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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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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: PRINTED BOOKS., 01Feb1937,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 01, 1937 - February 01, 1937
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 502 | Weber, J. C.; Conway, Sir W. M.; FitzGerald, E. A.; Belloc, Hilaire; Freshfield, D. W.; Cole, Mrs.; Freshfield, Mrs. H.; Fox, Frank; Hulme, F. Edward; Coolidge, W. A. B.; Brockedon, William | MOUNTAINEERING. Die Alpen-Pflanzen, Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas, The Alps from End to End, The Highest Andes, The Pyrenees, Round Kangchenjunga, A Lady's Tour round Monte Rosa, A Summer Tour in the Grisons, Switzerland, Familiar Sw | 1880, 1894, 1895, 1899, 1909, 1903, 1859, 1862, 1917, 1908, 1912, n.d., 1828-9 |
GBP - | 8.10 | |
| 503 | Harris, P. and Lord A. Douglas | Ananga-Ranga: or the Hindu Art of Love, New Preface to " The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde," | 1885, 1925 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 504 | Arabian Nights' Entertainments (The) translated by Sir Richard P. Burton | n.d. |
GBP - | 4.10 | ||
| 505 | Beerbohm, Max | Works | 1922-8 |
GBP - | 3.15 | |
| 506 | Sandford, C. and L. | Boar's Head Press. Sappho, Clervis and Belamie | 1932, 1932 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 507 | Borrow, George | Romantic Ballads | 1826 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 508 | Butler, Samuel | Works | 1923-6 |
GBP - | 5.10 | |
| 509 | Davies, W. H. | The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp | 1908 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 510 | Doughty, Charles M. | Travels in Arabia Deserta | 1921 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 511 | Mackail, J. W. | DOVES PRESS. William Morris | 1901 |
GBP - | 7.10 | |
| 512 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | DOVES PRESS. HAMLET | 1909 |
GBP - | 32.00 | |
| 513 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | DOVES PRESS. SONNETS | 1909 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 514 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | DOVES PRESS. ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA | 1912 |
GBP - | 32.00 | |
| 515 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | DOVES PRESS VENUS AND ADONIS | 1912 |
GBP - | 32.00 | |
| 516 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | DOVES PRESS. JULIUS CAESAR | 1913 |
GBP - | 30.00 | |
| 517 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | DOVES PRESS. CORIOLANUS | 1914 |
GBP - | 29.00 | |
| 518 | SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM | DOVES PRESS LUCRECE | 1915 |
GBP - | 36.00 | |
| 519 | Froissart, Sir John | The Chronicle, The Paston Letters | 1901-3, 1910 |
GBP - | 2.12 | |
| 520 | Burns, Robert, Coppard, A. E. | Golden Cockerel Press. Songs, The Hundredth Story | 1925, 1931 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 521 | Fielding, Henry; Suckling, Sir John | Golden Cockerel Press. Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, A Ballad upon a Wedding | 1926, 1927 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 522 | Mathers, E. Powys; Powys, T. F. | Golden Cockerel Press. Procreant Hymn, When Thou Wast Naked | 1926, 1931 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 523 | Sterne, Laurence | Golden Cockerel Press. Tristram Shandy | 1929-30 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 524 | HARDY, THOMAS | WORKS | 1919-20 |
GBP - | 19.00 | |
| 525 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain | 1891 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 526 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. Poems by the Way | 1891 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
| 527 | Shakespeare, William | Kelmscott Press. Poems | 1893 |
GBP - | 6.10 | |
| 528 | More, Sir Thomas | Keimscott Press. Utopia | 1893 |
GBP - | 7.05 | |
| 529 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. Gothic Architecture | 1893 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 530 | Kelmscott Press. The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea | 1894 |
GBP - | 11.00 | ||
| 531 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The "Wood beyond the World | 1894 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
| 532 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Pair | 1895 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 533 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The Earthly Paradise | 1896-7 |
GBP - | 15.10 | |
| 534 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The Sundering Flood | 1897 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 535 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. A Note on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press | 1898 |
GBP - | 3.15 | |
| 536 | Milne, A. A. | The Secret, When I Was Very Young | New York | 1929, 1930 |
GBP - | 1.05 |
| 537 | Moore, George; Sassoon, Siegfried; Galsworthy, John | The Brook Kerith, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, A Modern Comedy | 1916, 1930, 1929 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 538 | Morley, Lord | Works | 1921 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
| 539 | Morris, William and Eiríkr Magnússon | The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs | 1870 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
| 540 | Milton, John | Nonesuch Press. Poems in English | 1926 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 541 | Montaigne, Miguel de. | Nonesuch Press. Essays | 1931 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
| 542 | Raymond, J. P. and C. Ricketts; Tennyson, Lord | Nonesuch Press. Oscar Wilde. Recollections, Butleriana, In Memoriam | 1932, 1932, 1933 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 543 | Shakespeare, William | Works | 1903-21 |
GBP - | 7.10 | |
| 544 | Shakespeare, William; Boswell, James | Plays, Life of Johnson | Oxford | 1765, 1887 |
GBP - | 1.12 |
| 545 | Jackson, Holbrook | Sancino Press. The Anatomy of Bibliomania, The Fear of Books | 1930-1, 1932 |
GBP - | 5.05 | |
| 546 | Stevenson, Robert Louis | Works | 1922-3 |
GBP - | 7.15 | |
| 547 | Updike, D. B. | Printing Types: their History, Forms, and Use | Cambridge Mass | 1922 |
GBP - | 3.15 |
| 548 | Walpole, Hugh; Strachey, Lytton | The Cathedral, Eliza beth and Essex | 1922, 1928 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 549 | Drake, Sir Francis | Argonaut Press. The World Encompassed | 1926 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
| 550 | MORE, SIR THOMAS | ASHENDENE PRESS. UTOPIA | 1906 |
GBP - | 25.00 | |
| 551 | Gwendolen Raverat | Ashendene Press [Longus] Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, Traduction de Messire J. Amyot | 1933 |
GBP - | 6.15 | |
| 552 | Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels | Golden Cockerel Press | 1925 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
| 553 | More, Sir Thomas | Golden Cockerel Press. Utopia | 1929 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 554 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain | 1894 |
GBP - | 7.10 | |
| 555 | Keimscott Press. The Tale of Beowulf | 1895 |
GBP - | 5.10 | ||
| 556 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The Life and Death of Jason | 1895 |
GBP - | 12.10 | |
| 557 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The Well at the World's End | 1896 |
GBP - | 11.10 | |
| 558 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. The Water of the Wondrous Isles | 1897 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 559 | Morris, William | Kelmscott Press. Love is Enough | 1897 |
GBP - | 5.10 | |
| 560 | Rahelais, François | Ceuvres, avec des Remarques Historiques et Critiques de Mr le Duchat | 1741 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 561 | Tomkinson, G. S. | A Select Bibliography of Modern Presses | 1928 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 562 | MALORY, SIR THOMAS | ASHENDENE PRESS. LE MORTE DARTHUR | 1913 |
GBP - | 49.00 | |
| 563 | BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI | ASHENDENE PRESS. IL DECAMERON | 1920 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 564 | Chaucer, Geoffrey | Workes [edited by Thomas Speght] | 1602 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 565 | Cresset Press. The Chelsea Song Book | n.d. |
GBP - | Not Sold | ||
| 566 | CHAUCER, GEOFFREY | GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE | 1927 |
GBP - | 62.00 | |
| 567 | Shakespeare, Wm. | Golden Cockerel Press. The Chester Play of the Deluge, Twelfth Night | 1927, 1932 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
| 568 | Keats, John | Golden Cockerel Press. Lamia and other Poems | 1928 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 569 | Chaucer, Geoffrey | Golden Cockerel Press. The Canterbury Tales | 1929-31 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 570 | Eric Gill, Sangorski and Sutcliffe | Golden Cockerel Press. The Four Gospels | 1931 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 571 | Jenkinson, Hilary | The Later Court Hands in England | Cambridge | 1927 |
GBP - | 1.10 |
| 572 | Morris, William | KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs | 1898 |
GBP - | 24.00 | |
| 573 | M. Casella, H. F. Cary, Botticelli | Nonesuch Press. Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia | 1928 |
GBP - | 5.05 | |
| 574 | A. W. Lawrence, Y. Le Campion | Nonesuch Press. Herodotus | 1935 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 575 | Collard, A. W. | Shakespeare Folios and Quartos | 1909 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 576 | Terentius [Comcediae], cum quinqz cömentis: vz Donati: Guidonis: Calphur. Ascensii et Servii | 1515 |
GBP - | 3.05 | ||
| 577 | Thomas de Aquino, S.; Sanmicheli, M. | In Tres Libros Aristo. de Anima praeclarissima Expositio, Li Cinque Ordini dell' Architettura Civile | 1560, 1735 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 578 | Silvaticus, Matthaeus | Liber Pandectarum Medicinae | 1488 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 579 | Christopher Landino | Dante Alighieri. Comedia Divina [with Commentary by Christopher Landino] | Vinegia | 1484 |
GBP - | 2.15 |
| 580 | Arabic MSS. Portions of the Qurán, etc. | GBP - | 1.00 | |||
| 581 | Miniature. Christ carrying the Cross. Drawing on vellum in pen-and-ink and wash | GBP - | 4.00 | |||
| 582 | DÜRER, ALBRECHT | De Symmetria, Institutionum Geometricarum libri IV, De Urbibus Castellisque condendis | Paris | 1532-4, 1535, 1535 |
GBP - | 2.15 |
| 583 | Girtin, Thomas | Views in Paris | 1803 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
| 584 | Dürer, Albrecht | Opera, das ist alle Bücher des weit-berühmbten und Kunstreichen Mathematici und Mahlers Albrechten Dürers von Nurenberg | 1604 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 585 | Dugdale, Sir William | Monasticon Anglicanum, History of Saint Paul's Cathedral | 1817-30, 1818 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
| 586 | Bible. English | 1562 |
GBP - | 4.10 | ||
| 587 | Chaucer, G.; Bacon, F. | Works with Life by T. Speght, Sylva Sylvarum | 1687, 1670 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 588 | Wallis, John | Opera Mathematica | 1695-3-9 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 589 | Wallis, John | Treatise of Algebra | 1685 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
| 590 | Howell, James | Survay of the Signorie of Venice | 1651 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 591 | Bacon, Sir Francis | Historie of the Reigne of King Henrie the Seaventh | 1637 |
GBP - | 6.10 | |
| 592 | Bacon, Sir Francis | Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh | 1622 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 593 | Bacon, Sir F. | Resuscitatio, with Life by William Rawley | 1657 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 594 | Bacon, Sir F. | Of the Advancement of Learning, Sylva Sylvarum | Oxford | 1640, 1658 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 595 | Bacon, Sir P. | Sylva Sylvarum, Resuscitatio, Of the Advancement of Learning | 1639, 1671, 1674 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 596 | Jonson, Ben | Workes | 1640 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
| 597 | Shakespeare, W. | Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies | 1623, 1807 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 598 | Shakespeare, William | Comedies, Histories and Tragedies | 1623, 1866 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 599 | Shakespeare, W. | Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies | 1664, 1905 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
| 600 | Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher | Fifty Comedies and Tragedies | 1679 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 601 | Camden, William | Britain | 1637 |
GBP - | 4.04 |
![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.")
