Chiswick Auctions: Autographs & Memorabilia, 13125, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 31, 2026 - January 31, 2026

Page Size: 591 items in 24 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
401	1953 British Mount Everest expedition John Hunt & Edmund Hillary	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 164.00
402	Asquith (Herbert Henry) Autograph letter signed ("H.H. Asquith")	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
403	Atomic Bomb Mission, 1945 Strike Orders for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Missions	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,276.00
404	Autograph Collection.- Foreign Politicians Signed photographs and album pages	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
405	Babbage (Charles) Autograph letter in the third person	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
406	Bainbridge (Kenneth T.) Autograph letter to Professor Gilde	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
407	Benson (F.R.) & Tudor- Craig (Algernon) The Book of 'The Army Pageant' Held at Fulham Palace	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 214.00
408	Bikini Atom Bomb Tests.- Autograph letter from Thomas Farrell	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 819.00
409	Booth (Evangeline) Signed photograph	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
410	British Politicians.- Incl. Robert Peel Group of letters, 19th-early 20th century	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
411	British Prime Ministers.- Set of signatures	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
412	Castro (Fidel) Signed certificate	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 277.00
413	Chadwick (James) Autograph letter to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,071.00
414	Churchill (Winston Spencer) & Others Signed menu for Churchill's 80th birthday dinner	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,008.00
415	Clinton (Bill) My Life, First Edition, signed in blue felt tip to title page	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
416	Conservative Politicians.- Margaret Thatcher & Boris Johnson	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
417	Crick (Francis) Blue ink signature	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
418	Dalai Lama Signed photograph	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
419	Dambuster 617.- George 'Johnny' Johnson Colour photograph of the No. 617 Squadron	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
420	Decolonization Interest.- Belize, Guiana and Kenya Letters and cards from Lady Eleanor Renison, c.1	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 277.00
421	Diplomacy Interest.- Thomas Parker Porter Large collection of letters and documents	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 4,032.00
422	Discovery Expedition, 1901-1904 - Charles Royds Signed album page	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
423	Eisenhower (Dwight) Typed letter signed ("Dwight Eisenhower")	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
424	Elphinstone Archive.- Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone, Bt, CB, (1773- 1846) & family	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
425	Enola Gay Interest.- Typed quotation signed by Paul Tibbets	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, 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]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, 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]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, 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]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, 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
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, 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 2026

Forum, 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 2026

Forum, 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.