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Previous|1|Next Lot #5 Almanacks 1688 (spine title) View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Astronomy)Headline12 almanacs from 1688 in period bindingDate Published1687-1688 Lot #6 Three works on the development of the atomic bomb and its deployment and use over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Heading(Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima & Nagasaki)HeadlineAtomic bombs over Hiroshima & NagasakiDate Published1945 & [1946] Lot #10 Zeespiegel, inhoudende eene beschryvinghe der seekusten van de Oostersche ende Noordsche schipvaert. Wt ondervindinghen van veel ervaren zeevaerders vergadert... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorBlaeu, Willem JanszoonHeadlineVariant of Blaeu's Sea Atlas 1623PublisherGhedruckt by Willem Iansz BlaeuwDate Published1623 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... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorBourignon, AntoniaHeadlineFrench-Flemish mystic foresees end of timesDate Published1696 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... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Caesar, Julius)AuthorEdmondes, Clement, SirHeadlineEdmondes on Caesar's Commentaries, 1600PublisherPrinted by Peter ShortDate Published1600 Lot #33 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Origin of Species, 2nd edition, choice copyPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1860 Lot #36 Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les Francois View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorDu Tertre, Jean BaptisteHeadlineHistory of the French Antilles, 1667PublisherChez Thomas JollyDate Published1667 Lot #37 Max Planck als Forscher - author's offprint from Die Naturwissenschaften View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein bio of Max Planck - rare offprintPublisherVerlag von Julius SpringerDate Published1913 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 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineEuclid's Elements in color, 1847PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1847 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorForrest, ThomasHeadlineFrench ed. of English voyage to New Guinea 1780PublisherHôtel de Thou, rue des PoitevinsDate Published1780 Lot #41 Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome. In two parts... View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Heading(Galileo)AuthorSalusbury, ThomasHeadlineFirst publication of Galileo's Dialogo in EnglishPublisherPrinted by William LeybournDate Published1661 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHerodotus, Henri Estienne, Lorenzo Valla, Joachim Camerarius, and CtesiasHeadlineEstienne edition of Herodotus, 1592PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1592 Lot #58 Rerum Germanicarum Sub Matthia, Ferdinandis II. & III. IMPP. Gestarum, Libri LV... View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold AuthorLotichius, Joannes PetrusHeadlineRare complete copy, Lotichius' Rerum GermanicarumPublisherTypis exscripti Wolfgangi Hoffmani, Impensa Matthaei MerianiDate Published1646-50 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorLyell, CharlesHeadlineLyell's Principles of Geology, a boon to DarwinPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1832-33 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 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherPrinted for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-BarDate Published1675 Lot #73 Über das Unendliche View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Mathematics)AuthorHilbert, DavidHeadlineHilbert's major paper on infinityDate Published1926 Lot #83 Ovid's Metamporphosis Englished by G.S. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorOvidHeadlineFirst significant literary translation in AmericaPublisherPrinted by William StansbyDate Published1626 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorPimentel, ManoelHeadlinePortuguese navigation guide to world ports 1762PublisherOfficina de Miguel Manescal da CostaDate Published1762 Lot #97 The Merry Wives of Windsor View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare Wives of Windsor from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #98 A Midsommer Nights Dreame View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline2nd folio Midsommer Nights Dreame 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #99 Much Adoe About Nothing [&] Loves Labour's Lost View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo plays from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #100 The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo plays from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] Lot #101 The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineRichard III from 4th folio Shakespeare 1685Publisher[H. Herringman, et al.]Date Published[1685] 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Author[Shakespeare, William]. Granville, George (Baron Lansdowne)HeadlineAdaption of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, 1701PublisherPrinted for Ber. LintottDate Published1701 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... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorWheler, GeorgeHeadline17th century description of Holy Land churchesPublisherPrinted by S. Roycroft, for R. ClavellDate Published1689 Lot #113 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorWollstonecraft, MaryHeadlineWollstonecraft's Rights of Women, 1792PublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1792 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next