Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts & Music, from Medieval to Modern, L26403, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | Carroll Lewis | Photographic portrait of Alice, Ina, and Edith Liddell |
1858 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 56 | Ferguson Donald | Three glass plate negatives of photographs taken at Chartwell |
1927 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 57 | Curtis William; Graves George; Hooker William Jackson | Flora Londinensis |
London | 1835 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 6,144.00 |
| 58 | A collection of 41 letters by Victorian naturalists and scientists |
N/A | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,040.00 | ||
| 59 | Description de l'Egypte |
Paris | 1820-1830 | GBP 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 60 | Dupre Louis | Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople |
Paris | 1825 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 33,280.00 |
| 61 | Fleming Ian | Moonraker |
London | 1955 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,400.00 |
| 62 | Fleming Ian | You Only Live Twice |
London | 1964 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,144.00 |
| 63 | McLusky John | 12 original James Bond comic strips |
1958-1966 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 65 | Gentz Friedrich von | Archive of autograph letters and billets to Countess Eleonore Fuchs |
c.1812-1831 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 66 | Gould John | A Century of Birds from the Himalayan Mountains |
London | 1832 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 5,120.00 |
| 67 | Harris Moses | The Aurelian, or natural history of English moths and butterflies |
London | 1840 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,176.00 |
| 68 | Bourne; Bourne & Shepherd; Shepherd & Robertson | Simla and Kashmir 1879 |
1879 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,680.00 | |
| 69 | Larkin Philip | 16 Books, including: A Girl In Winter |
London; Oxford; Hamburg; Copenhagen; Leeds; Hull | 1965; 1966; 1970; 1973; 1974; 1976; 1979; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 25,600.00 |
| 70 | Lepsius Carl Richard | Denkmaler aus Agypten und Athiopien |
Berlin | 1849-1858 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 35,840.00 |
| 71 | Mallory George Leigh | Series of c.140 letters to his mother and other family members |
1895-1924 | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 48,640.00 | |
| 73 | Nelson Horatio | Album of naval letters and orders |
1799-1802 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,800.00 | |
| 74 | Rowling J.K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 40,960.00 |
| 75 | Rowling J.K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 12,800.00 |
| 76 | Salten Felix | Bambi; Bob und Baby |
Berlin | 1923; 1925 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 77 | Boydell John; Boydell Josiah | A collection of prints, from pictures painted for the purposes of illustrating the dramatic works of Shakspeare |
London | 1803 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 5,120.00 |
| 78 | Shepard E.H.; Milne A.A. | Six Drawings by E.H. Shepard, Illustrating Poems from When We Were Very Young |
London | [1925] | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,040.00 |
| 79 | Stackelberg Otto | Costumes et usages des peuples de la Grece moderne |
Rome | 1825 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 80 | Stoppard Tom | Important collection of letters to Isabel Dunjohn |
1950s-2020s | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 38,400.00 | |
| 81 | Thackeray William Makepeace | A Wonderfulle, Veritable and Trulye Delectable Hystorye; of a certain flock of sheep that went astray |
London | 1848 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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