Auction details
Rare Books, including a Botanical Library
1:00 PM PT - Sep 13th, 2007
offered by
PBA Galleries
San Francisco, CA 94108
Auction Description
Auction Terms & Conditions
Buyer's Premium
20% up to 100000
15% above 100001
Bid Increments
| From | Increment |
| 0 | 10 |
| 200 | 25 |
| 500 | 50 |
| 1000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 250 |
| 5000 | 500 |
| 10000 | 1000 |
| 20000 | 2500 |
| 50000 | 5000 |
| 100000 | 10000 |
| 1000000 | 10001 |
| 10000000 | 10002 |
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Tuesday, September 11, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, September 12, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, September 13, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
176 Items
| Lot | Description | Estimates (USD) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1001 |
|
Rare first edition of Ashmole's Alchemy, 1652 |
10,000 - 15,000 |
|
| 1002 |
|
Cooper's Epitaph with first Alchemy Bibliography |
3,500 - 4,500 |
4 Bids
|
| 1003 |
|
Anson's Voyage Round the World 1748 |
4,000 - 6,000 |
8 Bids
|
| 1004 |
|
Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, 1463 |
30,000 - 40,000 |
1 Bid
|
| 1005 |
|
Thomas Taylor's Dissertation on Aristotle 1812 |
800 - 1,200 |
|
| 1006 |
|
Rare incunabular astronomy tables |
18,000 - 25,000 |
|
| 1007 |
|
Ariel Press Birds of America One of 250 copies |
2,000 - 3,000 |
18 Bids
|
| 1008 |
|
Augustine's Citie of God, 1620 |
1,000 - 1,500 |
11 Bids
|
| 1009 |
|
Essays of Sir Francis Bacon 1696 |
700 - 1,000 |
3 Bids
|
| 1010 |
|
Belzoni's Discoveries within the Pyramids, 1822 |
600 - 900 |
5 Bids
|
| 1011 |
|
Wm. Beveridge Institutionum Chronologicarum 1669 |
300 - 500 |
2 Bids
|
| 1012 |
|
Thomas Bewick's British Birds |
600 - 900 |
15 Bids
|
| 1013 |
|
Thomas Bewick's first illustrations in a book |
1,000 - 1,500 |
4 Bids
|
| 1014 |
|
Thomson's Seasons with Bewick engravings |
300 - 500 |
9 Bids
|
| 1015 |
|
Family Herbal with engravings by Thomas Bewick |
300 - 500 |
13 Bids
|
| 1016 |
|
Robinson's Life of Thomas Bewick |
250 - 350 |
4 Bids
|
| 1017 |
|
The Macklin Bible - 6 Volumes - 1800 |
3,000 - 5,000 |
22 Bids
|
| 1018 |
|
Blackstone's Commentaries 1766-1769 |
3,000 - 5,000 |
2 Bids
|
| 1019 |
|
The Grave, with William Blake engravings |
1,500 - 2,500 |
9 Bids
|
| 1020 |
|
Bodoni Press edition of Virgil's Works 1793 |
6,000 - 9,000 |
|
| 1021 |
|
Boswell's Account of Corsica 1768 |
500 - 800 |
5 Bids
|
| 1022 |
|
Mutiny on the Bounty - Signed by Movie Cast |
500 - 800 |
6 Bids
|
| 1023 |
|
Double Issue of Verve - Georges Braque |
600 - 900 |
1 Bid
|
| 1024 |
|
Travels in the Holy Land, 1486 |
3,000 - 5,000 |
1 Bid
|
| 1025 |
|
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 2nd Edn. |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 1026 |
|
Butler's Hudibras with Hogarth Illustrations |
400 - 600 |
1 Bid
|
| 1027 |
|
Marc Chagall Jerusalem Windows |
1,200 - 1,800 |
6 Bids
|
| 1028 |
|
Walter Cronkite Remembering the Moon 1/250 |
700 - 1,000 |
7 Bids
|
| 1029 |
|
Defoe's Letters by a Turkish Spy 1718 |
500 - 800 |
12 Bids
|
| 1030 |
|
John Donne's Letters First Edition 1651 |
2,000 - 3,000 |
11 Bids
|
| 1031 |
|
Doves Press edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets |
2,000 - 3,000 |
2 Bids
|
| 1032 |
|
Euclid's Elements 1645 |
800 - 1,200 |
2 Bids
|
| 1033 |
|
Novels of the Bronte Sisters Leather Bound |
1,200 - 1,800 |
22 Bids
|
| 1034 |
|
Works of Lord Byron 17 Finely Bound Volumes |
1,500 - 2,500 |
6 Bids
|
| 1035 |
|
Lord Byron's Works 8 Volumes 1853 |
700 - 1,000 |
9 Bids
|
| 1036 |
|
Carlyle's History of Frederick The Great |
600 - 900 |
7 Bids
|
| 1037 |
|
Novels of J. Fenimore Cooper 34 Volumes |
2,000 - 3,000 |
15 Bids
|
| 1038 |
|
Works of Charles Paul De Kock 1 of 250 sets |
2,000 - 3,000 |
13 Bids
|
| 1039 |
|
Tales and Novels of Maria Edgeworth 10 Volumes |
600 - 900 |
20 Bids
|
| 1040 |
|
Emerson's Works Autograph Centenary Edition |
4,000 - 7,000 |
7 Bids
|
| 1041 |
|
The History of the Norman Conquest of England |
1,000 - 1,500 |
5 Bids
|
| 1042 |
|
Life of Charlotte Bronte 1857 Finely Bound |
500 - 800 |
9 Bids
|
| 1043 |
|
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1902 |
600 - 900 |
6 Bids
|
| 1044 |
|
Grote's History of Greece 10 volumes 1872 |
1,000 - 1,500 |
9 Bids
|
| 1045 |
|
Life of Napoleon Ajaccio Edition 1 of 10 copies |
3,000 - 5,000 |
1 Bid
|
| 1046 |
|
Burton Holmes Travelogues Finely Bound |
500 - 800 |
8 Bids
|
| 1047 |
|
Hume's History of England Finely Bound 1826 |
700 - 1,000 |
14 Bids
|
| 1048 |
|
Hume and Smollett History of England 10 Volumes |
700 - 1,000 |
1 Bid
|
| 1049 |
|
Works of Richard Jefferies Finely Bound Set |
400 - 600 |
5 Bids
|
| 1050 |
|
Diary of Samuel Pepys 13 Vols Finely Bound |
600 - 900 |
4 Bids
|
