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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 428 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Adam, Clarke

Memoirs of the Wesley Family; Collected Principally from Original Documents

New York 1824 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
2 L'Estrange, Roger

Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists

London 1699 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 468.75
3 Phaedrus [Gaius Julius Phaedrus]

Phaedri, Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi principis Nassauii David Hoogstratanus.

Amsterdam 1701 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
4 Aesop

Fables, of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

London 1694 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
5 Ayrton, William

Mr. Barnacles and His Boat

London [1856] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
6 Mallett, David

Two first editions of The Life of Francis Bacon

London 1740 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
7 Bacon, Francis

The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh

London 1622 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
8 Bacon, Francis

The Remaines of the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount of St. Albanes, Sometimes Lord Chancellour of England...

London 1648 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
9 Bacon, Francis

Resuscitatio or, Bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works Civil, Historical, Philosophical, and Theological...

London 1671 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
10 Bacon, Francis

The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh

London 1622 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
11

Tea and Brandy

[London?] c.1795 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
12 Berkeley, George

Recherches sur les Vertus de l'Eau de Goudron... Traduit de l'Anglois... Avec Deux Lettres de l'Auteur...

Amsterdam 1745 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
13 Hutton, Charles

A Treatise on Mensuration, Both in Theory and Practice

Newcastle Upon Tyne 1770 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 343.75
14 Bewick, Thomas

History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick

Newcastle 1797; 1804 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 500.00
15

Het Nieuwe Testament... [bound with] De Boecken genaemt Apocryphe...

Te Dordrecht 1729 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
16

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New; Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues

London 1660 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,500.00
17

La Sainte Bible en Latin et en Francois, avec des Notes Litterales, Critiques et Historiques

Paris & Avignon 1763-1773 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
18 [Martin, David]

Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, enrichie de plus de quatre cens figures en taille-douce &c.

Amsterdam 1700 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
19

He palaia diatheke kata tous ebdomekonta = Vetus testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum

Cantabrigiae [i.e. Cambridge] 1665 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,062.50
20 Blake, William

Jerusalem. A Facsimile of the Illuminated Book [with] abridged review copy

London [1951] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
21 Blake, William

Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

[London] [1974] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 593.75
22

William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

London 1972 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
23

William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

London 1971 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
24

William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

London 1972 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
25 Ariosto, Lodovico

Orlando Furioso: Translated from the Italian of Lodovico Ariosto; With Notes: By John Hoole

London 1799 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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