Sale 830: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction (#830) 02/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 830 716 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 1-22 of 22. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens... Heading(Alchemy)HeadlineMusaeum Hermeticum with folding alchemical platesDate Published1749 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #4 Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J.H. AuthorAugustine, SaintHeadlineAugustine Citie of God 1st in English 1610PublisherPrinted by George EldDate Published1610 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #9 The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin Heading(Bible in English)Headline1st Edition Douay-Rheims New Testament, 1582PublisherJohn FognyDate Published1582 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #10 Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive libri canonici... Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti... Heading(Bible in Latin)AuthorTremellius, Immanuel and Franciscus Junius, translatorsHeadline1st complete Latin Bible printed in England, 1580PublisherExcudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis W.N.Date Published1580 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #19 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 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #20 Illustrations to Don Quixote. Designed by Henry Alken. Engraved by John Zeitter. And Dedicated to the Memory of Cervantes Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorAlken, Henry ThomasHeadlineEtchings by Alken for Don QuixotePublisherS.H. Hawkings, printerDate Published1831 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorFernández de Avellaneda, AlonsoHeadlineContinuation of Don Quixote in English 1705PublisherPrinted for Jeffery Wale and John SenexDate Published1705 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #22 El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineA lovely illustrated edition of Don QuixotePublisherDon Joaquin IbarraDate Published1780 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #23 Les principales aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte, representees en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maitres; avec les explications des XXXI planches... AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSumptuous illustrated edition of Don QuixotePublisherJ.F. BassompierreDate Published1776 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #58 Le Decameron de Jean Boccace Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio with 5 cherubic fore-edge paintingsPublisher[chez Pierre Prault]Date Published1757-1761 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #59 Fore-edge painting of The Flight into Egypt [on] Táng lèi hán (唐類函) Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorLu Hongnian (Hung-Nien), artistHeadlineRare 20th c. Chinese Christian fore-edge paintingDate Published17th century? (Painting: c.1936-1942) View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #60 Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratæ. Per Benedictum de Spinoza... Heading(Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich)AuthorSpinoza, BaruchHeadlineGauss' copy of Spinoza's 1st bookPublisherJohannem RiewertsDate Published1663 View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London AuthorGerard, JohnHeadlineGerard's massive Herbal, 1633PublisherNorton & WhitakersDate Published1633 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold 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... AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' De Cive, first in English, 1651PublisherPrinted by J.G. for R. RoystonDate Published1651 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 Ulysses AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineUlysses 1 of 250 signed by Joyce & Matisse L.E.C.PublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1935 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #76 Illuminated printed hours leaf on vellum Heading(Leaf, circa 1533)HeadlinePrinted book of hours leaf with large paintingPublisherGermain and Gillet Hardoyn?Date Publishedc.1533-1541 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold 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. AuthorMachiavelli, NiccolòHeadlineMachiavelli's Discourses & Prince 1661-3PublisherPrinted for Thos. DringDate Published1663; 1661 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #89 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Principia (1714) & Arithmetica (1732)PublisherSumptibus Societatis [&] Joh. et Herm VerbeekDate Published1714 [&] 1732 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #90 A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's System of the World, 1738PublisherPrinted for F. FayramDate Published1728 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold 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... Heading(Pirates)Author[Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]HeadlineBuccaneers of America, 1699 editionPublisherPrinted for Tho. Newborough, et al.Date Published1699 & 1698 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold 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 AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst edition in English of Plato's RepublicPublisherRobert and Andrew FoulisDate Published1763 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #110 The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert AuthorWalton, IzaakHeadlineSigned presentation of Izaak Walton's Lives, 1670PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb for Richard MarriottDate Published1670 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next