Sale 830: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction (#830) 02/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Closed

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  • Heading
    (Alchemy)
  • Headline
    Musaeum Hermeticum with folding alchemical plates
  • Date Published
    1749
Estimate$4,000 - $6,000
Sold for$1,875
StatusSold
4
  • Author
    Augustine, Saint
  • Headline
    Augustine Citie of God 1st in English 1610
  • Publisher
    Printed by George Eld
  • Date Published
    1610
Estimate$15,000 - $25,000
StatusUnsold
9
  • Heading
    (Bible in English)
  • Headline
    1st Edition Douay-Rheims New Testament, 1582
  • Publisher
    John Fogny
  • Date Published
    1582
Estimate$10,000 - $15,000
Sold for$6,250
StatusSold
10
  • Heading
    (Bible in Latin)
  • Author
    Tremellius, Immanuel and Franciscus Junius, translators
  • Headline
    1st complete Latin Bible printed in England, 1580
  • Publisher
    Excudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis W.N.
  • Date Published
    1580
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
19
  • Heading
    (Caxton, William)
  • Author
    Winship, George Parker
  • Headline
    Rare leaf book with 1482 Caxton leaf
  • Publisher
    Edmund Byne Hackett / The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc.
  • Date Published
    1938
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
Sold for$2,500
StatusSold
21
  • Heading
    (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
  • Author
    Fernández de Avellaneda, Alonso
  • Headline
    Continuation of Don Quixote in English 1705
  • Publisher
    Printed for Jeffery Wale and John Senex
  • Date Published
    1705
Estimate$4,000 - $6,000
StatusUnsold
31
  • Author
    Curie, Marie
  • Headline
    Marie Curie's bio of her husband w/signed card
  • Publisher
    The Macmillan Company
  • Date Published
    1923
Estimate$6,000 - $9,000
StatusUnsold
32
  • Heading
    (Darwin, Charles, his book)
  • Author
    Carret, Jules
  • Headline
    Darwin's copy of Carret on Earth's axis
  • Publisher
    Librairie F. Savy
  • Date Published
    1877
Estimate$30,000 - $50,000
Sold for$20,000
StatusSold
40
  • Author
    Einstein, Albert
  • Headline
    Einstein applies Newton to star clusters
  • Publisher
    Verlag Julius Springer
  • Date Published
    1921
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$1,250
StatusSold
41
  • Author
    Einstein, Albert
  • Headline
    Einstein's son's copies of his papers
  • Publisher
    Gauthier-Villars et Cie.
  • Date Published
    1921
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$1,250
StatusSold
43
  • Heading
    (Feynman, Richard P., his copy)
  • Author
    [Feynman, Richard P.]; Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson, Jr.
  • Headline
    Feynman's copy of Quantum Mechanics textbook
  • Publisher
    McGraw-Hill Book Company
  • Date Published
    1935
Estimate$20,000 - $30,000
Sold for$18,750
StatusSold
58
  • Heading
    (Fore-edge Paintings)
  • Author
    Boccaccio, Giovanni
  • Headline
    Boccaccio with 5 cherubic fore-edge paintings
  • Publisher
    [chez Pierre Prault]
  • Date Published
    1757-1761
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
StatusUnsold
60
  • Heading
    (Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich)
  • Author
    Spinoza, Baruch
  • Headline
    Gauss' copy of Spinoza's 1st book
  • Publisher
    Johannem Riewerts
  • Date Published
    1663
Estimate$25,000 - $35,000
StatusUnsold
61
  • Author
    Gerard, John
  • Headline
    Gerard's massive Herbal, 1633
  • Publisher
    Norton & Whitakers
  • Date Published
    1633
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
Sold for$1,875
StatusSold
62
  • Author
    Hawking, Stephen W.
  • Headline
    Stephen Hawking's copy of his own book
  • Publisher
    Bantam Books
  • Date Published
    [1990]
Estimate$6,000 - $9,000
Sold for$5,000
StatusSold
67
  • Author
    Imbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban]
  • Headline
    Medical treatment for slaves in Brazil, 1834
  • Publisher
    Na typ. imp. e const. de Seignot-Plancheret
  • Date Published
    1834
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
73
  • Author
    La Condamine, Charles-Marie de
  • Headline
    La Condamine maps Ecuador, 1751
  • Publisher
    De l'Imprimerie Royale
  • Date Published
    1751
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
StatusUnsold
76
  • Heading
    (Leaf, circa 1533)
  • Headline
    Printed book of hours leaf with large painting
  • Publisher
    Germain and Gillet Hardoyn?
  • Date Published
    c.1533-1541
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$1,250
StatusSold
80
  • Author
    Machiavelli, Niccolò
  • Headline
    Machiavelli's Discourses & Prince 1661-3
  • Publisher
    Printed for Thos. Dring
  • Date Published
    1663; 1661
Estimate$8,000 - $12,000
StatusUnsold
84
  • Author
    Mesmer, Franz
  • Headline
    Ms. of Mesmer's Magnetic Healing
  • Date Published
    Late 18th-early 19th century
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
Sold for$2,500
StatusSold
89
  • Author
    Newton, Isaac
  • Headline
    Newton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)
  • Publisher
    Sumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm Verbeek
  • Date Published
    1714 [&] 1732
Estimate$5,000 - $8,000
Sold for$4,375
StatusSold
90
  • Author
    Newton, Isaac
  • Headline
    Newton's System of the World, 1738
  • Publisher
    Printed for F. Fayram
  • Date Published
    1728
Estimate$15,000 - $25,000
Sold for$12,500
StatusSold
96
  • Author
    Plato
  • Headline
    First edition in English of Plato's Republic
  • Publisher
    Robert and Andrew Foulis
  • Date Published
    1763
Estimate$15,000 - $25,000
Sold for$12,500
StatusSold
105
  • Heading
    (Tuberculosis)
  • Author
    Schatz, Albert & Selman A. Waksman
  • Headline
    Cure for Tuberculosis revealed
  • Publisher
    Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
  • Date Published
    1944
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$1,625
StatusSold
108
  • Author
    Wallace, Alfred Russel & Charles Darwin
  • Headline
    Wallace on zoological geography of Malay Peninsula
  • Publisher
    Longman, Green, et al.
  • Date Published
    1860
Estimate$5,000 - $8,000
StatusUnsold
110
  • Author
    Walton, Izaak
  • Headline
    Signed presentation of Izaak Walton's Lives, 1670
  • Publisher
    Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott
  • Date Published
    1670
Estimate$6,000 - $9,000
StatusUnsold
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