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)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 #2 Le Tableau des Riches Inventions: couvertes du voile des feintes amoureuses, qui sont representees dans le songe de Poliphile Heading(Alchemy and Occult)AuthorColonna, FrancescoHeadlineAlchemical interpretation of Hypnerotomachia PoliphilliPublisherChez Matthieu GuillemotDate Published1600 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #3 Aureum vellus, oder, Guldin Schatz und Kunst-Kammer: darinnen der aller fürnemisten, fürtreffenlichsten, ausserlesenesten, herrlichisten und bewehrtesten Auctorum Schrifften und Bücher ... Heading(Alchemy and Occult)AuthorTrismosin, SalomonHeadlineSalomon Trismossin's alchemical treatise Aureum vellus including Splendor SolisPublisherBey Christian Liebezeit in der St. Joh. KirchDate Published1708 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #6 A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophesies, Concerning These Present Times... Heading(Astrology)AuthorLilly, WilliamHeadline1645 Lilly's astrological prophecies of EnglandPublisherPrinted for John Partridge and Humphrey BlundenDate Published1645 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #8 The Epistles of Jacob Behmen aliter, Teutonicus Philosophus AuthorBehmen, JacobHeadline1st English edition Jacob Behmen's Epistles, 1649PublisherPrinted by M. Simmons for Gyles CalvertDate Published1649 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #9 Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft / Deudsch Heading(Bible in German)Headline1607 illustrated edition of Martin Luther's BiblePublisherZachariae SchurersDate Published1607 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold 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 AuthorBrowne, Sir ThomasHeadlineNature's Cabinet attr. to Sir Thomas Browne, 1657PublisherPrinted for Edward FarnhamDate Published1657 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #23 The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun Authorde Bergerac, CyranoHeadlineCyrano de Bergerac's early sci-fi novels 1687PublisherPrinted for Henry RhodesDate Published1687 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold 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. AuthorEllis, W[illiam]HeadlineNarrative of Cook's Third Voyage by Ellis 1782PublisherG. RobinsonDate Published1782 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #40 Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione. AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineHarvey's De Motu Cordis 1660 ed.PublisherArnold LeersDate Published1660 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #44 [The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets] AuthorHomerHeadlineChapman's Iliad, first edition of Homer's epic in EnglishPublisher[Printed for Nathaniell Butter]Date Published[1611?; Conjectured publication date from STC] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold 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 AuthorIreland, SamuelHeadlinePicturesque Views on the River Thames 1801-02PublisherPrinted by C. Clarke, Published by T. EgertonDate Published1801-02 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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. Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRicci, PaoloHeadline4 early Kabbalah texts of Paolo Ricci, 1510PublisherGiacomo BurgofranchoDate Published1510 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #53 [Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M... AuthorLuther, MartinHeadlineMartin Luther's works Jena ed., 1557-1579PublisherDonatus Ritzenhayn, Thomas Rebart & Christian RhodiusDate Published1557-1579 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold 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 AuthorMachiavelli, Niccolo and Girolamo CataneoHeadlineMachiavelli's Art of War early English 1588PublisherThomas East for John WightDate Published1588 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold 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 AuthorM[arkham, G[ervase]HeadlineRare Young Sportsman's Delight c. 1712PublisherPrinted for G. Conyers at the Gold Ring in Little BritainDate Published[c. 1712] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold 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 AuthorNostradamus, Michel deHeadlineEnglish edition of Nostradamus 1672PublisherPrinted by Thomas Ratliffe & Nathaniel ThompsonDate Published1672 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #79 Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta AuthorSchenk, PieterHeadlineSpectacular and rare engravings of 17th c. citiesProvenanceWilliam Henry Crocker (1861-1937)Publisher[P. Schenk]Date Published1702 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold 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 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #82 Bifolium from the Nuremberg Chronicle comprising folios XII and XIII Heading(Secunda Etas Mundi)AuthorAnonymousHeadlineWorld map from the Nuremberg ChroniclePublisherHartmann SchedelDate Published1493 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold 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 AuthorStow, JohnHeadlineA Survey of the Cities of London and WestminsterPublisherA. Churchill, J. Knapton, et alDate Published[1720] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold 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...] AuthorVirgilHeadlineVirgil's Aeneid, 1596Publisher[Printed by Thomas Creede]Date Published[1596] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #92 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 - $9,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next