Chorley's: The Country House Auction, 42126, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 21, 2026 - April 22, 2026
Page Size: 106 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
695

[Churchill and World War II]

London; London 1966; 1965 Not Available GBP 65.00
696

[Art Reference]

N/A Not Available GBP 26.00
697 Lewis Carroll; A.A. Milne; Hans Christian Andersen; Arthur Ransome

[Children's Books and Literature]

London; London; London 1885; 1927; 1929 Not Available GBP 26.00
698 T.A. Coward; H. Moyse-Bartlett

[British History, Landscape and Military]

London; Aldershot 1920; 1956 Not Available GBP 52.00
699 William Youatt; William Youatt; D. G. F. MacDonald; William Youatt; James Irvine Lupton

[Farming Interest]

London; London; London; London; London 1837?; 1834; 1864; 1847; 1900 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 195.00
700 Lionel Edwards

[Lionel Edward, Hunting Interest]

N/A Not Available GBP 32.50
701 Captain Newton Wynne Apperley; George Lambton; Edward Mayhew; Stephen Donoghue; Harding Cox; Robert Surtees; G. Denholm Armour

[Horses, Horse Racing and Hunting Interest]

London 1926; 1924; 1864; ND; 1920s; 1930s Not Available GBP 39.00
702 Cuthbert Bradley; Isaac Bell; Patrick Bellew; Colonel Cook; Thomas Smith

[Hunting and Fox Hunting Interest]

London 1914; 1929; 1932; 1922; 1912; 1920 Not Available GBP 26.00
703 Arthur Fox Davies

[Royalty & Aristocracy]

London 1929; 1949; 1952 Not Available GBP 39.00
704

Four folio manuscript Ledgers relating to Sapey Farm

1909-1916; 1916-1921; 1936-1942; 1910 Not Available GBP 143.00
705 Helena Wright; Grantly Dick Read; Norman Moore

[Medicine]

London; Oxford 1947; 1950; 1908 Not Available GBP 52.00
706

A collection of books on Dinky Toys and Hornby Trains

N/A Not Available Not Sold
707 Charles Dickens; Sir Edward Bulmer Lytton; Edward Forster; Hannah More

[Vellum bound editions] / Forster (Edward) The Arabian Nights

London; Leipzig 1907; 1842; 1815; 1801 Not Available GBP 45.50
708 Govert Bidloo; Romeyn de Hooghe

Bidloo (Govert) & Hooghe (Romeyn de) Relation du Voyage de sa Majeste Britannique en Hollande

Den Haag, The Hague 1692 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,950.00
709 John Obadiah Westwood

Westwood

London 1847 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
710 N Gaucher

Gaucher (N) Pomologie des Praktischen Obstbaumzuechters

Stuttgart 1894 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
711 R. Goethe; H. Degenkolb; R. Mertens

Goethe (R.), Degenkolb (H.) and Mertens (R.) Aepfel und Birnen

Berlin 1894 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
712 I. Silvestre; J.-B. Nolin; P. le Pautre; J. le Pautre; L. Simonneau; L. de Chatillon; J. & G. Edelinck; G. Audran; F. Chauveau

[Cabinet du Roi]

Paris 1727 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
713 Jane Austen; Anthony Trollope

Austen (Jane) [Works]

London 1975 Not Available GBP 32.50
714 Charles Dickens

[Folio Society]

N/A GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 78.00
715

[Folio Society, History]

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 117.00
716

[Folio Society, History)

N/A GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 234.00
717

[Folio Society]

N/A GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 78.00
718

[Folio Society, Literature & Novels]

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 117.00
719 Winston Churchill

[Folio Society, Winston Churchill)

2000 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 143.00
  • 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
  • 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.