Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1188, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025

Page Size: 206 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
127	Carlos Clarke (Bob)	Photography.- Dark Deluxe: the Bob Carlos Clarke Opus		2021	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,302.00
128	McCartney (Sir Paul)	1964: Eyes of the Storm		2023	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,794.00
129	McCartney (Sir Paul)	The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present		2021	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 5,334.00
130	Kirby (John Joshua)	Architecture.- The Perspective of Architecture		1761	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 508.00
131	Palladio (Andrea)	Architecture.- The First Book of Andrea Palladio's Architecture	n.p.	1742	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,460.50
132	Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus)	Architecture.- Architecture ou Art de bien bastir	Paris	1547	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,540.00
133	Buller (Sir Walter Lawry)	Birds.- A History of the Birds of New Zealand		1888	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,810.00
134	Dresser (Henry Eeles)	Birds.- A Monograph of the Coraciidae	Farnborough	1893	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,794.00
135	Gould (John)	Birds.- The Birds of Great Britain		1862-73	GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
136	Curtis (William) & John Sims	Botany.- The Botanical Magazine			GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 5,715.00
137	Sowerby (James)	Botany.- English Botany			GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,143.00
138	Verneuil (Maurice Pillard)	Botany.- Encyclopedie Artistique et Documentaire de la Plante	Paris	[c.1910]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 381.00
139	Jonston (John)	Historiae Naturalis...	Frankfurt am Main	[1650-1653]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,794.00
140	Sclater (P.L.) and Oldfield Thomas	The Book of Antelopes		1894-1900	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,651.00
141	White (Rev. Gilbert)	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne		1789	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
142	Tsiolkovsky (Konstantin)	Aeronautics.- Soprotivlenie vozdukha i skoryi poezd [Air Resistance and the Fast Train]		1927	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 571.50
143	Harvey (William)	Anatomy.- Opera sive Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus	Leiden	1737	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,032.00
144	Needham (Walter)	Anatomy.- Disquisitio Anatomica de Formato Foetu		1667	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 762.00
145	Turing (Alan Mathison)	Artificial Intelligence.- "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in Mind	New York	1950	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 10,795.00
146	Darwin (Charles)	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection		1860	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,794.00
147	Ronalds (Francis)	Development of the telegraph.- Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph, and of some other electrical apparatus		1823	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 508.00
148	Pasteur (Louis)	Fermentation.- Memoire sur les Corpuscules Organises qui existent dans l'atmosphere, offprint from Annales de Chimie et de Physique	Paris	1862	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,905.00
149	Dufrenoy (Armand) and Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont	Geology.- France.- Carte geologique de la France executee sous la direction de Mr. Brochant de Villiers, Inspecteur general des Mines...		1870	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,524.00
150	Artis (Edmund Tyrell)	Fossils.- Antediluvian Phytology		1825	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
151	Nicols (Thomas)	Gemology.- A Lapidary: or, The History of Pretious Stones	Cambridge	1652	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,270.00

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: 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.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.