Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1174, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 29, 2025 - May 29, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 281 | Newton (Sir Isaac) | Four letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley |
1756 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 | |
| 282 | Lambert (Johann Heinrich) | Photometria sive de mensura et gradibus luminis, colorum et et umbrae |
Augsburg | 1760 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 283 | Curabelle (Jacques) | Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues |
Paris | 1644 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 284 | Herschel (Sir John F. W.) | On the action of the rays of the solar spectrum on vegetable colours, |
1842 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 285 | Becquerel (Henri) | Recherches sur une Propriete Nouvelle de la Matiere. |
Paris | 1903 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 945.00 |
| 286 | Cavalieri (Bonaventura) | Lo Specchio Ustorio overo trattato delle settioni coniche, |
Bologna | 1632 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 287 | Beebe (William) | A Monograph of the Pheasants |
1918-22 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,268.00 | |
| 288 | Gould (John) | The Birds of Great Britain |
1869 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | |
| 289 | Rousseau (Jean Jacques) | and P[ierre]. J[oseph] Redoute. La Botanique de J. J. Rousseau, |
Paris | 1805 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,410.00 |
| 290 | Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) | A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches |
1743 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 3,528.00 | |
| 291 | Ravenscroft (Edward) | Pinetum Britannicum |
?Edinburgh & London | 1863-1884 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 292 | Alken (Henry) | The National Sports of Great Britain |
1825 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 293 | Malone (E.J.) | Tying Flies in the Irish Style |
2007 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,197.00 | |
| 294 | Williamson (Capt. Thomas) | Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c., first edition, |
1814 but plates watermarked 1818 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 295 | Blouet (Guillaume Abel) | Chutes du Niagara. Niagara Falls |
Paris | 1838 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 296 | Allen (William Francis) Ware (Charles Pickard) and Lucy McKim Garrison. | Slave Songs of the United States |
New York | 1867 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 630.00 |
| 297 | Marrant (John) | A Journal...to which are added, Two Sermons... |
1790 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,008.00 | |
| 298 | Smith (J. Henly) | "A Southern Agriculturalist". The Tariff! A System of Robbery! |
circa 1899 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 299 | Warre (Capt. Henry James) | Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory |
1848 | GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | GBP 25,200.00 | |
| 300 | Ogilby (John) | Asia, the First Part, (all published) |
White-Friers | 1673 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,032.00 |
| 301 | Price (William) | A Grammar of the Three Principal Oriental Languages, Hindoostanee, Persian, and Arabic |
1823 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,008.00 | |
| 302 | Raffles (Sir Thomas Stamford) | The History of Java |
1817 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,276.00 | |
| 303 | Tavernier (Jean Baptiste) | Collections of Travels through Turky into Persia, and the |
1684 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 882.00 | |
| 304 | Confucius. | The Works..., first edition in English |
Serampore | 1809 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 5,670.00 |
| 305 | Martini (Martino) | Sinicae historiae decas prima |
Munich | 1658 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,386.00 |
