Forum Auctions: The Library of Barry Humphries, 1172, London

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 26, 2025 - March 26, 2025
Page Size: 243 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Thicknesse (Philip)

Useful Hints to those who make the Tour of France...

1768 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
2 [Beckford (William)]

Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters

1780 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
3 [Beckford (William)]

[Vathek] An Arabian Tale

1786 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
4 [Beckford (William)]

[Vathek] An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: with Notes Critical and Explanatory...

1786 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
5 [Beckford (William)]

Vathek, Conte Arabe

Paris 1787 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
6 [Beckford (William)]

Vathek

1823 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
7 Beckford (William)

Modern Novel Writing, or the Elegant Enthusiast...

1796 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
8 Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks

[Beckford (William)] Azemia: A Descriptive Novel...

Sampson Low 1797 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
9 [Beckford (William)]

The Story of Al Raoui, a Tale from the Arabic

London & Leipzig 1799 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
10 Beckford (William)

Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal

1834 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
11 Irving (David)

Beckford (William).- Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan

Edinburgh 1807 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
12 Dalrymple (Sir David, Lord Hailes)

Beckford (William).- An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity

Edinburgh 1808 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
13 [Alison (Sir Archibald) & others]

Beckford (William).- Travels in France, during the years 1814-15

1815 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
14 Sheppard (John)

Beckford (William).- Letters, descriptive of a Tour through some parts of France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, in 1816

Edinburgh 1817 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
15 Rogers (Samuel)

Beckford (William).- Human Life, a Poem

1820 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
16 Rutter (John)

Beckford (William).- Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey

Shaftesbury 1823 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
17 Beckford (William)

[Sale Catalogue] The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey...

Phillips 1823 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
18 Beckford (William)

Hamilton Palace Collection

1882 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
19 [Lansdown (Henry Venn)]

Beckford (William).- Recollections of the late William Beckford, of Fonthill, Wilts

[Bath] 1893 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
20 [Radcliffe (Ann)]

A Sicilian Romance by the authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

1790 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
21 [Radcliffe (Ann)]

The Romance Of The Forest: Interspersed With Some Pieces Of Poetry

1791 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
22 Lewis (Matthew Gregory)

The Monk: a Romance

1797 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
23 Lewis (Matthew Gregory)

Romantic Tales

1808 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
24 [Maturin (Charles Robert)], "Dennis Jasper Murphy"

Fatal Revenge...

1807 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
25 [Utterson (Sarah Elizabeth, editor and translator)]

Tales of the Dead

1813 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown