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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Paradoxe sur l'incertitude, vanite & abus des Sciences AuthorAgrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich CorneliusHeadlineParadoxe sur l'incertitude by Agrippa 1608Date Published1608 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #4 Corpus Constitutionum Imperialium AuthorAndler, Franz Friedrich vonHeadlineCorpus Constitutionum ImperialiumPublisherLeonhardt Christophen LochnersDate Published1675 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #5 Antiphonarium Romanum Juxta Breviarium Heading(Antiphonary)Author**HeadlineAntiphonarium Romanum Juxta Breviarium 1649PublisherHieronymi VerdusiiDate Published1649 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #7 Physica AuthorAristotleHeadlineIncunabula edition of Aristotle's Physics 1483PublisherAndree de AsulaDate Published1483 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #8 Institutions Astronomiques, ou Lecons Élémentaires d'Astronomie, pour servir d'Introduction à la Physique Céleste & à la Science des Longitudes Heading(Astronomy)Author[Le Monnier, Pierre-Charles]Headlinefirst important manual of astronomy in FrancePublisherGuerin & GuerinDate Published1746 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Lot #12 The Elements of the Common Lawes of England. Branched into a Double Tract: The One Contayning A Collection of Some Principal Rules and Maxims of the Common Law, With Their Latitude and Extent. Explicated for the More Facile Introduction of Such as are Studiously Addicted to That Noble Profession. The Other: The Use of the Common Law, for the Preservation of our Persons, Goods, and Good Names. According to the Laws and Customs of this Land AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineBacon's Elements of Common Lawes of EnglandPublisherPrinted by the Assignes of J. MoreDate Published1630 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #13 Annotationes Doctorum Viroru[m] in Grammaticos, Oratores, Poetas, Philosophes, Theologos & Leges AuthorBadius, Josse, editorHeadlineAnnotationes Doctorum Virorum 1511PublisherJean PetitDate Published1511 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #14 A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Time of the Roman Government, to the Death of King James the First...with a Continuation to the Year 1660 by E. Phillipe...Whereto Will be Added a Second Continuation... AuthorBaker, RichardHeadlineBaker's Chronicles of the Kings of EnglandPublisherSamuel BallardDate Published1733 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #15 Two legal works by Count Barbacovi AuthorBarbacovi, Francesco VigilioHeadlineTwo legal works by Count BarbacoviPublisherJoan. Baptista MonauniDate Published1795 & 1796 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #25 The Making of the King James Bible: A Monograph, with Comparisons from the Bishops Bible and the Manuscript Annotations of 1602, with an original leaf from the great "She" Bible of 1611. Heading(Bible - Leaf Book)Author**HeadlineThe Making of the King James Bible 1611PublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1956 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #26 The Actes of the Apostles - folio 1613 King James Bible New Testament Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1613 folio King James Bible Actes of ApostlesPublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #27 The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader... Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1608 Bible printed by Robert BarkerPublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1608 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #28 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: and wiht the former Translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline3rd Folio Edition of King James Bible 1617PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1617 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Lot #29 Commentaries on the Laws of England. In four books... The eleventh edition, with the last corrections of the author, additions by Richard Burn, LL. D., and continued to the present time, by John Williams, Esq. AuthorBlackstone, WilliamHeadlineBlackstone's Commentaries 4 vols. 1791PublisherPrinted by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall for T. CadellDate Published1791 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #33 The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches Heading(Book of Common Prayer)Author**HeadlineUncommon Book of Common Prayer c.1770PublisherPrinted by John Baskett, printer to the King’s most Excellent MajestyDate Published[c.1770] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #46 Don Quichotte de la Manche AuthorCervantes de [Saavedra], Michel [Miguel]HeadlineDon Quichotte de la Manche 1799 editionPublisherDe L'Imprimerie de Didot L'AineDate PublishedAn VII [1799] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #50 An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African. Translated from a Latin Dissertation Which was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions Author[Clarkson, Thomas]HeadlineEssay on Slavery by Thos Clarkson 1786PublisherPrinted by P. Byrne and W. PorterDate Published1786 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #52 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 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #55 Court Cookery: or, The Compleat English Cook. Containing the choicest and newest receipts for making soops, pottages, fricasseys, harshes, farces, ragoo's, cullises, sauses, forc'd-meats, and souses: with various ways of dressing most sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, wild, and tame... With a bill of fare for every month in the year, and the latest improvements in cookery, pastry, &c. Heading(Cookery)AuthorSmith, RobertHeadlineSmith's Court Cookery 1725PublisherT. WottonDate Published1725 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #59 Ahiman rezon abridged and digested: as a help to all that are, or would be Free and Accepted Masons. : To which is added, a sermon, preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, at a general communication, celebrated, agreeable to the constitutions, on Monday, December 28, 1778, as the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist. Published by order of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, by William Smith, D.D. Author[Dermott, Lawrence]HeadlineEarly Masonic work dedicated to G. WashingtonPublisherPrinted by Hall and SellersDate Published1783 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #61 The Family Expositer: Or, a Paraphrase and Version of the New Testament: With Critical Notes AuthorDoddridge, P[hilip]HeadlineDoddridge's Family Expositor 1756PublisherJ. Waugh and W. FennerDate Published1756 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #67 The General History of Earthquakes: Being an Account of the Most Remarkable and Tremendous Earthquakes That Have Happened in Divers Parts of the World, From the Creation to This Time; As They Are Recorded by Sacred and Common Authors; And Particularly Those Lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a Description of the Famous Burning Mount, Aetna, in That Island; And the Relation of the Several Dreadful Conflagrations and Fiery Irruptions Thereof for Many Ages. Likewise the Natural and Material Causes of Earthquakes, With the Usual Signs and Prognosticks of Their Approach; And the Consequences and Effects That Have Followed Several of Them Heading(Earthquakes)AuthorB[urton], R.HeadlineThe General History of Earthquakes 1734PublisherA. Bettesworth and J. HodgesDate Published1734 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #76 Aula Subterranea Domina Dominantiuk Subdita Subditorum... HeadingzzfAuthorErcker, LazarusHeadlineLazurus Ercker Aula Subterranea 1736PublisherJohann David JungDate Published1736 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #77 The elements of Euclid, viz, the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. The errors, by which Theon, or others, have long ago vitiated these books, are corrected, and some of Euclid's demonstrations restored. Also the book of Euclid's Data, in like manner corrected. By Robert Simson, M.D. AuthorEuclidHeadline1791 edition of Euclid ElementsPublisherPrinted for E. Wingrove, London, and J. Balfour, EdinburghDate Published1791 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #79 The Hampstead Contest, A Law Case, Submitted to Counsel, and Inscribed to Mrs. L_ss_gh_m by Farmer Hodge of Golder's Green AuthorFarmer Hodge, of Golder's-Green [pseud.]HeadlineThe Hampstead Contest, A Law Case 1775PublisherF. NewberyDate Published1775 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #114 Commentarius in Kayser Carl des Fünfften, und des H. Röm. Reichs Peinliche Hals-Gerichts-Ordnung AuthorFrolichs de Frolichsburg, Joh. Chr.HeadlineCommentarius in Kayser Carl des FünfftenPublisherJohann Conrad WohlerDate Published1733 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #115 Mathematical discourses concerning two new sciences relating to mechanicks and local motion, in four dialogues. I. Of the Resistance of Solids against Fraction. II. Of the Cause of their Coherence. III. Of Local Motion, viz. Equable, and naturally Accelerate. IV. Of Violent Motion, or of Projects. By Galileo Galilei, Chief Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. With an appendix concerning the center of gravity of solid bodies. Done into English from the Italian, by Tho. Weston, late Master, and now publish’d by John Weston, present Master, of the Academy at Greenwich AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineGalileo's Mathematical Discourses 1730PublisherJ. HookeDate Published1730 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #120 Security Analysis AuthorGraham, Benjamin & David L. DoddHeadlineGraham & Dodd Security Analysis First EditionPublisherWhittlesey HouseDate Published1934 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #123 Fragment of a single leaf from the Catholicon Heading(Gutenberg, Johann)AuthorBalbus, JoannesHeadlineFragment of a single leaf from the CatholiconPublisher[Johann Gutenberg]Date Published[1460] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #125 Disputationes ad Morborum Historiam et Curationem Facientes AuthorHaller, Albrecht vonHeadline7 volumes about disease, in Latin 1757-1760PublisherBousquetDate Published1757-1760 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #126 Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music Painting and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness AuthorH[arris], J[ames]HeadlineJames "Hermes" Harris Three Treatises 1744PublisherJ. Nourse and P. VaillantDate Published1744 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #127 The Harvard Classics Heading(Harvard Classics)AuthorEliot, Charles W., editorHeadlineEaston Press Harvard Classics 50 volumesPublisherEaston PressDate Published[1993] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #130 Leben und Leyden Unsers Einigen Heylands und Erlosers Jesu Christi und Mariae, Seiner Hochgebenedeyten Mutter AuthorHerlet, FriedrichHeadlineHerlet's Life of Jesus and MaryDate PublishedNo date [mid 18th century] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #131 Essays in Natural History and Philosophy. Containing a Series of Discoveries, by the Assistance of Microscopes AuthorHill, JohnHeadlineNatural History & Philosophy by John Hill 1752PublisherJ. Whiston and B. WhiteDate Published1752 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #135 Praelectionum Juris Civilis AuthorHuber, UlrikHeadlinePraelectionum Juris Civilis by Huber 1735PublisherJo. Friderici Gleditschii B. FiliiDate Published1735 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #141 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 #151 Commentatio Succinta in Constitutionem Criminalem AuthorKress, Johannes PaulHeadlineCommentatio Succinta in Constitutionem CriminalemPublisherHeredum FoesterianorumDate Published1760 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #153 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 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #154 Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind AuthorLavater, J[ohann] C[asper]HeadlineEssays on Physiognomy by JC Lavater 1789PublisherG.G.J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1789 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #155 Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz. Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical... AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineLeybourn's Pleasure with Profit 1694PublisherPrinted for Richard Baldwin & John DuntonDate Published1694 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #157 Practicarum Observationum ex Jure Civili et Saxonico Collectarum, & ad Stylum Usumque Judiciorum Curiae Regalis Accomodatarum, Centuria Prima AuthorLipski, Andrea [Jedrezej]HeadlinePracticarum Observationum ex Jure Civili 1620PublisherFrancisci CasariiDate Published1619-20 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #158 Colloquia Selecta, & Timon. Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Menandri Sententiae Morales AuthorLucian of SamosataHeadlineLucian of Samosata Colloquia Selecta 1732PublisherR. & J. Wetstenios & G. SmithDate Published1732 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #159 A Commentarie of Master Doctor Martin Luther Upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians AuthorLuther, MartinHeadlineEpistle of St Paul to the GalathiansPublisherGeorge MillerDate Published1644 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #171 Paradise Lost...With Notes, Selected from Newton and others, to which is prefixed, the Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation on the Poetical Works of Milton and Observations on his Language and Versification by Samuel Johnson AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost 1796 EditionPublisherPrinted for J. ParsonsDate Published1796 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #172 Villa Borghese Fuiri di Porta Pinciana Author[Montelatici, Domenico]HeadlineVilla Borghese Fuiri di Porta Pinciana 1700PublisherGio. Francesco BuagniDate Published1700 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #175 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 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #176 Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias: Cum Enumeratione Lineaerum Tertii Ordinis Author[Newton, Isaac]HeadlineNewton's claim to inventing Calculus, 1711PublisherEx Officina PearsonianaDate Published1711 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Lot #178 A View of the Evidences of Christianity AuthorPaley, WilliamHeadlinePaley's Evidences of Christianity 1st EditionPublisherR. FaulderDate Published1794 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #180 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 #184 The Surveyor in Foure Bookes AuthorRathborne, AaronHeadlineRathborne's History of Surveying 1616 1st editionPublisherPrinted by W. Stansby for W. BurreDate Published1616 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #189 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 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #193 [Elementa Physica in Russian], Sokrachenie Opytnoy Fiziki (Reduction of Skilled Physics) (caption title) Heading(Physics)AuthorMusschenbroek, Peter vanHeadlineElementa Physica in Russian Musschenbroek 1791Date Published1791 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #196 De febre pestilenti Tractatus; et Curationes Quorundam Particularium morborum, quorum tractatio ab Ordinariis practicis non habetur: Atque Annotationes in Artem medicam de medendis humani corporis malis, a Donato Antonio ab Altomari Neapolitano conditam. Cum Indice copioso AuthorSalius Diversus, PetrusHeadline16th century Latin medical book rare!PublisherAndreae WecheliDate Published1586 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #199 Institutionum Medicinae Libri V Heading(Medical)AuthorSennert, DanielHeadlineInstitutionum Medicinae Libri V 1620 by SennertPublisherZachariam SchurerumDate Published[1620] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #201 The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Plays & Poems in 11 vol. 1790PublisherH. BaldwinDate Published1790 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #202 The Works of Shakespeare AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline1735 Edition of Shakespeare's WorksPublisherJ. Tonson, and the rest of the ProprietorsDate Published1635 [but 1730s] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #203 De L'Allemagne AuthorStael-Holstein, Mme la Baronne deHeadlineMadame de Stael De L'Allemagne 1814PublisherJ.J. PaschoudDate Published1814 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #205 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 - $120StatusUnsold Lot #206 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 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #207 Syntagma Juris Feudalis [bound with] Observationes Feudales AuthorStruvius, George AdamHeadlineSyntagma Juris Feudais 1690PublisherGeorgii Henrici OehrlingiiDate Published1690 & 1688 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #208 Traité des Bandages et des Appareils; avec une Description Abbrégée des Brayers ou Bandages et de Plusieurs Machines propres à Différentes Maladies AuthorSue, [Jean Joseph]HeadlineTraité des Bandages et des Appareils 1761PublisherChez Guillaume CavelierDate Published1761 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #210 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next