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
101		Cookery and Medicine: 18th-century manuscript recipe book		N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,386.00
102	[Massialot (Francois)]	Cookery: Il Cuoco Reale, e Cittadino, Quale insegna ad ordinare ogni sorta di Vivanda, e miglior maniera de' Ragu i piu alla moda ed i piusquisiti	Venezia	1741	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	GBP 529.00
103	Fabbroni (Adamo)	Dell'Arte di fare il vino	Florence	1787	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
104		Manuscript recipe and accounts book: Bigg-Wither family of Manydown		N/A	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,260.00
105	Lavedan (Antonio)	Tratado de los Usos, Abusos, Propriedades y Virtudes del Tabaco, Cafe, Te y Chocolate [Treatise on the Uses, Abuses, Properties and Virtues of Tobacco, Coffee, Tea and Chocolate]	Madrid	1796	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 38.00
106	Pechlin (Johann Nicolaus).	Theophilus Bibaculus sive de potu theae dialogus	Frankfurt	1684	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 504.00
107		Tuke Family Correspondence		1834	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
108		A folio from an anthology of Persian poetry by Bidel Dehlavi (1642-1720) North India		late 18th - 19th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
109	Colebrooke (Lt. Robert Hyde) & Edy (J. W.) engraver	Four hand-coloured aquatint views, from 'Twelve views of places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the country of Tippoo sultan, from drawings taken on the spot'		1793	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 504.00
110	Gantz (John)	Indian Microcosm	Madras	[1827]	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	GBP 3,528.00
111	Gray (Lieutenant R.S.) [artist]	[East India Company's Sixteenth Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry]		[1858 -- 1862]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,032.00
112		Country Dancers. 'Tibetans'; 'The Witch of Gloom' & 2 others		[c. 1890's]	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 239.00
113	Holmes (Randolph Bezzant)	Three Pathan Portraits		[c. 1915]	GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 189.00
114		India -- Simla. Order of the Black Heart		1930	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 139.00
115		Miscellany: A collection of maps and prints		1744	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 151.00
116		Photography -- India -- Cricket. Photograph of the Dhaka College Cricket Team		1896	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
117		Photographic albumen prints, Afghanistan -- North West Fontier		[1878 -- 1880]	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
118	Ponting (Herbert George) 1871-1935	Midnight in Antarctic Summer 1910		N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,276.00
119	Rodrigues (Etienne Alexandre)	[The complete Hindoo Pantheon, comprising the principal deities worshipped by the natives of British India throughout Hindoostan	Madras	[1842]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 16,380.00
120		Indian watercolour: Tirmula Nayak's Palace at Madurai	n.p. [Madura]	n.d. [c. 1850]	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 6,300.00
121	Gauci (Maxim) after	Asia: aquatints, Representation of the Chinese Courts of Justice held at the British Factory of Canton on the 8th of March 1807...		1808	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 252.00
122	Blakeney (William)	On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango, Forty Years ago		1902	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 756.00
123	Needham (Joseph)	Science and Civilisation in China	Cambridge	1961 - 2004	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 328.00
124	Edited by the Late Sir Alexander Hosie, M.A., L.L.D., F.R.G.S.	Philip's Commercial Map of China		1948	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
125	Batavia [Jakarta]	A collection of 17 maps and views		1669	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 221.00

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.