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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
51 Howitt (Mary)

Ballads, 3 short manuscript poems by author loosely inserted

1847 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 889.00
52

Folk Ballad.- The Gay Goshawk with Original Illustrations

1847 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 381.00
53 Young (Sir Charles George, herald, Garter King of Arms, 1795-1869) & Laurie (Sir Robert, herald, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1806-82)

Heraldry.- Grant of Arms to John Sparrow of Blackburn, Lancaster

1854 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
54 Wollaston (Sir Gerald Woods, herald, Garter King of Arms, 1874-1957) & Cochrane (Sir Arthur, herald, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1872-1954)

Heraldry.- Grant of Arms to Constance Rashall

1934 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
55 Serlio (Sebastiano)

Architecture.- Reglen van Metselrijen...

1549 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,079.50
56 Labacco (Antonio)

Architecture.- Libro d'Antonio Labacco appartenente a l'architettura nel qual si figurano alcune notabili antiquita di Roma

Rome 1559 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,397.00
57 De l'Orme (Philibert)

Architecture.- Le Premier Tome de l'Architecture

Paris 1568 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,206.50
58 Serlio (Sebastiano)

Architecture.- Tutte l'Opere d'Architettura, et Prrospetiva... diviso in sette Libri...

Venice 1600 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 431.80
59 Errard de Bar-le-Duc (Jean)

Architecture.- Fortifications.- La Fortification demonstree et reduicte en Art

Paris 1604 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 431.80
60 Vignola (Giacomo Barozzi da)

Architecture.- Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura

Siena [1635] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 482.60
61 Montano (Giovanni Battista)

Architecture.- Raccolta de Tempii et Sepolcri disegnati dall'Antico

Rome 1638 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 431.80
62 Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus)

Architecture.- De architectura libri decem

Amsterdam 1649 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 381.00
63 Rusconi (Giovanni Antonio)

Architecture.- I Dieci Libri d'Architettura

Venice 1660 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
64 Le Muet (Pierre)

Architecture.- Maniere de Bastir, pour touttes sortes de personnes

Paris [1664] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
65 Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus)

Architecture.- Les Dix Livres d'architecture de Vitruve

Paris 1673 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 698.50
66 Pozzo (Andrea)

Archietcture.- Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum

Rome 1693 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 584.20
67 Pozzo (Andrea)

Architecture.- Perspectivae pictorum atque architectorum... Der Mahler und Baumeister Perspectiv

Augsburg [1706-09] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
68 Aviler (Augustin Charles d')

Architecture.- Cours d'Architecture qui comprend les Ordres de Vignole

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 304.80
69 Palladio (Andrea)

Architecture.- Les Batimens et les Desseins... recueillis et illustres par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi

Vicenza 1776 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 508.00
70 Verdellet (Jules)

Upholstery.- Manuel Geometrique du Tapissier

Paris [c.1880] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 76.20
71

Bible, Latin.- Biblia latina

18th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 889.00
72 Ulyssea

Homer. Batrachomyomachia

Leuven 1523 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 762.00
73

Ex Veterum Comicorum fabulis, quae integrae non extant

Paris 1553 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
74

Bible, Polyglot. Precationes aliquot celebriores e sacris Bibliis desumptae

Paris 1554 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 355.60
75 Pachymeres (Georgius)

Dionysius, the Areopagite.- Paraphrasis in omnia Dionysii Areopagitae, Athenarum Episcopi, Opera quae Extant [Graece]

Paris 1561 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 762.00
  • 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.
  • 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