Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1191, London

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Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 262 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
233 Atkinson (Capt. George Francklin)

The Campaign in India 1857-58. From Drawings Made During the Eventful Period of the Great Mutiny...Illustrating the Military Operations before Delhi and its Neighbourhood

1859 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 698.50
234 Dal Re (Marcantonio)

Ville di Delizia o siano Palaggi Camparecci nello stato di Milano

Milan 1727 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
235 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Vue des restes du pronaos de l'edifice que l'on peut considerer comme le College des Anfictions...

1778 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 889.00
236 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Three plates from 'Differentes vues de... [Paestum]'

1778 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,413.00
237 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Two plates from 'Differentes vues de... [Paestum]'

1778 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,397.00
238 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Five views of Churches and Basilica, from 'Vedute di Roma'

circa1760-1778 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
239 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Veduta del Pantheon d'Agrippa , from: Vedute di Roma

1761 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,048.00
240 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Veduta dell'Arco di Constantino, from 'Vedute di Roma'

1771 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,397.00
241 Rossini (Luigi)

Eighteen views of Rome and its environs, from 'Le Antichita Romane'

circa1820-1823 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,397.00
242 Rossini (Luigi)

Fifteen views of Rome and its environs, from 'Le Antichita Romane'

circa1820-1823 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,397.00
243 Rossini (Luigi)

Sixteen views of Rome and its environs, from 'Le Antichita Romane'

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,397.00
244 Rossini (Luigi)

Twenty views of Rome and its environs, from 'Le Antichita Romane'

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,524.00
245 Anonymous Cartographer (Edo Period)

Map of Nagasaki, Hizen Province (Hizen Nagasakizu)

Nagasaki mid-19th century GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
246 Kunisada (Utagawa "Toyokuni III")

and others. Three oban triptychs

late GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
247 Effendy (Selim Faris)

Album des Souverains Ottomans, lithograph title and index

Istanbul 1885 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
248 Vauban (Sebastien Le Prestre)

Darban ve def'an muhasar ve muharesei kila? ve husun [Translation of Traite? de l'attaque et de la de?fense des places]

possibly in Orta Koy 1206 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,302.00
249 English School (circa 1830s)

Album containing 48 original watercolour landscapes of Malta and Gozo

circa1832-1835 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
250

Middle East.- 'Abuzabi fi al-dhikraa al-khamisat litawaliy sahib al-sumui hakim al-bilad maqalid al-hukm [Abu Dhabi on the Fifth Anniversary of the Accession of His Majesty the Ruler of the Country], text in Arabic

Abu Dhabi 1971 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 635.00
251 Israel Defence Force (General Staff, [Tel Aviv])

Three maps of the Middle East relating to oil production following the Suez Crisis

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
252 Lawrence (T.E.)

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Lebanon 1933 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
253 Kinneir (John Macdonald)

A Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire

1813 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,778.00
254 Malcolm (Col. Sir John)

The History of Persia

1815 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,397.00
255

Naval & Maritime.- Nautical Magazine (The) vol..1-21 (ie 5 vol. original series and vol.6-21 (of 39)

1832-52 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
256 Heber Percy (Algernon)

and Mrs [Alice] Heber Percy. Journal of Two Excursions in the British North West Territory of North America

Shropshire 1878 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 35,280.00
257 Shackleton (Ernest H.)

The Heart of the Antarctic Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909

1909 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
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