Bonhams: Asian Art, 32016, London

Auction Details

Auction Report

Auction Date: May 11, 2026 - May 12, 2026

Page Size: 19 items in 1 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
228		Ming Dynasty Consisting of the complete one hundred concertina-bound leaves with illustrations and commentaries on six classical literary works		N/A	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,816.00
229		Kokuho (National Treasures)	Tokyo	1967	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 704.00
230		The leather-bound Bible comprising The Old Testament and The New Testament; the Revised Commentary on Selections of Refined Literature	Shanghai	1858; 1856	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 4,480.00
234		Eighteen concertina-bound leaves, ink and colour on paper		18th/19th century	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 9,600.00
264		Tokaido Road (東海道), a vertical chuban album		1867	GBP 2,500.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
265	Hasui	Kanazawa nagare no kuruwa (Nagare pleasure quarter, Kanazawa); Osaka Kozu		1920	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 8,960.00
266	Hiroshige	Komagatado Azumabashi (Komagata Hall and Azuma Bridge) from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo)		1857	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,024.00
267	Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi	Shichirihama yori Enoshima no enkei (View of Enoshima from Shichirihama Beach)		Edo period	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,280.00
268	Hiroshige	Suidobashi Surugadai (Suido Bridge and Surugadai), from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (100 Famous Views of Edo)		1857	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 5,760.00
269	Hiroshige	Fukagawa Kiba (Fukagawa Lumberyards), from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (100 Famous Views of Edo)		c. 1856	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,048.00
270		7 Books, including: Rokujuyoshu meisho zue (Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces)		Edo period	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,024.00
271		Rokujuyoshu meisho zue (Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces), a European mounted album		Edo period	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
272	Kitao Shigemasa	26 Books, including: Chuban yoko-e, twenty five Tokaido prints; Fushino chi bensaiten (Fushino Pond Bensai Temple)		18th and 19th century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
273		Six oban yoko-e prints from the series Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido)		c. 1833-34	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
274	Nyoi Sanjin	24 Books, including: Chuban yoko-e, twenty-three prints from the Stations of the Tokaido; Sokeiro Junisho Shinkei	Kyoto	19th century	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
275		Four oban tate-e prints from the series Gojusan tsugi meisho zue (Famous Sights of the Fifty-Three Stations)		19th century	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,024.00
276	Utagawa Hiroshige; Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III); Utagawa Toyokuni I; Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Toyohara Kunichika; Tsukioka Yoshitoshi	20 Books, including: Fujieda jinba tsugitate (Fujieda - Changing Porters and Horses) and Hakone, kosui no zu (Hakone: View of the Lake)		Meiji period	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,816.00
277	Kunisada; Hiroshige	A group of seventeen oban prints, from the series Sohitsu gojusan tsugi (Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido by Two Brushes)		1854-1857	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
278		Nine Bird Studies		Taisho period	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,280.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000