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Chorley's: The Country House Auction
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | The Country House Auction | Total Sales (GBP) | 18,473.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | April 21, 2026 - April 22, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 10,450.00 |
| Sale Number | #42126 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 15,780.00 |
| Total Lots | 106 | ||
| Sold Lots | 83.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 25,050.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 78.30% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 36,200.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 23 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 51.03% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 708 | Govert Bidloo; Romeyn de Hooghe | Bidloo (Govert) & Hooghe (Romeyn de) Relation du Voyage de sa Majeste Britannique en Hollande |
1692 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,950.00 |
| 762 | George Cruikshank; Thomas Rowlandson; John Doyle; John Phillips; Henry William Bunbury; Richard Newton; Robert Dighton; William Heath; Theodore Lane; Horace Vernet | A folio of laid down early 19th Century Satirical prints |
1813 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,690.00 |
| 680 | A Historical Record of the Imperial Visit to India 1911 |
1914 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,300.00 | |
| 682 | Samuel Lysons | Lysons (Samuel) An Account of Roman Antiquities discovered at Woodchester |
1797 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,300.00 |
| 779 | Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803); Hancarville (Pierre Francois Hugues, baron d', 1719 - 1805) | Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) |
1766 (-1767) | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 715.00 |
| 751 | Henry Salt (1780-1827) | After Henry Salt (1780-1827) |
N/A | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 650.00 |
| 763 | Richard Newton | [Newton (Richard, attributed to)] A Bugaboo!!! |
2 June, 1792 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 650.00 |
| 773 | Claude Lorrain | After Claude Lorrain |
1775 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 650.00 |
| 725 | [Lancashire] A large collection of late 17th Century and later vellum Indentures |
1671; 1675; 1817 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 624.00 | |
| 769 | Geoffroy-Stain-Hilaire (Estienne); Cuvier (Frederic) | Geoffroy-Stain-Hilaire (Estienne) |
1819 – 1842 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 494.00 |
| 754 | H. Fletcher; Joseph Baudin (1691-1753); Canaletto (1697-1768) | H Fletcher after Joseph Baudin (1691-1753) after Canaletto (1697-1768) |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 390.00 |
| 764 | His Majesty King Charles III (born 1948) | His Majesty King Charles III (born 1948) |
N/A | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 364.00 |
| 768 | Thomas Stothard (1755–1834) | After Thomas Stothard (1755–1834) |
1792 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 364.00 |
| 774 | Shaw (Vero) | Shaw (Vero) |
1881? | GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 364.00 |
| 752 | Henry Salt (1780-1827) | After Henry Salt (1780-1827) |
N/A | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 325.00 |
| 746 | William Palmer Robins (1882-1959) | William Palmer Robins (1882-1959) |
1929 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 286.00 |
| 772 | William Houghton | After William Houghton |
1879? | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 286.00 |
| 671 | Five 19th Century albums of Crests & Monograms |
circa 1840-60 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 260.00 | |
| 728 | Henri Abraham Chatelain | [Middle East | Mecca] Chatelain (Henri Abraham) |
18th Century | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 247.00 |
| 716 | [Folio Society, History) |
N/A | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | GBP 234.00 | |
| 684 | Jean, Count de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam | De L'Isle-Adam (Jean, Count de Villiers) Axel |
1925 | GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 208.00 |
| 679 | Two 18th Century Bibles and an oak bible box |
1761; 1738; 1733 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 195.00 | |
| 699 | William Youatt; William Youatt; D. G. F. MacDonald; William Youatt; James Irvine Lupton | [Farming Interest] |
1837?; 1834; 1864; 1847; 1900 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 195.00 |
| 770 | William Drummond; Charles J. Basebe | Phillips (GH) after William Drummond & Charles J. Basebe |
1849 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 195.00 |
| 673 | Victor Hugo; Arthur Rackham | [Bindings] to be finalised |
ND; 1902; 1911 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 182.00 |
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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 -
