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 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
76 South America.- Harcourt (Robert)

The Relation of a Voyage to Guiana

1626 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
77 Obstetrics.- [Roesslin (Eucharius)]

The Birth of Man-kinde; otherwise named, The Womans Booke.

1626 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,520.00
78 Sarpi (Paolo)

The History of the Quarrels of Pope Paul V. with the State of Venice

1626 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 352.80
79 Andre Simon copy.- [Vaughan (William)]

Directions for Health, Naturall and Artificiall...Whereunto is annexed Two Treatises of approved Medicines for all Diseases of the Eyes

1626 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,772.00
80 America.- Vaughan (William)

The Golden Fleece

1626 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
81 World.- Heylyn (Peter)

Mikrokosmos [graece]. A Little Description of the Great World

Oxford 1629 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 352.80
82 Braithwait (Richard)

The English Gentleman: containing Sundry excellent Rules or exquisite Observations

1630 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,268.00
83 Hayward (Sir John)

The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt

1630 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 441.00
84 Massinger (Philip)

The Picture. A Tragecomedie

1630 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,016.00
85 Spain.- Wadsworth (James)

The Present Estate of Spayne...

1630 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 529.20
86 Doddridge (Sir John)

The English Lawyer

1631 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 756.00
87 Corn Trade.- Fitz-Geffry (Charles)

The Curse of Corne-horders: with the Blessing of seasonable Selling. In three Sermons

1631 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,890.00
88 [More (Cresacre)]

D.O.M.S. The Life and Death of Sir Thomas Moore Lord high Chancellour of England

[Douai] ?1631 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,394.00
89 Military.- [Cruso (John)]

Militarie Instructions for the Cavallrie...

Cambridge 1632 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 5,040.00
90 Heywood (Thomas)

The Iron Age

1632 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,016.00
91 Mason (John)

An Excellent Tragedy of Mulleasses the Turke

1632 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,260.00
92 Shakespeare (William)

The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight

1632 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,528.00
93 Shakespeare (William)

The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona

1632 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
94 Shakespeare (William)

Much adoe about Nothing [&] Loves Labour's Lost

1632 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
95 Shakespeare (William)

The Merry Wives of Windsor

1632 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
96 Shakespeare (William)

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

1632 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
97 Bacon (Sir Francis)

The Two Bookes...of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

1633 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
98 Distillation.- [Banister (John)]

A Storehouse of Physicall and Philosophicall Secrets. Teaching to distill all manner of Oyles from Gummes, ...

1633 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,638.00
99 Puritanism.- Charles I (King of England)

The Kings Maiesties Declaration to his Subjects

1633 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 630.00
100 Fletcher (Phineas)

The Purple Island, or Isle of Man: together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies

1633 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 630.00
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