Bellmans Auctioneers and Valuers: Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 71526, Billinghurst, West Sussex
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 15, 2026 - July 15, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 754 | Hoyle Edmond (1672-1769) | Mr. Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Back-gammon, Complete |
London | c.1759 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 755 | Huxley Aldous (1894-1963) | 14 Books, including: Those Barren Leaves |
London | 1921-1959 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 756 | Athanasius Sacri Montis Sinai in Arabia Archiepiscopus |
Vienna | 1736 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 757 | Beaufort Daniel Augustus (1739-1821) | Ireland Civil and Ecclesiastical |
London | 1824 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 758 | James I & VI (1566-1625) | The Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince, James |
London | 1616 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 759 | Johnson Samuel (1709-1784) | A Dictionary of the English Language |
London | 1818 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 760 | Josephus (c.AD37-c.100) | The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus |
London | 1609 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 761 | Keats John (1795-1821) | The Poems |
London | 1979 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 762 | Kipling Rudyard (1865-1936) | 11 Books, including: Kim |
London; Allahabad | 1891-1937 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 763 | Evans Kos | 20 x 20 |
London | 2001 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 764 | Kreymborg Alfred | Mushrooms. A Book of Free Forms |
New York | 1916 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 765 | Lawrence T. E. | Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
London | [1935] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 766 | Levasseur Victor | Amerique Septentrionale |
Paris | [c.1845] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 767 | Locke John | Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke, and Several of his Friends |
London | 1708 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 768 | Lovecraft H. P. | Beyond the Wall of Sleep |
Sauk City, Wisconsin | 1943 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 769 | Lowell Percival | Mars and its Canals |
New York | 1906 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 770 | Machiavelli Niccolo | The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence |
London | 1680 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 771 | Mackenzie Henry | The Man of Feeling |
London | 1771 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 772 | Maugham William Somerset | Of Human Bondage |
London | 1915 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 773 | Melville Herman | Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life |
London | 1846 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 774 | Carter Thomas; Grose Francis; Wilson John Marius; Tyrrell Henry; Nolan E. H.; Kinglake Alexander William; Clark George T.; Groves Percy; Mayo John Horsley; Mahan A. T.; Macdonald R. J.; Chichester Henry Manners; Burges-Short George; Nevill Ralph; Macmunn | 39 Books, including: Medals of the British Army, and How They Were Won |
London; Tunbridge Wells | 1801-1975 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 775 | Miniature photograph album |
late 19th-century | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | ||
| 776 | Maugham William Somerset; Cats Jacob; Farlie Robert; Froissart John; Kipling Rudyard; Napoleon; Hewison James King; Walton Izaak; Scott Robert Falcon; Austen Jane | 9 Books, including: A Writer's Notebook |
London; Glasgow; Oxford | 1862-1975 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 777 | Mitford John; Thornton Alfred; Scott Walter | The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy; The Adventures of a Post Captain; Kenilworth |
London; Edinburgh | 1817-1821 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 778 | Murdoch Iris | 20 Books, including: The Flight from the Enchanter |
London | 1956-1983 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000