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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107 | Beaufoy Mark | Nautical and Hydraulic Experiments, with numerous Scientific Miscellanies |
1834 | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | EUR 172.12 | |
| 108 | Martin John | A Bibliographical Catalogue of Books Privately Printed |
1834 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 370.72 | |
| 109 | My Own Library |
c.1835-40 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 926.80 | ||
| 110 | Austen Jane | Pride and Prejudice. A Novel |
1836 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 1,588.80 | |
| 111 | Hall S. C. | The Book of Gems |
1836-38 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,125.40 | |
| 112 | Yarrell William | A History of British Fishes |
1836 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 728.20 | |
| 113 | Lasteyrie Charles Philibert de | Typographie Economique, ou l'Art de l'Imprimerie |
Paris | 1837 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 728.20 |
| 114 | Cullimore Isaac | Oriental Cylinders |
1842 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 993.00 | |
| 116 | Schiller Friedrich | The Knight of Toggenburg |
Shelford | 1842 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 463.40 |
| 117 | Aedes Strawberrianae |
1842 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 1,191.60 | ||
| 118 | Dobson Austin | Horace Walpole, a Memoir |
1893 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 344.24 | |
| 119 | Lingard John | Lingard's New & Improved Plan of London and its Environs |
1843 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 317.76 | |
| 120 | Rossetti Dante Gabriel | Sir Hugh the Heron, a Legendary Tale, in Four Parts |
1843 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 3,442.40 | |
| 121 | Collection of bills and billheads |
1845-92 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 105.92 | ||
| 122 | Bialloblotzky C.H. Friedrich | Tōn hexaplōn Origenous ta sōzomena |
Cambridge | 1845 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 92.68 |
| 123 | Printing Apparatus for the Use of Amateurs |
1846 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 2,515.60 | ||
| 124 | Brydges Egerton | Human Fate, and an Address to the Poets Wordsworth & Southey: Poems |
Great Totham | 1846 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 529.60 |
| 125 | Roberts David | Egypt & Nubia |
1846-49 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 13,240.00 | |
| 126 | Pickering Christian Classics |
1847-52 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 132.40 | ||
| 127 | Eyton J Walter K | Catalogue of the Library |
1848 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 794.40 | |
| 128 | Kuniyoshi Utagawa | Collection of 25 Japanese woodblock prints of actors, samurai and landscapes |
19th century | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | EUR 1,191.60 | |
| 129 | Pitman Isaac | Phonographic Correspondent (The); The Phonographic Reporter |
1852 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 225.08 | |
| 130 | Mudie Robert | The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands |
1854 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 145.64 | |
| 131 | Gosse Philip Henry | The Aquarium |
1854 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,324.00 | |
| 132 | Courtnay John | The Schoolboy's Paper, Companion & Playmate |
Southwark | 1854 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 993.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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