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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
151 Admiral George Campbell

Reports on the patent capstan invented by Capt. Chas. Phillips, R.N., fitted on board His Majesty's Frigate, Active

1820 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
152 William Kitchiner

The Cook's Oracle: containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families

1821 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 88.90
153

Kemble (Charles & Maria).- Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Four printed notices...

1821 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 190.50
154

Highwayman & Scottish cannibal.- The Surprising life of Richard Turpin, a notorious highwayman...To which is added, The life of Sawney Beane, the man-eater

c.1825 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 355.60
155

Entire change! Mr. Ducrow three times in the circle! Also, his first appearance this season with Miss Woolford on the double tight rope...Royal Amphitheatre...Liverpool...

1830 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
156 J. Hawkins

Spiritual Quixote, Geoffry sic Wildgoose, in Cheltenham: or, a dis-course on a race-course

Cheltenham c.1830 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 95.25
157

Announcement of the death of William IV, woodcut printed sheet with lithographed headpiece of Windsor Castle

Windsor 1837 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 88.90
158 Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution: A History, 3 vol.

1837 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 203.20
159

Horticultural Society of London.- Exhibitions at the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London, for the year 1837

1837 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 12.70
160 Charles Dickens

Master Humphrey's Clock in book form

1840-41 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
161

Songsheets.- Doctor's boy...The Old House at Home

Bristol 1840 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
162 Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire

1842 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 431.80
163 George Payne Rainsford James

Now publishing, with two etchings on steel by "Phiz." The Commissioner or De Lunatico Inquirendo..., rare advertising broadside

1842 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
164

Booke of Christmas Carols (A), Illuminated from Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, chromolithographed plates and decorative borders

c.1845 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,270.00
165 John Stores Smith

Barnard. A modern romance

Manchester & London 1846 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
166 Charles Dickens

The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain

1848 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.70
167

The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe Circa Mccclxxx

Chiswick 1848 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 508.00
168

Trade card.- Public trial of Milner's Fire-Resisting Safes...opposite Worcester College

?Oxford 1848 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 215.90
169 Thomas Wright and R. H. Evans

Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray

1851 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 88.90
170 William Handy

Verses composed on the murder of G. Kalabergo, rare broadside ballad

Digbeth, Birmingham 1852 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
171 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

Boston 1855 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
172 Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit, bound from the original 19/20 parts in 2 vol.

1855-57 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
173 David Bailey

The Truck System: a book for masters and workmen

Bath & London 1859 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
174 Charles Dickens

All the Year Round, 19 vol. only (of 20)

1859-68 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 76.20
175 Edgar Allan Poe

The Poetical Works

Edinburgh c.1860s GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 889.00
  • 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.
  • Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • 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.