Sale 804: Rare & Antiquarian - Natural History - Fine Press, Fine Bindings, & Illustrated Books (#804) 01/11/2024 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/11/2024 11:00 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 1-54 of 54. Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Cabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: In Letters of Illustrious Persons and Great Ministers of State as well Forreign as Domestick... Author[Bacon, Francis, et al.]HeadlineCabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra 1663PublisherG. Bedell and T. CollinsDate Published1663 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #5 Memoirs of Sir John Berkley, Containing An Account of His Negotiation with Lieut. General Cromwel, Commissary General Ireton..., and Other Officers of the Army, for Restoring King Charles the First to the Exercise of the Government of England AuthorBerkley, JohnHeadlineMemoirs of Sir John BerkleyPublisherJ. DarbyDate Published1702 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #8 Letter from Sevi Bigelow on debts and horses AuthorBigelow, SeviHeadlineLetter from Sevi Biegelow on debt & horsesDate PublishedApril 8, 1811 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #9 The Life of Samuel Johnson AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, First Edition, early issuePublisherPrinted by Henry Baldwin for Charles DillyDate Published1791 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #12 Eightieth Birthday Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)PublisherThe Heritage CollectionDate Published[1955] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #17 Absalom and Achitophel [with] The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel [with] Absalom Senior: Or, Achitophel Transpros'd AuthorDryden, John, Nahum Tate and Elkanah SettleHeadlineDryden's biting satire, Absalom w/ responsesDate Published1681-1682 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #19 Three works by John Dryden [with] one attack upon him AuthorDryden, JohnHeadline3 by John Dryden with anon attack on himDate Published1683-1695 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 An Argument of Law Concerning the Bill of Attainder of High-Treason of Thomas Earle of Strafford Heading(England - Civil War)HeadlineOn Thomas Earl of Strafford Bill of AttainderPublisherPrinted by G.M. for John BartletDate Published1641 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #23 Eight seventeenth-century English pamphlets used as inspiration at Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press Heading(England - Civil War)Headline8 English pamphlets owned by D.B. UpdikeDate Published1641-1657 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #24 His Majesties Declaration: To All His Loving Subjects, of the Causes which Moved Him to Dissolve the Last Parliament Heading(England - Civil War)HeadlineCharles I defends dissolving Parliament 1640PublisherPrinted by Robert Barker... and by the Assignes of John BillDate Published1640 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #25 Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd. To which is occasionally added, A comparison between the History of the Rebellion, and other Histories of the Civil War... Heading(England - Civil War)Author[Oldmixon, John]HeadlineJohn Oldmixon's response to Dr. Zachary GreyPublisherPrinted for J. PembertonDate Published1727 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #26 Revolution Politicks: Being a Compleat Collection of all the Reports, Lyes, and Stories, which were the Fore-runners of the Great Revolution in 1688 Heading(England - Glorious Revolution)HeadlineRevolution Politicks, 1733, on Glorious RevolutionDate Published1733 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #27 Ten titles relating to the Glorious Revolution Heading(England - Glorious Revolution)Headline10 pamphlets touching the Glorious RevolutionDate Published1680-1689 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #28 Observations both Historical and Moral upon the Burning of London, September 1666 Heading(England - Great Fire of London)HeadlineEarly title on 1666 Great Fire of LondonPublisherPrinted by Thomas RatcliffeDate Published1667 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #29 Four English Indentures Heading(England - Indentures)HeadlineFour English indentures, c.1600-1750Date Publishedc.1600-1750 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #31 A Tory Plot: Or the Discovery of a Design Carried on by our Late Addressers and Abhorrers, to Alter the Constitution of the Government and to Betray the Protestant Religion [with] The Tory Plot: The Second Part Heading(England - Popish Plot)AuthorMisopappas, Philanax [pseud. of Charles Blount]HeadlineThe Tory Plot, Misopappas 1682, 2 partsPublisherRichard JanewayDate Published1682 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #32 Seven titles on the Popish Plot Heading(England - Popish Plot)HeadlineSeven early Popish Plot documentsDate Published1678-1681 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #34 Observations Upon a Late Libel, Called A Letter from a Person of Quality to His Friend, Concerning the Kings Declaration, &c. Heading(England - Restoration)AuthorHalifax, George Saville, First Marquess ofHeadlineRestoration political tract on Parliament, 1681PublisherPrinted for C.M.Date Published1681 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #36 The Answre of the Vicechancelour, The Doctors, both of the Proctors, and other the Heads of Houses in the Universitie of Oxford Heading(England)HeadlineOxford Answere of the Vicechancelour 1603PublisherPrinted by Joseph Barnes, and are to by sold... by James WatersonDate Published1603 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #37 A Thankfull Remembrance of Gods Mercy Heading(England)AuthorCarleton, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Carleton on God's Mercy, 1627PublisherPrinted by M. Flesher for Robert Mylbourne and Humphrey RobinsonDate Published1627 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #38 Five contemporary books on 17th century English history Heading(England)Headline5 period books on 17th c. English historyDate Published1679-1698 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #39 His Majesties Speach in the Starre-Chamber, The xx. of June. Anno 1616 Heading(England)AuthorJames I, King of EnglandHeadlineKing's speech Star-Chamber 20 June 1616PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1616 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #45 Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, with Extracts from Her Journals and Letters AuthorFry, ElizabethHeadlineMemoirs of Elizabeth Fry, 1847PublisherCharles GilpinDate Published1847 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #48 The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq; Extracted Principally From His Original Papers Author[Goldsmith, Oliver]HeadlineBio of celebrated 18th-century fashion iconPublisherPrinted for J. NewberyDate Published[1762] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #50 Il Pastor Fido, The Faithfull Shepheard. With an Addition of divers other Poems Concluding with a short Discourse of the long Civill Warres of Rome. Author[Guarini, Giovanni Baptista]HeadlineGiovanni Guarini's The Faithful Shepard, 1648PublisherPrinted for Humphrey MoseleyDate Published1648 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #51 Archive of Christian Hadenfeldt AuthorHadenfeldt, ChristianHeadlineArchive of German artist Christian HadenfeldtProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionDate Published1821-1971 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #52 The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Years After Christ AuthorHanmer, Meredith, translatorHeadlineEcclesiastical Histories, trans. Hanmer 1619PublisherPrinted by Richard FieldDate Published1619 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #56 Ten opium trade permits from central India Heading(India)Headline10 Opium trade permits, Gwalior India 1892-3Date Published1892-1893 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #57 The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation AuthorIngram, JamesHeadlineSaxon Chronicle with translation, 1823PublisherPrinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1823 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #59 The Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus, A Man of Much Honour and Learning Among the Jews AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineWorks of Josephus 1640PublisherJohn WatersonDate Published1640 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #60 Flauij Josephi... Historien vnd Bücher: Von alten jüdischen Geschichten... Vom Jüdischen Krieg... Vom alten Herkommen der Jüden wider den Apion... AuthorJosephusHeadlineJosephus, German 1571 in blind-tooled calfProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionPublisher[George Raben und Weygand Hanen Erben]Date Published1571 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #73 Printed leaf with colored woodcut of Buda from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) Heading(Leaves, 1493)AuthorSchedel, HartmannHeadlineWoodcut of Buda Nuremburg Chronicle 1493PublisherKoberger, AntonDate Published1493 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #74 An Appeal to the Parliament; Or Sions Plea Against the Prelacie [bound with] two other political works by Humphrey Prideaux and William Allen Author[Leighton, Alexander]HeadlineA. Leighton Appeal to Parliament 1628Date PublishedPrinted the year & moneth wherin Rochell was lost [i.e. 1628] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #75 The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. Or a Direction to the Husbandman... AuthorMarkham, GervaseHeadlineShort English farming guide 1664PublisherPrinted by W. Wilson, for George SawbridgeDate Published1664 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #79 The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance AuthorPaine, ThomasHeadlineThomas Paine on decay of British financial systemPublisherRe-printed for T. WilliamsDate Published1796 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #88 Rights of the Kingdom; Or, Customs of Our Ancestours: Touching the Duty, Power, Election, or Succession, of our Kings and Parliaments Author[Sadler, John]HeadlineJohn Sadler Rights Kingdom, 1649PublisherPrinted by Richard BishopDate Published1649 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #93 The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin AuthorSheridan, ThomasHeadlineNice copy of Sheridan's biography of SwiftPublisherPrinted for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, B. Collins, et al.Date Published[1784] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #96 Killing no Murder: Briefly Discoursed in Three Questions Author[Silas, Titus and Edward Sexby]Headline1689 repub. of Cromwell assassination pamphletPublishern.p.Date Published1689 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #100 The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set Forth in their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: With some Observations on the Seasonableness, Candor, Erudition, and Style of that Treatise AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineJonathan Swift Publick Spirit 1714 uncensoredPublisherPrinted for John MorphewDate Published1714 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #101 An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795 AuthorSymes, MichaelHeadlineVoyage to Ava, capital of Burma, in 1795PublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer and Co.Date Published1800 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #105 Bellum Peloponnesiacum. Ex Editione Wassii et Dukeri AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFouls Press octavo Thucydides 8 vols. 1759PublisherRobertus et Andreas FoulisDate Published1759 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #106 Eight bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with faith and diligence immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Peloponnesian Warre 1634 HobbesPublisherImprinted for Richard MynneDate Published1634 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #107 Gli Otto Libri di Thucydide Atheniense, delle Guerre Fatte tra Popoli della Morea... AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFirst editions of Thucydides in Italian, 3 copiesPublisherVincenzo Valgrisi, et al.Date Published1545-1550 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #108 Histoire Grecque de Thucydide AuthorThucydidesHeadlineQuarto Thucydides 1807 Paris ed. Greek & LatinPublisherGail NeveuDate Published1807 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #109 Historiarum Libri VI–VIII, Ad Optimos Codices Denuo Collatos AuthorThucydidesHeadlineHude's edition of Thucydides books VI-VIIIPublisherImpensis Librariae GyldendalianaeDate Published1890 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #110 Θουκυδιδου Περι του Πελοποννησιακου Πολεμου Βιβλια Οκτω = Thycydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Duceri, 1731 2 vols.PublisherApud R. & J. Wetstenios & Gul. SmithDate Published1731 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #111 Θουκυδιδου περι του Πελοποννησιακου Πολέμον Βιβλία ῆ. Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri VIII AuthorThucydidesHeadlineSecond Estienne ed. Thucydides, 1588PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1588 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #112 Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo ex Recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides, Immanuelis Bekkeri ed. 1821PublisherApud J. Parker; et R. BlissDate Published1821 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #113 Two nineteenth century editions of Thucydides in Greek AuthorThucydidesHeadlineTwo 19th century eds. Thucydides in GreekDate Published1809-1835 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #115 The Substance of That Which was Delivered in a Sermon before the Commons House of Parliament AuthorUsher, JamesHeadlineJames Usher Substance of Sermon 1621PublisherFelix Kyngston, for John BartletDate Published1621 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #117 Nine newspapers relating to the Young Lords [with] two mounted photographs Heading(Young Lords)Headline9 Newspapers & 2 photos of Young LordsProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionDate Published1969-1971 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #230 Var Konung Och Hans Garning Heading(Gustav V, King of Sweden)HeadlineCelebratory book for Swedish King Gustav VProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionPublisherLindfors BokforlagDate Published1933 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #294 Antiquities of Westminster: The Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (Now the House of Commons) &c. &c. Containing 246 Engravings of Topographical Objects, of Which 122 No Longer Remain [with] Sixty-Two Additional Plates to Smith's Antiquities AuthorSmith, John ThomasHeadlineAntiquities of Westminster, illustratedPublisherPrinted By T. Bensley, for J.T. SmithDate Published1807-1809 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #305 Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English Heading(Zaehnsdorf)HeadlineCostumes of the English, bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherPrinted for John MurrayDate Published1814 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next