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
182 Giustiniani (Vincenzo)

Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani

[Rome] c1631-36 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
183 Montfaucon (Bernard de)

Antiquity Explained

1721-25 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 825.50
184 Nash (Joseph) & Lt. Col. Fountain Elwin).

The Trifler

c1826-1828 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
185 Raphael.- Volpato (Giovanni)

and Giovani Ottaviani. Fourteen plates after Raphael's ornamentation of pilasters in the Vatican

circa1772-1777 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,540.00
186 M[arkham] (G[ervase])

The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting

1712 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,064.00
187 S[mith] (J[ohn])

The Compleat Fisher: Or, The True Art of Angling

1716 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,556.00
188 [Venables (Robert)]

The Experienc'd Angler: or Angling Improv'd

1662 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
189 Dodoens (Rembert)

A New herball, or historie of plants: wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of herbes and plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes: their names

1595 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
190 Buller (Sir Walter Lawry)

A History of the Birds of New Zealand

for the subscribers 1888 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,270.00
191 Dioscorides (Pedanius)

De medicinali materia libri sex

Frankfurt-am-Main 1543 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
192 Exotic plants and animals.- Clusius (Carolus)

Exoticorum libri decem...item Petri Bellonii Observationes

Leiden 1605 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,270.00
193 [Goury de Champgrand (Charles Jean)]

Traite de venerie, et de chasses

Paris 1769 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
194 Albin (Eleazar)

A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with A Hundred Copper Plates...Exactly Coloured by the Author

1720 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,270.00
195 Nursery catalogue.- Grimwood (Daniel, Nurseryman)

A Catalogue of greenhouse plants, hardy trees and shrubs

1783 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 952.50
196 Brenner (Sydney).-

Collection of correspondences with Sydney Brenner and various scientific printed materials

v.s. 1960s-2000s GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,270.00
197 Brenner (Sydney).-

Collection of Medals and Certificates awarded to Sydney Brenner for his scientific accomplishments

1972-2020 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 37,800.00
198 Brenner (Sydney)

Telegram from Sydney Brenner in Berkeley California to Cambridge

v.s. dated GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,016.00
199 Brenner (Sydney) et al..

Collection of research and research papers and Brenner's correspondences regarding various aspects of DNA and genetics

v.s. 1980s-2000s GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,016.00
200 Crick (Francis Harry C.)

Printed genetic code chart from Francis Crick's own hand-drawn version

?1966 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
201 Brenner (Sydney)

Collection of research and research papers on Fugu genomes

v.s 1990s-2000s GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 762.00
202 Brenner (Sydney)

et al.- 9 folders of research and research papers on the genetics of humans and other animals

c2000s GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 762.00
203

Nobel Prize Award.- 2 Nobel Prize lapel pins for Sydney Brenner

2002 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 825.50
204 Crick (Francis Harry C.).- Monod (Jacques)

College de France. Chaire de Biologie Moleculaire. Lecon Inaugurale

1967 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
205 Crick (Francis Harry C.)

Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature

New York 1981 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 825.50
206 Crick (Francis Harry C.)

What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

New York 1988 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,143.00
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