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By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas AuthorAnson, GeorgeHeadlineLarge paper subscriber's copy, Anson's VoyagePublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #5 Almanacks 1688 (spine title) Heading(Astronomy)Headline12 almanacs from 1688 in period bindingDate Published1687-1688 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #10 Zeespiegel, inhoudende eene beschryvinghe der seekusten van de Oostersche ende Noordsche schipvaert. Wt ondervindinghen van veel ervaren zeevaerders vergadert... AuthorBlaeu, Willem JanszoonHeadlineVariant of Blaeu's Sea Atlas 1623PublisherGhedruckt by Willem Iansz BlaeuwDate Published1623 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #13 The Light of the World: A most True Relation of a Pilgrimess, M. Antonia Bourignon, Travelling towards Eternity. Published by Mr. Christian de Cort, late director of the Isle of Noordstrand... AuthorBourignon, AntoniaHeadlineFrench-Flemish mystic foresees end of timesDate Published1696 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #14 Two photographs of Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell with a holograph note by Bourke-White to a Mrs. Sprackling on Bourke-White's business card Heading(Bourke-White, Margaret and Erskine Caldwell)AuthorBourke-White, MargaretHeadlineVintage photos of Bourke-White and CaldwellDate Published1941 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #15 Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, In the Years 1824-1825 AuthorByron, Captain [George Anson]HeadlineByron returns the body of King KamehamehaPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1826 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #16 Observations upon the First Five Bookes of Caesars Commentaries, setting fourth the practise of the art military, in the time of the Roman Empire... Heading(Caesar, Julius)AuthorEdmondes, Clement, SirHeadlineEdmondes on Caesar's Commentaries, 1600PublisherPrinted by Peter ShortDate Published1600 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #21 Manuscript Diary of William Edgar Geil, Missionary and Explorer Documenting his Trip Through China in 1910 Heading(China)AuthorGeil, William E.HeadlineManuscript Diary of William Edgar Geil, 1910Date Published1910 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 Original watercolor painting, likely of Hong Kong harbor, with numerous ships and boats, both western and Chinese, before it Heading(China)HeadlineChina trade painting, likely of Hong KongDate Published19th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #23 Twenty Original Watercolor Illustrations Depicting Chinese and East Asian Tradesmen Heading(China)HeadlineBeautiful collection of Asian tradesmen illustrationsDate Publishedc. 1921-1922 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #30 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$9,375StatusSold Lot #31 Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Turks, [Chinese], [Russians], [Austrians] - four volumes Heading(Costume)AuthorAlexander, WilliamHeadlineCostumes of the Turks, Chinese, Russians, AustriansPublisherJames Goodwin; Thomas McLeanDate Published[1825-29] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #36 Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les Francois AuthorDu Tertre, Jean BaptisteHeadlineHistory of the French Antilles, 1667PublisherChez Thomas JollyDate Published1667 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #40 Voyage aux Moluques et a la Nouvelle Guinée, fait sur la galere la Tartare en 1774, 1775 & 1776 par ordre de la Compagnie Angloise AuthorForrest, ThomasHeadlineFrench ed. of English voyage to New Guinea 1780PublisherHôtel de Thou, rue des PoitevinsDate Published1780 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome. In two parts... Heading(Galileo)AuthorSalusbury, ThomasHeadlineFirst publication of Galileo's Dialogo in EnglishPublisherPrinted by William LeybournDate Published1661 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #43 Herodotou Alikarnasseos I'storiōn logoith: epigraphomenoi Mousai tou autou Exegesis peri tes Homerou biotes = Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarvm lib. IX: Eiusdem narratio de vita Homeri AuthorHerodotus, Henri Estienne, Lorenzo Valla, Joachim Camerarius, and CtesiasHeadlineEstienne edition of Herodotus, 1592PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1592 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #48 Bronze Nias adu siraha salawa (ancestor figure) Heading(Indonesia)HeadlineRare bronze Indonesian Nias ancestry figureDate PublishedUndated [c.1880] View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 [Views in Russia, Sweden, Poland and Germany] Author[James, J.T.]HeadlineWith 21 hand-colored lithographsPublisher[John Murray]Date Published[1826-27] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #51 Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan Heading(Japan)HeadlineStunning visual document of monstrous Japan earthquakeDate Publishedc. 1923 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #58 Rerum Germanicarum Sub Matthia, Ferdinandis II. & III. IMPP. Gestarum, Libri LV... AuthorLotichius, Joannes PetrusHeadlineRare complete copy, Lotichius' Rerum GermanicarumPublisherTypis exscripti Wolfgangi Hoffmani, Impensa Matthaei MerianiDate Published1646-50 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #60 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherPrinted for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-BarDate Published1675 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #69 Brasiliae qua parte paret Belgis Heading(Maps)AuthorMargraff, Georg, cartographerHeadlineRare oversized map of Brazil, 1657PublisherJoan Blaeu, publisherDate Published1657 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$179,000StatusSold Lot #75 Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of The Marquesas Islands; Or, A Peep at Polynesian Life AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineFirst Edition of Melville's First Book 1846PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1846 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #83 Ovid's Metamporphosis Englished by G.S. AuthorOvidHeadlineFirst significant literary translation in AmericaPublisherPrinted by William StansbyDate Published1626 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #84 Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed In The Years 1819-20, In His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Griper. With an Appendix, Containing Scientific and Other Observations AuthorParry, William EdwardHeadlineFirst edition of Parry's search for NW PassagePublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1821 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #85 Outlines of the Globe [comprising] The View of Hindoostan [with] The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan [and] The View of the Malayan Isles, New Holland, and the Spicy Islands Author[Pennant, Thomas]HeadlinePennant's Outlines of the Globe, 1798-1800PublisherHenry Hughs; Luke HanfordDate Published1798; 1800 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #86 The View of Hindoostan Author[Pennant, Thomas]HeadlineWith lovely hand-colored platesPublisherHenry HughsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #87 New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements Author(Phillips, Richard)HeadlineFifty-seven narratives of travel and explorationPublisherSir Richard Phillips and CompanyDate Published1819-23 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #88 Arte de navegar em que se ensinao as regras praticas, e os modos de cartear... e roteiro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guine, Angola, Brazil, Indias, e llhas Occidentaes, e Orientaes AuthorPimentel, ManoelHeadlinePortuguese navigation guide to world ports 1762PublisherOfficina de Miguel Manescal da CostaDate Published1762 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #92 The History of Java AuthorRaffles, Thomas StamfordHeadlineRaffles' Java with the rare atlasPublisherJohn Murray & Henry G. BohnDate Published1830 & 1844 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #95 A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country... in the years 1809 and 1810... AuthorSalt, HenryHeadlineHenry Salt's account of Abyssinia, 1814PublisherPrinted for F.C. and J. RivingtonDate Published1814 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #96 Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stâmme nach den neuesten Entdeckungen und vorzüglichsten Originalien bearbeitet von H.R. Schinz Med. Doct. und Professor der Naturgeschichte in Zürich... Dritte Vermehrte Auflage AuthorSchinz, H.R.HeadlineEthnographic lithos with Bodmer picturesPublisherLithographirt und gerausgegeben von der J. Honeggerschen Lithographischen AnstaltDate Published1845 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #97 The Merry Wives of Windsor AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare Wives of Windsor from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #98 A Midsommer Nights Dreame AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline2nd folio Midsommer Nights Dreame 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #99 Much Adoe About Nothing [&] Loves Labour's Lost AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo plays from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #100 The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo plays from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #101 The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineRichard III from 4th folio Shakespeare 1685Publisher[H. Herringman, et al.]Date Published[1685] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #102 The Jew of Venice. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants Author[Shakespeare, William]. Granville, George (Baron Lansdowne)HeadlineAdaption of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, 1701PublisherPrinted for Ber. LintottDate Published1701 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #107 An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795 AuthorSymes, MichaelHeadlineWith Symes to Burma and the Kingdom of AvaPublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer and Co.Date Published1800 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #108 The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo... with Large Additions and Compilations from modern voyages and travels and from original and authentic information AuthorThompson, G.A.HeadlineThompson's Alcedo 5 vols. 1812PublisherPrinted for James Carpenter, et al.Date Published1812-1815 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #109 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 AuthorVancouver, GeorgeHeadlineVancouver's Voyage, 1st edition with AtlasPublisherG.G. & J. Robinson, & J. EdwardsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #110 Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia AuthorWaddington, George and Barnard HanburyHeadlineLovely fore-edge painting of the Nile RiverPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1822 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 An account of the Churches, or places of assembly, of the primitive Christians; from the churches of Tyre, Jerusalem, and Constantinople. Described by Eusebius... AuthorWheler, GeorgeHeadline17th century description of Holy Land churchesPublisherPrinted by S. Roycroft, for R. ClavellDate Published1689 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #113 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects AuthorWollstonecraft, MaryHeadlineWollstonecraft's Rights of Women, 1792PublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1792 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next