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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
26 Thou (Jacques-Auguste de)

Historiarum sui Temporis

1733 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 228.60
27

Trials.- Authentick Coppie of the Tryal of Scot and Mackpherson Anno 1712

1737 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
28 [Dodsley (Robert)]

The Oeconomy of Human Life

1751 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
29

Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The)

Oxford 1754 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
30 Pope (Alexander)

The Works

1757 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 431.80
31 Bengel (Johann Albrecht)

Bengelius's Introduction to His Exposition of the Apocalypse

1757 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 304.80
32 Butts (Thomas, editor and publisher)

Music.- Harmonia-Sacra, or a Choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes

[c. 1760] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 558.80
33

Maritime.- Royal Charter (The) of Confirmation granted by ... King James II

1763 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 190.50
34 Abbott (Lemuel)

Poems on Various Subjects

Nottingham 1765 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
35 Gilpin (William)

The Lives of John Wicliff; and of the most Eminent of His Disciples

1766 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
36 [Gibbon (Edward)]

A Vindication of some passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1779 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
37 Watson (Robert)

The History of the Reign of Philip the Second

1779 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 355.60
38

Robin Hood's Garland; or, Sherwood Songster

1787 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
39

European Travel Journal.- From Switzerland to Venice thence Bullogna & Loretto to Rome

[late 18th century] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 698.50
40

Philosophy.- Institutiones Philosophiae

[late 18th century] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
41

Robin Hood's Garland

Nottingham 1794 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 431.80
42 Thomson (Rev John, minister of the Church of Scotland, minister of Duddingston Kirk 1805-40, 1778-1840)

Scotland.- Duddingston.- [Three Sermons]

1802, 1817 & 1818 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 88.90
43

Yorkshire.- Fragment of a Rent Roll

1804 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 177.80
44 Southey (Robert)

Madoc

1805 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 228.60
45 Dowding (William, Receiver of Corn Returns, London)

Receiver of Corn Returns.- County of Rutland, Uppingham... A Return of the Prices of Corn from this Market for the Week...

17th August 1813 - 5th January 1819 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
46

Chapbooks.- Jack the Giant Killer

Banbury [c.1820s-30s] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 457.20
47 Mangnall (Richmal, schoolmistress, 1769-1820)

French Kings.- Portraits of French Kings

[c. 1820] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
48 Campbell (Thomas)

The Pleasures of Hope with Other Poems

1827 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
49 [Tuckey (Mary B.)]

Creation: or, A Morning Walk with Anna

Dublin 1845 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
50

Ironworks.- Letters Patent awarded to John Depledge of Thorncliffe Ironworks, Sheffield, for "A New Metallic Broacher"

1846 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 304.80
  • 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.