Forum Auctions: A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library, 1177, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
June 19, 2025 - June 19, 2025
Page Size: 380 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Fabyan (Robert)

[The Chronicle of Fabyan...nowe newely printed]

1542 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,890.00
2 Melanchthon (Philipp)

A Newe Work Concerning both Partes of the Sacrament to be Receyved of the Lay Peple

Zurich 1543 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,638.00
3 Lutheranism.- Joye (George)

The Letters whyche Johan Ashwell Priour of Newnham Abbey besydes Bedford

At Strassburge [i.e. London] ?1548 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,772.00
4 [Lanquet (Thomas)]

[An epitome of cronicles...now finished and continued to the reigne of our soueraine lorde kynge Edwarde the sixt by Thomas Cooper]

1549 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 882.00
5

Bible, Latin. Biblia Sacra ad optima quaeque veteris

1554 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 945.00
6 Sleidanus (Johannes)

A Famouse Cronicle of oure time

1560 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
7 Brunschwig (Hieronymus)

A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physick booke for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye

1561 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 GBP 4,410.00
8

Puritanism.- Vestments controversy.- Briefe Examination for the Tyme (A)

1801 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,386.00
9

Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie

1570 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 21,420.00
10 Whitgifte (John)

An answere to a certen Libel intituled

1572 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,520.00
11 [Whittingham (William)]

A Brieff Discours off the Troubles begonne at Franckford in Germany

[Heidelberg 1575 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,260.00
12 Law.- Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony)

La Graunde Abridgement

1577 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 693.00
13 Luther (Martin)

Special and Chosen Sermons

1581 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,512.00
14 Ariosto (Lodovico)

Orlando Furioso

Venice 1584 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
15 Dictionary.- Cooper (Thomas)

Thesaurus Linguae Romanae & Britannicae

1584 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
16 Law.- [Phayer (Thomas)]

A Booke of Presidents exactly written in maner of a Register

1584 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
17 Nicolay (Nicolas de)

The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages

1585 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
18 Heraldry.- Ferne (John)

The Blazon of Gentrie: Devided into two parts...

1586 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
19 France.- [Hurault (Michel)]

A Discourse upon the present state of France

1588 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
20 Mascall (Leonard)

A Booke of Engines and traps to take Polecats

1590 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 945.00
21 Curtius Rufus (Quintus)

The Historie...conteyning the Actes of the great Alexander

1592 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 693.00
22 Plat (Sir Hugh)

Diuerse new sorts of Soyle not yet brought into any publique vse...

1594 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,512.00
23 Italy.- Florence.- Macchiavelli (Niccolo)

The Florentine Historie

1595 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
24 Mendoza (Bernardino de)

Theorique and Practice of Warre. Written to Don Philip Prince of Castil

[Middelburg] 1597 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,197.00
25 Skene (John)

De verborum significatione,

Edinburgh 1597 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 378.00
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
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