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
176 Lemnius (Levinus)

The Secret Miracles of Nature

1658 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
177 Ovidius Naso (Publius)

Ovid's Invective or Curse Against Ibis

1658 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 693.00
178 Sundials.- Thompson (Anthony)

The Whole Art of Reflex Dialling

1658 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 819.00
179 Reptiles.- Topsell (Edward)

The History of Serpents, woodcut title vignette of a child being swallowed by a boa

1658 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,016.00
180 Tobacco.- Everard (Giles)

Panacea

1659 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,260.00
181 Botany.- Lovell (Robert)

Pambotanolgia sive [graece] Enchirdion Botanicum or

Oxford 1659 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 819.00
182 Woman printer.- Higford (William)

The Institution of a Gentleman

1660 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 945.00
183 Mathews (Richard)

The Unlearned Alchymist his Antidote. Or

1660 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
184 Newton (John)

Mathematical Elements

1660 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
185 Italy.- Schottus (Franciscus)

Italy, in its Original Glory, Ruine and Revival

1660 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
186 Yorkshire.- Mineral Water.- Wittie (Robert)

Scarbrough Spaw, or, A Description of the Nature and Vertues of the Spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire

1660 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 945.00
187 Restoration.- Younger (William)

A Brief View of the late troubles and confusions in England...Deduced to the auspicious coming in of General Monck

1660 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
188 Brome (Alexander)

Songs and Other Poems

1661 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
189 Childrey (Joshua)

Britannia Baconica:

1661 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
190 Botany.- Digby (Sir Kenelm)

A Discourse Concerning the Vegetation of Plants

1661 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 693.00
191 Britain.- Enderbie (Percy)

Cambria Triumphans

1661 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
192 Gadbury (John)

Genethlialogia [grace]. Or, The Doctrine of Nativities

1661 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 478.80
193 ["W.S."]

Rebels no Saints: or, a Collection of the Speeches

1661 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 567.00
194 Walker (William)

A Treatise of English Particles...

1663 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
195 Rabelais (Francois)

The Works...Treating of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel. To which is newly added the Life of the Author

1664 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
196 Law.- Meriton (George)

Land-Lords Law: A Treatise very fit for the Perusal of all Gentlemen and others

1665 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
197 Gardens.- Rea (John)

Flora: seu, de Florum Cultura.

1665 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
198 Valle (Pietro della)

The Travels...into East-India and Arabia Deserta

1665 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,772.00
199 Aesop.

Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,268.00
200 Critique of Pascal.- Boyle (Robert)

Hydrostatical Paradoxes

Oxford 1666 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,260.00
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