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Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Paradoxe sur l'incertitude, vanite & abus des Sciences View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorAgrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich CorneliusHeadlineParadoxe sur l'incertitude by Agrippa 1608Date Published1608 Lot #4 Corpus Constitutionum Imperialium View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorAndler, Franz Friedrich vonHeadlineCorpus Constitutionum ImperialiumPublisherLeonhardt Christophen LochnersDate Published1675 Lot #5 Antiphonarium Romanum Juxta Breviarium View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Antiphonary)Author**HeadlineAntiphonarium Romanum Juxta Breviarium 1649PublisherHieronymi VerdusiiDate Published1649 Lot #6 Manuscript Prayer Book and Koran View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Heading(Arabic Manuscripts)Author**HeadlineManuscript Prayer Book and KoranDate Published18th/19th centuries Lot #7 Physica View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold AuthorAristotleHeadlineIncunabula edition of Aristotle's Physics 1483PublisherAndree de AsulaDate Published1483 Lot #8 Institutions Astronomiques, ou Lecons Élémentaires d'Astronomie, pour servir d'Introduction à la Physique Céleste & à la Science des Longitudes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Astronomy)Author[Le Monnier, Pierre-Charles]Headlinefirst important manual of astronomy in FrancePublisherGuerin & GuerinDate Published1746 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 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorBacon, FrancisHeadlineBacon's Elements of Common Lawes of EnglandPublisherPrinted by the Assignes of J. MoreDate Published1630 Lot #13 Annotationes Doctorum Viroru[m] in Grammaticos, Oratores, Poetas, Philosophes, Theologos & Leges View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBadius, Josse, editorHeadlineAnnotationes Doctorum Virorum 1511PublisherJean PetitDate Published1511 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... View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorBaker, RichardHeadlineBaker's Chronicles of the Kings of EnglandPublisherSamuel BallardDate Published1733 Lot #15 Two legal works by Count Barbacovi View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold AuthorBarbacovi, Francesco VigilioHeadlineTwo legal works by Count BarbacoviPublisherJoan. Baptista MonauniDate Published1795 & 1796 Lot #24 Ethiopian Coptic Bible, hand-written in the Ge’ez script, with 4 gouache paintings and leather traveling case View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Heading(Bible - Coptic)Author**HeadlineEthiopian Coptic Bible With 4 Gouache PaintingsDate Published[mid 19th century?] 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. View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Bible - Leaf Book)Author**HeadlineThe Making of the King James Bible 1611PublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1956 Lot #26 The Actes of the Apostles - folio 1613 King James Bible New Testament View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1613 folio King James Bible Actes of ApostlesPublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1613 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline1608 Bible printed by Robert BarkerPublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1608 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 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$13,750StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Author**Headline3rd Folio Edition of King James Bible 1617PublisherRobert BarkerDate Published1617 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. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorBlackstone, WilliamHeadlineBlackstone's Commentaries 4 vols. 1791PublisherPrinted by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall for T. CadellDate Published1791 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold 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] Lot #46 Don Quichotte de la Manche View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorCervantes de [Saavedra], Michel [Miguel]HeadlineDon Quichotte de la Manche 1799 editionPublisherDe L'Imprimerie de Didot L'AineDate PublishedAn VII [1799] 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Author[Clarkson, Thomas]HeadlineEssay on Slavery by Thos Clarkson 1786PublisherPrinted by P. Byrne and W. PorterDate Published1786 Lot #52 Juris Publici Prudentia Compendi Exhibita,... [bound with] Hypomnemata Juris Feudalis View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorCocceji, Heinrich vonHeadlineTwo works by Heinrich CoccejiPublisherJohann ConradDate Published[c. 1725], 1727 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. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,750StatusSold Heading(Cookery)AuthorSmith, RobertHeadlineSmith's Court Cookery 1725PublisherT. WottonDate Published1725 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. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Author[Dermott, Lawrence]HeadlineEarly Masonic work dedicated to G. WashingtonPublisherPrinted by Hall and SellersDate Published1783 Lot #61 The Family Expositer: Or, a Paraphrase and Version of the New Testament: With Critical Notes View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorDoddridge, P[hilip]HeadlineDoddridge's Family Expositor 1756PublisherJ. Waugh and W. FennerDate Published1756 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Earthquakes)AuthorB[urton], R.HeadlineThe General History of Earthquakes 1734PublisherA. Bettesworth and J. HodgesDate Published1734 Lot #76 Aula Subterranea Domina Dominantiuk Subdita Subditorum... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold HeadingzzfAuthorErcker, LazarusHeadlineLazurus Ercker Aula Subterranea 1736PublisherJohann David JungDate Published1736 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. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorEuclidHeadline1791 edition of Euclid ElementsPublisherPrinted for E. Wingrove, London, and J. Balfour, EdinburghDate Published1791 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorFarmer Hodge, of Golder's-Green [pseud.]HeadlineThe Hampstead Contest, A Law Case 1775PublisherF. NewberyDate Published1775 Lot #114 Commentarius in Kayser Carl des Fünfften, und des H. Röm. Reichs Peinliche Hals-Gerichts-Ordnung View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorFrolichs de Frolichsburg, Joh. Chr.HeadlineCommentarius in Kayser Carl des FünfftenPublisherJohann Conrad WohlerDate Published1733 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 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold AuthorGalilei, GalileoHeadlineGalileo's Mathematical Discourses 1730PublisherJ. HookeDate Published1730 Lot #123 Fragment of a single leaf from the Catholicon View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(Gutenberg, Johann)AuthorBalbus, JoannesHeadlineFragment of a single leaf from the CatholiconPublisher[Johann Gutenberg]Date Published[1460] Lot #125 Disputationes ad Morborum Historiam et Curationem Facientes View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold AuthorHaller, Albrecht vonHeadline7 volumes about disease, in Latin 1757-1760PublisherBousquetDate Published1757-1760 Lot #126 Three Treatises. The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music Painting and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorH[arris], J[ames]HeadlineJames "Hermes" Harris Three Treatises 1744PublisherJ. Nourse and P. VaillantDate Published1744 Lot #129 Autograph excerpts relating to Being and Time, along with a signed portrait, matted together View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorHeidegger, MartinHeadlineAutograph excerpts Heidegger's Being and TimeDate PublishedNo date Lot #130 Leben und Leyden Unsers Einigen Heylands und Erlosers Jesu Christi und Mariae, Seiner Hochgebenedeyten Mutter View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorHerlet, FriedrichHeadlineHerlet's Life of Jesus and MaryDate PublishedNo date [mid 18th century] Lot #131 Essays in Natural History and Philosophy. Containing a Series of Discoveries, by the Assistance of Microscopes View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorHill, JohnHeadlineNatural History & Philosophy by John Hill 1752PublisherJ. Whiston and B. WhiteDate Published1752 Lot #135 Praelectionum Juris Civilis View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorHuber, UlrikHeadlinePraelectionum Juris Civilis by Huber 1735PublisherJo. Friderici Gleditschii B. FiliiDate Published1735 Lot #141 Physica Hominis Sani seu Explication Functionum Corporis Humani View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorJadelot, Jean-NicolasHeadlinePhysica Hominis by Jean-Nic Jadelot 1778PublisherSebastiani BachotDate Published1778 Lot #151 Commentatio Succinta in Constitutionem Criminalem View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold AuthorKress, Johannes PaulHeadlineCommentatio Succinta in Constitutionem CriminalemPublisherHeredum FoesterianorumDate Published1760 Lot #153 De la Médecine Opératoire, ou Traité Élémentaire des Operations de la Chirurgie View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorLassus, PierreHeadlineDe la Médecine Opératoire in 2 vols 1795PublisherChez BuissonDate Published[1795] Lot #154 Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorLavater, J[ohann] C[asper]HeadlineEssays on Physiognomy by JC Lavater 1789PublisherG.G.J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1789 Lot #155 Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz. Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorLeybourn, WilliamHeadlineLeybourn's Pleasure with Profit 1694PublisherPrinted for Richard Baldwin & John DuntonDate Published1694 Lot #157 Practicarum Observationum ex Jure Civili et Saxonico Collectarum, & ad Stylum Usumque Judiciorum Curiae Regalis Accomodatarum, Centuria Prima View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorLipski, Andrea [Jedrezej]HeadlinePracticarum Observationum ex Jure Civili 1620PublisherFrancisci CasariiDate Published1619-20 Lot #158 Colloquia Selecta, & Timon. Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Menandri Sententiae Morales View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorLucian of SamosataHeadlineLucian of Samosata Colloquia Selecta 1732PublisherR. & J. Wetstenios & G. SmithDate Published1732 Lot #159 A Commentarie of Master Doctor Martin Luther Upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorLuther, MartinHeadlineEpistle of St Paul to the GalathiansPublisherGeorge MillerDate Published1644 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's Paradise Lost 1796 EditionPublisherPrinted for J. ParsonsDate Published1796 Lot #172 Villa Borghese Fuiri di Porta Pinciana View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Author[Montelatici, Domenico]HeadlineVilla Borghese Fuiri di Porta Pinciana 1700PublisherGio. Francesco BuagniDate Published1700 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... View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorMorton, RichardHeadlinePhthisiologia Treatise of Consumptions 1694PublisherSam. Smith and Benj. WalfordDate Published1694 Lot #176 Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones, ac Differentias: Cum Enumeratione Lineaerum Tertii Ordinis View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Author[Newton, Isaac]HeadlineNewton's claim to inventing Calculus, 1711PublisherEx Officina PearsonianaDate Published1711 Lot #178 A View of the Evidences of Christianity View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold AuthorPaley, WilliamHeadlinePaley's Evidences of Christianity 1st EditionPublisherR. FaulderDate Published1794 Lot #180 Florus Biblicus sive Narrationes ex Historia Sacra Testamenti Veteris Selectae et Doctrina Morali View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold AuthorPexenfelder, MichaeleHeadlineMichaele Pexenfelder Florus Biblicus 1672PublisherJoannis Chrysostomi HaanDate Published1672 Lot #183 Biblisch-talmudische Medizin. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Heilkunde und der Kultur überhaupt View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorPreuss, JuliusHeadlineBiblical medicine by Julius Preuss 1911PublisherS. KargerDate Published1911 Lot #184 The Surveyor in Foure Bookes View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorRathborne, AaronHeadlineRathborne's History of Surveying 1616 1st editionPublisherPrinted by W. Stansby for W. BurreDate Published1616 Lot #189 Considerationes Pathologico-Semeioticae, de Omnibus Humani Corporis Functionibus... View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorRougnon, N[icolas] F[rancois]HeadlineConsiderationes Pathologico-Semeioticae 1786-88PublisherJ.F. CouchéDate Published1786-1788 Lot #191 Bible in Russian, signed by Tsarina Alexandra Feyodorvna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Russian)Author**HeadlineBible signed by last Russian EmpressDate Published1914 Lot #193 [Elementa Physica in Russian], Sokrachenie Opytnoy Fiziki (Reduction of Skilled Physics) (caption title) View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Heading(Physics)AuthorMusschenbroek, Peter vanHeadlineElementa Physica in Russian Musschenbroek 1791Date Published1791 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorSalius Diversus, PetrusHeadline16th century Latin medical book rare!PublisherAndreae WecheliDate Published1586 Lot #199 Institutionum Medicinae Libri V View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorSennert, DanielHeadlineInstitutionum Medicinae Libri V 1620 by SennertPublisherZachariam SchurerumDate Published[1620] Lot #201 The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare's Plays & Poems in 11 vol. 1790PublisherH. BaldwinDate Published1790 Lot #202 The Works of Shakespeare View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline1735 Edition of Shakespeare's WorksPublisherJ. Tonson, and the rest of the ProprietorsDate Published1635 [but 1730s] Lot #205 Abhandlung von Blutflüssen. [Bound with] Allgemeine anleitung zur Vorbeugung sowohl als zur Heilung der Hundwuth View details Estimate$80 - $120StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorSteidele, Raphael Johan [and] Storck, AntonHeadline2 German medical publications in 1 vol. 1700sPublisherTrattnernDate Published1776 [and] 1786 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 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorStorck, AntonHeadlineAnton Storck medical book in Latin 1762Date Published1762 Lot #207 Syntagma Juris Feudalis [bound with] Observationes Feudales View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold AuthorStruvius, George AdamHeadlineSyntagma Juris Feudais 1690PublisherGeorgii Henrici OehrlingiiDate Published1690 & 1688 Lot #208 Traité des Bandages et des Appareils; avec une Description Abbrégée des Brayers ou Bandages et de Plusieurs Machines propres à Différentes Maladies View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorSue, [Jean Joseph]HeadlineTraité des Bandages et des Appareils 1761PublisherChez Guillaume CavelierDate Published1761 Lot #210 Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos, de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Medical)AuthorSwieten, Gerard vanHeadline5 vols.Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave AphorismPublisherGuillelmi CavelierDate Published1755-1773 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next