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 804 674 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)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 1-54 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Author[Bacon, Francis, et al.]HeadlineCabala, Sive Scrinia Sacra 1663PublisherG. Bedell and T. CollinsDate Published1663 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorBerkley, JohnHeadlineMemoirs of Sir John BerkleyPublisherJ. DarbyDate Published1702 Lot #8 Letter from Sevi Bigelow on debts and horses View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorBigelow, SeviHeadlineLetter from Sevi Biegelow on debt & horsesDate PublishedApril 8, 1811 Lot #9 The Life of Samuel Johnson View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold AuthorBoswell, JamesHeadlineBoswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, First Edition, early issuePublisherPrinted by Henry Baldwin for Charles DillyDate Published1791 Lot #12 Eightieth Birthday Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Churchill, Winston S.)PublisherThe Heritage CollectionDate Published[1955] Lot #17 Absalom and Achitophel [with] The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel [with] Absalom Senior: Or, Achitophel Transpros'd View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorDryden, John, Nahum Tate and Elkanah SettleHeadlineDryden's biting satire, Absalom w/ responsesDate Published1681-1682 Lot #19 Three works by John Dryden [with] one attack upon him View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold AuthorDryden, JohnHeadline3 by John Dryden with anon attack on himDate Published1683-1695 Lot #22 An Argument of Law Concerning the Bill of Attainder of High-Treason of Thomas Earle of Strafford View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Civil War)HeadlineOn Thomas Earl of Strafford Bill of AttainderPublisherPrinted by G.M. for John BartletDate Published1641 Lot #23 Eight seventeenth-century English pamphlets used as inspiration at Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(England - Civil War)Headline8 English pamphlets owned by D.B. UpdikeDate Published1641-1657 Lot #24 His Majesties Declaration: To All His Loving Subjects, of the Causes which Moved Him to Dissolve the Last Parliament View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(England - Civil War)HeadlineCharles I defends dissolving Parliament 1640PublisherPrinted by Robert Barker... and by the Assignes of John BillDate Published1640 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(England - Civil War)Author[Oldmixon, John]HeadlineJohn Oldmixon's response to Dr. Zachary GreyPublisherPrinted for J. PembertonDate Published1727 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Glorious Revolution)HeadlineRevolution Politicks, 1733, on Glorious RevolutionDate Published1733 Lot #27 Ten titles relating to the Glorious Revolution View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(England - Glorious Revolution)Headline10 pamphlets touching the Glorious RevolutionDate Published1680-1689 Lot #28 Observations both Historical and Moral upon the Burning of London, September 1666 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(England - Great Fire of London)HeadlineEarly title on 1666 Great Fire of LondonPublisherPrinted by Thomas RatcliffeDate Published1667 Lot #29 Four English Indentures View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(England - Indentures)HeadlineFour English indentures, c.1600-1750Date Publishedc.1600-1750 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(England - Popish Plot)AuthorMisopappas, Philanax [pseud. of Charles Blount]HeadlineThe Tory Plot, Misopappas 1682, 2 partsPublisherRichard JanewayDate Published1682 Lot #32 Seven titles on the Popish Plot View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(England - Popish Plot)HeadlineSeven early Popish Plot documentsDate Published1678-1681 Lot #34 Observations Upon a Late Libel, Called A Letter from a Person of Quality to His Friend, Concerning the Kings Declaration, &c. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(England - Restoration)AuthorHalifax, George Saville, First Marquess ofHeadlineRestoration political tract on Parliament, 1681PublisherPrinted for C.M.Date Published1681 Lot #36 The Answre of the Vicechancelour, The Doctors, both of the Proctors, and other the Heads of Houses in the Universitie of Oxford View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(England)HeadlineOxford Answere of the Vicechancelour 1603PublisherPrinted by Joseph Barnes, and are to by sold... by James WatersonDate Published1603 Lot #37 A Thankfull Remembrance of Gods Mercy View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(England)AuthorCarleton, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Carleton on God's Mercy, 1627PublisherPrinted by M. Flesher for Robert Mylbourne and Humphrey RobinsonDate Published1627 Lot #38 Five contemporary books on 17th century English history View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(England)Headline5 period books on 17th c. English historyDate Published1679-1698 Lot #39 His Majesties Speach in the Starre-Chamber, The xx. of June. Anno 1616 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(England)AuthorJames I, King of EnglandHeadlineKing's speech Star-Chamber 20 June 1616PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1616 Lot #45 Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, with Extracts from Her Journals and Letters View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorFry, ElizabethHeadlineMemoirs of Elizabeth Fry, 1847PublisherCharles GilpinDate Published1847 Lot #48 The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq; Extracted Principally From His Original Papers View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Goldsmith, Oliver]HeadlineBio of celebrated 18th-century fashion iconPublisherPrinted for J. NewberyDate Published[1762] 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. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Author[Guarini, Giovanni Baptista]HeadlineGiovanni Guarini's The Faithful Shepard, 1648PublisherPrinted for Humphrey MoseleyDate Published1648 Lot #51 Archive of Christian Hadenfeldt View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorHadenfeldt, ChristianHeadlineArchive of German artist Christian HadenfeldtProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionDate Published1821-1971 Lot #52 The Auncient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Years After Christ View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorHanmer, Meredith, translatorHeadlineEcclesiastical Histories, trans. Hanmer 1619PublisherPrinted by Richard FieldDate Published1619 Lot #56 Ten opium trade permits from central India View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(India)Headline10 Opium trade permits, Gwalior India 1892-3Date Published1892-1893 Lot #57 The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorIngram, JamesHeadlineSaxon Chronicle with translation, 1823PublisherPrinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1823 Lot #59 The Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus, A Man of Much Honour and Learning Among the Jews View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadlineWorks of Josephus 1640PublisherJohn WatersonDate Published1640 Lot #60 Flauij Josephi... Historien vnd Bücher: Von alten jüdischen Geschichten... Vom Jüdischen Krieg... Vom alten Herkommen der Jüden wider den Apion... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorJosephusHeadlineJosephus, German 1571 in blind-tooled calfProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionPublisher[George Raben und Weygand Hanen Erben]Date Published1571 Lot #73 Printed leaf with colored woodcut of Buda from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(Leaves, 1493)AuthorSchedel, HartmannHeadlineWoodcut of Buda Nuremburg Chronicle 1493PublisherKoberger, AntonDate Published1493 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 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Author[Leighton, Alexander]HeadlineA. Leighton Appeal to Parliament 1628Date PublishedPrinted the year & moneth wherin Rochell was lost [i.e. 1628] Lot #75 The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. Or a Direction to the Husbandman... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMarkham, GervaseHeadlineShort English farming guide 1664PublisherPrinted by W. Wilson, for George SawbridgeDate Published1664 Lot #79 The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorPaine, ThomasHeadlineThomas Paine on decay of British financial systemPublisherRe-printed for T. WilliamsDate Published1796 Lot #88 Rights of the Kingdom; Or, Customs of Our Ancestours: Touching the Duty, Power, Election, or Succession, of our Kings and Parliaments View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Author[Sadler, John]HeadlineJohn Sadler Rights Kingdom, 1649PublisherPrinted by Richard BishopDate Published1649 Lot #93 The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorSheridan, ThomasHeadlineNice copy of Sheridan's biography of SwiftPublisherPrinted for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, B. Collins, et al.Date Published[1784] Lot #96 Killing no Murder: Briefly Discoursed in Three Questions View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Author[Silas, Titus and Edward Sexby]Headline1689 repub. of Cromwell assassination pamphletPublishern.p.Date Published1689 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSwift, JonathanHeadlineJonathan Swift Publick Spirit 1714 uncensoredPublisherPrinted for John MorphewDate Published1714 Lot #101 An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, Sent by the Governor-General of India, in the Year 1795 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSymes, MichaelHeadlineVoyage to Ava, capital of Burma, in 1795PublisherPrinted by W. Bulmer and Co.Date Published1800 Lot #105 Bellum Peloponnesiacum. Ex Editione Wassii et Dukeri View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFouls Press octavo Thucydides 8 vols. 1759PublisherRobertus et Andreas FoulisDate Published1759 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 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Peloponnesian Warre 1634 HobbesPublisherImprinted for Richard MynneDate Published1634 Lot #107 Gli Otto Libri di Thucydide Atheniense, delle Guerre Fatte tra Popoli della Morea... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineFirst editions of Thucydides in Italian, 3 copiesPublisherVincenzo Valgrisi, et al.Date Published1545-1550 Lot #108 Histoire Grecque de Thucydide View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineQuarto Thucydides 1807 Paris ed. Greek & LatinPublisherGail NeveuDate Published1807 Lot #109 Historiarum Libri VI–VIII, Ad Optimos Codices Denuo Collatos View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineHude's edition of Thucydides books VI-VIIIPublisherImpensis Librariae GyldendalianaeDate Published1890 Lot #110 Θουκυδιδου Περι του Πελοποννησιακου Πολεμου Βιβλια Οκτω = Thycydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides Duceri, 1731 2 vols.PublisherApud R. & J. Wetstenios & Gul. SmithDate Published1731 Lot #111 Θουκυδιδου περι του Πελοποννησιακου Πολέμον Βιβλία ῆ. Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri VIII View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineSecond Estienne ed. Thucydides, 1588PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1588 Lot #112 Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo ex Recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineThucydides, Immanuelis Bekkeri ed. 1821PublisherApud J. Parker; et R. BlissDate Published1821 Lot #113 Two nineteenth century editions of Thucydides in Greek View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineTwo 19th century eds. Thucydides in GreekDate Published1809-1835 Lot #115 The Substance of That Which was Delivered in a Sermon before the Commons House of Parliament View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorUsher, JamesHeadlineJames Usher Substance of Sermon 1621PublisherFelix Kyngston, for John BartletDate Published1621 Lot #117 Nine newspapers relating to the Young Lords [with] two mounted photographs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Young Lords)Headline9 Newspapers & 2 photos of Young LordsProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionDate Published1969-1971 Lot #230 Var Konung Och Hans Garning View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Gustav V, King of Sweden)HeadlineCelebratory book for Swedish King Gustav VProvenanceJames Melikian CollectionPublisherLindfors BokforlagDate Published1933 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 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold AuthorSmith, John ThomasHeadlineAntiquities of Westminster, illustratedPublisherPrinted By T. Bensley, for J.T. SmithDate Published1807-1809 Lot #305 Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)HeadlineCostumes of the English, bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherPrinted for John MurrayDate Published1814 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next