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
126		Dutch East India Company [Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie]	Amsterdam	1771	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 403.00
127		East India Company Interest.-Manuscript certificate signed by Charles Foulis	London	12 October 1757	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 38.00
128	Thorn (William)	Memoir of the Conquest of Java	London	1815	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,890.00
129		A Nourooz (Persian New Year, March 1960) greeting card from Fatemeh and Hossein Ala to Aghaye Estephani de Kurdistan, "Agence Stephany" 6 Queens Gate Terrace, London SW7 England		N/A	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
130		An Ottoman firman: Ottoman Turkey		January 1854	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 454.00
131	Chasseaud (George Washington)	The Druses of the Lebanon: Their Manners, Customs, and History		1855	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 214.00
132	Olivier, G(uillaume) A(ntoine)	Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia		1801	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 504.00
133	Saadi (1210-1291)	Poetry folio from book 2, Bustan (The Orchard, completed 1257), with four miniatures	Iran	18th and 19th century	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 63.00
134	Fukai (Shinji), Sugiyama (Jiro), Kimata (Keizo) and Tanabe (Katsumi)	Taq-I Bustan III: Photogrammetric elevations, Report 19		1983	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
135	Willcocks (William)	Plans of the Irrigation of Mesopotamia, Atlas only, without the text volume published in the same year by E. & F. N. Spon	Cairo	1911	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 227.00
136	Leguevel de Lacombe (B-F.)	Voyage A Madagascar et Aux Iles Comores	Paris	1840	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 378.00
137	Cook (James)	A Voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world	London	1777	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 4,032.00
138	Cooke (Captain Edward)	A Voyage to the South Sea, and round the World... in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711... Wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk		1712	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	GBP 2,142.00
139		Americana: A collection, including: Stereocards: 'The "New South"'		1891	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 227.00
140	Irving (Washington)	A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus		1828	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 353.00
141	Ogilby (John)	Tobacco & the Caribbean. Urbs Domingo in Hispaniola, port of Santo Domingo, from Ogilby's 'America'		1671	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 139.00
142	Bory de Saint-Vincent (Jean-Baptiste-Genevieve-Marcellin)	Essais sur Les Iles Fortunees et l'antique Atlantide ou precis de l'histoire generale de l'archipel des Canaries	Paris	[1803]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 756.00
143	De Bruyn (Abraham)	Costume prints: Eastern Europe. 'Bombardarius Hungarus'	Cologne	1577	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 164.00
144	Lewis (John Frederick)	Sketches of Spain & Spanish Character		[1836]	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 2,016.00
145		Romanian interest: Reverse glass painting, depicting a landscape in Romania with a castle, bridge and lake		circa late-19th century	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
146	Hering (George Edward)	Topography: Romania and Hungary. Three lithographs from 'Sketches on The Danube in Hungary and Transylvania'		1838	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 529.00
147	Curtis (William)	Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London		1777	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,268.00
148	Darwin (Charles)	The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals		1872	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 101.00
149	Elliot (D.G)	A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise	New York & Amsterdam	(1873) 1977	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 252.00
150	Hall (William Henry)	The New Encyclopaedia; or Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences...		c.1795	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 302.00

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.