Sale 472: Rare Books & Manuscripts (Monday after S.F. Book Fair) (#472) 02/06/2012 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/06/2012 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 472 62 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-49 of 49. Previous|1|Next Lot #8 Principvm Christianorvm Stemmata. Cum breuibus eiusdem notationib[us] pars ex Archiuis Pp. desc. Adiecto stem[m]ate Othomannico View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorAlbizzi, AntonioHeadlineRare work of noble family trees with city viewsPublisherDominici CustodisDate Published1608 [but 1609] Lot #40 A New General Atlas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, Representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe, Together with the Several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities, and Corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Headingzzf(Atlas)AuthorFinley, AnthonyHeadlineFinley's General Atlas 1831 60 mapsPublisherAnthony FinleyDate Published1831 Lot #41 A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World with a special map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Atlas)AuthorMitchell, S. AugustusHeadlineMitchell's Universal Atlas 1848PublisherS. Augustus MitchellDate Published1848 Lot #48 Biblioglyphé sive Icones Biblicae, Arte Chalcographica & Poetica praecipues S. Scripturae Historias perquam eleganter representanter. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Bible - Polyglot)AuthorAmmon, Johan, editorHeadlineStriking Biblical engravings, 1643PublisherTypis Caspari Rötelii, impensis Johannis AmmoniiDate Published1643 Lot #50 The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement. Appointed to be read in Churches View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineKing James Bible 2nd folio 1613PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 Lot #51 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in Churches View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineJohn Baskerville's Bible 1763PublisherPrinted by John Baskerville, Printer to the UniversityDate Published1763 Lot #52 Two title-pages from 16th century English language editions of the Bible View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineTitles of 16th century English editions the BibleDate Published1566 & 1576 Lot #53 Leaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineLeaf from the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer BiblePublisher[Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer]Date Published[1462] Lot #54 Times of the Bible: veyled in cubits, shekels, talents, furlongs, chapters, verses, letters, of the Scripture: with the days, hours, watches, weeks and months of the Jewish year View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Biblical)Author**HeadlineRare Times of Bible with occult, 1667Date Published1667 Lot #55 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Book of Common Prayer)Author**HeadlineBook of Common Prayer 1713 with engravingsPublisherJohn BaskettDate Published1713 Lot #56 Le Surréalisme en 1947 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorBreton, Andre & Marcel DuchampHeadlineLe Surréalisme en 1947PublisherMaeghtDate Published[1947] Lot #58 Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, geographique et litteral de la Bible... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorCalmet, AugustinHeadlineCalmet's Bible Dictionary with maps & platesPublisherEmery, et al.Date Published1722-1728 Lot #60 The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly Corrected and Amended View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSecond English Edition of Don Quixote 1652PublisherPrinted by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew CookeDate Published1652 Lot #64 Journal D'Un Cheval View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Chagall, Marc)AuthorGoll, ClaireHeadlineJournal D'Un Cheval with orig illus by ChagallPublisherBrukerDate Published1952 Lot #69 The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner [with] The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's Robinson Crusoe 2 vols. 1719PublisherPrinted for W. TaylorDate Published1719 Lot #70 Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des métiers… View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorDiderot, Denis & Jean le Rond d'AlembertHeadlineComplete set of Diderot's Encyclopedia 4to EdnPublisherJean-Leonard Pellet (Imprint varies)Date Published1778-79 Lot #71 Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$23,750StatusSold AuthorDu Halde, Jean-BaptisteHeadlineDu Halde’s China, 1st ed., 4 volumes, 1735PublisherP.G. Le MercierDate Published1735 Lot #81 Recueil Général de Coëffures de Différents Goûts, où l'on Voit la Manière Dont se Coëffoient les Femmes, sous Différens Règnes, à Commencer en 1589 Jusqu'en 1778 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fashion)Author**HeadlineRare work on 18th century hairstylesPublisherChez DesnosDate Published[1788] Lot #85 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorFranklin, BenjaminHeadlineBen Franklin's Experiments on Electricity 1774PublisherPrinted for F. NewberyDate Published1774 Lot #86 Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues. I. Of the Resistance of Solids against Fraction. II. Of the Cause of their Coherence. III. Of Local Motion, viz. Equable, and naturally Accelerate. IV. Of Violent Motion, or of Projects. By Galileo Galilei, Chief Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. With an appendix concerning the center of gravity of solid bodies. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston, late Master, and now publish’d by John Weston, present Master, of the Academy at Greenwich View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineGalileo's Mathematical Discourses 1730PublisherJ. HookeDate Published1730 Lot #95 Delineatio montis a metropoli Hasso-Cassellana uno circiter milliari distantis, qui olim Winter-Casten, id est, Hiemis Receptaculum dicebatur, nunc autem Carolinus audit, ob ædificia & aquarum fontes quibus... Carolus, Langravius Hassiæ... illum posteritatis monumento magnificè exornavit... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorGuernieri, Giovanni FrancescoHeadlineRare work on Italian architecture 1706PublisherTypis Henrici HarmesDate Published1706 Lot #101 Herodotou logoi ennea, oiper epipalountai Mousai/ Herodoti Libri novem, qvibvs Mvsarvm indita svnt nomina ... Ad haec View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorHerodutusHeadlineHerodutus in Greek 1557Publisherex officina HeruagianaDate Published1557 Lot #111 Partial leaf (1 column) of Liber Sextus Decretalium, printed on vellum by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Incunable)AuthorBoniface VIIHeadlineIncunable leaf printed on vellumDate Published1465 Lot #118 WITHDRAWN - Mundus Subterraneus, in XII libros digestus; quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturæ in eo distributio, verbo pantámorphou Protei regnum, universæ denique naturæ majestas & divitiæ summa rerum varietate exponuntur. Abditorum effectuum causæ acri indagine inquisitæ demonstrantur; cognitæ per artis & naturæ conjugium ad humanæ vitæ necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo, & ratione applicantur View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Mundus Subterraneus 1665PublisherJoannem Janssonium & Elizum WeyerstratenDate Published1665 Lot #119 WITHDRAWN. Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, consusio linguarum, inde gentium transmigrationis... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineAthanasius Kircher Turris Babel 1679PublisherJanssonio-WaesbergianaDate Published1679 Lot #120 The Koran, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Koran)AuthorSale, George, translatorHeadlineFirst Sale edition of The Koran 1734PublisherPrinted by C. Ackers for J. WilcoxDate Published1734 Lot #129 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. Auct. Guiljelmo Blaeuw View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold Heading(Map)AuthorBlaeu, WillemHeadlineBlaeu map of the World, 1606-Date Published1606-[1635-58] Lot #130 A Chart of the Straights of Magellan, in which are Inserted the Observations and Discoveries, of Captn. Byron, Captn. Wallis and Captain Carteret View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(Map)Author[Cook, James]HeadlineStraights of Magellan from Cook's VoyageDate Published1773 Lot #131 L'Europe Divisee selon l'Etendue de ses Principales Parties... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Map)AuthorDesnos, Louis CharlesHeadlineLarge wall map of Europe by Desnos 1772Date Published1761 Lot #134 Lettres Américaines, dans lesquelles on examine l'Origine, l'État Civil, Politique, Militaire & Religieux, les Arts, l'Industrie, les Sciences, les Mœurs, les Usages des anciens Habitans de l'Amérique; les grandes Epoques de la Nature, l'ancienne Communication des deux Hémisphères, & la dernière Révolution qui a fait disparoître l'Atlantide : pour servir de suite aux Mémoires de D. Ulloa - Emperor Maximilian I's copy View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico - His Copy)AuthorCarli, M. Le Comte J.R.HeadlineEmperor Maximilian I's copyPublisherChez BuissonDate Published1788 Lot #136 Metropolitan Opera Fine Art: A Collection of Original Graphic Works by Eight Renowned Contemporary Artists View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(Metropolitan Opera Fine Art)Author**HeadlineOriginal Graphic Art for Metropolitan OperaPublisherMetropolitan Opera Association/Circle Gallery Ltd.Date Published1978 Lot #140 Essayes Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne ... done into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorMontaigne, Michel Eyquem deHeadlineMontaigne's Essays 1613 Translated by FlorioPublisherPrinted by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William BarretDate Published1613 Lot #146 Philosophy Reformed and Improved in Four Profound Tractates. The I. Discovering the Great and Deep Mysteries of Nature by that Learned Chymist & Physitian Osw: Crollius. The Other III. Discovering the Wonderful Mysteries of the Creation by Paracelsus: Being His Philosophy to the Athenians. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorParacelsus & CrollHeadlineParacelsus & others on alchemy 1657PublisherPrinted by M.S. for Lodowick LloydDate Published1657 Lot #150 Dialogues View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlineRare compilation of Plato's Dialogues in EnglishDate Published1759-1779 Lot #151 The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides, and Timæus of Plato. Translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlineThomas Taylor translates Plato 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 Lot #152 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - With an original painting by Willy Pogany View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Pogany, Willy)AuthorOmar KhayyámHeadlineRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám with original artPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published[c.1930] Lot #157 Mule Train Crossing the Sierra - Signed print View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorRemington, FredericHeadlineFrederic Remington Signed PrintDate Published[1888] Lot #164 The History of the Caribby-Islands, viz. Barbados, St. Christopher, St. Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis, Antego, &c. in all XXVIII. In Two Books. The First containing the Natural; The Second, the Moral History of those Islands. Illustrated with several Pieces of Sculpture, representing the most considerable Rarities therein Described. With a Caribbian-Vocabulary View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Rochefort, Charles de]HeadlineHistory of the Caribby Islands 1666PublisherPrinted by J.M. for Thomas Dring and John StarkeyDate Published1666 Lot #165 "The Old Harlot's Dream" - Original watercolor drawing View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorRowlandson, Thomas (British, 1756-1827)HeadlineOriginal erotic Thomas Rowlandson drawingDate PublishedUndated Lot #169 [Collected Works, i.e.:] The Works of Shakespear. In Six Volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlinePope's 4to edition of Shakespeare 7 volumes 1725PublisherJacob TonsonDate Published1725-23-25 Lot #170 Original Leaf from the First Folio edition of The Tragedie of Cymbeline View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineLeaf from the First Folio of CymbelinePublisher[Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount]Date Published[1623] Lot #171 Two Original Leaves from the Second Folio edition of Richard the Second View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline2 original leaves from Shakespeare Second FolioPublisherPrinted by Tho. Cotes...Date Published1632 Lot #176 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith The Wealth of Nations 1805PublisherJ. & J. ScrimgeourDate Published1805 Lot #177 Miscellanea Eruditæ: In Quibus Marmora, Statuæ, Musiva, Toreumata, Gemmæ, Numismata, Grutero, Ursino, Boissardo, Reinesio,... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorSpon, JacobHeadlineMiscellanea Eruditae by Jacob Spon 1685PublisherSumptibus Auctoris, Vaeneunt apud Thomam AmaulryDate Published1685 Lot #182 Three original pencil drawings by John Tenniel View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorTenniel, JohnHeadlineThree pencil drawing by John TennielDate Published1871 & 1874 Lot #183 [History of the Pelopponesian War, i.e.]: Thoukudides meta scholion palaion.../ Thucydides cum Scholiis et Antiquis... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides in Greek, 1540PublisherOfficina HervagianaDate Published1540 Lot #185 The Golden Fleece, Divided into three Parts, Under which are discovered the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the Wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colehos, out of the Southernmost Part of the Iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Junior, for the generall and perpetuall Good of Great Britaine View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Author[Vaughan, William]HeadlineThe Golden Fleece by William Vaughan 1626PublisherFrancis WilliamsDate Published1626 Lot #187 Anatomia View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorVesalius, AndreasHeadlineVesalius Anatomia 1617PublisherJoannes JansoniusDate Published1617 Lot #189 Wade & Croome's Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany. Drawn from nature and engraved by William Wade View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorWade, WilliamHeadline1846 Panorama of the Hudson RiverPublisherJ. DisturnellDate Published1846 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next