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Auction Report
Auction Date
January 02, 2026 - January 02, 2026
Page Size: 304 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
177 Lemonnier, Camille

La Belgique

Paris 1888 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
178 Moussac, E. de.

L'Angleterre: Depuis son Origine Jusqu'a nos Jours

Tours [1909] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
179 Picard, le Commandant [Louis-Auguste]

L'Armee en France et a l'Etranger

Tours 1897 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
180

Nine miniatures from the turn of the century

London, mostly 1900s USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
181 (Estes and Lauriat)

An Elegy in a Country Churchyard

Boston [1883] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
182 Apuleius, Lucius

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

New York 1951 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
183

Three volumes from The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless

[New York] 1952 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
184

Collection of miniature books for children

1934-1980 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
185

Two miniature religious volumes in French

Various places Various dates USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
186 Leslau, Charlotte & Wolf, editors

African Folk Tales

Mount Vernon, NY [1963] USD 10.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
187

Ten miniature volumes from Square-Rigger Press, Stone-Inge Books, Stone Street Press and Swamp Press

1981-1990 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
188 Retz, Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de

Memoires du Cardinal de Retz

Paris [c.1880s] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
189 Elliott, James Welsh

Taylor & Taylor: A Reminiscence by James Welsh Elliott

San Francisco 1985 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
190

Three works relating to biology

1886-1909 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
191 Clock, Emma Graham

Wild Flowers From the Mountains, Canons and Valleys of California: A Selection of Favorite Blossoms...

San Francisco [1915] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
192 Darwin, Charles

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter

London 1887 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
193 Davies, Thomas

Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq. Interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of his Theatrical Contemporaries. The Whole Forming a History of the State, Which Includes a Period of Thirty-Six Years

London 1781 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
194 Dickins, F.W.

Hyak Nin Is'shiu, or Stanzas by a Century of Poets, being Japanese Lyrical Odes

London 1866 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 100.00
195 A Practical Liquor Manufacturer

The Bordeaux Wine and Liquor Dealers' Guide. A Treatise on the Manufacture and Adulteration of Liquors

New York 1858 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
196 Boswell, James

Dr. Johnson's Table-Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life and Manners; With Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson.

London 1798 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
197 Mason, W.

Crumbs From The Master's Table: Or, Select Sentences, Doctrinal, Practical, and Experimental

New York 1831 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 100.00
198 Nefzawi, Sheikh

The Perfumed Garden: A Manual of Arabian Erotology

Paris c.1930s USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
199 Plowert, Jacques

Petit glossaire pour servir a l'intelligence des auteurs decadents et symbolistes

Paris 1888 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
200

Portugallia sive De Regis Portugalliae Regnis et Opibus Commentarius

Lugduni Batavarom 1641 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
201 Radau, Michael, Georg Beckher, and Marcus Zuerius Van Boxhorn

Orator Extemporaneus sive artis oratoriae breviarium bipartitum... Accesserunt M.Z. Boxhorni Ideae Orationum

Lipsiae [i.e. Leipzig] 1687 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
  • 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 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    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