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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 390 | Strouse Norman H. | The Passionate Pirate |
North Hills, Pa. | 1964 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 198.60 |
| 391 | Cotton John | Priapus |
1964-1972 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 92.68 | |
| 392 | Poetry Broadsides |
Dublin | c.1965-92 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 794.40 | |
| 394 | Graham Rigby; Hickman Trevor | Brewhouse Press Broadsheets |
Wymondham | 1966-74 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 3,442.40 |
| 395 | Paas C. & A. | Specimen of Brass Card Borders |
1965 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 635.52 | |
| 397 | Mason John | More papers hand made by John Mason |
Leicester | 1966 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 860.60 |
| 398 | Morison Stanley; Carter Harry | John Fell, the University Press and the 'Fell' Types |
Oxford | 1967 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 556.08 |
| 399 | Posner David | A Rake's Progress |
1967 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 595.80 | |
| 400 | Morris Henry | Omnibus: Instructions for amateur papermakers |
North Hills, Pa. | 1967 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,257.80 |
| 401 | Sumner James | The Mysterious Marbler |
North Hills, Pa. | 1976 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,125.40 |
| 402 | Barrett Timothy | Nagashizuki: the Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking |
North Hills, Pa. | 1979 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 794.40 |
| 403 | Wolfe Richard J. | Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany 1817-1821 |
North Hills, Pa. | 1979 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 662.00 |
| 404 | Morris Henry | Private Presses of San Serriffe |
Newtown, Pa. | 1980 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 529.60 |
| 405 | Taylor W. Thomas; Morris Henry | Twenty-One Years of Bird & Bull: A Bibliography, 1958-1979; Thirty Years...; Forty-Four Years... |
Newtown, Pa. | 1980 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 463.40 |
| 406 | Mackley George | Engraved in the Wood |
1968 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 635.52 | |
| 407 | Allen Lewis M. | Printing with the Handpress |
Kentfield, Ca. | 1969 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 662.00 |
| 408 | Strachan W.J. | The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d'Artiste |
1969 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 52.96 | |
| 409 | Moore Thomas Sturge | Wood Engravings |
[1970] | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 411 | Ovid | L'Art de l'Aimer |
Geneva | 1970 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 119.16 |
| 412 | Wakeman Geoffrey | XIX Century Illustration |
Loughborough | 1970 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 926.80 |
| 413 | Double Crown Club |
1971-2019 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 3,177.60 | ||
| 414 | Gainsborough Thomas | The Etched & Engraved Prints executed in soft-ground & aquatint and in mezzotint |
Baldock | 1971 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 1,059.20 |
| 415 | Savage Toni | N Books, including: Phoenix Broadsheets |
1971-77 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 635.52 | |
| 416 | Verlaine Paul | Femmes/Hombres |
1972 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 503.12 | |
| 418 | Wakeman Geoffrey | English Hand Made Papers Suitable for Bookwork |
Loughborough | 1972 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 860.60 |
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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