Sale 748: Rare Books with Science, Medicine & Natural History (#748) 11/18/2021 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 11/18/2021 11:00 AM PST 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 1-33 of 33. Previous|1|Next Lot #26 Ophtalmodouleia das ist Augendienst. Neuer und wohlgegründeter Bericht von Ursachen und Erkentnues aller Gebrechen/Schaeden und Maengel der Augen und des Gesichtes View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorBartisch von Königsbrück, GeorgHeadlineAilments of the face 1583 facsimilePublisherThe Scolar PressDate Published1980 Lot #38 Natural History, General and Particular View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorBuffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Le Comte deHeadlineA handsome set of Buffon's Natural History, 1785PublisherW. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published1785 Lot #44 Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineA handsome finely bound set of Don QuixotePublisherJ.J. Dubochet & Co.Date Published1837 Lot #62 Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill, Savrola First U.S. EditionPublisherLongmans, Green, and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #88 Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineAutograph letter signed by Charles DickensDate PublishedApril 1, 1850 Lot #89 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineMartin Chuzzlewit, First edition, first issuePublisherChapman and HallDate Published1844 Lot #90 The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineHandsomely bound edition of David CopperfieldPublisherW.F. BurgessDate Published1850 Lot #102 The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler - With two fore-edge paintings View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorButler, SamuelHeadlineButler's works with Fore Edge PaintingsPublisherPickeringDate Published1835 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 #111 West-oestlicher Divan View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonHeadlinelyrical poems by Goethe 1819Publisherin der Cottaischen BuchhandlungDate Published1819 Lot #112 The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGranville, George, Lord LansdowneHeadlineGeorge Granville verse and prose 1732PublisherPrinted for J. Tonson, and L. GilliverDate Published1732 Lot #113 Annotationes in Libros Evangeliorum View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorGrotius, HugoHeadlineHugo Grotius' Notes on the Gospels 1641PublisherCornelium BlaeuDate Published1641 Lot #114 Armorial du Bibliophile Avec Illustrations Dans le Texte View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorGuigard, JoannisHeadlineIllustrated with numerous Armorial bookplatesPublisherLibrairie Bachelin-DeflorenneDate Published1870-1873 Lot #119 The Works of James Harris, Esq. With an account of his life and character, by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineHarris on philosophy of language, 1801PublisherPrinted by Luke Hansard, for F. WingraveDate Published1801 Lot #122 Harivansa ou Histoire de la Famille de Hari, ouvrage formant un appendice du Mahabharata... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Hindu Mythology)HeadlineFirst printing of the Harivansa in any languagePublisherOriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and IrelandDate Published1834 Lot #126 The Iliad of Homer View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Homer)AuthorPope, Alexander, translatorHeadlinePope translation of Homer's Iliad, folio editionPublisherW. Boyer for Bernard LintottDate Published1715-1720 Lot #132 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.... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineFourth edition of Johnson's Dictionary, DublinPublisherThomas EwingDate Published1775 Lot #137 Mémoires d'une femme de qualité, sur Louis XVIII, sa cour et son règne View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorLamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de, et al.HeadlineMemoirs of French "Lady of Quality" 1829-30PublisherMame et Delaunay-Vallée, librairesDate Published1829-1830 Lot #140 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's vermischte Schriften nach dessen tode aus den hinterlassenen papieren gesammelt und herausgegeben von Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg und Friedrich Kries... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorLichtenberg, Georg ChristophHeadlineLichtenberg's writings on science & more 1800-06PublisherJ.C. Dieterich, etc.Date Published1800-1806 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 #156 Illustrations of the Bible View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorMartin, JohnHeadlineMartin's mezzotint illustrations for the BiblePublisherCharles TiltDate Published1838 Lot #164 The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorMonstrelet, Enguerrand deHeadlineThe Chronicles of Engeurrand de MonstreletPublisherHafod PressDate Published1809 Lot #169 The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works of Apuleius, Translated from the original Latin by Thomas Taylor View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(Neoplatonism)AuthorApuleiusHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Apuleius, 1822PublisherRobert Triphook...and Thomas RoddDate Published1822 Lot #172 I Rimedi D'amore di Ovidio View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Remedia Amoris 1584PublisherNella Stamperia NouaDate Published1584 Lot #182 Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorPetrarca, FrancescoHeadlinePetrarch's sonnets 1547PublisherPer Comin de Trino di MonferratoDate Published1547 Lot #195 Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineGulliver's Travels illus. by Arthur RackhamPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.; E.P. Dutton & Co.Date Published1909 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 #205 [Morte d’Arthur, i.e.:] The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur Notwythstondng It Treateth of the Byrth Lyf and Actes of the Sayd Kynge Arthur: of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Shakespeare Head Press)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineFine press edition of Malory, Shakespeare HeadPublisherShakespeare Head PressDate Published1933 Lot #206 The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Henry VIII from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #207 The Plays of William Shakespeare View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineJohnson's Shakespeare 8 vols. 1768PublisherH Woodfall et al.Date Published1768 Lot #219 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Author[Swift, Jonathan]HeadlineGulliver's Travels Woodcuts by GrandvillePublisherHayward and MooreDate Published[c. 1840] Lot #229 The Dramatic Works of Sir William D'Avenant, with Prefatory Memoir and Notes View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Vellum Printing)AuthorD'Avenant, WilliamHeadlineWilliam D'Avenant 1 of 4 copies on vellumPublisherWilliam Paterson, H. Sotheran & Co.Date Published1872-74 Lot #239 Fabulas Literarias View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorYriarte, TomásHeadlineTomás Yriarte's best known work 1782PublisherImprenta RealDate Published1782 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next