Sale 781: PBA Platinum: Rare Books & Manuscripts - at Pasadena, Cal. (#781) 02/09/2023 10:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/09/2023 10:00 AM PST Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-24 of 24. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, his Divine Pymander, in seventeen books. Together with his second book, called Asclepius; containing fifteen chapters, with a commentary. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English; by that learned divine Dr. Everard. Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorHermes TrismegistusHeadlineCornerstone of Alchemy by Hermes TrismegistusPublisherPrinted by J[ohn] S[treater] for Thomas BrewsterDate Published1657 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #4 Chymisches Cabinet derer gossen Geheimnussen der Natur durch wohl ersonnene sinnreiche Kupfferstiche und Emblemata... Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorMaier, MichaelHeadlineAlchemical highspot with 50 engravings 1708PublisherGeorg Heinrich OehrlingDate Published1708 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #5 Natural Magick...in Twenty Books...Wherein are set forth All the Riches and Delights of the Natural Sciences Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorPorta, John BaptistaHeadlinePorta's Natural Magick in English, 1658PublisherThomas Young and Samuel SpeedDate Published1658 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #20 Biblia Latina Heading(Bible in Latin)HeadlineIncunable Bible w/ stunning illumination, Venice 1480PublisherFranciscus Renner de HeilbronnDate Published1480 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 Biblia Latina Heading(Bible in Latin)HeadlineThe Poor Man's Bible, 1495PublisherFinit p[er] Johannem froben de HamelburgkDate Published1495 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 Sanctus Hieronymus interpres biblie: Biblia cum concordantijs veteris et noui testamenti et sacrorum canonum, necnon et additionibus in marginibus varietatis diuersorum textuum... Heading(Bible in Latin)Headline1515 Bible with hand-colored woodcutsPublisherJacobum Sacon Lugd' Expe[n]sis... Anthonij koberger de Nuremburgis feliciter explicitDate Published1515 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #25 Physique Théorique - Sur les véritables idées de base de la Mécanique ondulatoire AuthorBroglie, Louis Victor, Prince deHeadlineInscribed by Nobel Prize winner de BroglieDate Published1973 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #37 The Alloys of Steel. By J. Stodart, Esq. F.R.S. and Mr. M. Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. From the Philosophical Transactions AuthorFaraday, MichaelHeadlineRare offprint inscribed by Michael FaradayPublisherPrinted by William NicolDate Published1822 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 An abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church: vvritten by that Reuerend Father, Maister Iohn Fox: and now abridged by Timothe Bright, Doctour of Phisicke, for such as either through want of leysure, or abilitie, haue not the vse of so necessary an history AuthorFoxe, JohnHeadlineAbridgment of Foxe's Martyrs 1589PublisherImprinted at London by I. Windet, at the assignment of Master Tim BrightDate Published1589 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 Den Nederlandtschen Hovenier [with] Det Vermakelyck Landt-leven AuthorGroen, J. van der & Petrus NylandHeadlineKey Dutch gardening book, 1st Brussels ed. in DutchPublisherBy Philips Vleugaert, ghezworen Boeck-Drucker, achter't stadt-huys, in den Enghel-bewaerderDate PublishedMCLXXII [1672] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #42 Lexicon Technicum: Or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: Explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves AuthorHarris, JohnHeadlineHarris' Lexicon Technicum 2 volumesPublisherDan. Brown, et al.Date Published1704-1710 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie... AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' De Cive, first in English, 1651PublisherPrinted by J.G. for R. RoystonDate Published1651 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #48 Arca Noë, in Tres Libros Digesta, quorum: I. De rebus quæ ante diluvium, II. De iis, quæ ipso diluvio ejusque duratione, III. De iis, quæ post diluvium a Noëmo gesta sunt, quæ omnia novâ methodo, nec non summa argumentorum varietate, explicantur, & demonstrantur AuthorKircher, AthanasiusHeadlineKircher's analysis of the Ark & Flood, 1675PublisherApud Joannem Janssoniun à WaesbergeDate Published1675 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #53 The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst in English of Livy's Roman History 1600PublisherAdam IslipDate Published1600 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #54 Several papers relating to money, interest and trade, &c. Writ upon several occasions, and published at different times. By Mr. John Locke, AuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineJohn Locke on money, 1696PublisherPrinted for A. and J. Churchill,Date Published1696 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #59 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery Lane...Date Published1688 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 Optical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools of the University of Cambridge, Anno Domini, 1669... Translated into English out of the Original Latinranslate AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineRare lectures on Optics by Isaac Newton 1728PublisherPrinted for Francis FayramDate Published1728 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #62 The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning AuthorNostradamus, Michel deHeadlineEnglish edition of Nostradamus 1672PublisherPrinted by Thomas Ratliffe & Nathaniel ThompsonDate Published1672 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #66 Philosophical transactions: giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline1st 2 years of Philosophical Transactions 1665-67PublisherPrinted by T.N. for John MartynDate Published1667 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #70 Accession List of German Documents pertaining to Guided Missiles - plus related materials Heading(Rocketry - V2)HeadlineAmericans acquire German Rocket SciencePublisherOrdnance Department, Army Service ForcesDate PublishedMarch & April, 1946 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #76 Three complete plays from the 1632 Second Folio edition of Shakespeare's works AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThree complete 2nd folio Shakespeare playsDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #80 The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo Jones Esquire, Architect Generall to the King Heading(Stonehenge)AuthorJones, InigoHeadlineInigo Jones examination of Stonehenge 1655PublisherPrinted by James Flesher for Daniel PakemanDate Published1655 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #83 Two original printed leaves from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica, each with full-page anatomical woodcut, one of a "Muscle Man" and one of the human skeleton AuthorVesaliusHeadlineVesalius leaves with "muscle man" woodcutPublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #84 Heart Disease AuthorWhite, Paul DudleyHeadlineSigned by Paul D. White & 3 colleaguesPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1932 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next