Cotswold Auction Company: Books, Medals, Militaria, Coins, Stamps & Collectables, 60226, Cheltenham

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 02, 2026 - June 02, 2026
Page Size: 262 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
350 Lamb Charles

N Books, including: Decisive Battles

N/A Not Available GBP 218.96
351 Froissart John

Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries

London 1808 Not Available GBP 128.80
352 Brougham Henry

N Books, including: Biographical Dictionary

Edinburgh 1884; 1803 Not Available GBP 167.44
353 Barneby W. Henry

Life and Labour in the Far Far West; The New Far West and the Old Far East

1884; 1889 Not Available GBP 412.16
354 Blair; Prescott; Smith, S; Clarendon; Alison; Gibbon

N Books, including: Blair's Sermons

N/A Not Available GBP 489.44
355 Euripidis; Pope; Stevenson, R.L.

N Books, including: Artists of the Italian Renaissance

1898; 1904; 1906; 1907 Not Available GBP 386.40
356 Robinson W

Flora and Sylva

London 1903 Not Available GBP 154.56
357 Sullivan Edward; Gilbert J.T.; James Henry

Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland

Dublin 1874 Not Available GBP 77.28
358 Loudon J.C.; Mawe Thomas; Abercrombie John; Badham Charles David; Haynes Thomas; McCulloch J R; Whitmill Benj.

N Books, including: The Gardener's Magazine

London 1826; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1878; 1847; 1812; 1757 Not Available GBP 360.64
359 Hill John

Eden; or, a Compleat Body of Gardening

London 1757 Not Available GBP 772.80
360 Bradley R; Hartlib Samuel; De La Quintinye Monsieur; Mawe Thomas; Mortimer John

N Books, including: The County Gentleman and Farmers Monthly Director

London 1736; 1724; 1710; 1732; 1787; 1712 Not Available GBP 966.00
361 Dezallier D'Argenville Antoine Joseph; Le Blond Alexander

The Theory and Practice of Gardening

London 1728 Not Available GBP 669.76
362 Hawney William; Wild Samuel; Shirtcliffe Robert; Phillips William; Johnstone

N Books, including: The Compleat Measurer

London 1721; 1760; 1740; 1818; 1844 Not Available GBP 283.36
363 Record Robert; Dee John; Wingate Edmund; Dodson James; Bonneycastle John; Euclidis; Simson Robert; Fraiter Robert; Brown George

N Books, including: Record's Arithmetick

London; Oxoniae; Edinburgh 1668; 1751; 1800; 1723; 1747; 1818; 1717/18 Not Available GBP 837.20
364 Dodsley Robert; Johnson Samuel

The Preceptor

London 1748 Not Available GBP 167.44
365 Sale George

The Koran

London 1764 Not Available GBP 1,159.20
366 Gilpin William; Gresley W

Observations, relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Remarks on Forest Scenery; Observations on the River Wye; The Forest of Arden; The Lord of the Forest and His Vassals

London 1789; 1791; 1792; 1847 Not Available GBP 309.12
367 Scaligeri Josephi; Buchanan George; Wyther George

8 Books, including: Catullus

Basileae 1680; 1631; 1615 Not Available GBP 2,318.40
368 Salmon William

The English Herbal; or History of Plants

London 1710 Not Available GBP 579.60
369 Curtis William

Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London

Lambeth Marsh 1777; 1798 Not Available GBP 3,864.00
370 Elwes Henry John; Fitch W H

A Monograph of the Genus Lilium

1880 Not Available GBP 3,477.60
371 Maund B.

The Botanic Garden Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants

London 1825-1828; 1831-1832 Not Available GBP 309.12
372 Edwards Sydenham; Lindley John

The Botanical Register consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants

London 1815-1829 Not Available GBP 3,735.20
373 Picart Bernard

The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World

London 1733-1737 Not Available GBP 618.24
374 Comber Tho

10 Books, including: The Book of Common Prayer

London; Oxford 1674; 1703; 1704; 1701; 1759; 1702; 1846; 1799; 1845 Not Available GBP 2,962.40
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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