Sale 850: Rare Books, Manuscripts and More! A PBA Platinum Sale (#850) 11/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 11/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 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 1-28 of 28. Previous|1|Next Lot #5 The Metaphysics of Aristotle, translated from the Greek, with copious notes, in which the Pythagoric and Platonic dogmas respecting numbers and ideas are unfolded from antient sources. To which is added, a dissertation on nullities and diverging series... By Thomas Taylor View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorAristotleHeadlineTaylor's translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, first in English languagePublisherPrinted for the author, by Davis, Wilks, and TaylorDate Published1801 Lot #6 A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophesies, Concerning These Present Times... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astrology)AuthorLilly, WilliamHeadline1645 Lilly's astrological prophecies of EnglandPublisherPrinted for John Partridge and Humphrey BlundenDate Published1645 Lot #8 The Epistles of Jacob Behmen aliter, Teutonicus Philosophus View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorBehmen, JacobHeadline1st English edition Jacob Behmen's Epistles, 1649PublisherPrinted by M. Simmons for Gyles CalvertDate Published1649 Lot #9 Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft / Deudsch View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Heading(Bible in German)Headline1607 illustrated edition of Martin Luther's BiblePublisherZachariae SchurersDate Published1607 Lot #10 Nature's Cabinet Unlock'd. Wherein is Discovered The natural Causes of Metals, Stones, precious Earths, Juyces, Humors, and Spirits, The nature of Plants in general; their Affections, Parts, and Kinds in Particular View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorBrowne, Sir ThomasHeadlineNature's Cabinet attr. to Sir Thomas Browne, 1657PublisherPrinted for Edward FarnhamDate Published1657 Lot #18 Destinée sociale View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorConsiderant, VictorHeadlineConsiderant's Fourierist writings in 3 volsPublisherAu Bureau de la PhalangeDate Published1835; 1838; 1844 Lot #20 Manuel consolateur des cocus. Code pacifique des ménages, ouvrage éminemment utile, suivi 1. d'un tableau des moeurs et usages de différentes nations relativement aux fiancailles, au mariage, à la polygamie, à l'adultère et au divorce...traduit fidèlement de l’Anglais... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cuckoldry)Author[Blocquel, Simon] Baron Commode (pseud.).HeadlineBlocquel's Consolation for the CuckoldPublisherImprimerie de l’Encorné [i.e. Printed for the author chez Bloquel]Date Published[c.1837?] Lot #22 Histoire de la Milice françoise, et les changements qui s'y sont faits depuis l'établissement de la Monarchie dans les Gaules jusqu'à la fin du Règne de Louis le Grand View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorDaniel, R.P.G.Headline2 vol. History of French militaryPublisherDenis Mariette, et al.Date Published1721 Lot #23 The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Authorde Bergerac, CyranoHeadlineCyrano de Bergerac's early sci-fi novels 1687PublisherPrinted for Henry RhodesDate Published1687 Lot #27 An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-West Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America. Including a faithful Account of all their Discoveries, and the unfortunate Death of Captain Cook. Illustrated with a Chart and a Variety of Cuts. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorEllis, W[illiam]HeadlineNarrative of Cook's Third Voyage by Ellis 1782PublisherG. RobinsonDate Published1782 Lot #40 Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineHarvey's De Motu Cordis 1660 ed.PublisherArnold LeersDate Published1660 Lot #44 [The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineChapman's Iliad, first edition of Homer's epic in EnglishPublisher[Printed for Nathaniell Butter]Date Published[1611?; Conjectured publication date from STC] Lot #46 Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore; With Observations on the Public Buildings and other Works of Art in its Vicinity View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorIreland, SamuelHeadlinePicturesque Views on the River Thames 1801-02PublisherPrinted by C. Clarke, Published by T. EgertonDate Published1801-02 Lot #48 De sexcentum & tredecim mosaice sanctionis edictis. Eiusdem Philosophica: prophetica: ac talmudistica pro christiana veritate tuenda cum iuniori Hebreorum synagoga mirabili ingenij acumine disputatio. Eiusdem I cabalistae: seu allegorisan num eruditionem ysagoge. Eiusde de noves doctrinae orinibus: & totius perypatentici dogmatis nexu compendium. View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRicci, PaoloHeadline4 early Kabbalah texts of Paolo Ricci, 1510PublisherGiacomo BurgofranchoDate Published1510 Lot #53 [Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M... View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorLuther, MartinHeadlineMartin Luther's works Jena ed., 1557-1579PublisherDonatus Ritzenhayn, Thomas Rebart & Christian RhodiusDate Published1557-1579 Lot #58 The Arte of Warre...set foorth in English by Peter Withorne [with] Certaine Waies for the Ordering of Souldiours in battelray, and setting of battailes, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: And also fugures of certaine new plattes for fortification of towers... [and] Most Briefe Tables to know readily how many ranckes of footmen armed with cvorslettes as unarmed, go to the making of a iust battaile from a hundred unto twenty thousand...by Girolamo Cataneo View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorMachiavelli, Niccolo and Girolamo CataneoHeadlineMachiavelli's Art of War early English 1588PublisherThomas East for John WightDate Published1588 Lot #64 The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, Dogs, &c. and how to Cure them View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold AuthorM[arkham, G[ervase]HeadlineRare Young Sportsman's Delight c. 1712PublisherPrinted for G. Conyers at the Gold Ring in Little BritainDate Published[c. 1712] Lot #66 The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold AuthorNostradamus, Michel deHeadlineEnglish edition of Nostradamus 1672PublisherPrinted by Thomas Ratliffe & Nathaniel ThompsonDate Published1672 Lot #70 De Legibus [with] Epistole [The Laws and Epistles] View details Estimate$50,000 - $80,000StatusUnsold AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst Edition of Plato's Laws and EpistlesDate Published[1485] Lot #73 Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou Essai de physique sociale View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorQuetelet, A[dolphe]HeadlineQuetelet's Treatise on Man 1st in FrenchPublisherBachelier, Imprimeur-LibraireDate Published1835 Lot #75 Les Confessions de J. J. Rousseau, Suivies des Reveries du Promeneur Solitarie View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorRousseau, J[ean] J[acques]HeadlineRousseau's Confessions 1st Geneva 1782Date Published1782 Lot #76 Du système industriel View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorSaint-Simon, Henri [de]HeadlineSaint-Simon's Industrial System 1821PublisherChez Antoine-Augustin RenouardDate Published1821 Lot #79 Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold AuthorSchenk, PieterHeadlineSpectacular and rare engravings of 17th c. citiesProvenanceWilliam Henry Crocker (1861-1937)Publisher[P. Schenk]Date Published1702 Lot #81 Cantus, songs and fancies: To thre, foure, or five partes, both apt for voices and viols. With a briefe introduction of musick, as is taught in the musick-schoule of Aberdene by T. D. Mr. of Musick View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Scotland)AuthorDavidson, Thomas and John ForbesHeadline1st ed. Davidson's Songs & Fancies, 2nd known copyProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Iohn Forbes, and are to be sold at his shopDate Published1662 Lot #82 Bifolium from the Nuremberg Chronicle comprising folios XII and XIII View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Heading(Secunda Etas Mundi)AuthorAnonymousHeadlineWorld map from the Nuremberg ChroniclePublisherHartmann SchedelDate Published1493 Lot #88 A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster: Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate and Government of those Cities. Written at first in the Year MDXCVIII. By John Stow...Since Reprinted and Augmented by the Author...and Others...Now Lastly Corrected, Improved and very much Enlarged...to the Present Time; by John Strype View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorStow, JohnHeadlineA Survey of the Cities of London and WestminsterPublisherA. Churchill, J. Knapton, et alDate Published[1720] Lot #91 [The thirteene bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelue being the worke of the diuine poet Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphæus Vegius...] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorVirgilHeadlineVirgil's Aeneid, 1596Publisher[Printed by Thomas Creede]Date Published[1596] Lot #92 The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorWalton, IzaakHeadlineSigned presentation of Izaak Walton's Lives, 1670PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb for Richard MarriottDate Published1670 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next