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The Art of Angling 1740PublisherJohn WattsDate Published1740 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #16 A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time of the Romans Government, unto the Death of King James. Containing all Passages of State and Church, with all other Observations proper for a Chronicle... AuthorBaker, RichardHeadlineBaker's Chronicle of the Kings of England 1674PublisherGeorge SawbridgeDate Published1674 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #19 Leben des berühmten Christoph Lehmanns nebst vielen unbekannten und geheimen Nachrichten; mit einem zwiefachen Anhang AuthorBaur, Erhard ChristophHeadlineLife of Christoph Lehmanns 1756PublisherJ. F. FleischerDate Published1756 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #20 A Treatise on Gonorrhoea Virulenta, and Lues Venerea AuthorBell, BenjaminHeadlineBell's Treatise on Gonorrhoea Virulenta 1795PublisherRobert CampbellDate Published1795 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #22 Le Nouveau Testament en Latin et en Francais, Traduit par Sacy Heading(Bible in Latin and French)Author**HeadlineBible in Latin & French IllustratedPublisherDeot JeuneDate Published1793-98 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #23 Dictionary of American Biography Heading(Biography)Author**HeadlineDictionary of American Biography 21 volsPublisherScribner'sDate Published1928-1937 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #29 Ten volumes published by the Book Club of California Heading(Book Club of California)Author**Headline10 Vols Published by the Book Club of CaliforniaPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #32 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches: And the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons Heading(Book of Common Prayer)Author**Headlinebook of common prayer, Oxford 1770PublisherPrinted by T. Wright and W. GillDate Published1770 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #33 Tableau philosophique du genre humain depuis l'origine du monde, jusqu'a Constantin. Traduit de l'anglois. Author[Borde, Charles]HeadlineOverview of early PhilosophyDate Published1767 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #36 Tippu Tip: Lebensbild Eines Zentralafrikanischen Despoten AuthorBrode, Dr. HeinrichHeadlineTippu Tip by Dr. Heinrich 1905PublisherWilhelm BaenschDate Published1905 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #37 Memoir of Robert Blincoe, An Orphan Boy; Sent from the Workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at Seven Years of Age, to Endure the Horrors of a Cotton-Mill, Through His Infancy and Youth, With a Minute Detail of His Sufferings, Being the First Memoir of the Kind Published AuthorBrown, JohnHeadlineRare Memoir of a Child's Life in a Cotton MillPublisherJ. DohertyDate Published1832 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #40 The Third Part of the Reports of Edward Bulstrode of the Inner Temple, his Highnesses Justice of North-Wales. Of Divers Resolutions and Judgements, given with great Advice, and Mature Deliberation, by the Grave and Learned Judges and Sages of the Law.... AuthorBulstrode, EdwardHeadlineBulstrode on English & Welsh Law 1659PublisherPrinted for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. BedellDate Published1659 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #41 A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France by the Papists, in the Year 1572 Author[Burnet, Gilbert]HeadlineBarbarous & Bloody Massacre of Protestants 1678PublisherRichard ChiswelDate Published1678 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #44 Corpus Juris Canonici Emendatum et Notis Illustratum Heading(Canon Law)Author**HeadlineCorpus Juris Canonici Emendatum et Notis IllustraPublisherEmmanuel KonigDate Published1670 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #54 Medical Transactions, Published by the College of Physicians in London, Volume the First Heading(College of Physicians in London)Author**HeadlineMedical Transactions Volume the First 1768PublisherS. Baker and J. DodsleyDate Published1768 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #58 Enchiridion ivris vtrivsqve terminorvm, Benedicto Curtio Symphoriano, equite Ecclesiae Lugdunensis, auctore AuthorCourt, Benoit deHeadlineScarce 16th century legal worksPublisherapud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, fratresDate Published1543 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #59 The Interpreter of Words and Terms, Used either in the Common or Statute Laws of this Realm, and in tenures and jocular customs: with an appendix, Containing the Antient Names of Places in England, very Necessary for the Use of all Young Students, that converse with Antient Deeds, Charters, &c. First publish’d by the Learned Dr. Cowel, in the year 1607. and continu’d by Tho. Manley of the Middle Temple, Esq; to the year 1684. Now further augmented and improv’d,... AuthorCowell, John; & Thomas ManleyHeadlineEnglish legal text, 1701PublisherPrinted for W. BattersbyDate Published1701 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #72 Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des métiers… AuthorDiderot, Denis & Jean le Rond d'AlembertHeadline20 volumes from Diderot's massive encyclopediaPublisherChez PelletDate Published1777-78 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #90 La Dauphine, Marie-Antoinette Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorNolhac, Pierre deHeadlineLa Dauphine, Marie-Antoinette 1 of 75 copiesPublisherBoussod, Valadon et CieDate Published[1896] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #95 Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorSloane, William MilliganHeadlineLife of Napoleon BonapartePublisherCentury Co.Date Published1906 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #103 Seventy-Nine volumes from the Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Heading(Franklin Library)Author**Headline79 Franklin Library Leather Bound BooksPublisherFranklin LibraryDate Published1970s View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #107 Traité des Ponts, ou il est parle' de ceux Romains & de ceux des Modernes... AuthorGautier, [Hubert]HeadlineGautier Traite des Ponts 1765PublisherChez la Vueve DuchesneDate Published1765 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #118 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire AuthorGibbon, EdwardHeadlineGibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePublisherPrinted by J.F. Dove for W. Baynes, et alDate Published1823 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #119 Miscellaneous Writings of Henry Eighth Heading(Golden Cockerel Press)AuthorHenry the EighthHeadlineMiscellaneous Writings of Henry EighthPublisherGolden Cockerel PressDate Published1924 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #139 Modus tenendi Parliamentum: Or, The Old Manner of holding Parliaments in England [bound with] S[cobell], H[enry]. Memorials of the Method and Manner of Proceedings in Parliament in Passing Bills... AuthorHakewel, W[illiam]Headline2 Wing books on English Parliamentary ProceduresPublisherAbel RoperDate Published1671 [and] 1670 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #145 Queen Victoria AuthorHolmes, Richard R.HeadlineQueen Victoria by Holmes 1897PublisherBoussod, Valadon & Co.Date Published1897 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #148 A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist [Quadrille; Piquet; Back-Gammon] AuthorHoyle, EdmondHeadlineEarly Edition of Hoyle's GamesPublisherT. OsborneDate Published1750 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #149 Praelectionum Juris Civilis AuthorHuber, UlrikHeadlinePraelectionum Juris Civilis by Huber 1735PublisherJo. Friderici Gleditschii B. FiliiDate Published1735 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #151 Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, with Descriptions & Views of Some of the Most Striking Scenes in the Cordilleras! AuthorHumboldt, Alexander deHeadlineHumboldt's Researches 1814PublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, et alDate Published1814 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #156 Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, During the Years 1813 and 1814 AuthorJames, J[ohn] T[homas]HeadlineTour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland 1813-14PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1816 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #171 Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane AuthorLe Sage, [Alain Rene]HeadlineHistoire de Gil Blas de Santillane 1784PublisherJean MossyDate Published1784 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #172 A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal printed by Christopher Plantin Heading(Leaf Book)Author(Dodoens, Rembert)HeadlineLeaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens HerbalPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1977 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #175 Hieroglyphica, Sive Antiqua Schemata Gemmarum Anularium, Quaesita Moralia, Politica, Historica, Medica, Philosophica & Sublimiora AuthorLicetus, FortuniusHeadlineLicetus Hieroglyphica 1653PublisherSebastiano SardiDate Published1653 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #181 State-Worthies. Or, the States-Men and Favourites of England since the Reformation, their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls; during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I Author[Lloyd, David]HeadlineStates-men and favourites of England 1670PublisherPrinted by Thomas Milbourn for Samuel SpeedDate Published1670 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #182 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions AuthorLodge, EdmundHeadlineFolio Edition of Lodge's PortraitsPublisherHarding and LepardDate Published1821-34 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #183 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadlineThe Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel 1720PublisherPrinted by T.W. for A. Churchill, et alDate Published1720 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #187 A Dissertation on the Oriental Trinities: Extracted from the Fourth and Fifth Volumes of Indian Antiquities Author[Maurice, Thomas]HeadlineDissertation on the Oriental Trinities 1800PublisherH.L. GalabinDate Published1800 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #194 Three works bound in two, with 101 engraved portrait plates of nobility AuthorMeyssens, Joannes & Cornelis MeyssensHeadline101 engraved portrait plates of nobilityPublisherMartin Vanden EndenDate Publishedc.1660 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #201 Utopia AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineMore's Utopia 1st Burnet translation 1684PublisherRichard ChiswellDate Published1684 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #206 A Treatise on the Administration of the Finances of France AuthorNecker, JacquesHeadlineAdministration of the Finances of France 3 volsPublisherLogographic PressDate Published1785 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #212 Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, and of the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878 AuthorNorton, Frank H.HeadlineCentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 etcPublisherAmerican News CompanyDate Published[1879] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #213 Mausoleum Potentissimorum ac Gloriosissimorum Regni Apostolici Regum & Primorum Militantis Ungariae Ducum Vindicatis è mortuali pulvere Reliquiis ad gratam apud posteros memoriam HeadingzzfAuthorNádasdy, FerenczHeadlineDukes & Kings of Hungary with 59 portraits 1664PublisherEndterDate Published1664 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #215 Large archive of photographs and negatives from Al William's Papagayo Room at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco Heading(Papagayo Room)Author**HeadlinePapagayo Room Photo ArchiveDate Published1950s View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #219 Florus Biblicus sive Narrationes ex Historia Sacra Testamenti Veteris Selectae et Doctrina Morali AuthorPexenfelder, MichaeleHeadlineMichaele Pexenfelder Florus Biblicus 1672PublisherJoannis Chrysostomi HaanDate Published1672 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #231 Platonis Opera a Marsilio Ficino Traducta AuthorPlatoHeadlinePlatonis Opera a Marsilio Ficino Traducta 1518PublisherIoanne Parvo & Iodoco BadioDate Published1518 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #232 Ten volumes on the trials of those involved (or believed to have been involved) in the Popish Plot Heading(Popish Plot - The Calvin P. Otto Collection)Author**HeadlineTrials of the Popish Plot participantsPublisherVarious placesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #234 Quintilian's Institutes of the Orator AuthorQuintilian, Marcus FabiusHeadlineQuintilian's Institutes of the Orator 1774PublisherB. Law and J. WilkieDate Published1774 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #239 An Historical Disquisition Concerning The Knowledge which the Ancients had of India; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope... AuthorRobertson, WilliamHeadlineRobertson's India 1791PublisherE. & E. HosfordDate Published1822 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #243 Will Rogers: His Wife's Story AuthorRogers, BettyHeadlineWill Rogers: His Wife's Story signedPublisherBobbs-MerrillDate Published[1941] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #247 Views of Cities and Scenery in Italy, France and Switzerland AuthorRoscoe, ThomasHeadlineScenery in Italy, France and SwitzerlandPublisherFisher, Son, & Co.Date Published[1830s] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #248 The Topography and History of Beth-Shan with details of the Egyptian and other inscriptions found on the site AuthorRowe, AlanHeadlineThe Topography and History of Beth-ShanPublisherUniversity of PennsylvaniaDate Published1930 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #249 Historical Collections. Of Private Passages of State. Weighty Matters in Law. Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments. Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618. And ending the Fifth Year of King Charles, Anno 1629. Digested in Order of Time, And now Published AuthorRushworth, JohnHeadlineHistorical Collections King James & Charles 1659PublisherGeorge ThomasonDate Published1659 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #258 The Gallery of Contemporary Art: An Illustrated Review of the Recent Art Productions of all Nations. First and Second Series. AuthorSilvestre, Armand, et alHeadlineThe Gallery of Contemporary Art 1885-86PublisherGebbie & Co.Date Published1885-86 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #260 Celestina AuthorSmith, CharlotteHeadlineCelestina by Charlotte Smith 1791PublisherT. CadellDate Published1791 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #262 The common-wealth of England, and the maner of governement thereof. Compiled by the honourable Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, Doctor of both lawes, and one of the principall secretaries vnto two most worthy princes, King Edward, and Queene Elizabeth. With new additions of the chiefe courts in England, and the offices thereof by the said author. Also a table added thereto, of all the principall matters contained in this treatise AuthorSmith, Thomas, SirHeadlineThomas Smith Commonwealth of England 1621PublisherPrinted by William Stansby for Iohn SmethwickeDate Published1621 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #264 The Works of that Famous English Poet Mr. Edmond Spenser AuthorSpenser, EdmondHeadlineScarce 1679 Folio Edition of Spenser's WorksPublisherHenry Hills for Jonathan EdwinDate Published1679 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #265 WITHDRAWN The Faerie Queene AuthorWITHDRAWN Spenser, EdmundHeadlineSpenser's Faerie Queene 1751 Quarto EditionPublisherJ. Brindley and S. WrightDate Published1751 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #267 In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria AuthorStanley, Henry M[orton]HeadlineStanley's In Darkes AfricaPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1891 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #271 The Sugar-Plum, or, Sweet amusement for leisure hours: being an entertaining and instructive collection of stories. embellished with curious cuts Heading(Sugar-Plum...)Author**HeadlineRare Juvenile Sugar-Plum 1786PublisherPrinted and sold by J. & M. Robertson and J. DuncanDate Published1786 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #273 A Sketch of the Life and Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, Esq. AuthorThicknesse, PhilipHeadlineLife and Paintings of Thomas GainsboroughPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1788 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #274 The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave; Containing his History of 25 Years in Bondage, and his Providential Escape AuthorThompson, JohnHeadlineLife of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave 1856PublisherJohn ThompsonDate Published1856 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #279 [Historiae Romanae] AuthorVelleius Paterculus, CaiusHeadlineHistoriae Romanae by Paterculus 1639PublisherOfficina ElzevierianaDate Published1639 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #289 The court and character of K. James. Written and taken by Sir A.W. being an Eye, and Ear witness... Published by authority AuthorW[eldon], A[nthony], SirHeadlineCourt and character of King James 1650PublisherPrinted by R[obert] I[bbitson]Date Published1650 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #291 The history of Great Britain, being the life and reign of King James the First, relating to what passed from his first access to the crown, till his death AuthorWilson, ArthurHeadlineLife of King James I, 1653PublisherRichard LowndsDate Published1653 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #292 England's Worthies. Select Lives of the Most Eminent Persons of the English Nation from Constantine the Great, Down to These Times AuthorWinstanley, Will[iam]HeadlineEngland's Worthies 1684 EditionPublisherPrinted by J.C. and F.C. for Obadiah BlagraveDate Published1684 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #293 Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops Who have had their Education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, From...1500, to...1690 Author[Wood, Anthony]Headlinehistory of writers from Oxford 1691PublisherTho. BennetDate Published1691 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #294 Lidice: Cin Krvaveho Teroru a Poruseni Zakonu i Zakladnich Lidskych Prav Heading(World War II)Author**HeadlineLidice 1945 + Killing of Reinhard HeydrichPublisherMinisterstvo VnitraDate Published1945 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #315 WITHDRAWNBiographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions HeadingzzfAuthorColeridge, S.T.HeadlineBiographia Literaria by ST Coleridge 1817PublisherKir and MerceinDate Published1817 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #371 The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories HeadingzzfAuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineFifth Column and the First FortyNine Stories 1938PublisherScribner'sDate Published1938 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next