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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 152 | Hockney (David).- | A Bigger Book, |
Germany | 2016 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,636.52 |
| 153 | Huser (G., binder).- Leconte de Lisle (Charles-Marie) | Poemes Antiques, |
Paris | 1908 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 154 | Moore (Henry).- Shakespeare (William) | Hamlet, |
Rome | 1985 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 3,865.88 |
| 155 | Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.) | High Street, |
1938 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,284.73 | |
| 156 | Schmied (F.L.).- Lucien-Graux (Dr) | Le Tapis de Prieres, |
1938 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,987.04 | |
| 157 | Tijtgat (Edgard) | Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, |
1918 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,338.83 | |
| 158 | Voigt (Hans Henning), "Alastair" Choderlos de Laclos (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois) | Les Liaisons Dangereuses, |
Paris | 1929 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 702.31 |
| 159 | Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, |
1972 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,230.63 | |
| 160 | Chaucer (Geoffrey) | Troilus and Criseyde, |
Waltham St.Lawrence | 1927 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,217.67 |
| 161 | Chaucer (Geoffrey) | The Canterbury Tales, |
Waltham St.Lawrence | 1929-31. | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,569.46 |
| 162 | Milton (John) | Paradise Lost: A Poem, |
1937 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,636.52 | |
| 163 | Shaw (George Bernard) | Shaw Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany, |
Newtown | 1939 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,230.63 |
| 164 | Kelmscott Press | Syr Ysambrace, |
Kelmscott Press | 1897 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,108.20 |
| 165 | Thomas (Dylan) | The Laugharne Poems, |
Llandogo | 2003 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 878.84 |
| 166 | Chaucer (Geoffrey) | [The Works], |
Oxford | 1928-29. | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,932.94 |
| 167 | Borges (Jorge Luis) | Luna de Enfrente, |
Buenos Aires | 1925 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 4,217.67 |
| 168 | Borges (Jorge Luis) | Limites, |
Buenos Aires | 1958 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 702.31 |
| 169 | Borges (Jorge Luis) | El Otro, |
Buenos Aires | 1972 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 170 | Borges (Jorge Luis) | Milongas, |
Buenos Aires | 1983 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 702.31 |
| 171 | Neruda (Pablo) | Canto General, |
Mexico City | 1950 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,987.04 |
| 172 | Lorca (Federico Garcia) | El Tabernaculo, |
Buenos Aires | 1934 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 173 | Longus. | Daphnis and Chloe, |
1893 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 174 | Marlowe (Christopher) and George Chapman. | Hero and Leander, |
1894 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 966.47 | |
| 175 | Apuleius (Lucius) | The Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupide and Psyches, |
1897 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 878.84 | |
| 176 | Blake (William) | The Book of Thel, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, |
1897 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 843.28 |
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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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