Duke's: Avenue Auction, 60926, Dorchester
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 09, 2026 - June 10, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 956 | Quizem Caleb; Rowlandson T.; Bunbury H. | Annals of Sporting |
London | 1809 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 208.00 |
| 957 | Modern Furniture & Design by Bowman's |
mid 1930s | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 58.50 | ||
| 958 | Tolkien J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
1955 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 845.00 | |
| 959 | Doyle Richard; Allingham William | In Fairyland - A Series of Pictures from the Elf World |
London | 1870 | GBP 80.00 - 150.00 | GBP 78.00 |
| 960 | Gambado Geoffrey; Bunbury H. | Annals of Horsemanship and Academy for Grown Horsemen |
London | 1808 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 143.00 |
| 961 | Milne A.A. | Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner; When We Were Very Young |
1927; 1928; 1925 | GBP 80.00 - 150.00 | GBP 286.00 | |
| 962 | Milne A.A. | Winnie the Pooh |
1926 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 390.00 | |
| 963 | Atkinson Geo. F. | Curry & Rice - On Forty Plates |
London | 1911 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 32.50 |
| 964 | Priestley J.B.; Waugh Evelyn | Angel Pavement; Officers and Gentlemen |
1955 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 26.00 | |
| 965 | Stuart Baker; Le Messurier Col A.; Finn Frank | 5 Books, including: Game Birds of India, Burma & Ceylon |
Bombay; London | 1921; 1904; 1915 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 91.00 |
| 966 | 17th/18th Century Engraved Devotional Image Books |
17th/18th | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 260.00 | ||
| 967 | Kircup James; Skiold Birgit | Zen Garden |
Guildford | 1973 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 221.00 |
| 968 | Jekyll Gertrude | N Books, including: Lilies for English Gardens |
1901; 1910; 1914; c.1902 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 91.00 | |
| 969 | Scott Walter; Irving Washington; Trollope Frances | N Books, including: Chronicles of the Canongate |
Edinburgh; Paris | 1828; 1883; 1840 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 26.00 |
| 970 | Crane Walter; Blackburn Henry; Caldecott Randolph; Lear Edward | N Books, including: Pan Pipes |
1892 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 39.00 | |
| 971 | A Collection of Books Relating Mostly to Japan |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 32.50 | ||
| 972 | Shakespeare William; Irving Henry; Marshall | N Books, including: The Handy-Volume Edition Shakspeare |
London | 1874 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 58.50 |
| 973 | Dickens Charles | The Works of Charles Dickens |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 143.00 | |
| 974 | Bronte Charlotte; Bronte Emily; Bronte Anne | The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte |
London | 1893 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 715.00 |
| 975 | Thackeray William Makepeace | A Collection of Classic Fiction Popular Editions |
19th - early 20th century | GBP 80.00 - 150.00 | GBP 286.00 | |
| 978 | Carroll Lewis | N Books, including: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Edinburg | 1860 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 312.00 |
| 980 | Aesop; Billingshurst Percy J.; Grahame Kenneth | N Books, including: A Hundred Fables of Aesop |
1899 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 494.00 | |
| 981 | Andersen; Stevns Niels Larsen; Austen Jane; Thomson Hugh; Dickens Charles; Brock C.E.; Edgeworth Maria; Aldin Cecil | N Books, including: The Fairy Tale of My Life |
1954; 1904 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 78.00 | |
| 982 | Crane Walter; Hamerton P.G. | A Quantity of Vintage Penguin Books |
1905; 1876 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
| 983 | Dickens Charles; Folkard Charles; Ewing Juliana Horatia | N Books, including: Nonesuch Dickensiana |
1937 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 26.00 |
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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