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
51 Maitre Francois (fl. 1460s-1480s)

A funeral scene

France; Paris c. 1470 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 926.80
52 Maitre Francois (fl. 1460s-1480s)

The Adoration of the Magi

France; Paris c. 1470 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,125.40
53 Maitre Francois (fl. 1460s-1480s)

The Annunciation of the Virgin

France; Paris c. 1470 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,588.80
54

Leaf from a Psalter

Netherlands c. 1480 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 503.12
55

Leaf from a Book of Hours

France c. 1480 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
56 Cotton Robert Bruce (1571-1631)

Extracts out of the Records wherein may bee Collected by what meanes the Kings of England have and may raise monies

c. 1612 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,986.00
57 Alleyn Edward

The Statutes of Dulwich Colledge

Dulwich c.1680 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,324.00
58 Pope Alexander (1688-1744)

Autograph Letter signed to William Fortescue

c. 1730 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,118.40
59 Boswell James (1740-95)

Autograph biographical notice of Edmund Hector

1794 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,059.20
60 Coleridge Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

Autograph fragment of a letter to William Blackwood

?1819 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 993.00
61 Campbell Colin (1776-1847);Wellington

4 Letters, including: Autograph Letters signed to Lord Fitzroy

1830;1841;1815 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
62 Laboulaye Edouard Rene Lefebvre de (1811-83)

Autograph Letter signed to Ch F Wingate

Paris 1867 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 397.20
63

Verses presented to the Lady Mordaunt upon her first arrival att Walton

1730 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,707.20
64 Genlis Stephanie Felicite (1746-1830)

Seven Autograph Letters and four Autograph Letters written on behalf of the author

1810-1822 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
65 Stagoll E.G.

Icones Sanctorum

c. 1850 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 662.00
66 Sand George

Varieties

1860s GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
67 Shaw George Bernard (1856-1950)

4 Autograph Letters signed and 1 autograph compliments card signed

London 1885-1916 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,648.00
68 Edison Thomas Alva (1847-1931)

Letter signed to Col. Geo. E. Gouraud

Orange, N.J. 1889 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,456.40
69 Woods Albert William (1816-1904);Blount Walter Aston (1807-94)

Grant of arms to Edmund Boger

1893 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
70

Journal of the Proceedings of H.M.S. Talbot

1902-04 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,515.60
71 Jones Henry Clifford

Documents relating to Henry Clifford Jones

1933-59 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
72 Mitford Nancy (1904-73)

Autograph Letters and Postcards

Paris; Versailles 1961-1971 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,648.00
73 Mitford Diana (1910-2003)

Autograph Letters and Postcards

Paris; Orsay; Chatsworth House 1962-1987 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,588.80
74 Catherine; George

Royal Wedding Ephemera

2011-17 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,986.00
75 Sternhold Thomas; Hopkins John

Bible

1577; 1618 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,324.00
  • 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.