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Ciceronis De Philosophia volumen primum, in quo haec continentur... Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusHeadlineCicero's De Philosophia, Aldine Press 1523PublisherAldusDate Published1523 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #5 Epistolae ad Atticum... Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorCiceroHeadlineAldine Press Cicero's Epistolae ad AtticumPublisherPaulum Manutium Aldi FiliumDate Published1548 [1551] View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #6 Il Prencipe di Nicolò Machiavelli, al Magnifico Lorenzo di Pietro de Medici. La Vita di Castvc'cio... Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadlineThe Prince by Machiavelli, 1540 Aldine EditionPublisher[Sons of Aldo]Date Published[1540] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$46,875StatusSold Lot #7 Graeciae descriptio [graece] Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorPausaniasHeadlineEditio princeps Pausanias Aldine Press 1516PublisherAndrea Torresani at the Aldine PressDate Published1516 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #8 Epistolarum libri decem... Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorPlinius Caecilius Scundus [Pliny the Younger]HeadlinePliny's letters, Aldine Press 1508PublisherAldus Manutius and Andreas TorresanusDate Published1508 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #9 Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorStatius, Publius PapiniuHeadlineStatius' writings, Aldine Press in moroccoPublisherAldusDate Published1519 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #13 Ammiani Marcellini Rerum Gestarum...Libri XVIII AuthorAmmianus MarcellinusHeadlineAmmianus's Rerum Gestarum, 1693PublisherApud Petrum VanderDate Published1693 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #17 The Heavenly Trade, or the Best Merchandizing: The only way to live well in Impoverishing Times... AuthorAshwood, BartholomewHeadlineAshwood's Heavenly Trade 1678PublisherPrinted for Samuel Lee near Pope's Head AlleyDate Published1678 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #19 The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, in Two Volumes. First Published at Oxford in the Years 1789 and 1790. Vol. II Author[Austen, James and Henry Austen]HeadlinePeriodical by brothers of Jane AustenPublisherPrinted for the authorDate Published1790 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #20 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$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #30 Four leaves from the "Great Bible" of 1540 Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineFour leaves from the Great Bible of 1540Publisher[Thomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas Berthelet]Date Published[1540] View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #31 New Testament Epistles - 24 leaves from the 1574 third folio edition of the Bishops Bible Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineNew Testament Epistles from the 1574 third folio edition of the Bishops BiblePublisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #36 Ars Pictoria: or an academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, etching. To which are added XXXI. copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Netherland authors. AuthorBrowne, AlexanderHeadlineBrowne's Ars Pictoria 2nd ed. 1675PublisherPrinted for Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the StrandDate Published1675 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #66 Orationes diligentius recognite, & aptiore serie reposite... AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusHeadlineCicero's Orationes, Badius 1522PublisherJoannes Parvus [Jean Petit] & Jodocus BadiusDate Published1522 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #75 The History of the Civil Wars of France AuthorDavila, Henrico CaterinoHeadlineHistory of the Civil Wars of France, 1647 trans.PublisherPrinted by R. RaworthDate Published1647 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #81 The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian. In Fifteen Books AuthorDiodorus, SiculusHeadlineDiodorus Siculus in English, London 1700PublisherPrinted by Edw. Jones, for Awnsham and John ChurchilDate Published1700 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #82 Dionysiou tou Alicarnasseos Romaikes archaiologias Biblia deka. Dionysii Halicarnassei antiquitatum... AuthorDionysius of Halicarnassus [Dionysii Halicarnassei]HeadlineEditio princeps on ancient RomePublisherEx officina Rob. Stephani [Robert Estienne]Date Published1546-7 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #87 The Secret History of the Most Renowned Q. Elizabeth and the E. of Essex. The First Part Heading(Elizabeth I)HeadlineOn Elizabeth I's love life, 1695PublisherPrinted for the Will with the WispDate Published1695 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #88 Colloquia nunc emendatiora, Cum omnium Notis Heading(Elzevir Press)AuthorErasmus, DesideriusHeadlineErasmus, Colloquia 1677 ElzevirPublisherElzevirDate Published1677 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #89 Comoediae Superstites XX. Accuratissime Editae Heading(Elzevir Press)AuthorPlautus, Titus MacciusHeadlineElzevir Plautus, 1652PublisherTypis Ludovici ElzeviriiDate Published1652 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #92 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$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #113 Sacrarum exercitationum ad Novum Testamentum libri XX... AuthorHeinsius, DanielHeadlineHeinsius's commentary Exercitationes SacraePublisherEx Officina ElseviriorumDate Published1639 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #115 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineOctavo ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1720 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #116 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineQuarto ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1715-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1715-1720 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #117 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope AuthorHomerHeadlineFolio large paper ed of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1716-1720 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #122 Anitii Manlii Severini Boethi, Inter Latinos Aristotelis Interpretes et Aetate Primi et Doctrina Praecipvi, Dialectica... Heading(Johann Gryphius)AuthorBoethiusHeadlineBoethius, 1585 Gryphius VenicePublisherApud Ioannem GryphiumDate Published1585 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #123 Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. His acceserunt Corn. Galli fragmenta Heading(Johann Gryphius)AuthorCatullus, Tibullus, PropertiusHeadlineNeolatin anthology, GryphiusPublisherIoan. GryphiusDate Published1553 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #124 Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with other pieces on various subjects Heading(Johnson, Samuel)AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofHeadlineLetters from Chesterfield 1st ed. 1774PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #133 Memoires de M.D.L.R. [Monsieur de La Rochefoucauld] AuthorLa Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc deHeadlineLa Rochefoucauld's memoirs, 1662PublisherChez Pierre van DyckDate Published1662 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #135 Daphnin kai Chloen...cum Proloqvio De Libris Eroticis Antiquorum AuthorLongusHeadlineElegant Bodoni imprint of Daphnis & ChloePublisherBodoniDate Published1786 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #136 A True and Particular Relation of the Dreadful Earthquake Which Happen'd at Lima, the Capital of Peru, and the Neighbouring Port of Callao, on the 18th of October, 1746 Author[Lozano, Pedro]HeadlineLozano's 1748 Earthquake of PeruPublisherT. OsborneDate Published1748 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #138 Epigrammata: Martialis cum duobus commentis AuthorMartialis (Marcus Valerius)HeadlineMartial's Epigrams, 1495 editionPublisher[Christophorus de Pensis]Date Published1495 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #142 Scriptores erotici Graeci AuthorMitscherlich, Christ. Guil., editorHeadlineNicely bound erotic Greek worksPublisherEx Typographia SocietatisDate Published1792 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #146 Les Dionisiaques ou les Metamorphoses les Voyages, les Amours, les Advantres, & les Conquestes de Bacchusaux Indes AuthorNonnus, [Panopolitanus]HeadlineNonnus's Les Dionisiaques 1625PublisherRobert FouetDate Published1625 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #149 Oppiani Anazarbei De Piscatu libri V De Venatione libri IIII...[bound with] Pindari: Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia AuthorOppianus of Corycos; PindarHeadlineOppian & Pindar in 16th c. Paris ed.PublisherApud Adr. Turnebum; Apud Guilielmum MoreliumDate Published1555-1558 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #150 P. Ovidii Nasonis opera omnia: in tres tomos divisa AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Omnia Opera, 1670 LeidenPublisherEx Officina HackianaDate Published1670 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #158 Il Petrarcha con l'Espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesualdo... AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlineVenetian Petrarch, w/ hand-colored initialsPublisherAlessandro GriffioDate Published1581 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #159 Titi Petronii Arbitri eqvitis Romani Satyricon, cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum poetarum Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii cento nuptialis, Cupido crucifixus, Epistolae de Cleopatra, & alia nonnulla. Omnia commentariis, & notis doctorum virorum illustrata. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide AuthorPetroniusHeadlinePetronius 1669 Amsterdam ed.PublisherTypis Ioannis BlaeuDate Published1669-1671 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #164 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$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #166 The Lives of the Nobel Grecians & Romans... AuthorPlutarchHeadline1676 Plutarch's Lives of Grecians & RomansPublisherJohn Hayes for George SawbridgeDate Published1676 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #167 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea AuthorPlutarchHeadlineNorth's Plutarch, 4th ed. 1612 & 1610PublisherPrinted by Richard FieldDate Published1610-1612 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #170 The Historie of the Councel of Trent AuthorPolano, Pietro SoaueHeadlineThe Historie Councel of Trent, 1640PublisherPrinted by Robert Young and John Ravvorth, for Richard WhittakerDate Published1640 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #171 [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$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #174 L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Traduit d'Arabe en Francois, par le Sieur du Ryer Heading(Qur'an)HeadlineQur'an in French, 1672PublisherAntoine de SommavilleDate Published1672 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #186 The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged, from all grossness in Phrase and Matter. Augmented and Enlarged with sundry Excellent Morals and Expositions upon every several Chapter, To which is now be added a Second Part of the said History [bound with] The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox. The Second Part... [and] The Shifts of Reynardine the Son of Reynard the Fox, or a Pleasant History of his Life and Death... Heading(Reynard the Fox)HeadlineEarly English Reynard, in 3 partsPublisherEdward BrewsterDate Published1701; 1681; 1684 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #189 Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes libri quatuor... Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorSchopper, HartmannHeadline1595 Reynard the Fox, SchopperPublisherNicolas BasseiDate Published1595 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #197 The common-wealth of England, and the maner of governement thereof. Compiled by the honourable Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, Doctor of both lawes, and one of the principall secretaries vnto two most worthy princes, King Edward, and Queene Elizabeth. With new additions of the chiefe courts in England, and the offices thereof by the said author. Also a table added thereto, of all the principall matters contained in this treatise AuthorSmith, Thomas, SirHeadlineThomas Smith Commonwealth of England 1621PublisherPrinted by William Stansby for Iohn SmethwickeDate Published[1621] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #203 Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem AuthorSophoclesHeadlineFirst Estienne Edition of Sophocles 1568PublisherHenrici Stephani [Henri Estienne]Date Published1568 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #207 Mr. Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Back-Gammon... Heading(Sports & Exercise)AuthorHoyle, [Edmond]HeadlineHoyle's Games, c.1760PublisherPrinted for Thomas Osborne et alDate Published[c.1760] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #209 Strabonis De situ orbis libri XVII. Grece & latine simul... AuthorStraboHeadline1549 Strabo's geography, in Greek & LatinPublisherHeinrich PetriDate Published1549 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #211 C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae Extant AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusHeadline1648 edition of Tacitus, AntwerpPublisherEx officina PlantinianaDate Published1648 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #212 C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exempla ribus collatus. Adiecti sunt capitulerum numeri AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusHeadlineSelection of Tacitus in Latin, 1665PublisherDanielis ElzeviriiDate Published1665 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #223 Valerii Maximi Dictorum et Factorum Memorabilium Libri Novem AuthorValerius MaximusHeadlineNicely bound Valerius Maximus, 1512Date Published1512 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #224 Ioannis Lodovici Vivis Valentini de Institutione foeminae Christianae ad Inclytam D. Catharinam Hispanam, Angliae Reginam, Libri Tres AuthorVives, Juan LuisHeadlineJuan Luis Vives treatise on Christian WomenDate Published1538 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #225 Ioannis Lodovici Vivis Valentini de Officio Mariti, Liber Doctissimus, Lectuq[ue] Utilissimus... AuthorVives, Juan LuisHeadlineJuan Luis Vives treatise on the role of husbandsDate Published1538 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #227 Ludovici Montaltii Litteræ Provinciales, de Morali & Politica Jesuitarum disciplina. A Willelmo Wendrockio Salisburgensi theologo, e gallicâ in latinam linguam translatæ, et theologicis notis illustratæ, quibus tum jesuitarum adversus Montaltium criminationes repelluntur: tum præcipua theologiæ moralis capita à novorum casuistarum corruptelis vindicantur. Heading(Wendrockius, Willem, translator, pseud. of Pierre Nicole)Author[Pascal, Blaise]Headline1st Latin Pascal's Lettres Provinciales 1658PublisherApud Nicolaum SchoutenDate Published1658 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #228 Xenophontis, Philosophi et Imperatoris Clarissimi... AuthorXenophonHeadlineXenophon in Greek and Latin, 1625Publisherapud Societatem Graecarum EditionumDate Published1625 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #229 Xenophontis: Quae Extant Opera AuthorXenophonHeadlineXenophon's works, 2nd Estienne 1581PublisherHenricus StephanusDate Published1581 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #234 Nouvelles decouvertes, sur les parties de l'homme et de la femme, qui servent a la generation... Heading(Anatomy)Author[Graaf, Reginer de]Headlinede Graaf on reproductive organs w/ plates 1701PublisherChez Federic ClouskiDate Published1701 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #237 Maestlin, Michael Heading(Astronomy)AuthorEpitome AstronomiaeHeadlineAstronomy book by the mentor of Johannes Kepler, 1588PublisherGeorg GruppenbachDate Published1588 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #250 Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a plain and familiar Method, suitable to the meanest Capacity, for the full under standing of that incomparable Art, as it is now taught by the ablest School-Masters in City and Country AuthorCocker, EdwardHeadlineCocker's Arithmetick 1677PublisherPrinted for Edward MidwinterDate Published[c. 1726] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #324 Miscellanea... Medica, cum praestantissimis quinque medicis... AuthorSmetius, HenricusHeadlineSmetius Miscellanea Medica 1611PublisherJonae RhodiiDate Published1611 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #335 Nouveaux Pourtraitz et figures de termes pour user en l'architecture AuthorBoillot, JosephHeadlineBoillot's rare animals in architecture 1592PublisherJehan des PrezDate Published[1592] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next