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Previous|1|Next Lot #34 Mille et un Livres Botaniques, repertoire bibliographique de la bibliotheque Arpad Plesch View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Botanical)AuthorPlesch, ArpadHeadlineArpad Plesch Mille et un Livres BotaniquesPublisherArcadeDate Published1973 Lot #46 Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America Intended to Contain Descriptions and Figures of All North American Birds... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorCassin, JohnHeadlineCassin's Birds of California finely boundPublisherJ.B. Lippincott & Co.Date Published1862 Lot #51 Voyages de Mr. le Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l’Orient View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorChardin, JeanHeadlineTravels to Persia with many copperplates, 1723PublisherAndré CailleauDate Published1723 Lot #56 Christopher Columbus His Own Book of Privileges 1502: Photographic Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Archives of the Foreign Office in Paris, now for the first time published, with expanded text translation into English View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Columbus, Christopher)AuthorStevens, Benjamin Franklin, compiler & editorHeadlinePublisher's copy of Columbus' Book of PrivilegesPublisherB.F. StevensDate Published1892 Lot #58 Beautiful Seaweeds Illustrated by Natural Specimens. Also, Instructions for the formation of a Herbarium of Marine Algae, and a complete list of the British species View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorCook, JamesHeadlineWith 42 plates of pressed seaweed specimensPublisherPublished by J. & J. Cook, PrintersDate Published[1881] Lot #66 The Animal Kingdom. Arranged in Conformity with its Organization... with Additional Descriptions of All the Species Hitherto Named, and of Many Not Before Noticed by Edward Griffith and Others. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorCuvier, Baron [Georges]HeadlineCuvier's Animal Kingdom, complete in 16 volumesPublisherPrinted for Geo. B. WhittakerDate Published[1827-1835] Lot #68 Four works relating to Charles Darwin, two of them signed by his son Francis Darwin View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Darwin, Charles)HeadlineFour volumes relating to Charles DarwinDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #69 Selected Works of Charles Darwin View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineWorks of Charles Darwin, Westminster EditionPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published[1893] Lot #70 Seven works by Charles Darwin in eight volumes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadline19th cent. eds. of works by Charles DarwinPublisherJohn Murray [& Ward, Lock]Date PublishedVarious dates Lot #71 Three works in seven volumes, of life and letters of Charles Darwin and his family View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineLife & Letters of Darwin & his familyPublisherJohn MurrayDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #80 The French Bulldog: History of the Origin of the Breed, Its Cultivation and Development View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Dogs - French Bulldog)Author[Vedder, O.F., et al.]HeadlineThe French Bulldog, 1926PublisherHamilton Printing Co. for The French Bulldog Club of AmericaDate Published[1926] Lot #81 The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoughty, John & ThomasHeadlineFirst American sporting book with color platesPublisherJ. & T. DoughtyDate Published1830; 1832 Lot #88 The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Egypt)AuthorBudge, E.A. WallisHeadlineWallis Budge study of the Rosetta StonePublisherKegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.Date Published1904 Lot #89 Collection of 50 large-format albumen photographs of Egyptian monuments by the Zangaki Brothers and other commercial photographers View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Egypt)AuthorZangaki Brothers, and othersHeadline50 large-format albumen photos of EgyptDate Publishedc.1880 Lot #101 The Reptiles of British India View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorGünther, Albert C.L.G.HeadlineWith 26 plates of various Indian reptilesPublisherPublished for the Ray Society by Robert HardwickeDate Published1864 Lot #102 Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum. Faksimileausgabe,... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorGessner, ConradHeadlineComplete set with 187 botanical color platesPublisherUrs GrafDate Published1972-1980 Lot #110 General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Of the Different Parts of the World... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorHill, JohnHeadlineJohn Hill A General Natural History 1748-52PublisherThomas OsborneDate Published1748, 51, 52 Lot #112 North American Herpetology; or, A Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold AuthorHolbrook, John EdwardsHeadlineHolbrook's expanded N. American HerpetologyPublisherJ. DobsonDate Published1842 Lot #122 The Naturalist's Library View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorJardine, William, editorHeadlineWith +1000 hand-colored plates of animalsPublisherW.H. LizarsDate Published1833-43 Lot #124 The History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Street-Robbers, &c. &c. To Which is Added a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Noted Pirates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorJohnson, CharlesHeadlineHighwaymen, Street-Robbers and Pirates 1814PublisherPrinted for John Thomson Jun. and Co., Longman et al.Date Published1814 Lot #133 Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an Inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorLayard, Austen HenryHeadlineLayard, Nineveh and Its Remains 1849PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1849 Lot #156 Observations on the Changes of the Air, and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes. [bound with] A Treatise on... The Yellow Fever;... by William Hillary, M.D. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorRush, Benjamin; William HillaryHeadlineTwo works on Epidemical diseases & Yellow FeverPublisherB. & T. KiteDate Published1811 Lot #162 The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMeehan, ThomasHeadlineChromolithograph botanical illustrations after LunzerPublisherAmerican Natural History Publishing Co.; Charles Robson & Co.Date Published1880 Lot #163 Minerals: A Catalogue of about two hundred lots, of British and Exotic Minerals... Also, a small parcel of fine African Bird Skins, Mahogany Cabinets, &c. Which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Thomas, at his Great Room... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Minerals)HeadlineAuction of rare minerals, 1825Date Published1825 Lot #164 Three important 16th century works on horticulture "secrets" by Antoine Mizauld, bound together View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorMizauld, AntoineHeadlineMizauld's agricultural "secrets" 1560-75PublisherFédéric MorelDate Published1560-1575 Lot #173 Zoology of New-York, or New-York Fauna...Part V. Mollusca View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Natural History - New York)AuthorDe Kay, James E.HeadlineNatural History of New-York Part V: MolluscaPublisherCarroll and Cook, Printers to the AssemblyDate Published1843 Lot #174 Natural History of New York View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Natural History - New York)AuthorSeward, William HenryHeadline18 volumes from Natural History of NYPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1842-54 Lot #185 History of Quadrupeds View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorPennant, ThomasHeadlineThomas Pennant classifies the quadrupeds, 1793PublisherPrinted for B. & J. WhiteDate Published1793 Lot #188 The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History in 2 volumes 1634PublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1634 Lot #191 Three original albumen photograph of pyramids, issued as Part 4 of Francis Frith's "Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids" View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Pyramids)AuthorFrith, FrancisHeadlineEgyptian pyramids photographed by FrithPublisherWilliam MackenzieDate Publishedc.1862 Lot #197 American Entomology, or, Descriptions of the Insects of North America View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorSay, ThomasHeadlineThomas Say, American Entomology 1824-5PublisherPhiladelphia Museum / Samuel Augustus MitchellDate Published1824-5 Lot #198 Bibliotheca Botanica, sive catalogus auctorum et librorum, qui de Re Botanica, de Medicamentis ex Vegetabilibus paratis, de Re Rustica, & de Horticultura tractant... Accessit Bibliotheca Botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi, seu potius Ovidii Montalbani... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorSéguier, Jean FrançoisHeadlineSeguier's botanical bibliographyPublisherApud Cornelium HaakDate Published1760 Lot #205 Instructions for the Cultivating and Raising of Flax and Hemp: In a Better Manner, than that generally Practis'd in Ireland. [bound with] Observations made by Richard Hall... Hemp and Flax Dresser:... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorSlator, Lionel; Richard HallHeadlineIrish and Dutch methods of Hemp cultivationPublisherPrinted by George GriersonDate Published[1724] Lot #221 Darwinism: an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with some of its applications View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineWallace defends Darwinism 1889 1st ed.PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1889 Lot #222 Studies Scientific and Social View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineStudies Scientific by Alfred Russel WallacePublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1900 Lot #223 Three volumes by A.R. Wallace, plus two others View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineNatural History by A.R. Wallace & othersDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #226 Illustrations of Indian Botany; or Figures Illustrative of each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorWight, RobertHeadlineBotanizing in India with Robert Wight, 1840PublisherJ.B. Pharoah for the AuthorDate Published1840 Lot #229 The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, Agriculture and Early History... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorWilkinson, J.G.HeadlineWilkinson's History of the Egyptians, first editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1837 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next