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

Auction Details

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

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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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