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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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
962 | Illustrated volumes: Jerrold (W.) | The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes | L. | EUR 160.00 - 240.00 | 240.00 | |
963 | Rackham (Arthur) illus. | Book of Pictures | L. | 1913 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 432.00 |
964 | Rackham (Arthur)illus. | Undine, by de la Motte Fouque, | L. | 1909 |
EUR 220.00 - 300.00 | 288.00 |
965 | Juvenalia: Paine (A.B.) | The Arkansaw Bear, | L. | 1919 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 240.00 |
966 | [Gill (Eric)] Physick (J.F.) | The Engraved Work of Eric Gill, | L. | 1963 |
EUR 120.00 - 170.00 | 120.00 |
967 | Tennyson (A. Lord) | The Princess, | 1911 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 156.00 | |
968 | Pogany (Willy)illus: Wagner (R.) & Rolleston (T.W.)ed. | The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan. | L. (Harrap) | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 120.00 | |
969 | Crane (Walter) illus: Marzials (Theo.) | Pan Pipes - A Book of Old Songs | L. | 1883 |
EUR 170.00 - 220.00 | 216.00 |
970 | Crane (Walter)illus. | Queen Summer or The Journey of the Lily and the Rose, | L. (Cassell & Co.) | 1891 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 192.00 |
971 | Forster (Henry Rumsey) | The Stowe Catalogue Priced and Annotated, | L. | 1848 |
EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | 120.00 |
972 | Dropmore Press: Nicholson (Harold) | The English Sense of Humour, An Essay. | L. (Dropmore Press) | 1946 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
973 | Dropmore Press: Cubbin (Thos.) | The Wreck of the Serica | L. (Dropmore Press) | 1950 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
974 | Miscellaneous Writing of Henry the Eight, 4to L. (Golden Cockerel Press) 19 | L. Golden Cockerel Press: | 1924 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold | |
975 | Brangwyn (Frank) R.A. | The Way of the Cross, An Interpretation. With Commentary by G.K. Chesterton. | L. | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 288.00 | |
976 | Fifteen Roses, Being Our Lady's Rosary in Verse Sung by E. Hamilton Moore. | Oxford Shakespeare Head Press:(Basil Blackwell) | 1926 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
977 | Sylvan Press: Williams (Charles) | Heroes Kings | L. | 1930 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 120.00 |
978 | Black (A. & C.) Publishers: Menpes (Mortimer) Artist. | De Luxe Limited Editions | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 204.00 | ||
979 | [Hibberd (Shirley)] | Greenhouse Favourites, A Description of Choice Greenhouse Plants. | L. | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | 504.00 | |
980 | Keppel (Capt. The Hon. H.) | A Visit to the Indian Archipelago in H.M. Ship Meander, 2 vols. | L. | 1853 |
EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | 312.00 |
981 | Kappel (Capt. The Hon. H.) | The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido, 2 vols. | L. | 1847 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
982 | Juvenalia: Hoffmann (H.) | The English Struwwelpeter | L. | EUR 140.00 - 180.00 | 180.00 | |
983 | Dulac (Edmund) Illus: - Quiller Couch (Sir. A.) | The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales | L. | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 372.00 | |
984 | Dulac (Edmund) illus: Poe (Edgar Allan) | The Bells and other Poems, | L. | 1912 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 192.00 |
985 | Essex House Fine Printing: [Ashbee (Janet E.) & C.R. Ashbee] | The Courtier of Count Baldessar Castilio, | L. | 1900 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 192.00 |
986 | Landor (Walter Savage) | A Selection from the Lyrical Poems... . | L. (Dropmore Press) | 1948 |
EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | 108.00 |
987 | Japan: Piggott (F.T.) | The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan, | L. | 1909 |
EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
988 | Black (A. & C.) Publishers: Allingham (Helen) Artist, | Happy England, | L. | 1903 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
989 | Box: Llewellyn (Richard) | How Green is My Valley, | L. (M. Joseph) | 1939 |
EUR 220.00 - 320.00 | 504.00 |
990 | Box: Modern English Novels: Lawrence (D.H.) | The Prussian Officer and other Stories, | L. (Duckworth & Co.) | 1914 |
EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold |
991 | Box: White (Patrick) | The Tree of Man, L. 1956; Voss, L. 1957; The Burnt Ones, L. 1964; | EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 240.00 | ||
992 | Camden (Wm.) | Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Islands. 2 vols | L. | 1722 |
EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,320.00 |
993 | Saneto Paulo (Fr. Carol) | Geographia Sacra, Sive Notitia Antiqua Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Universae. | Paris (Melchior Tavernier) | 1641 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 336.00 |
994 | Atlas: Arrowsmith (A.) | Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Novi Descriptio, A Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography... For the Use of Eton School. | L. | 1828 |
EUR 220.00 - 350.00 | 240.00 |
995 | Atlas: Ostell (Thos.) | New General Atlas | L. | 1850 |
EUR 125.00 - 175.00 | Not Sold |
996 | Queen's Trial: | Queen's Trial: Proceedings ... An Act to deprive Her Majesty Queen Carolien Amelia Elizabeth of the Title, Prerogatives, Rights, Privilieges, and Exemptions of Queen Consort of this Realm, and to dissolve the Marriage between His Majesty and the said Caro | L. | 1820 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
997 | Stow (John) | The Annals or Generall Chronicle of England ... and ... and continued ... unto the end of this present years 1614 by Edmond Howes. | L. | 1615 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
998 | Ashmole (E.) | The Institution Laws & Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, | L. | 1971 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
999 | White (Lt. Geo. Francis) | Views in India Chiefly among the Himalayan Mountains, | L. | EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | 192.00 | |
1000 | Averley, Flowers, Robinson, Thompson & Wallis, | Eighteenth Century British Books A Subject Catalogue, 4 vols. | L. (Dawson) | 1979 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 96.00 |
1001 | Malton (James) | The Young Painter's Maulstick; Being a Practical Treatise on Perspective. | L. | 1800 |
EUR 280.00 - 350.00 | 552.00 |
1002 | Hockeny (David) | Hockney's Alphabet, Ed. by Stephen Spender, | L. | 1991 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | 336.00 |
1003 | Collins (William Herbert) | A Scribbler's Diary, Extracts from the Common-Place Book of a Common-Place Fellow. | 1907 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
1004 | Hallam (Henry) | View of the State of Europe in the Middle Ages, 3 vols. | L. | 1826 |
EUR 130.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
1005 | Bindings: Knight (Chas.) | The Popular History of England, 8 volscont. gre | L. | 1856 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 180.00 |
1006 | Bindings - Dublin Printings: Robertson (Wm.) | The History of America, 3 vols. | D. | 1777 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 360.00 |
1007 | Mc Gregor (J. James) | History of the French Revolution | Waterford Dublin (J. Bull) | 1816 |
EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | 216.00 |
1008 | Bindings: Gibbon (Ed.) | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 vols. | L. | 1872 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 456.00 |
1009 | Murray (Patrick) | Tractatus de Ecclesia Christi, 3 vols. | D. | 1860 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 312.00 |
1010 | Hume & Smollett - | The History of England, 13 vols | D. (James Williams) | 1780 |
EUR 170.00 - 220.00 | 192.00 |
1011 | Bindings: T.C.D. Prize: Shakespeare (Wm.) | The Plays of William Shakespeare, 21 vols. c | L. | 1813 |
EUR 220.00 - 350.00 | 480.00 |
1012 | Bindings: Burnet (Bishop) | History of Our Own Time, 6 vols. | Oxford | 1823 |
EUR 160.00 - 240.00 | 240.00 |
1013 | The Works of Alexander Pope, 4 vols. | L. | 1778 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 168.00 | |
1014 | Bindings: Froude (J.A.) | History of England, 12 vols. | L. | 1856 |
EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | 168.00 |
1015 | Campbell - | Naval History of Great Britain, 8 vols. | L. | 1813 |
EUR 180.00 - 250.00 | 336.00 |
1016 | Binding: Exceptionally fine mid-18th Century full brown mor. profusely tooled book covers, | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | 408.00 | |||
1017 | Wordsworth (Wm.) | The River Duddon | L. | 1820 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
1018 | Swinburne (Algermon Chas.) | Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic, September 4th, 1870 | L. (F.S. Ellis) | 1870 |
EUR 170.00 - 220.00 | Not Sold |
1019 | Swinburne (A. Chas) | Notes on Poems and Reviews, | L. | 1866 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
1020 | Recording Memorabilia: | The Jock Farmer Collection | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 456.00 | ||
1021 | Marconi Wireless Telegraph, Co. of America. | A finely engraved and colour printed Stock Certificate for 50 Five-Dollar shares, | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 | ||
1022 | THE MARCONI TAPES 1898 | 1898 |
EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
1023 | HARLAND & WOLFF LTD. | A very important pair of manuscript ledgers, viz.The company's original manuscript Minute Book, beginning as theQueen's Island Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in 1886 | EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 33,600.00 | ||
1024 | H.P.Mutters & Zoon | An original TLS from H.P.Mutters & Zoon, Koninkl. Nederl. Meubelenfabrik of Gravenhage | [The Hague], | 1911 |
EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,560.00 |
1025 | Harland & Woulfe Shipyard, | A "Titanic" Rivet Head | EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | 1,200.00 | ||
1026 | [Titanic] | The Abbeyleix "Titanic" Carpet | EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,200.00 | ||
1027 | A very rare real photographic postcard S.S. Titanic, Cowes 10.4.1912, | 1912 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 288.00 | ||
1028 | Titanic: The Most Appalling Disaster in Maritime History - A very good unused postcard, | EUR 75.00 - 125.00 | 108.00 | |||
1029 | A large photographic Portrait, retouched, sepia, laid on canvas, framed and glazed, showing Mrs. Margaret Norton Rice (from Athlone) and her five children, all of whom were lost in the Titanic disaster of April, 1912. | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,640.00 | |||
1030 | The Titanic and The Carpathia Two Un-transmitted Marconigrams from R.M.S Carpathia, April 1912, | EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |||
1031 | The Titanic: The original issue of The Daily Mirror, for April 17th, 1912, reporting on the disaster | 1912 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 96.00 | ||
1032 | Young (Filson) | Titanic, | L. | 1912 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | 204.00 |
1033 | (Loss of the Steamship "Titanic"). Report of Formal Investigation into the circumstances attending the foundering on 15th April 1912, | 1912 |
EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
1034 | 1912 | A Night to Remember | N.Y. (H. Holt & Co.) | 1955 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 252.00 |
1035 | [Mrs. Elizabeth Gladys] | A coloured commemorative Poster, "R.M.S. Titanic - The Ill-Fated Luxury Liner," Signed by The Last Survivor | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 1,200.00 | ||
1036 | Titanic interest: | A commemorative broadside, "In Memory of the Captain, Crew and Passengers who lost their lives by the wreck of the Titanic," | Wigan Palatine Printing Co. | 1815 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
1037 | Marine Insurance. A large quarto volume containing manuscript details ofinsurance contracts | EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |||
1038 | An interesting TLS from National And Grindleys Bank of London, June 1966, to Harland & Wolff, | 1966 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 192.00 | ||
1039 | Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast: | A collection including an interesting note book, black rexine, containing what appears to be a detailed list of ships built and launched, 1936 to c. 1972, | 1936 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | 216.00 | |
1040 | Harland & Wolff Shipyard | A manuscript notebook containing details of 'new starts' | 1955 |
EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
1041 | Harland & Wolff Shipyard | Detailed cost estimates for construction of a new midship section for 'Ship No. 1569, "Esso Glasgow" | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
1042 | Harland & Wolff: | An unusual collection of scarce ephemeral items relating to the famous shipbuilding firm, | EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | 120.00 | ||
1043 | A fine and heavy silver Salver, | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |||
1044 | De Lorean Motor Company: | Two large 'blue-prints' for sections of the factory and associated facilities | Belfast Brodie & Hawthorn, Architects, | 1979 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
1045 | Fawcett (Millicent, Mrs. Henry Fawcett) | Manuscript text of a 13pp. speech in favour of Women's Suffrage, | 1908 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 480.00 | |
1046 | Manuscript: Wesleyan Minute Book. A small quarto manuscript album recording,'Resolutions of the Teachers,' | 1857 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
1047 | Howard-Bury (Lt. Col. C.K.) DSO. | A collection including a manuscript Indian Travel Diary, | 1909 |
EUR 500.00 - 750.00 | 8,400.00 | |
1048 | GODLEY (John, Lord Kilbracken), freelance journalist. | An interesting collection of documents concerning his world 'scoop' about the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war in l982, | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
1049 | Dublin Chap Books: Travels in European Russia, | D. (Bentham & Hardy) | 1826 |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | 108.00 | |
1050 | Lee (Nathaniel) | Collection of 17th Century Plays | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | 540.00 | ||
1051 | Curiosity: [Truman (C.M.) & Leslie (J.)] | The Ypres Alphabet, | 1915 |
EUR 75.00 - 125.00 | 78.00 | |
1052 | Shelley (Percy Bysshe) | The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem, | L. (Ed. Moxon) | 1832 |
EUR 225.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
1053 | The Book of Common Prayer and Admiration of the Sacrametns..., | L. (Thomas Newcomb & Henry Hills) | 1712 |
EUR 150.00 - 220.00 | 168.00 | |
1054 | Ovid - | Amatoria, | Lyons (Seb Gryphium) | 1550 |
EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | 504.00 |
1055 | Manuscript: Scott (Sir Walter) | The Vision of Don Roderick. a Poem by Walter Scott, Esq., | 1811 |
EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 720.00 | |
1056 | Scott (Sir Walter) | Halidon Hill; A Dramatic Sketch from Scottish History, | Edin. | 1822 |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
1057 | [Tennyson (Alfred Lord)] | Poems, MDCCCXXX - MDCCCXXXIII, | 1862 |
EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
1058 | Dodgson (Charles) a.k.a. 'Lewis Carroll,' author of Alice in Wonderland. | A very rare original mounted Photograph showing the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson seated on a sofa with his young son Hallam, and with James Garth Marshall and his wife Mary | EUR 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,160.00 | ||
1059 | Alma Tadema (Laurence) | The Fate-Spinner, | L. | 1900 |
EUR 120.00 - 180.00 | Not Sold |
1060 | [Rackham (Arthur)] | Hope (Anthony) The Dolly Dialogues | L. | 1894 |
EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | 192.00 |
1061 | Thompson (Francis) | Poems, | L. | 1893 |
EUR 180.00 - 240.00 | 168.00 |