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

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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
51

Scottish Bindings.- Bible, English. The Holy Bible...,

Edinburgh 1715 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,150.61
52 Dugdale (Sir William)

Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the History of the Ancient Abbies,

1718-23. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,338.83
53 Dougharty (John)

The General Gauger: or, the principles and practice of gauging beer,

1727. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 527.05
54 Mouhy (Charles de Fieux)

Injur'd innocence: being the instructive and diverting memoirs of the Marquess of Fieux,

1745. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 702.31
55

Forger & Highwayman.- A True, genuine and authentic account of the behaviour,

1763. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,865.88
56 Willison (Rev. John)

The Mother's cathechism for the young child,

Dumfries 1773 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,493.52
57 [Bickerstaffe (Isaac)]

The Sultan: or, a peep into the Seraglio. A comedy in two acts As performed at the Theatre-Royal,

Dublin 1780. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 702.31
58 Falconbridge (Alexander)

An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa,

1788 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,108.20
59 Shakespeare (William)

The Dramatic Works,

1802 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 9,588.60
60

Broadside poem.- The Lamp-Lighter's Poem, Humbly Presented to all his Worthy Masters and Mistresses,

[c. 1810] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
61 [Austen (Jane)]

Sense and Sensibility,

1813. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,625.08
62 [Barker (Mary) & William Wordsworth].

Lines addressed to A Noble Lord; (His Lordship will know why,)

1815. GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 12,204.36
63 Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus,

1831 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 10,460.52
64

Theatre.- Album of Playbills for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 189 playbills,

1833-34. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 7,846.02
65 [Poe (Edgar Allan)]

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket, North America,

1838. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,230.63
67 [Bronte (Charlotte)] , "Currer Bell".

Shirley. A Tale,

1849. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,405.89
68 [Evans (Marian)] "George Eliot"

"George Eliot" [Novels] 19 vol.,

Edinburgh and London 1858-76. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,493.52
69

Book of Common Prayer (The),

[c.1872]. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,141.73
70 Owen (Lieut.-Colonel C. H.)

Short Notes on the Manufacture of Ordnance, Carriages, and Ammunition ...,

Woolwich 1872. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
71 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Mikhailovich)

Buried Alive Or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia,

New York 1881 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,284.73
72 Flaubert (Gustave)

Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners,

1886 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,581.15
73 Marx (Karl)

Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production. Edited by Frederick Engels,

New York [c.1891]. GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,581.15
74 Dickens (Charles)

Works...,

1894 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,493.52
75 Wells (H.G.)

The Time Machine,

1895. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,318.26
76 Kock (Charles Paul de)

The Works,

Boston & Paris 1904 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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