Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 32824, London

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Auction Date
March 28, 2024 - March 28, 2024
Page Size: 431 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
177 Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Scottish antiquary and artist, ?1781-1851. [Collection of recipes], manuscript

 c.1750-- 19th century. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,492.80
178 Charles Carter

The Complete Practical Cook, first edition,

 1730 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
179 Patrick Lamb

Royal Cookery: or, The Compleat Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the several Branches of Cookery, second edition,

 1716 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
180 Petrus de Crescentiis

Opera di agricoltura,

Venice 1536 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
181

Biblia, Ad vetustissima exemplaria castigata, 2 parts in 1, Thomas Moundeford's copy with numerous ink annotations, later Francis Hutcheson's copy with his bookplate,

Antwerp 1567 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
182 Phillippe de Mornay

A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion...Against Atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Jewes, Mahumetists, and other Infidels, ...

1587 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,386.00
183 Francis Bacon

The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and humane, for Henrie Tomes

 1605 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
184 Richard Brome

The Northern lasse, a comoedie. As it hath beene often acted with good applause, at the Globe, and Black-Fryers, first edition,

1632 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,134.00
185 Sir Francis Bacon

The Two Bookes...of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane, third edition,

Oxford 1633 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 529.20
186 Henry Vaughan

Silex scintillans: or sacred poems and private ejaculations, rare first edition, first issue,

1650 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
187 Francis Beaumont

The Wild-Goose Chase. A Comedie, scarce first edition,

1652 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
188 Thomas Purchas

The Communicants duty. Set forth in eight sermons, preached at Kings-Lynne in Norfolk, unrecorded issue,

1656 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
189 William Blake

The Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate: or a Subscription of many Noble, well-disposed Ladies for the ease of carrying of it on, first edition, [...

[1670]. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,638.00
190 Samuel Pepys

Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, For Ten Years..., first edition, William Sacheverell's copy, for Ben. Griffin, by Sam. Keble

 1690 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,134.00
191 Daniel Defoe

[Works], 30 titles by, attributed, or related to Defoe bound in 35, including An Essay Upon Projects, Captain Singleton and A Plan of the English Commerce, mostly first or early ed...

1692-1754. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
192 John Taylor

Verbum Sempiternum, second edition,

 1693 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
193 Caius Julius Caesar

Quae extant. Accuratissime cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta, edited by Samuel Clarke,

1712 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
194 Abraham De Moivre

The Doctrine of Chances: or, A Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play, first edition,

1718 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
195 ? (1786) Adam

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vol., fifth edition

 1789 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,260.00
196 ? (1786) Adam

An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 4 vol.

 Basil 1791 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,638.00
197 Thomas Robert Malthus

An Essay on the Principle of Population...., A New Edition, Very Much Enlarged, second edition,

for J. Johnson 1803 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
198 Bible, English.

The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, with autograph inscription by Steele,

Oxford 1719 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,008.00
199 Charles Johnson

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates..., first edition, first issue

 1724 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
200 Joseph Glanvill

Sadducismus Triumphatus: or, a full and plain Evidence, concerning Witches and Apparitions, 2 parts in 1 vol.,

 1726 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,512.00
201 Sir Isaac Newton

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John , first edition,

1733 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 945.00
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