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Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
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A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.Forum Auctions
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
19th June 2025Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000. -
ALDE, June 18: CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (JEAN). Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 contenant les mœurs…, Paris, 1768. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: HENNEPIN (LOUIS). Description de la Louisiane nouvellement découverte au Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle France…, Paris, 1688. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, June 18: LA BOULLAYE-LE GOUZ (FRANÇOIS DE). Les Voyages et Observations, Paris, 1653. €1,500 to €2,000.ALDE, June 18: LE BRUN (CORNELIS DE BRUYN DIT CORNEILLE). Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure..., Delft, 1700. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, June 18: SAINT-NON (J.-CL. RICHARD, ABBÉ DE). Voyage pittoresque ou description du royaume de Naples et de Sicile, Paris, 1781-1786. €3,500 to €5,000.ALDE, June 18: (CALVIN JEAN). SÉNÈQUE. Annei Senecae..., Paris, 1532. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: GAZA (THÉODORE). [...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum, Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: LACTANCE. De divinis institutionibus. De ira Dei. De opificio Dei. De phoenice carmen, Rome, 1468. €30,000 to €40,000.ALDE, June 18: LUTHER (MARTIN). Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri, Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, June 18: POLITIEN (ANGE). Omnia opera, et alia quædam lectu Digna, Venise, 1498. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, June 18: SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE. Poema aureum ejusdemque Epistole, Milan, 1498. €3,000 to €4,000.
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Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 01, 2011 - January 01, 2011
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | O'Conor (C.) | Dissertations on the History of Ireland, 8vo | D. | 1812 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
2 | Irish Travel: A Journey throughout Ireland ... 1834, 2 vols. | L. | 1835 |
EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold | |
3 | Comerford (T.) | The History of Ireland, 12mo | Cork (J. Haly) | 1807 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
4 | Dunsany (Lord) | All Signed by the Author | L. | 1921 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 432.00 |
5 | Irish Sporting: O'Connor Morris (M.) | Triviata or Crossroad Chronicles of Passages in Irish Hunting | L. | 1877 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 168.00 |
6 | [Walsh (Peter)] | A Prospect of The State of Ireland, from The Year of the World 1756 to The Year of Christ 1652, 16mo | L. | 1682 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
7 | Irish Travel: Twiss (Richard) | A Tour in Ireland in 1775, With a View of the Salmon - Leap at Ballyshannon, | D. | 1777 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
8 | The Life of William III, Late King of England and Prince of Orange, | L. | 1703 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
9 | Irish Fishing: [Cody (H.S.) & Ettingsall (T.)] | The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendake, Esq. in the Counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford and Cavan, with additions by Geoffrey Greydrake. 12mo | D. | 1832 |
EUR 220.00 - 350.00 | 216.00 |
10 | Richardson (John) | A Short History of the Attempts That have been made to Convert the Popish Natives of Ireland, to the Establish'd Religion; | L. (Jos. Downing) | 1712 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 168.00 |
11 | Irish Poetry: Blunt (Wm. Scawen) | In Vinculis, 12mo | L. | 1889 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
12 | Carte (Thos.) | A Collection of Original Letters and Papers, Concerning the Affairs of England, from the Year 1641 to 1660, Found among the Duke of Ormonde's Papers. | L. | 1739 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 180.00 |
13 | Irish Poetry: Synge (J.M.) | Poems and Translations, 12mo | D. | 1912 |
EUR 70.00 - 110.00 | Not Sold |
14 | Co. Tipperary interest: Herbert (Dorothea) | Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert, 2 vols. | L. | 1929 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
15 | Juvenalia: Lever (Charles) | St. Patrick's Eve, 12mo | L. | 1845 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
16 | Miniature Irish Books: Mitchel (J.) | The Life and Times of Aodh O'Neill, 16mo | D. | EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 108.00 | |
17 | Shaw (Geo. Bernard) | Love Among the Artists, Chicago 1905, cloth, dam.; | St. Joan, L. (Constable & Co | 1924 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
18 | Dunsany (Lord) | The Charwoman's Shadow, | N. York | 1926 |
EUR 75.00 - 125.00 | 156.00 |
19 | Macalister (R.A.S.) | Ancient Ireland, | L. | 1935 |
EUR 70.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
20 | An early 19th Century Manuscript Receipt Book, | 1811 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 504.00 | ||
21 | de Valera (Sinead) | Signed by 'Dev' & Sinead de Valera | D. | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 156.00 | |
22 | Wilde (W.R.) | Catalogue of the Antiquities, .. in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, | D. | 1857 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
23 | Hutton (Mary A.) | The Tain, An Irish Epic told in English Verse. Thick 4to | D. (Maunsel) | 1907 |
EUR 75.00 - 125.00 | 78.00 |
24 | Hardy (Francis) | From the Library of Wm. Smith O'Brien | L. | 1812 |
EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | 204.00 |
25 | Leet (Ambrose) | Rare Irish Directory | D. | 1814 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
26 | De Vere (Sir Stephen)trans. | Odes and Epodes of Horace, 8vo | L. (G. Bell & Sons) | 1893 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 480.00 |
27 | Burton (Richard) | The History of Ireland, 4to | Westminster | 1811 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
28 | Prendergast (John P.) | The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 8vo | L. | 1870 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 216.00 |
29 | Mahon (Derek) | Mahon (Derek) Oedipus, Oldcastle 2005. Signed by Author; Poems 1962 - 1978, | Oxford | 1986 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 |
30 | Banville (John) | Mefisto, L. 1986; The Book of Evidence, L. 1989; Ghosts, L. 1993; The Untouchables, L. 1997; and The Sea, L. 2005, | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 156.00 | ||
31 | Heaney (Seamus) | Sweeney Astray, L. 1983, and Station Island, L. 1984 | EUR 120.00 - 170.00 | Not Sold | ||
32 | Beckett (Samuel) | Happy Days, A Play in Two Acts. 8vo | L. (Faber & Faber) | 1962 |
EUR 120.00 - 160.00 | 156.00 |
33 | Abridgment of Devon Report | Abridgment of Devon ReportDevon - Digest of Evidence taken ... into the State of the Law and Practice in respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland, Parts I & II complete. | L. & D. | 1847 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 408.00 |
34 | O'Curry (Eugene) | O'Curry (Eugene) On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, A Series of Lectures, | L. | 1873 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 312.00 |
35 | Boate (Gerald) | A Natural History of Ireland, In Three Parts, 4to | D. | 1726 |
EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
36 | Wight (T.) of Cork, & Rutty (John) | A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland | D. | 1751 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
37 | Cromwell (Thos.) | Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. (Province of Leinster) roy 8vo | L. | 1820 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 192.00 |
38 | O'Connell (John) | An Argument for Ireland | D. | 1844 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
39 | Northern Ireland: Hamilton (Rev. Wm.) | Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim | D. | 1790 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 168.00 |
40 | Smith (Charles) | The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. 8vo | D. | 1750 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 432.00 |
41 | Smith (Charles) | The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 | Cork | 1815 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 216.00 |
42 | Frost (James) | The History and Topography of The County of Clare, | D. | 1893 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 384.00 |
43 | Ferrar (J.) | The History of Limerick, Ecclesiastical Civil, and Military. | Limerick (A. Watson) | 1787 |
EUR 220.00 - 320.00 | 750.00 |
44 | Cork & Munster Directories: Cork Post-Office General Directory, | 1844 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 750.00 | ||
45 | Whately (Richard) | Introductory Letters on Political - Economy, | L. | 1855 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
46 | Pim (Jonathan) | The Condition and Prospects of Ireland | D. | 1848 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 240.00 |
47 | Co. Cork: Webster (Rev. C.A.) | The Church Plate of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, | Cork | 1909 |
EUR 140.00 - 180.00 | 156.00 |
48 | A List of All the Officers of the Army, | L. | 1779 |
EUR 75.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
49 | O'Grady (Standish)ed. - Carew (Sir G.) | Pacata Hibernia, or A History of the Wars in Ireland. | L. | 1896 |
EUR 90.00 - 140.00 | 132.00 |
50 | Caulfield (Richard) | The Council Book of the Corporation of Kinsale, | Guildford | 1879 |
EUR 170.00 - 220.00 | 264.00 |
51 | Caulfield (Rich.) | The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork, | Guildford | 1876 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 144.00 |
52 | Co. Cork: Gibson (Rev. C.B.) | The History of the County and City of Cork, | L. | 1861 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 156.00 |
53 | Dwyer (Rev. R.) | The Diocese of Killaloe, 8vo | D. | 1878 |
EUR 120.00 - 170.00 | Not Sold |
54 | Begley (Rev. J.) | The Diocese of Limerick, Ancient and Medieval, and From 1691 to the Present Time, | D. | 1906 |
EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | 156.00 |
55 | Ball (J.T.) | The Reformed Church of Ireland (1537-1886,); Shuckburgh (E.S.)ed. Two Biogrpahies of Wi | Cambridge | 1902 |
EUR 90.00 - 130.00 | 72.00 |
56 | Greene (R. Wilson) | A Report of the Trial of James Forbes, William Graham ... and William Brownlow, for a Conspiracy to create a riot, and to insult and assault His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, in the Theatre Royal, 8vo | D. | 1823 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 144.00 |
57 | Cusack (M.F.) | A History of the City and County of Cork, roy 8vo | D. & Cork | 1875 |
EUR 170.00 - 230.00 | 192.00 |
58 | De Vere Stacpoole (H.) | The Poems of Francois Villon, | EUR 125.00 - 175.00 | 174.00 | ||
59 | Kernoff (Harry) | Thirty-Six Woodcuts, | [Dublin.] | 1951 |
EUR 550.00 - 750.00 | 780.00 |
60 | Todd (J. Henthorn)ed. | The War of the Gaedhill with the Gaill, roy 8vo | L. | 1867 |
EUR 80.00 - 130.00 | 120.00 |
61 | O'Curry (Eugene) | Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, | D. | 1861 |
EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | 780.00 |
62 | The Gaelic Churchman - An t Eaglaiseach Gaedhealach, | 1919 |
EUR 120.00 - 170.00 | 240.00 | ||
63 | Dalrymple (John) | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, | D. | 1773 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
64 | Berry (Henry F.) | A History of The Royal Dublin Society, 8vo | L. | 1915 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
65 | Stephens (James) | Collected Poems, | L. | 1926 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
66 | Fine Binding: Neale (J.P.) | Views of The Seats of Nobleman and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, | L. | 1818 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 1,200.00 |
67 | I.A.S.: O'Donovan (John)ed. | The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach Commonly called O'Dowda's Country, 4to | D. | 1844 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 180.00 |
68 | Genealogy: Gallwey (Hubert) | The Wall Family in Ireland, 1170 - 1970, 4to | Naas | 1970 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
69 | Yeats (Jack B.) | Life in the West of Ireland, 4to | D. (Maunsel & Co.) | 1912 |
EUR 380.00 - 450.00 | 510.00 |
70 | Weld (Isaac) | Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the Surrounding Country | L. 1812 | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 408.00 | |
71 | Moores Irish Melodies | L. | EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 264.00 | ||
72 | Genealogy: Cooke-Trench (T. Rich. Fred.) | A Memoir of The Trench Family | 1897 |
EUR 220.00 - 320.00 | 348.00 | |
73 | Taylor (George) & Skinner (Andrew) | Maps of the Roads of Ireland, roy 8vo | L. & D. | 1778 |
EUR 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,620.00 |
74 | Belfast Binding: Wright (G.N.) | The Gallery of Engravings, 3 vols. in two, 4to | L. | 1844 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
75 | Smith (Chas.) | The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, | Cork | 1893 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 312.00 |
76 | I.M.C.: Hennessy (Wm. M.)ed. | The Annals of Loch Co | L. | 1939 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | 120.00 |
77 | Blacke-Forster (Chas Ffrench) | The Irish Chieftains; or, A Struggle for the Crown, | D. | 1872 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 180.00 |
78 | Hyde (Douglas) & O'Donoghue (D.J.) | Catalogue of The Books & Manuscript ... the Library of the late Sir John T. Gilbert, | D. | 1918 |
EUR 90.00 - 140.00 | Not Sold |
79 | Bibliography: Bradshaw - A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge, | Cambridge | 1916 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 432.00 | |
80 | Directory: Kelly & Slater - Royal National Directory of Ireland, thick roy 8vo | L. & Manchester | 1894 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 264.00 | |
81 | Weld (Isaac) | Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney, and the Surrounding Country, | L. | 1807 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 240.00 |
82 | Mitchel (Flora H.) | Vanishing Dublin, | D. | 1966 |
EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | 456.00 |
83 | Malins (Ed.) & The Knight of Glin, | & The Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes Irish Landscape Gardening 1660-1845 | L. | 1976 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 216.00 |
84 | [Purser (Sarah)] O'Grady (John) | The Life and Work of Sarah Purser | D. | 1996 |
EUR 125.00 - 225.00 | 192.00 |
85 | Bennett (Douglas) | ) Irish Georgian Silver | L. | 1972 |
EUR 350.00 - 450.00 | 288.00 |
86 | Newenham (Rob. O'Callaghan) | Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland, Vols. I & II complete, | L. | 1830 |
EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | 870.00 |
87 | Carrigan (Canon Wm.) | The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, | [Dublin], Kilkenny | 1905 |
EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | 600.00 |
88 | Hore (P. Herbert) | History of the Town and County of Wexford, | Oxford Reprint | 1979 |
EUR 450.00 - 600.00 | 720.00 |
89 | Orpen (Sir Wm.) | Stories of Old Ireland & Myself | L. | 1924 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 276.00 |
90 | Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) | Ireland: its Scenery, Character etc, | L. 1841 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
91 | Grose (Francis) | The Antiquities of Ireland, | L. | 1791 |
EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | 360.00 |
92 | Connellan (Owen) | The Annals of Ireland, 4to | D. | 1846 |
EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold |
93 | 1798: Musgrave (Sir R.) | Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, | D. | 1801 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 540.00 |
94 | Cottage Plans: [Tranch (C.J.)] | Plans of Cottages for Agricultural Labourers in Ireland, Folio | [D.] | 1868 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 504.00 |
95 | Fine Reprint: I.M.C. - Jennings (B.)ed. | The Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, of John Colgan, | D. (Stationary Office) | 1948 |
EUR 140.00 - 200.00 | 156.00 |
96 | Robinson (Rev. Stanford F.H.) | Celtic Illuminative Art, | D. | 1908 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 270.00 |
97 | Articles by Conor O'Brien, P.S. O'Hegarty; Poetry by W.B. Yeats | The Irish Statesman, | EUR 125.00 - 200.00 | 216.00 | ||
98 | Co. Cork: Hodges (Rev. Rich. J.) | Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century, | Brighton | 1911 |
EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | 576.00 |
99 | Co. Down: Belfast, The Phoenix Weaving Company Limited, | 1940 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 108.00 | ||
100 | Grove White (Col. James) | Historical and Topographical Notes, etc., on Buttervant, Castletownroche, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their Vicinity Vols. I - IV in one | Birmingham, Alabama | 1969 |
EUR 350.00 - 450.00 | 264.00 |