Forum Auctions: 10th Anniversary Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale, 71626, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 16, 2026 - July 16, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 238 | Grimaldi Francesco Maria | Physico-Mathesis de Lumine, Coloribus, et Iride |
Bologna | 1665 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 239 | Durer Albrecht | Institutionum Geometricarum |
Paris | 1532 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 240 | Snellius Willebrord | Eratosthenes Batavus de Terrae ambitus vera quantitate |
Leiden | 1617 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 241 | Euclid | Sepher Euclides |
The Hague | 1780 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 242 | Newton Isaac | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica |
Cambridge | 1713 | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 243 | Newton Isaac | Optice sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus, et Coloribus Lucis Libris Tres |
1706 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 244 | Stirling James | Lineae Tertii Ordinis Newtoniae |
Oxford | 1717 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown |
| 245 | Newton Isaac | A Treatise of the System of the World |
1728 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 246 | Newton Isaac | Lectiones Opticae, annis MDCLXIX, MDCLXX & MDCLXXI |
1729 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 247 | Newton Isaac | Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light |
1730 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 248 | Smith Robert | A Compleat System of Opticks In Four Books |
Cambridge | 1738 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Unknown |
| 249 | Stewart John | Sir Isaac Newton's Two Treatises of the Quadrature of Curves |
1745 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 250 | Newton Isaac | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica |
Geneva | 1760 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 251 | Cherubin d'Orleans | La Dioptrique Oculaire, ou la Theorique, la Positive et la Mechanique, de l'Oculaire Dioptrique en toutes ses especes |
Paris | 1671 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 252 | Euclid | Euclidis Optica & Catoptrica |
Paris | 1557 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 253 | Kircher Athanasius | Ars Magna Lucis et Vmbrae |
Rome | 1645 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 254 | Molyneux William | Dioptrica nova. A Treatise of Dioptricks |
1692 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 255 | Monte Guidobaldo del | In duos Archimedis aequeponderantium libros |
Pesaro | 1588 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 256 | Markham Gervase | The Art of Archerie |
1634 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 257 | Game at Cricket (The) |
1755 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 258 | Boxall Thomas | Rules & Instructions for Playing at the Game of Cricket |
c.1802 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 259 | Britcher Samuel | A Complete List of all the Grand Matches of Cricket That has been played in the Year 1792 |
1792 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 261 | Lillywhite Frederick | Lillywhite's Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket |
London; Brighton | 1844 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 262 | Wisden John | Cricketers' Almanack for 1895 |
1895 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 263 | Wisden John | Cricketers' Almanack for 1896 |
1896 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
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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. -
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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