Chorley's: Fine Art and Antiques | The Cricket Auction II, 12726, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2026
Page Size: 224 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
182

Sundry prints to include Thomas Kelly, Adam naming the Creation,

1823 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
183 Geoffroy-Stain-Hilaire (Estienne); Cuvier (Frederic)

Ten coloured lithographs from 'Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes avec les figures originales d'apres des animaux vivants' [Natural History of Mammals with Original Pictures after Living Animals],

Paris, 1819 -- 1842 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
184 After Jean Baptiste-Oudry (1686-1755)

A set of ten engravings from La Fontaine's 'Fables choisies'

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
185 After George Morland (1763-1804)

The Happy Cottagers

1793 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
186 Two coloured prints After Thomas Stothard (1755--1834)

to include The Landlord's Family and The Tenant's Family

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
187 Phillips (G. H.) after William Drummond & Charles J. Basebe

The Cricket Match between Sussex & Kent, at Brighton

1849 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
188 After John Frederick Herring Senior (1795-1865)

The Run In [Racing Plate 3]

London 1857 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
189 A set of ten engravings of Classical statues

18th Century Italian, various engravers including Nicolas Dorigny and Claude Randon

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
190 After Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)

The Queen's Guards

dated 1880 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
191 George Baxter

Four George Baxter Needlebox prints, mid 19th Century, Crystal Palace, A Cowherd in a Landscape, Children with a Guy Fawkes Effigy and Scottish Clansmen Hunting

mid 19th Century Not Available Unknown
192 ARR Harold Sayer (1913-1993)

four etchings comprising;

Not Available Unknown
515

A large collection of Dictionaries (31) to include: Skinner (Stephen) Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae,

London 1671 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
516

[Poetry] to include Pindar (Peter) [John Wolcott], The Rights of Kings or Loyal Odes to Disloyal Academicians,

London 1791 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
517 Edwards (Bryan)

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies,

Dublin 1793 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
518 [Anon]

Antiquitates Sarisburienses: containing, ...Old Sarum ... ,

Salisbury 1771 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
519 Smith (Horace)

Reuben Apsley,

London 1827 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
520

[Law and Government] to include Hanway (Jonas), Proposal for County Naval Free-Schools, to be Built Upon Waste Lands,

[London 1783], GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
521 O'Keeffe (John)

The Farmer: A Comic Opera in Two Acts,

Dublin 1788 Not Available Unknown
522 [Johnstone (Charles)]

The Reverie or A Flight to the Paradise of Fools,

Dublin 1776 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
523 Search (Edward) [Tucker (Abraham)]

The Light of Nature Pursued,

London 1768 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
524 Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of)

Letters ...Published by Eugenia Stanhope,

Dublin 1774 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
525 Hill (Aaron)

The Works of the late Aaron Hill, Esq ... with an Essay on the Art of Acting,

London 1754 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
526 [Moore (John)] Zeluco

Various Views of Human Nature, taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic in two volumes,

London 1789 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
527

[18th Century Periodicals] to include Cumberland (Richard) The Observer,

London 1786-1791 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
528 [Moore (John)] Zeluco

Various Views of Human Nature, taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic in two volumes,

London 1789 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
  • 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