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RobinsonDate Published1790 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #10 The Great Polyglot Bibles, Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17 Heading(Allen Press - Leaf Book)AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineGreat Polyglot Bibles leaf book Allen PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1966 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #19 Euphormionis Lusinini sive Joannis Barclaii Satyricon AuthorBarclay, JohnHeadlineEuphormionis Lusinini sive Joannis Barclaii SatyrPublisherElzevierDate Published1658 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #29 Revue Théosophique AuthorBlavatsky, H.P.HeadlineRevue Théosophique by Blavatsky 1891PublisherLibrairie de l'Art IndépendantDate Published1891 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #30 Consolationis Philosophiae Libri V AuthorBoethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus SeverinusHeadlineConsolationis Philosophiae Libri V, Boethius 1671PublisherEx Officina HackianaDate Published1671 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #32 Vintage set of book binder's lettering tools Heading(Book Binding Tools)Author**HeadlineVintage set of book binder's lettering toolsDate PublishedEarly 20th century? View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #33 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church... Heading(Book of Common Prayer)Author**HeadlineBk Common Prayer eng. John Sturt 1717 w/volvellePublisherJohn BaskettDate Published1717 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #39 Theatre des Grecs AuthorBrumoy, P.HeadlineTheatre des Grecs 13 vols new editionPublisherCussacDate Published1785-1789 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #40 Poemata quae extant AuthorBuchanan, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Buchanan Poemata 1641PublisherJansonDate Published1641 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #46 Juris Publici Prudentia Compendi Exhibita,... [bound with] Hypomnemata Juris Feudalis AuthorCocceji, Heinrich vonHeadlineTwo works by Heinrich CoccejiPublisherJohann ConradDate Published[c. 1725], 1727 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #50 Corpus Omnium Veterum Poetarum Latinorum, Secundum Seriem Temporum, in Quinque Libros Distributum Heading(Corpus Omnium Veterum)Author**HeadlineCorpus Omnium Veterum Poetarum LatinorumPublisherJacobi CrispiniDate Published1627 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #51 Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures AuthorCotes, RogerHeadlineRoger Cotes Hydrostatical & Pneumatical LecturesPublisherPrinted for the EditorDate Published1738 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #65 1869 ticket for a German ship Heading(Cruise Ships - Ticket)Author**Headline1869 ticket for a German shipDate Published1869 View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #70 Dialogo della Institution delle Donne AuthorDolce, LodovicoHeadlineDialogo della Institution delle Donne 1547PublisherGiolito de FerrariDate Published1547 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #108 Reglas Para Tirar la Baraja Mexicana [cover title] Heading(Fortune Telling)Author**HeadlineRare Mexican Chap Book on Fortune TellingPublisherA. Vanegas ArroyoDate Published[c. 1900] View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #134 Ten accounts of earthquakes & volcanoes extracted from 18th century journals Headingzzf(Geology)Author**Headline18th century accounts of earthquakes & volcanoesDate Published18th century View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #143 Gratulationes Juventutis Academiae Dubliniensis in Sreniss Regis et Reginae Nuptias. A Collection of Poems in Larin and English, on the Late Royal Nuptials: By Students of the University of Dublin Heading(George III)HeadlinePoems on the Nuptials of King George IIIPublisherWilliam WatsonDate Published1761 View details Estimate$10 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #147 Egmont. Trauerspiel von Göthe AuthorGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonHeadlineFirst edition of Goethe's Egmont 1788PublisherG. F. GoschenDate Published1788 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #167 Institutiones Linguae Hebraicae... Heading(Hebrew)Author**HeadlineInstitutiones Linguae Hebraicae 1616Publisher[Coloniae Allobrogum, apud Petrum de la Roviere]Date Published[1616] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #170 Historia D'Herodiano dello Imperio dopo Marco tradotta in lingua toscana & con diligentia stampata AuthorHerodianHeadlineHerodian's Roman History 1522PublisherGuintaDate Published1522 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #171 The Actor: or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing Author[Hill, John]HeadlineThe Actor or A Treatise onthe Art of Playing 1755PublisherR. GriffithsDate Published1755 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #174 The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste AuthorHogarth, WilliamHeadlineAnalysis of Beauty by Wm Hogarth 1772, 2 pltsPublisherW. Strahan, for Mrs. HogarthDate Published1772 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #176 Praelectionum Juris Civilis AuthorHuber, UlrikHeadlinePraelectionum Juris Civilis by Huber 1735PublisherJo. Friderici Gleditschii B. FiliiDate Published1735 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #183 Iroha Moncho [Dictionary of Family Crests] Heading(Japanese Crests)AuthorTanaka, KikuoHeadlineIroha Moncho [Dictionary of Family Crests] c1885PublisherKyukodoDate Published[c.1885] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #189 Commentatio Succinta in Constitutionem Criminalem AuthorKress, Johannes PaulHeadlineCommentatio Succinta in Constitutionem CriminalemPublisherHeredum FoesterianorumDate Published1760 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #190 Histoire du Bas-Empire, en Commencant a Constantin le Grand AuthorLe Beau, [Charles]HeadlineHistoire du Bas-Empire 11 vols (of 27) 1757-68PublisherDesaint & SaillantDate Published1757-1768 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #191 Oeuvres Choisies de le Sage AuthorLe Sage, [Alaine René]HeadlineOeuvres Choisies de le Sage in 15 volsPublisherRue et Hotel SerpenteDate Published1783 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #195 Hieroglyphica, Sive Antiqua Schemata Gemmarum Anularium, Quaesita Moralia, Politica, Historica, Medica, Philosophica & Sublimiora AuthorLicetus, FortuniusHeadlineLicetus Hieroglyphica 1653PublisherSebastiano SardiDate Published1653 View details Estimate$400 - $700StatusUnsold Lot #197 Ten works, mostly from the Limited Editions Club Heading(Limited Editions Club)Author**Headline10 works, mostly from the Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions Club (most)Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #202 Works of Ossian Author[Macpherson, James]HeadlineWorks of Ossian 2 volumes 1777PublisherPrinteed for I.G. FleischerDate Published1777 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #203 Opera. Accedunt integrae I Pontani, J Meursii, J Gronovii notae & animadversiones AuthorMacrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius TheodosiusHeadlineFirst English Printing of MacrobiusPublisherM.C. & B.M. for T. Dring and C. HarperDate Published1694 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #209 Martyrologium Romanum Gregorii XIII Pont Max... Heading(Martyrs)AuthorLubin, AugustinHeadlineMartyrologium Romanum by Lubin 1661PublisherFlorentinum LambertDate Published1661 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #219 Medicina Septentrionalis Collatitia, Sive rei Medicae, Nuperis annis a Medicis Anglis, Germanis & Danis emissae... Heading(Medical)AuthorBonet, TheophilusHeadlineMedicina Septentrionalis Collatitia 1685-86PublisherLeonardi ChovetDate Published1685-1686 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #224 Contes Rapides Heading(Medical)AuthorCoppee, FancoisHeadlineContes Rapides by Coppee 1889PublisherAlphonse LemerreDate Published1889 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #230 Marci Gatinariae Medici Clarissimi, Nonum ad Almansorem in Gymnasio Papiensi publice; profitentis... Heading(Medical)AuthorGatinaria, MarcoHeadlineMedici Clarissimi by Marco Gatinaria 1559-60PublisherLaurentiusDate Published[1559 or 1560] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #235 Physica Hominis Sani seu Explication Functionum Corporis Humani Heading(Medical)AuthorJadelot, Jean-NicolasHeadlinePhysica Hominis by Jean-Nic Jadelot 1778PublisherSebastiani BachotDate Published1778 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #239 De la Médecine Opératoire, ou Traité Élémentaire des Operations de la Chirurgie Heading(Medical)AuthorLassus, PierreHeadlineDe la Médecine Opératoire in 2 vols 1795PublisherChez BuissonDate Published[1795] View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #240 Observationum Medicinalium Libri Tres Heading(Medical)AuthorLommius, JodocusHeadlineObservationum Medicinalium Libri Tres 1761PublisherFratrum DetournesDate Published1761 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #242 Epistolarum Medicinalium Lib. XX Heading(Medical)AuthorManardo, GiovanniHeadlineEpistolarum Medicinalium Lib. XX 1542PublisherPeter SchoefferDate Published1542 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #244 Theatrum Anatomicum Heading(Medical)AuthorManget, Jean JacquesHeadlineTheatrum Anatomicum by Manget 1717PublisherCramer & PerachonDate Published1717 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #246 Phthisiologia: or, A Treatise of Consumptions. Wherein the Difference, Nature, Causes, Signs, and Cure of all sorts of Consumptions are Explained. Containing Three Books... Heading(Medical)AuthorMorton, RichardHeadlinePhthisiologia Treatise of Consumptions 1694PublisherSam. Smith and Benj. WalfordDate Published1694 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #254 Considerationes Pathologico-Semeioticae, de Omnibus Humani Corporis Functionibus... Heading(Medical)AuthorRougnon, N[icolas] F[rancois]HeadlineConsiderationes Pathologico-Semeioticae 1786-88PublisherJ.F. CouchéDate Published1786-1788 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #256 Institutionum Medicinae Libri V Heading(Medical)AuthorSennert, DanielHeadlineInstitutionum Medicinae Libri V 1620 by SennertPublisherZachariam SchurerumDate Published[1620] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #259 Abhandlung von Blutflüssen. [Bound with] Allgemeine anleitung zur Vorbeugung sowohl als zur Heilung der Hundwuth Heading(Medical)AuthorSteidele, Raphael Johan [and] Storck, AntonHeadline2 German medical publications in 1 vol. 1700sPublisherTrattnernDate Published1776 [and] 1786 View details Estimate$80 - $120Sold for$50StatusSold Lot #260 Libellus, quo Demonstratur; Cicutam non Solum Usu Interno Tutissime Exhiberi, sed et essa simul remedium valde utile in multis morbis, qui hucusque curatu impossibiles dicebantur Heading(Medical)AuthorStorck, AntonHeadlineAnton Storck medical book in Latin 1762Date Published1762 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #261 Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos, de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis Heading(Medical)AuthorSwieten, Gerard vanHeadline5 vols.Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave AphorismPublisherGuillelmi CavelierDate Published1755-1773 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #267 Vida, martyrio, y beatificación del invicto proto-martyr de el Japon, san Felipe de Jesus, patron de Mexico, su patria, imperial corte de Nueva España, en el nuevo mundo: que escriviò fray Balthasar de Medina AuthorMedina, Balthasar deHeadlineFranciscan friar martyred in JapanPublisherEn la imprenta de los herederos de la viuda de Juan Garcia InfanzonDate Published1751 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #279 A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors; With the Present Practice of Distillation in all its Varieties: Together with an Extensive Illustration of the Consumption and Effects of Opium, and Other Stimulants Used in the East, as Substitutes for Wine and Spirits AuthorMorewood, SamuelHeadlineHistory of Inebriating Liquors & Opium 1838PublisherWilliam CurryDate Published1838 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #283 The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist; Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom AuthorNicholson, JohnHeadlineJohn Nicholson The Operative MechanicPublisherT. Desilver, Jun.Date Published1831 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #293 A View of the Evidences of Christianity AuthorPaley, WilliamHeadlinePaley's Evidences of Christianity 1st Dublin EdnPublisherJ. MillikenDate Published1794 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #300 Florus Biblicus sive Narrationes ex Historia Sacra Testamenti Veteris Selectae et Doctrina Morali AuthorPexenfelder, MichaeleHeadlineMichaele Pexenfelder Florus Biblicus 1672PublisherJoannis Chrysostomi HaanDate Published1672 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #313 Fourteen volumes of narratives and commentary on the Popish Plot Heading(Popish Plot - The Calvin P. Otto Collection)Author**Headline14 Volumes on the Popish PlotPublisherVarious placesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #314 Ten volumes on the trials of those involved (or believed to have been involved) in the Popish Plot Heading(Popish Plot - The Calvin P. Otto Collection)Author**HeadlineTrials of the Popish Plot participantsPublisherVarious placesDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #327 Proportional architecture; or, the five orders; regulated by equal parts: after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity Author[Robinson, William]HeadlineRobinson's Proportional Architecture 1733PublisherA. Bettesworth and C. HitchDate Published1733 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #341 Introducao a' Vida Devota...com a Declaracam Mystica do Cantico dos Canticos, Directorio de Religiosas... two editions Authorde Sales, S. FranciscoHeadline2 eds of Portuguese religious work from 1729Date Published1729 [and] 1784 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #342 Eighty-eight volumes from the School District Library Headingzzf(School District Library)Author**Headline88 volumes from the School District LibraryPublisherHarper & BrothersDate PublishedMostly 1830s-1840s View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #347 Collection of program, pamphlets, etc. from various Shriner's events Heading(Shriners)Author**HeadlineCollection of Shriner's ephemeraDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #349 M. Tullii Ciceronis Consolatio: Liber, quo seipsum de Filiae morte consolatus est. Nunc primum repertus, & in lucem editus AuthorSigonio, Carlo [Pseudo-Cicero]HeadlineFamous literary hoax Cicero's Consolatio 1583Date Published1583 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #350 An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations AuthorSmith, AdamHeadlineAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations 2nd Amer. Edn.PublisherThomas DobsonDate Published1796 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #351 Histoire d'Angleterre, depuis la Descente de Jules-Cesar, Jusqu'au Traité d'Aix-la-Chapelle en 1748 AuthorSmolett, M.T.HeadlineHistoire d'Angleterre by Smolett 1759-64 19volsPublisherJean Rouzeau-MontautDate Published1759-1764 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #354 Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets, And the Remains of the Antient Artists AuthorSpence, [Joseph]HeadlineSpence's Polymetis 1747PublisherR. DodsleyDate Published1747 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #355 De L'Allemagne AuthorStael-Holstein, Mme la Baronne deHeadlineMadame de Stael De L'Allemagne 1814PublisherJ.J. PaschoudDate Published1814 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #362 George Stevens's Celebrated Lecture on Heads; Which has been exhibited upwards of Three Hundred successive Nights to crowded Audiences, and met with the most universal Applause AuthorStevens, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Stevens's Celebrated Lecture on HeadsPublisher[J. Pridden]Date Published[c. 1770] View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #365 Genealogical History of the Stewarts, from the Earliest Period of Their Authentic History to the Present Times AuthorStuart, AndrewHeadlineGenealogical History of the Stewarts 1798PublisherA. Strahan and T. Cadell, Jun. and W. DaviesDate Published1798 View details Estimate$10StatusUnsold Lot #367 The Sugar-Plum, or, Sweet amusement for leisure hours: being an entertaining and instructive collection of stories. embellished with curious cuts Heading(Sugar-Plum...)Author**HeadlineRare Juvenile Sugar-Plum 1786PublisherPrinted and sold by J. & M. Robertson and J. DuncanDate Published1786 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #369 Moral and Historical Memoirs Author[Temple, William]HeadlineWilliam Temple Moral and Historical MemoirsPublisherEdward and Charles DillyDate Published1779 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #377 Histoire Universelle, Depuis le Commencement du Monde Jusqu'a Présent; Composée en Anglois par une Société de Gens de Lettres... Heading(Universal History)Author**HeadlineHistoire Universelle 10 vols only 1779-82Publisherchez MoutardDate Published1779-1782 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #381 [Historiae Romanae] AuthorVelleius Paterculus, CaiusHeadlineHistoriae Romanae by Paterculus 1639PublisherOfficina ElzevierianaDate Published1639 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #384 A History of Champagne with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France AuthorVizetelly, HenryHeadlineHistory of Champagne Wines of France 1882PublisherVizetelly & Co.Date Published1882 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #459 The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical HeadingzzcAuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineWorks of the English Poets 73 (of 75) vols 1790PublisherJohn NicholsDate Published1790 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$812.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next