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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 212 | Warner Robert; Williams Benjamin S. | Select Orchidaceous Plants |
1862-91 | GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 213 | Paxton Joseph | Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants |
1834-49 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 214 | Seguy E.A. | Insectes |
Paris | 1928 | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 215 | Gamgee Joseph Sampson | History of a Successful Case of Amputation at the Hip-Joint |
1865 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 216 | d'Agoty Jacques-Fabien Gautier | Anatomie de la Tete |
Paris | 1748 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 217 | Elliotson John | Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State; The Mesmerist: A Journal of Vital Magnetism |
1843 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
| 218 | Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus | Opera omnia medico-chemico-chirurgica |
Geneva | 1658 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 220 | Porzio Simone | De coloribus oculorum |
Florence | 1550 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 221 | Lister Joseph | On a New Method of Treating Compound Fracture, Abscess, etc; On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery |
1867 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 222 | Clavius Christophorus | In Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius |
Rome | 1570 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 223 | Galilei Galileo | Systema Cosmicum |
Strasbourg | 1635 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown |
| 224 | Ptolemaeus Claudius | Almagestum seu magnae constructionis mathematicae opus |
Venice | 1528 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 225 | Bacon Roger | Opus majus ad Clementem Quartum Pontificem Romanum |
1733 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 226 | Lemaitre Georges | Un Univers Homogene de Masse Constante et de Rayon Croissant, rendant compte de la Vitesse Radiale des Nebleuses Extra-Galactiques |
Louvain | 1927 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 227 | Chambers Robert | 2 Books, including: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation |
1844; 1846 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown | |
| 228 | Milanković Milutin | Kanon der Erdbestrahlung und seine Anwendung auf das Eiszeitenproblem |
Belgrade | 1941 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 229 | Shannon Claude Elwood | Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits |
New York | 1938, printed c.1955 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 230 | Darwin Charles | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
1860 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 231 | Darwin Charles | Geological Observations on South America |
1846 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 232 | Pasteur Louis | Memoire sur les Corpuscules Organises qui existent dans l'atmosphere |
Paris | 1861 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 233 | Spinoza Baruch | Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiae |
Amsterdam | 1663 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Unknown |
| 234 | Lyell Charles | Principles of Geology |
1830-32-33 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 235 | Hertz Heinrich | Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft |
Leipzig | 1892 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 236 | Huygens Christiaan | Opuscula Posthuma |
Amsterdam | 1728 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 237 | Kircher Athanasius | Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis |
Amsterdam | 1680 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 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