Cotswold Auction Company: Books, Medals, Militaria, Coins, Stamps & Collectables, 20326, Cheltenham

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 03, 2026 - February 03, 2026

Page Size: 66 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
81	Quantity Victorian and later Valentines and other greetings cards		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 77.28
82	Collection of Victorian and later Valentines and other greetings cards		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 45.08
83	Album of photographs, Malta, aircraft, Amyria circa 1936 and an album of sketches of Ceylon	circa 1936	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 64.40
84	Seven Victorian and later photograph albums		GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 257.60
85	Six Victorian and later photograph albums,		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 103.04
86	Seven Victorian and later photograph albums		GBP 40.00 - 70.00	GBP 360.64
87	Quantity photographs, mainly 20th century,	20th century	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 23.18
88	Three larger Victorian and later photograph albums,	Victorian	GBP 40.00 - 70.00	GBP 193.20
89	Three Victorian and later photograph albums,	Victorian	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 206.08
90	Large collection of cartes de visites, indexed by surname of photographer, mainly Victorian	Victorian	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 309.12
91	Collection of photographs, some relating to Phyllis Dixey,		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 38.64
92	Quantity mainly Victorian and later portrait photographs including cartes de visite,	Victorian	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 154.56
93	Quantity mainly Victorian and later portrait photographs, cartes de visite,	Victorian	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 34.78
94	Large quantity of Victorian and later cartes-de-visite	Victorian	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 334.88
95	Collection of 200-400 Victorian and later cabinet cards photographic portraits,	Victorian	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 579.60
96	Three 1980's anti-war and Red Wedge posters including 'Use Your Loaf. No-one is starving from lack of weapons'	1980's	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
97	Two Red Wedge posters including 'Think! Use Your Vote',	Red Wedge	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
98	Two Red Wedge posters including 'Its Your Choice, Use Your Vote',	Red Wedge	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
99	Two postcard albums containing various cards of mostly topographical interest,	early 20th century	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 34.78
120	Prize Bindings for Dulwich College - six vols - Guizot 'Histoire de Charles I',		GBP 60.00 - 90.00	GBP 154.56
121	Folio society, all within their slip cases to include:- Siegfried Sassoon, Patrick Leigh Fermor, ...		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 45.08
122	Folio society, all within their slip cases to include:- Jerome K Jerome, Bernard Lewis, ...		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 103.04
123	Eight boxed sets, to include "A History of England", "Pepys' Diary", "The Kingdom of Jerusalem", etc		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 96.60
124	Eight boxed sets to include Byzantium, "The Egyptians - The Hittites - The Persians - ...		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 244.72
125	Folio society - Winston S Churchill "The Second World War...",		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 64.40

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.