Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 72326, London

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 23, 2026 - July 23, 2026
Page Size: 434 items in 18 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
409 Heath William

Disbound collector's album

[c. 1800-1850] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
410

Weatherproofs. Overcoats. Suits

[1930s] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
412 Goursat Georges SEM

Collection of 12 sheets of caricatures

[early 20th century] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
413 Kos Karoly

Transylvania

Kolozsvar 1927 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
414 Bransom Paul

Collection of 12 original illustrations for children's books

early 20th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
415 Griset Ernest Henri

Collection of over 140 original illustrations, costume designs, drawings and watercolours

19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
417 Sayenko Dmitry

The Book of the Unicorn

St. Petersburg 2010 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
418

Victorian Greeting Card Scrap Album

[mid-late 19th-century] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
419 Smith John Thomas

Vagabondiana; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London

1817 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
420 Egan Beresford

Fleurs du Mal in Pattern and Prose

1929 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
421 Flaubert Gustave

Herodias

1901 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
422 Steele Robert

Some Old French and English Ballads

1905 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
423 Russell Bertrand

The Good Citizen's Alphabet

1953 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
424 Pushkin Alexander

The Tale of the Golden Cockerel

1936 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
425 Swift Jonathan

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Waltham St.Lawrence 1925 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
426 Longus

Daphnis & Chloe

1923 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
427 Stonehouse John Harrison

The Story of the Great Omar Bound by Francis Longinus Sangorski and Its Romantic Loss

1933 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
428 Valery Paul

Charmes. Poemes commentes par Alain

Paris 1929 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
429 Verity Simon; Verity Judith

A Collection of Recipes from Friends in England for Felicity and Timothy Wotton

1973 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
430 Agata Gaetano d'

Caino

c.1910-19 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
431 Testino Mario

Private View

2012 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
432 Palladio Andrea

The First Book of Architecture

1729 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
433 Papworth John Buonarotti

Hints on ornamental gardening consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings

1823 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
435 Cooper Douglas

100 Books, including: Picasso: Theatre

1968 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
436

12 Books, including: L'Officiel de la Couleur des Industries de la Mode

1935-59 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
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    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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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    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
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    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
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