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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Official Central Avenue District Directory: A Business and Professional Guide Heading(African American)AuthorVinston, Warren C., compilerHeadlineGuide to LA African American district 1940PublisherThe New Age Publishing CompanyDate PublishedNovember 1940 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold 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 #11 Voyage dans les quatres principales îles des mers d'Afrique pendant les années neuf et dix de la République (1801 et l802), avec l'histoire de la traversée du Capitaine Baudin jusqu'au Port-Louis de l'île Maurice AuthorBory de St.-Vincent, Jean-Baptiste Geneviève MarcellinHeadlineWith Bory de St.-Vincent in the Indian OceanPublisherChez F. BuissonDate Published1804 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #14 Archive of 24 original land patents verifying and itemizing grants made to the Western Pacific Railroad and its successor Central Pacific Railroad as compensation for construction of a portion of the transcontinental railroad Heading(California - Railroad Land Grants)HeadlineRailroad land grants in Calif., 1867-1915Date Published1867-1915 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #16 Archive of material relating to California pioneer Harmon J. (H.J.) Tilden and his family Heading(California - Tilden Family Archive)HeadlineCalifornia archive Judge H.J. Tilden familyDate Published1852-c.1935 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #18 Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 AuthorCarver, JonathanHeadlineCarver's Travels, w/ 2 maps of N. America 1778PublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1778 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold 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 #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 #24 The Shop Signs of Peking Heading(China)AuthorFung, H.K.HeadlineShop Signs of Peking with hand-colored illus.PublisherChinese Painting Association of PekingDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #25 Artillery shell from the Battleship Maine, the sinking of which in Havana Harbor triggered the Spanish American War Heading(Cuba - Spanish American War)HeadlineShell from the battleship "Maine"PublisherWinchester Repeating Arms Co.Date Publishedc.1898 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #26 Álbum de la Revolución Cubana: 1952-1959 Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban Revolution Album Illustrated with Graphic Non-sports CardsPublisherRevista CinegraficoDate Publishedc.1960 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #27 Document signed by Che Guevara as Jefe Depto Inscrucción Heading(Cuba)AuthorGuervara, Ernesto "Che"HeadlineDocument signed by Che GuevaraDate PublishedJanuary 5, 1960 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #28 Historia de Cuba (cover title) Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban history in tobacco cardsPublisherTabacalera Cubana, S.A.Date Published1935 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #29 Manuscript conveying the request of a freed black slave in Cuba to form a "brotherhood" of freed black slaves Heading(Cuba)HeadlineCuban society for freed black slaves, 1852Date Published1852 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #30 Manuscript roster of a company in the 2nd "Battallon de Orden Publico" in Cuba at the start of the Little War (Guerra Chiquita) between Cuban rebels and Spain Heading(Cuba)HeadlineRecruits from jail fight Cuban rebels, 1879Date Published1879 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #44 Ship's Papers for the whaling ship "Nassau", signed by Millard Fillmore as President of the United States and Secretary of State Daniel Webster AuthorFillmore, MillardHeadlineWhaling ship papers signed by Millard FillmoreDate PublishedAugust 6, 1850 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold 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 #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 #64 On the Plains in '65... Twelve Months in the Volunteer Cavalry Service, among the Indians of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Thrilling Adventures, Fine Scenery, and How the Boys Put in the Time in the Far West AuthorHolliday, George H.HeadlinePost-Civil War soldiering on the PlainsPublisher[G.H. Holliday?]Date Published1883 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #67 Manual do Fazendeiro, ou Tratado Domestico sobre as Enfermidades dos Negros AuthorImbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban]HeadlineMedical treatment for slaves in Brazil, 1834PublisherNa typ. imp. e const. de Seignot-PlancheretDate Published1834 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #68 Short Notes of a short Tour in Ireland by Charles Piesse Heading(Ireland)AuthorPiesse, CharlesHeadlineManuscript account of Ireland in 1842PublisherImprimatur. Guil. MathesonDate Published1842 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #70 The West-India Atlas; or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies... AuthorJefferys, ThomasHeadlineJefferys Atlas of the West Indies, completePublisherRobert Sayer and John BennettDate Published1775 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold 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 #79 Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864 Heading(Loyal Publication Society of New York)HeadlineNY Loyal Publication Society tracts, 1863-4PublisherLoyal Publication SocietyDate Published1864-1865 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold 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 #81 The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England [with] Acts and Laws, of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England Heading(Massachusetts)HeadlineFirst printing of 1726 Massachusetts charterPublisherPrinted by B. Green... for Benjamin EliotDate Published1726-1731 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #87 Historical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast, Illustrated Heading(New Jersey)AuthorRose,T. F., H. C. Woolman, and T. T. PriceHeadlineScarce Atlas of New Jersey Coast 1878PublisherWoolman & RoseDate Published1878 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold 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 #93 Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States AuthorPerry, Matthew CalbraithHeadlinePerry's Japan Expedition 3 vols. 1856ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherA.O.P. Nicholson, Printer/Beverley Tucker, Senate PrinterDate Published1856 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #94 Archive of documents regarding the pious fund of the Colegio Maximo de San Pablo de Lima, c.1750 Heading(Peru)HeadlineDocuments regarding pious fund in Peru, 1750Date Publishedc.1750-1760 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold 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 #98 Collection of photographs, broadsides, books, pamphlets, documents, maps, and other items pertaining to railroads in the United States from the mid-19th century the first half of the 20th Heading(Railroad Archive)HeadlinePhotos & ephemera on U.S. RailroadsDate Publishedc.1851-1930s View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold 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 Lot #114 Leaves of Grass Author[Whitman, Walt]HeadlineWhitman's Leaves of Grass 2nd Ed. 1856ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1856 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #115 WWII Marine writes home re: Ernie Pyle, Ie Shima invasion Heading(World War II)HeadlineErnie Pyle death account, Ie Shiama, LeyteDate Published1945 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next