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Ciceronis De Philosophia volumen primum, in quo haec continentur... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$750StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusHeadlineCicero's De Philosophia, Aldine Press 1523PublisherAldusDate Published1523 Lot #5 Epistolae ad Atticum... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorCiceroHeadlineAldine Press Cicero's Epistolae ad AtticumPublisherPaulum Manutium Aldi FiliumDate Published1548 [1551] Lot #6 Il Prencipe di Nicolò Machiavelli, al Magnifico Lorenzo di Pietro de Medici. La Vita di Castvc'cio... View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$46,875StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadlineThe Prince by Machiavelli, 1540 Aldine EditionPublisher[Sons of Aldo]Date Published[1540] Lot #7 Graeciae descriptio [graece] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorPausaniasHeadlineEditio princeps Pausanias Aldine Press 1516PublisherAndrea Torresani at the Aldine PressDate Published1516 Lot #8 Epistolarum libri decem... View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorPlinius Caecilius Scundus [Pliny the Younger]HeadlinePliny's letters, Aldine Press 1508PublisherAldus Manutius and Andreas TorresanusDate Published1508 Lot #9 Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorStatius, Publius PapiniuHeadlineStatius' writings, Aldine Press in moroccoPublisherAldusDate Published1519 Lot #13 Ammiani Marcellini Rerum Gestarum...Libri XVIII View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorAmmianus MarcellinusHeadlineAmmianus's Rerum Gestarum, 1693PublisherApud Petrum VanderDate Published1693 Lot #17 The Heavenly Trade, or the Best Merchandizing: The only way to live well in Impoverishing Times... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorAshwood, BartholomewHeadlineAshwood's Heavenly Trade 1678PublisherPrinted for Samuel Lee near Pope's Head AlleyDate Published1678 Lot #19 The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, in Two Volumes. First Published at Oxford in the Years 1789 and 1790. Vol. II View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Author[Austen, James and Henry Austen]HeadlinePeriodical by brothers of Jane AustenPublisherPrinted for the authorDate Published1790 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... View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorBasilio, Sancho de Sana Justa y RufinoHeadlineEarly Manila rice paper, archbishop's addressPublisherEn la Imprenta del Seminario EclesiasticoDate Published1783 Lot #30 Four leaves from the "Great Bible" of 1540 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineFour leaves from the Great Bible of 1540Publisher[Thomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas Berthelet]Date Published[1540] Lot #31 New Testament Epistles - 24 leaves from the 1574 third folio edition of the Bishops Bible View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)HeadlineNew Testament Epistles from the 1574 third folio edition of the Bishops BiblePublisher[R. Jugge]Date Published[1574] 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. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorBrowne, AlexanderHeadlineBrowne's Ars Pictoria 2nd ed. 1675PublisherPrinted for Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the StrandDate Published1675 Lot #66 Orationes diligentius recognite, & aptiore serie reposite... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$531.25StatusSold AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusHeadlineCicero's Orationes, Badius 1522PublisherJoannes Parvus [Jean Petit] & Jodocus BadiusDate Published1522 Lot #75 The History of the Civil Wars of France View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorDavila, Henrico CaterinoHeadlineHistory of the Civil Wars of France, 1647 trans.PublisherPrinted by R. RaworthDate Published1647 Lot #81 The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian. In Fifteen Books View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorDiodorus, SiculusHeadlineDiodorus Siculus in English, London 1700PublisherPrinted by Edw. Jones, for Awnsham and John ChurchilDate Published1700 Lot #82 Dionysiou tou Alicarnasseos Romaikes archaiologias Biblia deka. Dionysii Halicarnassei antiquitatum... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorDionysius of Halicarnassus [Dionysii Halicarnassei]HeadlineEditio princeps on ancient RomePublisherEx officina Rob. Stephani [Robert Estienne]Date Published1546-7 Lot #87 The Secret History of the Most Renowned Q. Elizabeth and the E. of Essex. The First Part View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Elizabeth I)HeadlineOn Elizabeth I's love life, 1695PublisherPrinted for the Will with the WispDate Published1695 Lot #88 Colloquia nunc emendatiora, Cum omnium Notis View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Elzevir Press)AuthorErasmus, DesideriusHeadlineErasmus, Colloquia 1677 ElzevirPublisherElzevirDate Published1677 Lot #89 Comoediae Superstites XX. Accuratissime Editae View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(Elzevir Press)AuthorPlautus, Titus MacciusHeadlineElzevir Plautus, 1652PublisherTypis Ludovici ElzeviriiDate Published1652 Lot #92 Eusebii Pamphili, episcopi Caesareae, quae est Palaestinae, De vita Co[n]stantini Imperat. libri quinq[ue] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorEusebius of CaesareaHeadlineEusebius' Life of Constantine, 1546PublisherMichaelis FezandatDate Published1546 Lot #113 Sacrarum exercitationum ad Novum Testamentum libri XX... View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorHeinsius, DanielHeadlineHeinsius's commentary Exercitationes SacraePublisherEx Officina ElseviriorumDate Published1639 Lot #115 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorHomerHeadlineOctavo ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1720 Lot #116 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineQuarto ed. of Pope's Iliad, 1715-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1715-1720 Lot #117 The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Mr. Pope View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHomerHeadlineFolio large paper ed of Pope's Iliad, 1716-1720PublisherW. BowyerDate Published1716-1720 Lot #122 Anitii Manlii Severini Boethi, Inter Latinos Aristotelis Interpretes et Aetate Primi et Doctrina Praecipvi, Dialectica... View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Johann Gryphius)AuthorBoethiusHeadlineBoethius, 1585 Gryphius VenicePublisherApud Ioannem GryphiumDate Published1585 Lot #123 Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. His acceserunt Corn. Galli fragmenta View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Johann Gryphius)AuthorCatullus, Tibullus, PropertiusHeadlineNeolatin anthology, GryphiusPublisherIoan. GryphiusDate Published1553 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Johnson, Samuel)AuthorChesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, [4th] Earl ofHeadlineLetters from Chesterfield 1st ed. 1774PublisherJ. DodsleyDate Published1774 Lot #133 Memoires de M.D.L.R. [Monsieur de La Rochefoucauld] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorLa Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc deHeadlineLa Rochefoucauld's memoirs, 1662PublisherChez Pierre van DyckDate Published1662 Lot #135 Daphnin kai Chloen...cum Proloqvio De Libris Eroticis Antiquorum View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorLongusHeadlineElegant Bodoni imprint of Daphnis & ChloePublisherBodoniDate Published1786 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$593.75StatusSold Author[Lozano, Pedro]HeadlineLozano's 1748 Earthquake of PeruPublisherT. OsborneDate Published1748 Lot #138 Epigrammata: Martialis cum duobus commentis View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,125StatusSold AuthorMartialis (Marcus Valerius)HeadlineMartial's Epigrams, 1495 editionPublisher[Christophorus de Pensis]Date Published1495 Lot #142 Scriptores erotici Graeci View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorMitscherlich, Christ. Guil., editorHeadlineNicely bound erotic Greek worksPublisherEx Typographia SocietatisDate Published1792 Lot #146 Les Dionisiaques ou les Metamorphoses les Voyages, les Amours, les Advantres, & les Conquestes de Bacchusaux Indes View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorNonnus, [Panopolitanus]HeadlineNonnus's Les Dionisiaques 1625PublisherRobert FouetDate Published1625 Lot #149 Oppiani Anazarbei De Piscatu libri V De Venatione libri IIII...[bound with] Pindari: Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorOppianus of Corycos; PindarHeadlineOppian & Pindar in 16th c. Paris ed.PublisherApud Adr. Turnebum; Apud Guilielmum MoreliumDate Published1555-1558 Lot #150 P. Ovidii Nasonis opera omnia: in tres tomos divisa View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorOvidHeadlineOvid's Omnia Opera, 1670 LeidenPublisherEx Officina HackianaDate Published1670 Lot #158 Il Petrarcha con l'Espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesualdo... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorPetrarch, FrancescoHeadlineVenetian Petrarch, w/ hand-colored initialsPublisherAlessandro GriffioDate Published1581 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorPetroniusHeadlinePetronius 1669 Amsterdam ed.PublisherTypis Ioannis BlaeuDate Published1669-1671 Lot #164 Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta Quae Exstant...Moscou Syrakousiou, Biōnos Smyrnaiou Eidyllia View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Plantin Press)AuthorCallimachusHeadlinePlantin Press Callimachus, 1584PublisherApud Christophorum PlantinumDate Published1584 Lot #166 The Lives of the Nobel Grecians & Romans... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorPlutarchHeadline1676 Plutarch's Lives of Grecians & RomansPublisherJohn Hayes for George SawbridgeDate Published1676 Lot #167 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorPlutarchHeadlineNorth's Plutarch, 4th ed. 1612 & 1610PublisherPrinted by Richard FieldDate Published1610-1612 Lot #170 The Historie of the Councel of Trent View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorPolano, Pietro SoaueHeadlineThe Historie Councel of Trent, 1640PublisherPrinted by Robert Young and John Ravvorth, for Richard WhittakerDate Published1640 Lot #171 [Polybiou Megalopolitou istoriōn biblia 5, kai epitomai 12] / Polybij Megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold AuthorPolybiusHeadlinePolybius' history in Greek and Latin, 1549PublisherPer Ioannem Heruagium / Johannes HerwagenDate Published[1549] Lot #174 L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Traduit d'Arabe en Francois, par le Sieur du Ryer View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Qur'an)HeadlineQur'an in French, 1672PublisherAntoine de SommavilleDate Published1672 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... View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(Reynard the Fox)HeadlineEarly English Reynard, in 3 partsPublisherEdward BrewsterDate Published1701; 1681; 1684 Lot #189 Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes libri quatuor... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Reynard the Fox)AuthorSchopper, HartmannHeadline1595 Reynard the Fox, SchopperPublisherNicolas BasseiDate Published1595 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorSmith, Thomas, SirHeadlineThomas Smith Commonwealth of England 1621PublisherPrinted by William Stansby for Iohn SmethwickeDate Published[1621] Lot #203 Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorSophoclesHeadlineFirst Estienne Edition of Sophocles 1568PublisherHenrici Stephani [Henri Estienne]Date Published1568 Lot #207 Mr. Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Back-Gammon... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Sports & Exercise)AuthorHoyle, [Edmond]HeadlineHoyle's Games, c.1760PublisherPrinted for Thomas Osborne et alDate Published[c.1760] Lot #209 Strabonis De situ orbis libri XVII. Grece & latine simul... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorStraboHeadline1549 Strabo's geography, in Greek & LatinPublisherHeinrich PetriDate Published1549 Lot #211 C. Cornelii Taciti Opera quae Extant View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusHeadline1648 edition of Tacitus, AntwerpPublisherEx officina PlantinianaDate Published1648 Lot #212 C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exempla ribus collatus. Adiecti sunt capitulerum numeri View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorTacitus, Publius CorneliusHeadlineSelection of Tacitus in Latin, 1665PublisherDanielis ElzeviriiDate Published1665 Lot #223 Valerii Maximi Dictorum et Factorum Memorabilium Libri Novem View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorValerius MaximusHeadlineNicely bound Valerius Maximus, 1512Date Published1512 Lot #224 Ioannis Lodovici Vivis Valentini de Institutione foeminae Christianae ad Inclytam D. Catharinam Hispanam, Angliae Reginam, Libri Tres View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorVives, Juan LuisHeadlineJuan Luis Vives treatise on Christian WomenDate Published1538 Lot #225 Ioannis Lodovici Vivis Valentini de Officio Mariti, Liber Doctissimus, Lectuq[ue] Utilissimus... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorVives, Juan LuisHeadlineJuan Luis Vives treatise on the role of husbandsDate Published1538 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. View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Wendrockius, Willem, translator, pseud. of Pierre Nicole)Author[Pascal, Blaise]Headline1st Latin Pascal's Lettres Provinciales 1658PublisherApud Nicolaum SchoutenDate Published1658 Lot #228 Xenophontis, Philosophi et Imperatoris Clarissimi... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorXenophonHeadlineXenophon in Greek and Latin, 1625Publisherapud Societatem Graecarum EditionumDate Published1625 Lot #229 Xenophontis: Quae Extant Opera View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold AuthorXenophonHeadlineXenophon's works, 2nd Estienne 1581PublisherHenricus StephanusDate Published1581 Lot #234 Nouvelles decouvertes, sur les parties de l'homme et de la femme, qui servent a la generation... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Anatomy)Author[Graaf, Reginer de]Headlinede Graaf on reproductive organs w/ plates 1701PublisherChez Federic ClouskiDate Published1701 Lot #237 Maestlin, Michael View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorEpitome AstronomiaeHeadlineAstronomy book by the mentor of Johannes Kepler, 1588PublisherGeorg GruppenbachDate Published1588 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorCocker, EdwardHeadlineCocker's Arithmetick 1677PublisherPrinted for Edward MidwinterDate Published[c. 1726] Lot #324 Miscellanea... Medica, cum praestantissimis quinque medicis... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorSmetius, HenricusHeadlineSmetius Miscellanea Medica 1611PublisherJonae RhodiiDate Published1611 Lot #335 Nouveaux Pourtraitz et figures de termes pour user en l'architecture View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorBoillot, JosephHeadlineBoillot's rare animals in architecture 1592PublisherJehan des PrezDate Published[1592] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next