Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper | Total Sales (GBP) | 557,600.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | March 26, 2026 - March 26, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 312,750.00 |
| Sale Number | #1197 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 441,600.00 |
| Total Lots | 265 | ||
| Sold Lots | 215.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 442,050.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 81.13% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 626,100.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 50 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 89.06% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | Blake (William) | Illustrations of the Book of Job |
March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826] | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 27,720.00 |
| 222 | Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen] | Optics.- Opticae Thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X... |
August, 1572 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 17,640.00 |
| 27 | Italy, Malta & elsewhere..- Charters, Bulls, Letters, Petitions, Indulgences, Doctorates etc., from Kings, Popes, Saints, Cardinals, Bishops etc.... |
N/A | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 16,380.00 | |
| 152 | Pratchett (Terry) | The Colour of Magic |
1983 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 |
| 123 | Christie (Agatha) | Murder on the Orient Express |
[1934] | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,710.00 |
| 267 | Havell, Junr. (Robert) | London.- An Aeronautical View of London |
1836 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 10,710.00 |
| 71 | Milton (John) | Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books |
1669 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 99 | Dickens (Charles) | A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas |
1843 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 31 | England.- Leaf from a bilingual Psalter |
[late fourteenth or early fifteenth century] | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 7,812.00 | |
| 134 | Grahame (Kenneth) | The Wind in the Willows |
1908 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 8 | Dante Alighieri | Le Terze Rime |
[August, 1502] | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 202 | Darwin (Charles) | On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection |
1860 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 65 | Sidney (Sir Philip) | The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia... Now since the First Edition augmented and ended |
1593 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 6,350.00 |
| 39 | Edward IV (King of England and Lord of Ireland, 1442-83) | - Kent, St. Laurence, Thanet.- Charter, grantors William Manston, William Harlewyne, John Horne, Simon Lambyn... |
20th April 1431 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 5,715.00 |
| 42 | Medical & Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes] |
[17th century] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 5,715.00 | |
| 69 | Aesop | The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse...by John Ogilby |
1665 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,715.00 |
| 12 | Gianutio (Orazio) | Chess.- Libro nel quale si tratta della maniera di giuocar'a' scacchi |
1597 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 5,334.00 |
| 53 | Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Felix) | Music.- Lind (Jenny).- Autograph Letter signed to 'My Dear Madam' |
30 April 1847 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 5,334.00 |
| 62 | Bible, English. Holy Bible (The), Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Toungues |
1613 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 5,334.00 | |
| 104 | [Evans (Marian)] | Scenes of Clerical Life |
1858 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 5,334.00 |
| 1 | [Pierre de Limoges] | Ocular.- De oculo morali |
[c.1477] | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 5,080.00 |
| 61 | Bible, English. Bible in Englyshe (The) of the largest and greatest volume that is to saye: The contentes of all the Holye Scripture, booth of the Oulde and Newe Testament... |
1566 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,826.00 | |
| 72 | Machiavelli (Niccolo) | The Works of the famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence |
1675 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,826.00 |
