Forum Auctions: A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library, 1177, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 19, 2025 - June 19, 2025
| 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 |
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
