Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 1048, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025

Page Size: 303 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
276		Collection of c.20 photographic postcards of Indian rulers	India	early 20th century	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 114.30
277	Indian School	Indian School Album with 24 mica paintings of Indian figures, and 9 early photographs of India and Southeast Asia...		mid- to late-19th century	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 508.00
278	George Ashdown Audsley	The Ornamental Arts of Japan, 6 parts only (of 9) in 3 vol.		1882-84	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 120.65
279	M.N. Bland	Mas'oud, Poete Persan et Hindoui. Lettre A. M. Garcin de Tassy	Paris	1853	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.80
280	Henry Maundrell	Voyage d'Alep a Jerusalem in French	Utrecht	1705	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 241.30
282	Sir John Mandeville	The Voiage and Travaile		1727	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
283	Thomas Maurice	Observations connected with Astronomy and Ancient History, Sacred and Profane, on the Ruins of Babylon		1816	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
284		Middle East: Way to a Just Peace	Moscow	1970	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 63.50
285	Cecil Harcourt Robertson	Album comprising over 150 sketches, many from travels to the Middle East and Far East		1919	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 431.80
286	John Hunt	The Ascent of Everest		1953	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 19.05
287	Eric Shipton	That Untravelled World. An Autobiography		1969	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 330.20
288	Henry Miller	Quiet Days in Clichy, photographic illustrations by Brassai	Paris	1956	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 457.20
289	A. Parent-Duchatelet	De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris		1837	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 825.50
290	George Augustus Sala	Notes and Sketches of the Paris Exhibition		1868	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 635.00
291	Adolph Erman	Travels in Siberia..., 2 vol. in English		1848	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 215.90
292	William Fullarton	A Statement, Letters, and Documents, respecting the Affairs of Trinidad: including a reply to Colonel Picton's Address, part 1 only (of 2)		1804	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
293	William Hardin Burnley	Observations on the Present Condition of the Island of Trinidad, and the actual state of the experiment of Negro Emancipation		1842	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
294	A. R. Bonus	The French Riviera		1928	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
295	Sir Richard Carnac Temple	The World Encompassed and Analogous Contemporary Documents concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World		1926	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 88.90
296		World.- Travel Diary, 54 ff. manuscript on paper		c.1920s	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 38.10
297	J.H. Franks	White's Plane Spherical Globe, 2 hand-coloured engraved maps of the hemispheres	Sheffield	1839	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 406.40
298	John Rocque	A Topographical Survey of the County of Berks		1761	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
299		Picturesque Views of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in England and Wales		1786-88	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
300	Rapin de Thoyras	The History of England, 21 vol., translated by N. Tindal		1757-59	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 304.80
301		An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London...bound with An Historical Narrative of the Great and Tremendous Storm...		1769	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 127.00

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.
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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.