Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1188, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Dunthorne (James, transcriber) | Heraldry.- An Essay to Heraldry |
1746 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 27 | Scotland, Nairn.- Rose family of Kilravock.- [Estate rental and account book of the Rose family lands in Nairn] |
1757-60 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,016.00 | ||
| 28 | Burns (Robert) | Portrait of a young man believed to be Robert Burns |
[1780s] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,143.00 | |
| 29 | Royal Navy.- Admiralty Papers.- [Henry and Robert Dundas, Viscounts Melville, First Lords of the Admiralty] |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 30 | Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) | William Wilberforce, Spencer Perceval and others.- Fac Similes of |
1811 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 31 | Bookbinding.- Receipts for Book Binding: Containing Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Marbling & Colouring |
Basingstoke | 1822 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 3,556.00 | |
| 32 | Absalom (Mr ?Philip) | Moule (Thomas).- Pedigrees of the Plantagenets |
1839 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 33 | Moule (Thomas, antiquary, bibliographer, and topographer, 1784-1851) | Moule (Thomas) [Heraldry notebook], autograph manuscript |
1841 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | |
| 34 | Farquhar (William) | HMS Victory & HMS Malacca.- Log of the proceedings of HMS "Victory"... 1854... 1855... |
1854-57 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 35 | Dorset.- Autograph Letters upon Dorset, Letters to John Symonds Udal, including: William Barnes |
1876-1915 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | ||
| 37 | Nightingale (Florence) | Bible, English.- The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments |
[1870s] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 7,620.00 | |
| 38 | [Creech (Leslie, Dorset poet, convicted of burglary in the USA, of Loders Vicarage in Bridport, Dorchester, London & elsewhere, b. 1886, d. c. 1950)] | Convict Poet.- "John Carter." Collection of poems |
n.d., [c. 1910s -20s] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 39 | Edward VIII (King) | Edward VIII (King) Autograph Letter signed to his mistress Freda Dudley Ward |
Buckingham Palace | 12th May 1919 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 40 | Melzer (Rudy, restaurant & hotel employee, in Berlin & New York) | Autograph Album.- Autograph album |
Berlin & New York | 1936-56 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,334.00 |
| 41 | Menus.- 19 printed menus collected by Rudy Melzer, including: Savoy Hotel/Savoy Grill etc. (11) |
1932-[53] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 508.00 | ||
| 42 | Bible, English.- [The newe Testament of oure Savyour Jesu Christ |
[Antwerp] | [1539] | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 30,480.00 | |
| 43 | Bible, English.- The Byble, Becke's revision of 'Matthew's Bible' |
Jhon Daye | 1549 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 12,065.00 | |
| 44 | Bible, English.- The holy Byble, Bishop's version |
1574 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,413.00 | ||
| 45 | Mather (Increase) | Americana.- The Mystery of Israel's Salvation, Explained and Applyed: or, A Discourse Concerning the General Conversion of the Israelitish Nation |
1669 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,810.00 | |
| 46 | Tyndale (William) | Bible, English.- [New Testament] |
1976 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 762.00 | |
| 47 | Bible, English.- The first tome or volume of the Paraphrases of Erasmus upon the newe testament |
1551 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,286.00 | ||
| 48 | Foxe (John) | [The First [Second] Volume of the Ecclesiasticall History] |
1576 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,778.00 | |
| 49 | Lambard (William) | Law.- Eirenarcha: or of the office of the Justices of Peace... |
1582 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,810.00 | |
| 50 | Christopher Barker | Bible, English.- The Holy Byble, Bishop's version |
1585 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,080.00 | |
| 51 | Psalms.- [Booke of Common prayer (The)] |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 889.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
