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AuthorBailly, (Jean-Sylvain)HeadlineTraité de l'Astronomie Indienne et OrientalePublisherChex Debure l'aineDate Published1787 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #10 Traité Élémentaire d'Astronomie Physique AuthorBiot, J(ean)-B(aptiste)HeadlineTraité Élémentaire d'Astronomie PhysiquePublisherBachelierDate Published1814-47 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #11 The Laws of Life, With Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls AuthorBlackwell, ElizabethHeadlineFirst book by the first American Woman DoctorPublisherGeorge P. PutnamDate Published1852 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 Academie des Sciences et des Arts, Contenant les Vies, & les Eloges Historiques des Hommes Illustres AuthorBullart, IsaacHeadlineAcademie des Sciences et des ArtsPublisherLouis BilaineDate Published1682 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #22 The Narcissus: Its History and Culture with Coloured Plates and Descriptions of all Known Species and Principal Varieties AuthorBurbidge, F.W.HeadlineThe Narcissus - 48 hand-colored platesPublisherL. Reeve & Co.Date Published1875 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #24 L'art de Faire, Gouverner, et Perfectionner Les Vins. [Bound with]: Parmentier, [Antoine-Augustin] L'art de Faire les Eaux-de-Vie, d'apres la Doctrine de Chaptal AuthorChaptal, [Jean-Antoine, comte de Chanteloup]HeadlineL'art de Faire Gouverner et Perfectionner Les VinPublisherChex Delain FilsDate PublishedAn X - 1801 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #33 Canadensium Plantarum, aliarumque nondum editarum Historia cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicum parisiense. AuthorCornut, Jacques PhilippeHeadlineJ.P. Cornut Canadensium Plantarum 1635PublisherSimonem le MoyneDate Published1635 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #35 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life HeadingzzfAuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's On the Origin of Species 3rd AmericanPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1860 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #36 On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's On the Origin of Species 4th EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1866 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #37 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man First EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #38 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man 1887 EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1887 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #39 Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, in a course of Lectures for the Board of Agriculture. AuthorDavy, HumphryHeadlineElements of Agricultural Chemistry by DavyPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1813 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #42 Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques Terrestreset Fluviatiles de la France AuthorDraparnaud, Jacues-Philippe-RamondHeadlineHistory of the mollusques of FrancePublisherChez D. colas and Chez GabonDate Published[an XIII, i.e. 1805] View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #55 Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates AuthorFranklin, BenjaminHeadlineBen Franklin's Experiments on Electricity 1774PublisherPrinted for F. NewberyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500StatusUnsold Lot #58 Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani. Tomus Primus (-Octavus) [Together with]: Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani. Fasciculus Primus (-Quarti pars Prima) AuthorHaller, Albrecht vonHeadlineHaller's Elementa PhysiologiaePublisherMarci-Michael Bousquet / Sigismundi D'Arnay / Francisci Grasset / Julii Henrici PottDate Published1757-1778, 1782 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 Annotationessur la premier et second libres ,,,prognostique Hippocrates par M. Martin docteur …la faculté de medecin do Paris Heading(Hippocrates)Author**HeadlineManuscript volume on HippocratesDate Published18th century? View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #71 A physical essay on the senses... AuthorLe Cat, [Claude Nicolas]HeadlineA physical essay on the senses... by Le CatPublisherFor R. GriffithsDate Published1750 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #76 The Maternal Physician; a Treatise on the Nurture and Management of Infants, from the Birth Until Two Years Old. Being the Result of Sixteen Years' Experience in the Nursery. Illustrated By Extracts from the most approved Medical Authors. By An American Matron. Heading(Medical)Author"An American Matron"HeadlineThe Maternal Physician 1811PublisherIsaac RileyDate Published1811 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #77 Botica General de Remedios Experimentados. Heading(Medical Manuscript)Author**HeadlineBotica General de Remedios Experimentados.Date Published18th century? View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #80 Essays on Landscape Gardening, and on Uniting Picturesque Effect with Rural Scenery: Containing Directions for Laying Out and Improving the Grounds Connected with a Country Residence AuthorMorris, RichardHeadlineEssays on Landscape Gardening - Color platesPublisherJ. TaylorDate Published1825 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #84 Bound Collection of Twenty-Seven American Pamphlets, Offprints, and Documents on Natural History Heading(Natural History)Author**HeadlineNatural History SammelbandDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #91 Presentation book to Joseph B. Crockett upon retiring as President of the San Francisco Gas & Electric Co. in 1902 - signed by 396 employees of the company Heading(Pacific Gas & Electric)Author**HeadlinePre-PG&E president retires with special bookDate Published1902 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #93 The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours AuthorPriestley, JosephHeadlinePriestly on Vision, Light and Color 1772PublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1772 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #96 Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raiß, so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, Fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc. AuthorRauwolf, LeonhartHeadlineAigentliche Beschreibung der Raiß 1582Publisher[Lauingen]Date Published1582 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #97 The Life of Robert Fulton...Accompanied with copies of Fulton's Original Drawings and Numerous Plates AuthorReigart, J. FranklinHeadlineLife of Robert FultonPublisherC.G. HendersonDate Published1856 View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #116 Programming a Computer for Playing Chess. [In]: The Philosophical Magazine, Volume 41, Number 314 AuthorShannon, Claude E.HeadlineProgramming a Computer for Playing ChessPublisherTaylor & FrancisDate Published[1950] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next