Forum Auctions: The Private Library: Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers, 70926, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 291 | Aesop | The Fables |
Verona | 1973 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,515.60 |
| 292 | Mardersteig Giovanni | The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977 |
Verona | 1980 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 344.24 |
| 293 | Ravilious Eric | Almanack 1929 with Twelve Designs Engraved on Wood |
1929 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,721.20 | |
| 297 | Marlowe Christopher | The Famous Tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta |
1933 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 1,191.60 | |
| 298 | Ravilious Eric | The Wood Engravings |
1972 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 503.12 | |
| 299 | Waley Arthur | The Lady Who Loved Insects |
1929 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 1,456.40 | |
| 300 | Sandford Christopher | An archive of material relating to Sandford and the Boar's Head, Golden Hours and Golden Cockerel presses |
N/A | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 993.00 | |
| 301 | Sandford Lettice | A collection of original woodblocks of engravings for various books |
[1930s] | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 4,236.80 | |
| 302 | Lascaris Evadne | The Golden Bed of Kydno |
1935 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 728.20 | |
| 305 | de la Mare Walter | Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe |
1930 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 291.28 | |
| 306 | Jackson Holbrook | The Anatomy of Bibliomania |
1930-31 | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | EUR 860.60 | |
| 307 | Nerciat Andrea de | Le Diable au Corps; Ma Vie Secrete |
Alencon | 1930; 1923 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 172.12 |
| 308 | Shakespeare William | The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke |
Weimar | 1930 | EUR 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 | EUR 10,592.00 |
| 309 | Gill Eric | Canticum canticorum Salomonis |
Weimar | 1931 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,383.20 |
| 310 | Miss High-Heels: The story of a rich but girlish young gentleman |
Paris | 1931 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 3,972.00 | |
| 311 | Revelation of Saint John the Divine |
Newtown | 1932 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 503.12 | |
| 312 | Lamentations of Jeremiah |
Newtown | 1933 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 728.20 | |
| 313 | Hughes-Stanton Blair | Collection of 24 original wood-engravings |
[c.1930] | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,456.40 | |
| 314 | Milton John | Four Poems...L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas |
Newtown | 1933 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 1,324.00 |
| 315 | Hughes-Stanton Blair | Ecclesiastes or the Preacher; Birds, Beasts and Flowers |
1934; 1930 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 370.72 | |
| 316 | Graves Ida | Epithalamion, a Poem |
Colchester | 1934 | EUR 750.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 794.40 |
| 318 | Browne Sir Thomas | Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus |
1932 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 6,355.20 | |
| 319 | Swinburne Algernon Charles | Dolores |
Maastricht | 1933 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,456.40 |
| 320 | Ishill Joseph | Free Vistas: An Anthology of Life & Letters |
Berkeley Heights, NJ | 1933 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 3,442.40 |
| 321 | Apuleius Lucius | The Marriage of Cupid and Psyches |
Haarlem | 1936 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,588.80 |
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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. -
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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 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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