Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Two-Day Books, Maps, Ephemera and Works on Paper, 11426, Norwich

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 14, 2026 - January 15, 2026

Page Size: 1196 items in 48 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
753		THE WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS	London	1825	GBP 20.00 - 35.00	GBP 48.03
754	VYNER, R.T - Notitia Venatica	A Treatise on Fox-Hunting		1842	GBP 10.00 - 25.00	GBP 12.64
755		THE LIFE BOAT, OR JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. Bound compendium, Vol IV, No 41 July 1st 1861 - Vol IV, No 59, January 1st 1866.		1866	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 50.56
756		BIBLE; OLD/NEW TESTAMENT, APOCRYPHA& CONCORDANCE; BARKER		c1613	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 505.60
757		OLD MERRY' MERRY AND WISE	London	1866	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	GBP 15.17
758	REV JAMES SLADE	AN EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS, AS READ IN THE LITURGY OF THE CHURCH	London	1851	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 60.67
759		FABLES BY JOHN GAY, WTH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND EMBELLISHED WITH A PLATE TO EACH FABLE	London	1793	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.92
760		THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE, AND A CRITICISM OF HIS WRITINGS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY	London	1809	Not Available	GBP 69.52
761		REAL LIFE IN LONDON; OR, THE FURTHER RAMBLES AND ADVENTURES OF BOB TALLYHO, ESQ. AND HIS COUSIN THE HON. TOMM DASHALL, &C. THROUGH THE METROPOLIS; EXHIBITING A LIVING PICTURE OF FASHIONABLE CHARACTERS, MANNERS, AND AMUSEMENTS IN HIGH AND LOW LIFE. [BY AN	London	1824	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 75.84
762		Penny Blood - Penny Dreadful BLIND BEGGAR OF BETHNAL GREEN AND PRETTY BESSY.	London.	1848	GBP 20.00 - 50.00	GBP 328.64
763	CHARLES KENT (Ed) CHARLES LAMB	THE WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB - POETICAL AND DRAMATIC TALES, ESSAYS AND CRITICISMS	London	1904	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	GBP 10.11
764		FINE BINDINGS - CLASSIC WORKS. A group of four contemporary calf and half calf bindings. Including; Les Auteurs Grecs, expliques d'apres une methode nouvelle Par Deux Traductions Francaises	Paris	1843	GBP 20.00 - 60.00	GBP 25.28
765	Joshua Reynolds, Knight	The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight; Late president of the Royal Academy. In three volumes. By Edmond Malone.		1798	GBP 20.00 - 50.00	GBP 75.84
766	HENRY HART MILMAN	THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD DOWN TO MODERN TIMES	London	1883	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 22.75
767	Dyche, Thomas, & William Pardon.	A new general English dictionary; particularly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages . The eleventh edition.		1760	Not Available	GBP 12.64
768	JOANNIE BAILLIE.	A Series of Plays; In which it is attempted to Delineate The Stronger Passions of the Mind. 2 col. Volume 2 being the first edition	London	[1802] and [1799]	GBP 20.00 - 60.00	GBP 18.96
769	WILLIAM HOWITT	JOHN CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ENGLAND	London	1858	Not Available	GBP 6.32
770		A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF NORFOLK..	.London,	1730	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 353.92
771	JAMES MACPHERSON [Transl]	THE POEMS OF OSSIAN, THE SONG OF FINGAL	Edinburgh	1792	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 35.39
772	Joseph Salway Eisdell.	POVERTY. An Essay on the causes remedies of poverty.	London	1852	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 189.60
773	W. J. Loftie	Magna Britannia, Vol 2 part 2. County Palatine Chester. With two others Windsor A Description of the Castle, Park Town and Neighbourhood,		1886	Not Available	GBP 10.11
774	SIR HERBERT MAXWELL	SIXTY YEARS A QUEEN - THE STORY OF HER MAJESTY'S REIGN	London	ND	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 63.20
775		Culpeper's Complete Herbal And English Physician; wherein several hundred herbs, with a display of their MEDICINAL and OCCULT Properties.	Burslem	1814	GBP 40.00 - 100.00	GBP 75.84
776	EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON	THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND	Oxford	1849	GBP 35.00 - 55.00	Not Sold
777		HOLY BIBLE		1683	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 278.08

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.