Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1164, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 27, 2025 - March 27, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Cookery & Medical.- [Collection of recipes] |
n.d. [late 18th century - 19th century] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
| 52 | Bronte [formerly Prunty, Brunty] (Patrick, Church of England clergyman and author, 1777-1861) | Seal ring, oval orange hardstone (?carnelian) |
n.d. [c. 1840] | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 53 | Bronte (Emily) | The North Wind |
[1842] | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 54 | Bronte [married name Nicholls] (Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-1855) |
[not before 1850] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | ||
| 55 | Bronte [married name Nicholls] (Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-1855) | Lock of Charlotte Bronte's hair, given by Charlotte's friend Ellen Nussey to be shared between Lady Morrison and Genevieve Wigfall, housed in an envelope "A part of a lock of hair of Charlotte Bronte's given to me by Miss Ellen Nussey April, 1889 |
1889 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 56 | Lowndes (T.) | Bronte (Charlotte).- Autograph Letter signed to Marion Douglas |
Eglinton Park, Kingstown, Dublin | October 1893 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 57 | Unpublished Heger letters and photographs... |
6th January - 12th August 1878 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | ||
| 58 | Heger (Claire Zoe, directrice of the school in Brussels attended by Charlotte and Emily Bronte, 1804-90) | 4 Autograph Letters signed and one Autograph Postcard signed to Katie Douglas & one Autograph Letter signed to Meta Mossman... |
[Brussels] | 25th April 1884 - 9th January 1889 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 59 | Langenheim (Frederick) | Stereoglass Diapositives of Washington Irving outside his home, Sunnyside, Irvington, NY [and] Rip Van Winkle's Shanty, Cats Kill Mountains, Hudson River |
New York | [1856] | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 60 | England (Edward Lutwyche, army officer serving with Col Evelyn Wood's column, later Major-General, d. 1910) | Rorke's Drift.- Autograph Letter signed to his sister Frances Catherine England |
[South Africa] | 28th January [1879] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 61 | Nightingale (Florence, reformer of army medical services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) | Autograph Letter signed to Messrs Pennington & Bridgen |
London | 1st July 1879 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 62 | Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) | Titanic.- Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother |
April 11th 1912 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 63 | Forster (E.M., writer, 1879-1970) | 11 Autograph Letters and Postcards signed, to Hazel Eardley-Wilmot |
Cambridge, Kettering, Coventry | 12 December 1942- 28th December 1962 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Unknown |
| 64 | Wilding (Dorothy) | George VI (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) & Queen Elizabeth, consort, 1900-2002.- Portrait photographs, each signed "George R" and dated 1949 and "Elizabeth R" and dated 1949 underneath on the paper mounts |
1949 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 65 | [Caradoc (of Llancarfan, Saint)] | [The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales] |
[1584] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 66 | Hildersam (Arthur) | Lectures upon the Fourth of Iohn |
1629 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 67 | Digges (Sir Dudley) | The Compleat Ambassador: or Two Treaties of the Intended Marriage of Qu: Elizabeth ... |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 68 | Dugdale (Sir William) | Pugin (Augustus).- The History of Imbanking and Draining of divers Fens and Marshes |
1772 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 69 | King William IV, "The Sailor King" | Nautical Almanac (The) and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1783 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | ||
| 70 | Bell (John, editor) | Bell's Edition. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill |
1780-84 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 71 | Campbell (Dr. J.) & John Kent | Biographia Nautica: or, Memoirs of those Illustrious Seamen... |
Dublin | 1785 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 72 | Angelo (Domenico) | The School of Fencing, with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions peculiar to The Art |
1787 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 73 | Rose (William Stewart) | The Naval History of the Late War... |
1802 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 74 | Rows (John) | [The Rows Rol] This rol was laburd & finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk |
1845 [but c.1859] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 75 | Italian Binding.- Joni (Icilio Sienese painter and restorer who produced imitations of the wooden panel bindings, born c. 1865), Attributed to |
1466 [but probably late 19th century] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |