Chorley's: The Country House Auction, 42126, Gloucestershire
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 21, 2026 - April 22, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 670 | Jane Austen | Austen (Jane) Works |
Oxford | 1926 | Not Available | GBP 45.50 |
| 671 | Five 19th Century albums of Crests & Monograms |
London | circa 1840-60 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 260.00 | |
| 672 | Theodore Roosevelt | Roosevelt (Theodore) Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains [signed] |
New York | 1899 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 673 | Victor Hugo; Arthur Rackham | [Bindings] to be finalised |
Paris; Oxford; London | ND; 1902; 1911 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 182.00 |
| 674 | J. H. Patterson; Francis T. Warre Cornish; Charles I. Elton; F. W. Fairholt | [Travel] |
London; Eton; London; London; London | 1907; 1902; ND; 1894; 1846 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 104.00 |
| 675 | Alfred Lord Tennyson; James Ellroy Flecker; Charles Dickens; H. F. Witherby | [Poetry & Literature] |
London; London; London; London | 1903; 1923; 1932; 1938 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 117.00 |
| 676 | Chris Beetles | [Art reference, watercolours] |
London | ND | Not Available | GBP 117.00 |
| 677 | A.P. Oppe; C. Lewis Hind | [Art reference] |
London; London | 1925 | Not Available | GBP 52.00 |
| 678 | H.M. Cundall | [Art reference] |
London | 1920 | Not Available | GBP 65.00 |
| 679 | Two 18th Century Bibles and an oak bible box |
Oxford; Oxford; Oxford | 1761; 1738; 1733 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 195.00 | |
| 680 | A Historical Record of the Imperial Visit to India 1911 |
London | 1914 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,300.00 | |
| 681 | C.S. Evans; Arthur Rackham | Evans (CS) and Rackham (Arthur, illustrator) The Sleeping Beauty |
London | 1920 | GBP 70.00 - 90.00 | GBP 91.00 |
| 682 | Samuel Lysons | Lysons (Samuel) An Account of Roman Antiquities discovered at Woodchester |
London | 1797 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,300.00 |
| 683 | George Cheyne; Fulke Greville | Cheyne (George) An Essay on Health and Long Life |
London; London | 1724; 1768 | Not Available | GBP 39.00 |
| 684 | Jean, Count de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam | De L'Isle-Adam (Jean, Count de Villiers) Axel |
London | 1925 | GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 208.00 |
| 685 | Edward Stanford's Map of the Middle East |
London | 1937? | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 182.00 | |
| 686 | William Mudge | [Ordnance Survey Map, Windsor] |
1816 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 687 | Horace Hutchinson; Hubert Martineau | [Sporting, Golf and Cricket] |
London; Chatham | 1919?; 1970 | Not Available | GBP 26.00 |
| 688 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Thackeray (William Makepeace) Works |
London | 1891 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 78.00 |
| 689 | Thomas Ingoldsby; Alfred Lord Tennyson; John Betjeman; Tobias Smollett | [Poetry] |
London; London; London; Edinburgh | 1882; 1974; 1820 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 45.50 |
| 690 | Sir William Henry May | [Biography] |
London | c.1930 | Not Available | GBP 32.50 |
| 691 | Siegfried Sassoon; R.S. Surtees | [Hunting and Fox Hunting] |
London; London | 1929; c.1860 | Not Available | GBP 26.00 |
| 692 | Arthur Conan Doyle; Charlotte Bronte; Sir John Bowring; Ernest Hemingway; George Eliot | [Literature and Novels] |
London; London; London; London; Leipzig | 1893; 1946; 1868; 1958; 1863 | Not Available | GBP 169.00 |
| 693 | [Bindings] Encyclopedia Britannica |
London; London | 1972; 1971 | Not Available | GBP 52.00 | |
| 694 | W. Earl Hodgson | [Fishing and Fly Fishing] |
London | 1904 | Not Available | GBP 26.00 |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.