Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1197, London

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Auction Date
March 26, 2026 - March 26, 2026
Page Size: 265 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
203 Wallace (Alfred Russel)

Evolution.- The World of Life

 1910 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,032.00
204 Huygens (Christiaan)

Extra-terrestrial life.- The Celestial worlds discover'd: or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets

 1722 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,079.50
205

Fossils.- [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.] Guide to Persian Palaeontology

 1950 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 533.40
206 Dufrenoy (Armand) & Leonce Elie de Beaumont

Geology.- France.- Carte geologique de la France executee sous la direction de Mr. Brochant de Villiers, Inspecteur general des Mines...

 [1841] GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
207 Geikie (Archibald)

Geology.- Geological Map of the British Isles

 Edinburgh 1864 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
208 Smith (William)

Geology.- Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, with Reference to the Specimens of the Original Geological Collection in the British Museum

 1817 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
209 Sowerby (James) & James de Carle Sowerby

The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain

 1812-29 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
210 Werner (Abraham Gottlob)

Geology.- A Treatise on the External Characters of Fossils

 Dublin 1805 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,016.00
211

Stephen Hawking's schoolboy copy.- Notes on St. Albans School...

 1949 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 635.00
212 Simon (Barry)

Stephen Hawking's copies.- P(ph)2: Euclidean (Quantum) Field Theory, ink ownership inscription likely in the hand of Jane Hawking, "Stephen W. Hawking" to half-title

 Princeton 1974 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,905.00
213

Stephen Hawking's copies.- Bible, English Spirit Filled Life Bible...

 1995 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 3,048.00
214 Adams (Jad)

Stephen Hawking's copies gifted by his mother.- Kipling, A.L.s by Hawking's mother to him including the line...

 8th January 2006 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,794.00
215 Hawking (Stephen)

A Brief History of Time...

 2011 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,413.00
216 Alembert (Jean le Rond d')

Opuscules Mathematiques, ou Memoires sur differens sujets de Geometire, de Mechanique, d'Optique, d'Astronomie &c

 Paris 1761-80 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,016.00
217 Mydorge (Claude)

Mathematics.- Optics.- Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum, sive conicorum operis ad abdita radii reflexi et refracti mysteria praevii & facem praeferentis

 Paris 1631 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,143.00
218 Ramanujan (Srinivasa)

Mathematics.- Highly composite numbers, in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society

 1915 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 952.50
219 Newton (Sir Isaac)

[Several papers by or relating to Isaac Newton], in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

 1672-76 & [1742] GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
220 Cherubin d'Orleans (Pere)

Optical instruments.- La Vision Parfaite

 Paris 1677 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,524.00
221 Zahn (Johannes)

Optical instruments.- Oculus artificialis teledioptricus sive telescopium

 Nuremberg 1702 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,794.00
222 Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]

Optics.- Opticae Thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X...

 Basel August, 1572 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
223 Kepler (Johannes)

Optics.- Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt

 Augsburg 1611 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
224 Niceron (Jean Francois)

Optics.- Thaumaturgus opticus

 Paris 1646 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,016.00
225 Peckham (John)

Optics.- Perspectiva communis

 Venice June, 1504 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,810.00
226 Dobbs (Arthur)

America.- An Account of the Countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-west Part of America

 1744 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,540.00
227 Kane (Paul)

North America.- Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America

 1859 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,016.00