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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 05, 2026 - March 05, 2026
Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Carpenter (Mary, social reformer, 1807-77)

Social Reformer.- 2 Autograph Letters signed to David Cazyell and Mrs Roberts

Bristol & n.p. 19th March 1868 & n.d. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 228.60
52 Oxley (Brigadier General Reginald)

Military.- 5 War Diaries giving a personal account of the Anglo-Manipur War, the Second Boer War and the First World War

1891-1916 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,302.00
53

Ephemera.- A collection of mixed Ephemera...

[19-20th century] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 279.40
54

Albums.- Collection of Photograph & Scrap Albums, photographs featuring scenes, views and portraits of British life...

[1900-1950s] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 165.10
55 Nightingale (Florence, reformer of Army Medical Services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910)

Facsimile photo-lithographed letter annual address to to the probationary nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas Hospital and elsewhere

n.p. 28th May 1900 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
56

Warwickshire Hatters.- An Album of Hat Labels from Vero & Everitt Ltd

[?c.1900] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,524.00
57 McCulloch (Brigadier General Robert Henry Frederick)

Military.- Portrait photograph signed

1913 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 12.70
58

Ephemera.- A collection of mixed ephemera, likely mostly from the personal collections of Marion Melville (medievalist) and her cousin, Agnes Mackay (writer), resident in Paris and St Tropez...

v.s. v.d. [twentieth century] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 44.45
59 (Louis, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, naval officer and viceroy of India, 1900-79)

Mountbatten 5 Typed Letters signed (1 duplicate) to Sergeant A.N. Wright, stenographer to Lord Mountbatten

London 27th July 1946 - 13th January 1947 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 50.80
60 Epstein (Jacob)

Autograph Letter signed to Mrs. Grove

15th December, 1955 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 88.90
61

Photograph of J.M. Barrie reading to a group of writers and actors...

c.1910 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 508.00
62 Kennedy (John Fitzgerald, 35th president of the United States, 1917-63)

Printed Christmas card from Senator and Mrs John F. Kennedy signed at foot "Best wishes, Jack"

c. 1953-60 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 558.80
63 [Topsell (Edward)]

The Revvard of religion

1601 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 203.20
64 Broughton (Hugh)

Obseruations vpon the first ten fathers

?[London] & Amsterdam [1605] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 228.60
65 Montaigne (Michel de)

Essayes written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne...

1613 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 762.00
66 Jonson (Ben)

[The Workes]

[1616] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,794.00
67

Douai-Rheims version.- Bible, English. New Testament of Jesus Christ (The)

[Rouen] 1633 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 762.00
68 Bacon (Sir Francis)

Operum Moralium et Civilium

1638 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 508.00
69 Breton (John le)

Law.- Britton

1640 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 431.80
70 P[hillips] (E[dward])

The New World of English Words: or, a General Dictionary

1658 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
71 Charles I (King of England)

Basilika [graece]. The Workes of King Charles the Martyr

1662 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
72 Fuller (Thomas)

The Holy State

1648 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 825.50
73 Cowley (Abraham)

The Works

1674 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 825.50
74 [Allestree (Richard)]

The Art of Contentment

Oxford 1675 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
75 Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius)

The Vanity of Arts and Sciences, lacking portrait, title with ownership name of James Leslie

1776 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 889.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
  • Chiswick Auctions
    Books & Works on Paper
    12th March 2026
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.