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Auction Name
A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
Auction Date
06/19/2025 - 06/19/2025
Sale Number
#1177
Total Lots
380
Sold Lots
292
Lots Sold
76.84%
Unsold Lots
88
Total Sales (GBP)
355,685.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
222,650.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
317,450.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
332,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
475,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
74.80%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
9

Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie

1570 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 21,420.00
17 Nicolay (Nicolas de)

The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages

1585 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
41 Alexander (William)

The Monarchicke Tragedies; Croesus, Darius, The Alexandraean

1607 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,930.00
26

Aristotle. Politiques, or Discourses of Government

1598 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,930.00
94 Shakespeare (William)

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

1632 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
76 South America.- Harcourt (Robert)

The Relation of a Voyage to Guiana

1626 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
54 Raleigh (Sir Walter)

The History of the World

1614 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 5,670.00
53 Lydgate (John)

The Life and Death of Hector

1614 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,670.00
93 Shakespeare (William)

The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona

1632 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
165 China.- Semedo (Alvaro)

The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China

1655 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
89 Military.- [Cruso (John)]

Militarie Instructions for the Cavallrie...

1632 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 5,040.00
28 Lomazzo (Giovanni Paolo)

A Tracte containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge

1598 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,788.00
96 Shakespeare (William)

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

1632 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
7 Brunschwig (Hieronymus)

A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physick booke for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye

1561 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 GBP 4,410.00
211 Economics.- Mun (Thomas)

England's Treasure by Forraign Trade

1669 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
37 Chaucer (Geoffrey)

The Workes

1602 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
348 Education.- Tyron (Thomas)

A New Method of Educating Children: or

1695 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
234 Walton (Izaak)

and Charles Cotton. The Universal Angler

1676 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,654.00
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
34 [Tasso (Torquato)]

Godfrey of Bulloigne

1600 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,528.00

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