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| Auction Name | Avenue Auction | Total Sales (GBP) | 5,219.50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 12, 2026 - May 12, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 2,790.00 |
| Sale Number | #51226 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 4,910.00 |
| Total Lots | 95 | ||
| Sold Lots | 58.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 4,530.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 61.05% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 7,880.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 37 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 66.24% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 687 | John Speede | Map of Oxfordshire and Oxford; Cowley's map of Surrey |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 572.00 |
| 762 | Edward Coley Burne-Jones | THE FLOWER BOOK |
1905 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 494.00 |
| 210 | A Large Enamelled Advertising Sign; 'Usher's, The Court Luncheon Ale' |
N/A | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 364.00 | |
| 642 | Jack Butler Yeats; Pamela Colman Smith | A Broad Sheet |
1902 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 338.00 |
| 613 | Two Tank Booklets |
1944 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 247.00 | |
| 695 | Raymond Ching b.1939 | Short-eared Owl...Plate No. 67 |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | GBP 221.00 |
| 597 | WWII Airgraphs and Aerogrammes |
1890 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 169.00 | |
| 627 | Album of Mesopotamia and Indian Postcards |
1914 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 169.00 | |
| 648 | Rena Gardiner | DORSET: THE ISLE OF PURBECK; DORSET: THE EAST WINTERBORNE VALLEY |
1969; 1968 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 169.00 |
| 673 | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; The Old Curiosity Shop |
1910 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 156.00 |
| 657 | Andree Levinson | Bakst the Story of the Artist Life |
1923 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 130.00 |
| 605 | Stamps: A Quantity of Various Railway First Day Covers |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 117.00 | |
| 626 | An Autograph Album |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 104.00 | |
| 646 | Walt Disney | WALT DISNEY'S SKETCH BOOK of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS |
1938 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 91.00 |
| 647 | John Betjeman | HIGH AND LOW |
1966 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 78.00 |
| 536 | A Collection of 19th Century Ambrotype Photographs |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
| 629 | A Collection of Early 20th Century Postcards |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
| 643 | NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON TO NEW GUINEA |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
| 665 | W. Earl Hodgson | Salmon Fishing |
1906 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 669 | F.O. Morris | A History of British Birds |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 730 | John Liddell (1924-2005) | St Basil's, Moscow |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 761 | Oudart; Reinold; W Pether | A COLLECTION OF BIRD PRINTS AFTER OUDART AND REINOLD |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 675 | A Collection of Books |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 58.50 | |
| 623 | An Edwardian Album of Postcards |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 52.00 | |
| 652 | Charles H Calvert | HISTORY OF SOUTHERN & CENTRAL AFRICA |
1879 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 52.00 |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.