Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 52826, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | West William | Three Treatises, of the Second Part of Symbolaeographie |
1594 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 423.68 | |
| 77 | Jackson Thomas (1579-1640) | Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed |
1613-1614 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 529.60 | |
| 78 | Holy Bible |
1657 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 79 | Raleigh Walter | The Cabinet-council |
London | 1658 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 529.60 |
| 80 | Fox George | To the Turk, and all that are under his supream |
London | 1660 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 662.00 |
| 81 | Canaries James | A Discourse representing the sufficient manifestation of the will of God |
Edinburgh | 1684 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 529.60 |
| 82 | Homer; Pope Alexander | The Iliad; The Odyssey |
1715-20; 1725-26 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,707.20 | |
| 83 | Hutchinson Francis | An Historical essay concerning witchcraft |
London | 1718 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,853.60 |
| 84 | Wallis John | A Treatise concerning St. Matthias Day |
Oxford | 1719 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 185.36 |
| 85 | Boyer Abel | The Political State of Great Britain |
London | 1723 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,355.20 |
| 86 | Swift Jonathan | City Cries, Instrumental and Vocal |
London | 1732 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 794.40 |
| 87 | Barrow J. | The Gentleman, Tradesman, and Traveller's Pocket Library |
1753 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 662.00 | |
| 88 | Rushton Edward | The Dismember'd Empire |
Liverpool | 1782 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,456.40 |
| 89 | Coleridge Samuel Taylor | Poems on Various Subjects |
1796 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,059.20 | |
| 90 | Smith Charlotte | The Young Philosopher |
1798 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 662.00 | |
| 91 | Holy Bible |
Helston | 1799 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 92 | A collection of Bristol related political ephemera |
c. 1812-1880 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 93 | Austen Jane | Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion |
1818 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 19,860.00 | |
| 94 | Lambert William | The Cricketers' Guide |
Lewes; London | ?1819 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 95 | Raine James | Saint Cuthbert |
Durham | 1828 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 728.20 |
| 96 | Hugo Victor | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame |
1833 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,634.00 | |
| 97 | Ruskin John | The Stones of Venice; The Seven Lamps of Architecture |
1849; 1851-53 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98 | Byron George Gordon Noel Lord | A Political Ode |
1880 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 19,860.00 | |
| 99 | Clemens Samuel Langhorne | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
New York | 1885 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,912.80 |
| 100 | Austen Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
1894 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,250.80 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’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. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’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. $40,000/60,000Freeman’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. $60,000/80,000Freeman’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. $100,000/200,000Freeman’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 JuneSotheby’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.