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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.
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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.
Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 20Mar1939,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 20, 1939 - March 20, 1939
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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405 | W. Morris | Tale | 1893; 1894 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
406 | MORRIS, W. | The Story of the Glittering Plain | 1894 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
407 | W. Morris | Friendship | 1894 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
408 | KEATS, JOHN | POEMS, edited by F. S. Ellis | 1894 |
GBP - | 15.00 | |
409 | SWINBURNE, A. C. | Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy | 1894 |
GBP - | 3.15 | |
410 | Tale | 1894 |
GBP - | 0.05 | ||
411 | Morris, W. | The Wood beyond the World | 1894 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
412 | Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba | The Book of Wisdom and Lies | 1894 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
413 | SHELLEY, P. B. | POETICAL WORKS | 1894-5 |
GBP - | 15.00 | |
414 | P. S. Ellis | Psalmi Penitentiales | 1894 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
415 | Savonarola, Hieronimo | Epistola de Contemptu Mundi, edited by C. Fairfax Murray from the original Autograph Letter | 1894 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
416 | W. Morris and A. J. Wyatt | Tale | 1895 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
417 | F. S. Ellis | Syr Perecyvelle of Gales | 1895 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
418 | MORRIS, W. | The Life and Death of Jason | 1895 |
GBP - | 4.05 | |
419 | Morris, W. | Child Christopher and Goldilind the Pair | 1895 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
420 | Rossetti, D. G. | Hand and Soul | 1895 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
421 | HERRICK, ROBERT | Poems chosen out of the Works of Robert Herrick, edited by F. S. Ellis | 1895; 1896 |
GBP - | 10.10 | |
422 | Coleridge, S. T. | Poems chosen out of the Works of S. T. Coleridge, edited by P. S. Ellis | 1896 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
423 | MORRIS, W. | The Well at the Worlds End | 1896 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
424 | MORRIS, W. | The Earthly Paradise | 1896-7 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
425 | Laudes Beatæ Mariæ Virginis | 1896 |
GBP - | 1.14 | ||
426 | F. S. Ellis | Floure | 1896 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
427 | Spenser, Edmund | The Shepheardes Calendar | 1896 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
428 | MORRIS, W. | THE WATER OF THE WONDROUS ISLES | 1897 |
GBP - | 21.00 | |
429 | F. S. Ellis | Sire Degrevaunt | 1896; 1897 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
430 | F. S. Ellis | Syr Ysambrace | 1897 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
431 | S. C. Cockerell | Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century | 1897; 1898 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
432 | MORRIS, W. | THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG and the Fall of the Niblungs | 1898 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
433 | Morris, W. | The Sundering Flood | 1897; 1898 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
434 | MORRIS, W. | Love is Enough | 1897; 1898 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
435 | Morris, W. | A Note on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press and a list of the Books printed thereat | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
436 | Morris, W. | A nearly complete Collection of the prospectuses | 1892-98 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
437 | Malory, Sir T. | Le Morte Darthur | 1910-11 |
GBP - | 6.05 | |
438 | Meredith, G. | One of Our Conquerors | 1891 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
439 | Meredith, G. | One of our Conquerors; Lord Ormont and his Aminta; The Tragic Comedians | 1891; 1880; 1894 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
440 | Meredith, G. | Diana of the Crossways; The Amazing Marriage | 1885; 1895 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
441 | Morris, W. | Works | 1901-02 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
442 | Morris, W.; Ashbee, C. R. | The Roots of the Mountains; An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris | 1901; 1890 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
443 | W. C. Ward | MUSES LIBRARY | 1891-96 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
444 | Stevenson, R. L. | Works | Edinburgh | 1894-98 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
445 | Villon, P. | Poems; Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp | 1892; 1889 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
446 | Shaw, G. B. | Works | 1930-32 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
447 | Morley, John, Viscount | Works | 1921 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
448 | Plutarch | Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans | 1928 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
449 | Hudson, W. H. | Idle Days in Patagonia | 1893 |
GBP - | 1.04 | |
450 | Kipling, Rudyard | They, FIRST EDITION | 1905 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
451 | Conrad, Joseph | Almayer's Folly; Youth | 1895 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
452 | Conrad, J.; Jefferies, R. | Twixt Land and Sea; The Arrow of Gold; The Rescue; The Gamekeeper at Home | 1912; 1919; 1920 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
453 | Hardy, T. | Under the Greenwood Tree | 1872 |
GBP - | 4.05 | |
454 | Darwin, Charles | The Expression of the Emotions | 1872 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
455 | Stevenson, R. L. | An Inland Voyage | 1878 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
456 | Stevenson, R. L. | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes | 1879 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
457 | Stevenson, R. L. | Virginibus Puerisque and other Papers | 1881 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
458 | Stevenson, R. L. | Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Weir of Hermiston | 1896; 1882 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
459 | STEVENSON, R. L. | TREASURE ISLAND | 1883 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
460 | Dodgson, C. L.; Hardy, T.; Du Maurier, G. | Sylvie and Bruno; Wessex Poems; Trilby | 1889; 1898; 1895 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
461 | Phillpotts, Eden | Children of the Mist | 1898 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
462 | Kipling, Rudyard | Captains Courageous | 1897 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
463 | Galsworthy, John | The Dark Flower; The Forsyte Saga | 1913; 1922 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
464 | Thomas, Edward | Cloud Castle, and other Papers; L'Art d'aimer nouveau poeme en six chants par Monsieur... | 1770; 1922 |
GBP - | Not Sold | |
465 | Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book | 1894; 1895 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
466 | Kipling, R. | Songs from Books | 1913 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
467 | Kipling, R. | Something of Myself | 1937 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
468 | Ros, Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick | Irene Iddesleigh | Belfast | 1897 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
469 | Marryat, Captain F. | Masterman Ready | 1841-2 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
470 | Meredith, G. | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | 1859 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
471 | Dickens, C.; Thackeray, W. M. | A Collection of FIRST EDITIONS; The Virginians | 1837-65; 1858 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
472 | Morris, Rev. F. O. | History of British Birds; Nests and Eggs; British Butterflies | 1870; 1875; 1876; 1870-76 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
473 | Dickens, C.; Thackeray, W. M. | Works | Oxford | 1868-70 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
474 | Sir R. F. Burton | Arabian Nights | 1897 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
475 | Pepys, Samuel | Diary; Correspondence | 1893-99; 1893-1926 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
476 | Britten, F. J. | Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers | 1922 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
477 | Cripps, W. J.; Burton, W. | Old English Plate; History of English Porcelain | 1914; 1902 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
478 | Richard Neale | Music | c. 1725 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
479 | Horatius Flaccus, Q. | Opera Omnia | 1660 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
480 | Hall, Joseph | Select Thoughts | 1654 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
481 | Erasmus, D. | Stultitiae Laus | Basilieae | 1676 |
GBP - | 1.04 |
482 | Villette, François | A Description of the Great Burning Glass... | 1718 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
483 | Jonson, Ben | Works | 1706 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
484 | Suckling, Sir John | Works. Containing Poems | 1709 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
485 | Book of Common Prayer | Cambridge | 1664-5 |
GBP - | 0.08 | |
486 | Voltaire | Letters Concerning the English Nation | repaired 1733 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
487 | Scot, Thos. | Philomythie or Philomythologie | 1616 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
488 | American Army | 1806 |
GBP - | 1.00 | ||
489 | Johnson, S. | Irene | 1749 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
490 | Leesconvel, P. de | Relation du Voyage du Prince de Montheraud dans Pile de Naudely | Merinde | 1706 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
491 | Mackenzie, Sir Geo. | A Moral Essay | 1685 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
492 | Combe, William | The Tour of Doctor Prosody | 1821 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
493 | Gay, J. | Fables | 1793 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
494 | Cohen, H. | Guide de l'amateur de Livres à Gravures du XVIIIe siècle | Paris | 1912 |
GBP - | 5.00 |
495 | Lugt, F. | Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes | Amsterdam | 1921 |
GBP - | 5.10 |
496 | Van Praet, J. | Catalogue des Livres imprimés sur vélin de la Bibliothèque du Roi | Paris | 1822-8 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
497 | Juan, G. and Antonio de Ulloa; Cobbet, W.; Flint, J. | Voyage to South America; Account of the European Settlements in America; A Year's Residence in the United States of America; Letters from America | Edinburgh | 1822; 1758; 1770 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
498 | Richardson, Samuel | A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments | 1755 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
499 | Cook, William; Fontonelle | Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs; Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; Doctrinae Substantiarum sive Naturae apertae; A Plurality of Worlds | Edinburgh | 1679; 1674; 1669; 1702 |
GBP - | 0.18 |
500 | Wordsworth, W. | Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England | 1823 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
501 | Stokes, J. L.; Wallace, A. R. | Discoveries in Australia; Narrative of Travels on the Amazon | 1846; 1853 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
502 | O'Connor | Silva Gadelica; Chronicles of Eri, being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber | 1892; 1822 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
503 | Defoe, D.; Bentham, J. | Pamphlets; Seasonable Expostulation with James Butler; Indications respecting Lord Eldon | 1707; 1715; 1825 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
504 | Faraday, Michael; Twining, E. | Chemical History of a Candle; Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants | 1861; 1868 |
GBP - | 1.02 |