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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 #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 #62 Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIX Heading(Leibniz, G.W.)HeadlineActa Eruditorum journal with papers by Leibniz, 1689PublisherProstant apud. J. Grossium & J.F. GleditschiumDate Published1689 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #73 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Editio Ultima Cui Accedit Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones ac Differentias cum enumeratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineAmsterdam pirate edition of Newton's PrincipiaPublisherSumptibus SocietatisDate Published1723 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold 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 #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 #98 The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries AuthorWasson, R. Gordon, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A.P. RuckHeadlineWasson's work on entheogens in ancient Greek ritual, first edition in jacketPublisherHarcourt Brace JovanovichDate Published[1978] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #102 Alciphron's Epistles; In Which are Described, The Domestic Manners, The Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece. Now First Translated from the Greek. AuthorAlciphronHeadlineAlciphron, 1st ed. in English, 1791PublisherPrinted for G.G.J. and J. Robinson; Leigh and Sotheby; and R. FaulderDate Published1791 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold 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 Lot #111 The Evidences Against Christianity AuthorHittell, John S.HeadlinePresentation copy of Hittell on ChristianityPublisherCalvin BlanchardDate Published1857 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #114 The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. AuthorPhalarisHeadlineEpistles of Phalaris, 1749PublisherPrinted for R. FrancklinDate Published1749 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next