Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 1048, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, text in German and English |
Oxford | 1956 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 558.80 |
| 252 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Preliminary Studies for The 'Philosophical Investigations' generally known as The Blue & Brown Books |
Oxford | 1958 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 584.20 |
| 253 | William Curtis | The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 1 and 2 |
1787 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 190.50 | |
| 254 | Thomas Martyn | Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations: intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables |
1794 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 255 | John Gould | Collection of 20 plates from 'Birds of Europe' |
c.1832-37 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 256 | John Gould and Edward Lear | Sulphur-and-white-breasted Toucan (Ramphastos Vitellinus), from 'A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans' |
c.1835 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 406.40 | |
| 257 | F.C. Hicks | Forty Years with Wild Animals in India, 2 vol. only, second edition, signed by the author |
Madras | 1911 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 88.90 |
| 258 | F.W. Frohawk | Natural History of British Butterflies, 2 vol.s |
1914 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 259 | Sir George Sitwell | On the Making of Gardens |
1949 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 50.80 | |
| 260 | Ellen Willmott | The Genus Rosa, 2 vol., drawings by Alfred Parsons |
1914 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 558.80 | |
| 261 | J. Andreas Romberg | Zeitschrift fur Praktische Baukunst |
Leipzig | 1841-48 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 101.60 |
| 262 | Nicolas-Henri Tardieu | Assembly of the Gods, after Antoine Coypel's ceiling fresco in the Palais RoyalParis, four sheets of engravings |
1717 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 190.50 | |
| 263 | Erno Goldfinger and Colin Penn | Planning Your Homes, 19 sheets only (of 22, lacking nos. 20-22) |
1945 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 215.90 | |
| 264 | William James Bennett | West Point, from Phillipstown |
1831 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 609.60 | |
| 265 | Thomas Shaw | Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant |
1757 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 254.00 | |
| 266 | Douglas Carruthers | Unknown Mongolia. A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria |
1914 | GBP 180.00 - 220.00 | GBP 215.90 | |
| 267 | Burma.- Burmese manuscript |
late 19th or early 20th century | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 25.40 | ||
| 268 | Thomas Gage | A New Survey of the West-Indies... |
1699 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 241.30 | |
| 269 | China's Millions |
1925-43 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 304.80 | ||
| 270 | Herbert A. Giles | A Chinese-English Dictionary |
1912 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 165.10 | |
| 271 | China.- Landscape Album |
Tokyo | 1912 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 95.25 | |
| 272 | Douglas Story | To-Morrow in the East |
1907 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 31.75 | |
| 273 | English School Album with collection of 30 studies of a tour via Switzerland, Northern Italy, and the Greek Islands of Corfu and Kefalonia... |
mid-19th century | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 127.00 | ||
| 274 | Sir William Jackson Hooker | Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809 |
1813 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 76.20 | |
| 275 | Sri Aurobindo | The Birth Century Library Set |
India | 1972 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 190.50 |
![<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.")
