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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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