Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1191, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 262 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
207 Watson (James D.)

Manners for Science

2006 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 508.00
208 Watson (James D.)

The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix

Norwalk 2013 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,032.00
209 Celestial atlas.- Flamsteed (John)

Atlas celeste de Flamsteed

Paris 1776 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,905.00
210 Dalton (John)

A New System of Chemical Philosophy

Manchester 1808 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 635.00
211 Darwin (Charles)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

1860 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,016.00
212 Darwin (Charles)

Om Arternas Uppkomst [On the Origin of Species]

Stockholm 1871 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
213 Davy (Humphrey) - Beddoes (Thomas, editor)

Contributions to physical and medical knowledge

Bristol 1799 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
214 Bryan (Margaret)

A Compendious System of Astronomy

1797 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,556.00
215 Greenough (George Bellas)

Geological Map of England and Wales

July GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,016.00
216 Hawking (Stephen) and Leonard Mlodinow.

A Briefer History of Time

2005 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,270.00
217 Euclid.

Evclidis megarensis mathematici clarissimi elementorum geometricorum libri XV.

Basel 1558 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
218 [Newton (Sir Isaac)]

Arithmetica Universalis: sive de Compositione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber

1722 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
219 Franklin (Benjamin, printer).- Saunders (Richard)

Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the bissextile year 1748

Philadelphia 1747 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
220 Nightingale (Florence)

Note on the Aboriginal Races of Australia

1865 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,143.00
221 Pickering (Charles Percy)

Photographs of Public and other Buildings &c.

New South Wales 1872 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
222 Potter (Charles, publisher)

Photographs. New South Wales

Sydney 1896 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
223 Spilhaus (Margaret Whiting)

Australia

1929 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,206.50
224 BurBurmese School (late 19th century)

Folding manuscript

late GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 952.50
225 Simpson (William)

The Seat of War in the East... First Series [&] Second Series

1855-56 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 635.00
226

China.- [Parliamentary Papers relating to the Second Opium War and the Treaty of Tianjin]

1859-71 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 3,302.00
228 Octopus map.- Rose (Fred W.)

Serio-Comic War Map for the Year 1877

1877 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 952.50
229 Belloguet (Achille)

Two anthropomorphic maps from 'Phrenologie Topographique de la France'

circa1870-1871 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 381.00
230 Charpentier (Henri, editor.)

Paris dans sa Splendeur. Monuments, Vues, Scenes Historique

Paris 1861 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
231 Berlin.- Schleuen (Johann David)

Die Konigl. Residenz Berlin, so wie selbige seit Ao. 1734 unter voriger Konig

circa1755 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,778.00
232 Berlin.- Schleuen (Johann David)

Abriss der Koniglichen Preussischen Residentz-Stadt Berlin

circa1800 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,032.00
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