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Heading(Aldine Press)AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineAldine Press Dante 1502PublisherAldusDate Published1502 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #3 The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal or Deuterocanonical Books Heading(Arion Press)Author**HeadlineArion Press The Holy Bible 2 vols. 1/400PublisherArion PressDate Published2000 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #7 Le Desert De Retz: A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden. Le Jardin Pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville Heading(Arion Press)AuthorKetcham, DianaHeadlineLe Desert De Retz by Diana Ketcham Arion PressPublisherArion PressDate Published1990 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #15 Opera Praestantiora AuthorBasini, [Basinio]HeadlineThe Works of Basinio Basini of Parma 1794PublisherTypographia AlbertinianaDate Published1794 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #16 Alciphron, or, the Minute Philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing an apology for the Christian religion against those who are called free-thinkers AuthorBerkeley, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Berkeley Alciphron 2 vols. 1732PublisherPrinted for J. Tonson in the StrandDate Published1732 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #17 The Holy Bible. The Old Testament (&) The New Testament, Embellished with Engravings from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineMassive Macklin Bible in 7 VolumesPublisherPrinted for Thomas Macklin by Thomas BensleyDate Published1800 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #18 The Holy Bible. containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By His Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in Churches Heading(Bible in English)Author**HeadlineMassive "Vinegar" Bible 1717PublisherPrinted by John BaskettDate Published1717-1716 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #19 Bibliorum Sacrorum Tomus Primus [-sextus]. [with] Novi Testamenti pars prima [- secunda] Heading(Bible in Latin)Author**HeadlineEight volume folio Bible printed in Pais 1642PublisherE Typographia RetiaDate Published1642 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #21 The Life of Takla Hâymânôt in the version of Dabra Lîbanôs, and the Miracles of Takla Hâymânôt in the version of Dabra Lîbânôs, and the Book of the Riches of Kings. The Ethiopic texts, from the British museum ms. Oriental 723, edited with English translations, to which is added an English translation of the Waldebbân version AuthorBudge, E.A. Wallis, trans.HeadlineFacsimile of rare Ethiopic texts Budge trans.PublisherPrivately printed for Lady MeuxDate Published1906 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #26 The Historie of the Uniting of the Kingdom of Portugall to the Crowne of Castill: Containing the Laste Warres of the Portugals against the Moores of Africke, the end of the House of Portugall, and change of that Government. The Description of Portugall, their Principall Townes, Castles, Places, Rivers, Bridges, Passages, Forces, Weaknesses... HeadingzzfAuthor[Conestaggio, Girolamo Franchi di]HeadlineHistorie of Uniting of Portugal Conestaggio 1600PublisherArn. Hatfield for Edward BlountDate Published1600 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #28 Physico-Theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons preached in St. Mary le Bow-church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle's lectures, in the years 1711 and 1712. With large notes and many curious observations AuthorDerham, W.HeadlinePhysico-Theology by W. Derham, 1714 2nd editionPublisherPrinted for W. InnysDate Published1714 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #39 The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorBeaumont, Francis & John FletcherHeadlineWorks of Beaumont & Fletcher finely bound 1711PublisherPrinted for Jacob TonsonDate Published1711 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #83 The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I Heading(Golden Cockerel Press)Author**HeadlineGolden Cockerel Press Four GospelsPublisherGolden Cockerel PressDate Published1931 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #99 The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste AuthorHogarth, WilliamHeadlineHogarth's Analyis of Beauty 1753PublisherJ. Reeves for the AuthorDate Published1753 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #104 The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. With Critical Observations on Their Works AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohson's Lives of English Poets 1st ed 1781PublisherPrinted for C. Bathurst, et al.Date Published1781 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #105 De antiquitate judaica [with] De bello judaico AuthorJosephus, FlaviusHeadline1481 edition of JosephusPublisherReynaldus de NovimagioDate Published31 March 1481 & 10 May '1400' [i.e. c.1481-82] View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #111 The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles: An account of its inception, purpose, contributors, contents, publication, revision and influence on William Shakespeare Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorBooth, StephenHeadlineHolinshed's Chronicles Leaf BookPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1968 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #112 A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal printed by Christopher Plantin Heading(Leaf Book)Author(Dodoens, Rembert)HeadlineLeaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal BCCPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1977 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #113 The Great Polyglot Bibles, Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17 Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorHall, BasilHeadlineThe Great Polyglot Bibles - Allen PressPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1966 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #115 The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer: An Account of the Publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorMuscatine, CharlesHeadlineLeaf Book - The Book of Geoffrey ChaucerPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1963 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #116 The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorSchulz, H.C.HeadlineGothic Script of the Middle Ages Leaf BookPublisherDavid MageeDate Published1939 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #117 A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible 1535 Heading(Leaf Book)AuthorWikgren, Allen P.HeadlineCoverdale Bible (1535) leaf book, Limited 1/425PublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1974 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #123 The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineNewton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 1728PublisherJ. Tonson, et al.Date Published1728 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #125 Atlas der griechischen Kunstmythologie... AuthorOverbeck, Johannes AdolfHeadlineAtlasa of Greek Mythology with 26 platesPublisherEngelmannDate Published1872 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #127 The Architecture of A. Palladio; in four books. Containing, a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building, as also the different construction of private and publick houses, highways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights. To which are added several notes and observations made by Inigo Jones, never printed before; revis'd, design'd, and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni... Translated from the Italian original AuthorPalladio, AndreaHeadlinePalladio's Architecture in English 1715PublisherPrinted by John Watts, for the AuthorDate Published1715-[1720] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #129 The expedicion into Scotla[n]de of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward, Duke of Soomerset, vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord ye ki[n]ges Maiestie Edvvard the. VI. goouernour of hys hyghnes persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, dominions [and] and [sic] subiectes: made in the first yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reign, and set out by way of diarie, by W. Patten Londoner AuthorPatten, WilliamHeadlineAccount of English invasion of Scotland 1548Publisher[Richard Grafton]Date Published[June 30, 1548] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #131 Hieronymi Pradi et Ioannis Baptistae Villalpandi e Societate Iesu In Ezechielem explanationes et Apparatus vrbis ac Templi Hierosolymitani commentarijs et imaginibus illustratus. Opus tribus tomis distinctum. Quid vero singulis contineatur, quarta pagina indicabit AuthorPrado, Jerónimo de, & juan Bautista VillalpandoHeadlinePrado's Commentaries on Bible 1596-1604PublisherEx typographia Aloysij Zanetti. Apud S. MarcumDate Published1596-1604 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #132 Manuscript Qur'an, Ottoman period, likely Iran Heading(Qur'an)Author**HeadlineManuscript Qur'an, Ottoman period, likely IranDate PublishedAH 1204 [c.1783 A.D.] View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #133 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 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #144 The first [-fift] booke of architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English Author[Serlio, Sebastiano]HeadlineSerlio's Architecture in English 1611PublisherPrinted [by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham] for Robert PeakeDate Published1611 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #145 The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in eight volumes. Adorn’d with cutts. Revis’d and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq; to this edition is added, a table of the most sublime passages in this author AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineRowe's edition of Shakespeare, 9 volumes 1714PublisherPrinted for Jacob TonsonDate Published1714 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #152 Die Grundworte des indischen Monismus aus den Upanishads des Veda: Die altindische Philosophie nach den Grundworten der Upanishads: der Gedanke vom All-Selbst in dem Rede-Wettkampf und den drei Lehrgesprächen des Yajnavalkya, und die Brahman-Atman-Lehre in ihren Haupt-Zeugnissen aus zwoelf Upanishads des Veda... Heading(Upanishads)AuthorDeussen, Paul, & Peerdt, Ernst teHeadlineUpanishads in German fine printing 1914PublisherE. DiederichsDate Published1914 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #153 Collection of approx. 22 AQ postal sheets from 17th century Venice, Italy Heading(Venice, Italy - AQ Sheets)Author**Headline20 AQ postal sheets from 17th century VeniceDate Published17th-18th century View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #156 The Illustrated Natural History AuthorWood, J.G.HeadlineThe Illustrated Natural HistoryPublisherRoutledge, Warne, and RoutledgeDate Published1860s View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #173 Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend HeadingzzcAuthor[Beckford, Peter]HeadlinePeter Beckford Thoughts on Hunting 1781PublisherPrinted by E. Easton, Sold by P. Elmsly, et alDate Published1781 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #178 Bishop's Birds: Etchings of Water-Fowl and Upland Game Birds HeadingzzcAuthorBishop, Richard E.HeadlineBishop's Birds - Limited EditionPublisherGeorge G. HarrapDate Published1936 View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #193 The Horse of the Desert Headingzzc(Derrydale Press)AuthorBrown, William RobinsonHeadlineDerrydale Press The Horse of the DesertPublisherDerrydale PressDate Published1929 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #201 Upland Game Bird Shooting in America Headingzzc(Derrydale Press)AuthorConnett, Eugene V., editorHeadlineUpland Game Bird Shooting in America DerrydalePublisherDerrydale PressDate Published1930 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #240 The California Grebe, (Podiceps Californicus) HeadingzzcAuthorElliott, Daniel GiraudHeadlineDaniel Eliot The California GrebePublisherBowen and Co.Date Published[1866-69] View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #280 A Countryman's Creed HeadingzzcAuthorKeith, E.C.HeadlineA Countryman's Creed Limited EditionPublisherCountry LifeDate Published[1938] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #290 British Diving Ducks HeadingzzcAuthorMillais, J.G.HeadlineJ.G. Millais British Diving DucksPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1913 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #291 The Natural History of British Game Birds HeadingzzcAuthorMillais, J.G.HeadlineNatural History of British Game Birds JG MillaisPublisherLongmans, Green and Co.Date Published1909 View details Estimate$400 - $700Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #292 Three volumes on fish Headingzzc(Natural History - Fish)Author**HeadlineThree volumes on fishDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #298 A Selection of Bird Paintings and Sketches HeadingzzcAuthorRickman, PhilipHeadlineRickman- Selection of Bird Paintings and SketchesPublisherCurpotten LimitedDate Published1979 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #317 American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States HeadingzzcAuthorWilson, Alexander & Prince Charles Lucian BonaparteHeadlineWilson & Bonaparte American OrnithologyPublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1876 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next