Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1176, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 17, 2025 - July 17, 2025

Page Size: 252 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51	Sandford (Francis)	The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II...and His Royal Consort Queen Mary		1687	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,270.00
52	[Locke (John)]	Two Treatises of Government: in the Former, False Principles and Foundations of Sir Robert Filmer...		1698	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 3,302.00
53	[Swift (Jonathan)]	A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome		1701	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
54	[Swift (Jonathan)]	A New Journey to Paris: Together with some Secret Transactions between the Fr---h K---g, and an Eng--- Gentleman.		1711	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 571.50
55	[Swift (Jonathan)]	The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphras'd: And Address'd to Richard St--le, Esq.		1714	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
56	Swift (Jonathan)	Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World... by Captain Lemuel Gulliver		1726.]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,048.00
57		Jacobite rising of 1715.- List (A) of the most Considerable of the Scots and English Noblemen and Gentlemen	Edinburgh	1715	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,397.00
58	Montfaucon (Bernard de)	Antiquity Explained, and Represented in Sculptures		1721-25.	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 762.00
59	Green (G[eorge] S[mith])	The Life of Mr. John Van, A Clergyman's Son		[?1757]	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 508.00
60	[Tiphaigne de la Roche (Charles Francois)]	Giphantia: or a View of What has Passed, What is Now Passing, and During the Present Century		1761	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 635.00
61	Baldwin (Thomas)	Airopaidia: containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785...	Chester	1786	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,524.00
62	Wollstonecraft (Mary)	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects	Philadelphia	1794	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
63	Haydn (Joseph)	Dr Haydn's VI Original Canzonettas for the Voice with an Accompaniment for the Piano-Forte	St. James's,	[c.1794]	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
64	Narrative (A)	of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Fleet, under the command of Earl Howe		1796	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 571.50
65		Regent's Park.- First Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues		1812	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 762.00
66	Coleridge (Sara), Nash (Edward)	Portrait of Sara Coleridge seated, with Lake District landscape beyond, point of the brush		1816	GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	GBP 4,445.00
67	Shakespeare (William)	The Plays and Poems		1821	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,794.00
68	Garrick (David)	Catalogue (A) of the Library, Splendid Books of Prints		[1823]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,270.00
69	Lewis (Matthew Gregory)	The Monk. A Romance of the Most Intense Interest		1826	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,143.00
70	Braidwood (James)	On the Construction of Fire-Engines and Apparatus, the Training of Firemen, and the Method of Proceeding in Cases of Fire	Edinburgh	1830	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 482.60
71		The Lives Trial & Execution, of Pickford's Two Boatmen, who suffered Apirl [sic] the 11th, 1840 at Stafford, for the Wilful Murder of Christina Collins	Birmingham	1840	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
72		Theatre Playbills.- [Collection of c.220 theatre playbills for the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]		1840-41.	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 762.00
73		Theatre Playbills.- [Collection of c.300 playbills for the Princess's Theatre]	v.s.	1846-56.	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,651.00
74		Theatre Playbills.- [Collection of c.270 theatre playbills for the Theatre Royal, Haymarket]		1853-54	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
75	Dickens (Charles)	A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas		1843	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 4,826.00

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Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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