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The Library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D., Part One

25 March 2015 | starting at 11:00 GMT
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BOYLE (ROBERT) The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661

BOYLE (ROBERT) The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, touching the Spagyrist's Principles commonly call'd Hypostatical, as they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists, FIRST EDITION, J. Cadwell, for J. Crooke, 1661. Sold for £362,500 inc. premium

DARWIN (CHARLES) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1859

DARWIN (CHARLES) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1859. Sold for £98,500 inc. premium

RUSKIN (JOHN) Series of over forty autograph letters signed, to Jane, Lady Simon, and her husband Sir John Simon; Ruskin writes on Turner, his bouts of madness, the difficulties he has in loving others, his mission in life, the death of his old nurse and of his mother, relations with the mother of Rose La Touche, and the wonder of a woman's ability to sew on buttons, Herne Hill, Denmark Hill, Matlock, Inverness, Bridge of Allan, Glasgow, Corpus Christi College, and elsewhere, 1857-1871 where dated

RUSKIN (JOHN) Series of over forty autograph letters signed, to Jane, Lady Simon, and her husband Sir John Simon; Ruskin writes on Turner, his bouts of madness, the difficulties he has in loving others, his mission in life, the death of his old nurse and of his mother, relations with the mother of Rose La Touche, and the wonder of a woman's ability to sew on buttons, Herne Hill, Denmark Hill, Matlock, Inverness, Bridge of Allan, Glasgow, Corpus Christi College, and elsewhere, 1857-1871 where dated. Sold for £79,300 inc. premium

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) AND JOHN FLETCHER The Two Noble Kinsmen Presented at the Blackfriars by the Kings Maiesties Servants, with Great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakspeare, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Cotes, for John Waterson, 1634

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) AND JOHN FLETCHER The Two Noble Kinsmen Presented at the Blackfriars by the Kings Maiesties Servants, with Great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakspeare, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Cotes, for John Waterson, 1634. Sold for £47,500 inc. premium

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, Use of Rome, [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]. Sold for £47,500 inc. premium

BRIGHT (RICHARD) Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy, 2 vol. in 3, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Rees, 1827-1831

BRIGHT (RICHARD) Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy, 2 vol. in 3, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Rees, 1827-1831. Sold for £22,500 inc. premium

BLOCH (MARCUS ELIEZER) Poissons de l'ouvrage de Bloch corrigés d'apré le texte e disposés selon l'ordre de la zoologie universelle, avec leurs principaux caracteres spécifiques, MANUSCRIPT, in ink, 207 PAGES OF WATERCOLOURS, "Paris, 1788"

BLOCH (MARCUS ELIEZER) Poissons de l'ouvrage de Bloch corrigés d'apré le texte e disposés selon l'ordre de la zoologie universelle, avec leurs principaux caracteres spécifiques, MANUSCRIPT, in ink, 207 PAGES OF WATERCOLOURS, "Paris, 1788". Sold for £21,875 inc. premium

LIND (JAMES) A Treatise of the Scurvy, FIRST EDITION, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1753

LIND (JAMES) A Treatise of the Scurvy, FIRST EDITION, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson, 1753. Sold for £18,750 inc. premium

OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Habebis candide lector... Metamorphosin castigatissima, 1505, bound with 5 others

OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS) Habebis candide lector... Metamorphosin castigatissima, 1505, bound with 5 others. Sold for £18,750 inc. premium

TYSON (EDWARD) Orang-outang, sive homo-sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, T. Bennet, and D. Brown, 1699

TYSON (EDWARD) Orang-outang, sive homo-sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, T. Bennet, and D. Brown, 1699. Sold for £8,750 inc. premium

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