Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana - bidstart 1/17

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

Elementa geometriae. Translated from Arabic into Latin by Adelard of Bath and Robert of Chester. Edited by Giovanni Campano da Novara.

Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression. Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627)

A brass telegraphic stock ticker, stamped, "M'F'D. BY T. A. EDISON, INC.", No. 12676,

Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio. The Fourth edition. Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627), except for Pericles and

Epigrammata antiquae urbis.

The Historie of Henry the Fourth: with the Battell at Shrewsbury betweene the King, and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North.

The Faerie Queene. Disposed into twelve books, fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. --. The Second Part of the Faerie Queene, containing the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Bookes

Varia opera mathematica. Edited by Clement-Samuel de Fermat.

The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of Britaine.

[A complete set of the three voyages].

Hortus sanitatis.

14 woodblocks from Athanasius Kircher's Prodromus Coptus, wrapped in scrap paper printed with an image of the block.

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. Offprint from: Nature, vol. 171.

Paradise Lost in Ten Books.

Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia.

Autograph letter signed ("Go:Washington") to Carter Braxton and the Trustees of Colonel Bernard Moore], Colchester, 23 January 1771.

Improvement in Concentric Celestial & Terrestrial Globes.] Patented by H. Williamson,

An important and coherent collection of manuscript notes and lunar tables, devoted to Cassini's study of the motions of the moon.

Letter signed twice ("James Madison" once at the conclusion, once on the address panel) as President to the chairman of the Republicans of the Town of Litchfield, Washington, 24 March 1809.

A Plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Fought on the 17th of June 1775. By an Officer on the Spot.

Woodblock, depicting Cardus vulgaris [n 669, Carline Thistle].

Raccolta di fiori, frutti e agrumi piu ricerati per l'adornamento dei Giardini.

The Works.

Rerum Arithmeticarum Libri sex -Liber de numeris Polygonis seu Multiangulis. Translated from the Greek into Latin and edited by Guilelmus Xylander (Wilhelm Holtzmann, 1532-1576)