Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Military & Aviation History, Medals & Militaria, English Civil War Arms & Armour, 52126, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026
Page Size: 133 items in 6 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
55

A small collection of Apollo Flight Plans and photograph catalogues

1963-75; 1975; 1963; 1971; 1967 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 202.24
56 Pierce Michael; Golley John; Asser Roy; Gunston Bill; Masterton Brian; Hurrell Freddie

...So Few; So Many

1990 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,643.20
58

8 Books, including: Pilot's Notes

1943-54; 1943; 1944; 1949; 1951; 1954; 1945; circa 1945; 1956; 1952-53 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 227.52
59

RAF logbook

N/A GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 82.16
60

RAF Logbook

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 530.88
62 Johnson Johnnie; Deere Alan; Smith Alan; Lucas Laddie; Oxspring Bobby; Townsend Peter; Goodson James; Carey Frank; Johnstone Sandy; Smith Rod; Cunningham John; Brothers Pete

Fighter Pilot Profile Collection

Bath 1984 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 379.20
64 Eves Edward

Schneider Trophy Contest programmes and related ephemera

2001 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 530.88
65 Taylor Robert

Spitfire

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
66 Green G.

30 Books, including: The official opening luncheon menu

1935; 1947; 1948; 1952; 1953; 1959 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 176.96
67 Hawker H.G.; Mackenzie-Grieve K.; Sopwith Thm

The Daily Mail £10,000 Prize

1919 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 530.88
68 Trudgian Nicolas

Multiple Books, including: Nicolas Trudgian Aviation Sketchbook

N/A GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.40
69 Udet Ernst (1896-1941); Eisenmenger; Richthofen Manfred von; Hippel Hans Joachim von

Ernst Udet signed postcard; Leutnant Eisenmenger signed postcard; Manfred von Richthofen postcard

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 379.20
71

A WWI German aircraft photograph album

circa 1917; 1918 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 581.44
72

A small archive of letters, notes and photographs from Leading Aircraftman E. G. Boynett

1944; 1945 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
74 Bartlett Charles Frederick Napier (1878-1940)

An archive of approximately 340 WWI autograph letters

1915-17; 1915; 1916 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,264.00
75 Hopkins Walter Kempson (1870-1949)

Archive relating to Fleet Surgeon Walter Kempson Hopkins O.B.E., Royal Navy

1914; 1912 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 88.48
77

Autographs, signatures and autographed letters

N/A GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 505.60
78 Percy E. McDonald

Panoramic photograph of the embarkation of the 2nd Canadian Expeditionary Force

South Hamilton, Ontario 1915 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.60
79

Manuscript pocket notebook

N/A GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.60
81 G. Vernon Buffit

Notes taken at the Western Command Anti-Gas School; Album of photographs, postcards, and ephemera; Album of original caricatures

1918; 1909 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 353.92
83 Nancy Saywell

Notes on Work in the Land Army

1939-1940 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,200.80
84

Small collection of letters, diaries and photographs

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
85

The Rommel Papers

London 1953 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 139.04
87

Photograph showing five Scottish Military figures from different regiments

circa 1900 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 139.04
91

Four photograph albums

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 948.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
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    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
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    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
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    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000