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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 PoliphiliPublisherChez Matthieu GuillemotDate Published1600 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #14 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$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #36 Maestlin, Michael AuthorEpitome AstronomiaeHeadlineAstronomy book by the mentor of Johannes Kepler, 1588PublisherGeorg GruppenbachDate Published1588 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #37 Eusebii Pamphili, episcopi Caesareae, quae est Palaestinae, De vita Co[n]stantini Imperat. libri quinq[ue] AuthorEusebius of CaesareaHeadlineEusebius' Life of Constantine, 1546PublisherMichaelis FezandatDate Published1546 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #48 L'Annonciateur du Bien qui Viendra: Premier Appel à L'Humanité Actuelle (The Herald of the Coming Good) AuthorGurdjieff, Georges IvanovitchHeadlineSuppressed first French edition of Gurdjieff's Herald of the Coming Good, 1933Date Published1933 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #50 Elements of Philosophy, The First Section Concerning Body. Written in Latine by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. And now translated into English. To which are added six lessons to the professors of mathematicks of the institution of Sr. Henry Savile, in the University of Oxford. AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineFirst Edition in English of Hobbes' Elements of Philosophy, 1656PublisherPrinted by R.&W. Leybourn for Andrew CrockeDate Published1656 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #51 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$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #56 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 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #71 Leaf from Wynkyn de Worde's 1529 Morte D'Arthur Heading(Morte D'Arthur)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineBifolium from Wynken de Worde's Morte D'Arthur, 1529Publisher[Wynkyn de Worde]Date Published[1529] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #80 Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta Quae Exstant...Moscou Syrakousiou, Biōnos Smyrnaiou Eidyllia Heading(Plantin Press)AuthorCallimachusHeadlinePlantin Press Callimachus, 1584PublisherApud Christophorum PlantinumDate Published1584 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #81 Omnia Divini Platonis Opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini, emendatione et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei, summa diligentia repurgata, quibus subjectus est index quam copiosissimus Heading(Plato)AuthorFicino, Marsilio, translatorHeadlineFicino's Plato in 17th century prize bindingPublisher[Apud H. Frobenium et N. Episcopium]Date Published1561 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #82 The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus AuthorPliny, the ElderHeadlinePliny Historie of the World, First Edition in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1601 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #83 [Polybiou Megalopolitou istoriōn biblia 5, kai epitomai 12] / Polybij Megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque AuthorPolybiusHeadlinePolybius' history in Greek and Latin, 1549PublisherPer Ioannem Heruagium / Johannes HerwagenDate Published[1549] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #95 The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored, by Inigo Jones Esq.; Architect General to the King Heading(Stonehenge)AuthorJones, Inigo; Walter Charleton; John WebbHeadlineInigo Jones on Roman origin of Stonehenge, 1725PublisherD. Browne Junior, J. Woodman and D. LyonDate Published1725 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #104 Alocucion Que en el Dia Veinte de Enero del Año Mile Setecientos Ochenta y Tres, Cumpleaños del Rey Nuestro Señor D. Carlos III... AuthorBasilio, Sancho de Sana Justa y RufinoHeadlineEarly Manila rice paper, archbishop's addressPublisherEn la Imprenta del Seminario EclesiasticoDate Published1783 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next