Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Thursday 28th March 2019 | 1:00 pm | Lots:
LOT 1
Henry IV's embassy to the Countess of Flanders.- Henry IV.- Safe conduct issued by John Croft,...
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer Price: £2,400
LOT 2
Isabella I (Queen of Castile) Order to her chamberlain Sancho de Peredes to give a quantity of...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 3
Tudor Will.- Last Will and Testament of Robert Atwell, of Prestbury, near Cheltenham,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £280
LOT 4
Chaloner (Thomas) Autograph inscription signed, "Sum Thomae Chaloneri 1557", on the title-page...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £150
LOT 5
South Sea Company.- Note of hand signed Rich: Sarum directing the South Sea Company to "Pay the...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 6
Ship building.- Fairfax (Brian, the younger, antiquary and scholar, Commissioner of Customs,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £200
![Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, [c. 1750].](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/196411e2-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/18f81cef-a491-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, [c. 1750].")
LOT 7
Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript in several hands, [c. 1750].
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 8
Hastings (Warren (Governor-General of Bengal) Autograph Letter signed to Colonel Edmonson, 1790,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £320
LOT 9
War of 1812.- Commission appointing James Ross Commander of the sloop Dart of Saint John, New...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £1,500
LOT 10
Hugo (Victor) Autograph Letter signed to Odilon Barrot, 1843, sending condolences on the death...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £300
LOT 12
19th century photographs.- Baker (of Birmingham) Collection of photographs, 30 albumen prints,...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £380
LOT 13
Bible, English.- New Testament of Jesus Christ (The), translated faithfully into English, first...
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Hammer Price: £5,000
LOT 14
Terentius Afer (Publius) Comediae sex, Robert Robinson, 1597.
Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer Price: £2,600
![[Loiseau de Tourval (Jean)] The French Herald summoning all True Christian Princes to a generall Croisade, first edition, by E.Allde for Mathew Lownes, 1611.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/77bf47f4-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/cf638410-e791-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "[Loiseau de Tourval (Jean)] The French Herald summoning all True Christian Princes to a generall Croisade, first edition, by E.Allde for Mathew Lownes, 1611.")
LOT 15
[Loiseau de Tourval (Jean)] The French Herald summoning all True Christian Princes to a generall...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £420
LOT 16
Sanderson (Robert) Logicae artis compendium, second edition, Oxford, John Lichfield & James...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 17
Stockwood (John) Disputatiuncularum grammaticalium libellus, fourth edition, contemporary calf,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £400
LOT 18
Linguistics.- Gil (Alexander) Logonomia Anglica, second edition, contemporary panelled calf,...
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £550
![Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essaies, I. D[awson]. for Elizabeth Iaggard, , 1624 bound with Apologie, in Certaine Imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex, 16](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/84be47f4-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/6d536bfd-e691-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essaies, I. D[awson]. for Elizabeth Iaggard, , 1624 bound with Apologie, in Certaine Imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex, 16")
LOT 19
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essaies, I. D[awson]. for Elizabeth Iaggard, , 1624 bound with Apologie,...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £850
![Burton (Robert, "Democritus Junior".) The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, engraved allegorical title, Oxford, [John Lichfield] for Henry Cripp](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/f6bd47f4-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/a55a87f0-e691-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Burton (Robert, \"Democritus Junior\".) The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, engraved allegorical title, Oxford, [John Lichfield] for Henry Cripp")
LOT 20
Burton (Robert, "Democritus Junior".) The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, engraved...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £420
LOT 21
Alabaster (William) Roxana tragaedia, engraved title, errata leaf, contemporary calf, William...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 22
Sandys (Sir Edwin) Europae speculum..., with medical recipes relating to the plague of 1636...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 23
Lucian, of Samosata. Certaine Select Dialogues...together with his True Historie, Oxford, by...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 24
Maritime Law.- Selden (John) Mare clausum seu de dominio maris libri duo, first edition, Will....
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £850
![Binding.- Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes (The), contemporary brown morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, by T[homas] C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1635 &](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/babf47f4-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/3eea1217-e791-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Binding.- Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes (The), contemporary brown morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, by T[homas] C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1635 &")
LOT 25
Binding.- Whole Booke of Davids Psalmes (The), contemporary brown morocco elaborately tooled in...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £550
LOT 26
Heywood (Thomas) Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £900
LOT 27
Bacon (Nathaniel) A Relation of the Fearefull Estate of Francis Spira, in the yeare, 1548, by...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £260
LOT 28
Davenant (William) Madagascar; with other Poems, first edition, by John Haviland for Thomas...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,300
LOT 29
Leighton (Alexander) An Epitome or Briefe Discoverie...of the many and great Troubles that Dr....
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £650
![Trade.- [Mathias de Saint Jean (Jean Eon)] Le Commerce Honorable ou Considerations Politiques, Nantes, Guillaume le Monnier, 1646 & another, similar, pamph](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/2c01fcee-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/eaa7707c-d591-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "Trade.- [Mathias de Saint Jean (Jean Eon)] Le Commerce Honorable ou Considerations Politiques, Nantes, Guillaume le Monnier, 1646 & another, similar, pamph")
LOT 30
Trade.- [Mathias de Saint Jean (Jean Eon)] Le Commerce Honorable ou Considerations Politiques,...
Estimate: £750 - £1,000
Hammer Price: £850
LOT 31
Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), engraved title, attractive later black calf, elaborately...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 32
Lambe (Samuel) Seasonable Observations humbly offered to His Highness the Lord Protector, At the...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 33
Grammar.- Lily (William) Lilies Rules Construed..., 1660 § Hampton (Barnab.) Prosodia Construed,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £600
LOT 34
More (Henry) Historia Missionis Anglicanae Societatis Iesu, first edition, additional engraved...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £800
LOT 35
Donne (John) Poems, &c., fifth edition, modern burgundy morocco, gilt, by T.N. for Henry...
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Hammer Price: £2,000
LOT 36
Turkish Grammar.- Seaman (William) Grammatica Lingue Turcicae, first edition, Oxford, by Henry...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £1,700
![[Atkins (Maurice)] Cataplus: or, Aeneas his Descent to Hell. A Mock Poem, first edition, modern morocco, for Maurice Atkins, 1672.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/medium/babe47f4-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/79676803-e791-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "[Atkins (Maurice)] Cataplus: or, Aeneas his Descent to Hell. A Mock Poem, first edition, modern morocco, for Maurice Atkins, 1672.")
LOT 37
[Atkins (Maurice)] Cataplus: or, Aeneas his Descent to Hell. A Mock Poem, first edition, modern...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £650
LOT 38
Restoration Binding.- Allestree (Richard) The Ladies Calling, fifth impression, handsomely bound...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £280
LOT 39
Hebraica.- Stennett (Jehudah) Diḳduḳ mikhlol or, a Comprehensive Grammar;...
Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer Price: £1,500
LOT 40
America.- Franck (Richard) A Philosophical Treatise of the Original and Production of Things....
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,800
LOT 41
Nostradamus (Michel) Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties, Cologne, Jean Volcker, 1689 & 2 others,...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £500
LOT 42
Binding.- Gander (Joseph) The Glory of Her Sacred Majesty, Queen Anne, in the Royal Navy, first...
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Hammer Price: £1,700
LOT 43
London Bridge Brushmaker.- , The Case of Edward Jones, and the Copartners concern'd in the...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £200
LOT 44
Exeter Fire.- , To... Lancelot... Lord Bishop of Exon. The... Petition of Thomas Osborne of...
Estimate: £300 - £400
Hammer Price: £350
LOT 45
Samber (Robert) Coffee: a Tale, first edition, for H.Curle, 1727.
Estimate: £500 - £700
Hammer Price: £950
LOT 46
Newton (Sir Isaac).- Robinson (Bryan) A Short Essay on Coin, 22p., first edition, with final...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £700
LOT 47
Cookery.- Johnson (Mary) Madam Johnson's Present: Or, the best Instructions for Young Women...,...
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Hammer Price: £1,800
LOT 48
Cookery.- Lady's Companion (The): or, Accomplish'd Director in the whole Art of Cookery...By a...
Estimate: £600 - £800
Hammer Price: £2,800
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