Sale 796: PBA Platinum: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#796) 09/07/2023 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/07/2023 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 796 660 PDF Prices RealizedPDF Catalog 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 1-57 of 57. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse, and adorn’d with Sculpture, by John Ogilby View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Aesop)AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineEarly edition of Ogilby's AesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas Warren for Andrew CrookDate Published1651 Lot #3 Two works relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - from the Warren Heckrotte Collection View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Atomic Bomb)HeadlineClassified Oppenheimer hearing transcript 1954PublisherU.S. Government Printing OfficeDate Published1954 & 1963 Lot #6 The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane. To the King View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon's Twoo Bookes 1605PublisherPrinted for Henrie TomesDate Published1605 Lot #7 The Golden Legend [Legenda Aurea] View details Estimate$80,000 - $120,000Sold for$75,000StatusSold Heading(Bible - Early English)AuthorVoragine, Jacobus deHeadlineCaxton's Bible translation in 1507 Golden LegendPublisher[W. de Worde for R. Pynson]Date Published[1507] Lot #8 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$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Heading(Bible in English - Great "She" Bible)HeadlineThe Great She Bible, 1613-1611PublisherRobert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent MaiestieDate Published1613-1611 Lot #9 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New [with] Book of Common Prayer [with] The Whole Book of Psalms View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Headline1661 Bible with interesting knightly provenancePublisherPrinted by John FieldDate Published1661 Lot #10 Boetius de philosophico consolatu, siue, De consolatioe philosophi[a]e: cu[m] figur[is] ornatissimis nouit[er] expolit[us] View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorBoethiusHeadlineBoethius Consolation of Philosophy 1st illus 1501PublisherImpressum Argentin[a]e, P[er] Iohanne[m] GrüningeDate Published1501 Lot #11 The Congress View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorBorges, Jorge LuisHeadlineThe Congress signed by Jorge Luis BorgesPublisherEnitharmon PressDate Published1974 Lot #12 Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy, Propos’d in a familiar discourse to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it, by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq; fellow of the Royal Society View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorBoyle, RobertHeadlineNatural philosophy by Robert Boyle, 1664PublisherPrinted by Hen. Hall printer to the University, for Ric. DavisDate Published1664 Lot #13 Breviarium secundum usum et consuetudinem ecclesiae collegiate beatissimi Quintini Viromandensis View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Breviary - Use of St. Quentin)HeadlineVellum breviary, printed 16th c., period bindingPublisher[Hémon Le Fèvre]Date Published[c.1511-1525] Lot #14 Autograph Letter from Charlotte Brontë to William S. Williams, one of her editors at the publishing house of Smith, Elder, and Co., regarding a portrait she sat for, and ruminations at a time of change and challenge View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$81,250StatusSold AuthorBrontë, CharlotteHeadlineLetter from Charlotte Brontë to her editor 1850Date PublishedJuly 27, 1850 Lot #16 The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, A Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law It Selfe View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorCoke, EdmundHeadlineCoke on Littleton, first edition 1628PublisherPrinted for the Societie of StationersDate Published1628 Lot #19 Cuban pennant from the 1953 XIV World Amateur Baseball Championship, signed by many players on the team View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Baseball)HeadlineCuban amateur baseball champs signed pennantDate Published1953 Lot #21 File of legal documents (Expediante) regarding the formal processes that Chinese workers had to go through to obtain a second work contract View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineObtaining work permit as Chinese laborer in CubaDate Published1872 Lot #22 Legal file (expediante) for the restructuring and renaming of the "Society of the Casino Asiatico de Macubiges" in Matanzas, Cuba View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese Casino in Cuba renamed & reorganizedDate Published1888-1925 Lot #23 Legal file (expediante) of documents relating to the capture of runaway Chinese laborers in Cuba, and their imprisonment in the “Depository for Rebel Slaves” View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese rebel slaves in Cuba captured 1874Date Published1874 Lot #24 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineOver 600 Chinese coolies bound for China 1868Date PublishedJan 24, 1868 Lot #25 Manuscript legal depositions from an investigation into shipboard deaths of Chinese laborers bound for Cuba View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineShipboard deaths of Chinese coolies investigatedDate Publishedc.1860s Lot #26 Manuscript record of the interrogation of passengers from the French frigate “Emmanuelle” about deaths which occurred during its voyage from Macao to Havana, Cuba View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineCoolies on bloody passage from Macao to CubaDate Published1865 Lot #28 File of original documents relating to the sighting and pursuit by a British frigate of a Cuban steamship carrying African slaves - with an encrypted message from the British government View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineSpanish slave ship sighted by British frigate 1864Date Published1864 Lot #29 Manuscript listing the complaints of slaves and workers about their masters and employers, and the solutions and agreements made to address them View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban slaves complain about their masters 1852Date Published1852 Lot #30 Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Daniel, George)AuthorBrowne, Thomas, SirHeadlineBrowne Pseudodoxia Epidemica w/ Daniel George annotationsPublisherPrinted by T.H. for Edward DodDate Published1646 Lot #31 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineOrigin of Species, 3rd edition 1861PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1861 Lot #33 Mere Nature Delineated: Or, A Body without a Soul. Being Observations upon the Young Forester... Also, a Brief Dissertation upon the Usefulness and Necessity of Fools, Whether Political or Natural View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineAnonymous political tract by Daniel Defoe 1726PublisherPrinted for T. WarnerDate Published1726 Lot #34 A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe on the lewdness of marriagePublisherPrinted for T. Warner at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-RowDate Published1727 Lot #36 Βιαθανατος. A Declaration of the Paradoxe, or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineJohn Donne on self-homicide, 1644PublisherPrinted by John DawsonDate Published[c.1644-1647] Lot #37 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineRosebury copy of John Donne's lettersPublisherPrinted by J. Flesher, for Richard MarriotDate Published1651 Lot #39 An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Author[Drake, Judith, attributed]Headline17th century educational sexism attackedPublisherPrinted for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R Claval at the PeacockDate Published1697 Lot #42 Bound volume of twenty-five publications on "The Popish Plot" 1678-1681 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Popish Plot)Headline25 publications on The Popish Plot 1678-81Date Published1678-1681 Lot #43 The Elements of Geometrie of the most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold AuthorEuclidHeadlineDee's Euclid, first edition in English 1570PublisherIohn DayeDate Published1570 Lot #47 Theorie Analytique de la Chaleur View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorFourier, Jean Baptiste JosephHeadlineFirst mathematical study of heat diffusionPublisherFirmin Didot pere et filsDate Published1822 Lot #48 Letter from Isabella Graham, founder of the American Sunday School movement, to her parents in England, recounting her meeting with a Seneca Indian chief and his “Squa” and daughter, and other matters View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorGraham, Isabella MarshallHeadline“Founding Mother” of American Charity writes from colonial NYDate PublishedFeb. 3, 1771 Lot #49 Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, Written in his Youth, and Familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorGreville, Fulke, Baron BrookeHeadlineSir Fulke Greville Certaine Workes 1633PublisherPrinted by E.P. for Henry SeyleDate Published1633 Lot #52 Frutefull Sermons Preached by the Tight [sic] Reuerend Father, and Constant Martyr of Iesus Christ M. Hugh Latymer... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorLatimer, HughHeadlineLatimer's Reformation sermons, 1571/1575PublisherIohn DayDate Published[1571 or 1575] Lot #53 Catastrophe Mundi: or, Merlin Reviv'd, in a discourse of prophecies & predictions, and their remarkable accomplishment. With Mr. Lilly's hieroglyphicks exactly cut; and notes and observations thereon. As also a collection of all the antient (reputed) prophecies... By a Learned Pen View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorLilly, WilliamHeadlineAstrology by Wm. Lilly with woodcuts 1683PublisherPrinted and are to be sold by John How... and Thomas MalthusDate Published1683 Lot #54 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst edition of Livy in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1600 Lot #55 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1680 English translation of MachiavelliPublisherJohn Starkey, Charles Harper, and John AmeryDate Published1680 Lot #60 A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principal Vocations, or Callings, in Which every Good Husband or House-wife, May Lawfully imploy themselves... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMarkham, GervaseHeadlineMarkham's Way to Get Wealth, 1683PublisherPrinted by T.B. for Hannah SawbridgeDate Published1683 Lot #62 [Demain Les Jeunes] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorMasereel, FransHeadlineOriginal art for unpublished wordless novelDate Published[c. 1947-48] Lot #63 A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorMaxwell, James ClerkHeadlineMaxwell's Treatise on Electricity and MagnetismPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1873 Lot #64 Moby Dick or the Whale View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineMulti-layered association copy signed by KentPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 Lot #69 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost 1st illustrated 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 Lot #70 The Writings of John Muir - Manuscript Edition View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorMuir, JohnHeadlineThe Writings of John Muir Manuscript EditionPublisherHoughton MifflinDate Published1916-24 Lot #73 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, by Sir Isaac Newton; translated into English by Andrew Motte: to which are added, Newtonʼs System of the world; A short comment on, and defense of, the Principia, by William Emerson; with the Laws of the moonʼs motion according to gravity, by John Machin... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English 1819PublisherPrinted for Sherwood, Neely, and JonesDate Published1819 Lot #76 Phisicke against Fortune, as well prosperous, as adverse, conteyned in two Bookes View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlinePetrarch instructs on conduct of one's life, 1579PublisherRichard WatkynsDate Published1579 Lot #77 A Treatise of Morall Philosophie containing the Sayings of the Wise... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Philosophy)AuthorBaldwin, WilliamHeadlineBaldwin's Moral philosophy, 1591PublisherThomas EsteDate Published1591 Lot #79 Cypress, Point Lobos View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Photographs)AuthorWeston, EdwardHeadlineWeston's first photograph at Pt. Lobos, signedDate Published1929; vintage print. Lot #81 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$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1634 2nd edition in EnglishPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 Lot #82 The Arraignment and Conviction of Sr VValter Rawleigh, at the Kings Bench-barre at Winchester. on the 17. of November. 1603. Before the right Honorable the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberline, the Earle of Devon-shire... Coppied by Sir Tho: Overbury View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Raleigh, Sir Walter)HeadlineTrials of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1648PublisherPrinted by William Wilson, for Abel RoperDate Published1648 Lot #83 The Courtiers Academie: Comprehending Seuen Seuerall Dayes Discourses View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorRomei, Annibale, conteHeadlineThe Courtiers Academie 1598, 1st Eng. ed.PublisherPrinted by Valentine SimsDate Published[1598] Lot #84 On Poetry: A Rhapsody View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Heading(Sangorski & Sutcliffe)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineStunning Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindingPublisherJ. HuggonsonDate Published1733 Lot #85 The Tragedie of Macbeth [&] The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineHamlet & Macbeth from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] Lot #88 Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall Verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorTasso, TorquatoHeadlineFirst Tasso Jerusalem in English 1600PublisherAr. Hatfield, for I. Iaggard and M. LownesDate Published1600 Lot #89 The Aldine Thucydides, with scholia and History of the Emperors by Herodian View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineAldine Thucydides 1502, first printed Greek textPublisherAldus ManutiusDate Published1502-1503 Lot #91 The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests or the like, is utterly denied and disproved... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold AuthorWebster, JohnHeadlineWebster debunks witchcraft 1677, H.F. Norman copyPublisherPrinted by J.M.Date Published1677 Lot #94 Portrait of Walt Whitman holding a butterfly, matted with large signature View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorWhitman, WaltHeadlineWhitman's "Butterfly Portrait" with signaturePublisher[Phillips & Taylor ]Date Published[early 1880s?] Lot #95 The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq; fellow of the Royal Society. In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorWillughby, FrancisHeadlineWillughby's Ornithology 1st in EnglishPublisherPrinted by A.C. for John MartynDate Published1678 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next