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

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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
102 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach, first edition,

Warsaw 1956 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
103

Two leaves from a Gospel Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum,

Germany late tenth or early eleventh century. GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
104

Leaf from a very large copy of the Acta Sanctorum, with a monumental decorated initial 'T', in Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment

Italy (probably Monte Cassino),... [eleventh century]. GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
105

Bifolium from a decorated manuscript Antiphonary, illustrated with initials formed of a bird, a richly clothed human arm and a growling green lion clutching a codex, in Latin, on vellum, Rhinelan...

Rhineland, [first half of 12th century, perhaps first few decades]. GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
106

Leaf from a collection of Homilies on St. Peter and the Ascension by SS. Augustine and Jerome, in Latin, leaf from a monumentally large lectern manuscript on parchment,

[northern Italy (perhaps the Veneto), [c.1200]. GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
107

Leaf from a Lectionary, in Latin, in archaising script and perhaps that of a student-scribe copying an old exemplar, decorated manuscript on parchment,

Germany early thirteenth century. GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
108

Illuminated Manuscript.- Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, with three animal-headed drollery creatures, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment,

[Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [early fourteenth century (probably c.1310)] GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,985.60
109

Illuminated Manuscript.- Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment,

Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens) fourteenth century (c.1310) GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,985.60
110

Alfonso XI (King of Castile, Leon and Galicia, called the Avenger, "el Justiciero", 1311-50).- Privilegio rodado of King Alfonso X I of Castile, granting the town of Escamjella [Escamilla] to Yen...

Segovia, Royal Chancery, 29th September 1344 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
111

Illuminated leaves.- Flemish Illuminator.- Single leaf from a Psalter, manuscript in Latin, on vellum

[Flanders], [c. 1250] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 551.04
112

Illuminated leaves.- Single leaf from a Psalter, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 5-line initial "P",

[Flanders], [c. 1300] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 656.00
113

Illuminated leaves.- Single leaf from a Breviary, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in a small Gothic bookhand, marginal extensions and floral decoration in margins, in gold and other colours

[East Anglia], [c. 1400] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 524.80
114

French Workshop.- Single leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours with arched miniature depicting the Nativity, manuscript in Latin, start of Psalm 69, on vellum, single column,

France c. 1470... GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,049.60
115

Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin), Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 87 leaves only, 3 full-page miniatures and 12 small miniatures, numerous line initials and line fillers

19th c. GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 10,496.00
116

Flanders Workshop.- Single leaf from the Hours of the Virgin, Opening of the Hour of Prime, illuminated manuscript, in Latin, on vellum, in a late Gothic bookhand

Flanders (?Bruges), [c. 1480]. GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
117

Illuminated leaves.- Single leaf from a Book of Hours, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, single margins decorated with a ?weasel, flowers and strawberries,

France, [c. 1480 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 551.04
118

Book of Hours, Use of Poitiers, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum,

France (probably north-west, perhaps Rennes or vicinity) , [second half of the fifteenth century]. GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,872.00
119

Flemish workshop.- Presentation of Christ in the Temple with Joseph bearing the offering of two turtle doves, fine single miniature from a Book of Hours, manuscript in Latin, 4 lines, in a gothic...

[c. 1450] GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,968.00
120 Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I & Charles I.- [Volume of speeches and tracts including Elizabeth I's Speech at Tilbury against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the advent of the Short and Long Parliaments in the year ...

1640, 1647 & 1648. GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 39,360.00
121

Isle of Wight.- [Tour of the Isle of Wight], manuscript

1828 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 393.60
122

Formula for the safety match.- [Sturge (Edmund, Quaker businessman and campaigner for liberal causes)] Memoranda of Experiments and Analysis, part autograph manuscript, original morocco, gilt

1841-91. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
123 M. Weston

Salisbury, St Martin's Street.- William Baillis of Weston and the executors of Margaret Godmanston wife of William Godmanston have conceded to John Sydenham all their cottages and gardens in St M...

1472/3 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 524.80
124

Collection of papers and ephemera, relating to both families

16th -- 19th centuries (qty). GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,312.00
125 John Aubrey

[Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, in the professional secretarial hand of Belshazar Gotfried Cramer, scribe to the Royal Society, 3 part...

[c. 1693]. GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
126 King George II

Appointment of John Russell, British Consul at Tetuan on embassy to Sultan Moulay Abdelmalik, D.s. "George R", manuscript on thick vellum

1728 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,443.20
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