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

Auction Details

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
276 Astronomy.- [Edwards (John)]

Cometomantia. A Discourse of Comets

1684 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,071.00
277 Goodall (Charles)

The Royal College of Physicians of London Founded and Established by Law...

1684 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
278 Theatre.- Hedelin (Francois, Abbot of Aubignac)

The Whole Art of the Stage. Containing Not only the Rules of the Drammatick Art

1684 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
279 Rye House Plot.- Holloway (James)

The Free and Voluntary Confession and Narrative of James Holloway...Delivered by himself to Mr. Secretary Jenkins...

1684 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
280 Africa.- Ethiopia.- Ludolphus (Job)

A New History of Ethiopia being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia..., second English edition

1684 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 630.00
281 Charles I.- Nalson (John)

A True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice

1684 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,071.00
282 Space Travel.- Wilkins (John)

A Discovery of a New World...in the Moon

1684 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
283 Arnauld (Antoine)

and Pierre Nicole. Logic; or, The Art of Thinking...

1685 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
284 Bate (George)

Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia: or

1685 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
285 B[oyle] (R[obert])

A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgary Receiv'd Notion of Nature; Made in an Essay

1685/6 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
286 Gracian y Morales (Baltasar)

The Courtiers Manual Oracle

1685 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
287 Leybourn (William)

The Art of Numbring by Speaking-Rods: Vulgarly termed Nepeirs Bones

1685 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
288 Maimbourg (Louis)

The History of the Crusade: or

1685 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 277.20
289 Tate (Nahum)

Poems by Several Hands

1685 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 352.80
290 Wedel (Georg Wolffgang)

An Introduction to the Whole Practice of Physick

1685 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
291 Xenophon.

The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great

1685 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 352.80
292 D'Urfey (Thomas)

A Common-Wealth of Women. A Play

1686 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 378.00
293 Meteorology.- Goad (John)

Astro-Meteorologica, or Aphorisms and Discourses of the Bodies Coelestial

1686 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 567.00
294 Gunton (Symon)

The History of the Church of Peterburgh

1686 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
295 Lassels (Richard)

The Voyage of Italy

1686 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
296 Fasting.- [Patrick (Simon)]

A Treatise of Repentance and of Fasting

1686 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
297 Staffordshire.- Plot (Robert)

The Natural History of Stafford-shire

1686 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 567.00
298 Women.- Walker (Anthony)

The Virtuous Woman Found

1686 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
299 Aesop.

Fables with His Life: in English

1687 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,890.00
300 Chaucer (Geoffrey)

The Works

1687 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,638.00
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