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)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-17 of 17. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Archive of thirty-two photographs from the research voyage of the Albatross to Alaska and the Philippines 1907-10 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Alaska & Philippines)HeadlinePhotographs from The Albatross voyage 1907Date Published[1907-10] 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold AuthorAnson, GeorgeHeadlineAnson's Voyage Around the World 1748PublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 Lot #11 Book of Hours (Horae B.V.M.) printed on vellum, with "Dance of Death" illustrations by Philippe Pigouchet View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Book of Hours)HeadlineHorae BVM with famed "Dance of Death" suitesPublisherPhilippe Pigouchet for Simon VostreDate Publishedc.1500 Lot #13 On Dreams View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineBrowne On Dreams, 1/21 copies on vellumPublisherPublished by Alexander Moring Limited, the De La More PressDate Published[1920] Lot #14 Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D. late of Norwich... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineThomas Browne's Posthumous Works 1712PublisherPrinted for E. Curl... and R. GoslingDate Published1712 Lot #16 Ten volumes of writings by Cicero published primarily by Sebastianus Gryphius in the mid-16th century View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusHeadlineScarce 16th century printings of CiceroPublisherApud Seb. Gryphium, etc.Date Publishedc.1546-1567 Lot #19 On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorDarwin, Charles & Alfred Russel WallaceHeadlineFirst statement of Darwin's Evolution TheoryPublisherLongman, Brown, et al.Date Published1859 Lot #23 Two items by Albert Einstein, with ownership stamps of his son Hans Albert Einstein View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineRare Einstein articles, presented to his sonDate Published1922 & 1924 Lot #25 Systema cosmicum, in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite ac solide differitur.... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineGalileo's Systema Cosmicum, 1699PublisherFredericum Haaring et Davidem SeverinumDate Published1699 Lot #26 Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux en Général, et du Cerveau en Particulier... View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorGall, Franz Joseph and Johann Gaspar SpurzheimHeadlineF.J. Gall advances science and phrenologyPublisherF. SchoellDate Published1810-19 Lot #27 Mechanik des Himmels View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Gauss, Carl Friedrich)AuthorLaplace, Pierre Simon deHeadlineGauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanicsPublisherF.T. LaGardeDate Published1800 Lot #40 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineFirst edition of Johnson's DictionaryPublisherPrinted by W. Strahan, for J. & P. Knapton, et al.Date Published1755 Lot #44 Herophilus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorMarx, Carl Friedrich HeinrichHeadlineHerophilus & the anatomy of the brainPublisherD.R. Marx'sche Buch- und KunsthandlungDate Published1838 Lot #50 [Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst Plato in Greek 1513Publisher[In aedib. Aldi, et Andreae Soceri]Date Published[1513] Lot #53 Principia Mathematica View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorRussell, Bertrand & Alfred North WhiteheadHeadlineFirst edition of Russell's Principia MathematicaPublisherAt the University PressDate Published1910, 1912, 1913 Lot #54 The life and death of King John View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare King John from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #55 The Winters Tale View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare Winters Tale from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next