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Rare Books, including a Botanical Library
1:00 PM PT - Sep 13th, 2007

133 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

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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)
1051	Works of William H Prescott 15 Leather Bound Vols Title: [Works] Author: Prescott, William H....	1,200 - 1,800	7 Bids
1052	Works of Shakespeare - Full Leather 1854 Title: The Works of Shakespere Author: Shak...	500 - 800	8 Bids
1053	Thoreau's Writings Manuscript Edition Title: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau Auth...	12,000 - 18,000	2 Bids
1054	Tacitus and Racine in Period Fine Bindings Title: Two Small Sets In Period Fine Bindings A...	800 - 1,200	9 Bids
1055	Walton's Complete Angler Finely Bound Title: The Complete Angler Author: Walton, ...	300 - 500	8 Bids
1056	Small Group of Finely Bound Books Title: Lot 6 Finely Bound Works Author: **<...	800 - 1,200	7 Bids
1057	Small Group of Finely Bound Books Title: Lot of 4 Finely Bound Works Author: ...	600 - 900	15 Bids
1058	Small Group of Finely Bound Books Title: Lot of 7 Finely Bound Works Author: ...	800 - 1,200	10 Bids
1059	Fox's Book of Martyrs with engraved plates Title: The Book of Martyrs, or the Acts and Monuments...	1,000 - 1,500
1060	Galen's commentaries on Hippocrates, 1633 Title: In Aphorismos Hippocratis Commentaria: Ex inte...	1,500 - 2,500	1 Bid
1061	Law, Art & Science of the Ancients, 1758 Title: De l'Origine des Lois, des Arts, et des Scienc...	500 - 800	8 Bids
1062	Harirs's Astronomical Dialogues, 1729 Title: Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and...	500 - 800
1063	Life of Gustavus Adolphus, 1759 Title: The History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, ...	500 - 800	16 Bids
1064	Hayward's Lives of Norman Kings, 1613 Title: The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of Englan...	600 - 900	10 Bids
1065	First Complete Edition of Herodotus in English Title: The History of Herodotus Author: Her...	6,000 - 9,000	5 Bids
1066	16th century works of Herodotus and Thucydides Title: [Opera - 2 volumes bound together] Autho...	5,000 - 8,000
1067	Ogilby edition of Homer's Odyssey, 1669 Title: Homer His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Scu...	1,500 - 2,000	2 Bids
1068	Horace's Poetry, 1567 Title: Q. Horatii Flacci poetae Venvsini, Omnia Poema...	600 - 900	6 Bids
1069	Palmistry by Jean Indagine, 1662 Title: La Chiromance et Phisionomie, par le regard de...	500 - 800	4 Bids
1070	Index of Prohibited Books, 1570 Title: Index librorum prohibitorum: cum regulis confe...	2,000 - 3,000	7 Bids
1071	The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands Title: The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands<...	1,000 - 1,500	22 Bids
1072	Josephus' Works with plates & maps, 1733 Title: The Works of Flavius Josephus which are Extant...	800 - 1,200
1073	Kelmscott Press Utopia by Thomas More Title: Utopia Author: More, Thomas De...	5,000 - 8,000
1074	Kepler's Epitome Astronomiae, 1618-1622 Title: Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanæ usitatâ formâ ...	30,000 - 50,000	1 Bid
1075	La Chau's Venus, 1776, with engravings Title: Dissertation sur les Attributs de Vénus, qui a...	600 - 900	4 Bids
1076	Laleu's Mathematics with Occult engravings 1638 Title: Propositions Mathematiqves de Monsieur de Lale...	1,000 - 1,500	13 Bids
1077	Daugis on Magic and Sorcery, 1732 Title: Traité sur la Magie, le sortilege, les posessi...	1,000 - 1,500	3 Bids
1078	Del Rio's Magic in Six Books, 1657 Title: Disqvisitionvm magicarvm libri sex, qvibvs con...	700 - 1,000	11 Bids
1079	Jean Filesac on Idolotry & Magic, 1609 Title: De Idololatria Magica, dissertatio Autho...	1,000 - 1,500	13 Bids
1080	Glanvill's Witches & Apparitions, 1668 Title: [A blow at modern sadducism in some philosophi...	1,500 - 2,500	2 Bids
1081	Hutchinson on Witchcraft, 1720 Title: An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. Wit...	500 - 800	8 Bids
1082	Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft 1584 Title: [The discouerie of witchcraft: wherein the lew...	5,000 - 8,000	5 Bids
1083	Original Bernard Maybeck Watercolor Painting Title: The Juggler of Notre Dame Author: Ma...	1,500 - 2,500
1084	Milton Paradise Lost 1st Edition 1668 Title Page Title: Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books Autho...	6,000 - 9,000	11 Bids
1085	Milton's Paradise Regain'd First Edition 1671 Title: Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To whic...	3,000 - 5,000	9 Bids
1086	Rare Large Paper Copy of Newton's Principia 1726 Title: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	20,000 - 30,000	6 Bids
1087	Isaac Newton's Principia in English, 1803 Title: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philoso...	1,000 - 1,500	20 Bids
1088	The First British Gemological Book 1652 Title: A Lapidary, or, The History of Pretious Stones...	3,000 - 4,000	3 Bids
1089	Illustrated History of the War Against Russia Title: The Illustrated History of the War Against Rus...	400 - 700	3 Bids
1090	Peale on Preserving Health, with ms. recipes Title: An Epistle to a Friend, on the means of preser...	3,000 - 5,000
1091	Pettigrew's Egyptian Mummies with tinted plates Title: A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an Account ...	700 - 1,000	16 Bids
1092	Double Issue of Verve - Pablo Picasso Title: Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. VI...	2,000 - 3,000	8 Bids
1093	Plato's Works in French, 1699 Title: Les Oeuvres de Platon Author: Plato<...	400 - 600	2 Bids
1094	Plato's Phaedrus in English, 1792 Title: The Phædrus of Plato; a Dialogue Concerning Be...	500 - 800	4 Bids
1095	18th century edition of Plato in English Title: The Works of Plato Abridg'd: With an Account o...	400 - 600	5 Bids
1096	Pliny's Natural History, 1601 Title: The Historie of the World. Commonly called the...	3,000 - 5,000
1097	Manuscript prayerbook with original art 1793 Title: Manuscript prayer book with 19 original waterc...	4,000 - 6,000	5 Bids
1098	Advice on Marriage, 1579 Title: The Glasse of Godly Loue. Wherein all maried c...	700 - 1,000	5 Bids
1099	Rantzau's Astrology, 1593 Title: Tractatvs Astrologicvs de genethliacorvm thema...	1,500 - 2,500	15 Bids
1100	Richard Verstegen on English Antiquities, 1605 Title: A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In anti...	1,000 - 1,500	5 Bids

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