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 PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-10 of 102. Previous|12345678...11|Next Lot #1 Letter thanking an Ohio women abolitionists for support of his Canadian Underground Railroad “station”; explaining his work feeding, clothing and teaching hundreds of newly-arrived Black “fugitives” View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Heading(African American – Underground Railroad)AuthorRice, Isaac J.HeadlineLetter from terminus of Underground RailroadDate PublishedApril 26, [1851?] Lot #2 Mutus Liber in quo tamen tota Philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur, ter optimo maximo Deo misericordi consecratus, solisque filiis artis dedicatus, authore cujus nomen est Altus View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorAltusHeadlineLiber Mutus, legendary illustrated AlchemyDate Publishedc.1978? 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. View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorHermes TrismegistusHeadlineCornerstone of Alchemy by Hermes TrismegistusPublisherPrinted by J[ohn] S[treater] for Thomas BrewsterDate Published1657 Lot #4 Chymisches Cabinet derer gossen Geheimnussen der Natur durch wohl ersonnene sinnreiche Kupfferstiche und Emblemata... View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorMaier, MichaelHeadlineAlchemical highspot with 50 engravings 1708PublisherGeorg Heinrich OehrlingDate Published1708 Lot #5 Natural Magick...in Twenty Books...Wherein are set forth All the Riches and Delights of the Natural Sciences View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorPorta, John BaptistaHeadlinePorta's Natural Magick in English, 1658PublisherThomas Young and Samuel SpeedDate Published1658 Lot #6 Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Heading(Alcoholics Anonymous)Author[Wilson, William (Bill W.)]HeadlineAA Big Book in jacket with inscribed photoPublisherWorks Publishing CompanyDate Published1939 Lot #7 Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa ('Epistles of the Brethren of Purity') View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$125,000StatusSold Heading(Arabic Manuscript)HeadlineArabic ms Epistles of Brethren of Purity c.1495Date PublishedAH 900 (CE 1495-96) Lot #8 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorAshbery, JohnHeadlineSigned by De Kooning, Rivers, Katz, AvedonPublisherArion PressDate Published1984 Lot #9 The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorBrillat-Savarin, Jean AnthelmeHeadlineThe Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne ThiebaudPublisherArion PressDate Published1994 Lot #10 Don Quixote View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCervantes, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote signed by William T. WileyPublisherArion PressDate Published2009; 2010 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...11|Next1234567891011 Previous 1234567891011 Next Previous 1234567891011 Next