Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 32824, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 28, 2024 - March 28, 2024
Page Size: 431 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
404 Thomas Pascoe

A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas, and round the Globe, first edition, presentation copy,

 1745 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
405 Carl Friedrich Behrens

Histoire de l'Expedition de Trois Vaisseaux...aux Terres Australes, 2 vol. in 1, first French edition,

The Hague 1739 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
406 John Macgillivray

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 2 vol., first edition

 1852 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
407 Oswald Brierly

HMS Rattlesnake in the Bering Straits, watercolour

 1849 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,016.00
408 Fernao Lopes de Castanheda

The first Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales..., first edition in English,

1582 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
409 Julien Marie Crozet

Nouveau Voyage a la Mer du Sud, first edition,

Paris 1783 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
410 Sir Tancred Robinson

An Account of Several late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North..., first edition,

1694 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
411 John (1405) Thornton

A New Mapp of Magellan Straights Discovered by Capp: John Narbrough

 1700 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,312.00
412 John James Audubon

Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America,

Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
413 William Curtis

Flora Londinensis, vol.1-5 (of 6) bound in 3, first edition

 1777 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
414 Richard Pulteney

Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the Rare Plants, of Dorsetshire, [second edition]

 1813 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
415 John Parkinson

Theatricum Botanicum, first edition, hand-coloured engraved title and over 2000 woodcut botanical illustrations in the text, additional printed title, modern morocco

 1640 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,134.00
416 William Turner

[A New Herball],

 1551 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,386.00
417 George Townley Stubbs

Pumpkin, after George Stubbs, etching and engraving

 1794 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
418 Georg Eberhard Rumpf

Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum,

Leiden 1711 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,008.00
419 Luigi-Federico Menabrea

Notions sur la machine analytique de M. Charles Babbage', first edition, journal issue

 1842 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,450.00
420 Robert Boyle

A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things, first edition, second issue,

1688 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
421 Robert Boyle

The General History of Air, first edition,

1692 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,276.00
422 John (1792) Dalton

Meteorological Observations and Essays, first edition,

 1793 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
423 Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species , sixth edition (eleventh thousand),

1872 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 378.00
424 John Hunter

The natural history of the human teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth, and diseases., first edition,

 1771 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
425 Joseph Solomon

Sepher Eilim - Sepher Ma'ayan Ganim - Sepher Ma'ayan Chathum, 3 parts in 1, first edition,

Amsterdam 1628-29. GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
426 John Ingenhousz

Experiments upon Vegetables, Discovering their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night, first English edition,

 1779 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
427 Giovanni Pomodoro

La geometria prattica cavata da gl'elementi d'Euclide, e d'altri famosi autori, second edition,

Rome 1624 [1623. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
428 Sir Henry Fowler

Metallurgy in relation to Mechanical Engineering, corrected typescript

 1923 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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  • Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
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    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
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