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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 -
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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
Books, Autographs & Prints
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.
![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.")
![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.")
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 |
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| 301 | Genlis (Mme de) | Tales of the Castle | 1785 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 302 | Geoffrey of Monmouth | British History | 1718 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 303 | GERARD DE LIEGE | (fl. 1270, also attributed to Robert Grosseteste) | GBP - | 15.00 | ||
| 305 | Gibbon (E.) | Miscellaneous Works | 1796 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 306 | Gibbon (Edward) | An Essay on the Study of Literature | 1764 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 307 | Gibbon (E.) | Vindication of some Passages in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | 1779 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 308 | Gibbon (E.) | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | 1776-88 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 309 | Gibbon (E.) | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | 1903 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 311 | Gibson (F.) Charles | Condor His Life and Work | 1914 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 312 | Gilbert (W. S.) | The "Bab" Ballads | 1896 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 313 | Gill (Eric) | Engravings | Bristol | 1929 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 314 | Gill (E.) | Engravings | 1934 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 315 | Gissing (G.) | Isabel Clarendon | 1886 |
GBP - | 12.50 | |
| 316 | Gissing (G.) | The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft | 1903 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 317 | Godwin (Wm) | Things as They are | 1794 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 318 | Goethe (J. W. von) | Schriften, Achter Band [Faust], | Leipzig | 1789 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 319 | Swift (J.) | Directions to Servants | 1925 |
GBP - | 1.25 | |
| 320 | Coventry (F.) | History of Pompey the Little | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 321 | Fielding (H.) | A Journey from this World to the Next | 1930 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 322 | Crusader Castles | 1936 |
GBP - | 14.00 | ||
| 323 | Fryer (Mary Ann) | John Fryer of the Bounty | 1939 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 324 | Lawrence (T. E.) | Men in Print | 1940 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 325 | Glue and Lacquer | 1941 |
GBP - | 6.00 | ||
| 326 | Lawrence (T. E.) | Letters to H. S. Ede | 1942 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 327 | Chair (Somerset de) | The Silver Crescent | 1943 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 328 | The Golden Carpet | 1943 |
GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 329 | The Athenians | 1943 |
GBP - | 2.25 | ||
| 330 | Philby (H. St. J. B.) | A Pilgrim in Arabia | 1943 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 331 | Golden Cockerel Press | 1944 |
GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 332 | Shelley (P. B., H., M.) and T. J. Hogg | Harriet and Mary | 1944 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 333 | Sparrman (A.) | A Voyage Round the World with Captain Cook | 1944 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 334 | Swinburne (A.) | Hymn to Proserpine | 1944 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 335 | The Ninety-First Psalm | GBP - | 1.50 | |||
| 336 | Napoleon's Memoirs | 1945 |
GBP - | 16.00 | ||
| 337 | The First Crusade | 1945 |
GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 338 | Swinburgh (A. C.) | Laus Veneris | 1948 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 339 | Swinburne (A. C.) | Laus Veneris | 1948 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 340 | Homer | The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite | 1948 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 341 | The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion | 1948 |
GBP - | 10.00 | ||
| 342 | Calderon (V. G.) | The Lottery Ticket | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 343 | Goldscheider (L.) | Five Hundred Self Portraits | GBP - | 0.75 | ||
| 344 | Goldsmith (O.) | Works | GBP - | 7.50 | ||
| 345 | [Goldsmith (Oliver)] | The Mystery Revealed | 1742 |
GBP - | 40.00 | |
| 346 | Goldsmith (0.) | Enquiry into Polite Learning | 1759 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 347 | GOLDSMITH (0.) | THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD | Salisbury | 1766 |
GBP - | 44.00 |
| 348 | Gooden (Mona) | The Poet's Cat | 1945 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 349 | [Goosens (A.)] | Florilegium Harlemense | Haarlem | 1901 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 350 | Gover (E.) and J. F. Blacker | Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones | 1911 |
GBP - | 34.00 | |
| 351 | Grant (Capt. B.) | The Orchids of Burma | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 352 | Gray (T.) | Poems | 1768 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 353 | Gray (Thomas) | Poems | 1768 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 354 | Green (J. R.) | History of the English People | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 355 | Greenaway (Kate) | Calendars for 1884 | 1884 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 356 | Greenaway (K.) | Language of Flowers | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 357 | Greenaway (K.) | Mother Goose | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 358 | Greenaway (K.) | Marigold Garden | [1885] |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 359 | Greenaway (K.) Taylor (J. and A.) | Little Anne | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 360 | Greenaway (K.) | A Day in a Child's Life | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 361 | Greenaway (K.) | An Apple Pie | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 362 | Greenaway (K.) Cundall (H. M.) | Kate Greenaway Pictures | 1921 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 363 | Greenaway (K.) Cresswell (B. F.) | The Royal Progress of King Pepito | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 364 | Greenaway (K.) Spielmann (M. H.) and G. S. Layard | Kate Greenaway | 1905 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 365 | Grego (J.) | Rowlandson the Caricaturist | 1880 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 366 | Grego (J.) | Cruikshank's Water Colours | 1903 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 367 | Abu Obeyd | Gregynog Press | 1930 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 368 | Vansittart (R.) | Gregynog Press | 1932 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 369 | Milton (J.) | Gregynog Press | 1933 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 370 | Madariaga (S. de) | Gregynog Press | 1934 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 371 | Hartzenbusch (J. E.) | Gregynog Press | 1938 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 372 | Grossmith (G. and W.) | The Diary of a Nobody, name on title and verso of half-title | GBP - | 4.50 | ||
| 373 | Guarini (G.) | Il Pastor Fido | Paris | 1782 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
| 374 | Guide to the Watering Places between the Exe and the Dart | 1818 |
GBP - | 9.00 | ||
| 375 | Gunther (R. T.) | The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides | Oxford | 1934 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
| 377 | Hanbury (Rev. Wm.) | Complete Body of Planting and'Gardening | 1770-71 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 378 | Hardy (T.) | The Woodlanders | 1887 |
GBP - | 1.75 | |
| 379 | Harris (J. C.) | Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings | New York | 1881 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 380 | Harris (J. C.) | Nights and Uncle Remus | Boston | 1883 |
GBP - | 4.00 |
| 381 | Harte (Bret) | Poems | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 382 | Hazlitt (Wm.) | The Round Table | Edinburgh | 1817 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 383 | Hazlitt (Wm.) | Lectures on the English Comic Writers | 1819 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 384 | Helme (E.) | The Farmer of Inglewood Forest | GBP - | 2.75 | ||
| 385 | HEMMERLIN (F.) | VARIAE OBLECTATIONIS OPUSCULA ET TRACTATUS | Basle | 1497 |
GBP - | 17.00 |
| 386 | Hentze (C.) | Chinese Tomb Figures | 1928 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 387 | Hepplewhite (A.) | Cabin-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide | 1789 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 388 | Hetherington (A. L.) | Early Ceramic Wares of China | 1922 |
GBP - | 6.25 | |
| 389 | Hill (J.) Eden | A Complete Body of Gardening | 1757 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 390 | Histoire de la Republique Romaine, engraved throughout except title and preliminaries | GBP - | 0.50 | |||
| 393 | Hobson (R. L.) | Worcester Porcelain | 1910 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 394 | Hobson (R. L.) | Chinese Pottery and Porcelain | 1915 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 395 | Hobson (R. L.) and A. L. Hetherington | Art of the Chinese Potter | 1923 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 396 | Hobson (R. L.) | Wares of the Ming Dynasty | 1923 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 397 | Hobson (R. L.) | The Later Ceramic Wares of China | 1925 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 398 | Hobson (R. L.) | Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain | 1931 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 399 | [Holmes (O. W.)] | The Autocrat at the Breakfast-Table | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 400 | Homer | The Whole Works of Homer | [1616] |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 401 | Homer | Batrachomyomachia, Greek and Latin text | 1721 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 402 | Homer | Odyssey | 1924 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 403 | Homer | Ilias et Odyssea (Graece) | 1831 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 404 | [Holmes (O. W.)] | The Poet at the Breakfast-Table | Boston | 1872 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
| 405 | Horatius Flaccus (Q.) | Opera | Paris | 1519 |
GBP - | 2.75 |
