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Sold for US$ 27,500 inc. premium
MERCATOR, GERARD, AND JODOCUS HONDIUS. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de frabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Amsterdam: I. Hondius, [1619].
Sold for US$ 25,000 inc. premium
SCHULZ, CHARLES. 1922-2000. Original 3-tiered, 8-panel Sunday Peanuts strip, ink on stiff paper, 419 x 596 mm (sight), dated October ...
Sold for US$ 21,250 inc. premium
BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, mainly in Latin, Book of Hours, [France, late 15th or early 16th century].
Sold for US$ 16,250 inc. premium
MILTON, JOHN. 1608-1674. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. London: S. Simmons, 1669.

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6002 ALBERTUS MAGNUS. 1193?-1280. Quatuor tractatus sive libelli praeclari philosophi atque theologi Alberti Magni ... quorum primus inscribitur Letania Alberti; secundus, Super evangelia dominicalia; tertius, Super quattuor libros Sententiarum; quartus, de Adherendo Deo... Leipzig: M. Lotther, 1518.
US$ 1,250
£820
€971
6003 ALIGHIERI, DANTE. 1265-1321. SANSOVINO, FRANCESCO, editor. Dante con l'espositione di Christoforo Landino, et di Alessandro Vellutello, sopra la sua comedia dell' Inferno, del Purgatorio, & del Paradiso. Venice: Appresso Giouambattista, Marchiò Sessa, & fratelli, 1564.
US$ 2,750
£1,805
€2,136
6004 ANTIPHONAL. Manuscript on vellum, in Latin, [Germany, 15th century]. US$ 3,125
£2,051
€2,428
6005 ARISTOPHANES. ROSETTINI, BARTOLOMMEO, & PIETRO ROSITINI, translators. Le comedie de'l facetissimo Aristofane tradutte di greco in lingua commune d'Italia. Venice: V. Vaugriz, 1545.
US$ 687
£451
€534
6006 BENCI, SPINELLO. D.1575. Storia di Montepulciano ... di nuovo ristampata, ampliata, e ricorretta. Florence: Amador Massi, 1646.
US$ 500
£328
€388
6007 BERNARDINO DE SIENNA. 1380-1444. Tertiu[m] opus sancti bernardini de sensi ordinis fratrum minorum de observantia. Lyons: Johanne Diamantiers & M. Nicolai, 15 November 1501.
US$ 687
£451
€534
6008 BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Bible, that is The holy scriptures conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament.... "London: Deputies if Christopher Barker, 1599." [but Amsterdam, c.1640.]
US$ 400
£262
€310
6009 BIBLE IN LATIN. MONTI ULMI, PETRUSANGELUS DE, editor. Biblia Latina. Venice: Hieronymus de Paganinis, 7 September 1492.
US$ 8,125
£5,333
€6,313
6010 BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, mainly in Latin, Book of Hours, [France, late 15th or early 16th century]. US$ 21,250
£13,948
€16,512
6011 BORDINI, GIOVANNI FRANCISCO. c.1536-1609. De rebus praeclare gestis a Sixto. V. Pon. Max. Rome: J. Tornerius/F. Zanettus, 1588.
US$ 3,125
£2,051
€2,428
6012 BORGHINI, VINCENZO MARIA. 1515-1580. Discorsi.... Florence: Filippo & Jacopo Giunti, 1584-85. US$ 812
£533
€631
6013 BREVIARY—OFFICE OF THE DEAD. Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen. Brünn: Johann Paul Krauss, [c.1750]. US$ 2,750
£1,805
€2,136
6014 CALLIGRAPHY. BUSENITZ, JOHANN. Manuscript on paper, in German, Marienburg, August 2, 1713 and after. US$ 2,750
£1,805
€2,136
6015 COCK, HIERONYMUS. c.1510-1570 Operum antiquorum Romanorum hinc inde per diversas Europae regiones extructorum Reliquias ac Ruinas, deformatas libellus hic novus continet. [Antwerp]: Cock, 1562.
US$ 4,375
£2,871
€3,399
6018 GELLI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1498-1563. La Sporta[.] Comedia. Firenze: [Apresso Bernardo Giunta], 1550.
US$ 250
£164
€194
6021 GUTIERREZ, JUAN. d.1618. Practicarum quaestionum circa leges regias Hispaniae. Primae partis novae collectionis regiae. Libri Duo. Madrid: Luis Sanchez and Francisco Lopez, 1598.
US$ 437
£287
€339
6023 KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS. 1602-1680. Musurgia universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni: in X libros digesta. Rome: Heirs of Francesco Corbelletti, 1650.
US$ 5,250
£3,446
€4,079
6024 LIPSIUS, JUSTUS. 1547-1606. Saturnalium sermonum libri duo, qui de Gladiatoribus. Antwerp: Plantin, 1588.
US$ 600
£393
€466
6025 LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiae Romanae decades. Venice: [Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis], November 5, 1491.
US$ 4,750
£3,118
€3,691
6026 LOTTINI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO. 1512-1573. Italian manuscript on paper, entitled "L'Instruttioni ... sopra l'attioni de Conclavi," US$ 1,500
£984
€1,165
6027 MISSAL. Speciale Missarum s[ecundu]m chorum Herb[ipole]n[sem]. [Basel: Jacob von Pfortzheim for Johann Rynman, 1509.] US$ 6,875
£4,512
€5,342
6028 PAPAL BINDING. TORRUBIA, JOSE. La gigantologia spagnola. Naples: Muziana, 1760.
US$ 5,000
£3,282
€3,885
6030 VAUTS, MOSES A. The Husband's Authority Unvail'd; Wherein It Is Moderately Discussed Whether It Be Fit or Lawfull for a Good Man, to Beat His Bad Wife. London: T.N. for Robert Bostock, 1650. US$ 2,000
£1,312
€1,554
6032 ALTENSTEIG, JOANNES. Vocabularius. Vocum quae in opere grammatico plurimorum continentur, brevis et vera interpretatio. Hagenau: Henric Gran for Joannes Rynman, 1515. US$ 562
£369
€437
6033 ALUNNO, FRANCESCO. c.1480-1556. Le Ricchezze della lingua volgare.... Venice: Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1551.
US$ 1,375
£902
€1,068
6034 ARMENIAN-TURKISH GLOSSARY. Manuscript Turkish glossary of chiefly Armenian terms, written in Armenian characters. [Venice, Island of St. Lazare? 19th century.] US$ 1,187
£779
€922
6035 [BARLEMENT, NOEL VAN. D.1531.] Colloquia, et dictionariolum octo linguarum.... Amsterdam: Henry Laurentz, 1622.
US$ 475
£311
€369
6036 [BARLEMENT, NOEL VAN. D.1531.] Colloquia, et dictionariolum octo linguarum.... Amsterdam: Everard Cloppenburg, 1631.
US$ 375
£246
€291
6037 BAYLE, PIERRE, 1647-1706. An Historical and Critical Dictionary. London: for C. Harper et al, 1710. US$ 1,500
£984
€1,165
6038 BIONDELLI, BERNARDINI. 1804-1886. Glossarium Azteco-Latinum et Latino-Aztecum. Milan: Valentiner et Mues, 1869.
US$ 750
£492
€582
6039 CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.
US$ 812
£533
€631
6040 CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. Dictionarium copiosissimum: ex variis lingue utriusque auctoribus. Strassburg: Matthias Schurer, December 1516. US$ 750
£492
€582
6041 CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. US$ 1,187
£779
€922
6042 ESTIENNE, CHARLES. 1504-1564. Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum.... Geneva: Jacob Stoer, 1590.
US$ 1,125
£738
€874
6043 ESTIENNE, HENRI. 1528?-1598. Thesaurus Graecae linguae. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, [1572]. US$ 3,500
£2,297
€2,719
6044 ESTIENNE, HENRI. 1528/31-1598. Glossaria duo, è situ vetustatis eruta. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1573. WITH: LABBAEUS, CAROLUS. Cyrilli, Philoxeni, aliorumque veterum glossaria Latin-Graeca, & Graeco-Latina. Paris: Ludovici Billaine, 1679. US$ 875
£574
€679
6046 ESTIENNE, ROBERT. 1503-1559. Dictionarium Latinogallicum. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1538.
US$ 1,375
£902
€1,068
6047 ESTIENNE, ROBERT. 1503-1559. Dictionaire Francoislatin, contenant les motz & manieres de parler Francois, tournez en Latin. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1539 [but 1540]. US$ 1,062
£697
€825
6048 ESTIENNE, ROBERT. 1503-1559. Dictionarium proprium nominum. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1541.
US$ 437
£287
€339
6049 ESTIENNE, ROBERT. 1503-1559. Dictionaire francoislatin, autrement dict les mots Francois, avec les manieres duser diceulx, tournez en Latin. Paris: Robert Estienne, July 27, 1549.
US$ 937
£615
€728
6050 ESTIENNE, ROBERT AND HENRI. Thesaurus linguae latinae. Basel: E. & J.R. Thurnis, 1740. US$ 350
£229
€271
6051 FABRICIUS BODERIANO, GUIDO. 1541-1598. Dictionarium Syro-Chaldaicum. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1572.
US$ 375
£246
€291
6052 FAIRUZABADI. 1329-1414. Arabic manuscript on paper, a portion of Al-Qamus Al-Muhit wa al-Qabus al-Wasit. [Ottoman Empire: 17th century.]
US$ 275
£180
€213
6053 FOSTER, EDWARD WARD. Autograph Manuscript Signed, 84 pp, 8vo, entitled, "A Course of Six Lectures ... Lecture VI On Rhetoric, Elocution &c" signed twice, dated November, 1840. US$ 75
£49
€58
6056 GLADWIN, FRANCIS. 1744/5-1812. A Vocabulary, English and Persian; with Introductory Grammatical Remarks. Compiled for the use of the Hon. East India Company. Calcutta: A. Upjohn, 1791.
US$ 4,750
£3,118
€3,691
6057 HABERMANN, JOHANN (JOHANNES AVENARIUS). 1516-1590. Sefer ha-shorashim [In Hebrew]; hoc est, Liber radicum seu lexicon ebraicum... Wittemberg: Johannes Crato, 1568.
US$ 750
£492
€582
6058 HEBREW DICTIONARIES—16TH CENTURY. US$ 2,250
£1,476
€1,748
6059 HELMONT, FRANCISCUS MERCURIUS VAN. 1618-1699. Alphabeti vere Naturalis Hebraici Brevissima Delineatio.... Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthal, 1667. BOUND WITH: TOSSANO, PAULO. Dictionum Hebraicarum. Basel: Waldkirchianis, 1615. US$ 1,250
£820
€971
6060 HERBELOT, BARTHELEMY D'. 1625-1695. Bibliotheque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel, contentant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des Peuples d'Orient. Maastricht: J.E. Dufour & Ph. Roux, 1776. US$ 875
£574
€679
6061 HICKES, GEORGE, 1642-1715. Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus. Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1705.
US$ 525
£344
€407
6062 [ISODORUS OF SPAIN.] [Etymologia. Cologne: C. Winters, 1478.]
US$ 150
£98
€116
6063 JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784. A Dictionary of the English Language. Dublin: R. Marchbank, 1798. US$ 750
£492
€582
6064 LANG, JOSEPH, AND OTHERS. Florilegii magni, seu, Polyantheæ floribus novissimis sparsæ, libri XX. Frankfurt: heirs of Lazar Zetzner, 1621. US$ 250
£164
€194
6065 LANGTON, STEPHEN. c.1150-1228. Latin manuscript on vellum, a single leaf from Langton's Interpretation of Hebrew Names, [England, c.1250], US$ 275
£180
€213
6066 LANGTON, STEPHEN. c.1150-1228. Latin manuscript on vellum, a single leaf from Langton's Interpretation of Hebrew Names, [England, c.1250], US$ 250
£164
€194
6067 LEAVES—BIBLE. Latin manuscript on vellum, from the Book of Isaiah. [Paris? mid-13th century.] US$ 375
£246
€291
6068 LEAVES— ENGLISH. BALBI, GIOVANNI. ?-c.1298. Latin manuscript on vellum, Catholicon. [England, mid-14th century.]
US$ 562
£369
€437
6069 LUCET, [JOACHIM SIMEON. 1797-1855]. Manuscript entitled "Idiotismes Francais et Proverbes proprement dits, recueillis, definis et mis dans un nouvel ordre," [France: early 19th century].
US$ 875
£574
€679
6070 MANCHU PHRASEBOOK. Manuscript Sino-Manchu phrasebook, US$ 2,250
£1,476
€1,748
6071 MARBAN, PEDRO. 1647-1713. Arte de la lengua Moxa, con su vocabulario, y cathecismo. [Lima]: la Imprenta Real de Joseph de Contreras, [1701].
US$ 5,000
£3,282
€3,885
6072 MARCHESINUS, JOANNES. Mammotrectus super Bibliam. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, September 23, 1479. US$ 6,250
£4,102
€4,856
6073 MILLER, PHILIP. 1691-1771. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, as also, the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard. London: the author, 1731.
US$ 562
£369
€437
6074 MONTUCCI, ANTONIO. 1762-1829. Urh-chîh-tsze-tëen-se-yîn-pe-keáou; being a Parallel Drawn between the two Intended Chinese Dictionaries by the Rev. Robert Morrison, and Antonio Montucci. London: for the Author, 1817. US$ 1,625
£1,066
€1,262
6075 PERCEVAL, RICHARD. 1550-1620. A Dictionary in Spanish and English. London: John Haviland for Matthew Lownes, 1623. US$ 475
£311
€369
6076 PICKERING, JOHN. 1777-1846. A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases which have been supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America.... Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816.
US$ 437
£287
€339
6077 RIDOLPHI, PIETRO. D.1601. Dictionarium Pauperum, ordine alphabetico de virtutib. & vitijs.... Bologna: Societatum Typographiae Bonon, 1580.
US$ 250
£164
€194
6078 SCHELLER, IMMANUEL JOHANN GERHARD. 1735-1803. Lexicon Latino-Belgicum auctorum classicorum. Leiden: S. & J. Luchtmans, 1799. US$ 250
£164
€194
6079 [SCHINDLER, VALENTIN.] THORNDIKE, HERBERT. 1598-1672. Epitome lexici Hebraici, Syriaci, Rabinici, et Arabici. Vna cum observationibus circa linguam hebream et Grecam authore harbeto Thornedicke Cantabrigiensi. London: Gulielmi Jones, 1635. US$ 250
£164
€194
6080 TORRIANO, GIOVANNI. Piazza universale di proverbi italiani: or, A common place of Italian proverbs and proverbial phrases. London: F. and T.W. for the author, 1666.
US$ 475
£311
€369
6081 WEBSTER, NOAH. 1758-1843. US$ 8,125
£5,333
€6,313
6082 WEMMERS, JACOBUS. Lexicon Aethiopicum. Rome: Propaganda Fide, 1638.
US$ 525
£344
€407
6083 [ANSON, GEORGE. 1697-1762.] A Voyage to the South Seas, And to many other Parts of the World performed From the Month of September in the Year 1740, to June 1744, By Commodore Anson.... London: R. Walker, 1744.
US$ 625
£410
€485
6084 AUSTRALIA. 7 titles, comprising: US$ 600
£393
€466
6085 BACKHOUSE, JAMES. 1794-1869. Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. London: Hamilton, Adams. York: Linney, 1843. US$ 437
£287
€339
6086 BENNETT, GEORGE W. An Illustrated History of British Guiana. Georgetown: Richardson & Co., 1866.
US$ 812
£533
€631
6088 BOUVET, JOACHIM. 1656-1730. Portrait Historique de l'Empereur de la Chine. Paris: Robert & Nicolas Pepie, 1698.
US$ 375
£246
€291
6090 BRAND, CHARLES. Journal of a Voyage to Peru... London: Henry Colburn, 1828.
US$ 250
£164
€194
6092 BULLOCK, WILLIAM. FL. 1808-1828. Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico.... London: John Murray, 1824.
US$ 250
£164
€194
6093 BURTON, RICHARD F., AND VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON. To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.
US$ 3,000
£1,969
€2,331
6094 CALDCLEUGH, ALEXANDER. D.1858. Travels in South America, during the Years 1819-20-21; containing an Account of the Present State of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. London: John Murray, 1825.
US$ 437
£287
€339
6095 CATHERWOOD, FREDERICK. 1799-1854. Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1965.
US$ 562
£369
€437
6098 COOK, JAMES. 1728-1779. A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed ... In the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative ... during the Separation of the Ships. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777.
US$ 2,125
£1,394
€1,651
6099 [RICKMAN, JOHN.] Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779. London: E. Newbery, 1781. US$ 1,500
£984
€1,165
6100 DOROW, WILHELM. 1970-1846. Die Assyrische Keilschrift. BOUND WITH: Die Indische Mythologie. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Schellensberg, 1820 & 1821.
US$ 562
£369
€437
6101 EGYPT. INSTITUT DE L'ÉGYPTE. Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'éxpédition de l'armée française. Planches. [Antiquities. Etat Moderne, Histoire Naturelle.] Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1809.
US$ 8,750
£5,743
€6,799
6102 FLINDERS, MATTHEW. 1774-1814. A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Invesitgator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner. With an Account of the Shipwreck of the Porpoise.... London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814.
US$ 1,500
£984
€1,165
6103 HARCOURT, RUPERT. 1574/5-1631. A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana. Describing the Climat, Scituation, fertilitie, provisions and commodities of that Country.... London: printed by John Beale, for W. Welby, 1613. US$ 8,125
£5,333
€6,313
6104 HARRIS, JOHN. 1666-1719. Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of above Four Hundred of the most Authentick Writers.... London: Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson, and Daniel Midwinter, 1705. US$ 2,375
£1,559
€1,845
6105 HARVEY, WILLIAM WOODIS. 1798-1864. Sketches of Hayti: From the Expulsion of the French to the Death of Christophe. London: L.B. Seeley, 1827. US$ 525
£344
€407
6106 HAWAII & THE PACIFIC. 8 titles, comprising: US$ 1,500
£984
€1,165
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