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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | Aggas E. | A Caveat for France |
1588 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 103 | Spenser Edmund | The Faerie Queene |
1590 | GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 104 | Spenser Edmund | The Faerie Queene |
1609 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 105 | Shakespeare William | The Comedie of Errors |
1623 | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 106 | Bolton Edmund | Nero Caesar, or Monarchie depraued |
1627 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 107 | Hobbes Thomas | Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society |
1651 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 108 | Dee John | A True & Faithful Relation of what passed...between Dr. John Dee...and some Spirits |
1659 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 109 | Milton John | Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd |
1669 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 110 | Martin John | The Paradise Lost of Milton |
circa 1824-1827 | GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 111 | Abendana Isaac | An Almanack for the Year of Christ, 1699 |
Oxford | 1699 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 112 | Gay John | The What D’ye Call It: A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce |
1715 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 113 | Sheppard Jack | Sheppard in Aegypt or News from the Dead |
1725 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 114 | Cole Benjamin | A Book of the Antient Constitutions of the Free & Accepted Masons |
1730 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 115 | The Twelve Months of the Year Represented by Lilliputian Figures |
c.1770 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 116 | Gibbon Edward | 8 Books, including: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
1776-88 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 117 | Sancho Ignatius | Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho |
1782 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 118 | Darwin Erasmus | The Botanic Garden; A Poem |
London; Lichfield | 1791-89 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 119 | Wordsworth William; Coleridge Samuel Taylor | Lyrical Ballads |
1800 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 120 | The Holy Bible |
1800-16 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown | ||
| 121 | Jenkins James | The Naval Achievements of Great Britain |
1817 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 122 | Milner Henry M. | Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster! A Peculiar Romantic Melo-Dramatic Pantomimic Spectacle, in Two Acts |
1826 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 123 | Halliwell James Orchard | The First Sketch of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor |
1842 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 124 | Wordsworth William | The Poetical Works; Wilmot Marsh's book |
1845 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 125 | Dickens Charles | The Adventures of Oliver Twist |
1846 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
| 126 | Rossetti Christina | The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems |
1866 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 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