Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1148, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 18, 2024 - July 18, 2024
Page Size: 312 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Petrus Bedik

Persia.- Bedik (Petrus) Cehil sutun, seu explicatio utriusque celeberrimi, ac pretiosissimi theatri quadraginta columnarum in Perside orientis, first edition, Vienna, Leopold Voigt, 1678.

1678 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
28 Torquato Tasso

Tasso (Torquato) La Gerusalemme Liberata, 2 vol., Paris, Bossange, Masson e Besson, 1792

Paris 1792 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
29 Anatole France

France (Anatole) Le Genie Latin, first edition, number 20 of 250 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1913

Paris 1913 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
30

Two leaves from a Gospel Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum, [Germany], [late tenth or early eleventh century].

Germany late tenth or early eleventh century]. GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,099.20
31 A. Sale

Cromwell (Thomas) Sale by Thomas Cromwell to John at ffelde [Atfield] and Michael at ffelde of London, ironmongers, of a messuage called Borden with its land in Hederon [Headcorn], and appoints A...

1538 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,985.60
32

Dublin.- Leland (John, Presbyterian minister and theological writer) & others. [Meeting Minutes books], nos. I & III, together 2 vol., manuscript, vol. I original calf, vol. III original half rev...

1734-1838 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
33 Jonathan Scott

Brazil.- Scott (Jonathan, orientalist) Autograph Letter to his father from HMS Prince of Wales off the coast of Brazil, 1769, including 2 rough sketches of Tenerrife and an account of the slave t...

1769 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 524.80
34

Watchmaker.- Rogers (Isaac) Correspondence and documents relating to the clockmaker Isaac Rogers, comprising 6 letters reflecting the problems of trading with a foreign country and 10 invoices, c...

v.s., v.d., 1781-1803 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 787.20
34A H.F.B.), and A.M. Broadley Wheeler

Napoleon.- Wheeler (H.F.B.), and A.M. Broadley) Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror, 3 vol., extra illustrated by the insertion of over c. 200 broadsides, manuscri...

v.s., v.d., 18th - 20th centuries & 1908 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,260.00
35 Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon.- Stopford Family.- Album containing a large quantity of autograph letters, manuscript material and ephemera relating to the naval Stopford family and descendants including Admiral Willi...

1804-1913 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,968.00
36

More (Hannah) 6 Autograph Letters signed to Jonathan Scott, 1813-15, on a variety of subjects including her and and her sister's health, the expense of buying books in the country, and a subscrip...

1813-15 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,510.40
37

Niger Expedition.- Peddie (John, Major) Collection of letters to the naturalist Adolphe Kummer relating to the unsuccessful expedition to the interior of Africa to discover the source of the Nige...

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,312.00
38 Thomas Bewick

Bewick (Thomas) Lines written in a Steam Boat, on leaving Scotland, By S:W: Ryley, Author of the "Itinerant" &c. addressed to Mr. James Young, autograph manuscript signed "Thomas Bewick", 1819,

1819 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 629.76
39

Persian manuscript.- Autograph presentation document to William Byam Martin, richly gilt, [c.1832].

c.1832. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 656.00
40

Slavery.- Brown (William Wells, American abolitionist) Fling Out the Anti-Slavery Flag, autograph manuscript poem signed, Bridgewater [Bridgwater, Somerset], 1851.

1851 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 11,152.00
41 William (1916) Barnes

Barnes (William) False Friends-like, autograph manuscript poem, [c.1879].

c.1879. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
42 Edward Tyas Cook

[Cook (Sir Edward Tyas)] [Diary], autograph manuscript, ff. loose, 1887.

1887 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
43 Frederick Thurston

Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.- Thurston (Frederick) Collection of Sample Photographs of Elizabeth and Margaret Windsor as Children, [1931-33] (8)

1931-33 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
44 K. N. Crowe

T. E. Lawrence.- Crowe (K. N.) [Clouds Hill, Dorset], 16 vintage photographs of T. E. Lawrence's home, Reading, [c.1935]; and 5 others, including 2 showing Lawrence's funeral (21).

Reading c.1935 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,148.80
45

Williamson (Henry).- Archive of postcards and letters by or relating to Henry Williamson, [1960s]; and an excellent first edition set of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (c.35)

1960s GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 787.20
46 E. Gordon Duff

Caxton (William).- Duff (E. Gordon) William Caxton, one of 148 copies with an original leaf from the first edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales printed by Caxton in 1476/77, Chicago, The Caxton ...

Chicago, 1905 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,670.00
47 Thomas Wright

English secret press.- [Wright (Thomas)] The disposition or garnishmente of the soule to receive worthily the blessed sacrament devyded into three discourses, rare, Antwerp [but England], Joachim...

Antwerp [but England], 1596 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,142.00
48 John Darrell

Demonology.- Exorcism.- Darrell (John) A True Narration of the Strange and Grevious Vexation by the Devil, of 7 Persons in Lancashire, and William Somers of Nottingham, first edition, 1600.

1600 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,260.00
49 John Darrell

Demonology.- Exorcism.- Darrell (John) A Survey of Certaine Dialogical Discourses: written by John Deacon, and John Walker, first edition, 1602, 2 works bound as 1.

1602 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,008.00
50

Bible, English. [The Bible...], Geneva-Tomson-Junius version, 1610 [but colophon 1611]; bound with another.

1610 but 1611 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,071.00