Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 1049, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025

Page Size: 296 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	Eunuchs.- [Ancillon (Charles)]	Eunuchism Display'd. Describing all the different Sorts of Eunuchs		1718	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 127.00
77	Newton (Sir Isaac).- Pemberton (Henry)	A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy		1728	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 431.80
78	[Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de)]	Lettres Ecrites de Londres sur les Anglois et Autres Sujets	Basle [i.e. London]	1734	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
79	[Hervey (John Hervey, Baron)]	The Patriots are Come; or, A New Doctor for a Crazy Constitution. A New Ballad to the Tune of Derry down		[1742]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 406.40
80	[Kettilby (Mary)]	A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; For the Use of all Good Wives		1746	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
81	Smith (Godfrey), translator.	The Laboratory; or, School of Arts...Experiments in Refining		1750	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
82	[Parker (William)]	A Letter to a person of scrupulous conscience about the time of keeping Christmas		1753	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 228.60
83	Hume (David)	Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects		1753-56-53-54.	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
84	[Garrick (David)]	Lilliput. A Dramatic Entertainment		1757	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 76.20
85	Baskerville (John).-	Book of Common Prayer (The)	Cambridge,	1762	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 203.20
86	Horatius Flaccus (Quintus)	[Opera]	Birmingham,	1762	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
87	Pastoral poetry.- Cunningham (John)	Poems		1766	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 57.15
88	English Parliament.-	Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento		[1767-77].	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 330.20
89		Rare novel.- History of Miss Emilia Beville (The)		[1768].	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
90	Homer.	The Iliad [and] The Odyssey		1771	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 889.00
91	Almon (John, editor)	The Remembrancer; of, Impartial Repository of Public Events.		1776	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
92		Wit.- Complete London Jester (The); or Wit's Companion: Containing All the Fun and all the Humour...in London and Westminster		1780.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 241.30
93	Stuart (Gilbert)	A View of Society in Europe, in its Progress from Rudeness to Refinement		1783	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
94	Rabelais (Francois)	The Works...Illustrated with Explanatory Notes		1784	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 584.20
95	[Salmon (William)]	The Complete Works of Aristotle...		1786	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
96		Bible, English. The Holy Bible	Dublin,	1791	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 279.40
97	Beatson (Robert)	An Essay on the Comparative Advantages of Vertical and Horizontal Wind-Mills...		1798	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
98	Stuart (Andrew)	Genealogical History of the Stewarts		1798	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
99	Robert Southey's copy.- Southey (Robert)	Madoc		1805.	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 952.50
100		Bible, Irish Gaelic. Tiomna Nuadh...re Huilliam O Domhnuill	Shacklewell,	1810	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 31.75

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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.