Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 60426, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 16, 2026 - June 16, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 310 | Ramond de Carbonnieres Baron L.-F. E.; Howard-Bury C. K.; Viollet-le-Duc Eugene; Smythe F. S.; Berlepsch H.; Tilman H. W. | 170 Books, including: Travels in the Pyrenees |
Paris | 1813; 1923; 1877; 1930; 1861; 1949 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 302.00 |
| 311 | Munnings Alfred | The Second Burst |
1951 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 151.00 | |
| 312 | Coaten Arthur W.; Dale T. F. | The Polo Monthly & Racing Review; Polo at Home and Abroad; British Sports & Sportsmen: Polo & Coaching |
1924-1938; 1915; ND | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 313 | Selden John; Massi Coustard de | The Duello; History of Dueling |
[1711]; [1888] | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 314 | Hawker P.; St. John Charles | 18 Books, including: Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting |
1824; 1849 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 126.00 | |
| 315 | Grimble Augustus; Hartley Gilfrid W.; Roosevelt Theodore | 55 Books, including: Leaves from a Game Book |
1898; 1903; 1905 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 316 | Aerad Flight Guide; The International Air Race – 1953; International Air Race – 1953 Programme; Official Souvenir Programme |
Christchurch | 1953; 1914; 1925; 1928-31 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 317 | Command of the Air Council |
1945 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 25.00 | ||
| 318 | Bristol Aeroplane Company | The Brabazon Project |
Birmingham; London | [1949-50] | GBP 120.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 320 | Grahame-White Claud | The Birthplace of Aerial Power; Ballooning; Caudron Frere and Caudron-Renault; Racing |
1919; [c. 1935] | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 164.00 | |
| 321 | Laignier Georges Henri | Livre d'or de la Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne |
Paris | 1909 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 403.00 |
| 322 | Nursery Aviation posters |
[1910?] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 76.00 | ||
| 323 | Scott Orr H. | Destruction of Zeppelin Near London |
1916 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 630.00 |
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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
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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