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Previous|12|Next Lot #1 Collection of Ansel Adams Yosemite winter sport and recreation photographs for Donald Tresidder View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold AuthorAdams, AnselHeadlineCollection of Ansel Adams Yosemite photographs and negatives for Donald Tresidder (with additions)Date Publishedc.1928-30 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 #3 Telephone Buildings: Bell System View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(American Telephone and Telegraph Company)HeadlineTelephone Buildings: Bell System, 1930 with 50 orig. architectural photosDate Published[1930] Lot #4 A.L. Aydelott and Associates Architects 1950-1954 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Architecture - A.L. Aydelott)HeadlineUtopian architecture from the Father of Memphis ModernismDate Published[1954] Lot #5 The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorBrillat-Savarin, Jean AnthelmeHeadlineArion Press Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne ThiebaudPublisherArion PressDate Published1994 Lot #6 Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Ashendene Press)AuthorLongusHeadlineAshendene Daphnis and Chloe, 1933PublisherThe Ashendene PressDate Published1933 Lot #7 Institutio Astronomica, Juxta Hypotheseis Tam Veterum Quam Copernici et Tychonis View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorGassendi, PierreHeadlineEarly London edition of Gassendi's Institutio Astronomica, 1653PublisherTypis Jacobi FlesherDate Published1653 Lot #8 Tychonis Brahei, Equitis Dani, Astronomorum Coryphaei, Vita View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorGassendi, PierreHeadlineGassendi's lives of Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, von Peurbach, and RegiomontanusPublisherEx Typographia Adriani VlacqDate Published1655 Lot #9 Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorBallard, J.G.HeadlineWhy I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, first edition, 1968PublisherUnicorn BookshopDate Published1968 Lot #10 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorBaum, L. FrankHeadlinePennyroyal Press edition of The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Barry Moser 1/350PublisherPennyroyal PressDate Published1985 Lot #11 The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe Circa Mccclxxx: Now first printed from a contemporary Manuscript formerly in the Monastery of Sion Middlesex late in the collection of Lea Wilson FSA View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)AuthorWycliffe, John, translatorHeadlineChiswick Press edition of Wycliffe's New Testament, 1848PublisherPrinted at Chiswick by Charles Whittingham for William PickeringDate Published1848 Lot #12 The Congress View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorBorges, Jorge LuisHeadlineThe Congress, limited edition signed by Jorge Luis BorgesPublisherEnitharmon PressDate Published1974 Lot #13 Blueprints for the Torin Corporation building in Van Nuys View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBreuer, MarcelHeadlineBreuer blueprints for Van Nuys Torin Corp, 1955Date Published1955 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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorBrowne, Sir ThomasHeadlineNature's Cabinet attr. to Sir Thomas Browne, 1657PublisherPrinted for Edward FarnhamDate Published1657 Lot #15 Scrapbook of 1860s California ephemera View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(California)HeadlineScrapbook of 1860s San Franciscan politicsDate Publishedc.1860s Lot #16 Album Mexicano. Colección de paisajes, monumentos, costumbres y ciudades principales de La Republica. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorCastro, Casimiro et.al.HeadlineTwenty-eight superb, and rare, lithographs of Mexico CityPublisherAntigua litografia Debray sucs.Date PublishedNo date, c.1880s Lot #17 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: Etchings and Woodcuts by Alan James Robinson View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,750StatusSold Heading(Cheloniidae Press)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineDeluxe copy of Cheloniidae Press Poe with extra suite of prints and ephemeraPublisher[Cheloniidae Press]Date Published[1981] Lot #18 An Odd Bestiary, Or a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals, Culled From Five Centuries of Travelers' Accounts, Natural Histories, Zoologies, Etc., By Authors Famous and Obscure, Arranged as an Abecedary. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,100StatusSold Heading(Cheloniidae Press)AuthorRobinson, Alan JamesHeadlineAlan James Robinson's An Odd Bestiary with extra suite of printsPublisherCheloniidae PressDate Published1982 Lot #19 The Story of Annabelle Ant View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Children's Books)AuthorWilliamson, Mary E. and Mary K. LuckettHeadlineOriginal maquette for an unpublished children's bookDate Publishedc.1930's Lot #20 The World Crisis 1911-1918: Abridged & Revised Edition View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineWinston Churchill The World Crisis SignedPublisherThornton ButterworthDate Published1937 Lot #21 Scriptores Latini Principes [with] Poetarum Græcorum Sylloge View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Classical Literature)AuthorAmar, Jon. Aug.; Boissonade, Jo. Fr., editorsHeadlineThe Latin and Greek Classics printed by DidotDate Published[1823-1831] Lot #22 Le Costume Historique View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Costume)AuthorRacinet, M.A.HeadlineFolio edition of Racinet's Le Costume Historique with 300 chromolithographsPublisherLibrairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie.Date Published1888 Lot #23 Ten hand-colored etchings signed and dated by Cruikshank View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorCruikshank, GeorgeHeadline10 hand-colored etchings signed by CruikshankDate Published1828-1829 Lot #24 Confessions of a Crap Artist View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorDick, Philip K.HeadlineSigned by Philip K. DickPublisherEntwhistle BooksDate Published1975 Lot #25 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold AuthorDick, Philip K.HeadlineSharp copy of PKD masterpiece, Do Androids Dream of Electric SheepPublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc.Date Published1968 Lot #26 A Handful of Darkness View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorDick, Philip K.HeadlinePKD's scarce second book, A Handful of Darkness, 1st ed. in jacketPublisherRich & CowanDate Published[1955] Lot #27 A Maze of Death View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorDick, Philip K.HeadlinePKD's A Maze of Death with author's compliments cardPublisherDoubleday & Company, Inc.Date Published1970 Lot #28 Typed letter signed by Philip K. Dick addressed to his ex-wife Tessa View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorDick, Philip K.HeadlinePKD ALS on the golden ratio and chaos in family lifeDate PublishedApril 2, 1979 Lot #29 World of Chance View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorDick, Philip K.HeadlineSweet copy (in jacket) of PKD's first published novel, World of ChancePublisherRich and CowanDate Published[1956] Lot #30 The Life of Charles Dickens View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Heading(Dickens, Charles)AuthorForster, JohnHeadlineLife of Dickens, extra-illustrated + album of 100 letters from ForsterPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1872-1874 Lot #31 The Works of Charles Dickens View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorDickens, CharlesHeadlineWorks of Dickens finely bound by Macdonald in 30 volumesPublisherChapman & HallDate Published[1906] Lot #32 The Raven View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Doré, Gustave, illustrator)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlinePoe's The Raven Gustave Dore IllustrationsPublisherHarper & Bros.Date Published1884 Lot #33 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, 1892PublisherGeorge NewnesDate Published1892 Lot #34 Press photograph of Albert Einstein with pipe View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Einstein, Albert)HeadlineEinstein press photograph, 1935Date Publishedprint date: 1935 Lot #35 Zur Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEinstein offprint of early work on relativity, Zur Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, 1923PublisherPrussian Academy of SciencesDate Published1923 Lot #36 Maestlin, Michael View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorEpitome AstronomiaeHeadlineAstronomy book by the mentor of Johannes Kepler, 1588PublisherGeorg GruppenbachDate Published1588 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 #38 Map of San Francisco - Great Park Homestead Association View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorFennell, Charles E.HeadlineGreat Park Homestead Assn. map of SF 1869PublisherW.P. HumphreysDate Published1869 Lot #39 Introduction to Theoretical Physics View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Heading(Feynman, Richard)AuthorSlater, John C. and Nathaniel H. FrankHeadlineRichard Feynman's Theoretical Physics textbook from MIT, signedPublisherMcGraw-Hill Book CompanyDate Published1933 Lot #40 The Man and the Monster! Or, the Fate of Frankenstein; A Peculiar Romantic Melo-Dramatic Pantomimic Spectacle, in Two Acts... View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Heading(Frankenstein)AuthorMilner, Henry M.HeadlineWith first depiction of Frankenstein's monster in printPublisherJohn DuncombeDate Published[1826] Lot #41 The General in His Labyrinth View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorGarcía Márquez, GabrielHeadlineLimited edition signed by García MárquezPublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1990 Lot #42 Love in the Time of Cholera View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorGarcía Márquez, GabrielHeadlineLimited edition signed by Gabriel García Márquez, 1st U.S. ed.PublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1988 Lot #43 Nine original drawings used as prototypes for illustrations in Georg Ebers's Aegypten in Bild und Wort [with] complete sets of the German and English first editions View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold AuthorGentz, Wilhelm and Ismael, with Leopold Mueller and Charles WelschHeadlineEgyptology, original drawings & Ebers 1stsDate Publishedc. 1870s Lot #44 Virtual Light View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorGibson, WilliamHeadlineOne of 26 deluxe copies signed by GibsonPublisherBantam BooksDate Published1993 Lot #45 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A reading & study View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Granary Press)AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, signed by Barbara Fahrner and Philip GalloPublisherGranary Press1Date Published1993 Lot #46 Hand-written manuscript for Gladiator of the Sea View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorGrey, ZaneHeadlineZane Grey Gladiator of the Sea manuscriptDate Publishedc. 1917 Lot #47 Manuscript articles hand-written in binder View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorGrey, ZaneHeadlineAlbum of Zane Grey articles in manuscriptDate Publishedc. 1935 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 #49 Solid train load of Hickmott's Bouldin Island Asparagus Shipped August 1900 to fill partly the orders from one of the eastern markets View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Hickmott Canning Co.)HeadlinePhotograph of Hickmott's Asparagus train bound for parts eastDate Published1900 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 #52 Brave New World: A Novel View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold AuthorHuxley, AldousHeadlineBrave New World, limited first edition signed by Aldous HuxleyPublisherChatto & WindusDate Published1932 Lot #53 The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(India)AuthorCrooke, W.HeadlineW. Brooke's study on various Indian peoples, 1896PublisherOffice of the Superintendent of Government Printing, IndiaDate Published1896 Lot #54 Archive of documents relating to the War Relocation Authority and Japanese internment during World War II View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold Heading(Japanese Internment)HeadlineArchive on Japanese-American internmentDate Published1942-1946 Lot #55 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineJoyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, first book editionPublisherB.W. HuebschDate Published1916 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 #57 The Life and Death of Jason, A Poem View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$11,250StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineWilliam Morris' The Life and Death of Jason, Kelmscott Press, 1895Publisher[Kelmscott Press]Date Published[1895] Lot #58 The Nature of Gothic View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineKelmscott Press, The Nature of GothicPublisher[George Allen]Date Published[1892] Lot #59 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorKesey, KenHeadlineFirst issue in jacket of Kesey's first novelPublisherViking PressDate Published[1962] Lot #60 A Voyage of La Pérouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorLa Pérouse, Jean Francois Galaup deHeadlineLa Pérouse 1st in English 1798, 3 volsPublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1798 Lot #61 Des Canons, des Munitions? Merci! Des Logis... S.V.P. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorLe CorbusierHeadlineSigned with inscription and TLS by Le CorbusierPublisherÉditions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'huiDate Published1937 [i.e. 1938] 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 #63 Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in Nine Books View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineLeybourn's textbook of arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, astronomy, 1690PublisherThomas Bassett, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham and John ChurchillDate Published1690 Lot #64 Die kleine Speyerer Basis oder Beweis dass man mit einem geringen Aufwand an Zeit, Mühe und Kosten durch eine kleine genau gemessene Linie die Grundlage einer grossen Triangulation bestimmen Kann View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Heading(Mathematics - Carl Friedrich Gauss)AuthorSchwerd, Friedrich M.HeadlineCarl Friedrich Gauss' copy with his signaturePublisherJacob Christian KolbDate Published1822 Lot #65 The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Heading(Mathematics)AuthorBabbage, CharlesHeadlineCharles Babbage presentation copyPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1838 Lot #66 The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Heading(Mathematics)AuthorEuclidHeadlineByrne's Euclid Elements in color, 1847PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1847 Lot #67 Marisa Flag on Beach, Ocean Beach San Francisco View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorMiller, KenHeadlineMarisa Flag on Beach, Ocean Beach San FranciscoDate Published1985 Lot #68 [Richard Misrach 1979] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMisrach, RichardHeadlineRalph Gibson's copy with signed inscription by MisrachPublisher[Grapestake Gallery]Date Published[1979] Lot #69 The Contest in America Between Great Britain and France, with its Consequences and Importance...By an Impartial Hand. View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Author[Mitchell, John]HeadlineMitchell's Contest in America 1757PublisherPrinted for A. MillarDate Published1757 Lot #70 Gone With the Wind View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold AuthorMitchell, MargaretHeadlineSigned by Margaret Mitchell, first edition in jacketPublisherMacmillan CompanyDate Published1936 Lot #71 Leaf from Wynkyn de Worde's 1529 Morte D'Arthur View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Heading(Morte D'Arthur)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineBifolium from Wynken de Worde's Morte D'Arthur, 1529Publisher[Wynkyn de Worde]Date Published[1529] Lot #72 Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of the City of New York View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(New York - Draft Riots)HeadlineSigned by John Decker, Chief Engineer of NYFD during Draft RiotsPublisherEdmund Jones & Co.Date Published1862 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 #74 Histoire de L'Art dans L'Antiquité Égypte - Assyrie - Perse - Asie Mineure - Grece - Étrurie - Rome View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorPerrot, Georges and Charles ChipiezHeadlineTen volume history of Art of the Antiquities by PerrotPublisherLibrairie HatchetteDate Published1882-1914 Lot #75 Documents Archeologiques sur la Egypte, Nubie, Syrie View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Photo Album - Egypt, Holy Land)AuthorHammerschmidt, Wilhelm and Henry John van Lennep,HeadlineHammerschmidt and van Lennep album of Holy Land photographsDate Publishedc.1869 Lot #76 Around the World: album of photographs from a British traveler's trip through Asia View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Heading(Photo Album)HeadlineAlbum of Japan, China, Pacific snapshots 1900Date Published1900 Lot #77 Album of photographs and watercolors through Albania, Montenegro, and France View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(Photo Album)Author[Buchan-Hepburn, Sir ArchibaldHeadlineAlbum of Montenegro & Albania w/ watercolorsDate Published[1908] Lot #78 Sheriff's Mugshot book from Contra Costa County, 1916-17 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Heading(Photography - Mug Shot Book)HeadlineMugshot book from Contra Costa County Sheriff's office, 1916-17ProvenanceFrom the collection of John E. MurdockDate PublishedApril, 1916-March, 1917 Lot #79 Signed card by Max Planck with photograph View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold AuthorPlanck, MaxHeadlineSigned "thank you" card from Max Planck on his 80th birthdayDate Published1938 Lot #80 Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta Quae Exstant...Moscou Syrakousiou, Biōnos Smyrnaiou Eidyllia View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Plantin Press)AuthorCallimachusHeadlinePlantin Press Callimachus, 1584PublisherApud Christophorum PlantinumDate Published1584 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 #82 The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold AuthorPliny, the ElderHeadlinePliny Historie of the World, First Edition in EnglishPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1601 Lot #83 [Polybiou Megalopolitou istoriōn biblia 5, kai epitomai 12] / Polybij Megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorPolybiusHeadlinePolybius' history in Greek and Latin, 1549PublisherPer Ioannem Heruagium / Johannes HerwagenDate Published[1549] Lot #84 Atlas accompanying the report on the Geology of a Portion of the Uinta Mountains and a Region of Country Adjacent Thereto View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorPowell, John WesleyHeadlinePowell's Atlas for report on the Geology of the Uinta Mountains, 1876PublisherJulius Bien Lith. for the Department of the Interior U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey...Date Published1876 Lot #85 John Ermine of the Yellowstone View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorRemington, FredericHeadlineSigned by Frederick Remington with inscriptionPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1902 Lot #86 The Works of Shakespeare View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorWright, William Aldis, editorHeadlineExtra illustrated and finely bound by Riviere & SonPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1893-1895 Lot #87 Automata, Old and New View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Heading(Robots)AuthorCooke, Conrad WilliamHeadline1st book about 'Robot' AutomatonsPublisherChiswick PressDate Published1893 Lot #88 The San Francisco Directory for the Year 1852-53: Embracing a general directory of citizens; a street directory; a new and complete map of the city; and an appendix of general information, an almanac, etc. First Publication View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(San Francisco Directory 1852-53)HeadlineRare San Francisco Directory 1852 with early map of SFPublisherPublished by James M. Parker... Monson, Haswell & Co., PrintersDate Published1852 Lot #89 Illuminated broadside for Theurkauf's model of San Francisco with plans, photographs, and sketches for the miniature portable exhibit View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(San Francisco)AuthorTheurkauf, Rudolph G.HeadlineIlluminated broadside, plans, sketches, and photos of Theurkauf's 1927 model of SFDate Published1927 Lot #90 Scientific Toys: Made for Amusement but Illustrating Some Important Principle View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Heading(Scientific Toys)AuthorHunter, JuliaHeadlineScientific Toys: Made for Amusement but Illustrating Some Important Principle, 1884Date Published1884 Lot #91 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A New Bibliophile Edition Printed on Sheets of Pure Cork With the Spanish Version and With Illustrations in colour By Anthony Saló View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineHamlet printed on cork, 1930. 1/100 copiesPublisherReinhold WetzigDate Published[1930] Lot #92 American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables and the Best Mode of Making Puff Pastes, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards, and Preserves...Together with the rules of Carving at Dinner parties. Exemplified With Cuts. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Author[Simmons, Ameila] An OrphanHeadlineOnly illustrated edition of first cookbook authored by an AmericanPublisherA. ColtonDate Published1831 Lot #93 Cryptonomicon View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorStephenson, NealHeadlineCryptonomicon, one of 250 in the Signed Limited First EditionPublisherAvon BooksDate Published1999 Lot #94 Snow Crash View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold AuthorStephenson, NealHeadlineFirst Edition, Signed by Neal StephensonPublisherBantam BooksDate Published[1992] 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 #96 The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold AuthorTuring, Alan M.HeadlineAlan Turing offprint The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, 1952PublisherCambridge University Press for the Royal SocietyDate Published1952 Lot #97 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineHuckleberry Finn in original sheep binding, 1st editionPublisherCharles L. Webster and CompanyDate Published1885 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. 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