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 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)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 1-40 of 40. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse, and adorn’d with Sculpture, by John Ogilby Heading(Aesop)AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineEarly edition of Ogilby's AesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas Warren for Andrew CrookDate Published1651 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #3 Two works relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - from the Warren Heckrotte Collection Heading(Atomic Bomb)HeadlineClassified Oppenheimer hearing transcript 1954PublisherU.S. Government Printing OfficeDate Published1954 & 1963 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #6 The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane. To the King AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon's Twoo Bookes 1605PublisherPrinted for Henrie TomesDate Published1605 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #7 The Golden Legend [Legenda Aurea] Heading(Bible - Early English)AuthorVoragine, Jacobus deHeadlineCaxton's Bible translation in 1507 Golden LegendPublisher[W. de Worde for R. Pynson]Date Published[1507] View details Estimate$80,000 - $120,000Sold for$75,000StatusSold 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 Heading(Bible in English - Great "She" Bible)HeadlineThe Great She Bible, 1613-1611PublisherRobert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent MaiestieDate Published1613-1611 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Lot #9 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New [with] Book of Common Prayer [with] The Whole Book of Psalms Heading(Bible in English)Headline1661 Bible with interesting knightly provenancePublisherPrinted by John FieldDate Published1661 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #10 Boetius de philosophico consolatu, siue, De consolatioe philosophi[a]e: cu[m] figur[is] ornatissimis nouit[er] expolit[us] AuthorBoethiusHeadlineBoethius Consolation of Philosophy 1st illus 1501PublisherImpressum Argentin[a]e, P[er] Iohanne[m] GrüningeDate Published1501 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold 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 AuthorBoyle, RobertHeadlineNatural philosophy by Robert Boyle, 1664PublisherPrinted by Hen. Hall printer to the University, for Ric. DavisDate Published1664 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #13 Breviarium secundum usum et consuetudinem ecclesiae collegiate beatissimi Quintini Viromandensis Heading(Breviary - Use of St. Quentin)HeadlineVellum breviary, printed 16th c., period bindingPublisher[Hémon Le Fèvre]Date Published[c.1511-1525] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold 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 AuthorCoke, EdmundHeadlineCoke on Littleton, first edition 1628PublisherPrinted for the Societie of StationersDate Published1628 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #30 Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths Heading(Daniel, George)AuthorBrowne, Thomas, SirHeadlineBrowne Pseudodoxia Epidemica w/ Daniel George annotationsPublisherPrinted by T.H. for Edward DodDate Published1646 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #31 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineOrigin of Species, 3rd edition 1861PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1861 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold 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 Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineAnonymous political tract by Daniel Defoe 1726PublisherPrinted for T. WarnerDate Published1726 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #34 A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed... Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe on the lewdness of marriagePublisherPrinted for T. Warner at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-RowDate Published1727 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #36 Βιαθανατος. A Declaration of the Paradoxe, or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineJohn Donne on self-homicide, 1644PublisherPrinted by John DawsonDate Published[c.1644-1647] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #37 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineRosebury copy of John Donne's lettersPublisherPrinted by J. Flesher, for Richard MarriotDate Published1651 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold 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 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #42 Bound volume of twenty-five publications on "The Popish Plot" 1678-1681 Heading(England - Popish Plot)Headline25 publications on The Popish Plot 1678-81Date Published1678-1681 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #43 The Elements of Geometrie of the most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara AuthorEuclidHeadlineDee's Euclid, first edition in English 1570PublisherIohn DayeDate Published1570 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #47 Theorie Analytique de la Chaleur AuthorFourier, Jean Baptiste JosephHeadlineFirst mathematical study of heat diffusionPublisherFirmin Didot pere et filsDate Published1822 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold 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 AuthorGreville, Fulke, Baron BrookeHeadlineSir Fulke Greville Certaine Workes 1633PublisherPrinted by E.P. for Henry SeyleDate Published1633 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 Frutefull Sermons Preached by the Tight [sic] Reuerend Father, and Constant Martyr of Iesus Christ M. Hugh Latymer... AuthorLatimer, HughHeadlineLatimer's Reformation sermons, 1571/1575PublisherIohn DayDate Published[1571 or 1575] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold 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 AuthorLilly, WilliamHeadlineAstrology by Wm. Lilly with woodcuts 1683PublisherPrinted and are to be sold by John How... and Thomas MalthusDate Published1683 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold 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 AuthorLivius, TitusHeadlineFirst edition of Livy in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1600 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #55 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1680 English translation of MachiavelliPublisherJohn Starkey, Charles Harper, and John AmeryDate Published1680 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold 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... AuthorMarkham, GervaseHeadlineMarkham's Way to Get Wealth, 1683PublisherPrinted by T.B. for Hannah SawbridgeDate Published1683 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #63 A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism AuthorMaxwell, James ClerkHeadlineMaxwell's Treatise on Electricity and MagnetismPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1873 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #69 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost 1st illustrated 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob TonsonDate Published1688 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold 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... AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia in English 1819PublisherPrinted for Sherwood, Neely, and JonesDate Published1819 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #76 Phisicke against Fortune, as well prosperous, as adverse, conteyned in two Bookes AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlinePetrarch instructs on conduct of one's life, 1579PublisherRichard WatkynsDate Published1579 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #77 A Treatise of Morall Philosophie containing the Sayings of the Wise... Heading(Philosophy)AuthorBaldwin, WilliamHeadlineBaldwin's Moral philosophy, 1591PublisherThomas EsteDate Published1591 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold 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 AuthorPliny the ElderHeadlinePliny's Natural History, 1634 2nd edition in EnglishPublisherAdam IslipDate Published1634 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold 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 Heading(Raleigh, Sir Walter)HeadlineTrials of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1648PublisherPrinted by William Wilson, for Abel RoperDate Published1648 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #83 The Courtiers Academie: Comprehending Seuen Seuerall Dayes Discourses AuthorRomei, Annibale, conteHeadlineThe Courtiers Academie 1598, 1st Eng. ed.PublisherPrinted by Valentine SimsDate Published[1598] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #84 On Poetry: A Rhapsody Heading(Sangorski & Sutcliffe)AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineStunning Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindingPublisherJ. HuggonsonDate Published1733 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #85 The Tragedie of Macbeth [&] The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineHamlet & Macbeth from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold Lot #88 Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall Verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent AuthorTasso, TorquatoHeadlineFirst Tasso Jerusalem in English 1600PublisherAr. Hatfield, for I. Iaggard and M. LownesDate Published1600 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #89 The Aldine Thucydides, with scholia and History of the Emperors by Herodian AuthorThucydidesHeadlineAldine Thucydides 1502, first printed Greek textPublisherAldus ManutiusDate Published1502-1503 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold 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... AuthorWebster, JohnHeadlineWebster debunks witchcraft 1677, H.F. Norman copyPublisherPrinted by J.M.Date Published1677 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold 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 AuthorWillughby, FrancisHeadlineWillughby's Ornithology 1st in EnglishPublisherPrinted by A.C. for John MartynDate Published1678 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next