Chorley's: Fine Paintings, Watercolours & Prints. Fine Silver & Jewelry, 71426, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 14, 2026 - July 15, 2026
Page Size: 106 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
716 Toepffer R.

Premiers Voyages en Zigzag; Nouveaux Voyages en Zigzag

Paris 1868; 1864 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
717 Goldsmith Oliver

The Citizen of the World

London 1782 Not Available Unknown
718 Benedite Leonce; Kirkman F. B.

Rodin; The British Bird Book

London 1924; 1911 Not Available Unknown
719

23 Books, including: Wisdom of the East Series

London 1905-11 Not Available Unknown
720

28 Books, including: An Eyewitness History of the Crusades

London 2004; 2001 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
721 Wilde Oscar

Folio Society Literature and Novels

1993 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
722 Henderson George

13 Books, including: The Art of Illumination

London 2004 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
723 Von Clausewitz Carl

9 Books, including: On War

London 2011 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
724

15 Books, including: Early and Ancient Cultures, Religion and Archaeology

N/A GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
725 White Gilbert; Hakluyt Richard

11 Books, including: The Natural History of Selbourne

London 2009; 1970 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
726 Lear Edward

16 Books, including: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Journal of a Landscape Painter

London 1964 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
727 Radice William

10 Books, including: Myths & Legends of India

London 2001 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
728 Lovill Justin; Fisher H.A.L.; Morris James

19 Books, including: Notable Historical Trials; A History of Europe; Pax Britannica

London; London; London 1999; 2011; 1992 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
729 Russell Bertrand; Burton Robert; Smith Adam; Frazer James George

14 Books, including: History of Western Philosophy; The Anatomy of Melancholy; The Wealth of Nations; The Golden Bough

London; London; London; London 2004; 2005; 2008; 2018 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
730

15 Books, including: The Complete Greek Tragedies; Lives of the Later Caesars

London; London 2011; 2005 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
731

Domesday Book. Warwickshire

London 1987-91 Not Available Unknown
732 Rumi

7 Books, including: Rumi: Selected Poems

London 2017 Not Available Unknown
733 Darwin Charles; Dawkins Richard

7 Books, including: On the Origin of the Species; The Blind Watchmaker

London; London 2006; 2017 Not Available Unknown
734 Dickens Charles

Works

London n.d. GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
735

29 Books

N/A Not Available Unknown
736 Tennyson Alfred Lord

9 Books, including: Maud, and other Poems

London 1866 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
737

21 Books

N/A Not Available Unknown
738

30 Books

N/A Not Available Unknown
739 Mudge William

10 Miles Round Forest Farm

1816 Not Available Unknown
740 Milne A.A.; Anon; Addison; Steele

7 Books, including: Winnie the Pooh; The Refuge; The Spectator in London

London; London; London 1926; 1801; 1896 Not Available Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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
  • 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
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    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
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    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