Duke's: Avenue Auction, 60926, Dorchester

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 09, 2026 - June 10, 2026
Page Size: 110 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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
  • 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