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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.
![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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 283 | M. Anneus Lucanus | Pharsalia cum notis H. Grotii et R. Bentleii | Strawberry Hill | 1760 |
USD - | 36.40 |
| 284 | Thomas Malton | [Views of Oxford] | Abbey | 1802[-1803] |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 285 | Jean F. Marmontel | Les Incas ou la destruction de l'Empire du Perou | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 286 | Philip Miller | The gardener's dictionary | 1759-60 |
USD - | 378.00 | |
| 287 | J. P. B. de Moliere | Oeuvres | Paris | 1788 |
USD - | 112.00 |
| 288 | Alexander Pope | Works | 1797 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 289 | Jean Racine | Oeuvres | Paris | 1784 |
USD - | 98.00 |
| 290 | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Works | USD - | 19.60 | ||
| 291 | George Roland | A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 292 | Sir Walter Scott | Waverley novels | Edinburgh | 1814-26 |
USD - | 39.20 |
| 293 | Sir Walter Scott | Waverley novels | Edinburgh | 1842-47 |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 294 | William Shakespeare | Works | 1793 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 295 | Thomas H. Shepherd and James Elmes | London and its environs in the nineteenth century | 1827 |
USD - | 2.80 | |
| 296 | Thomas H. Shepherd | Modern Athens displayed in a series of views or Edinburgh in the nineteenth century | 1829 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 297 | Tobias Smollet | Works | 1797 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 298 | William M. Thackeray | Vanity Fair | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 299 | Thomas Thomson | Travels in Sweden | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 300 | John Toland | The life of John Milton | 1761 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 301 | Horace Walpole | Works (with Correspondence) | 1798-1818 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 302 | Ralph Willett | A description of the library at Merly in Dorset | 1785 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 303 | George Herbert | Poems [selected by Sir H. Walford Davies] | 1923 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 304 | Henry Vaughan | Poems [selected by Ernest Rhys] | 1924 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 305 | Caneuon Ceiriog: Detholiad | 1925 |
USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 306 | Caneuon Ceiriog: Detholiad | 1925 |
USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 307 | T. Gwynn Jones | Detholiad o Ganiadau | 1926 |
USD - | 11.20 | |
| 308 | Edward Thomas | Chosen Essays | 1926 |
USD - | 19.60 | |
| 309 | Edward Thomas | Selected Poems | 1927 |
USD - | 25.20 | |
| 310 | Saint David | The Life of Saint David [based upon the Latin Life by Rhygyfarch | 1927 |
USD - | 89.60 | |
| 311 | Llyfr y Pregeth-wr | 1927 |
USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 312 | Lord Edward | Autobiography | 1928 |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 313 | Richard Davies | An Account of the Convincement | 1928 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 314 | W. H. Davies | Selected Poems | 1928 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 315 | Thomas Love Peacock | The Misfortunes of Elphin | 1928 |
USD - | 25.20 | |
| 316 | Omar Khayyam | Penillion wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Berseg i'r Gymraeg gan John Morris-Jones | 1928 |
USD - | 117.60 | |
| 317 | Omar Khayyam | Penillion wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Berseg i'r Gymraeg gan John Morris-Jones | 1928 |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 318 | Psalmau Dafydd yn ol William Morgan 1588 | 1929 |
USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 319 | Thomas Jones and E. T. Jones Elphin Lloyd Jones | wood-engravings | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 320 | Christina Rossetti | Poems | 1930 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 321 | Stealing of the Mare (The) | 1930 |
USD - | 44.80 | ||
| 322 | Charles Lamb | Elia and the Last Essays of Elia | 1929-30 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 323 | Euripides | Plays | 1931 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 324 | John Milton | Cornus | 1931 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 325 | Aesop | The Fables of Esope | 1931 |
USD - | 72.80 | |
| 326 | W. J. Gruffydd | Caniadau | 1932 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 327 | Sir Robert Vansittart | The Singing Caravan | 1932 |
USD - | 42.00 | |
| 328 | Samuel Butler | Erewhon | 1932 |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 329 | Revelation of Saint John the Divine (The) | 1932 |
USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 330 | Owen Edwards | Clych Atgof | 1933 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 331 | Owen Edwards | Clych Atgof | 1933 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 332 | John Milton | Four Poems | 1933 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 333 | John Sampson | XXI Welsh Gypsy Folk-Tales | 1933 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 334 | Jeremiah | 1933 |
USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 335 | W. H. Davies | The Lover's Song-Book | 1933 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 336 | Thomas Jones | A Theme with Variations | 1933 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 337 | Salvador de Madariaga | Don Quixote: an Introductory Essay in Psychology | 1934 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 338 | Loyd Haberly | Anne Boleyn and other Poems | 1934 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 339 | Lope Felix de Vega | The Star of Seville: a Drama in Three Acts and in Verse | 1935 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 340 | Robert Bridges | Eros and Psyche | 1935 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 341 | Xenophon | Cyrupsedia | 1936 |
USD - | 168.00 | |
| 342 | Hon. J. W. Fortescue | The Story of a Red-Deer | 1935 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 343 | Fulke Greville Brooke | Caelica | 1936 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 344 | Joinville (Jean, Sire de) | The History of Saint Louis | 1937 |
USD - | 123.20 | |
| 345 | John Milton | On the Morning of Christ's Nativity | 1937 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 346 | Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch | The Lovers of Teruel | 1938 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 347 | Antonio de Guevara | The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life | 1938 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 348 | George Bernard Shaw | Shaw Gives Himself Away | 1939 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 349 | Ellis Wynne | Gweledigeatheu v Bardd CWSC | 1940 |
USD - | 53.20 | |
| 350 | Lascelles Abererombie | Lyrics and Unfinished Poems | 1940 |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 351 | The Mabinogion | 1948 |
USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 352 | Charles Dickens | The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit | 1843-44 |
USD - | 67.20 | |
| 353 | C. Dickens | The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit | 1844 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 354 | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | [1852-53] |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 355 | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 356 | C. L. Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" | The Hunting of the Snark | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 357 | Lord Alfred Douglas | Nine Poems | 1926 |
USD - | 2.80 | |
| 358 | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Four Georges | USD - | 1.40 | ||
| 359 | Dodgson (C. L., "Lewis Carroll") | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | 1877 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 360 | Dodgson (C. L., "Lewis Carroll") | Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there | 1877 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 361 | Anthony Trollope | Ralph the Heir | 1871 |
USD - | 72.80 | |
| 362 | Henry Glapthorne | The plays and poems of Henry Glapthorne | 1874 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 363 | Arabian Nights | USD - | 84.00 | |||
| 364 | Thomas Carlyle | The Works | 1896-1899 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 365 | Joseph Conrad | The Works | 1925 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 366 | Marian Evans "George Eliot" | The Works | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 367 | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 367a | T. E. Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 368 | T. E. Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 369 | William Shakespeare | Works | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 369a | John Addington Symonds | Renaissance in Italy | 1897-1898 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 370 | Cambridge Modern History (The) | Cambridge | 1902-1917 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 370a | Sir Winston S. Churchill | The Second World War | 1948-1954 |
USD - | 11.20 | |
| 371 | Sir Winston S. Churchill | The Great War | USD - | 19.60 | ||
| 371a | Sir Winston S. Churchill | Savrola | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 371b | Sir Winston S. Churchill | Marlborough | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 372 | Samuel Pepys | The Diary | 1903-1910 |
USD - | 53.20 | |
| 373 | George Grote | History of Greece | 1851-1856 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 374 | E. Renan | Histoire des origines du Christianisme | Paris | USD - | 2.80 | |
| 375 | Kate Greenaway | The Quiver of Love | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 376 | Kate Greenaway | A Day in a Child's Life | USD - | 11.20 | ||
| 377 | Kate Greenaway | Almanacks for 1883-1895 and 1897 | USD - | 196.00 |
![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.")
