Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1176, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 17, 2025 - July 17, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 228 | Ackermann (Rudolph) | Microcosm of London |
[1808-10] | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 | |
| 229 | Ellis (Sir Henry) | The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch, and the Liberty of Norton Folgate |
1798 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,810.00 | |
| 230 | Markham (Gervase) | [A Way to get Wealth] |
[1638]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 533.40 | |
| 231 | Stevenson (Matthew) | The Twelve Moneths |
1661 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,445.00 | |
| 232 | Audubon (John James), After. | Red-Shouldered Hawk (pl. 56), from 'The Birds of America Sylvia Formosa' |
[circa 1827-1838] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,016.00 | |
| 233 | Smith (Andrew) | Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa... Aves |
1849 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 234 | Burnett (M[ary] A[nn]) | Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine |
1842-45-[47]-50. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 235 | Curtis (William) | Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed |
1787-1800 & 1828 (7). | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,159.00 | |
| 236 | Auer (Alois) | Die Entdeckung des Naturselbstdruckes...The Discovery of the Natural Printing-Process |
Vienna | 1854 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 237 | Kniphof (Johann Hieronymous) | Botanica in originali pharmaceutica |
Erfurt | 1733 | GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 238 | Sweet (Robert) | Cistineae. The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose |
1825-30. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 239 | Thornton (Dr. Robert John) | Collection of 17 botanical plates, from 'The Temple of Flora' |
1810-1812 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,096.00 | |
| 240 | [Dezallier d'Argenville (Antoine)] | The Theory and Practice of Gardening |
1728 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 241 | Gerard (John) | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants |
1633 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | |
| 242 | Albin (Eleazar) | A Natural History of English Insects...[with] Large Notes and many curious Observations by W[illiam] Derham |
1749 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,540.00 | |
| 244 | Darwin (Charles) | and Alfred Russell Wallace. Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection in the Zoologist |
1858 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,302.00 | |
| 245 | Darwin (Charles) | The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication |
1868 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,397.00 | |
| 246 | Darwin (Charles) | The Origin of Species |
1872 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,651.00 | |
| 247 | Papin (Denis) | Nouvelle Maniere pour Lever l' Eau par la Force du Feu |
Cassel | 1707 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,016.00 |
| 248 | Playfair (John) | Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth |
Edinburgh | 1802 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,302.00 |
| 249 | Sowerby (George Brettingham, Jr., 1812-1884) | Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity |
[circa 1840] | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 21,590.00 | |
| 250 | [Stensen (Niels)] | De Solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus |
Florence | 1669 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 11,430.00 |
| 251 | Euclid. | De gli Elementi, collation: *2 |
GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 15,240.00 | ||
| 252 | Mydorge (Claude) | Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum, sive conicorum operis ad abdita radii reflexi et refracti mysteria praevii & facem praeferentis |
Paris | 1631-39. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,905.00 |
| 253 | Cavalieri (Bonaventura) | Lo Specchio Ustorio overo trattato delle settioni coniche, el alcuni loro mirabili effetti intorno al lume |
Bologna | 1632 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
