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Auction Date
March 26, 2024 - March 26, 2024
Page Size: 271 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
127 Slocum, Joshua.

Sailing Alone Around the World.

1900 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 635.00
128 Smith, John.

The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: Beginning About the Yeere 1593, and Continued to this Present 1629; The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and The Summer Iles, with The N

Richmond, 1819 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 508.00
129 Stewart, Charles Samuel.

Private Journal of a Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and Residence At the Sandwich Islands At the Years 1822, 1823, 1824, and 1825.

New York 1828 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 508.00
130 Squier, E.G.

Nicaragua; Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic Canal.

New York 1852 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 203.20
131 Wallace, Dillon.

Lure of Labrador Wild.

1924 USD 120.00 - 225.00 USD 101.60
132 Young, Arthur

Travels during the years 1787, 1788, &1789; undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the Kingdom of France.

London 1794 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 190.50
133 Barton, William P. C.

A Flora of North America. Volume III.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 539.75
134 Evelyn, John.

Silva or a discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber.

1776 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 381.00
135 Forsyth, William.

A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; In which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described.

London 1803 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
136 Karr, Alphonse.

Voyage autour de mon Jardin.

Paris 1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 190.50
137 Michaux, Francois-Andre; Nuttall, Thomas.

The North American Sylva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.

Philadelphia 1859 USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 USD 889.00
138 Salmon, William.

Botanologia; or the English Herbal.

London 1710 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 539.75
139 Babbage, Charles.

The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment.

Philadelphia, 1841 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 127.00
140 Bacon, Francis, Viscount Verulam.

Sylva Sylvarum: Or, a Naturall History.

London 1651 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 165.10
141 Bacon, Sir Francis.

Historia naturalis et experimentalis de ventis etc.

Leiden, 1648 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 254.00
142 Bacon, Sir Francis.

Opera Omnia Que Extant: Philosophica, Moralia, Politica, Historica.

Frankfurt 1665-1664. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 285.75
143 Beaufoy, Mark.

Nautical And Hydraulic Experiments, With Numerous Scientific Miscellanies...Vol. I [All Published].

London 1834 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
144 Browne, Thomas, Sir.

Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. Whereunto are now added two discourses.

London, 1669 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 349.25
145 Darwin, Charles.

Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation.

New York 1871 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 349.25
146 Ditton, Humphry.

An Institution of Fluxions.

London 1726 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 412.75
147 Drake, James.

The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown.

London 1730 USD 120.00 - 225.00 USD 285.75
148 Einstein, Albert:

Ather un Relkativitatstheorie. Rede Gehalten am 5. Mai 1920 an der Reichs=Universitat zu Leiden.

Berlin 1920 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 381.00
149 Galton, Francis.

Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints.

London 1893 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 228.60
150 Galton, Sir Francis.

Hereditary Genius: an inquiry into its laws and consequences.

London 1869 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 177.80
151 Goldsmith, Oliver.

A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Together with the Elements of Botany by G.F. Shaw.

London 1817 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 215.90
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