Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 31226, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 12, 2026 - March 12, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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| 301 | Gillray (James) | Scotch-Harry's News; _ or _ Nincumpoop in high Glee |
May 23rd 1792 [or later] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 378.00 | |
| 302 | Gillray (James) | Search-Night; _or_ State Watchmen |
1798 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 252.00 | |
| 303 | Gillray (James) | Spanish-Patriots attacking the French-Banditti.- Loyal Britons lending a lift |
1808 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 504.00 | |
| 304 | Gillray (James) | St. George & the Dragon |
1782 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 403.00 | |
| 305 | Gillray (James) | The Daily-Advertiser |
1797 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 504.00 | |
| 306 | Gillray (James) | The National Assembly Petrified |
1791 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 882.00 | |
| 307 | Hogarth (William) | Marriage A-La-Mode |
N/A | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 308 | Leech (John) | A Bright Idea: The peace recruiting sergeant trying to enlist the Duke, depicting John Bright and The Duke of Wellington |
November 17th 1849 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 63.00 | |
| 309 | Williams (Charles) | All the talents upset or the high-mettled Hanoverian grown restive |
1807 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 310 | Beccafumi (Domenico) after & Cosatti (Lelio) engraver | The Stories of Moses on Mount Sinai, two engravings after Beccafumi's intarsia pavement in Siena Cathedral |
1739 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 189.00 | |
| 311 | Gottich (Paul) | The Nativity, reverse copy after Durer |
1607 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 312 | Le Brun (Charles) after & Picart (B.) engraver | Tapisseries De Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, representant l'Histoire de Meleagre, decrite au 8. livre des Metamporphoses d'Ovide... |
1714 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 313 | Ottaviani (Giovanni) engraver, after Gaetano Savorelli & Pietro Camporesi. | Four engravings from 'Ornati delle Logge di Rafaello nel Vaticano' (pillars of the Vatican Loggias by Raphael) |
1776 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 314 | Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) | A collection of seven plates from Le Antichita Romane |
1756 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 428.00 | |
| 315 | Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) | The Man on the Rack, from Carceri d'Invenzione [Imaginary Prisons] |
1761 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 316 | Della Bella (Stefano) | Prints. A collection of 25 prints and drawings, including: Nave del colombo gia Trasformata da nettunno in Orca Marina, etching, one of a series of four |
c. 1652 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 529.00 | |
| 317 | van Leyden (Lucas) | The Beggars |
c. 1509 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 126.00 | |
| 318 | Architectural portfolio. A collection of designs by architect John E. Knight |
1950s-70s | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 202.00 | ||
| 319 | Farey (Cyril Arthur) | Suburban house, graphite and wash, spotting |
N/A | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 320 | 'Tooth of Crime' |
1974 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 321 | The Third Man |
circa 1975 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 113.00 | ||
| 322 | Visitez La Tunisie |
c.1950s | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 323 | Hunt (John) & Others | Ascent of Everest, 40th Anniversary Edition |
1993 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 324 | Clipping of the only Italian flag seen by the "Santa Maria" on its flight from San Luis de Caceres to Guajara Mirim (Brazil) |
March 19. 1927 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 13.00 | ||
| 325 | Two-page telegram from Benito Mussolini to Italian aviator Francesco De Pinedo, sent during De Pinedo's journey Rome-Melbourne-Tokyo-Rome, when he was in Australia |
dated 1 June 1925 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
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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.
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Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 AprilSotheby’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.