Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 72326, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 23, 2026 - July 23, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Purchas Samuel | A Theatre of politicall flying-insects |
1657 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 27 | Richardson H.D. | The Hive and the honey-bee |
Amen Corner | 1852 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 28 | Rusden Moses | A Further discovery of bees |
1679 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 29 | Thorley John | Melisselogia, or The Female Monarchy |
Cheapside | 1744 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 30 | Warder Joseph | The True amazons: or, the monarchy of bees |
Fleet-Street; Pater-Noster-Row | 1722 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 31 | White Stephen | Collateral bee-boxes |
Holbourn | 1756 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 32 | White William | A Complete guide to the mystery and management of bees |
London; Oxford; Reading; Banbury | 1852 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 33 | Wighton John | The History and management of bees |
London; Norwich | 1842 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 34 | Wildman Thomas | A Treatise on the management of bees |
Strand | 1768 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 35 | Worlidge John | Systema Agriculturae |
Fleetstreet | 1681; 1726 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 36 | Chomel Noel | Dictionaire Oeconomique: or, The Family Dictionary |
1725 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 37 | Bazin Gilles Augustin | The natural history of bees |
1744 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 38 | Blackwell Elizabeth | Herbarium Selectum Emendatum et Auctum Centuria II |
Nuremburg | 1754 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 39 | Brunner J. | Plantes de l'Herbier |
Geneva | c.1850 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 40 | Haller Albrecht von | Enumeratio Methodica Stirpium Helvetiae Indigenarum |
Gottingen | 1742 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 41 | Lemaire Charles Antoine | Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe |
c. 1845-1880 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 42 | May A.E.; May William | Choice Flowers: A Collection of Drawings of Favourite Flowers from the Garden and Conservatory |
1849 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 43 | Tessier Louis | Livre de Corbeilles et Vases de Fleurs |
c.1770 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | |
| 44 | Dezallier d'Argenville Antoine | La Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage; De La Composition des Parcs et Jardins Pittoresques |
The Hague | 1711 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 45 | Eachard John | Mr Hobbs's State of Nature, considered, in a Dialogue between Philautus and Timothy |
1672 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 46 | Johnstone William Grosart; Croall Alexander | The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds |
1859-60 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 47 | Millais John Guille | British Game Birds and Shooting Sketches |
1892 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 48 | Riley George | The Beauties of the Creation; or, a new Moral System of Natural History |
1790 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 49 | Sitwell Sacheverell; Blunt Wilfrid | Great Flower Books 1700-1900 |
1956 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown | |
| 50 | Aldam W.H. | A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making" |
1876 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | 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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