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Auction Date
February 10, 2026 - February 10, 2026
Page Size: 167 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
433 SIMSON, ROBERT

'ELEMENTS OF THE CONIC SECTIONS'

Glasgow 1817 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
434 EDWARD GOREY, THE GILDED BAT

Jonathan Cape, 1967, 1st edition, with Marjorie Bennett, The White Camel, E E Lee, 1953

1967, 1953 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
435 GIRARDIN, M.J.

'LECONS DE CHIMIE ELEMENTAIRE'

Paris 1873 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 19.50
436

'RECREATIVE SCIENCE: A RECORD AND REMEMBRANCER'

London 1860 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
437 OZANAM, M.

'RECREATIONS MATHEMATIQUES ET PHYSIQUES'

Paris 1790 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 26.00
438 VERULAM, LORD FRANCIS

TWO WORKS - 'SYLVA SYLVARUM OR A NATURAL HISTORY' AND 'NEW ATLANTIS'

London 1631 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 221.00
439

FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING, THE ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE 1824

London 1824 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
440 IRVING, WASHINGTON

'A HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'

London 1828 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 156.00
441 SNAFFLES (CHARLES JOHNSON PAYNE)

'THE ROE DEER. A MONOGRAPH'

Southampton 1987 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 26.00
442 LOWE, E. J.

'A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES'

London 1891 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 58.50
443

R V - RICHARD VERSTEGEN, A RESTITUTION OF DECAYED IN TELLIGENCE IN ANTIQUITIES

Antwerp 1605 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 338.00
444 PLANTA, EDWARD

'A NEW PICTURE OF PARIS'

London 1824 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 32.50
445 HUNT, ROBERT

'URE'S DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINES'

London 1878 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 26.00
446 LAVATER, J.C.

'PHYSIOGNOMY'

London, GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 45.50
447

WINKLE'S ARCHITECTURAL AND PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND WALES

London 1860 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 19.50
448 HOOD, THOMAS

'POEMS'

London 1870 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 32.50
449 A.W.N. PUGIN

GOTHIC FURNITURE OF THE 15th CENTURY

London 1835 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 104.00
450 SIR GEORGE BYNG

AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION OF THE BRITISH FLEET TO SICILY

London 1739 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 52.00
451 GIUSEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA

THE LEOPARD

1960 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
452

THE METROPOLIS OF LONDON DISPLAYED CHEATS AND VILLANIES

London GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 143.00
453 A A MILNE

WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG

1924 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 39.00
454 GEORGE DEWAR

THE BOOK OF THE DRY FLY

London 1897 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 32.50
455 KENNETH GRAHAME,

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Arthur Rackham illustrations

1954 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 19.50
456 GRAHAM, ELEANOR AND ARDIZZONE, EDWARD

TWO COPIES OF 'J.M BARRIE'S PETER PAN'

1962 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 19.50
457 GRAVES, ROBERT

TWO COPIES OF 'ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL'

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 26.00
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.