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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 468 | J. van der Groen | Den Nederlantsen Hovenier—Nylant (P.) Den verstandigen Hovenier | Amsterdam | 1721-1711 |
USD - | 42.00 |
| 469 | Joseph Haslewood | The dialogues of creatures moralised | 1816 |
USD - | 19.60 | |
| 470 | Conrad Heresbach | Four books of husbandry | 1577 |
USD - | 117.60 | |
| 471 | Thomas Hill | A profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of bees with the marvellous nature | 1579 |
USD - | 19.60 | |
| 472 | William Kirby | OVIonographia apum 'Angliae | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 473 | William Lawson | A new orchard and garden | 1683 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 474 | John Levett | The ordering of bees or the true history of managing them | 1634 |
USD - | 67.20 | |
| 475 | Gervase Markham | Cheap and good husbandry | 1631 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 476 | Thomas Muffet | Insectorum sive minomorum animalium theatrum | 1634 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 477 | 'Robert Plot | The natural history of Oxfordshire | Oxford | [1676] |
USD - | 16.80 |
| 478 | Samuel Purchas | A theatre of political flying insects | USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 479 | Moses Rusden | A further discovery of bees | 1679 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 480 | M. J. Simon | Le gouvernement admirable ou la republique des abeilles | USD - | 106.40 | ||
| 481 | John Thorley | MZAIEZHAOriA or the female monarchy being an inquiry into the nature of bees | USD - | 50.40 | ||
| 482 | J. Warder | The true amazon or the monarchy of bees | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 483 | Thomas Wildman | A treatise on the management of bees | 1768 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 484 | J. Worlidge | Vinetum britannicum or a treatise of cider | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 485 | Titus P. Livius | Romanae historiae libri omnes | Frankfort | 1568 |
USD - | 16.80 |
| 486 | Psalter | 1574 |
USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 487 | Abstract (An) of all the Penal Statutes which be general | USD - | 25.20 | |||
| 488 | Louis Richeome | Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du tres auguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Euchristie | Paris | 1609 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 489 | Anicius M. T. S. Boethius | Five Bookes of Philosophicall Comfort | 1609 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 490 | Giovanni Florio | Queen Anna's New World of Words | 1611 |
USD - | 98.00 | |
| 491 | George Wither | The Shepherds Hunting | 1615 |
USD - | 42.00 | |
| 492 | Sir Francis Bacon | The Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh | 1622 |
USD - | 53.20 | |
| 493 | Bacon (Sir Francis, Baron Verulam) | The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh | 1622 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 494 | Roger Bacon | The Cure of Old Age and Preservation of Youth | USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 495 | Thomas Goffe | The Raging Turke | 1631 |
USD - | 47.60 | |
| 496 | Thomas Goffe | The Couragious Turke | 1632 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 497 | Thomas May | The Heire | 1633 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 498 | Thomas Goffe | The Tragedy of Orestes | [1633] |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 499 | William Habington | Gastara | 1635 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 500 | Henry Killigrew | The Conspiracy | 1638 |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 501 | Lucius Apuleius | The XL Bookes of the Golden Asse | 1639 |
USD - | 145.60 | |
| 502 | Sir Thomas Browne | Hydriotaphia | 1658 |
USD - | 126.00 | |
| 503 | M. de Montaigne | Les Essais | Paris | 1657 |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 504 | Sir Kenelm Digby | Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies in the other the nature of mans soul is looked into | 1665 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 505 | Robert Wild | Iter Boreale | 1668 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 506 | Edward Phillips | Theatrum Poetarum | 1675 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 507 | John Webster | The displaying of supposed witchcraft | 1677 |
USD - | 100.80 | |
| 508 | Bible | 1655-57 |
USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 509 | Athanasius Kircher | Latium | Amsterdam | 1671 |
USD - | 44.80 |
| 510 | George Sinclair | Tyrocinia Mathematica | Glasgow | 1661 |
USD - | 126.00 |
| 511 | William Lithgow | The Totali Discourse | [1632] |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 512 | Capt. Samuel Sturmy | The Mariners Magazine | 1684 |
USD - | 134.40 | |
| 513 | Map | 1663 |
USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 514 | I[ohn] S [peed] | Map America | [1676] |
USD - | 39.20 | |
| 515 | Speed | A Map of Virginia and Maryland | [1676] |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 516 | Iohn Speede | Hartford Shire described | [1676] |
USD - | 25.20 | |
| 517 | William Leybourn | The Compleat Surveyor | 1679 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 518 | William Leybourn | Dialling | 1700 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 519 | George Cockburn | A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 520 | Washington Irving | A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 521 | Daniel De La Feuille | Devises et emblemes anciennes et modernes tirees des plus celebres auteurs | Amsterdam | 1712 |
USD - | 19.60 |
| 522 | Nic. Macchiavelli | Opere | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 523 | Anton-Maria Zanetti | Varie pitture a fresco de principali maestri Veneziani | Venice | 1760 |
USD - | 47.60 |
| 524 | Sir Isaac Newton | Opticks or a treatise of the reflections . . . of light | 1721 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 525 | Laurence Howel | The Orthodox Communicant | 1721 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 526 | Thomas West | The Antiquities of Furness | 1774 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 527 | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several remote nations of the world | Motte | 1726 |
USD - | 78.40 |
| 528 | J. G. Krausen | Umstandliche Bucher-Historie | USD - | 30.80 | ||
| 529 | J. Anderson | Nachrichten von Island | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 530 | Robert Goodloe Harper | Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France | London | 1798 |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 531 | John F. Watson | Annals of Philadelphia | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 532 | J. L. and W. K. Grimm | German popular stories | 1823-26 |
USD - | 19.60 | |
| 533 | J. L. and W. K. Grimm | German popular stories | 1834 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 534 | F. A. de Chateaubriand | The beauties of Christianity | USD - | 1.40 | ||
| 535 | Sir Charles D'Oyly | Tom 'Raw | 1828 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 536 | Pierce Egan | Real life in London | 1827-24 |
USD - | 11.20 | |
| 537 | William Combe | The English dance of death | 1815 [-1816] |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 538 | Eleazar Albin | A natural history of English insects | 1749 |
USD - | 67.20 | |
| 539 | Moses Harris | Exposition of English insects | 1782 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 540 | B. Maund | The Botanic Garden | 1825-36 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 541 | Robert Hogg and Henry Graves Bull | The Herefordshire Pomona | Hereford | 1876-85 |
USD - | 112.00 |
| 542 | H. C. Andrews | Roses : or a Monograph of the Genus Rosa | 1805-1806 |
USD - | 406.00 | |
| 543 | R. W. Dickson | A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening | 1807 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 544 | [Fohn. Suisse: Costumes Modernes] | USD - | 61.60 | |||
| 545 | Costumni vestiti alla Festa da Ballo data in Milano dal Nobiliso.mo | Milan | [c. 1828] |
USD - | 420.00 | |
| 546 | W. Swainson | Zoological Illustrations | 1820-23 |
USD - | 84.00 | |
| 547 | H. F. Witherby | The Handbook of British Birds | 1943-1944 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 548 | Henry Seebohm | Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 549 | Chinese Drawings | USD - | 106.40 | |||
| 550 | Chinese Drawings | USD - | 61.60 | |||
| 551 | Chinese Rice-Paper drawings | USD - | 117.60 | |||
| 552 | The Cookery and "Phisick" Book of Lettice Hallett | USD - | 154.00 | |||
| 553 | Derbyshire | [1606-7] |
USD - | 252.00 | ||
| 554 | Sir Walter Raleigh | A Discours: Touchinge a Marryage | [circa 1611] |
USD - | 280.00 | |
| 555 | Herbal | England | c. 1640 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 556 | Student's Notebook on Logic (in Latin) kept by John Arbuthnot 1690-1 | USD - | 42.00 | |||
| 557 | Of crymes in generali and by what law they are Judged in Scotland | Scotland | USD - | 140.00 | ||
| 558 | George Romney | Autograph Manuscript Account Book containing his detailed accounts of the payments he received for his portraits | 1777-1782 |
USD - | 1,008.00 | |
| 559 | William Pitt Chatham | A.L.s. | Hayes | 2 September, 1763 |
USD - | 44.80 |
| 560 | Edmund Burke | Interesting A.L.s. | 1955 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 561 | Horatio Nelson | A.L.s. | 16th Aug. 1806 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 562 | Sir Thomas Willshire | Album of letters and papers (including some contemporary copies) covering the period 1819-62 and concerning his services at the Cape and (particularly) in India | USD - | 42.00 | ||
| 563 | William Simpson | A Private Journal of the Niger Expedition | USD - | 238.00 | ||
| 564 | Log Book of H.M.S. Orion | 1855-57 |
USD - | 98.00 | ||
| 565 | Louis XIV | L. signed "Louis" (Louis XIV) | USD - | Not Sold | ||
| 566 | Emile Zola | A.L.s. | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 567 | Maximilian II | Deed on vellum | Augsburg | 4 April 1566 |
USD - | Not Sold |
![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.")
