Sale 861: Rare and Antiquarian Books - History of Science - Fashions & Fashionings (#861) 04/16/2026 11:00 AM PDT Closed

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  • Heading
    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Cicero, Marcus Tullius
  • Headline
    Cicero printed by Aldine, 1521
  • Publisher
    Aldus
  • Date Published
    1521
Estimate$800 - $1,200
Sold for$1,250
StatusSold
4
  • Heading
    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Cicero, Marcus Tullius
  • Headline
    Cicero's De Philosophia, Aldine Press 1523
  • Publisher
    Aldus
  • Date Published
    1523
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$750
StatusSold
5
  • Heading
    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Cicero
  • Headline
    Aldine Press Cicero's Epistolae ad Atticum
  • Publisher
    Paulum Manutium Aldi Filium
  • Date Published
    1548 [1551]
Estimate$700 - $1,000
Sold for$812.50
StatusSold
6
  • Heading
    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Machiavelli, Niccolo
  • Headline
    The Prince by Machiavelli, 1540 Aldine Edition
  • Publisher
    [Sons of Aldo]
  • Date Published
    [1540]
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
Sold for$46,875
StatusSold
7
  • Heading
    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Pausanias
  • Headline
    Editio princeps Pausanias Aldine Press 1516
  • Publisher
    Andrea Torresani at the Aldine Press
  • Date Published
    1516
Estimate$5,000 - $8,000
Sold for$7,500
StatusSold
8
  • Heading
    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Plinius Caecilius Scundus [Pliny the Younger]
  • Headline
    Pliny's letters, Aldine Press 1508
  • Publisher
    Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus
  • Date Published
    1508
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$4,687.50
StatusSold
9
  • Heading
    (Aldine Press)
  • Author
    Statius, Publius Papiniu
  • Headline
    Statius' writings, Aldine Press in morocco
  • Publisher
    Aldus
  • Date Published
    1519
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$1,750
StatusSold
13
  • Author
    Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Headline
    Ammianus's Rerum Gestarum, 1693
  • Publisher
    Apud Petrum Vander
  • Date Published
    1693
Estimate$700 - $1,000
Sold for$437.50
StatusSold
16
  • Heading
    (Ashendene Press)
  • Author
    Bacon, Francis
  • Headline
    From the library of Charles Harold St. John Hornby
  • Publisher
    Adam & Charles Black
  • Date Published
    1912
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
StatusUnsold
17
  • Author
    Ashwood, Bartholomew
  • Headline
    Ashwood's Heavenly Trade 1678
  • Publisher
    Printed for Samuel Lee near Pope's Head Alley
  • Date Published
    1678
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$200
StatusSold
19
  • Author
    [Austen, James and Henry Austen]
  • Headline
    Periodical by brothers of Jane Austen
  • Publisher
    Printed for the author
  • Date Published
    1790
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
20
  • Author
    Basilio, Sancho de Sana Justa y Rufino
  • Headline
    Early Manila rice paper, archbishop's address
  • Publisher
    En la Imprenta del Seminario Eclesiastico
  • Date Published
    1783
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
30
  • Heading
    (Bible in English)
  • Headline
    Four leaves from the Great Bible of 1540
  • Publisher
    [Thomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas Berthelet]
  • Date Published
    [1540]
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
31
  • Heading
    (Bible in English)
  • Headline
    New Testament Epistles from the 1574 third folio edition of the Bishops Bible
  • Publisher
    [R. Jugge]
  • Date Published
    [1574]
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$500
StatusSold
38
  • Author
    Burroughs, John
  • Headline
    The Writings of John Burroughs, Riverby Edition
  • Publisher
    Houghton, Mifflin and Company
  • Date Published
    1904-1913
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
40
  • Heading
    (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)
  • Author
    Cervantès, Michel de
  • Headline
    Guillot edition of Don Quixote, handsomely bound
  • Publisher
    Chez Francis Guillot
  • Date Published
    [1935]
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$406.25
StatusSold
66
  • Author
    Cicero, Marcus Tullius
  • Headline
    Cicero's Orationes, Badius 1522
  • Publisher
    Joannes Parvus [Jean Petit] & Jodocus Badius
  • Date Published
    1522
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$531.25
StatusSold
68
  • Heading
    (Classical Literature)
  • Author
    Amar, Jon. Aug.; Boissonade, Jo. Fr., editors
  • Headline
    The Latin and Greek Classics printed by Didot
  • Date Published
    [1823-1831]
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
71
  • Author
    Cobbett, William
  • Headline
    Cobbett, w/ Rural Rides Riviere bound
  • Publisher
    Reeves and Turner; The Folio Society
  • Date Published
    1893; 1968
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
75
  • Author
    Davila, Henrico Caterino
  • Headline
    History of the Civil Wars of France, 1647 trans.
  • Publisher
    Printed by R. Raworth
  • Date Published
    1647
Estimate$800 - $1,200
StatusUnsold
78
  • Heading
    (Dickens, Charles)
  • Author
    Forster, John
  • Headline
    Life of Dickens, extra-illustrated + album of 100 letters from Forster
  • Publisher
    Chapman and Hall
  • Date Published
    1872-1874
Estimate$15,000 - $25,000
StatusUnsold
79
  • Author
    Dickens, Charles
  • Headline
    Works of Dickens finely bound by Macdonald in 30 volumes
  • Publisher
    Chapman & Hall
  • Date Published
    [1906]
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
81
  • Author
    Diodorus, Siculus
  • Headline
    Diodorus Siculus in English, London 1700
  • Publisher
    Printed by Edw. Jones, for Awnsham and John Churchil
  • Date Published
    1700
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
82
  • Author
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus [Dionysii Halicarnassei]
  • Headline
    Editio princeps on ancient Rome
  • Publisher
    Ex officina Rob. Stephani [Robert Estienne]
  • Date Published
    1546-7
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$937.50
StatusSold
87
  • Heading
    (Elizabeth I)
  • Headline
    On Elizabeth I's love life, 1695
  • Publisher
    Printed for the Will with the Wisp
  • Date Published
    1695
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$375
StatusSold
88
  • Heading
    (Elzevir Press)
  • Author
    Erasmus, Desiderius
  • Headline
    Erasmus, Colloquia 1677 Elzevir
  • Publisher
    Elzevir
  • Date Published
    1677
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
89
  • Heading
    (Elzevir Press)
  • Author
    Plautus, Titus Maccius
  • Headline
    Elzevir Plautus, 1652
  • Publisher
    Typis Ludovici Elzevirii
  • Date Published
    1652
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
92
  • Author
    Eusebius of Caesarea
  • Headline
    Eusebius' Life of Constantine, 1546
  • Publisher
    Michaelis Fezandat
  • Date Published
    1546
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
113
  • Author
    Heinsius, Daniel
  • Headline
    Heinsius's commentary Exercitationes Sacrae
  • Publisher
    Ex Officina Elseviriorum
  • Date Published
    1639
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
115
  • Author
    Homer
  • Headline
    Octavo ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720
  • Publisher
    W. Bowyer
  • Date Published
    1720
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
116
  • Author
    Homer
  • Headline
    Quarto ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1715-1720
  • Publisher
    W. Bowyer
  • Date Published
    1715-1720
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
117
  • Author
    Homer
  • Headline
    Folio large paper ed of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720
  • Publisher
    W. Bowyer
  • Date Published
    1716-1720
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
122
  • Heading
    (Johann Gryphius)
  • Author
    Boethius
  • Headline
    Boethius, 1585 Gryphius Venice
  • Publisher
    Apud Ioannem Gryphium
  • Date Published
    1585
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
123
  • Heading
    (Johann Gryphius)
  • Author
    Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius
  • Headline
    Neolatin anthology, Gryphius
  • Publisher
    Ioan. Gryphius
  • Date Published
    1553
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
124
  • Heading
    (Johnson, Samuel)
  • Author
    Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl of
  • Headline
    Letters from Chesterfield 1st ed. 1774
  • Publisher
    J. Dodsley
  • Date Published
    1774
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
128
  • Author
    Johnson, Samuel
  • Headline
    Samuel Johnson bound by Riviere
  • Publisher
    Talboys and Wheeler
  • Date Published
    1825
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
132
  • Heading
    (L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
  • Headline
    Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Depuis son Establissement jusqu'à présent
  • Publisher
    L'Imprimerie Royale
  • Date Published
    1736-
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$531.25
StatusSold
133
  • Author
    La Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de
  • Headline
    La Rochefoucauld's memoirs, 1662
  • Publisher
    Chez Pierre van Dyck
  • Date Published
    1662
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
Estimate$600 - $900
StatusUnsold
135
  • Author
    Longus
  • Headline
    Elegant Bodoni imprint of Daphnis & Chloe
  • Publisher
    Bodoni
  • Date Published
    1786
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$937.50
StatusSold
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$593.75
StatusSold
138
  • Author
    Martialis (Marcus Valerius)
  • Headline
    Martial's Epigrams, 1495 edition
  • Publisher
    [Christophorus de Pensis]
  • Date Published
    1495
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$2,125
StatusSold
142
  • Author
    Mitscherlich, Christ. Guil., editor
  • Headline
    Nicely bound erotic Greek works
  • Publisher
    Ex Typographia Societatis
  • Date Published
    1792
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
143
  • Author
    Möring, Michel
  • Headline
    With hand-colored lithograph cover after Lassalle
  • Provenance
    Morris-Levin
  • Publisher
    Alphonse Desesserts
  • Date Published
    [1853]
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
146
  • Author
    Nonnus, [Panopolitanus]
  • Headline
    Nonnus's Les Dionisiaques 1625
  • Publisher
    Robert Fouet
  • Date Published
    1625
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
149
  • Author
    Oppianus of Corycos; Pindar
  • Headline
    Oppian & Pindar in 16th c. Paris ed.
  • Publisher
    Apud Adr. Turnebum; Apud Guilielmum Morelium
  • Date Published
    1555-1558
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$1,250
StatusSold
150
  • Author
    Ovid
  • Headline
    Ovid's Omnia Opera, 1670 Leiden
  • Publisher
    Ex Officina Hackiana
  • Date Published
    1670
Estimate$400 - $600
StatusUnsold
158
  • Author
    Petrarch, Francesco
  • Headline
    Venetian Petrarch, w/ hand-colored initials
  • Publisher
    Alessandro Griffio
  • Date Published
    1581
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$437.50
StatusSold
164
  • Heading
    (Plantin Press)
  • Author
    Callimachus
  • Headline
    Plantin Press Callimachus, 1584
  • Publisher
    Apud Christophorum Plantinum
  • Date Published
    1584
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
166
  • Author
    Plutarch
  • Headline
    1676 Plutarch's Lives of Grecians & Romans
  • Publisher
    John Hayes for George Sawbridge
  • Date Published
    1676
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
167
  • Author
    Plutarch
  • Headline
    North's Plutarch, 4th ed. 1612 & 1610
  • Publisher
    Printed by Richard Field
  • Date Published
    1610-1612
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
168
  • Author
    Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Headline
    Limited Large Paper Library Edition of Poe
  • Publisher
    George Barrie & Son
  • Date Published
    [c.1900]
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
170
  • Author
    Polano, Pietro Soaue
  • Headline
    The Historie Councel of Trent, 1640
  • Publisher
    Printed by Robert Young and John Ravvorth, for Richard Whittaker
  • Date Published
    1640
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
171
  • Author
    Polybius
  • Headline
    Polybius' history in Greek and Latin, 1549
  • Publisher
    Per Ioannem Heruagium / Johannes Herwagen
  • Date Published
    [1549]
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
174
  • Heading
    (Qur'an)
  • Headline
    Qur'an in French, 1672
  • Publisher
    Antoine de Sommaville
  • Date Published
    1672
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$468.75
StatusSold
189
  • Heading
    (Reynard the Fox)
  • Author
    Schopper, Hartmann
  • Headline
    1595 Reynard the Fox, Schopper
  • Publisher
    Nicolas Bassei
  • Date Published
    1595
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$687.50
StatusSold
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$750
StatusSold
203
  • Author
    Sophocles
  • Headline
    First Estienne Edition of Sophocles 1568
  • Publisher
    Henrici Stephani [Henri Estienne]
  • Date Published
    1568
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$625
StatusSold
207
  • Heading
    (Sports & Exercise)
  • Author
    Hoyle, [Edmond]
  • Headline
    Hoyle's Games, c.1760
  • Publisher
    Printed for Thomas Osborne et al
  • Date Published
    [c.1760]
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
209
  • Author
    Strabo
  • Headline
    1549 Strabo's geography, in Greek & Latin
  • Publisher
    Heinrich Petri
  • Date Published
    1549
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$1,125
StatusSold
211
  • Author
    Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
  • Headline
    1648 edition of Tacitus, Antwerp
  • Publisher
    Ex officina Plantiniana
  • Date Published
    1648
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$250
StatusSold
212
  • Author
    Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
  • Headline
    Selection of Tacitus in Latin, 1665
  • Publisher
    Danielis Elzevirii
  • Date Published
    1665
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
219
  • Author
    Uzanne, Octave
  • Headline
    Engravings, binding, & chemise by Eugéne Gaujean
  • Provenance
    Morris-Levin
  • Publisher
    A. Quantin
  • Date Published
    1886
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
220
  • Author
    Uzanne, Octave
  • Headline
    Vellum Bound Uzanne Fine Binding
  • Provenance
    Morris-Levin
  • Publisher
    A. Quantin
  • Date Published
    1885
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
223
  • Author
    Valerius Maximus
  • Headline
    Nicely bound Valerius Maximus, 1512
  • Date Published
    1512
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$625
StatusSold
224
  • Author
    Vives, Juan Luis
  • Headline
    Juan Luis Vives treatise on Christian Women
  • Date Published
    1538
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$687.50
StatusSold
225
  • Author
    Vives, Juan Luis
  • Headline
    Juan Luis Vives treatise on the role of husbands
  • Date Published
    1538
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
228
  • Author
    Xenophon
  • Headline
    Xenophon in Greek and Latin, 1625
  • Publisher
    apud Societatem Graecarum Editionum
  • Date Published
    1625
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
229
  • Author
    Xenophon
  • Headline
    Xenophon's works, 2nd Estienne 1581
  • Publisher
    Henricus Stephanus
  • Date Published
    1581
Estimate$800 - $1,200
Sold for$1,187.50
StatusSold
230
  • Author
    Abbot, Charles Greeley, ed.
  • Headline
    The Smithsonian Series, Charles Greeley Abbot Edition
  • Publisher
    The Series Publishers, Inc.
  • Date Published
    [1944]
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
231
  • Heading
    (Agriculture)
  • Author
    Burbank, Luther
  • Headline
    Illustrated and nicely bound history of Burbank's scientific works
  • Publisher
    Luther Burbank Press
  • Date Published
    1914-1915
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
234
  • Heading
    (Anatomy)
  • Author
    [Graaf, Reginer de]
  • Headline
    de Graaf on reproductive organs w/ plates 1701
  • Publisher
    Chez Federic Clouski
  • Date Published
    1701
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$375
StatusSold
237
  • Heading
    (Astronomy)
  • Author
    Epitome Astronomiae
  • Headline
    Astronomy book by the mentor of Johannes Kepler, 1588
  • Publisher
    Georg Gruppenbach
  • Date Published
    1588
Estimate$5,000 - $8,000
StatusUnsold
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$625
StatusSold
324
  • Author
    Smetius, Henricus
  • Headline
    Smetius Miscellanea Medica 1611
  • Publisher
    Jonae Rhodii
  • Date Published
    1611
Estimate$800 - $1,200
StatusUnsold
335
  • Author
    Boillot, Joseph
  • Headline
    Boillot's rare animals in architecture 1592
  • Publisher
    Jehan des Prez
  • Date Published
    [1592]
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
StatusUnsold
338
  • Author
    Cescinsky, Herbert
  • Headline
    English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century
  • Publisher
    George Routledge & Sons, Limited
  • Date Published
    [c. 1911]
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
360
  • Author
    MacQuoid, Percy
  • Headline
    MacQuoid's History of English Furniture
  • Publisher
    Lawrence & Bullen
  • Date Published
    1904-08
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$281.25
StatusSold
362
  • Author
    Méry, François Joseph Pierre André and Le Comte Foelix
  • Headline
    Decorative Perles et Parures Lace-Cut Plates
  • Provenance
    Morris-Levin
  • Publisher
    G. de Gonet
  • Date Published
    [1850]
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$531.25
StatusSold
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