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

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Auction Report
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
326 Hall (Fergus)

Original drawings, layout and typescript text for 'Groundsel'

1975-82. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,142.00
327 Milne (A. A.)

Toad of Toad Hall

1929 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,638.00
328 Simmonds (Posy)

Original artwork for "Fred"

c.1987 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,512.00
329 Alken (Henry)

A Collection of Sporting and Humourous Designs

1824 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
330 Blake (William).- Young (Edward)

The Complaint

1797 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
331 Braeu (Nicolaes, active c. 1586-1600)

Four proverbs

circa 1592 (4) GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
332 Caldecott (Randolph)

Artist's drawing manual with over 180 leaves of original designs; and two

mid to late 18th century (3) GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,268.00
333 Callot (Jacques)

Les Grandes Miseres de la Guerre (Les Miseres et les Mal-heurs de la Guerre)

Paris 1633 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,890.00
334

Costume.- [Costumes of the Various Countries]

1800 but later GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
335 Disabled woman painter.- Biffin (Sarah, 1784-1850)

Landscape with travellers [recto] and study of

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
336 Bonnart (Nicolas & Henri), and others.

Collection of 89 plates of the fashion and costume

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
337

The Naval Chronology of Great Britain

1818-19. GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
338 Martin (John)

Paradise Lost: By John Milton

1825-26 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,890.00
339 Milton (John).- Martin (John) and others.

Composite album with illustrations to Milton's Poetical

circa 1797-1835 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,142.00
340 Genoese School (late 17th or 18th century)

14 original designs for ornament

circa 1700 or slightly later GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,552.00
341 Ranson (Pierre), After.

[Collection of 60 ornament prints]

Paris c.1770-1780 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
342 Burne-Jones (Sir Edward)

The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs

1905 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
343 Byrne (Oliver)

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

1847 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
344 Craig (Edward Gordon)

A small notebook/album

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,386.00
345 Chauvet (Jules-Adolphe)

Engravings for Les Memoires de J. Casanova de Seingalt,

Barraud c.1875. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
346 Goya y Lucientes (Francisco Jose de)

Los Desastres de la Guerra

Madrid 1903 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
347 Original illustration.- Maigrot (Henri "Henriot")

Luchon a Travers Les Aces

1918 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
348 Passe (Crispin van de)

Les Planches des Heures

Antwerp 1901 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 882.00
349 Wilde (Oscar)

The Sphinx

1894 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
350 Beardsley (Aubrey) and others.

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly

London Boston and New York 1894-97 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 567.00
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD