Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1158, London

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Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 394 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
276

Voyages.- [Cook (Captain James)].- Royal Society's Medal in commemoration of Captain Cook (1784),

1784 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
277 Anson (George)

A Voyage round the World

1748 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 882.00
278 Campbell (Sir Alexander, Governor of Jamaica)

A Memoir Relative to the Island of Jamaica

1782 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
279 Hakewill (James)

A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica

1825 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,788.00
280 Moll (Herman)

A New and Correct Map of the Whole World

1719 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,276.00
281 Borlase (William)

The Natural History of Cornwall

1758 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 630.00
282 Ackermann (Rudolph publisher)

The History of the Colleges of Winchester

1816 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 819.00
283 Pyne (William Henry)

The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle

1819 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
284 Westall (William)

Samuel Owen. Picturesque Tour of The River Thames

1828 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
285 Chapman (John) and Peter Andre.

A Map of the County of Essex from an Actual Survey

1777 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
286

London.- Order of the Lord Mayor (The)

1629 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
287 Ackermann (Rudolph publisher)

The History of the University of Oxford

1814 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,260.00
288 Dalton (John)

A New System of Chemical Philosophy

Manchester 1808-10. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,016.00
289

Geology.- Series of Plates (A) Representing the Most Extraordinary and Interesting Basaltic

1825 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,016.00
290 Harrison (John)

A Description Concerning Such Mechanism as Will Afford a Nice, or True Mensuration

1775 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
291 Hamilton (Sir W.)

Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanoes:

1772 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,260.00
292 Hawking (Stephen) and R.J. Taylor.

Helium Production in an Isotropic Big-Bank Cosmology

1966 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 529.20
293 Hutton (James)

Theory of the Earth in Transactions of the Royal Society

Edinburgh 1788 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,410.00
294 Lyell (Charles)

Principles of Geology

1832-33. GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 630.00
295

Physics.- [Opticks

18th century. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
296 Playfair (John)

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth

Edinburgh 1802 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,528.00
297 Becquerel (Henri)

Recherches sur une Propriete Nouvelle de la Matiere. Activite

Paris 1903 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
298 Curie (Marie Sklodowska) and Pierre, Antoine Henri Becquerel and others.

Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires

Paris 1896-1902. GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
299 Whiston (William)

A New Theory of the Earth

1696 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 630.00
300 Aldrovandi (Ulisse)

Quadrupedum omniu[m] Bisulcoru[m] Historia

1641 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,016.00
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