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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Charles-Marie Leconte de Lisle | Poemes Barbares, one of 99 copies, from an edition limited to 119, wood-engraved illustrations after Paul Jouve |
Lausanne | 1929-31 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 952.50 |
| 202 | Rudyard Kipling | The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Books |
1894-5 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 203 | Rudyard Kipling | Rewards and Fairies |
1910 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 241.30 | |
| 204 | Mera K. Sett | Omar Khayyam one of 250 copies |
Cambridge | 1914 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 533.40 |
| 205 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Idylls of the King, one of 350 deluxe copies signed by the artist, tipped-in colour plates by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale |
1911 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 330.20 | |
| 206 | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Romaunt of the Rose, one of 475 copies |
1908 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 952.50 | |
| 207 | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales, 2 vol. including introductory essay by Peter Holliday, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel edition |
2010 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 139.70 | |
| 208 | Engraved by Robert Gibbings: A Portrait of Lady Hester |
Marlborough | 1987 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 609.60 | |
| 209 | Hugo van Lawick | Savage Paradise. The Predators of Serengeti |
1977 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 63.50 | |
| 210 | Suzanne Lucas | In Praise of Toadstools, 2 vol., number 2 of the de luxe edition signed by the author and specially-bound |
Mere | 1992-97 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 165.10 |
| 211 | Sir Edwin Lutyens, Jane Brown Fulbrook, editor | The Sketchbook, Letters, Specification of Works & Accounts of a House |
Marlborough | 1989 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 139.70 |
| 212 | E. Powys Mathers | Red Wise |
1925 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 304.80 | |
| 213 | William Morris | A Book of Verse, facsimile edition |
1980 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 165.10 | |
| 214 | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass |
Marlborough | 2001 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 457.20 |
| 215 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Marlborough | 2003 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 355.60 |
| 216 | Coex'ae Qgam | Qauqaua. A San Folk Story from Botswana |
Johannesburg | 1996 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 152.40 |
| 217 | Francesco Nardelli and Matthew Hillier | The Rhinoceros A Monograph signed by the artist and illustrator and with an original pencil drawing, Basilisk ... |
1988 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 381.00 | |
| 218 | Christopher Logue, Brian Patten, Edward Lucie-Smith, John Fuller and Virginain Lawson | Broadsheets nos. 4, 6-8 and 10, 5 vol., each from an edition of 50 copies, signed presentation inscriptions from the authors and illustrator to Eleanor Hollack... |
1971-72 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 152.40 | |
| 219 | Thomas Tusser | A selection from Five hundred points of good husbandry |
1981 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 127.00 | |
| 220 | William Trevor | Dreaming 3 copies |
Hatfield | 1973 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 304.80 |
| 221 | Andrea Argoli | Ptolemaeus parvus in genethliacis junctus Arabibus |
Lyons | 1680 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 215.90 |
| 222 | Max Born | The Restless Universe, second edition, signed by the author |
New York | 1951 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 304.80 |
| 223 | P.W. Bridgman | Reflections of a Physicist, autograph note signed by the author |
New York | 1950 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 190.50 |
| 224 | Ian Wilmut, A.E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A.J. Kind and K.H.S. Campbell | Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells, in Nature. Vol 385, no. 6619 |
1997 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,651.00 | |
| 225 | Paul Dirac | The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
Oxford | 1930 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 2,286.00 |
![<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.")
