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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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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.