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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Descrittione di tvtta Italia View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorAlberti, LeandroHeadlineLeandro Alberti's descritions of Italy 1557PublisherPer Domenico de' FarrDate Published1557 Lot #7 Traité Général des Horloges View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorAllexandre, JacquesHeadlineart of time-pieces 27 folding platesPublisherHippolyte-Louis GuerinDate Published1734 Lot #9 The Roman Historie, Containing Such Acts and Occurrents as Passed Under Constantius, Julianus, Jovianus, Valentinianus, and Valens, Emperours View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorAmmianus MarcellinusHeadlineThe first edition in English, 1609PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1609 Lot #28 Halifax, and its Gibber-Law Placed in a true Light. With a Description of the Town...with an Account of the Gentry...with Many other Matters and Things of great Remark... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBentley, JohnHeadlineHistory of Halifax's unique execution devicePublisherPrinted by P. Darey for John BentleyDate Published[1761] Lot #39 A Voyage to the South-Seas in the Years 1740-1. Containing, a faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the WAGER on a desolate island... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorBulkeley, John & John CumminsHeadlineVoyage to the South-Seas in the Years 1740-1PublisherJacob RobinsonDate Published1743 Lot #43 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$7,500StatusSold AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineCaesar's Commentaries with 85 superb copperplatesPublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 Lot #46 Memoires d'Outre-Tombe View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorChateaubriand, François-RenéHeadlineChateaubriand from beyond the grave, 1848-1850PublisherB.Behr & F.A. Brockhaus, et al.Date Published1848-1850 Lot #50 An Address by Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Delivered Before Members of the Congress of the United States - 19 May, 1943 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's Address before Congress May 1943PublisherOverbrook PressDate Published1943 Lot #51 Arms and the Covenant View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineInscribed by Winston S. ChurchillPublisherGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.Date Published1938 Lot #52 The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill - The Centenary Limited Edition - Volume XIX - The War Speeches, Volume One May 1938-June 1941 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineVol. XIX of Centenary collection of ChurchillPublisherLibrary of Imperial HistoryDate Published[1975] Lot #53 The Great War View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's Great War 1st Illustrated EditionPublisherGeorge Newnes LimitedDate Published[1933-34] Lot #54 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineComplete set handsomely bound by BayntunPublisherCassell and CompanyDate Published[1956-1958] Lot #55 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineNicely bound by BayntunPublisherCassell and CompanyDate Published[1956-1957] Lot #56 Ian Hamilton's March View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineThe companion to 'London to Ladysmith'PublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #57 London to Ladysmith, via Pretoria View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineLondon to Ladysmith, via Pretoria 1st EditionPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #58 Lord Randolph Churchill View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston S. Churchill's bio of Lord RandolphPublisherMacmillan and Co. LimitedDate Published1906 Lot #59 My African Journey View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's travels in Africa, w/ signaturePublisherHodder & StoughtonDate Published1908 Lot #60 My Early Life, A Roving Commission View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill My Early LifePublisherThornton Butterworth LimitedDate Published[1930] Lot #61 The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineChurchill's The River War, 1899, 1st printingPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1899 Lot #63 The Second World War and an Epilogue on the Years 1945 to 1957 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineNicely bound edition of The Second World WarPublisherCassell & Company, LimitedDate Published[1959] Lot #64 Step By Step, 1936-1939 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston S. Churchill Step by StepPublisherThornton Butterworth Ltd.Date Published[1939] Lot #65 The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill's 1st book, 1st editionPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1898 Lot #66 Thoughts and Adventures View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill Thoughts and AdventuresPublisherThornton Butterworth LimitedDate Published[1932] Lot #67 The World Crisis View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineThe World Crisis, 6th Duke of Portland's copyPublisherThornton Butterworth LimitedDate Published[1923-1931] Lot #68 M. Tullii Ciceronis Sententiae Insigniores, et Pia Apophthegmata... [and] Isocratis Atheniensis Oratoris & Philosophi clarisimi... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorCicero, Marcus Tullius, Isocrates, et alHeadlineClassical aphorisms 1565PublisherApud Nicolaum BeuilacquamDate Published1565 [and] 1569 Lot #85 The History Of The Great Plague In London, In The Year 1665, Containing Observations And Memorials Of The Most Remarkable Occurrences, Both Public And Private, That Happened During That Dreadful period. By A Citizen Who Lived The Whole Time In London View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorDefoe, DanielHeadlineDefoe's history of the London PlaguePublisherPrinted By H. TeapeDate Published1819 Lot #99 Römische Studien View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorFernow, Carl LudwigHeadlineGerman archaeologist studies Rome, 1806-08PublisherBei H. GessnerDate Published1806-1808 Lot #103 La Constitution Française, décrétée par l'Assemblée Nationale constituante, aux année 1789, 1790, 1791 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(France)AuthorAssemblée NationaleHeadlineFrench Constitution of 1791Publisherchez GarneryDate Published1791 Lot #104 Illustrierte Sittengeschichte von Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorFuchs, E.HeadlineIllustrated Moral History from the Middle AgesPublisherAlbert LangenDate Published[c.1909] Lot #106 The fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of Wm. Weare, and the trial and fate of John Thurtell, the murderer and his accomplices...To which is added, The gambler's scourge: a complete exposé of the whole system of gambling in the metropolis, with memoirs and anecdotes of notorious blacklegs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Gambling & Murder)HeadlineA "true crime" narrative of a rogue's progressPublisherThomas KellyDate Published1824 Lot #110 L'Histoire du Costume Feminin Francais de l'an 1037 a l'an 1870 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorGiafferri, Paul Louis deHeadlineWith numerous Pochoir plates of French fashionPublisherEditions NilssonDate Published[1922-23] Lot #116 The Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Containing a More Accurate and Interesting Account of the Religion, Government, Military Establishment, Manners, Customs, and Amusements, of the Turks... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorHabesci, EliasHeadlineWith accounts of plague in the Ottoman EmpirePublisherPrinted for R. BaldwinDate Published[1784] Lot #121 The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Written by Himself View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorHerbert, Edward, Lord of CherburyHeadlineLord Herbert of Cherbury 1770PublisherPrinted for J. DodsleyDate Published1770 Lot #128 The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorHume, DavidHeadlineHume's History of England, 1779PublisherT. CadellDate Published1789 Lot #135 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$312.50StatusSold AuthorKinglake, Alexander WilliamHeadlineKinglake's Invasion of CrimeaPublisherWilliam Blackwood and SonsDate Published1863-1887 Lot #136 A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorLaking, Guy FrancisHeadlineImportant survey of the arms and armour of EuropePublisherG. Bell and SonsDate Published1920-22 Lot #150 The Magazine of Art - 1890-1904 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(The Magazine of Art)HeadlineThe Magazine of Art, 15 years in 16 volumesPublisherCassell & Company, LimitedDate Published1890-1904 Lot #164 The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorMonstrelet, Enguerrand deHeadlineThe Chronicles of Engeurrand de MonstreletPublisherHafod PressDate Published1809 Lot #166 Crime Against Children: An Aspect of Sexual Criminology View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorMorland, NigelHeadlineCrime Against Children 1939 scarcePublisherCassell & CompanyDate Published[1939] Lot #171 Selections from Mr. Nicholson's Journal: A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorNicholson, WilliamHeadlineUnique selecrtion of works by William NicholsonDate Publishedc. 1806 Lot #188 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History with rare variant title pagePublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1635-1634 Lot #189 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romains, Compared together by that grave learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea: Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot... and out of French into English, By Sir Thomas North Knight View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorPlutarchHeadlineThe first complete version of Plutarch in EnglishPublisherPrinted by George Miller...sold by Robert AllottDate Published1631 Lot #196 The Century Edition Deluxe of Raemaekers' War Cartoons View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorRaemaeker, LouisHeadlineWar Cartoons of Louis RaemaekerPublisherCentury Co.Date Published1917 Lot #201 Mycenæ; A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorSchliemann, HenryHeadlineSchliemann in Mycenae, first editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1878 Lot #202 Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns. The Results of the Latest Excavations View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorSchliemann, HenryHeadlineScliemann at Tiryns, first American editionPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1885 Lot #209 Antiquities of Westminster: The Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (Now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing 246 Engravings of Topographical Objects, of Which 122 No Longer Remain. View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorSmith, John ThomasHeadline1st lithograph used to illustrate a book 1807PublisherPrinted By T. Bensley, for J. T. SmithDate Published1807 Lot #215 Three imprints on World War II Rocketry View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Space Flight)HeadlineWorld War II rocketry developmentDate Published1946-1948 Lot #217 History of Philosophy: Containing the Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of every Sect. Illustrated with the Effigies of divers of Them View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorStanley, ThomasHeadlineStanley's History of Philosophy, 1687PublisherPrinted for Thomas Bassett, et al.Date Published1687 Lot #222 The History of the French Revolution View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorThiers, M.A.HeadlineA History of the French Revolution in Five VolumesPublisherRichard BentleyDate Published1838 Lot #223 The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls citezeine and goldesmyth of London View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFirst edition in English of Thucydides, 1550Publisher[William Tylle]Date Published1550 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next