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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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Forum Auctions
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
![Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dbc5286a-4210-44e3-bbf0-6031c1c49801.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Euclid. <i>The Elements of Geometrie,</i> first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.")
![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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/655b361c-71c7-48ba-9455-09c14e8c7494.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Shakespeare (William). <i>The Tempest</i> [&] <i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona,</i> from the <i>Second Folio,</i> [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/16cfdea8-0749-44a9-b801-b991dc2eaa21.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. <i>De remediis utriusque fortunæ,</i> [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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/46e14fa0-19d2-42b7-9994-312d5ae3df4d.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> GAZA (THÉODORE). <i>[...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum,</i> Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.")
![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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/13d0418d-fffb-4841-9721-851464785bd9.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> LUTHER (MARTIN). <i>Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri,</i> Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.")
Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTSCOMPRISINGThe Property of the Royal college of PhysiciansThe property of the Artists' SocietyThe Property of the Rt. Hon. Discount EmlynThe Property of H. S. Hudson, Esq.The Property of Major S. N. C. WebbThe Property of Dr. S. E. L. Morris, B. Sr., M.B.The Property of the late C. K. Ogden, Esq., WILSON,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191 | The Times Broadsides for soldiers and sailors | USD - | 2.80 | |||
| 192 | M. Thevenot | The art of swimming | 1764 |
USD - | 25.20 | |
| 193 | Sir Thomas Browne | Religio Medici and other essays | 1902 |
USD - | 11.20 | |
| 194 | Thomas Warton | The history of English poetry | 1774-78-81 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 195 | Sir Anthony Weldon | The court and character of King James | USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 196 | James Weston | Stenography completed or the art of shorthand | 1730 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 197 | D. Wildman | A complete guide for the management of bees | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 198 | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | 1793 |
USD - | 70.00 | |
| 199 | Charles Burney | The Present State of Music in France and Italy | USD - | 30.80 | ||
| 200 | 'William Camden | Britain | 1610 |
USD - | 266.00 | |
| 201 | William Camden | Britannia | 1695 |
USD - | 95.20 | |
| 202 | Abraham Cowley | Poems | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 203 | Sir Thomas Elyot | Bibliothecae Eliotae | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 204 | Etchings of Views and Antiquities in the County of Gloucester | USD - | 2.80 | |||
| 205 | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | 1776-1788 |
USD - | 168.00 | |
| 206 | Samuel Johnson | A Dictionary of the English Language | 1773 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 207 | Samuel Johnson | A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 1775 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 208 | Plutarch | The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes | 1595 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 209 | Allan Ramsay | Poems | Edinburgh | 1721 |
USD - | 8.40 |
| 210 | Return of Owners of Land | USD - | 8.40 | |||
| 211 | THOMAS ROWLANDSON | HUNGARIANAND HIGHLANDBROAD Sword | 1799 |
USD - | 140.00 | |
| 212 | Samuel Rudder | A New History of Gloucestershire | 1779 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 213 | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth ofNations | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 214 | Necessary Doctrine (A) and Erudition for any Chrysten Man | 1543 |
USD - | 112.00 | ||
| 215 | Actis and Oonstitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland (The) maid in Parliaments haldin be . . . Kingis James the First | USD - | 30.80 | |||
| 216 | Pierre de La Primaudaye | The French Academie | 1594 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 217 | John Stockwood | Progymnasma scholasticum | 1597 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 218 | Thomas Hill | The Gardeners Labyrinth ... by Dydimus Mountain | 1608 |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 219 | Bacon (Sir Francis, Baron Verulam) | The Essaies | 1613 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 220 | Sir Philip Sidney | The Oountesse of Pembrokes Arcadia | 1613 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 221 | Pierre de La Primaudaye | The French Academic Fully discoursed and finished in Foure Bookes | 1618 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 222 | Hermanus Hugo | The Siege of Breda . . . translated ... by 'C.H.G[age] | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 223 | Robert Baron | The Cyprian Academy | 1648 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 224 | Prayer for a Family (A) four leaves | USD - | 5.60 | |||
| 225 | Psalter | [c. 1670] |
USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 226 | Miguel de Cervantes | The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant | 1675 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 227 | Samuel Mather | The Figures or Types of the Old Testament | Dublin | 1685 |
USD - | 50.40 |
| 228 | True Effigies (The) of the most eminent Painters | 1694 |
USD - | 19.60 | ||
| 229 | William Shakespeare | The Works | 1709 |
USD - | 154.00 | |
| 230 | Virgil | AEneis | Edinburgh | 1710 |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 231 | James Francis Edward Stuart | Prince of Wales (The Old Pretender) His Majesty's Most Gracious Declaration [as James VIII to the People of Scotland | [end of 1743 or early 1744] |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 232 | General James Wolfe | Daphnis and Menalcas : a Pastoral. Sacred to the Memory of the late General Wolfe | 1759 |
USD - | 67.20 | |
| 233 | William Byron | The Trial of William | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 234 | Student (The) | Oxford | 1750-51 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 235 | William Romaine | A 'Essay on Psalmody [followed by a Collection out of the Book of Psalms(continuous pagination)] | 1775 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 236 | Rider's British Meflin : for the Year of Our Lord 1810 | 1810 |
USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 237 | Sir Walter Scott | Fore-Edge Painting | Edinburgh | 1810 |
USD - | 22.40 |
| 238 | George Cruikshank | Table-Book | 1845 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 239 | John Evelyn | Memoirs | 1827 |
USD - | 11.20 | |
| 240 | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Works | 1875 |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 241 | Edmund Burke | Works | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 242 | G. W. Knorr and J. E. E. Walcii | Recueil de Monumens des Catastrophes que le Globe de la Terre a essuiees | Nuremburg | 1778 |
USD - | 364.00 |
| 243 | Henry Alken | A Collection of Sporting and Humourous Designs | 1824 |
USD - | 1,232.00 | |
| 244 | Thomas Chippendale | The Gentleman and C'a'binet-'Maker's Director | 1754 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 245 | Francis Price | The British Carpenter | 1765 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 246 | Domenico Angelo | The School of Fencing | 1787 |
USD - | 72.80 | |
| 247 | Recueil de planches sur les sciences [to accompany Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedie] vol. 6 only [Natural History] | USD - | 5.60 | |||
| 248 | William Curtis | The Botanical Magazine | 1793-1837 |
USD - | 672.00 | |
| 249 | B. Maund | The Botanic Garden | 1825-33 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 250 | Sir Joseph Paxton | Magazine of Botany | 1834-37 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 251 | Album Amicorum | [1843-56] |
USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 252 | P. J. Redoute | Roses | 1954-56 |
USD - | 11.20 | |
| 253 | E. Donovan | The Natural History of British insects | 1792-'1813 |
USD - | 112.00 | |
| 253a | Arthur G. Butler | Foreign Finches in Captivity | Hull | 1899 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 254 | J. G. Millais | The mammals of Great Britain | 1904-06 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 255 | Finn Salomonsen and Gitz-Johansen | Gronlands Fugle | Copenhagen | 1950-51 |
USD - | 22.40 |
| 255a | J. Th. Descourtilz | Pageantry of Tropical Birds | 1960 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 256 | Sportsman's Magazine (The) or Chronicle of games and pastimes | August 1823-January 1825 |
USD - | 11.20 | ||
| 257 | Panorama | 20 August, 1838 |
USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 258 | S. Rayner | The history and antiquities of Haddon Hall | Derby and London | 1836 |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 259b | Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the 1st to the Reign of Queen Victoria | [1840] |
USD - | 47.60 | ||
| 259 | W. H. Bartlett and N. P. Willis | American Scenery | 1840 |
USD - | 19.60 | |
| 259a | Bookplates | USD - | 25.20 | |||
| 260 | Edward Parry | Royal Visits and Progresses to Wales | 1850 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 261b | Richard Cannon | Historical Records of the British Army: The Fourth | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 261 | John Tallis | History and Description of the Crystal Palace | [1851] |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 261a | Great Exhibition of 1851 | [1851] |
USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 262 | E. and Lt. L. Miles | An epitome historical and statistical descriptive of the Royal naval service of England | 1844 |
USD - | 25.20 | |
| 263 | Cham. Moeurs Britanniques | USD - | 14.00 | |||
| 264b | Chinese Coloured Drawings of Gamblers (6) | USD - | 61.60 | |||
| 264 | Allgemeine Theaterzeitung | Vienna | 1847 |
USD - | 134.40 | |
| 264a | Chinese Coloured Drawings | USD - | 47.60 | |||
| 265 | Chinese Coloured Drawings of Scenes on the Whampao River (9) | USD - | 22.40 | |||
| 266 | Chinese Coloured Drawings of Baskets of Flowers(10) | Canton | c. 1840 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 267 | G. A. A'Beckett | The comic history of England | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 268 | RUDOLPH ACKERMANN | THE HISTORY OFTHE UNIVERSITYOF Oxford | 1814 |
USD - | 252.00 | |
| 269 | RUDOLPH ACKERMANN | The HISTORY OF THE COLLEGES OF Winchester | 1816 |
USD - | 210.00 | |
| 270 | Athenian Letters or the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia | 1798 |
USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 271 | E. C. Stuart Baker | The Indian ducks and their allies | 1908 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 272 | J. P. Bellori | Columna cochlis Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata | USD - | 42.00 | ||
| 273 | G. Belzoni | Plates illustrative of the researches and operations in Egypt and Nubia | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 274 | William Camden | Britannia or a chorographical description of England | 1789 |
USD - | 19.60 | |
| 275 | Pierre Corneille | Theatre | Paris | 1797 |
USD - | 22.40 |
| 276 | D'Arblay (Mme., "Fanny Burney") | The Wanderer or female difficulties | 1814 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 277 | J. P. C. de Florian | Oeuvres | Paris | 1784-92 |
USD - | 19.60 |
| 278 | I. and R. Gardnor | A series of views taken on and near the river Rhine | [1791] |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 279 | David Hume and T. Smollet | The history of England | 1796 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 280 | Dr. Samuel Johnson | Works | 1796 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 281 | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 282 | David Loggan | Oxonia illustrata | USD - | 98.00 |
![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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4ee20109-25f3-42e8-93ab-bd4c8e17093a.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano],</i> 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5adfdf34-8a9a-47e5-9288-5e65dac5ce79.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> BANDELLO, MATTEO. <i>La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello,</i> 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a1b8605-a566-4fb7-8a4c-5fb72ac539bc.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. <i>Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…,</i> 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.")
