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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 297 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Opera

Strassbourg [28 April], 1502 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 609.60
2

16th century possessions and inheritances

1584-93 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
3 Commines (Philip de)

The Historie of ..

1614 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 254.00
4 Hugo (Hermann)

Emblemata.- Pia Desideria Emblematis

Antwerp 1628 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
5

Ovid. Opera

Leiden 1629 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 825.50
6 Clarke (John)

Holy Oyle for the Lampes of the Sanctuarie: or Scripture Phrases Alphabetically Disposed

Milbourne 1630 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
7 Cluverius (Philippus)

Germaniae Antiquae Libri tres ...

Leiden 1631 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 533.40
8 Baxter (Richard)

Aphorismes of Justification, with their explication annexed ...

1649 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,016.00
9 Dugdale (Sir William)

Warwickshire.- The Antiquities of Warwickshire

1656 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 330.20
10 Rous (Francis)

Antiquities.- Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem

Oxford 1658 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 762.00
11 Stillingfleet (Edward) Irenicum

A Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds

1661 [i.e. 1660] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
12

Bindings.- Heures Royales, contenant Les Offices, Vespres, Hymnes, et Proses de l'Eglise

Paris 1666 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,079.50
13 [Varet (Alexandre-Louis)]

The Nunns Complaint against the Fryars

1676 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 203.20
14 Molinet (Claude de)

Numismatics.- Historia Summorum Pontificum a Martino V. ad Innocentium XI

Paris 1679 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 558.80
15 Patrick (Simon)

A Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Non-Conformist

1684 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
16 Cotton (Sir Robert)

An Exact Abridgement of the Records in the Tower of London

1689 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
17 Miege (Guy)

The New State of England under Their Majesties K. William and Q. Mary

1691 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
18 Duck (Sir Arthur)

The Life of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury

1699 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 482.60
19 Gruter (Jan)

Inscriptiones Antiquae Totius Orbis Romani ...

Amsterdam 1707 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 482.60
20 Strype (John)

The History of the Life and Acts of ... Edmund Grindal

1710 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 355.60
21 Quillet (Claude)

Bindings.- Callipaediae; or, an Art how to have Handsome Children

1718 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
22 Somner (William)

Kent.- A Treatise of Gavelkind, both Name and Thing

1726 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
23 Sheridan (Richard Brinsley)

The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed

1731 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 254.00
24 Milner (John)

A Compendious Journal of all the Marches, Famous Battles, Sieges ... of the Triumphant Armies ...

1733 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
25 Pine (John, engraver)

Horace. Opera

1733-37 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 508.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000