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Unfolding to the Meanest Capacity the Way to Dispute Well, and to Refute all Fallacies Whatsoever View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(Ainsworth, Henry)AuthorCoke, ZacharyHeadlineZachary Coke, The Art of Logick 1654ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Robert White, for George CalvertDate Published1654 Lot #6 France Illustrated, Exhibiting its Landscape Scenery, Antiquities, Military and Ecclesiastical Architecture, &c. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Allom, Thomas)AuthorWright, G.N.HeadlineWith over 100 plates by Thomas AllomPublisherFisher, Son, & Co.Date Published[c.1850] Lot #7 China in a Series of Views, Displaying The Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Allom, Thomas, illustrator)AuthorWright, George NewenhamHeadlineAllom's China with steel-engraved platesPublisherFisher, Son & Co.Date Published[c.1843] Lot #12 Sketches of Vesuvius, with Short Accounts of Its Principal Eruptions View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorAuldjo, JohnHeadlineJohn Auldjo Sketches of Vesuvius 1832PublisherGeorge GlassDate Published1832 Lot #16 Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes. Written in Latin by the Most Eminent Illustrious & Famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Vicont St Alban Counsilour of Estate and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineFrancis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum in EnglishProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Leon: Lichfield, printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed. ForrestDate Published1640 Lot #19 A Treatise on the Three Different Digestions, and Discharges of the Human Body. And the Diseases of their Principal Organs View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold AuthorBarry, EdwardHeadlineBarry's Treatise on Digestions and DischargesPublisherA. MillarDate Published[1759] Lot #23 The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Bennett)AuthorParkman, FrancisHeadlineIllustrated by Remington, bound by BennettPublisherLittle, Brown, and CompanyDate Published1894 Lot #32 The Grave, a Poem View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertHeadlineWilliam Blake engravings for Blair's Grave 1808PublisherPrinted by T. Bensley... for the Proprietor, R.H. CromekDate Published1808 Lot #33 Jerusalem. A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineJerusalem, 1st Trianon Blake facsimilePublisherTrianon Press for The William Blake TrustDate Published[1951] Lot #34 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [with] The Book of Ahania View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineTwo Trianon Blake facsimile editionsPublisher[Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust]Date Published[1959]; [1973] Lot #35 Milton: A Poem View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineTrianon Blake, Milton: A Poem, 1967Publisher[Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust]Date Published[1967] Lot #36 The Book of Los - deluxe copy with copper plate View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineDeluxe copy, Trianon Blake, Book of LosPublisher[Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust]Date Published[1976] Lot #37 Three works illustrated by William Blake View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorBlake, William; John MiltonHeadlineThree works illustrated by William BlakeDate Published1926-1967 Lot #47 An Introduction to Astronomy, in a Series of Letters from a Preceptor to His Pupil View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBonnycastle, JohnHeadlineBonnycastle's Intro to Astronomy, 1816PublisherJ. NunnDate Published1816 Lot #54 Two Little Trains View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBrown, Margaret Wise and Jean CharlotHeadlineTwo Little Trains In scarce jacketPublisherWilliam R. ScottDate Published1949 Lot #55 Little Fur Family View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorBrown, Margaret WiseHeadlineLittle Fur Family with original fur binding & two part boxPublisherHarper & Bros.Date Published1946 Lot #65 Illustrations to Don Quixote. Designed by Henry Alken. Engraved by John Zeitter. And Dedicated to the Memory of Cervantes View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorAlken, Henry ThomasHeadlineEtchings by Alken for Don QuixotePublisherS.H. Hawkings, printerDate Published1831 Lot #68 Les Principales avantures de l’incomparable chevalier errant Don Quichotte de La Manche; peintes par Charles Coypel, premier peintre du roi, Et gravées, sous sa direction, par les plus habiles Artistes en ce genre View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineSuite of most famous Quixote illustrationsPublisherJacques-François ChereauDate Publishedc.1747-1770 Lot #79 Illustrations of the Land and Fresh Water Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with Figures, Descriptions, and Localities of All the Species View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Conchology)AuthorBrown, ThomasHeadlineWith 27 hand-colored lithograph plates of shellsPublisherSmith, Elder, and Co.; MacLachlan and StewartDate Published[1845] Lot #85 The History Of The Great Plague In London, In The Year 1665, Containing Observations And Memorials Of The Most Remarkable Occurrences, Both Public And Private, That Happened During That Dreadful period. By A Citizen Who Lived The Whole Time In London View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Author[Defoe, Daniel]HeadlineDefoe's history of the London PlagueProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted By H. TeapeDate Published1819 Lot #86 Of Bodies, and Of Mans Soul. To Discover the Immortality of Reasonable Souls. With Two Discourses of the Powder of Sympathy, and of the Vegetation of Plants View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorDigby, Sir KenelmHeadlineKenelm Digby Powder of Sympathy 1669ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn WilliamsDate Published1669 Lot #88 Paradise Lost View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Doré, Gustave)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineParadise Lost illustrated by DoréProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherCassell & CompanyDate Published[c.1890] Lot #94 Äther und Relativitatstheorie: Rede Gehalten am 5. Mai 1920 an der Reichs-Universität zu Leiden View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein on the fabric of spacetimePublisherSpringerDate Published1920 Lot #104 Les Mamelles de Tirésias View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Ferat, Serge)AuthorApollinaire, GuillaumeHeadlineApollinaire's Surrealist Breasts of TiresiasPublisherÉditions SicDate Published1918 Lot #106 Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics. To which are added, a Plain Method of Finding the Distances of all the Planets from the Sun, by the Transit of Venus over the Sun's Disc, in the Year 1761... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorFerguson, JamesHeadlineFerguson's Astronomy on Newton's PrinciplesPublisherW. Strahan, et alDate Published1673 [i.e. 1773] Lot #113 Le Decameron de Jean Boccace View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$2,250StatusSold Heading(Fore-edge Paintings)AuthorBoccaccio, GiovanniHeadlineBoccaccio with 5 cherubic fore-edge paintingsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisher[chez Pierre Prault]Date Published1757-1761 Lot #124 Sapho View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Gorguet, Auguste-François, illustrator)AuthorDaudet, AlphonseHeadlineDaudet's Sapho, 1/12, plates in multiple statesPublisherArmand MagnierDate Published1897 Lot #127 A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHawking, StephenHeadlineBrief History of Time 1st Book Club editionPublisherBantamDate Published[1988] Lot #134 Opera Philosophica, quae Latinè scripsit View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadline1st ed. Hobbes works, incl. Latin LeviathanProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherApud Ioannem BlaeuDate Published1668 Lot #136 The Dance of Death; From the Original Designs of Hans Holbein View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorHolbein, HansHeadlineWith 30 hand-colored plates after Hans HolbeinPublisherJ. CoxheadDate Published1816 Lot #137 Boylston Prize Dissertations for the Years 1836 and 1837 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorHolmes, Oliver WendellHeadlineThree medical essays from Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisherCharles C. Little and James BrownDate Published[1838] Lot #139 Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorHoraceHeadlineEngraved by John PinePublisherJohannes PineDate Published1733-1737 Lot #162 Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorLavater, John CasparHeadlineLavater's Physiognomy in English 1792ProvenanceBookplates of the Grolier ClubPublisherPrinted for John Murray... and T. HollowayDate Published1792 Lot #170 An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorLocke, JohnHeadlineJohn Locke's Humane Understanding 1694PublisherAwnsham and John Churchil, and Samuel ManshipDate Published1694 Lot #176 L'Anatomie du Corps Humain. Avc les Maladies, & les Remedes pour les guerir View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Medicine)Headline17th c. illustrated medical textProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherChez Jean Couterot, & Louis GuerinDate Published1684 Lot #177 Cosmographie Élementaire, Divisée en Parties Astronomique et Géographique View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMentelle, EdmeHeadlineMentelle's Cosmographie Élementaire, An VIIPublisherChez Théophile BarroisDate PublishedAn VII [1798-9] Lot #200 Twelve illustrated plates from the Hotel Del Monte menus by Jo Mora View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorMora, JoHeadlineIllustrations from Jo Mora's Del Monte menusPublisherHotel Del MonteDate Published1936 Lot #202 A Tutor To Astronomy And Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the USE of both the GLOBES, Celestial and Terrestrial View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorMoxon, JosephHeadlineTutor To Astronomy And Geography - Moxon 1674PublisherThomas Royroft, for the authorDate Published1674 Lot #206 A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorPemberton, HenryHeadlinePemberton on Sir Isaac Newton's PhilosophyPublisherS. PalmerDate Published1728 Lot #207 Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineIsaac Newton on Biblical prophecy, 1733PublisherPrinted by J. Darby & T. Browne for J. Roberts, et alDate Published1733 Lot #208 An Almanac of Twelve Sports by William Nicholson, Words by Rudyard Kipling View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorNicholson, William & Rudyard KiplingHeadlineAlmanac of Twelve Sports William Nicholson 1898ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherWilliam HeinemannDate Published1898 Lot #219 Eight issues of Philosophical Transactions View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline8 issues from 1st year of Philosophical TransactionsDate Published1665-1667 Lot #232 The Comic History of England [with] The Comic History of Rome View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorÀ Beckett, Gilbert AbbottHeadlineComic History of England & Rome Riviere BindingPublisherBradbury, Evans, and Co.Date Published[ca.1850] Lot #234 Rookwood: A Romance View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Riviere and Son)AuthorAinsworth, William HarrisonHeadlineFinely bound by Riviere and Son, w/ Cruikshank illus.PublisherJohn MacroneDate Published1836 Lot #242 Poetical Sketches of Scarborough Illustrated by Twenty-one Engravings of Humourous Subjects View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorRowlandson, ThomasHeadlineRowlandson's Scarborough, with 21 color platesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for R. AckermannDate Published1813 Lot #246 The Cat in the Hat View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorSeuss, Dr.HeadlineCat in the Hat 1st printing in jacketPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1957] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next