Hansons: The Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions), 52026a, Etwall, Derbyshire
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | CHAMBERLAIN B. H. | Aino Fairy Tales: No. 1. The Hunter in Fairy-Land; No. 2. The Birds' Party; No. 3. The Man Who Lost His Wife |
Tokyo | 1887-89 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,062.50 |
| 142 | HASEGAWA Takejiro | Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 7. The Old Man & The Devils; No. 3. Battle of the Monkey and the Crab |
Tokyo | 1885-86 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | GBP 62.50 |
| 143 | HASEGAWA Takejiro; F. M. Bostwick; Paul Carus; Mrs. W. H. Smith; Archibald Little | 5 Books, including: Japanese Pictures of Japanese Life |
Tokyo | c. 1892-1900 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 231.25 |
| 144 | HASEGAWA Takejiro | Dichtergrusse Aus Dem Osten [Poetry Greetings from the East]; another edition of the same |
Tokyo | 1896 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 145 | HAMBURGER Michael; Philippe Jaccottet; Naomi MITCHISON; Wyndham LEWIS | 4 Books, including: Life and Art |
Birmingham; Birmingham; London | 1998; 1998; 1991; 1935 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold |
| 146 | RUSSELL Bertrand | The Good Citizen's Alphabet |
London | 1953 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 375.00 |
| 147 | Henry Williamson (1895-1977) | 8 Items, including: Happy Birthday |
London | 1951; 1957; 1961; 1963 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 25.00 |
| 148 | REICHARDT Annie | Girl-Life in the Harem: A True Account of Girl-life in Oriental Climes |
London | 1908 | GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | GBP 93.75 |
| 149 | FRASER William | The Two Heiresses of Buccleuch |
Edinburgh | 1880 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 32.50 |
| 150 | COLERIDGE Samuel Taylor | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
London | 1910 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 |
| 151 | A collection of press & personal photographs |
c.1970-80 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 40.00 | ||
| 152 | Emma ROBINSON; Henry FIELDING; Thomas GRAY; Austin DOBSON; VOLTAIRE; Charles DICKENS; Louis J. JENNINGS; John ASHTON; James Aikman; John Struthers; Beaumont and Fletcher; C. Churchill; Gilbert BURNET; J. ASPIN; Charles DARWIN | 24 Books, including: Caesar Borgia: An Historical Romance |
London; Leipzig; London; London; Paris; London; London; London; Glasgow; Glasgow; London; London; London; London; London | 1846; 1844; 1863; 1907; c. 1900; c. 1866; 1877; 1893; 1827; 1828; 1778; 1766; 1767; 1683; 1899 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 35.00 |
| 153 | JEROME Jerome K. | Three Men In A Boat; Told After Supper; Idle Ideas in 1905 |
Bristol; London; London | 1889; 1891; 1905 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 154 | CAMPBELL John | Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History... |
London | 1781 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 155 | TIECK Ludwig; BIERBAUM Otto Julius; HEBBELS Friedrich; DOSTOEVSKY Fyodor; BOCCACCIO Giovanni | 14 Books, including: Phantasus |
Berlin; Munich & Leipzig; Leipzig; Munich; Paris | 1911; 1910; 1900; 1922; c. 1880 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | GBP 231.25 |
| 156 | Geoffrey DUTTON; Harold BRODKLEY; James HUNEKER; John Addington SYMONDS; Jean LORRAIN; Frank KERMODE; Richard LE GALLIENNE; Franz von Matsch | 24 Books, including: Et Voila! |
New York; London; Paris; Wien | 1998; 1958; 1920; 1879; 1909; 1996; 1894; 1981-82 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 168.75 |
| 157 | FLEMING Ian | For Your Eyes Only |
London | 1960 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 200.00 |
| 158 | TRAVERS P. L. | Mary Poppins Comes Back |
London | 1935 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 243.75 |
| 159 | LUCRETIUS | De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things] |
Leiden | 1725 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 193.75 |
| 160 | Bentley: The Silent Speed Six, Catalogue No. 33 |
London | 1929 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 161 | Baillie Matthew | Lectures and Observations on Medicine |
London | 1825 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 162 | Dyer Frank Lewis; Martin Thomas Commerford | Edison His Life and Inventions |
New York | 1910 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 163 | Gibbings Robert; Malory Thomas | Le Morte d'Arthur |
New York | 1936 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 164 | Gibbings Robert; Bourdeille Pierre de | The Lives of Gallant Ladies |
1924 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 165 | Gibbings Robert | Fourteen Wood Engravings: From Drawings Made on Orient Line Cruises |
1932 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 125.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’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, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, 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, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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