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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 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Alchemy and Occult)AuthorColonna, FrancescoHeadlineAlchemical interpretation of Hypnerotomachia PoliphiliPublisherChez Matthieu GuillemotDate Published1600 Lot #37 Eusebii Pamphili, episcopi Caesareae, quae est Palaestinae, De vita Co[n]stantini Imperat. libri quinq[ue] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorEusebius of CaesareaHeadlineEusebius' Life of Constantine, 1546PublisherMichaelis FezandatDate Published1546 Lot #48 L'Annonciateur du Bien qui Viendra: Premier Appel à L'Humanité Actuelle (The Herald of the Coming Good) View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorGurdjieff, Georges IvanovitchHeadlineSuppressed first French edition of Gurdjieff's Herald of the Coming Good, 1933Date Published1933 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. View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineFirst Edition in English of Hobbes' Elements of Philosophy, 1656PublisherPrinted by R.&W. Leybourn for Andrew CrockeDate Published1656 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... View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineHobbes' De Cive, first in English, 1651PublisherPrinted by J.G. for R. RoystonDate Published1651 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. View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRicci, PaoloHeadline4 early Kabbalah texts of Paolo Ricci, 1510PublisherGiacomo BurgofranchoDate Published1510 Lot #62 Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIX View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Leibniz, G.W.)HeadlineActa Eruditorum journal with papers by Leibniz, 1689PublisherProstant apud. J. Grossium & J.F. GleditschiumDate Published1689 Lot #73 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Editio Ultima Cui Accedit Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones ac Differentias cum enumeratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineAmsterdam pirate edition of Newton's PrincipiaPublisherSumptibus SocietatisDate Published1723 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 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Plato)AuthorFicino, Marsilio, translatorHeadlineFicino's Plato in 17th century prize bindingPublisher[Apud H. Frobenium et N. Episcopium]Date Published1561 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Stonehenge)AuthorJones, Inigo; Walter Charleton; John WebbHeadlineInigo Jones on Roman origin of Stonehenge, 1725PublisherD. Browne Junior, J. Woodman and D. LyonDate Published1725 Lot #98 The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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] Lot #102 Alciphron's Epistles; In Which are Described, The Domestic Manners, The Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece. Now First Translated from the Greek. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorAlciphronHeadlineAlciphron, 1st ed. in English, 1791PublisherPrinted for G.G.J. and J. Robinson; Leigh and Sotheby; and R. FaulderDate Published1791 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... View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorBasilio, Sancho de Sana Justa y RufinoHeadlineEarly Manila rice paper, archbishop's addressPublisherEn la Imprenta del Seminario EclesiasticoDate Published1783 Lot #111 The Evidences Against Christianity View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorHittell, John S.HeadlinePresentation copy of Hittell on ChristianityPublisherCalvin BlanchardDate Published1857 Lot #114 The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPhalarisHeadlineEpistles of Phalaris, 1749PublisherPrinted for R. FrancklinDate Published1749 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next