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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 133 | Williams Monier | Sakoontala; or, the Lost Ring; An Indian Drama |
Hertford | 1855 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 993.00 |
| 134 | Humphreys Henry Noel | The Butterfly Vivarium; or Insect Home |
1858 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,125.40 | |
| 135 | Johnstone William Grosart; Croall Alexander | The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds |
1859-60 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,125.40 | |
| 136 | Boy's Own Book (The) |
1859 | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | EUR 423.68 | ||
| 139 | Cook William | The Ploughboy's Harrow |
Salem | 1860 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 211.84 |
| 140 | Orpen Rebecca Dulcibella | A Great Sensation |
1862 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 1,059.20 | |
| 141 | Rossetti Christina | Goblin Market and other Poems |
Cambridge; London | 1862 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | EUR 1,853.60 |
| 142 | Mayhew Henry | London Labour and the London Poor |
c.1865 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 595.80 | |
| 143 | Mayhew Henry | The Shops and Companies of London, and the Trades and Manufactories of Great Britain |
1865 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 860.60 | |
| 144 | Couch Jonathan | A History of the Fishes of the British Islands |
1866-67 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 529.60 | |
| 145 | Ward Mary | The Microscope |
1869 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 662.00 | |
| 146 | Evans Marian | Brother and Sister, Sonnets |
1869; 1885 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 635.52 | |
| 147 | Morris F O | A History of British Birds |
1870 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 993.00 | |
| 148 | Hibberd Shirley | New and Rare Beautiful-Leaved Plants |
1870 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 1,456.40 | |
| 149 | Doyle Richard | In Fairyland: a Series of Pictures from the Elf-World |
1870 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 635.52 | |
| 150 | Whistler James Abbott McNeill; Pugin Auguste Charles | N Books, including: [Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Sir"] |
c. 1870; 1830 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 728.20 | |
| 151 | Sacroug Gabriel | The Egyptian Travelling Interpreter, or Arabic without a teacher for English Travellers visiting Egypt |
Cairo | 1874 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 860.60 |
| 152 | Boyle Mary L | Biographical Notices of the Portraits at Hinchingbrook |
1876 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 397.20 | |
| 153 | Gould Joseph | The Letter-Press Printer |
1876 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 926.80 | |
| 154 | Pitman Henry Alfred | Journal of a Four Days' Tour in North Wales by a Party of Five |
1877 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 132.40 | |
| 155 | Ashbee Henry Spencer | Index Librorum Prohibitorum; Centuria Librorum Absconditorum; Catena Librorum Tacendorum |
1877-85 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 4,236.80 | |
| 156 | Isham Charles | The Tyrant of the Cuchullin Hills |
Northampton | 1880 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 317.76 |
| 157 | Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults |
Paris | 1883 | EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 7,944.00 | |
| 158 | Palmer Samuel | An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil |
1883 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 728.20 | |
| 159 | Palmer Samuel | The Shorter Poems of John Milton with Twelve Illustrations |
1889 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 926.80 |
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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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