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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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Sotheby’s
New York Book Week
12-26 JuneSotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD -
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Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.Finarte
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June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.
Sotheby Parke Bernet: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS. COMPRISING, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE 15TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY INCLUDING A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE, TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY, SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND NATURAL HISTORY. COMPRISING, The Property , 1977(OMEGA),
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 25, 1977 - July 25, 1977
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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200 | Cleaveland (E.) | A Genealogical History of the Noble and Illustrious Family of Courtenay | 1735 |
GBP 10.00 - 15.00 | 12.00 | |
201 | Dumont (J.) and J. Rousset | The Military History of His Serene Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy. .. as also of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough... | 1735-37 |
GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | 280.00 | |
202 | [Swift (Jonathan)] | A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation | 1738 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 75.00 | |
203 | Thorley (John) MEAIEZHAOFIA. Or, the Female Monarchy... | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 22.00 | |||
204 | PAMPHLETS. A Collection of 13 Pamphlets | 1748-66 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 150.00 | ||
205 | Fielding (H.) | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 1749 |
GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | 85.00 | |
206 | Fielding (Henry) | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 1750 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 45.00 | |
207 | Adams (W.) An Essay in Answer to Mr. Hume's Essay on Miracles... | GBP 15.00 - 25.00 | 55.00 | |||
208 | Merry Fellow (The). A Collection of the best Modern Jests [etc.]... | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 95.00 | |||
209 | Johnson (Samuel) | A Dictionary of the English Language | 1756 |
GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | 110.00 | |
210 | Johnson (Samuel) | A Dictionary of the English Language | 1770 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 60.00 | |
211 | JOHNSON (SAMUEL) | The Works | Oxford | 1825-26 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 110.00 |
212 | Nelson (James) | An Essay on the Government of Children | 1756 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 42.00 | |
213 | Whitworth (Charles, Lord) | An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710 | Strawberry Hill | 1758 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 70.00 |
214 | Milton (John) Paradise Lost; [-Paradise Regained]... | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 15.00 | |||
215 | Book of Common Prayer (The) | Cambridge | 1762 |
GBP 10.00 - 20.00 | 8.00 | |
216 | Dryden (John) | The Dramatick Works | 1762 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 18.00 | |
217 | BLACKSTONE (WILLIAM) | COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND | 1766-69 |
GBP 180.00 - 220.00 | 350.00 | |
218 | [Johnston (Charles)] | Chrysal. .. By an Adept | 1767-8 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 8.00 | |
219 | Gray (Thomas) | Poems | Glasgow | 1768 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 22.00 |
220 | [Sterne (Laurence)] | Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick. .. A New Edition | 1771 |
GBP 15.00 - 20.00 | 12.00 | |
221 | Gessner (Salomon) New Idyls... | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 18.00 | |||
222 | Shakespeare (William) | Hamlet, Prinz af Dannemark | Copenhagen | 1777 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 60.00 |
223 | Campbell (J.) | Lives of the British Admirals | 1779 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 14.00 | |
224 | Collins (Arthur) | Peerage of England | 1779-84 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 12.00 | |
225 | [Madan (Martin)] Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin... | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 30.00 | |||
226 | Priestley (Joseph) | Letters to a Philosophical Believer... | Bath/Birmingham | 1780-87 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | Not Sold |
227 | Smith (Adam) | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Dublin | 1776 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 |
228 | Book of Common Prayer (The). . . Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David | Cambridge | 1781 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 120.00 | |
229 | Brooke (Henry) | The Fool of Quality or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland | 1782 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | Not Sold | |
230 | [Psalms, Proverbs, Prophets and New Testament] | Oxford | 1782 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 24.00 | |
231 | WATSON (JOHN) | Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey | Warrington | 1782 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 65.00 |
232 | Young (Arthur) | Annals of Agriculture | 1784-95 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 55.00 | |
233 | Boswell (James) | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson | 1785 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 30.00 | |
234 | [Beattie (James)] Scoticisms... | GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 38.00 | |||
235 | Jones (W.), J. Reeves and T. Blakemore | Clavis Campanalogia or A Key to the Art of Ringing | 1788 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 80.00 | |
236 | Literary Magazine and British Review, vol. IV-XII | 1790-94 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 28.00 | ||
237 | Aesop | The Fables | 1793 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 55.00 | |
238 | Lucretius. De Rerum Natura ed. Bentley & Wakefield... | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | 70.00 | |||
239 | Grose (Francis) | Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army | 1801 |
GBP 40.00 - 50.00 | 28.00 | |
240 | List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet... | GBP 10.00 - 20.00 | 24.00 | |||
241 | MAITLAND (JAMES, Earl of Lauderdale) | An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the Means and Causes of its Increase | Edinburgh | 1804 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 170.00 |
242 | TRACTS-The Two Wealthy Farmers; or, the History of Mr. Bragwell... | GBP 40.00 - 50.00 | 450.00 | |||
243 | [BYRON (G. G. N., Lord)] | ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS | [1809] |
GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | 55.00 | |
244 | [Byron (G. G. N., Lord)] | English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire... | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 35.00 | ||
245 | Byron (G. G. N., Lord) | The Works. .. comprehending the suppressed poems | Paris | 1822-24 |
GBP 15.00 - 25.00 | 30.00 |
246 | Monstrelet (Enguerrand de) | The Chronicles. . . | 1809 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 32.00 | |
247 | Muss Cantabrigiensis | 1810 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 70.00 | ||
248 | Robertson (William) | [Works] | 1812-17 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 12.00 | |
249 | Burns (R.) The Works... | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 20.00 | |||
250 | [Thorn (Walter)] | Pedestrianism. . . with a full narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private matches | Aberdeen | 1813 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 42.00 |
251 | Southey (Robert) | The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo | 1819 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 22.00 | |
252 | [AUSTEN (JANE)] | NORTHANGER ABBEY: AND PERSUASION. . . with a Biographical Notice of the Author | 1818 |
GBP 175.00 - 250.00 | 280.00 | |
253 | [Hoare (L.)] Hints for the Improvement of early Education... | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | 28.00 | |||
254 | Scott (Sir Walter) | The Lady of the Lake, a Poem | Edinburgh | 1819 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 48.00 |
255 | Junius | FORE-EDGE PAINTING-. Letters. . . complete in one volume | 1820 |
GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | 70.00 | |
256 | Fore-edge Painting-Rogers (S.) The Poetical Works... | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 90.00 | |||
257 | Gibbon (Edward) History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire... | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 42.00 | |||
258 | M'Culloch (J. R.) | The Principles of Political Economy | Edinburgh | 1825 |
GBP 50.00 - 75.00 | 150.00 |
259 | [Hamilton (Capt. Thomas)] | The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton | Edinburgh | 1827 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 30.00 |
260 | Shelley (Percy Bysshe) | The Works. . . with his Life | 1834 |
GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | 90.00 | |
261 | Rogers (Samuel) | Poems | 1838 |
GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | 32.00 | |
262 | Kemp (William) | Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich | 1840 |
GBP 10.00 - 15.00 | 4.00 | |
263 | Mill (John Stuart) | Principles of Political Economy | 1848 |
GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | 140.00 | |
264 | Dickens (C.) and W. Collins | No Thoroughfare. A Drama | [1868] |
GBP 15.00 - 25.00 | 40.00 | |
265 | Forbes-Leith (W.) | The Scots Men-at-Arms and Life-Guards in France | Edinburgh | 1882 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 16.00 |
266 | Lyall (Sir Alfred) | Verses written in India | 1889 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 12.00 | |
267 | REPTON (HUMPHREY, JOHN ADEY AND G.S.) | DESIGNS FOR THE PAVILLION AT BRIGHTON | 1808 |
GBP 700.00 - 800.00 | 900.00 | |
268 | REPTON (HUMPHREY) | OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING | 1803 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 150.00 | |
269 | [Taplin (W.)] | The Sportsman's Cabinet | 1803-04 |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 160.00 | |
270 | [Taplin (W.)] | The Sportsman's Cabinet | 1803-04 |
Not Available | 150.00 | |
271 | [SURTEES (R. S.)] | Sporting Novels | n.d. |
GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | 100.00 | |
272 | [COMBE (WILLIAM)] | THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH | 1815-16 |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | 320.00 | |
273 | [COMBE (WILLIAM)] | The English Dance of Death | 1815-16 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 180.00 | |
274 | [COMBE (WILLIAM)] | The [First, Second, Third] Tour of Doctor Syntax | [1812-21] |
GBP 100.00 - 120.00 | 220.00 | |
275 | [Combe (William)] | The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque | 1813 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 55.00 | |
276 | [COMBE (WILLIAM)] | The Dance of Life | 1817 |
GBP 90.00 - 120.00 | 180.00 | |
277 | [Combe (William)] | [The Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque] | [1819] |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 52.00 | |
278 | [Combe (William)] | The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax | 1820 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 55.00 | |
279 | [Combe (William)] | The History of Johnny Quae Genus | 1822 |
GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | 35.00 | |
280 | Le Sage (A. R.) The Adventures of Gil Bias... | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 32.00 | |||
281 | PINE (JOHN) | THE TAPESTRY HANGINGS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: representing the several Engagements between the English and Spanish Fleets. .. 1588 | 1753 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 1,000.00 | |
282 | PYNE (W[ILLIAM] H[ENRY]) | THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES | 1819 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | 300.00 | |
283 | Portfolio (The); a collection of engravings from Antiquarian, & Topographical Subjects | 1823 |
GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | 20.00 | ||
284 | Lorraine (Claude) Beauties of. . . consisting of Twenty Four Landscapes... | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | 80.00 | |||
285 | HOGARTH (WILLIAM) | THE WORKS. . . from the Original Works | [1835-37] |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 350.00 | |
286 | G. (A. P. D.) | Sketches of Portuguese Life, Manners, Costume, and Character | 1826 |
GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | 110.00 | |
287 | Looking Glass (The); or, Caricature Annual, 1830 | 1831 |
GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | 90.00 | ||
288 | Cooper (T. S.) | Groups of Cattle drawn from Nature | 1839 |
GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | 130.00 | |
289 | [Dalvimart (O.)] The Costume of Turkey, English and French text... | GBP 40.00 - 50.00 | 65.00 | |||
290 | Solvyns ([F.] B.) | The Costume of Hindostan, English and French text | 1804 |
GBP 50.00 - 75.00 | 35.00 | |
291 | PINELLI (BARTOLOMEO) | Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittor-eschi | Rome | 1816 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 170.00 |
292 | D'OYLY (CHARLES) | The Costume and Customs of Modern India | [c. 1822] |
GBP 90.00 - 120.00 | 150.00 | |
293 | COSTUME (THE) OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE | 1804 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | 140.00 | ||
294 | [DALVIMART (O.)] | The Costume of Turkey, English and French text | 1804 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 180.00 | |
295 | Hakewill (James) | A Picturesque Tour of Italy | 1820 |
GBP 70.00 - 80.00 | 110.00 | |
296 | MASON (G. H.) | The Costume of China | 1804 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 130.00 | |
297 | [?Mason (G. H.)] | The Punishments of China, English and French text | 1804 |
GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | 60.00 | |
298 | MILITARY COSTUME OF TURKEY (THE) | [c. 1820] |
GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | 130.00 | ||
299 | MOLEVILLE (BERTRAND DE) | The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria. .. | 1804 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | 180.00 |