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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Large initial 'D' on a cutting from an illuminated Breviary |
[Germany, | thirteenth | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,905.00 | |
| 27 | Book of Hours, Use of Sarum |
[England (probably London)] | last of 14th century | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 29 | City of London.- Saint Katharine Cree Church & Saint Katherine Coleman. Charter |
London | 20th | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,794.00 | |
| 31 | Poetry & Ballads.- [Collection of Poetry & Ballads] |
nd | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 609.60 | ||
| 32 | Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes], manuscript in several hands |
1721 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,651.00 | ||
| 33 | Roberts (Giles Lawrence) | A Short Narrative of the Life of Giles Lawrence Roberts M.D. (written by Himself) |
1799 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 889.00 | |
| 34 | Irish & English politicians.- Pole (William Wellesley) | 2 copy letters signed "WW Pole" to Lord Wellesley |
1810 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 35 | Alpine Mountaineering.- Three Weeks in Switzerland |
June | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,016.00 | ||
| 36 | Spying on Fenians.- Agent's pocket book with list of suspects and detailed observations |
[?London] | 1886-1891 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 825.50 | |
| 37 | Verdi (Giuseppe, opera composer 1813-1901) | Autograph Musical Quotation, of a passage in ?E-flat major |
?1893 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 3,048.00 | |
| 38 | Stevenson (Robert Louis) | Autograph Letter signed to Harold Sewall ("My dear Suaese") |
Vailima | 1894 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 952.50 |
| 39 | Millay (Edna St. Vincent, American poet, playwright and feminist 1892-1950) | Prayer to Persephone |
no place | c1918 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 889.00 |
| 40 | Betjeman (Sir John, poet, writer, and broadcaster 1906-84) | Betjeman's first talk on radio |
v.s. | vd, 1960-75 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,651.00 |
| 41 | Ellis (Ruth, nightclub hostess and convicted murderer, 1926-55) | Autograph Letter signed to Mr [George] Rogers, Labour MP for Kensington North |
Holloway Prison | 1955 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 4,445.00 |
| 42 | Crisp (Quentin, born Denis Charles Pratt, raconteur and gay icon 1908-99) | Small archive of material relating to Quentin Crisp |
v.s. | c.1960s | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,302.00 |
| 43 | Illuminated Manuscripts.- Millar (Eric George) | The Library of A. Chester Beatty. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts |
1927-30 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 44 | Ethnography.- [Boemus (Johannes)] | The Fardle of Facions |
1555 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 4,826.00 | |
| 45 | [Brant (Sebastian)] | Stultifera Navis...The Ship of Fooles |
1570 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 13,860.00 | |
| 46 | Sidney (Sir Philip) | The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia...Now the fourth time published |
1605 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,079.50 | |
| 47 | [Spenser (Edmund)] | The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes |
1609 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,032.00 | |
| 48 | Raleigh (Sir Walter).- Stucley (Sir Lewis) | To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. The humble petition and information...touching his owne behaviour in the charge committed unto him |
1618 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 49 | H[ubert] ([Sir] F[rancis])] | The Historie of Edvvard the Second. surnamed Carnaruan |
1629 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 571.50 | |
| 50 | Bible, English. Holy Bible (The): Containing the Old Testament and the New |
1632 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 2,413.00 | ||
| 51 | Shakespeare (William) | Much Ado About Nothing & Loves Labour's Lostve's Labour's Lost |
1632 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 4,826.00 | |
| 52 | Juvenalis (Decimus Junius) | Mores hominum. The Manners of Men |
1660 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,143.00 |
![<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.")
