Bonhams: Discovery Sale, 31074, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026
Page Size: 26 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Andre Lhote

Reclining Female Nude

circa 1930 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 128.00
2 Joseph Hecht

Seagull

1949 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 102.40
3 After Jean Cocteau

Le jeune homme et la Mort

1946 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 140.80
4 After Pablo Picasso

La Ronde de la Jeunesse

1961 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 230.40
5 Georg Baselitz

Double Portrait of Heiner Friedrich and Fritz Dahlem

1971 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 89.60
6 Georges Rouault

En tant d'ordres divers le beau metier d'ensemencer une terre hostile, from Miserere

1926 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 281.60
7 Josef Herman R.A.

Six Offset Lithographs

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 140.80
8 Adrian Wiszniewski RSA

The Flautist

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 76.80
9 Antony Gormley

Limited Edition Wrapping Paper (Hands)

2005 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 64.00
10 Richard Hamilton

Kent State

1970 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 76.80
11 Alan Davie C.B.E., H.R.S.W., R.A.

Fox Watch

1970 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 281.60
12 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

Les Chants de Maldoror, Ducasse, from Six Artist's Portfolio

1992 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 166.40
21 Toyokuni

Three Japanese woodblock prints by Toyokuni

GBP 200.00 - 220.00 GBP 102.40
37 WORLD WAR II - ROYAL ENGINEERS

Secret report on the rebuilding by the Royal Engineers of the "Railway Bridge at Gennep", 1945; and small group, inc. document signed by Queen Elizabeth (group)

1945 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 281.60
77 Ben Nhlanhla Nsusha

After Fire

1983 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 38.40
78 Salvador Dali

Frontispiece, from The Twelve Tribes of Israel

1972 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 896.00
79 After Henry Alken

One Plate, from The First Steeple Chase on Record

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
80 Adrian George

Girl Standing

1980 GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 12.80
81 Victor Vasarely

Vega 222

1970 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 217.60
82 Michael Hale

Caprice

1980 GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 76.80
83 Kenneth Armitage

Seated Group, from Europaische Graphik I

1960 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 435.20
84 Augustus Edwin John O.M., R.A.

Head of Stephen Granger

circa 1906 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 166.40
85 Marc Chagall

L'Avare qui a perdu son tresor, from Les Fables de La Fontaine

1927 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 435.20
89 Edward Piper

Reclining nude

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
97

A sosaku hanga print by Hideo Hagiwara (1913--2007)

GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000