Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1193, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
Page Size: 263 items in 11 pages
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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