Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 52826, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026
Page Size: 264 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Balbus Johannes

Catholicon

Mainz c.1460-69 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,442.40
2 Alexander of Aphrodisias

De anima ex Aristotelis institutione

Brescia 1495 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,986.00
3 Pierre de Limoges

De oculo morali

Venice 1496 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,972.00
4 Foresti da Bergamo Jacobus

De claris mulieribus

Ferrara 1497 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 18,536.00
5 Aristotle

Opera

Venice 1497 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 9,930.00
6 Euripides

Tragoediae

Venice 1503 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
7

Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme

Paris 1504 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 13,240.00
8 Dante Alighieri

L'Amoroso Convivio

Venice 1529 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 926.80
9 Purstinger Berthold

Onus ecclesiae

Cologne 1531 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 794.40
10 Gobler Justin

Gerichtlicher process ausz grund der rechten und gemeyner uebung zum fleissigsten in drei theyl verfasset

Frankfurt 1536 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
11 Colonna Francesco

La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo

Venice 1545 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 19,860.00
12 Kimchi David

Sefer ha-shorashim

Venice 1546 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 662.00
13 Cardano Girolamo

De Rerum Varietate Libri XVII

Basel 1557 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,853.60
14 Trubar Primus

Der catechismus mit kurtzen ausslegungen symbolum Athanasij

Tubingen; Bad Urach 1561 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 22,508.00
15 Camerarius Joachim

Symbolorum & emblematum ex re herbaria

Nuremberg 1590 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,986.00
16 Botero Giovanni

Le Relationi Universali

Venice 1618-17 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,177.60
17 Sciadrensis Isaac

Grammatica Linguae Syriacae

Rome 1636 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,986.00
18 Abrabanel Isaac

Peirush al Nevi'im Acharonim

Amsterdam 1641-42 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 993.00
19 Gassendi Pierre

De vita et moribus Epicuri libri octo

Lyon 1647 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,588.80
20 Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de

Vida y Hechos Del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha

Brussels 1662 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
21

Kitab al-injil al-sharif al-tahir wa-al-misbah al-munir al-zahir

Shuwayr 1776 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,118.40
22

Kitab al-injil al-sharif al-tahir wa-al-misbah al-munir al-zahir

Shuwayr 1818 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,588.80
23

Kitab al-injil al-sharif al-tahir wa-al-misbah al-munir al-zahir

Shuwayr 1861 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,324.00
24

Hymnologia Damulica

Tranquebar 1723 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 26,480.00
25 Garcia Cuesta Miguel

Catecismo para uso del pueblo acerca del protestantismo

Ponce 1869 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,257.80
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.