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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: A SELECTED PORTION OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY The Property of Derck Spence, Esq. Halsall House, Ormskirk, Lanes., FERN,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 27, 1949 - June 27, 1949
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BECKETT (G. A.) | Comic History of England | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 2 | A'Beckett (G. A.) | Comic History of Rome | GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 3 | Accum (F.) | Treatise on Adulterations of Food | 1820 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 4 | Ackermann (R.) | Microcosm of London | 1808-10 |
GBP - | 80.00 | |
| 5 | Ackermann (R.) | Reposatory of Arts | 1816-21 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 6 | Adams (R. and J.) | Works in Architecture | Paris | 1900-2 |
GBP - | 4.50 |
| 7 | Addison (J.) | A. Pope and Sir R. Steele | 1758-75 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 8 | Aesop | Fables | 1793 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 9 | Aesop | Fables | 1936 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 10 | Agricola (G.) | De re Metallica libri XII | Basle | 1556 |
GBP - | 42.00 |
| 11 | Agricola (G.) | De -re Mettalica | 1912 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 12 | Ainsworth (W. Harrison) | Jack Sheppard | 1839 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 13 | Albin (Eleazar) | Natural History of English Insects | 1724 |
GBP - | 9.50 | |
| 14 | Euripides | Euripidis tragoediae septendecim | Venice | 1503 |
GBP - | 20.00 |
| 15 | Dialogi di Amore, Composti per Leone Medico | Venice | 1541 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 16 | Tre libri di Lettere volgari di Paolo Manutio | Venice | 1556 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 17 | Aldrovandus (U.) | Musaeum Metallicum in libros IIII distributum B. Ambrosinus in patrio Bonon | Bononia | 1648 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 18 | [Amory (T.)] | The Life of John Buncle | GBP - | 8.50 | ||
| 19 | Anderson (Hans C.) | A Poets Bazaar | 1846 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 20 | Anderson (H. C.) | The Shoes of Fortune | 1847 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 21 | Arabian Nights with Supplemental Nights | 1885-8 |
GBP - | 19.00 | ||
| 22 | ARGONAUT PRESS [PUBLICATIONS] | GBP - | 30.00 | |||
| 23 | Aucassin et Nicolette | Paris | 1878 |
USD - | Not Sold | |
| 24 | Audubon (J. J.) | Birds of America | 1937 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 25 | [Austen (Jane)] | Northanger Abbey | 1818 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 26 | Austen (R. A) | Observations upon some part of Sir Francis Bacon's Naturall History | 1658 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 27 | Bacon (Sir Francis) | The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry The Seventh | 1622 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 28 | Bacon (Sir F.) | The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh | 1622 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 29 | Baillon (Prof. H.) | Histoire des Plantes | Paris | 1867-94 |
GBP - | 3.50 |
| 30 | Baillon (H.) | Natural History of Plants | 1871-88 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 31 | Balbis (Dr. J. B.) | Flore Lyonnaise | Lyons | 1827 |
GBP - | 6.50 |
| 32 | Blankart (G. P.) | Art of the Plasterer | Batsford | 1908 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 33 | Barham (R. H.) | Ingoldsby Legends | 1840-42-47 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 34 | Bartholomaeus Anglicus | De proprietatibus rerum | 1491 |
GBP - | 24.00 | |
| 35 | Virgilius Maro (P.) Bucolica | Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis | Birmingham | 1757 |
GBP - | 13.00 |
| 36 | Addison (J.) | Works, | Birmingham | 1761 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 37 | Horatius Flaccus (Q.) | Opera | Birmingham | 1770 |
GBP - | 15.00 |
| 38 | Terentius (P.) | Comoediae | Birmingham | 1772 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 39 | Ariosto (L.) | Orlando Furioso | Birmingham | 1773 |
GBP - | 15.00 |
| 40 | Bauhinus (J.) and J. C. Cherlerus | Historia Plantarum | Yverdon | 1650-51 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 41 | Beckford (Peter) | Thoughts on Hunting | Salisbury | 1781 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 42 | Becon (T.) | A new Postil | 1566 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 43 | Beerbohm (Sir Max) | A Survey | 1921 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 44 | Beerbohm (Sir M.) | Rossitti and His Circle | [1922] |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 45 | Beerbohm (Sir M.) | Things New and Old | 1923 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 46 | Beerbohm (Sir M.) | plates, parts loose, cloth, 1907- Cairns (H.) and J. Walker. Masterpieces of Painting | New York | 1944 |
GBP - | 0.75 |
| 47 | Bennett (Arnold) | A Man from the North | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 48 | Bennett '(A.) | The Old Wives' Tale | 1908 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 49 | Berry (W. Turner) and A. F. Johnson | Catalogue of Specimens of Printing Types | Oxford | 1935 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 50 | Besterman (T.) | World Bibliography of Bibliographies | Oxford | 1939-40 |
GBP - | 15.00 |
| 51 | Besterman (T.) | World Bibliography of Bibliographies | 1947 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 52 | Bewick (T.) | History of British | 1805 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 53 | Bible | Nuremberg | 1477 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 54 | Bible | Venice | 1489 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 55 | Biblia | Venice | 1494 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 56 | Bible | Nuremberg | 1494 |
GBP - | 14.00 | |
| 57 | Bible | Venice | 1483 |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 58 | Bible | Excudebant | 1593-2 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 59 | Bible | 1549 |
GBP - | 6.50 | ||
| 60 | Bible | 1589 |
GBP - | 6.50 | ||
| 61 | Bible | [1553] |
GBP - | 4.50 | ||
| 62 | Bibl | 1596 |
GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 63 | Bible | Cambridge | 1632 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 64 | Bible | 1639 |
GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 65 | Bible | 1609-10 |
GBP - | 22.00 | ||
| 66 | Bible | 1899 |
GBP - | 9.00 | ||
| 67 | Bible | Edinburgh | 1902 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 68 | [Bierce (Ambrose)] | The Fiend's Delight by Dod Grile | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 69 | Binyon (L.) | Drawings and Engravings of William Blake | 1922 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 70 | Blacker (Wm.) | Art of Fly Making | 1855 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 71 | Blair (R.) | The Grave, a Poem | 1813 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 72 | Blake (Stephen) | Compleat Gardeners Practice | 1664 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 73 | Blake (Wm.) | Illustrations of the Book of Job | 1825 |
GBP - | 38.00 | |
| 74 | Blake (Wm.) | Illustrations of The Book of Job | New York | 1935 |
GBP - | 17.00 |
| 75 | Blake (Wm.) | Songs of Innocence and of Experience | 1839 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 76 | Blake (Wm.) and A. Gilchrist | Life of William Blake | 1880 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 77 | Blake (Wm.) | America, a Prophecy, facsimilied at Edmonton | 1887 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 78 | Blake (Wm.) | Book of Thel | 1897 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 79 | Bligh (Wm.) | Narrative of the Mutiny | 1790 |
GBP - | 15.00 | |
| 80 | Boccaccio (G.) | The Tragedies | [1555] |
GBP - | 24.00 | |
| 81 | Boccaccio (G.) | The Tragedies | [1555] |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 82 | Boccaccio (G.) | The Decameron translated | 1893 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 83 | Baccaccio (G.) | Amorous Fiammetta | 1929 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 84 | Boccaccio (G.) | The Decameron | 1930 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 85 | Boccone (P.) | Museo di Plante Rare della Sicilia | Venice | 1697 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 86 | Le Piu Insigni Pitture Parmensi | Parma | 1809 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 87 | Bois (D.) | Atlas des Plantes de Jardins | Paris | 1896 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 88 | Borrow (G.) | Romantic Ballads | Norwich | 1826 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
| 89 | Borrow (G.) | Bible in Spain | 1843 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 90 | Borrow (G.) | Lavengro | 1851 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 91 | Borrow (G.) | The Romany Rye | 1857 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 92 | Borrow (G.) | Wild Wales | 1862 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 93 | Boswell (James) | Life of Samuel Johnson | 1791 |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 94 | Boswell (J.) | Life of Samuel Johnson | GBP - | 46.00 | ||
| 95 | Boswell (J.) and S. Johnson | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | New York | 1936 |
GBP - | 1.50 |
| 96 | Boyle (F.) | The Woodlands Orchids | GBP - | 4.50 | ||
| 97 | Boyle (R.) | Experiments and Considerations Touching colours | 1664 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 98 | [Braddon (M. E.)] | Thou Art the Man | 1891 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 99 | British Classics (The) | 1810-14 |
GBP - | 13.00 | ||
| 101 | Hobson (R. L.) | British Museum | 1905 |
GBP - | 2.25 |
![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.")
