Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Two Day Books, Maps, Ephemera and Works on Paper, 72926, Norwich

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 29, 2026 - July 30, 2026
Page Size: 1243 items in 50 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Gardiner Robert

Political And Legislative Considerations On National Defence Addressed To The People Of England

London 1860 GBP 245.00 - 315.00 Unknown
2 St Leger S E

War Sketches In Colour

London 1903 GBP 70.00 - 140.00 Unknown
3 Vauban De

De L'Attaque Et De La Defense Des Places

The Hague 1737 GBP 70.00 - 140.00 Unknown
4 Dufour G H

Planches De La Fortification Permanente

Paris c1822 GBP 55.00 - 80.00 Unknown
5

Instructions And Regulations For The Formations And Movements Of The Cavalry

London 1797 GBP 35.00 - 70.00 Unknown
6 Brine Percival J

The Revolution And Siege Of Paris With The Elections, And Entry Of The Prussians In 1870-71

London 1871 GBP 105.00 - 175.00 Unknown
7 Marriott John

Military Memories

N/A GBP 15.00 - 20.00 Unknown
8 Somerville E; Ross Martin; Maxwell W H

N Books, including: Some Experiences Of An Irish R.M

London; Toronton; London 1901; ND; 1886 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
9 Dobson William T

A Narrative Of The Peninsula Campaign 1807-1814, Its Battles And Sieges

London 1897 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
10 Leigh M S

The Punjab And The War

Lahore 1922 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
11

Directions For Revenue Officers In The North-Western Provinces Of The Bengal Presidency

Calcutta 1858 Not Available Unknown
12 Conan Doyle Arthur

The British Campaign In France And Flanders 1915

1917 Not Available Unknown
13 Brassey Lady; Allen Joseph; Low Charles R

N Books, including: Sunshine And Storm In The East Or Cruises To Cyprus And Constantinople

1881; 1844; C1891 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
14

An Alphabetical List Of Post Captains, Commanders, And Lieutenants Of His Majesty’s Fleet

London 1810 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
15 Fitch John

Annals Of The Army Of Cumberland

Philadelphia 1864 GBP 30.00 - 60.00 Unknown
16 Myers Bessy

Captured - My Experiences As An Ambulance Driver And As A Prisoner Of The Nazis

London 1941 GBP 10.00 - 12.00 Unknown
17 Napier William

English Battles And Sieges In The Peninsula

London 1906 GBP 20.00 - 25.00 Unknown
18 Yates R E

Diary Of Trooper Fielding During The South African War

1904 GBP 10.00 - 35.00 Unknown
19

Jane’s Fighting Ships And Merchant Ships

1944-1955 Not Available Unknown
20 Mills Arthur

Report From The Select Committee On Colonial Military Expenditure

1861 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 Unknown
21 Holiday Gilbert

Horses And Soldiers - A Collection Of Pictures

Aldershot 1938 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
22 Churchill Winston S

The Great War

London c1933 Not Available Unknown
23

The Ninth Report Commissioners Military Enquiry

1809 Not Available Unknown
24

Papers Relating To The Army Medical Board

1810 Not Available Unknown
25 Blunt Joseph

N Books, including: The Ship Masters Assistant And Commercial Digest

New York; London 1836; c1875 Not Available Unknown
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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