Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 50726, London

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Auction Date
May 07, 2026 - May 07, 2026
Page Size: 318 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Daniel Sparshott

Sparshott (Daniel, Royal Navy) Commonplace book compiled for his daughter, manuscript, no place, 4th July, 1798-1799.

1798-1799 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 101.60
77 John Stockdale

Publisher.- Stockdale (John).- Autograph Letter signed addressed to Stockdale and signed "Corregidore", [?1810], objecting to an entry in ?Stockdale's Peerage published in 1810.

1810 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
78 Henry John Temple

Palmerston (Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston) 35 letters (30 Autograph Letters, most signed, others Letters signed) to a wide variety of people, 1811-50, on a wide variety of politica...

1811-50 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 508.00
79

Medical, cookery, scientific & other subjects.- [Commonplace Book], manuscript in French, in several hands, original vellum, 1814-39.

1814-39 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
80 Jane Porter

Porter (Jane).- Moore (Peter) 6 Autograph Letters signed to Jane Porter, 1818-19, relating to her abortive play, Switzerland, "... tell me, what has passed about Switzerland. I spoke to Mr Kemble...

1818-19 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 203.20
81 Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Scott (Sir Walter) 2 Autograph Letters signed to "Madam" and "My dear Sir", 1821 & n.d., to Madam offering the letter as a specimen of handwriting and to "My Dear Sir", "I regret to find it will ...

Edinburgh; Jermyn Street, London 1821; ND GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
82 Henry Hammond

Botany.- Forest Trees, Shrubs and American Plants, &c. Sold by Henry Hammond, at Dukes Hill and Windelsham Nurseries, printed price list with autograph prices, [c.1822]; and 2 others, botany (3)

c.1822 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 330.20
83

Guernsey.- Collection of manuscripts and printed items relating to Guernsey and the Brock family, including: account of Irving Brock's introduction of Huron Indians to George IV, [1825]; together...

1825; 1847; ND; 19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,079.50
84 Robert Peel (1788-1850)

Peel (Sir Robert, second Baronet) 25 Autograph Letters signed (most third person) to a variety of people, 1830-39, on a variety of routine matters, "I enclose a order from the Quarter Master Gene...

Whitehall; Drayton Manor 1830-39 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 508.00
85 Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854)

Rossetti (Gabriele) Autograph Letter signed to Bartolommeo Gamba in Venice, in Italian, 1831, complaining that he has no news of him or his other friends Ferruci and Paravia.

Trieste 1831 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 381.00
86

Essex, Little Coggeshall.- Survey of the Parish of Little Coggeshall in the County of Essex, manuscript, Norwich, Woodrow & Newton, Surveyors, 1832; and another of the same (2)

Norwich 1832 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
87 Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Moore (Thomas) Autograph manuscript quotation of a poem by James Montgomery "Lines by Montgomery (of Sheffield)", beginning "The Dead are like the stars, by day", n.d. [c. 1850].

ND (c. 1850) GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 82.55
88

Scrap Album, manuscript poems and 55 engravings, lithographs and chromolithographs, c.1850s; and small bundle of postcards, greetings cards and illustrations (small bundle)

c.1850s GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
89 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) Autograph Letter signed to [Frederick Cozzen], 1855, thanking him for his work Wine Press, praising his literary work and drawing his attention to a song.

Cambridge, Massachusetts 1855 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 69.85
90 Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron (1792-1860)

Byron (Anne Isabella Noel) Autograph Letter signed to Messrs Palmer & Wansey, Bristol land agents, 1858, asking for an account of monies owing on Red Lodge, "as I do not wish to charge any part o...

11 St George's Terrace, London 1858 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 330.20
91 Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Rossetti (Christina) Autograph Letter signed to Miss Greenwell [?Dora Greenwell], [c. 1860], "... I do hope that this time I may be so fortunate as to meet you".

166 Albany Street, London ND (c. 1860) GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 508.00
92 Compton Mackenzie; Anne Manning; Andre Maurois; Osborne Mavor; Jules Michelet; William Moens; Albert Mokel; George Moore; John Motley; E.H.W. Meyerstein

Miscellany.- Collection of letters, including: Compton Mackenzie (3); Anne Manning (2); Andre Maurois, Osborne Mavor, George Moore, together c. 25 pieces, 1861-1962; and another (c. 25 pieces).

1861-1962; 1942 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.70
93 George Meredith (1828-1909)

Meredith (George) 4 Autograph Letters signed to Sir Alexander Duff Gordon and to Mr Williams of Williams and Norgate publishers and others, [1864]-88 & n.d., sending Duff Gordon an autograph lett...

[1864]-88; ND GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.70
94 Stephen Spender; Frederic Seebohm; William Stirling-Maxwell; Edward Sackville-West; George Sala; Charles Reade; Owen Seaman; Elizabeth Sewell; Clement King Shorter; Osbert Sitwell; Sydney Smith; C.P. Snow

Miscellany.- Collection of letters, including: Stephen Spender, Edward Sackville-West, George Sala, Charles Reade (2); Owen Seaman (editor of Punch) (7); Clement King Shorter (2); Osbert Sitwell,...

19th & 20th centuries GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 152.40
95

Ephemera.- In Memory of the 184 Beloved Little Ones ..., [1883]; together a small collection of mixed ephemera, some relating to Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, nineteenth and twentieth century (...

Nottingham [1883]; 1911 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 139.70
96

Greetings Cards, c.600 cards most Christmas cards, c.1890's-1930's

c.1890's-1930's GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 215.90
97 Henry Morton (1841-1904)

Stanley (Sir Henry Morton) Autograph Letter signed to Sir Alfred Lyall, 1891, decling an offer of hospitality during his visit to Canterbury and expressing his preference for a hotel, and accompa...

2 Richmond Terrace, London 1891 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 190.50
98 William John Locke (1863-1930)

Edwardian novelist.- Locke (William John) 30 Autograph Letters signed, 1 Typed Letter signed and 3 Autograph Postcards signed to a variety of recipients, together with the autograph notes "Sugges...

Corner Hill, Hemel Hempstead 1902-28 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
99

Souvenirs.- Souvenir of Egypt, colour printing on silk, c.1914; and others, souvenirs and vintage photographic prints (32)

c.1914; [1897] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 114.30
100 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928); Grace Roe (1885-1979); Frances Louise Stevenson (1888-1972)

Suffragettes.- Pankhurst (Emmeline) & Roe (Grace).- Stevenson (Frances) Autograph Letter signed "To the Officer in Charge, Passport Office", 1916, "... Mr. Lloyd George would be much obliged if y...

War Office, Whitehall 1916 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80