Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 1050, London

Auction Details

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
230	Mayow (John)	Tractatus quinque medico-physici	Oxford	1674	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
231	Higginbottom (John)	Medicine.- An Essay on the Application of Lunar Caustic, in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers		1826	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 69.85
232	Macculloch (John)	Medicine.- Malaria: An Essay on the Production and Propagation of this Poison		1827	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 31.75
233	Willis (Thomas)	Medicine.- Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae: Quarum prior agit de Fermentatione		1663	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
234	Smellie (William)	Midwifery.- A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery		1752	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 190.50
235	Dewar (James) and John Ambrose Fleming	Physics.- Collection of 12 offprints, mostly from the Proceedings of the Royal Society and Philosophical Magazine		1892-1904	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 127.00
236	Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh John William) and R.J. Strutt, fourth Baron Rayleigh	Collection of 25 offprints and journal papers by 3rd and 4th Baron Rayleigh Stutt, the odd spot and finger soil		1878-1942	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
237	Tyndall (John)	Six Lectures on Light Delivered in America in 1872-73		1873	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 120.65
238	Bacon (Sir Francis)	Sylva Sylvarum	Leiden	1648	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 139.70
239	Yarrell (William)	Birds.- A History of British Birds		1843-56	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
240	Davies (Maria, active 1790s)	Botany.- Australiana.- Purple Convolvulus from New South Wales		1795	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 3,556.00
241	[Beilby (Ralph)]	Quadrupeds.- A General History of Quadrupeds	Newcastle Upon Tyne	1792	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 44.45
242	White (Rev. Gilbert)	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne		1789	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 482.60
243	Baigent (William)	Angling.- A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing	Newcastle	[c.1937]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
244	Shirley (Thomas)	Angling.- The Angler's Museum		[1786]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 203.20
245	[Smith (John)]	Angling.- The True Art of Angling		1770	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 381.00
246	[Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton]	Angling.- The Compleat Angler...		1676	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 431.80
247	Croome (A.C.M.)	Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools		1913	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 76.20
248	Sulivan (Capt. George Lydiard)	Africa.- Slavery.- Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa		1873	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 508.00
249	David (Andrew), editor	Hakluyt Society.- Editor's copies.- The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages		1988-97	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 482.60
250	Campbell (John)	Maritime.- Lives of the Admirals, And other Eminent British Seamen		1742-44	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 279.40
251	Napier (Major-General Elers)	Maritime.- The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir Charles Napier		1862	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,286.00
252	Nichelson (William)	Maritime.- A Treatise on Practical Navigation and Seamanship		1792	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 177.80
253	Mackenzie (Murdoch)	Maritime.- Mathematics.- A Treatise on Marine Surveying...		1826	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 825.50
254	Seller (John)	Maritime.- Navigation.- Practical Navigation, or an Introduction to the whole Art		1739	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,206.50

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
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.