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Previous|1|Next 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 #6 Three works on the development of the atomic bomb and its deployment and use over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan Heading(Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima & Nagasaki)HeadlineAtomic bombs over Hiroshima & NagasakiDate Published1945 & [1946] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold 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 #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 #33 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Origin of Species, 2nd edition, choice copyPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1860 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold 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 #37 Max Planck als Forscher - author's offprint from Die Naturwissenschaften AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein bio of Max Planck - rare offprintPublisherVerlag von Julius SpringerDate Published1913 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #39 The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements in color, 1847PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1847 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold 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 #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 #59 Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, By Reference to Causes Now in Operation AuthorLyell, CharlesHeadlineLyell's Principles of Geology, a boon to DarwinPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1832-33 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold 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 #73 Über das Unendliche Heading(Mathematics)AuthorHilbert, DavidHeadlineHilbert's major paper on infinityDate Published1926 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold 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 #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 #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 #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