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	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126		Botanical interest to include:- Bean, W J "Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles"			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 38.64
127		Pen and Camera - The British Isles, vol 1, vol 2 and vol 3			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
128	Rowling, J K,	various editions of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince",			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 45.08
129		Quantity of antiquarian and later to include:- The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 64.40
130		Jackson "English Goldsmiths and their Marks", Blomfield, Rev E "The History of the Martyrs ...",			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
131		Four boxes of bound copies of the Penny Cyclopedia, Charles Knight,...			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
132		Travel and Exploration to include:- Milner, Rev Thomas "The Gallery of Geography,...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 83.72
133		Politics, History and Antiquarian to include:- Mirror of Parliament 1839			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 15.46
134		[La Belle Assemblee - being Wells Court and Fashionable Magazine for February 1812]			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
135	De Montfaucon, Bernard	"Les Monuments de la Monarchie Francoise... Tome Second...",	Paris,	1720	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 64.40
136		Handwritten account book 1841 and 1844 for a cathedral		1841 and 1844	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 644.00
137	Gardiner, Alan H (ed) - copied by Amice M Calverley with the assistance of Myrtle F Broome	The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, vol 3 'The Osiris Complex',	London	1938	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 128.80
138	Lora Victoise Greet	'Original Pictures in Pen and Ink and Rhymes about Fairies being Bees, Brownies, Kelpies, Greenies and other Elves...',			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 193.20
139	Wright, Harold J L	"Etchings and Drypoints by Sir William Russell Flint - Catalogue Raisonne",		1957	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 23.18
140		Antiquarian, many leatherbound volumes in need of repair and novels			GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 96.60
141		Antiquarian and later, various volumes to include "Memoirs and Letters of Sarah Coleridge",...			GBP 20.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
142	Darwin, Charles	The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection ...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 425.04
143		The Correspondence of Charles Darwin in 12 vols,			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 206.08
144	Darwin, Charles	The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,416.80
145		"Culpeper's Herbal Improved - a New Family Herbal of all British and Foreign Herbs, Plants,			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 34.78
146	Blomefield, Leonard [ Rev. L. Jenyns]	The Last Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Swaffham Bulbeck			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 64.40
147		Topographical interest to include:- part set Comprehensive Gazetteer England and Wales, History of the University of Cambridge,			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 30.91
148		Botany and Natural History interest to include Thornton, Robert John "Botanical Extracts or Philosophy of Botany",	London	1810	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 25.76
149		Natural History to include Loudon, J C "The Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology,			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 167.44
150		Antiquarian, mixed lot of leather bound volumes, to include Burns Justice x 5, "Mills Logic", ...			GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 257.60

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.