Sothebys: The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose, 1971yr,

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Auction Date
June 07, 1971 - June 07, 1971
Page Size: 365 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
HAKLUYT (RICHARD) THE PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONS, VOIAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION,

1589

USD - 8,880.00
[HALL (JOSEPH)] MVNDVS ALTER ET IDEM, siue terra australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata, [London]

(?), [1605]

USD - 624.00
Hamond (Walter) A paradox.

1640

USD - 180.00
HAMOR (RAPHE) A TRVE DISCOVRSE OF THE PRESENT ESTATE OF VIRGINIA,

1615

USD - 3,360.00
HARCOURT (ROBERT) A RELATION OF VOYAGE TO GVIANA, DESCRIBING THE CLIMAT,

USD - 2,640.00
Harris (James) and others The lives, apprehensions arraignments, and executions, of the 19. late pyrates. Namely: Capt. Harris. Iennings. Longcastle. Downes. Haulsey. and their companies,

[1609]

USD - 384.00
HAWKINS (<i>Sir</i> RICHARD) THE OBSERVATIONS OF SIR RICHARD HAVVKINS KNIGHT, IN HIS VOIAGE INTO THE SOUTH SEA,

1622

USD - 1,560.00
HENISCH (GEORG) THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRIE, ASTRONOMIE, AND GEOGRAPHIE,

[1591]

USD - 1,560.00
HERBERSTEIN (SIEGMUND VON) RERUM MOSCOUITICARUM COMENTARII,

1551

USD - 576.00
Herbert (<i>Sir</i> Thomas) A relation of some yeares travaile, begvnne anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia, especially the territories of the Persian monarchie,

1634

USD - 336.00
HEYDT (JOHANN WOLFANG) Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien,

1744

USD - 1,440.00
H[eylyn] (P[eter]) Microcosmvs, or a little description of the great world, Oxford

1621

USD - 156.00
HEYWOOD (THOMAS) A TRUE DESCRIPTION OF HIS MAJESTIES ROYALL SHIP

1637

USD - 480.00
HITCHCOCK (ROBERT) A POLLITIQUE PLATT FOR THE HONOUR OF THE PRINCE, THE GREATE PROFITE OF THE PUBLIQUE STATE, RELIEF OF THE POORE...[&c.],

1580

USD - 1,920.00
Holland The description of a voyage made by certaine ships of Holland into the East Indies,

1598

USD - 528.00
Holland Nevves ovt of Holland, of the East India trade there,

1622

USD - 1,152.00
Holland The Hollanders declaration of the affaires of the East Indies. Or a trve relation of that which passed in the ilands of Banda,

USD - 960.00
Hopton (Arthur) Speculum topographicum: or the topographicall glasse. Containing the vse of the topographicall glasse, theodolitus, plaine table, and circumferator,

1611

USD - 132.00
Hues (Robert) A learned treatise of globes, both coelestiall and terrestriall...made English, for the benefit of the vnlearned. By John Chilmead,

1639

USD - 204.00
HULSIUS (LEVINUS) ERSTE [-EYLFFTE] SCHIFFART, parts I-XI, Frankfurt

1606--15--12--12--12--18--06--08--12--13--12

USD - 624.00
ISIDORE OF SEVILLE (Saint), Isidorus Hispalensis. [ETYMOLOGIAE], [Strassburg]

[1473]

USD - 3,600.00
JAMES (THOMAS) THE STRANGE AND DANGEROVS VOYAGE OF CAPTAINE THOMAS IAMES,

1633

USD - 3,600.00
JAMES I HIS MAIESTIES GRACIOVS LETTER TO THE EARLE OF SOVTH-HAMPTON, TREASURER,

1622

USD - 7,200.00
JAVA A TRVE REPORT OF THE GAINEFULL, PROSPEROUS AND SPEEDY VOIAGE TO IAVA IN THE EAST INDIES,

[? 1599]

USD - 2,160.00
JOBSON (RICHARD) THE GOLDEN TRADE: or, a discouery of the Riuer Gambra, and the golden trade of the Aethiopians. Also, the commerce with a great blacke merchant, called Buckor Sano, and his report of houses covered with gold. . . [&c.],

1623

USD - 1,080.00
JOHANNES DE HESE ITINERARIUS...DESCRIBENS DISPOSITIONES TERRARUM, INSULARUM, MONTIUM [&c.], [Cologne]

[1500]

USD - 480.00
JOHANNES DE SACRO BOSCO [SPHAERA MUNDI], Venice

6 July 1482

USD - 2,352.00
[JOHNSON (ROBERT)] NOVA BRITANNIA. OFFRING MOST EXCELLENT FRUITES BY PLANTING IN VIRGINIA. Exciting all such as be well affected to further the same,

1609

USD - 2,160.00
[JOURDAN (SILVESTER)] A PLAINE DESCRIPTION OF THE BARMUDAS, NOW CALLED SOMMER ILANDS,

1613

USD - 408.00
[KENNET (WHITE)] BIBLIOTHECAE AMERICANAE PRIMORDIA. An attempt towards laying the foundation of an American library,

1713

USD - 312.00
KNIGHT (FRANCIS) A RELATION OF SEAVEN YEARES SLAVERIE VNDER THE TURKES OF ARGEIRE, suffered by an English captive merchant,

1640

USD - 528.00
Knolles (Richard) The generall historie of the Turkes,

1603

USD - 48.00
LAMBARD (WILLIAM) A PERAMBULATION OF KENT, FIRST EDITION,

1576

USD - 360.00
LA VARDIN (JACQUES DE) THE HISTORIE OF GEORGE CASTRIOT, SVRNAMED SCANDERBEG, KING OF ALBANIE...Newly translated out of French into English by Z.I.,

1596

USD - 576.00
[LEIGH (RICHARD)] THE COPIE OF A LETTER SENT OVT OF ENGLAND TO DON BERNARDIN MENDOZA ... DECLARING THE STATE OF ENGLAND,

1588

USD - 480.00
LELAND (JOHN) THE LABORYOUSE JOURNEY & SERCHE OF JOHAN LEYLANDE, FOR ENGLANDES ANTIQUITEES,

1549

USD - 1,008.00
LEO AFRICANUS (AL Hassan ibn Mahommed al Wezar al Fasi, later Giovanni Leone, called) A GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORIE OF AFRICA . . . translated and collected by Iohn Pory,

1600

USD - 1,440.00
LEON PINELO (ANTONIO DE) EPITOME DE LA BIBLIOTECA ORIENTAL I OCCIDENTAL, NAUTICA I GEOGRAFICA,

1629

USD - 1,080.00
[LESCARBOT (MARC)] NOVA FRANCIA: or the description of the part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia . . . translated out of French into English by P[ierre] E[rondelle],

1609

USD - 3,840.00
LESK (WILLIAM) A sermon preached aboard of the Globe the 18. of May, anno 1617. At an anchor by the Cape of Good Hope,

1617

USD - 624.00
[LEWKENOR (<i>Sir</i> LEWIS)] THE ESTATE OF ENGLISH FVGITIVES VNDER THE KING OF SPAINE,

1595

USD - 120.00
LEWKENOR (SAMUEL) A DISCOVRSE NOT ALTOGETHER VNPROFITABLE, nor vnpleasant for such as are desirous to know the situation and customes of forraine cities without trauelling to see them. Containing a discourse of all those citties wherein doe flourish at this day priuiledged

1600

USD - 576.00
LINSCHOTEN (JAN HUYGEN VAN) IOHN HVIGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN HIS DISCOURS OF VOYAGES INTO YE EASTE & WEST INDIES,

[1598]

USD - 6,960.00
LITHGOW (WILLIAM) THE TOTALL DISCOURSE, OF THE RARE ADUENTURES, AND PAINEFULL PEREGRINATIONS OF LONG NINETEENE YEARES TRAUAYLES,

1632

USD - 312.00
LITHGOW (WILLIAM) A true and experimentall discourse, upon the beginning, proceeding, and victorious event of this last seige of Breda,

1637

USD - 72.00
L[odewijcksz] (W[illem]) Pirma [sic] pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam orientalem, Amsterdam

1614

USD - 336.00
LOPES (DUARTE) AND FILIPPO PIGAFETTA RELATIONE DEL REAME DI CONGO ET DELLE CIRCONVICINE CONTRADE, Rome

1591

USD - 2,760.00
LOPES (DUARTE) AND FILIPPO PIGAFETTA A REPORT OF THE KINGDOME OF CONGO, a region of Africa. And of the countries that border rounde the same . . . drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta. Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell,

1597

USD - 3,000.00
LOPES DE CASTANHEDA (FERNAO) THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF THE DISCOUERIE AND CONQUEST OF THE EAST INDIAS . . . translated into English, by N[icholas] L[ichfield],

1582

USD - 1,440.00
LOPEZ DE GOMARA (FRANCISCO) THE PLEASANT HISTORIE OF THE CONQUEST OF THE VVEAST INDIA, now called new Spayne . . . Translated out of the Spanishe tongue, by T[homas] N[icholas],

[1578]

USD - 1,440.00
[LOPEZ DE GOMARA (FRANCISCO)] THE PLEASANT HISTORIE OF THE CONQUEST OF THE WEST INDIA, now called new Spaine,

1596

USD - 720.00
Lord (Henry) A display of two forraigne sects in the East Indies, vizt: the sect of the Banaians the ancient natives of India and the sect of the Persees,

1630

USD - 180.00
MAHOMET Mohammedis imposturae: that is, a discovery of the manifold forgeries, falshoods, and horrible impieties of the blasphemous seducer Mohammed . . . written long since in Arabicke, and now done into English by William Bedwell,

1615

USD - 312.00
MAHUMETANE OR TURKISH HISTORIE (THE) . . . translated from the French & Italian tongues, by R. Carr,

1600

USD - 408.00
'MANDEVILLE (<i>Sir</i> JOHN)' ITINERARIUS, [Cologne]

[1495]

USD - 480.00
MANUEL I, <i>King of Portugal</i> GESCHICHTE KURTZLICH DURCH DIE VON PORTUGALIEN IN INDIA, MORENLAND, UND ANDERN ERDTRICH, [Nurnberg]

[1507]

USD - 528.00
MANUEL I, <i>King of Portugal</i> EPISTOLA POTENTISSIMI AC INUICTISSIMI EMANUELIS REGIS PORTUGALIAE, & ALGARBIORUM &C. DE VICTORIIS HABITIS IN INDIA, & MALACHA. Ad S. in Christo patre & dominu nostru. Do. Leonem X Pont. Maximum,

1513

USD - 672.00
M[AREES] (P. D.) BESHRIJINGHE ENDE HISTORISCHE VERHAEL VANT GOUT KONINCKRIJK VAN GUINEA, anders de goute-custe de Mina genaemt, leggende in het deel van Africa, mit haren gelooven, opinien, nandelinghen, manieren . . . [&c.], Amsterdam

1617

USD - 384.00
MATELIEF (CORNELIUS) AN HISTORICALL AND TRUE DISCOURSE, OF A VOYAGE MADE BY THE ADMIRALL CORNELIS MATELIFE THE YONGER, INTO THE EAST INDIES,

1608

USD - 1,392.00
MAURICE OF NASSAU, <i>Prince of Orange</i> AN AMBASSAGE OF TVVO INDIAN KINGS sent vnto the high and mightie Prince Maurice Prince of Orange, who by the same desire that their sonnes, whom they also haue sent vnto him, might be brought vp in Christian religion, Gravenhage

1621

USD - 312.00
MEDINA SIDONIA (ALONZO PEREZ DE GUZMAN, 7<i>th Duke of</i>) ORDERS . . . TO BE OBSERUED IN THE VOYAGE TOWARD ENGLAND,

1588

USD - 1,392.00
Meier (Albert) Ce[rtaine briefe, and] speciall instr[uctions for gen]tlemen, merchant[s, students, souldiers,] marriners, &c. Emp[loyed in seruices] abrode, or anie way [occasioned to] conuerse in the kin[gdomes, and] gouernement[s of] forren princ[es],

1589

USD - 96.00
MENDES PINTO (FERNAM) PEREGRINACAM . . . no reyno da China, no de Tartaria, no do Sornau, que vulgarmente se chama Siao, no do Calaminhan, no de Pegu, no de Martauao, & em outros muytos reynos & senhorios das partes Orientais, Lisbon

1614

USD - 1,128.00
MERCATOR (GERHARD) HISTORIA MVNDI: or Mercator's atlas. Containing his cosmographicall description of the fabricke of the world,

1635

USD - 1,008.00
MERCATOR (GERHARD) AND JODOCUS HONDIUS ATLAS or a geographicke description of the regions, countries and kingdomes of the worlde, Amsterdam

1636

USD - 4,320.00
M[ETEREN] (E[MANUEL VAN]) A TRVE DISCOVRSE HISTORICALL, OF THE SVCCEEDING GOVERNOVRS IN THE NETHERLANDS [&c.],

1602

USD - 432.00
MIDDLETON (<i>Sir</i> HENRY) THE LAST EAST-INDIAN VOYAGE. containing mvch varietie of the state of the seuerall kingdomes where they haue traded,

1606

USD - 1,680.00
Minadoi (Giovanni Tommaso) Historia della gverra fra Tvrchi et Persiani, Venice

1588

USD - 100.80
MINADOI (GIOVANNI TOMMASO) THE HISTORY OF THE WARRES BETVVEENE THE TVRKES AND THE PERSIANS . . . translated into English by Abraham Hartvvell,

1595

USD - 720.00
M[ISSELDEN] (E[DWARD]) THE CIRCLE OF COMMERCE. OR THE BALLANCE OF TRADE, IN DEFENCE OF FREE TRADE,

1623

USD - 840.00
MONARDES (NICOLAS) IOYFULL NEVVES OVT OF THE NEWE FOUNDE WORLDE . . . ENGLISHED BY JHON FRAMPTON,

1577

USD - 1,920.00
MONTALBODDO (FRACANZANO DA) ITINERARIU PORTUGALLESIU E LUSITANIA IN INDIA & INDE IN OCCIDENTEM & DEMUM AS AQUILONEM, Milan

1508

USD - 1,440.00
MORE (RICHARD) THE CARPENTERS RVLE,

1602

USD - 4,800.00
Morocco The arrival and intertainements of the embassador, Alkaid Jaurar Ben Abdella . . . from the high and mighty prince, Mulley Mahamed Sheque, emperor of Morocco . . . also a discription of some rites, customes, and lawes of those Affrican nations,

1637

USD - 76.80
MORTON (THOMAS) NEW ENGLISH CANAAN . . . containing an abstract of New England,

[1637]

USD - 60.00
MOTE (HUMPHREY) THE Primrose OF LONDON, WITH HER VALIANT ADUENTURE ON THE SPANISH COAST . . . Declaring the maner how 97 Spanyards came aboord the same ship, the course of the skirmish, and how by their valiancie they discomfited them,

1585

USD - 1,008.00
M[UN] (T[HOMAS]) A DISCOVRSE OF TRADE, FROM ENGLAND VNTO THE EAST-INDIES,

1621

USD - 1,248.00
[MYRROUR OF THE WORLD (THE)] second edition of the first English [Westminster]

[1490]

USD - 5,760.00
NECK (JACOB CORNELISZEN VAN) THE IOVRNALL, OR DAYLY REGISTER, CONTAYNING A TRVE MANIFESTATION, AND HISTORICAL DECLARATION OF THE VOYAGE, accomplished by eight shippes of Amsterdam . . . [&c.],

1601

USD - 2,640.00
NETHERLANDS A briefe declaration of the proceedings of the peace tha is now intreating of betweene the king of Spaine, the Archduke, and the General States of the Vnited Prouinces: together with an abstract of diuers weightie reasons and arguments alleged by the Neth

1608

USD - 624.00
Nevves from Babylon: of a new-found prince, that assoone as he was borne, spake, and wrought miracles by word of mouth . . . with a description of the ile of Malta . . . [&c.],

1637

USD - 264.00
A NICHOLS (PHILIP) SIR FRANCIS DRAKEREUIUED: calling vpon this dull or effeminate age, to follow his noble steps for gold and siluer. By this memorable relation, of the rare occurrences (neuer yet declared to the world) in a third voyage, made by him into the West-Indies,

1628

USD - 312.00
NICOLAY (NICOLAS DE) THE NAUIGATIONS, PEREGRINATIONS AND VOYAGES MADE INTO TURKIE . . . With threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diuersitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and maner of liuing, aswel i

1585

USD - 768.00
NORDEN (JOHN) SPECULUM BRITANNIAE The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex,

1593

USD - 912.00
Norwood (Richard) Trigonometrie. Or, the doctrine of triangles . . . Whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen) a treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing. With certaine necessary tables used in navigation,

1631

USD - 2,400.00
OVERBURY (<i>Sir</i> THOMAS) Observations in his travailes vpon the state of the XVII Provinces,

1626

USD - 156.00
OVIEDO Y VALDES (GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE) L'HISTOIRE NATVRELLE DES INDES, ISLES, ET TERRE FERME DE LA GRAND MER OCEANE. Tradvicte de castillan en francois, Paris

1555

USD - 912.00
Pagitt (Ephraim) Christianographie,

1636

USD - 96.00
PALMER (<i>Sir</i> THOMAS) AN ESSAY OF THE MEANS HOW TO MAKE OUR TRAUAILES, INTO FORRAINE COUNTRIES, THE MORE PROFITABLE AND HONOURABLE,

1606

USD - 312.00
PELLHAM (EDWARD) GODS POWER AND PROVIDENCE: SHEWED, IN THE MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION AND DELIVERANCE OF EIGHT ENGLISHMEN, LEFT BY MISCHANCE IN GREENLAND . . . with a description of the chiefe places and rarities of that barren and cold countrey,

1631

USD - 960.00
Pemble (William) A briefe introdvction to geography containing a description of the grovnds, and generall part thereof, Oxford

1630

USD - 228.00
PIMENTEL (DIEGO) THE DEPOSITION OF DON DIEGO PIEMENTELLJ, cheefe maister of one regiment if the campe of the king of Spayne,

1588

USD - 480.00
PINTO PEREIRA (ANTONIO) HISTORIA DA INDIA, no tempo em que a gouvernou o visorey D. Luis d'Ataide, Ciombra

1617

USD - 264.00
PITISCUS (BARTHOLOMEW) TRIGONOMETRIA: or, the doctrine of triangles . . . now translated into English, by Ra: Handson. Whereunto is added (for the marriners vse) certaine nauticall questions, together with the finding of the variation of the compasse.

USD - 312.00
PIUS II (AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI, <i>Pope</i>) [EPISTOLA AD MAHUMETEM] /book_records/154889 [Cologne]

[1469--1472]

USD - 480.00
PLYMOUTH, MASS A RELATION OR IOURNALL OF THE BEGINNING AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENGLISH PLANTATION SETLED AT PLIMOTH IN NEW ENGLAND ['Mourt's Relation'],

1622

USD - 672.00
POMPONIUS MELA COSMOGRAPHI DE SITU ORBIS, Venice

1478

USD - 960.00
POMPONIUS MELA THE WORKE OF POMPONIUS MELA. THE COSMOGRAPHER, CONCERNINGE THE SITUATION OF THE WORLD . . . A booke right pleasant and profitable for all sortes of men: but speciallie for gentlemen, marchants, mariners, and traullers,

1585

USD - 576.00
PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) COSMOGRAPHIA /book_records/154893

21 July, 1486

USD - 5,760.00
PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS) GEOGRAPHIAE OPUS NOUISSIMA TRADUCTIONE E GRAECORUM ARCHETYPIS CASTIGATISSIME PRESSUM Strassburg

1513

USD - 6,720.00
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