Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1193, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251 | De Ursis (Sabatino) | Kien-p'ing i chouo or Jianping yishuo [Description of a simple Altazimuth Quadrant], |
Peking, | [1611]. | GBP 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 252 | Glareanus (Henricus) | De geographia liber unus ab ipso authore iam tertio recognitus, |
Venice | [1549]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,230.63 |
| 253 | Cauchy (Augustin-Louis) | Memoire sur la Resolution des Equations numeriques et sur la Theorie de l'Elimination, |
Paris | 1829 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 614.68 |
| 254 | Peurbach (Georg von) | Tractatus... super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis. Item compositio tabularum sinuum per Ioannem de Regiomonte, |
Nuremberg | 1541. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 255 | Bockler (Georg Andreas) | Theatrum Machinarum Novum, |
Nuremberg | 1661 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 256 | Neumann (Carl Gottfried) | An extensive collection of c.140 offprints, |
Leipzig & Berlin | 1869-1921. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,932.94 |
| 257 | Newton (Sir Isaac) | Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, |
1730 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 2,459.99 | |
| 258 | Nightingale (Florence) | Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, |
1860 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 878.84 | |
| 259 | Lambert (Johann Heinrich) | Les Proprietes Remarquables de la Route de la Lumiere..., |
The Hague | 1759 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 260 | Pare (Ambroise) | Traicte de la peste, |
Paris | 1568 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 261 | Bunyakovsky (Viktor) | Osnovaniya Matematicheskoy Teorii Veroyatnostey [Foundations of the mathematical theory of probability], |
St Petersburg | 1846 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,932.94 |
| 262 | Scheiner (Christoph) | Pantographice, seu ars delineandi..., |
Rome | 1631 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 263 | Monte (Guidobaldo del) | In duos Archimedis Aequeponderantium libros paraphrasis, |
Pesaro | 1588 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,163.57 |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000 -
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Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.