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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$1,250StatusSold Lot #6 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)HeadlineSecond issue of King James Bible, 1613-1611PublisherRobert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent MaiestieDate Published1613-1611 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Lot #7 The Holy Bible. Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament [with] The Book of Common Prayer Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineLarge paper copy of the 1660 Restoration BiblePublisherJohn FieldDate Published1659-1660 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Lot #9 Novum Testamentum Graecum [with] Biblia Hebraica Heading(Bible)HeadlinePlantin Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin 1584PublisherEx officina Christophori PlantiniDate Published1584 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #11 The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher. Translated by William Law. AuthorBoehme, JacobHeadlineWorks of Jacob Boehme untrimmed in original boardsPublisherPrinted for M. RichardsonDate Published1764-1781 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #14 Il libro del cortegiano AuthorCastglione, Baldassare, conteHeadlineCastiglione's courtly manual, 1528PublisherPer gli heredi di Filippo di GiuntaDate PublishedOctober, 1528 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #15 William Caxton and the First English Press: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay... Together with an Original Leaf of the Polycronicon Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorWinship, George ParkerHeadlineRare leaf book with 1482 Caxton leafPublisherEdmund Byne Hackett / The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc.Date Published1938 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #20 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$2,375StatusSold Lot #21 Set of Cook’s Three Voyages including Atlas AuthorCook, James, et al.HeadlineCook's Three Voyages with AtlasPublisherW. Strahan & T. Cadell, et al.Date Published1773-1788 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #26 Selenarchia. Or, the Government of the World in the Moon: A Comical History. Written by that famous wit and cavaleer of France, Monsieur Cyrano Bergerac: and done into English by Tho. St. Serf, Gent. AuthorCyrano de Bergerac, Savinien deHeadlineAstronomical fantasy by Cyrano de Bergerac 1659PublisherPrinted by J. Cottrel, and are to be sold by Hum. RobinsonDate Published1659 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #27 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 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #28 Pseudo-Martyr. Wherein out of Certaine Propositions and Gradations, this Conclusion is Evicted. That those which are of the Romane Religion in this Kindome, may and ought to take the Oathe of Allegeance AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineJohn Donne's 1st book, Pseudo-Martyr, 1610PublisherPrinted by W. Stansby for Walter BurreDate Published1610 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #29 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$1,875StatusSold Lot #36 Euclidis Megarensis Philosophi Platonici Mathematicarum Disciplinarum Janitoris AuthorEuclidHeadlineFirst collected edition of Euclid, Venice 1505PublisherAedibus Ioannis Tacuini [i.e. Johannes Tacuinus]Date Published1505 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold Lot #40 Opere di Galileo Galilei AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadline2nd ed. of Galileo's Works, w/ new materialsPublisherGio. Gaetano TartiniDate Published1718 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #47 The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes... to Which is prefixed the Author's Life... AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' Works with Leviathan, 1750Date Published1750 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 Kabbala Denudata Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRosenroth, Christian Knorr, Baron von, compiler & translatorHeadlineGreat 17th century text of the KabbalahDate Published1677 & 1684 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 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 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #53 Ge'ez and Amharic grammars and lexicons by Hiob Ludolf AuthorLudolf, HiobHeadlineEarly Ethiopic grammars and dictionariesPublisherJohannem David Zunnerum et Nicolaum Wilhelmum HelwigDate Published1698-1702 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #60 De Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex... AuthorMercurialis, HieronymusHeadlineFirst book on sports medicine, illustrated 1587PublisherIuntas [i.e. Giunta]Date Published1587 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books [with] Paradise Regain'd AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery LaneDate Published1688 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 Philosophical transactions: giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)HeadlinePhilosophical Transactions, 1668--1669PublisherPrinted by T.N. for John MartynDate Published1669-1670 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #66 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 #68 The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus AuthorPliny, the ElderHeadlinePliny Historie of the World 1st ed. in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1601 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #70 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 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #76 The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida [&] The Tragedy of Coriolanus AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo tragedies from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #81 De Historia et Causis Plantarum AuthorTheophrastusHeadlineTheophrastus rare incunable herbal 1483PublisherPer Bartholomaeum ConfaloneriumDate Published1483 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #82 Theophrasti de Suffructibus, Herbisque, ac Frugibus Libri Quattuor, Theodoro Gaza Interprete AuthorTheophrastusHeadline1st publication of Theophrastus as medical textPublisherHenricum SyboldDate Publishedc.1530 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #84 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$12,500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next