Selections from the Fox Pointe Manor Library - N09753

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Selections From The Fox Pointe Manor Library

26 October 2016 • New York

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Sale Number: N09753

1. The naturall and morall historie of the East and West Indies. Intreating of the remarkeable things of heaven, of the elements, mettalls, plants and beasts which are proper to that country: together with the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governements, and warres of the Indians. Written in Spanish by the R.F. Ioseph Acosta, and translated into English by E.G. London: by Val: Sims for Edward Blount and William Aspley, 1604

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 USD

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2. Voyages and Discoveries in South America. The First up the River of Amazons ... by Christopher D'Acugna. The Second up the River of Plata... By Mons. Acarete. The Third from Cayenne into Guiana... by M. Grillet and Bechamel. London: Printed for S. Buckley, 1698

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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3. A Paraenesis to the Prince. London: by Richard Field for Edward Blount, 1604

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 USD

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4. Englands Parnassus: or, The choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall comparisons. London: Nicholas L[ing], C[uthbert] B[urby], and T[homas] H[ayes], 1600

Estimate: 12,000 – 14,000 USD

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5. A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships... London: John and Paul Knapton, 1748

Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 USD

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6. A Lytel Treatyse of Astronomy, Declaryng the Leape Yere, and what is the cause therof, and howe to Knowe Saynte Mathies day for ever, with the Marvelous Mocion of the Sonne ... and also the Dyversities that may come by Dyvers and Sundry Inhabitacions upon the Earth. London: Imprinted by By Wylliam Powel, [1552]

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD

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7. The Scholemaster or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teachyng Children, To Understand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, but Specially Purposed for the Private Brynging up of Youth in Gentlemen and Noble Mens Houses, and Commodious Also for All Such, as Have Forgot the Latin Tonge, and Would, by Themselves, without à Scholemaster, in Short Tyme, and with Small Paines, Recover à Sufficient Habilitie, To Understand, Write, and Speake Latin. London: Printed by John Daye, 1570

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 USD

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8. The Schoolemaster. Or, Playne and perfite way of teaching Children, to understande, write, and speake Latin toong, but specially purposed for the private bringing up of youth in Jentlemen and Noble houses …. London: Abell Jeffes, 1589

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD

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9. Toxophilus: the schoole, or partitions of shooting contayned in two books... London: by Abell Ieffes, by the consent of H. Marsh, 1589

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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10. A Prognostication For Ever, Made by Erra Pater, a Jew, Born in Jewry, Doctor in Astronomy and Physick: Very Profitable To Keep the Body in Health. And Also Ptolomeus Saith the Same. Together with the Fairs and High-Ways, and Several New Additions. London: Printed for Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswel, Samuel Smith, Benjamin Walford and George Conyers, 1695

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 USD

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11. The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon ... Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD

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12. The Geometrical Key: Or The Gate of Equations Unlock'd... or any other previous preparation of Equations, by a Circle, and... London: printed by J. Playford, for R. Clavel, 1684

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 USD

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