Forum Auctions: Online: Fin-de-siecle, the gothic and weird, inc. further books from the Library of Barry Humphries, 62526, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckford William | Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters |
1780 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 482.60 | |
| 2 | Beckford William | Vathek |
1786 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,524.00 | |
| 3 | Beckford William | Vathek |
England | 1815 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 355.60 |
| 4 | Rutter John | Delineations of Fonthill |
1823 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 431.80 | |
| 5 | Radcliffe Ann | A Sicilian Romance |
1792 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 5,334.00 | |
| 6 | Radcliffe Ann | The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents |
1797 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 381.00 | |
| 7 | Radcliffe Ann | The Mysteries of Udolpho |
1803 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 330.20 | |
| 8 | Radcliffe Ann | Gaston de Blondeville |
1826 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 9 | Walpole Horace | Castle of Otranto |
1796 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 558.80 | |
| 10 | Lewis Matthew Gregory | Tales of Wonder |
1801 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 254.00 | |
| 11 | Lewis Matthew Gregory | Feudal Tyrants; or, The Counts of Carlsheim and Sargans |
1806 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 5,842.00 | |
| 12 | Julia de Vienne |
1811 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 533.40 | ||
| 13 | Taylor Joseph | Apparitions; or, the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses, Developed |
1814 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 355.60 | |
| 14 | Maturin Charles Robert | Women: or, Pour et Contre |
Edinburgh | 1818 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 15 | Wadd William | Comments on Corpulency, Lineaments of Leanness, Mems on Diet and Dietetics |
1829 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 457.20 | |
| 16 | Wilson Harriette | Clara Gazul |
1830 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,079.50 | |
| 17 | Crowe Catherine | The Night Side of Nature: or, Ghost Stories & Ghost Seers |
1852 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 406.40 | |
| 18 | Meredith George | Evan Harrington |
1861 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 482.60 | |
| 19 | Bulwer-Lytton Edward | A Strange Story |
1862 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 533.40 | |
| 20 | Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan | Wylder's Hand; Uncle Silas; Guy Deverell |
Dublin | 1863-65 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 889.00 |
| 21 | Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan | Uncle Silas |
1865 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 952.50 | |
| 22 | Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan | The Purcell Papers |
1880 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 558.80 | |
| 23 | Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan | In a Glass Darkly |
1886 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 635.00 | |
| 24 | Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan | A Chronicle of Golden Friars and other stories |
1896 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 431.80 | |
| 25 | Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan | The House by the Church-Yard |
1897 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,016.00 |
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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. -
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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