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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | [Custance (Olive)], Lady Alfred Douglas. | The Blue Bird, |
1905 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,636.52 | |
| 78 | Ibbett (W.J.) Porter (William N.) | A Year of Japanese Epigrams, |
1911 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 351.79 | |
| 79 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The World Crisis, |
1923-31. | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,757.68 | |
| 80 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The Second World War, |
1948-54. | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,670.05 | |
| 81 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | A History of the English Speaking People, |
1956-58. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,054.10 | |
| 82 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The Collected Works, |
1973-6. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 5,623.56 | |
| 83 | Bocho?akova-Dittrichova (Helena) | Childhood. A Cycle of Woodcuts, |
1931 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,054.10 | |
| 84 | Hackenschmidt (George) | Man and Cosmic Antagonism to Mind and Spirit, |
[1935]. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 85 | Vaughan Williams (Ralph) | Toward the Unknown Region, |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 791.21 | ||
| 86 | Keynes (John Maynard) | The General Theory of Employment, |
1936 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,932.94 | |
| 87 | Atwood (Margaret) | The Handmaid's Tale, |
1986 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 966.47 | |
| 88 | Burgess (Anthony) | A Clockwork Orange, |
1962 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,811.78 | |
| 89 | Dahl (Roald) | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, |
New York, | 1964 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 4,217.67 |
| 90 | Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) | Our African Winter, |
1929 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 791.21 | |
| 91 | Du Maurier (Daphne) | Rebecca, |
1938 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,163.57 | |
| 92 | Eliot (T.S.) | The Waste Land, |
1923 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 6,150.61 | |
| 93 | Eliot (T.S.) | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, |
1939 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 966.47 | |
| 94 | Fleming (Ian) | Casino Royale, |
1953 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 95 | Fleming (Ian) | Casino Royale, |
1953 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,271.77 | |
| 96 | Fleming (Ian) | Live and Let Die, |
1954 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,932.94 | |
| 97 | Fleming (Ian) | Moonraker, |
1955 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,919.98 | |
| 98 | Fleming (Ian) | Diamonds are Forever, |
1956 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,757.68 | |
| 99 | Fleming (Ian) | From Russia, |
1957 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,932.94 | |
| 100 | Fleming (Ian) | Dr. No, |
1958 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 668.02 | |
| 101 | Fleming (Ian) | Goldfinger, |
1959 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 878.84 |
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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
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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.