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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | Automata broadside.- Maelzel's Grand Exhibition |
[c.1819] | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 10,795.00 | ||
| 78 | Limericks.- The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women |
1821 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 952.50 | ||
| 79 | Manchester printed astrology.- Astrology; being an attempt to establish the first principles of that science |
Manchester | 1828 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 381.00 | |
| 80 | Great Exhibition.- Seaweeds.- Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations 1851: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,048.00 | |||
| 81 | Mr. Wilkie Collins | Dickens (Charles).- An Entirely New Romantic Drama, in Three Acts |
July 11th 1857 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,032.00 | |
| 82 | James (Henry) | [The Novels and Tales] |
1907-1945 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 83 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | My Early Life. A Roving Commission |
1930 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 952.50 | |
| 84 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | Photograph of Sir Winston Churchill with the American ambassador Lewis W. Douglas |
[c.1948] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,651.00 | |
| 85 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | Marlborough, His Life and Times |
1933-38 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 86 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | [War Speeches] |
1941-46 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,206.50 | |
| 87 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The Second World War |
1948-54 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | |
| 88 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The History of English Speaking Peoples |
1956-58 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 89 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The Collected Works ... |
1973-76 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 90 | Gaulle (Charles de) | War Memoirs. Unity 1942-1944 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 3,556.00 | ||
| 91 | Adams (Douglas) | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
1979 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,286.00 | |
| 92 | Atwood (Margaret) | The Handmaid's Tale |
1985 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 93 | Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) | Dali (Salvador).- Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de la Mancha |
York | 1946 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,270.00 |
| 94 | Dahl (Roald) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
New York | 1964 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,524.00 |
| 95 | Dahl | Rhyme Stew |
1989 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 96 | Dexter (Colin) | [Inspector Morse Series] |
1975-98 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,587.50 | |
| 97 | Fleming (Ian) | Casino Royale |
1953 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 98 | Fleming (Ian) | Live and Let Die |
1954 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,540.00 | |
| 99 | Gibson (William) | Neuromancer, first English edition, 1984 |
1984 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,032.00 | |
| 100 | Green (Henry) | Blindness |
1926 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,048.00 | |
| 101 | Joyce (James) | Bronze of James Joyce's Death Mask |
[Birmingham] | [2017] | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,270.00 |
![<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.")
