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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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Aesop)AuthorOgilby, JohnHeadlineEarly edition of Ogilby's AesopPublisherPrinted by Thomas Warren for Andrew CrookDate Published1651 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 View details Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold 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 Lot #7 The Holy Bible. Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament [with] The Book of Common Prayer View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineLarge paper copy of the 1660 Restoration BiblePublisherJohn FieldDate Published1659-1660 Lot #9 Novum Testamentum Graecum [with] Biblia Hebraica View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Bible)HeadlinePlantin Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin 1584PublisherEx officina Christophori PlantiniDate Published1584 Lot #11 The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher. Translated by William Law. View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorBoehme, JacobHeadlineWorks of Jacob Boehme untrimmed in original boardsPublisherPrinted for M. RichardsonDate Published1764-1781 Lot #14 Il libro del cortegiano View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorCastglione, Baldassare, conteHeadlineCastiglione's courtly manual, 1528PublisherPer gli heredi di Filippo di GiuntaDate PublishedOctober, 1528 Lot #15 William Caxton and the First English Press: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay... Together with an Original Leaf of the Polycronicon View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorWinship, George ParkerHeadlineRare leaf book with 1482 Caxton leafPublisherEdmund Byne Hackett / The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc.Date Published1938 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold AuthorCoke, EdmundHeadlineCoke on Littleton, first edition 1628PublisherPrinted for the Societie of StationersDate Published1628 Lot #21 Set of Cook’s Three Voyages including Atlas View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorCook, James, et al.HeadlineCook's Three Voyages with AtlasPublisherW. Strahan & T. Cadell, et al.Date Published1773-1788 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. View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorCyrano de Bergerac, Savinien deHeadlineAstronomical fantasy by Cyrano de Bergerac 1659PublisherPrinted by J. Cottrel, and are to be sold by Hum. RobinsonDate Published1659 Lot #27 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineRosebury copy of John Donne's lettersPublisherPrinted by J. Flesher, for Richard MarriotDate Published1651 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorDonne, JohnHeadlineJohn Donne's 1st book, Pseudo-Martyr, 1610PublisherPrinted by W. Stansby for Walter BurreDate Published1610 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold 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 #36 Euclidis Megarensis Philosophi Platonici Mathematicarum Disciplinarum Janitoris View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000StatusUnsold AuthorEuclidHeadlineFirst collected edition of Euclid, Venice 1505PublisherAedibus Ioannis Tacuini [i.e. Johannes Tacuinus]Date Published1505 Lot #40 Opere di Galileo Galilei View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadline2nd ed. of Galileo's Works, w/ new materialsPublisherGio. Gaetano TartiniDate Published1718 Lot #47 The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes... to Which is prefixed the Author's Life... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' Works with Leviathan, 1750Date Published1750 Lot #49 Kabbala Denudata View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRosenroth, Christian Knorr, Baron von, compiler & translatorHeadlineGreat 17th century text of the KabbalahDate Published1677 & 1684 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 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorLilly, WilliamHeadlineAstrology by Wm. Lilly with woodcuts 1683PublisherPrinted and are to be sold by John How... and Thomas MalthusDate Published1683 Lot #53 Ge'ez and Amharic grammars and lexicons by Hiob Ludolf View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorLudolf, HiobHeadlineEarly Ethiopic grammars and dictionariesPublisherJohannem David Zunnerum et Nicolaum Wilhelmum HelwigDate Published1698-1702 Lot #60 De Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMercurialis, HieronymusHeadlineFirst book on sports medicine, illustrated 1587PublisherIuntas [i.e. Giunta]Date Published1587 Lot #61 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books [with] Paradise Regain'd View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadline1st illustrated edition of Paradise Lost 1688PublisherPrinted by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery LaneDate Published1688 Lot #65 Philosophical transactions: giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)HeadlinePhilosophical Transactions, 1668--1669PublisherPrinted by T.N. for John MartynDate Published1669-1670 Lot #66 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 #68 The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorPliny, the ElderHeadlinePliny Historie of the World 1st ed. in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1601 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 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Raleigh, Sir Walter)HeadlineTrials of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1648PublisherPrinted by William Wilson, for Abel RoperDate Published1648 Lot #76 The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida [&] The Tragedy of Coriolanus View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo tragedies from 2nd Folio ShakespeareDate Published[1632] Lot #81 De Historia et Causis Plantarum View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorTheophrastusHeadlineTheophrastus rare incunable herbal 1483PublisherPer Bartholomaeum ConfaloneriumDate Published1483 Lot #82 Theophrasti de Suffructibus, Herbisque, ac Frugibus Libri Quattuor, Theodoro Gaza Interprete View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorTheophrastusHeadline1st publication of Theophrastus as medical textPublisherHenricum SyboldDate Publishedc.1530 Lot #84 The Aldine Thucydides, with scholia and History of the Emperors by Herodian View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorThucydidesHeadlineAldine Thucydides 1502, first printed Greek textPublisherAldus ManutiusDate Published1502-1503 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next