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| Auction Name | The Printed Page | Total Sales (USD) | 4,187.50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 03, 2026 - June 04, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #23567 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 98 | ||
| Sold Lots | 49.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 50.00% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 49 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | Inf% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Clay Reginald (1879-1954); Court Thomas (1868-1951) | The History of the Microscope |
1932 | Not Available | USD 312.50 |
| 28 | DARWIN Charles (1809-1882) | The Descent of Man |
1871 | Not Available | USD 250.00 |
| 102 | Young Thomas (1773-1829) | A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy |
1807 | Not Available | USD 250.00 |
| 21 | Set of Hardcover World's Columbian Exposition Guide Books |
1892; 1893 | Not Available | USD 212.50 | |
| 5 | A Library of Useful Knowledge |
1829 | Not Available | USD 187.50 | |
| 81 | Saunier Claudius; Chamberlain Paul; Milham Willis; Hoey Robert; De Carle Donald | 5 Books, including: The Watchmaker's Hand-book |
1888; 1978; 1947; 1971; 1952 | Not Available | USD 162.50 |
| 82 | 5 Books, including: Scientific American |
1862; 1863; 1876-1877; 1877-1878 | Not Available | USD 162.50 | |
| 79 | Saavedra Miguel De Cervantes | Don Quixote |
1842 | Not Available | USD 137.50 |
| 4 | Atkinson James | Epitome of the Art of Navigation |
1778 | Not Available | USD 125.00 |
| 38 | GRAHAM Frank (1875-1965) | Audel's Engineers and Mechanics Guide |
1921 | Not Available | USD 125.00 |
| 54 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | The Works of Rudyard Kipling. |
1898-1932 | Not Available | USD 125.00 |
| 74 | Richardson Albert; Glazier Willard; Hunter Louis | Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean; Down the Great River; Steamboats on the Western Rivers |
1867; 1893; 1949 | Not Available | USD 125.00 |
| 91 | Tallis John (1817-1876) | Tallis's History and Description of the Crystal Palace |
1852 | Not Available | USD 125.00 |
| 27 | CUTLER H.G. | The World's Fair |
1892 | Not Available | USD 112.50 |
| 51 | Thomas Keith (1759-1824) | A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes. |
1832 | Not Available | USD 112.50 |
| 58 | Frederic Little | The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period. |
1923 | Not Available | USD 100.00 |
| 8 | Bird & Bull Press; Kotake Funjio; Akahori Shiro; Imperial College of Engineering; Yamaguchi Noboru; Kawai Michi | 5 Books, including: Japanese Paper Balloon Bombs: The First ICBM |
1982; 1947; 1877; 1936; 1950 | Not Available | USD 87.50 |
| 29 | DODGE Richard; MORRISON Dorothy Nafus; BILLARD Jules | Our Wild Indians; Chief Sarah: Sarah Winnemucca's Fight for Indian Rights; The World of the American Indian |
1883; 1990; 1974 | Not Available | USD 87.50 |
| 26 | CUGLE Charles; STEPHENS I. | Cugle's Two-Minute Azimuths; Cugle's Practical Navigation |
1943; 1945 | Not Available | USD 75.00 |
| 83 | Sherman William (1820-1891) | Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman |
1891; 1892 | Not Available | USD 75.00 |
| 7 | Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. | Bausch & Lomb Maker's Catalogues |
1900; 1929 | Not Available | USD 62.50 |
| 34 | EMERSON William (1701-1782) | The Elements of Optics |
1768 | Not Available | USD 62.50 |
| 35 | FAVE Idelphones (1812-1894) | Nouveau System D'Artillerie de Campagne de Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte |
1851 | Not Available | USD 62.50 |
| 48 | HOWELL John; SCHROEDER Henry; MONCEL Theodore du; ROUTLEDGE Robert; ATKINSON Philip; URQUHART John | 7 Books, including: History of the Incandescent Lamp |
1927; 1882; 1889; 1892; 1890; 1893 | Not Available | USD 62.50 |
| 61 | Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) | Farthest North. |
1897 | Not Available | USD 62.50 |
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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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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