Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 31226, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 12, 2026 - March 12, 2026

Page Size: 333 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76	Bowles (Carington)	Bowles's New Pocket Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster, with the Borough of Southwark: Comprehending the New Buildings and other Alterations to the Year 1792		1792	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 126.00
77	Drayton (Michael)	Devon and Cornwall, map from the 'Poly-Olbion'		1612	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 529.00
78	Gardner (W. R.) engraver	Map of the Country Twelve Miles Round London		1823	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 529.00
79	Newton (William)	London, Westminster Southwark As in Olden Times Shewing the City and its Suburbs		1855	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 378.00
80	Ortelius (Abraham)	Scotiae Tabula [Scotland]		1579	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
81	Homann (Johann Baptist)	Ukraine: Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum Vicinis Walachiae, Moldaviae, Minoris q, Tartariae Provinciis Exhibita	Nuremberg	1720	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,386.00
82	Braun (Georg) & Hogenberg (Frans)	Tunes Urbs - Tunetis Urbis, ac Novae Eius Arcis, et Guletae, quae Philippo Hispan Regi Parent	Cologne	c. 1575	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 113.00
83	Ackermann (Rudolph)	The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster		1816	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 529.00
84	Bowles (John)	Prospects of all the Cathedrals & Collegiate Churches of England & Wales, neatly Engraved [repeated in French]		[c. 1731]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 819.00
85	Cooke (Edward William) and George Rennie	Views of the Old and New London Bridges		1833	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 403.00
86	Harrison (Walter)	A New and Universal History, Description and Survey...of London and Westminster		1776	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	GBP 403.00
87	Havell (Robert)	Costa Scena or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, the Drawing taken from Nature		March [1823]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,016.00
88	Haywood (William)	Report to Improvement Committee of Proceedings in connection with the Holborn Valley Improvements, under the several Acts of Parliament relating thereto		18th November, 1872	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 605.00
89	Hollar (Wenceslaus)	A true and exact prospect of the famous citty of London ... before the fire [and] ... after the sad calamitie and destruction		1669-1707	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 882.00
90		London. An Account of the Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, with Their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of all the Russias and the King of Prussia, to The Corporation of London, in June 1814		1814	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 277.00
91	Prosser (George Frederick)	Miscellany: Select illustrations of Hampshire, lithographic plates and vignettes as called for, on India paper, mounted		1833	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
92		Panorama of Brighton from the Chain Pier		1839	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 277.00
93	Shepherd (Thomas H.)	Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century		1827	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 189.00
94		Stemmata Botevilliana: Memorials of the Families of De Boteville, Thynne and Botfield		1858	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 126.00
95		A collection of indentures on vellum related to the Wollaston, Baugh and Jones families of Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, from the reign of James II to the reign of George II		c. 1688-1730	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 882.00
96		Collection of documents, manuscripts and papers related to Shrewsbury and Ludlow		c. 1655	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,024.00
97	Stow (John)	A Survey of the Cities of London...		1754-55	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,260.00
98	Stow (John)	The survey of London: contayning the originall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe...		1633	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 630.00
99		Wood & Moffat. Trinity High Water mark of the River Thames...		1828	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	GBP 882.00
100		A View of Old London Bridge in 1823, after the Removal of the Water Works		[1831]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 819.00

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.