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Previous|1|Next Lot #5 The Origins of Totalitarianism View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorArendt, HannahHeadlineArendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, 1st ed.PublisherHarcourt, Brace and CompanyDate Published1951 Lot #14 Stereoskopbilder vom Sternhimmel View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorWolf, MaxHeadlineStereoviews of the night skyPublisherVerlag von Johann Ambrosius BarthDate Published1909-1918 Lot #35 Three works on early photography by M.P.W. Boulton, bound together View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBoulton, M.P.W. [Matthew Piers Watt]HeadlineEarly attempts at photographyPublisherBradbury & EvansDate Published1863; 1864; 1865 Lot #43 The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorCaesar, Caius JuliusHeadlineDuncan's Caesar with plates & maps, 1753PublisherJ. & R. Tonson, et al.Date Published1753 Lot #52 The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Civil War)AuthorMiller, Francis Trevelyan, editorHeadlineComplete Photographic History of the Civil WarPublisherThe Review of Reviews Co.Date Published1911-12 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 #61 Contract for a Chinese indentured servant/slave in Cuba View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineCuban Chinese indentured servant who "deserted"Date Published1872-[1877] Lot #62 Manuscript Expediente regarding a slave as the subject of an inheritance View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineA slave inherited in Cuba, 1870 manuscriptDate Publishedc.1870 Lot #63 Manuscript listing on printed form of Chinese indentures servants/slaves being imported into Cuba View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineListing of Chinese slaves in Cuba 1862Date Publishedc.1862 Lot #64 Manuscript listings of slaves sold in Cuba, both of African and Asian origin View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineChinese & Black slaves sold in CubaDate Published1856-57 Lot #65 Two contracts for Chinese indentured servants/slaves in Cuba View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineContracts for Cuban Chinese indentured servantsDate Published1872-[1877] Lot #72 The Worship of the Serpent Traced Throughout the World, and its Traditions Referred to the Events in Paradise: Proving the Temptation and Fall of Man by the Instrumentality of a Serpent Tempter. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorDeane, John BathurstHeadlineTheological treatise on snake worshipPublisherJ. Hatchard and Son; C.J.G. & F. RivingtonDate Published1830 Lot #87 With Edison at Schenectady, 1892 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Edison, Thomas Alva)AuthorButler, William H.HeadlineEdison at Schenectady industrial photo albumPublisherAmerican Aristotype Co.Date Published1892 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 #103 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold AuthorGibbon, EdwardHeadlineGibbon's Decline & Fall, First Edition of all vols.PublisherPrinted for W. Strahan & T. CadellDate Published1776-1788 Lot #104 American Whalers in the Western Arctic: The Final Epoch of the Great American Sailing Whaling Fleet View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorGilkerson, WilliamHeadlineWith 12 color plates signed by the artistPublisherEdward J. LefkowiczDate Published[1983] Lot #105 Historia Di M. Bernardo Giustiniano Gentiluomo Vinitiano. Dell Origine de Vinegia, & Delle Cose Fatte da Vinitiani. Nella Quale Anchora Ampiamente Tradotta da Lodovico Domenichi View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorGiustiniani, BernardoHeadlineGiustiniani's History of Venice, 1545Publisher[Bernardo Bindoni]Date Published[1545] Lot #115 Windsor Castle. An Architectural History View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorHope, W. H., St. JohnHeadlineHistory of the Windsor Castle's ArchitecturePublisherCountry LifeDate Published[1913] 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 #137 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorLincoln, AbrahamHeadlineWritings of Lincoln, Constitutional EditionPublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published[1905-1906] Lot #143 Lecons sur l'étiologie et la prophylaxie de la fièvre jaune données a la fin de l'année 1884 aux eleves de clinique interne... augmentées de plusieurs notes sur des faits observés postérieurement, et d'une préface écrite par M. le Dr. D. Eduardo Liceaga View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorCarmona y Valle, ManuelHeadlineYellow fever treatise w/ albumen photos 1885PublisherImp. du Ministère des Travaux PublicsDate Published1885 Lot #145 Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorClymer, MeredithHeadlineWith map of New York 1872 Meningitis outbreakPublisherLindsay & BlakistonDate Published1872 Lot #154 The X Ray or Photography of the Invisible and Its Value in Surgery View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorMorton, William J. and Edwin HammerHeadlineEarly reference book for X-Rays in AmericaPublisherAmerican Technical Book Co.Date Published1896 Lot #157 Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Medical)AuthorRush, BenjaminHeadlineBenjamin Rush on mania, derangement, psychiatryPublisherKimber & RichardsonDate Published1812 Lot #172 Histoire Generale de Normandie. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold AuthorMoulin, Gabriel duHeadlineHistory of Normandy, 1631PublisherJean OsmontDate Published1631 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 #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 #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 #199 The World in Miniature View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorSchoberl, Frederic, editorHeadlineComplete set, with numerous color platesPublisherR. AckermannDate Published[1821] Lot #203 Modernism Rediscovered View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorShulman, JuliusHeadlineJulius Shulman in lavish Taschen editionPublisherTaschen PressDate Published2007 Lot #204 Historiarum de occidentali imperio Libri XX. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorSigonio, CarloHeadline1578 1st Ed Sigonio's History of Roman EmpirePublisherSocietatem Typographiae BononiensisDate Published1578 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 Lot #267 Jazz View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Twelvetrees Press)AuthorClaxton, WilliamHeadlineJazz, signed by William ClaxtonPublisherTwelvetrees PressDate Published[1987] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next