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

Page Size: 380 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26		Aristotle. Politiques, or Discourses of Government		1598	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 6,930.00
27	Chaucer (Geoffrey)	The Works of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer		1598	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 3,654.00
28	Lomazzo (Giovanni Paolo)	A Tracte containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge	[Oxford	1598	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 4,788.00
29	Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de)	Diana of George of Montemayor: Translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong		1598	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
30	Bilson (Thomas)	The Effect of Certaine Sermons Touching the Full Redemption of Mankind by the death and bloud of Christ Jesus		1599	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 693.00
31	Daniel (Samuel)	Musophilus: containing a generall defence of learning		1599	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,197.00
32	Gabelkover (Oswald)	The Boock of Physicke...Most of them selected	Dordecht	1599	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
33	Livius (Titus)	The Romane Historie		1600	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
34	[Tasso (Torquato)]	Godfrey of Bulloigne		1600	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,528.00
35	G[odwin] (F[rancis])	A Catalogue of the Bishops of England		1601	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 352.80
36	[Botero (Giovanni)]	Observations vpon the liues of Alexander, Caesar, Scipio.		1602	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
37	Chaucer (Geoffrey)	The Workes		1602	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,780.00
38	Warner (William)	Albions England: A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome		1602	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 819.00
39	Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de)	The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses		1603	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
40	Sidney (Sir Philip)	The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia...Now the Fourth Time Published		1605	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,197.00
41	Alexander (William)	The Monarchicke Tragedies; Croesus, Darius, The Alexandraean		1607	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,930.00
42	[Wilkinson (Robert)]	The Merchant Royall. A Sermon Preached at White-Hall before the Kings Maiestie, at the Nuptials of the Right Honourable the Lord Hay and his Lady		1607	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 277.20
43	Cattan (Christophe)	The Geomancie...with the Wheele of Pythagoras		1608	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 756.00
44	Du Bartas (Guillaume de Salluste)	Bartas His Devine Weekes & Workes		1608	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 756.00
45	[?Cleaver (Robert)]	A Godlie Forme of Householde Government: for the Ordering of Private Families...the severall duties of the Husband towards his Wife; and the Wives dutie towards her Husband...First		1610	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
46	Knight (William)	A Concordance Axiomaticall, Containing a Survey of Theologicall Propositions: With their Reasons and uses in holie Scripture...		1610	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 882.00
47	Spenser (Edmund)	The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poet		1611-13 but later ?1615	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,016.00
48	Davies (Sir John)	A Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely Subdued...untill the Beginning of his Maiesties happie Raigne		1612	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
49	Pomarius (Petrus)	Enchiridion Medicum: containing an Epitome of the Whole Course of Physicke		1612	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,134.00
50		Theological and Philosophical Treatise of the nature and goodnesse of Salt (A)		1612	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 327.60

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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