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

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 07, 1971 - June 07, 1971

Page Size: 365 items in 4 pages

Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
R. (I. <i>or</i> J.)	THE TRADES INCREASE,		1615	USD -	912.00
RALEGH (<i>Sir</i> WALTER)	THE DISCOVERIE OF THE LARGE, RICH, AND BEVVTIFUL EMPYRE OF GVIANA, with a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El Dorado),		1596	USD -	192.00
RALEGH (<i>Sir</i> WALTER)	THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD,		1614	USD -	288.00
Ralegh (<i>Sir</i> Walter)	Tvbvs historicvs: an historicall perspective; discovering all the empires and kingdomes of the world, as they flourisht respectively under the foure imperiall monarchies,		1636	USD -	33.60
RALEGH (<i>Sir</i> WALTER)	A DECLARATION OF THE DEMEANOR AND CARIAGE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH, knight, aswell in his voyage, as in, and sithence his returne; and of the true motiues and inducements which occasioned his maiestie to proceed in doing iustice upon him, as hath bene done,		1618	USD -	264.00
RIDLEY (MARK)	A SHORT TREATISE OF MAGNETICALL BODIES AND MOTIONS,		1613	USD -	528.00
ROBERTS (LEWIS)	THE MERCHANTS MAPPE OF COMMERCE,		1638	USD -	1,080.00
ROBERTUS	/book_records/154902	[Basle]	[1472]	USD -	1,440.00
Robson (Charles)	Nevves from Aleppo,		1628	USD -	204.00
ROWLANDS (RICHARD)	THE POST FOR DIUERS PARTES OF THE WORLD: to trauaile from one notable citie vnto another, with a description of the antiquitie of diuers famous cities in Europe,		1576	USD -	1,800.00
RUDOLPH II,	Holy Roman Emperor. A GREAT AND GLORIOUS VICTORIE obtained by the Emperour Rodolph the second against the Turke, and the Great Cam of Tartarie this summer last,		1595	USD -	1,920.00
[RUSSELL (William)]	THE REPORT OF A BLOUDIE AND TERRIBLE MASSACRE IN THE CITTY OF MOSCO, with the fearefull and tragical end of Demetrius the last duke,		1607	USD -	840.00
S. (A.)	A TERRIBLE SEA FIGHT . . . Concerning the great fight betweene nine East India ships of the Hollanders, and three great [Spanish] gallions, which happened about Goas Bare in the East Indies,		1640	USD -	864.00
SALTONSTALL (CHARLES)	THE NAVIGATOR shewing and explaining all the chiefe principles and parts both theoricke and practicke,		1636	USD -	528.00
SANTOS (JOAO DOS)	ETHIOPIA ORIENTAL, e varia historia de covsas no taueis de Oriente,		1609	USD -	912.00
SAVILE (<i>Sir</i> HENRY)	A LIBELL OF SPANISH LIES: fovnd at the sacke of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies . . . AND OF THE DEATH OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. With an answere briefely confuting the Spanish lies, and a short relation of the fight according to truth,		1596	USD -	1,560.00
SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER)	[AN ATLAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES],		1579, [circa 1590--1591]	USD -	6,720.00
SCHOUTEN (WILLEM CORNELISZOON)	THE RELATION OF A WONDERFULL VOIAGE . . . shewing how south from the Straights of Magelan, in Terra Del-fuogo: he found and discouered a newe passage through the great South Sea, and that way sayled round about the world,		1619	USD -	2,880.00
SCOTT (EDMUND)	AN EXACT DISCOVRSE OF THE SUBTILTIES, FASHISHIONS [sic], POLLICIES, RELIGION, AND CEREMONIES OF THE EAST INDIANS, as well Chyneses as Iauans, there abyding and dweling. Together with the manner of trading with those people, as well by vs English, a		1606	USD -	1,392.00
[Scott (Thomas)]	The second part of Vox Populi, or Gondomar appearing in the likeness of Matchiauell in a Spanish parliament, wherein are discouered his treacherous & subtile practises to the ruine as well of England, as the Netherlandes,	Gorinchem	[1624]	USD -	168.00
[Scott (Thomas)]	Sir Walter Ravvleighs ghost, or Englands forewarner,	Utrecht	1626	USD -	144.00
S[HARPE ?], (E.)	BRITAINES BUSSE. OR A COMPVTATION ASWEL OF THE CHARGE OF A BUSSE OR HERRING FISHING SHIP. As also of the gaine and profit thereby,		1615	USD -	576.00
SHERLEY (<i>Sir</i> ANTHONY)	A TRUE REPORT OF SIR ANTHONY SHIERLIES IOURNEY OUERLAND TO VENICE, FRO THENCE BY SEA TO ANTIOCH, ALEPPO, AND BABILON, AND SOE TO CASBINE IN PERSIA: his entertainmnt [sic] there by the Great Sophie: his oration: his letters of credence to the Christ		1600	USD -	1,800.00
SHERLEY (<i>Sir</i> ANTHONY)	PARRY (WILLIAM) A NEW AND LARGE DISCOURSE OF THE TRAUELS OF SIR ANTHONY SHERLEY,		1601	USD -	1,008.00
&unknown;LEY (Sir ANTHONY)	SIR ANTHONY SHERLEY HIS RELATION OF HIS * ERSIA	[N. Okes]	1613	USD -	624.00
SHERLEY BROTHERS. [NIXON (ANTHONY)]	THE THREE ENGLISH BROTHERS. Sir Thomas Sherley his trauels, with his three yeares imprisonment in Turkie . . . Sir Anthony Sherley his embassage to the Christian princes. Master Robert Sherley his wars against the Turkes, with his marriage to the Emperour		1607	USD -	1,080.00
SHERLEY (<i>Sir</i> ROBERT). [MIDDLETON (THOMAS)]	SIR ROBERT SHERLEY, SENT AMBASSADOVR IN THE NAME OF THE KING OF PERSIA, TO SIGISMOND THE THIRD KING OF POLAND,		1609	USD -	2,040.00
SHILLING (<i>Captain</i> ANDREW)	A TRVE RELATION OF THAT WORTHY SEA FIGHT, which two of the East India shipps, had with 4 Portingals, of great force and burthen, in the Perisan Gulph. With the lamentable death of Captaine Andrew Shilling. With other memorable accidents, in that voiage,		1622	USD -	840.00
SICILY	A famous victorie atchiued in August last 1613 by the Christian gallies of Sicilia, against the Turkes,		1613	USD -	576.00
SMITH (<i>Captain</i> JOHN)	A MAP OF VIRGINIA. With a description of the covntrey, the commodities, people, government and religion,	Oxford	1612	USD -	3,360.00
SMITH (<i>Captain</i> JOHN)	THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTVRES, AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAINE IOHN SMITH, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFFRICA, AND AMERICA . . . together with a continuation of his generall history of Virginia . . . to this present,		1630	USD -	2,880.00
SMITH (<i>Sir</i> THOMAS)	SIR THOMAS SMITHES VOIAGE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN RUSHIA. With the tragicall ends of two emperors, and one empresse, within one moneth during his being there: And the miraculous preseruation of the now raigning emperor, esteemed dead for 18 years,		1605	USD -	1,560.00
SOLINUS (CAIUS JULIUS)	IIOAYIETPA, edited with extensive commentary by Joannes Camers, title within woodcut border, printer's and publisher's woodcut devices at end, with the LARGE FOLDING WOODCUT MAP OF THE WORLD BY PETRUS APIANUS, with the final blank, small wormhol			USD -	672.00
SOTO (HERNANDO DE)	VIRGINIA RICHLY VALUED, BY THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MAINE LAND OF FLORIDA, her next neighbour . . . wherein are truly obserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the		1609	USD -	3,360.00
SPAIN. NEWES FROM SPAINE	The king of Spaines edict, for the expulsion & banishment of more then nine hundred thousand Moores out of his kingdome . . . translated out of Spanish into English by W.I.,		1611	USD -	288.00
Stafforde (Robert)	A geographicall and anthologicall description of all the empires and kingdomes,		1618	USD -	96.00
STEVIN (SIMON)	THE HAVEN-FINDING ART, or, the way to find any hauen or place at sea, by latitude and variation . . . now translated into English [BY EDWARD WRIGHT] for the common benefits of the seamen of England,		1599	USD -	5,280.00
STIRLING (WILLIAM ALEXANDER, <i>Earl of</i>)	THE MAPP AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW-ENGLAND; together with a discourse of plantation, and collonies . . . [&c.],		1630	USD -	1,080.00
STRABO	[GEOGRAPHIA], translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas, edited by Joannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria	[Treviso]	26 August 1480	USD -	912.00
STUCKLEY (<i>Sir</i> LEWIS)	[Drop-head title:] To the kings most excellent maiestie. The humble petition and information of Sir Lewis Stucley, knight vice-admirall of Deuon, touching his owne behauiour in the charge committed vnto him, for the bringing vp of Sir Walter Raleig	[Colophon]	1618	USD -	228.00
Swan (John)	Specvlvm mundi. Or a glasse representing the face of the world,	Cambridge	1635	USD -	156.00
SYMONDS (WILLIAMS) VIRGINIA	A sermon preached at White-chappel, in the presence of many, honourable and worshipfull, the Aduenturers and Planters for Virginia,		1609	USD -	912.00
T[APP] (J[OHN])	THE SEAMANS KALENDER . . . with many most needfull and necessary matters, to the behoofe and furtherance principally of marriners and seamen,		1602	USD -	1,920.00
TAYLOR (JOHN, <i>The Water Poet</i>)	A FAMOVS FIGHT AT SEA. Where fovre English ships vnder the command of Captain Iohn Weddell, and foure Dutch ships fought three dayes in the Gulfe of Persia neere Ormus, against 8 Portugall gallions, and 3 friggots . . . [&c.],		1627	USD -	264.00
[TAYLOR (JOHN, <i>The Water Poet</i>)]	THE Dolphins DANGER: AND DELIUERANCE,		1617	USD -	2,880.00
[TEIXEIRA (JOSE)]	A TREATISE PARAENETICAL . . . wherein in shewed . . . the right way & true meanes to resist the violence of the Castilian king: to breake the course of his desseignes: to beat down his pride, and to ruinate his puissance,		1598	USD -	432.00
TEIXEIRA (JOSE)	THE STRANGEST ADVENTURE THAT EVER HAPPENED . . . concerning the successe of the king of Portugall Dom Sebastian, from the time of his voyage into Affricke, when he was lost in the battell against the infidels, in the yeare 1578 vnto the sixt of Ianuary th		1601	USD -	672.00
Teixeira (Pedro)	Relaciones . . . d'el origen descendencia y svccession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de vn viage hecho por il mismo avtor dende la India Oriental hasta Italia por tierra,	Antwerp	1610	USD -	132.00
Terry (Edward)	A voyage to East India,		1655	USD -	52.80
THEVET (ANDRE)	COSMOGRAPHIE DE LEVANT,		1554	USD -	1,560.00
THEVET (ANDRE)	THE NEW FOUND WORLDE, OR ANTARCTIKE		[1568]	USD -	312.00
THOMAS (WILLIAM)	THE HISTORYE OF ITALYE,		1561	USD -	72.00
TIMBERLAKE (HENRY)	A TRVE AND STRANGE DISCOURSE OF THE TRAUAILES OF TWO ENGLISH PILGRIMES: what admirable accidents befell them in their iourney towards Ierusalem, Caza, Grand Cayro, Alexandria, and other places,		1609	USD -	264.00
Timberlake (Henry)	A relation of the trauells of two English pigrims,		1631	USD -	432.00
[Treswell (Robert)]	A relation of svch things as were obserued to happen in the journey of . . . Charles Earle of Nottingham . . . ambassadour to the king of Spaine,		1605	USD -	192.00
TRVE RELATION (A)	VVITHOVT ALL EXCEPTION, OF STRANGE AND ADMIRABLE ACCIDENTS, WHICH LATELY HAPPENED IN THE KINGDOME OF THE GREAT MAGOR, OR MAGVLL, who is the greatest monarch of the East Indies. As also vvith a true report of the manners of the countrey; of the commodities			USD -	1,800.00
TURKEY	THE POLICY OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE. The first booke [apparently all published],		1597	USD -	408.00
TURLER (HIERONYMUS)	THE TRAVEILER OF IEROME TURLER, deuided into two bookes. The first conteining a notable discourse of the maner, and order of traueling ouersea, or into straunge and forrein countreys. The second comprehending an excellent description of the most delicious		1575	USD -	1,920.00
TVVO FAMOVS SEA-FIGHTS	Lately made, betwixt the fleetes of the king of Spaine, and the fleetes of the Hollanders. The one, in the West-Indyes: the other . . . betwixt Callis and Gravelin,		1639	USD -	720.00
TWO MEMORABLE RELATIONS	THE FORMER, A RELATION OF SOME LATE CONFLICTS BETWEENE THE PORTUGALS AND THE ENGLISH AT SVRAT IN THE EAST-INDIES . . . The latter . . . a full perfit and true relation, of the late (great and admirable) defeat of the Spanish forces by water, by the Prince		1631	USD -	528.00
UBALDINI (PETRUCCIO)	A discovrse concerninge the Spanishe fleete inuading Englande in the yeare 1588, translated by R. Adams,		1590	USD -	72.00
VASCO FERNANDES	[ORATIO DE OBEDIENTIA AD INNOCENTIUM VIII],	[Rome]	[after 9 December 1485]	USD -	1,800.00
[VAUGHAN (WILLIAM)]	THE GOLDEN FLEECE diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly THE WAYES TO GET WEALTH, AND TO RESTORE TRADING SO MUCH COMPLAYNED OF. TRANSPORTED FROM CAMBRIOLL COLCHOS, OU		1626	USD -	1,200.00
VEER (GERRIT DE)	THE TRUE AND PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF THREE VOYAGES, so strange and woonderfull, that the like hath neuer been heard of before,		1609	USD -	2,160.00
	Viaggi fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Constantinopli,	Venice	1545	USD -	204.00
	VIAGGIO DA VENETIA A CONSTANTINOPOLI per marre, e per terra, et insieme quello di Terra Santa. Cioe citta, castelli, porti, golfi, isole, monti, fiumi, e mari. Opera utile a mercanti, marinari, et a studiosi di geografia,	Venice	n.d. [c. 1620]	USD -	576.00
VIRGINIA	A TRVE DECLARATION OF THE ESTATE OF THE COLONIE IN VIRGINIA, with a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise. Published by aduise and direction of the Councell of Virginia,		1610	USD -	5,760.00
VIRGINIA	OBSERVATIONS TO BE FOLLOWED, FOR THE MAKING OF FIT ROOMS, TO KEEPE SILK-WORMES IN: as also, for the best manner of planting of mulbery trees, to feed them. Pvblished by avthority for the benefit of the noble plantation in Virginia,		1620	USD -	2,880.00
Wadsworth (James, <i>the younger</i>)	The present estate of Spayne,		1630	USD -	360.00
Wadsworth (James, <i>the younger</i>)	Fvrther observations of the English Spanish pilgrime,		1630	USD -	264.00
WAGHENAER (LUKAS)	THE MARINERS MIRROUR wherein may playnly be seen the courses, heights, distances, depths, soundings, flouds and ebbs, risings of lands, rocks, sands and shoulds, with the marks for th'entrings of the harboroughs, havens and ports of the greatest part of E		20 October 1588]	USD -	8,640.00
[WARD (NATHANIEL)]	THE SIMPLE COBLER OF AGGAVVAM IN AMERICA		1647	USD -	480.00
[WATERHOUSE (EDWARD)]	A DECLARATION OF THE STATE OF THE COLONY AND AFFAIRES IN VIRGINIA,		1622	USD -	4,080.00
WEBBE (EDWARD)	THE RARE AND MOST VVONDERFUL THINGS WHICH EDWARD WEBBE . . . HATH SEENE and passed in his troublesome trauailes, in the citties of Ierusalem, Dammasko, Bethlehem and Galely: and in the landes of Iewrie, Egipt, Gtecia [sic], Russia, and in the land			USD -	432.00
WELWOOD (WILIAM)	AN ABRIDGEMENT OF ALL SEA-LAWES, . . . which are to be found among any people or nation, vpon the coasts of the Great Ocean and Mediterranean sea,		1613	USD -	768.00
Whitbourne (<i>Sir</i> Richard)	A discovrse and discovery of Nevv-foundland,		1623	USD -	72.00
Wilkinson (Robert)	The Merchant Royall. A sermon,		1615	USD -	52.80
WOOD (WILLIAM)	NEVV ENGLANDS PROSPECT. A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called Nevv England,		1635	USD -	960.00
ZARAIN AGA	A RELATION OF THE LATE SIEDGE AND TAKING OF THE CITY OF BABYLON BY THE TURKE . . . Setting forth all the principall passages of this siedge; with one unparreled [sic], cruell, furious and bloudy assault, made by the Turks, wherein were slaine in 12		1639	USD -	264.00
ZARATE (AGUSTIN DE)	THE STRANGE AND DELECTABLE HISTORY OF THE DISCOUERIE AND CONQUEST OF THE PROUINCES OF PERU [second title: The discoverie and conquest of the prouinces of Peru, and the nauigation in the South Sea, along that coast. And also of the riche mines of Po		1581	USD -	1,632.00
AFRICA	MANUSCRIPT ATLAS entitled, ''Theatre Des Plus Signalees Villes d'Africque, avec Discours des singularitez de Chacune et choses remarquables passees en Icelles ... A Nancy Par B. G[uerin]. Le 16 Jour d'Aoust 1595''. CONTAINING TWENTY-ONE DOUBLE-PAGE WATER			USD -	1,800.00
BENINCASA (GRAZIOSO, <i>of Ancona</i>)	PORTOLAN CHART OF WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH-WEST AFRICA, signed on the umbilicus ''Gratiosus Beninchasa Anchonitanus Composuit Veneciis Mcccclxviii'', ON VELLUM (A SINGLE MEMBRANE),	Venice	1468	USD -	12,000.00
BLOUNT (<i>Sir</i> HENRY, 1602--1682, <i>author and traveller to the Levant</i>)	Autograph manuscript: ''My yearly ordinary disbursments Summed up 1658'',			USD -	24.00
CARTERET (<i>Sir</i> GEORGE, 1599?-1680, <i>Governor of Jersey, original grantee of New Jersey, and, in his capacity as treasurer to the navy, Samuel Pepys's superior</i>)	HOLOGRAPH JOURNAL OF HIS VOYAGE TO BARBARY IN 1638 (''A Journall keepte by me George Carteret, in his Maties shipp the Convertine, being bound for the Coast of Barbary ... begun in Aprill 1638''),		20 April to 30 October, 1638	USD -	840.00
CHAUCER (GEOFFREY)	A TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE, in English, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM,	[England]	[middle of fifteenth century]	USD -	20,400.00
COSMOGRAPHY	Elizabethan compilation in English comprising: (1) two drafts of the compiler's introduction which include notes on the theoretical basis of cosmography, on methods of determining latitude and longitude, on astronomy and the use of the compass and astrola			USD -	1,320.00
DATI (GREGORIO)	LA SFERA,	[Italy]	[middle of fifteenth century]	USD -	6,720.00
GUIANA	A MAGNIFICENT MANUSCRIPT MAP WITH FINE AND BRILLIANT COLOURING, ON VELLUM,	[England]	[1596--1599]	USD -	9,600.00
JAMES I.	RICHLY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED, ADDRESSED ''TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE MONARCH, THE GREAT EMPEROR OF CHINA'', about a proposal for a commercial treaty, Westminster the seaventh of Februarie 1613/1614, ON VELLUM,		7 February, 1613/14	USD -	3,120.00
JOHANNES DE SACROBOSCO	ALGORISMUS, DE SPHAERA, COMPUTUS, with a CALENDAR, etc., MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM,	[Austria]	[early fourteenth century]	USD -	1,440.00
KEELING (WILLIAM)	''JOURNALL of my 3d voyage for East India'', 20 January 1614/15 to 9 June 1617,		[1617]	USD -	1,200.00
MONTGOMERY (JOHN)	''A TREATISE CONCERNINGE THE NAVYE ROYALL OF ENGLAND, WRYTTEN IN ANNO 1570. By John Mountgomerye wth an Addicion thereto made by the said Author In Anno 1588''			USD -	96.00
	NAVIGATIONAL NOTE-BOOK of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries containing matter on pure mathematics and its application to the theory of navigation as well as on practical seamanship, and including a section of sailing instructions round No			USD -	8,400.00
	NAVIGATIONAL TABLES in Portuguese (rules for finding latitude by the Pole Star and the Southern Cross; calendar tables; tables of tides and declinations, etc.),	[Portugal]	1568	USD -	1,080.00
[Adrichomius (Christianus)]	A briefe description of Hierusalem and of the suburbs therof, as it flourished in the time of Christ, translated by Thomas Tymme,		1595	USD -	24.00
AESOP	VITA ET FABULAE	[Strassburg]	[c. 1481]	USD -	912.00
BABINGTON (JOHN)	PYROTECHNIA. OR A DISCOVERSE OF ARTIFICIALL FIRE-WORKS . . .		1635	USD -	720.00
BARNES <i>or</i> BERNERS (<i>Dame</i> JULIANA)	THE GENTLEMANS ACADEMIE. Or, the booke of S. Albans . . . now reduced into a better method by G[ervase] M[arkham]		1595	USD -	1,080.00
BARRET (ROBERT)	THE THEORIKE AND PRACTIKE OF MODERNE WARRES,		1598	USD -	672.00
Bate (John)	The mysteries of nature and art,		1635	USD -	228.00

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