Grays Auctioneers: A Library of Curiosities - Part 2, 20948, Cleveland,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 08, 2025 - November 08, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADAMS, George (1750-1795). | Essays on the Microscope. |
London | M. DCC. LXXXVII. [1787]. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 2 | ADAMS, George. | Essay on Electricity. Fourth Edition. |
London | M. DCC. XCII. [1792]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 281.25 |
| 3 | AGRICOLA, Georg, 1494-1555. | Georgius Agricola De re metallica translated from the first Latin edition of 1556, |
London | 1912 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 4 | AIRY, George Biddell, 1801-1892. | Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8 : |
[London] | 1881 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 5 | ANSON, George Anson (1697-1762). | A Voyage Round the World. First Edition. |
London | MDCCXLVIII [1748]. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,000.00 |
| 6 | ANSON, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762. | A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, by George Anson, esq; afterwards Lord Anson ... |
London | 1776 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | BACK, George, 1796-1878. | Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835 by Captain Back, R.N. |
Philadelphia | 1836 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 8 | BAKER, Henry, 1698-1774. | Of Microscopes, and the Discoveries made thereby, by Henry Baker ; Volume 1: Fourth Edition (1754) Volume 2: First Edition (1753) |
London | [1753-1754] | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 687.50 |
| 9 | BARROW, Isaac, 1630-1677. | Geometrical Lectures : explaining the generation, nature and properties of curve lines, read in the University of Cambridge by Isaac Barrow ; Spine title: Barrow's Lectures |
London | MDCCXXXV [1735]. | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 9A | BEVERIDGE, Albert J., (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927. | Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858, by Albert J. Beveridge. |
Boston, Massachusetts | 1928 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 10 | BOERHAAVE, Herman, 1668-1738. | A New Method of Chemistry |
London | 1741 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 237.50 |
| 11 | BOTTEE de TOULMAN, Jean Joseph Auguste, 1764-1816. | Traite de l'art de fabriquer la poudre a canon ... |
Paris | 1811 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 12 | BOTTEE, Jean Joseph Auguste, 1764-1815. | Recueil de planches relatives a l'art de fabriquer la poudre a canon $c Par MM. Bottee et Riffault ... |
Paris | 1811 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 137.50 |
| 13 | BOWLES, Samuel, 1826-1878. | Our New West : records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean ; |
Hartford, Ct. ; New York ; Chicago | 1869 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 62.50 |
| 14 | BREWSTER, David, 1781-1868. | A Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments, for various purposes in the arts and sciences ; |
Edinburgh | 1813 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | BRUCE, James (1730-1794). | Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. First Edition. |
Edinburgh, London | MDCCXC [1790]. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 16 | BUDGE, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934. | The Book of the Dead : Facsimile of the papyrus of Ani in the British Museum: |
London | 1894 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 17 | CAVALLO, Tiberius (1749-1809). | A Complete Treatise on Electricity in Theory and Practice. Third Edition in Two Volumes. |
London | M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 18 | CAVALLO, Tiberius, 1749-1809. | The Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy, by Tiberius Cavallo. |
London | 1803 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 237.50 |
| 19 | CHAPMAN, John Ratcliffe. | Instructions to young marksmen, |
New-York ; Philadelphia | MDCCCXLVIII. [1848]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 20 | CODDINGTON, Henry, 1798-1845. | A treatise on the reflexion and refraction of light, : being part I. of A system of optics, by Henry Coddington. |
Cambridge, London | 1829-1830. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 137.50 |
| 21 | COOK, James (1728-1779). | A Voyage Towards the South Pole. First Edition. |
London | MDCCLXXVII [1777]. | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 22 | CRAMER, Johann Andreas, 1710-1777. | Elements of the Art of Assaying Metals. : In two parts. |
London | MDCCLXIV. [1764]. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 23 | DODGE, Richard Irving, 1827-1895. | The Plains of the Great West and their inhabitants : being a description of the plains, game, Indians, &c., of the great North American desert |
New York | 1877, (c)1876. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | DOUGLAS, Howard, Sir, 1776-1861. | A Treatise on Naval Gunnery, by Sir Howard Douglas. |
London | 1851 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 125.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
