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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 #9 Les Fleurs du Mal AuthorBaudelaire, CharlesHeadlineBaudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal 1st Edition 1857PublisherPoulet-Malassis et de BroiseDate Published1857 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold 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 #26 The Nigger of the "Narcissus." Preface AuthorConrad, JosephHeadlineSuppressed preface to Nigger of the "Narcissus"Publisher[Privately printed for the author by J. Lovick]Date Published[1902] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #29 Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories AuthorConrad, JosephHeadlineIncludes 1st book version, Heart of DarknessPublisherWilliam Backwood and SonsDate Published1902 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold 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 #53 The Life of Samuel Johnson Heading(Johnson, Samuel)AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, early statePublisherPrinted by Henry Baldwin for Charles DillyDate Published1791 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #57 Letter from Jack London to Emil Jensen, who was the model for London's character Malemute Kid in "The Son of the Wolf" AuthorLondon, JackHeadlineLetter from Jack London to the Malemute Kid, 1906Date PublishedAug. 15, 1906 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold 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 #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 #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 #89 The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles AuthorPlatoHeadlineThomas Taylor's Platonic corpus in EnglishPublisherPrinted for Thomas Taylor by R. WilksDate Published1804 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold 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 #104 The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England’s Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineSpenser, England's Arch-Poët, finely boundPublisherPrinted by H. L. for Mathew LownesDate Published1611 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #105 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde AuthorStevenson, Robert LouisHeadlineStevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr HydePublisherScribner'sDate Published1886 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold 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