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Previous|1|Next Lot #2 Mutus Liber in quo tamen tota Philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur, ter optimo maximo Deo misericordi consecratus, solisque filiis artis dedicatus, authore cujus nomen est Altus View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorAltusHeadlineLiber Mutus, legendary illustrated AlchemyDate Publishedc.1978? Lot #3 Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Alchemy)HeadlineMusaeum Hermeticum with folding alchemical platesDate Published1749 Lot #4 Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J.H. View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold AuthorAugustine, SaintHeadlineAugustine Citie of God 1st in English 1610PublisherPrinted by George EldDate Published1610 Lot #9 The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Headline1st Edition Douay-Rheims New Testament, 1582PublisherJohn FognyDate Published1582 Lot #10 Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive libri canonici... Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in Latin)AuthorTremellius, Immanuel and Franciscus Junius, translatorsHeadline1st complete Latin Bible printed in England, 1580PublisherExcudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis W.N.Date Published1580 Lot #19 William Caxton and the First English Press: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay... Together with an Original Leaf of the Polycronicon View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorWinship, George ParkerHeadlineRare leaf book with 1482 Caxton leafPublisherEdmund Byne Hackett / The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc.Date Published1938 Lot #21 A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorFernández de Avellaneda, AlonsoHeadlineContinuation of Don Quixote in English 1705PublisherPrinted for Jeffery Wale and John SenexDate Published1705 Lot #31 Pierre Curie View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorCurie, MarieHeadlineMarie Curie's bio of her husband w/signed cardPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1923 Lot #32 Le Déplacement Polaire Preuves des Variations de l'Axe Terrestre View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$20,000StatusSold Heading(Darwin, Charles, his book)AuthorCarret, JulesHeadlineDarwin's copy of Carret on Earth's axisPublisherLibrairie F. SavyDate Published1877 Lot #40 Eine einfache Anwendung des Newtonschen Gravitationsgesetzes auf die kugelförmigen Sternhaufen View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein applies Newton to star clustersPublisherVerlag Julius SpringerDate Published1921 Lot #41 Two French publications of Einstein papers that belonged to his son View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein's son's copies of his papersPublisherGauthier-Villars et Cie.Date Published1921 Lot #43 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Heading(Feynman, Richard P., his copy)Author[Feynman, Richard P.]; Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson, Jr.HeadlineFeynman's copy of Quantum Mechanics textbookPublisherMcGraw-Hill Book CompanyDate Published1935 Lot #58 Le Decameron de Jean Boccace View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio with 5 cherubic fore-edge paintingsPublisher[chez Pierre Prault]Date Published1757-1761 Lot #60 Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratæ. Per Benedictum de Spinoza... View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Heading(Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich)AuthorSpinoza, BaruchHeadlineGauss' copy of Spinoza's 1st bookPublisherJohannem RiewertsDate Published1663 Lot #61 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorGerard, JohnHeadlineGerard's massive Herbal, 1633PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 Lot #62 A Brief History of Time View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorHawking, Stephen W.HeadlineStephen Hawking's copy of his own bookPublisherBantam BooksDate Published[1990] Lot #63 Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie... View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' De Cive, first in English, 1651PublisherPrinted by J.G. for R. RoystonDate Published1651 Lot #67 Manual do Fazendeiro, ou Tratado Domestico sobre as Enfermidades dos Negros View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorImbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban]HeadlineMedical treatment for slaves in Brazil, 1834PublisherNa typ. imp. e const. de Seignot-PlancheretDate Published1834 Lot #73 Journal du Voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'Équateur [with] Mesure des Trois Premiers Degres du Méridien dans l'Hemisphere Austral View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorLa Condamine, Charles-Marie deHeadlineLa Condamine maps Ecuador, 1751PublisherDe l'Imprimerie RoyaleDate Published1751 Lot #76 Illuminated printed hours leaf on vellum View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Leaf, circa 1533)HeadlinePrinted book of hours leaf with large paintingPublisherGermain and Gillet Hardoyn?Date Publishedc.1533-1541 Lot #80 Machivel's Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius, Translated out of the Italian. To which is added his Prince. With some Marginal Animadversions Noting and Taxing his Errors. By E.D. View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold AuthorMachiavelli, NiccolòHeadlineMachiavelli's Discourses & Prince 1661-3PublisherPrinted for Thos. DringDate Published1663; 1661 Lot #84 [Aphorisms) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorMesmer, FranzHeadlineMs. of Mesmer's Magnetic HealingDate PublishedLate 18th-early 19th century Lot #89 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)PublisherSumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm VerbeekDate Published1714 [&] 1732 Lot #90 A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's System of the World, 1738PublisherPrinted for F. FayramDate Published1728 Lot #95 The History of the Bucaniers of America; from their First Original down to this Time; written in several languages, and now collected into one volume. [bound together with] Lussan, Raveneau de. A Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, by the Bucaniers or Freebooters of America in the Year 1684 to 1689... View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Pirates)Author[Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]HeadlineBuccaneers of America, 1699 editionPublisherPrinted for Tho. Newborough, et al.Date Published1699 & 1698 Lot #96 The Republic of Plato. In ten books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst edition in English of Plato's RepublicPublisherRobert and Andrew FoulisDate Published1763 Lot #105 Effect of Streptomycin and Other Antibiotic Substances upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related Organisms View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Heading(Tuberculosis)AuthorSchatz, Albert & Selman A. WaksmanHeadlineCure for Tuberculosis revealedPublisherSociety for Experimental Biology and MedicineDate Published1944 Lot #108 On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago. By Alfred R. Wallace... communicated by Charles Darwin View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorWallace, Alfred Russel & Charles DarwinHeadlineWallace on zoological geography of Malay PeninsulaPublisherLongman, Green, et al.Date Published1860 Lot #110 The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorWalton, IzaakHeadlineSigned presentation of Izaak Walton's Lives, 1670PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb for Richard MarriottDate Published1670 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next