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
251 Rycaut (Paul)

The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches

1679 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 378.00
252 Boyle (Robert)

The Aerial Noctiluca: or Some New Phoenomena and a Process of a Factitious Self-Shining Substance

1680 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,638.00
253 Cellier (Elizabeth)

Malice Defeated: Or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier...and the Mystery of the Meal-Tub fully discovered...

1680 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
254 Cooke (Edward), translator.

Magna Charta, Made in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Third...

1680 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
255 Military.- [Harford (Robert)]

English Military Discipline, or, The Way and Method of Exercising Horse & Foot

1680 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 567.00
256 Lee (Nathaniel)

Caesar Borgia; Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth: A Tragedy

1680 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 604.80
257 Milton (John)

Paradise Regain'd. A poem...to which is added Samson Agonistes

1680 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
258 Levant.- Smith (Thomas)

An Account of the Greek Church

1680 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
259 Vermin.- "W.W.".

The Vermin-Killer. Being A very necessary Family-Book

1680 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,134.00
260 Browne (John)

A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles...

1681 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
261 Langford (Thomas)

Plain and Full Instructions To raise all sorts of Fruit-Trees

1681 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 567.00
262 Astronomy.- Wittie (Robert)

Ouranoskopia [graece]. Or, a Survey of the Heavens.

1681 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,512.00
263 Dryden (John)

Religio Laici or a Laymans Faith. A Poem

1682 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
264 D'Urfey (Thomas), attributed to.

Scandalum Magnatum: or, Potapski's Cafe.

1682 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
265 Miege (Guy)

A New Cosmography, or Survey of the Whole World

1682 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
266 Fishing.- [Nobbes (Robert)]

The Compleat Troller

1682 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
267 Archery.- Wood (William)

The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived

1682 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 630.00
268

Mystery of Ambras Merlins (The), Standardbearer Wolf

1683 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 529.20
269 Barnard (John)

Theologo-Historicus, Or the True Life of...Peter Heylyn

1683 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
270 Harris (Walter)

Pharmacologia Anti-Empirica: or A Rational Discourse of Remedies both Chymical and Galenical

1683 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 327.60
271 Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, Lord)

The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth

1683 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 819.00
272 Hunt (Thomas)

A Defence of the Charter, and Municipal Rights of the City of London

1683 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
273 Horses.- Snape (Andrew)

The Anatomy of an Horse

1683 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
274 Banks (John)

The Island Queens: Or, The Death of Mary

1684 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 327.60
275 Boyle (Robert)

Experiments and Considerations About the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays

1684 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,134.00
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