Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 60426, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 16, 2026 - June 16, 2026
Page Size: 313 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
103 Forster John Reinold; Forster George

Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World; A Voyage round the World

1778; 1777 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 529.00
104 Gudgeon Thomas Wayth

The Defenders of New Zealand

Auckland 1887 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 202.00
105 Menard Romuald Georges

Vue de Sydney et de l'entree de la riviere de Paramatta

1841 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
106 Cook James; Marshall William Barrett; Earle Augustus; Cruise Richard A.

N Books, including: Captain Cook's third and last voyage to the Pacific Ocean

1784?; 1836; 1832; 1823 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 378.00
107 Dieffenbach Ernest; Petre Henry William; Hochstetter Ferdinand von; Mackenzie F. W.; Taylor Richard

Travels in New Zealand; An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Colony; New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History; The New Zealand War of 1860; Overland from Auckland to Wellington in 1853; Te Ika A Maui

Stuttgart; Dunedin 1843; 1841; 1867; 1861; 1893; 1870 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 580.00
108 Craik John Lillie; Trollope Anthony; Hector James; Bilbrough E. Ernest

The New Zealanders; Latest Information from the settlement of New Plymouth; New Zealand; Handbook of New Zealand; Brett's Handy Guide to New Zealand

Wellington; Auckland; London 1847; 1842; 1874; 1879; 1890 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 202.00
109 Maling Peter Bromley; Wakefield Edward Jerningham; Angas George French; Murray Oliver Anthony; Garran Andrew

10 Books, including: Early Charts of New Zealand

Wellington 1969; 1968; 1966; 1972; 1981; 1886 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 189.00
110 Brown William; Bidwill John Carne; Hood T. H. Cockburn; Crozet Julien Marie; Roth Henry Ling

New Zealand and its Aborigines; Rambles in New Zealand; Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S. "Fawn" in the Western Pacific; Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania, New Zealand, the Ladrone Islands, and the Philippines

Edinburgh 1845; 1841; 1863; 1891 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 113.00
111

Important Judgements Delivered in the Compensation and Native Land Court 1866-1879

Auckland 1879 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.00
112 Wakefield Edward Jerningham; Taylor Richard

Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844; Te Ika A Maui

1845; 1855 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
113 Nicholas John Liddiard

Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand

1817 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
114 Parkinson Sydney

A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas

1773 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,268.00
115 Phillip Arthur

The Voyage of Governor Philip to Botany Bay

1789 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 529.00
116 Ross Malcolm; Hillary Edmund

A Climber in New Zealand; High Adventure

1914; 1955 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
117 Savage John

Some Account of New Zealand

London; Edinburgh 1807 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
118 Savage John

Some Account of New Zealand

London; Edinburgh 1807 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 239.00
119 Shortland Edward

The Southern Districts of New Zealand; a Journal

1851 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 202.00
120 Sparrman Anders; Le Tourneur P.

Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et autour du monde avec le capitaine Cook

Paris 1787 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 189.00
121 Spence Baldwin

Wanderings in Wild Australia

1928 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 139.00
122 Wakefield Edward

New Zealand Illustrated

Wanganui 1889 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 302.00
123 Bodmer Karl

Illustrations to Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied's Travels in the Interior of North America

1991 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
124 Roe Charles Francis

Custer’s Last Battle

New York City 1927 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 176.00
125

Ledger N C, Began the primo May 1681

1681-1699 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 7,560.00
126 Ogilby John

America: Being an Accurate Description of the New World

1670 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 403.00
127 Cartwright Joseph

View of the Town and Harbour of Vathi in Ithaca

1821 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 101.00
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    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
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
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    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
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    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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