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Items in Sale # 363 Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine Date: 09/13/2007
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	Lot #	Heading	Author	Title	Place	Date	Estimate
	1	(Alchemy)	Ashmole, Elias	Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon...	London	1652	10000/15000
	2	(Alchemy)	Cooper, William	The philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire. For a memento mori on his tomb-stone... Also, A brief of the golden calf (the worlds idol.)... With a catalogue of chymical books.	London	1673 [i.e. 1675]	3500/4500
	3		Anson, George	A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas	London	1748	4000/6000
	4		Aquinas, Thomas	Summa theologiae, secunda pars, pars seconda	Strassburg, France	Before Advent, 1463	30000/40000
	5	(Aristotle)	Taylor, Thomas	A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle, in four books. In which his principal physical and metaphysical dogmas are unfolded; and it is shown, from indubitable evidence, that his philosophy has not been accurately known since the destruction of the Greeks. The insufficiency also of the philosophy that has been substituted by the moderns for that of Aristotle, is demonstrated	London	1812	800/1200
	6	(Astronomy)	Andreas Veronensis	Tabula Pascalis diuersarum variationum temporum	Bologna	19 May 1488	18000/25000
	7		Audubon, John James	The Birds of America. A Selection of Plates Facsimile.	Leipzig and London	[1972-73]	2000/3000
	8		Augustine, Saint	Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lodovicus Vivres. Englished first by J.H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and ammended	London	1620	1000/1500
	9		Bacon, Francis	The Essays, Or Councils, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon...With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse on the Wisdom of the Ancients.	London	1696	700/1000
	10		Belzoni, Giovanni Battista	Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice, and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon	London	1822	600/900
	11		Beveregium, Guilelm [Beveridge, William]	Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II	London	1669	300/500
	12		Bewick, T[homas]	History of British Birds, the Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick	Newcastle	1797 & 1804	600/900
	13	(Bewick, Thomas)	Hutton, Charles	A Treatise on Mensuration, both in theory and practice	Newcastle Upon Tyne	1770	1000/1500
	14	(Bewick, Thomas)	Thomson, James	The Seasons by James Thomson: With His Life by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. and a complete glossary and index	London	1805	300/500
	15	(Bewick, Thomas)	Thornton, Robert John, M.D.	A New Family Herbal: or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts	London	1810	300/500
	16	(Bewick, Thomas)	Robinson, Robert	Thomas Bewick: His Life and Times	Newcastle	1887	250/350
	17	(Bible in English)	**	The Old Testament [New Testament], Embellished with Engravings, From Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English Artists	London	1800	3000/5000
	18		Blackstone, William	Commentaries on the Laws of England	Oxford	1766-1769	3000/5000
	19	(Blake, William)	Blair, Robert	The Grave, a Poem	London	1813	1500/2500
	20	(Bodoni Press)	Vergilius Maro, Publius	Opera	Parma	1793	6000/9000