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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.
Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Antiquarian Book Auction, BK32, Exeter
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 13, 2025 - May 13, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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26 | BEAUMONT, Cyril W. | The Mysterious Toyshop, A Fairy Tale |
London | 1924 | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 189.00 |
27 | BLANCHE, Emmanuel (illustrator). | Ma vie de Garcon, Faits et gestes du Vicomte de Nantel |
Paris | [1945] | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
28 | BLYTON, Enid. | Fourteen first editions and other works, the fourteen: IDEM. Summer Term at St. Clare's |
London | 1943 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
29 | CALDECOTT, Randolph. | Randolph Caldecott's "Graphic" Pictures Complete Edition |
London | 1898 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | GBP 12.60 |
30 | EDWARDS, Monica. | The Midnight Horse, Collins 1949; No Mistaking Corker, Collins nd; Hidden in a Dream, The Children's Book Club 1953; Wish for a Pony, The Children's Press nd; cloth, djs, mixed condition, 8vo; .... |
London | 1863 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | GBP 37.80 |
31 | CHINA. The Story of Rice, |
poss. Shanghai | nd [early C20th] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 63.00 | |
32 | DAVIS, F. Hadland. | Myths & Legends of Japan |
London | 1912 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 151.20 |
33 | DORE, Gustave (illust.). | The History of Don Quixote by Cervantes, 2 vols. |
London | nd [c.1870] | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 107.10 |
34 | DUGDALE, Rose Sydenham. | A Wreath of Flower Legends, |
Birmingham | 1950 | GBP 25.00 - 35.00 | GBP 31.50 |
35 | HARDY, Thomas. | Set of 6 vols. |
London | 1988-1992 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 37.80 |
36 | GIBSON, Charles Dana. | London as seen by Charles Dana Gibson |
London | 1898 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 50.40 |
37 | GILES [Ronald 'Carl']. | Daily Express & Sunday Express Cartoons, a run, First to Sixtieth Series [2nd-5th facsimiles] and Collections to 2022 |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
38 | GILL, Eric. | Art & Love, |
Bristol | 1927 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 100.80 |
39 | GOLDSMITH, Oliver. | The Deserted Village |
London | 1909 | GBP 30.00 - 40.00 | GBP 31.50 |
40 | GRAHAM, Rigby (illustrator) & SCOTT, Thea. | Fingal's Cave |
Leicester | 1961/2 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
41 | GREAT EXHIBITION. The World's Fair; or Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 |
London: | [1851] | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 756.00 | |
42 | GREENAWAY, Kate (illust.). | Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her Seven Wonderful Cats..., |
Orpington | 1885 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 44.10 |
43 | HOFFMAN, Heinrich. | The English Struwwelpeter or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures |
London | nd | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 18.90 |
44 | LEECH, John. | Pictures of Life and Character from the collection of "Mr. Punch", 3vols. |
London | 1886 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 12.60 |
45 | PATON, J. Noel (engr.). | Compositions from Shakespeare's Tempest |
London | 1845 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 151.20 |
46 | ADAM & CHARLES BLACK (pub.) | Rome, 1st ed. |
London | 1905 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 37.80 |
46A | KINGSLEY, Charles. | The Water Babies, 1st edition 2nd issue (without 'l'Envoi' leaf), |
London & Cambridge | 1863 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | GBP 81.90 |
47 | KINGSLEY, Charles. | The Water Babies |
London | nd [c.1915] | GBP 10.00 - 20.00 | GBP 63.00 |
48 | KIPLING, Rudyard. | Just So Stories, 1st edition, 2nd state |
London | 1902 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 113.40 |
49 | LANG, Andrew. | The Olive Fairy Book, 1st edition |
London | 1907 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 163.80 |