Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1191, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brant (Sebastian) & Jakob Wimpfeling. | Hortulus anime |
Strasbourg | 1503 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | GBP 5,715.00 |
| 2 | Anti-semitism.- Porchetus Salvagus. | Victoria adversus impios Hebr[a]eos, in qua tum ex sacris litteris tum ex dictis Talmud ac cabbalistaru[m] |
Paris | 1520 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,905.00 |
| 3 | Anti-semitism.- Margaritha (Antonius) | Der Gantz Judisch Glaub |
[Augspurg] | 1530 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 2,413.00 |
| 4 | Bible, Latin. Biblia |
Paris | 1532 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5 | Macchiavelli (Niccolo) | Historie |
Venice | 1540 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 4,064.00 |
| 6 | Josephus (Flavius) | Opera |
Basel | 1544 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,206.50 |
| 7 | Dance of Death.- Holbein (Hans) | Les Images de la Mort |
Lyon | 1547 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 8 | Ariosto (Lodovico) | Orlando Furioso |
Venice | 1556 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 698.50 |
| 9 | Rauwolf (Leonhard) | Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiss so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenlaender... |
[Lauingen] | 1582 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | Montaigne (Michel de) | Les Essais... |
Paris | 1611 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 11 | Muret (Marc Antoine) | Epistolae, hymni sacri et poemata omnia...editio ultima |
Lyon | 1613 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 12 | Tasso (Torquato) | La Gerusalemme Liberata |
Genoa | 1617 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,397.00 |
| 13 | Drexel (Jeremias) | Zodiacus Christianus, seu signa XII. divinae Praedestinationis |
1632 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 14 | Bindings.- Saincts devoirs (Les) de l'ame devote |
Paris | 1640 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 15 | Koran.- Koran ofversatt fran arabiska originalet |
Stockholm | 1843 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 16 | Engels (Friedrich).- Held (Friedrich Wilhelm) | Held's Volksvertreter |
Berlin | 1846 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) | [Memoirs from the House of the Dead] |
St Petersburg | 1875 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 635.00 |
| 18 | Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) | [The Brothers Karamazov] |
Brothers Panteleev | 1881 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 32,760.00 |
| 19 | Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) | [Crime and Punishment] |
St Petersburg | 1882 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 952.50 |
| 20 | Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) | [The Devils, sometimes The Possessed or Demons] |
St. Petersburg | 1882 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 762.00 |
| 21 | Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) | [The Idiot] |
St. Petersburg | 1882 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 825.50 |
| 22 | Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich) | [Humiliated and Insulted, sometimes The Insulted and Injured] |
St. Petersburg | 1887 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 698.50 |
| 23 | Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich "Leo") | [Anna Karenina] |
Moscow | 1878 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 11,970.00 |
| 24 | [Melnikov (Pavel Ivanovich)], Andrey Pechersky. | [On the Hills] |
St Petersburg & Moscow | 1881 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 25 | Boccaccio (Giovanni) | The Decameron |
Moscow | 1891 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 254.00 |
![<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.")
