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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
179 Doyle (John, "H.B.") and others

Album of over 110 caricatures and prints

[mid 19th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
180 Lang (Andrew)

The Olive Fairy Book

1907 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,206.50
181 Malory (Sir Thomas)

Rackham (Arthur) .- The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

1917 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 508.00
182 Barrie (J.M.)

Thomson (Hugh) .- The Admirable Crichton

[1914] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 584.20
183 Valentine (J.)

Scottish Scenery: Callander & Killin

[1870s] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 241.30
184 Ardizzone (Edward)

Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

1936 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
185 Severin (Mark)

Erotica.- L'Escapade de la Statue

2002 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
186 Pogany (Willy)

Khayyam (Omar) Rubaiyat

1930 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 431.80
187 Verdet (Andre)

Provence Noire

1955 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
188 Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus)

Architecture.- De Architectura libri decem... nunc primum in Germania

Strasbourg 1543 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
189 Brangwyn (Frank)

The Etched Works

1908 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
190 Butler (A.S.G.)

The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens

1950 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,143.00
191 Cooper (Thomas Sidney)

Cattle.- Cattle Subjects

[?1839] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
192 Delamotte (William Alfred)

Etchings

Bagshot 1837 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
193

Faits memorables de la vie militaire et privee de sa majeste l'empereur des francais

Paris 1807 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
194 Harding (James Duffield)

A Series of Subjects from the Works of the late R. P. Bonington ...

[ca. 1830] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 88.90
195 Junot (Madame, Duchess d'Abrantes)

Memoirs of Celebrated Women of all Countries

1834 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
196 Kauffman (Angelica, 1741-1807)

The Holy Family with an angel

1773 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
197 Barbari (Jacopo de') After, and others

Old master prints.- Collection of 32 old master prints

[16th to 18th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
198 Passe the Elder (Crispin van de) and others

Old master prints.- Collection of 23 old master ornament prints, emblamata, and works by "The Little Masters"

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 241.30
200 Gillray (James)

"Miss, I Have a Monstrous Crow to Pluck with You!!"

1794 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 241.30
201 Gillray (James)

Satire.- Dilettanti-theatricals: -or- a peep at the Green Room

1803 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,143.00
202 Bunbury (Henry William) and others

Hairdressing and shaving satire.- Collection of 9 satirical prints depicting late Georgian fashions in hairdressing and shaving

late 18th and early 19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 762.00
203 Hogarth (William), After

Marriage A-la-Mode, the set of six, early states before later reworking

1745 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 533.40
204 Hogarth (William)

Gin Lane, and seven others similar

mid 18th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 533.40
  • 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