHeadlineFirst edition of Russell's Principia MathematicaPublisherAt the University PressDate Published1910, 1912, 1913 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #61 A Russian Journal AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSigned by John Steinbeck with Pigasus sketchPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published1948 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #66 A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication Between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795...under the Command of Captain George Vancouver AuthorVancouver, GeorgeHeadlineVancouver's A Voyage of Discovery, First Edition 1798PublisherG.G. & J. Robinson, & J. EdwardsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #69 Archive of 137 gelatin silver print photographs from World War I Heading(World War I)HeadlineAlbum of World War I photographs, 1918-19Date Published[c. 1918-19] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next