Sothebys: Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone, L26402, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 07, 2026 - July 07, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145 | Publicity poster of Bette Davis |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 384.00 | ||
| 146 | Waugh Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
London | 1945 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 4,480.00 |
| 147 | Wells H.G. | The Invisible Man |
London | 1897 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,408.00 |
| 148 | Whistler James Abbott McNeill | The Dog on the Kennel |
1858 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 384.00 | |
| 149 | Whistler James McNeill | 30 Books, including: The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler |
London; Philadelphia; New York; Boston; East Aurora; Indianapolis | 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1917; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1942; 1951; 1960; 1996 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 768.00 |
| 150 | Whitman Walt | Leaves of Grass |
Brooklyn | 1855 | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | GBP 64,000.00 |
| 151 | Whitman Walt | Leaves of Grass; Put's Golden Songster |
Boston; San Francisco | 1860-61; 1858 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,152.00 |
| 152 | Wilde Oscar | Salome |
Paris; London | 1907; 1893 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,920.00 |
| 153 | Williams Mike | Actor and Prompt |
N/A | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 384.00 | |
| 154 | Hardy Thomas | Far from The Madding Crowd |
London | 1908 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 16,640.00 |
| 155 | Wordsworth William | Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems |
London | 1839 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,320.00 |
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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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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
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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
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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
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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