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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78 | Siren Osvald | Les peintures Chinoises dans le collections Americaines |
Paris | 1928 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 126.00 |
| 79 | Siren Osvald | The Walls and Gates of Peking |
London | 1924 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,071.00 |
| 80 | Hobson R. L. | Chinese pottery and porcelain |
London | 1915 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 126.00 |
| 81 | Hobson R. L.; Rachham Edward; King William; Hetherington A. L. | 3 Books, including: Chinese ceramics in private collections |
London | 1931; 1923 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 101.00 |
| 82 | The s. C. Ko Tianminlou collection |
Hong Kong | 1987 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 403.00 | |
| 83 | Weber V.-F. | Dictionnaire a l'Usage des Amateurs et Collectionneurs d'Objets d'Art Japonais et Chinois |
Paris | 1923 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 126.00 |
| 84 | White William Charles | Tombs of old Lo'Yang |
Shanghai | 1934 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 63.00 |
| 85 | Krafft Hughes | A Travers Le Turkestan Russe |
Paris | 1902 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,197.00 |
| 86 | A Nourooz card from Fatemeh and Hossein Ala to Aghaye Estephani de Kurdistan |
London | 1960 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 87 | Allom Thomas; Walsh Robert | Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor |
c.1840 | GBP 120.00 - 150.00 | GBP 302.00 | |
| 88 | Carne John; Bartlett W. H.; Purser William; Allom Thomas; Walsh Robert | Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c., Illustrated; Constantinople and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor |
1836-38; 1839 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 328.00 | |
| 89 | Kerim A. | Camera Studies in Iraq |
Baghdad | c.1925 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 90 | Oppenheim Max von | Vom Mittelmeer zum Persischen Golf |
Berlin | 1899-1900 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 91 | Nares George S.; Kane Elisha Kent | Journals and Proceedings of the Arctic Expedition, 1875-6; Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin |
1877; 1856 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 479.00 | |
| 92 | Berghaus Hermann; Gonczy Pal; Geyer V.; Harrall Horace; Barrass Clive; de Sainson Louis; Scott Harriet | Australia: A collection of 21 maps and prints |
Sydney | 1877; 1879; c. 1942; 1962; 1833; 1868 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 93 | Barraud Charles Decimus; Travers W. T. L. | New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive |
1877 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 189.00 | |
| 94 | Brees Samuel | Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand |
1849 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 95 | Brees Samuel | Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand |
1849 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 96 | Buller Walter Lawry | A History of the Birds of New Zealand |
1888 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | |
| 97 | Cook James | Carte de la Nle. Galles Meridle. ou de la Cote Orientale de la Nle. Hollande |
1774; 1785 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98 | Cook James | A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean |
1784 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 454.00 | |
| 99 | Cook James; Baston Guillaume Andre Rene; Ellis William; Wharton W.J.L. | N Books, including: Narrations d'Omai |
Rouen; Paris | 1790; 1782; 1893 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 630.00 |
| 100 | Cook James; Hawkesworth John | An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere |
Dublin | 1775 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 202.00 |
| 101 | Ellis William; Williams John; Wilson James | N Books, including: Polynesian Researches |
1832; 1837; 1799 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 63.00 | |
| 102 | Fitzroy Robert; Darwin Charles; King P.P.; Vancouver George | Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle; A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean |
1839; 1798 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 378.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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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