Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper, 939, London

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Auction Date
December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024
Page Size: 307 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de)

Oeuvres Completes

Lyons, 1791-92 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 504.00
2 La Rochefoucauld (Francois, Duc de)

Oeuvres, edited by M.D.L.Gilbert

Paris 1868-81 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 945.00
3 Home (Henry, Lord Kames)

Sketches of the History of Man

Dublin, vol.1 & 2 1775 & vol.3 & 4 1774 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 201.60
4 Walpole (Horace)

The Works

1798 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 277.20
5 Monstrelet (Enguerrand de)

The Chronicles...

1809 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.20
6 Swedenborg (Emanuel)

Diarii spiritualis

Tubingen 1844-43-46-43 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 604.80
7 Economics.- Keynes (John Maynard)

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

1919 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,008.00
8 [Mountbatten (Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma)]

An Introduction to Polo

1931 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 945.00
9 Munby (A.N.L.)

Phillipps Studies

Cambridge 1951-60 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 453.60
10 Beerbohm (Max)

A Christmas Garland

1912 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
11 Douglas (Norman)

London Street Games

1916 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 94.50
12 Medicine.- Bravo (Francisco)

The Opera Medicinalia 1570

Folkestone & London 1970 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 176.40
13 Science.- Galton (Francis)

Finger Prints

1892-93 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 693.00
14 Illuminated Manuscripts.- Delaisse (L.M.J.) & others.

The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Illuminated Manuscripts

1977 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 226.80
15 Beckford (William).- [Redding (Cyrus)]

Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill...

1859 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 819.00
16 Beckford William).- Rutter (John)

Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey

Shaftesbury, 1823 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 453.60
17 Beckford (William).- Rutter (John)

Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey

Shaftesbury, 1823 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,764.00
18 Beckford (William).- [Sale Catalogue]

The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey (The). A Catalogue of the Magnificent

1823 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
19 Beckford (William).- Hamilton Palace Libraries (The).

[Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the First [- Fourth] Portion of the Beckford Library

Sotheby, 1882-83. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
20 Beckford (William).- [Waldron (Francis Godolphin) and Silvester Harding.]

The Biographical Mirrour

S. & E.Harding 1795-98. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
21 Beckford (William).-

Antiguedades Arabes de Espana [Granada & Cordoba]

[?Madrid], [1780]. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
22 Beckford (William).- Jackson (James Grey)

An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the Districts of Suse and Tafilelt

1811 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
23 Beckford (William).- Polo (Marco)

The Travels...

1818.<br><br> GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,032.00
24 Beckford (William).- Defoe (Daniel).- Stothard (Thomas)

[Proofs to Robinson Crusoe]

[1820]. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,008.00
25 Beckford (William).- Hoskins (G.A.)

Travels in Ethiopia, above the Second Cataract of the Nile

1835 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,930.00
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