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
26

Psalms.- Single leaf from the Psalms, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, initial "S" in burnished gold,

France c. 1400 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 693.00
27 Piot (Michiel or Michael of Paris)

Receipt from Michiel Piot, clerk to Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick

Rouen 1437 i.e. 1438. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
28

Prayerbook for the English Market.- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin, illuminated manuscript

Southern Netherlands (perhaps Bruges) probably second quarter 15th century. GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 16,380.00
29

Medieval French Gothic Coffer for a Book of Hours.

France probably Paris c. 1480. GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,292.00
30

Office of the Dead.- [Prayers for the Dead],

France or Low Countries late 15th century. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 882.00
31

Calendar from a Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht,

Utrecht late 15th century. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 504.00
32 James IV (King of Scots)

Feu-charter from James IV to David Hoppringill of Smalehame and

Edinburgh 28th August 1510. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 630.00
33 Shakespeare (William).- Stanley (Alice, Countess of Derby)

Petition to Alice Countess of Derby from Alexander Bannyon and referencing the Earl of Derby,

c. 1595. GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,197.00
34 Shakespeare (William).-

Underhill (Hercules, son of William Underhill who sold New Place to William

1607 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
35 Charles I (King of England)

Warrant to Sir William Uvedale, Treasurer of the King's Chamber

Whitehall 1626 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,764.00
36

Norfolk, Hainford, Frettenham & Spixworth.- [Court Leet book of the Manors of Haynford, Frettenham &...

1645-63 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
37 Burgess (William)

A.L.s to Sir Robert Long

London 1665 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,764.00
38 Defoe (Daniel).- Law (John).- Lovell (Sir Salathiel)

Warrant signed to constables and other officers

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,008.00
39 Scotland, Aberdeen.- [Orem (Thomas)]

A Description of the Chanonry in Old Aberdeen...

c. 1730. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 529.20
40

Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript, 38pp., 1750.

1750 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
41 Bentham (Jeremy)

Autograph letter signed to [William Petty] Earl Shelburne

Lincoln's Inn 1781 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,276.00
42 Bentham (Jeremy)

Bentham (Jeremy) Autograph letter signed to Sir Charles Bunbury, 1793

Hendon Middlesex 1793 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,394.00
43 Carrol (William Parker)

Commonplace Book, autograph manuscript signed

1825, v.s., v.d. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 441.00
44 St Domingue (Haiti) & England.- [Touzi (Lucinde Maria Louise Antoinette) & Zebee Ann Rose Touzi]

The Twins...

1830 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 478.80
45

19th century Novel.- The Sy Book

c. 1834. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
46 Dickens (Charles)

Dickens (Charles) Autograph letter signed to Frederic Ouvry, 1869

Gads Hill Place Rochester Kent 1869 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
47 Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield) & Ibbetson (Henry Selwin-, Baron Rookwood)

Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield) & Ibbetson (Henry Selwin-, Baron Rookwood). Correspondence

1872-78 & 1892-93. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,520.00
48 Victoria (Queen) & family.- Downey (W. & D., studio photographers)

A Collection of Photographs of Queen Victoria, her Immediate Family...

1911 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
49 Thomas (Dylan)

Thomas (Dylan) Autograph Letter signed to Anthony Thwaite, 25th August

1953 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
50 Pound (Ezra, poet and critic, 1885-1972)

9 typed ff. Letters, mostly incoherent and deranged

1955 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,780.00
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    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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