Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Timed Auction of Ceramics, Books, Silver, Watches, Jewellery, Pictures, Sporting & Collectors Items, etc, 9664, Exeter

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 14, 2026 - June 14, 2026
Page Size: 37 items in 2 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
28 Cohen B & Sons; Phillips Randal

Furniture for the Modern Home; Houses for Moderate Means

London c.1935; 1939 Not Available GBP 6.56
29 Williams Graeme

10 Books, including: Wonders of Land and Sea

London ND; 1898-1902 Not Available GBP 6.56
30

Children's and Illustrated Books

C20th Not Available GBP 45.92
31 Graham Alex; Blyton Enid

Fred Basset; Sunny Stories

London N/A Not Available GBP 6.56
32 Marx Groucho; Chaplin Charles; Guiles Fred Lawrence

Groucho and Me; My Auto-Biography; Stan, The Life of Stan Laurel

London; New York 1959; 1964; 1980 Not Available GBP 6.56
33 Holmes Oliver Wendell; Longfellow

Literature, C19th to C20th

Edinburgh; London 1883/4; 1906 Not Available GBP 6.56
34 Ross Leonard Q

The Education of Hyman Kaplan

London 1937 Not Available Not Sold
35 Carne John; North Marianne

Letters from the East; Recollections of a Happy Life

London ND; 1892-1893; 1965 Not Available GBP 32.80
36 Buffon; Johnson; Tsichold Jan; Brooks Van Wyck

Natural History of Quadrupeds; Dictionary of the English Language in Miniature; Hu Cheng-Yen; The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

Chelmsford; London; Basle 1825; 1824; 1946; 1923 Not Available GBP 39.36
37

The Holy Bible

Cambridge ND Not Available GBP 6.56
38

Some Stirring Relics of English History

Paris c.1937 Not Available Not Sold
39 Robertson Bruce

Lancaster - The Story of a Famous Bomber; All the Worlds Aircraft

Letchworth 1964; 1940; 1942 Not Available GBP 6.56
40

The Islands Series

1969-1990 Not Available GBP 6.56
41 Hemery Eric; Harvey Chris; Bentley W O

High Dartmoor; Austin Seven; An Illustrated History of the Bentley Car

London 1983; 1985; 1964 Not Available GBP 26.24
42 Crane Walter; Hudson Gwynned M

Flora's Feast; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

London 1889; c.1932 Not Available GBP 13.12
43 David Elizabeth

French Country Cooking

London 1951 Not Available GBP 6.56
44 Hartwig George; Keith Arthur

The Subterranean World; The Antiquity of Man

London 1892; 1925 Not Available GBP 19.68
45 Helferich H

On Fractures and Dislocations

London 1899 Not Available Not Sold
46 Warner P F; Grace W G

The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games; How we Recovered the Ashes; Cricketing Reminiscences

London 1911; 1904; 1899 Not Available Not Sold
47 Reculus Jacques Elisee

A New Physical Geography; Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol. XXXIV Maps

London 1888; 1903 Not Available GBP 19.68
48

Map of Hill House, East and West Northwood, Bishops Leigh, Highland, and Broadridge Estates

N/A Not Available GBP 6.56
49 Larrey Isaac de

Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse, et d'Irlande

N/A Not Available GBP 59.04
50

Newspapers

C18th; C19th Not Available GBP 45.92
51 Van Den Keer Pieter

N Books, including: Dorcetshire

N/A Not Available GBP 39.36
52

Winnie the Pooh

N/A Not Available GBP 19.68
  • 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