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

26. A Treatise Excellent and Compendious, shewing and declaring, in maner of Tragedye, the Falles of sondry most notable Princes and Princesses with other nobles. … First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan John Lidgate monke of Burye [and] John Lydgate. Daunce Machabree. (London: Imprinted by Richard Tottel, 10 September 1554)

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 USD

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27. The Tragedies, gathered by Jhon Bochas, of all such Princes as Fell from theyr Estates throughe the Mutability of Fortune … wherin may be seen what Vices bring Menne to Destruccion, wyth Notable Warninges howe the like may be Avoyded. Translated into Englysh by John Lidgate. London: Imprinted by by John Wayland, [1544?]

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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28. The Fardle of Facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes, and Lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affrike and Asie... London: by Jhon Kingstone and Henry Sutton, 1555

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD

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29. Boetius de consolationae [sic] philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in adversitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diversitie of the lyfe active, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Jhon Cawoode, 1556

Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 USD

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30. The Breviary of Healthe, for all maner of sicknesses and diseases the which may be in man or woman, doth followe. Expressyng the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latyn, and Barbary, in Englishe concernyng phisicke and chierurgerie, compyled by Andrewe Boorde, or phisicke Doctour, an Englishe man... London: by Wyllyam Powell, 1552

Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD

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31. A Breife Discovery or description of the most famous island of Madagascar or St. Laurence in Asia neare unto East-India. With relation of the healthfulnesse, pleasure, fertility and wealth of that country, comparable if not transcending all the easterne parts of the world, a very earthly paradise... London: by E[dward] G[riffin], 1646

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 USD

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32. Relations, of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonweales thorough the World. Discoursing of their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies. Enlarged [by Robert Johnson] according to moderne Observation. London: John Jaggard, 1616

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD

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33. Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Propos’d in Familiar Discourses to a Friend, by Way of Invitation to The Study of It. Oxford: Printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1663

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD

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34. A Continuation Of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching The Spring And Weight Of The Air, and Their Effects … Whereto Is Annext a Short Discourse of the Atmospheres of Consistent Bodies. Oxford: Printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1669

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD

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35. Tracts Consisting of Observations About the Saltness of the Sea... London: E. Flesher, 1674

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD

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36. New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching The Spring of The Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine. Oxford: Printed by H. Hall [for Thomas Robinson], 1662 — New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, an Experimental History of Cold, Begun. To Which Are Added an Examen of Antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hobs’s Doctrine about Cold. Whereunto Is Annexed an Account of Freezing … Together with an Appendix, Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments and Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold. London: Printed for Richard Davis, 1683

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 USD

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37. Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays. London: Printed for Sam[uel]. Smith, 1684

Estimate: 1,800 – 2,500 USD

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