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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 166 | Gibbings Robert; Carey Henry; Coppard A. E.; Rackham Arthur; Ingoldsby Thomas; Bates H. E.; Parker Agnes Miller | 5 Books, including: Songs & Poems |
Waltham Saint Lawrence; London | 1924; 1929; 1928; 1907; 1936 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 125.00 |
| 167 | Gibbings Robert; Swift Jonathan; Powys Llewelyn; Butler Samuel; Empson A. Mary Kirkus Patience; Harris John | 6 Books, including: Miscellaneous Poems |
Waltham Saint Lawrence; London | 1928; 1953; 1936; 1923; 1962 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 168 | Gibbings Robert; Melville Herman | 13 Books, including: Over the Reefs |
London | 1948; 1935; 1946; 1957; 1937; 1934; 1936; 1955; 1928; 1926; 1950 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 169 | Gibbings Robert | 13 Books, including: Sweet Thames Run Softly |
London | 1940; 1945; 1942; 1951; 1936; 1953; 1955; 1947; 1945; 1961; 1938; 1937; 1986 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 170 | Finley Alec; Caddel Richard; Dawson Fielding; Taylor Jane; Taylor Anne; Young Douglas; Mardrus J.C.; Twain Mark | 7 Books, including: The Patched Fool |
Edinburgh; London; Fife, Scotland | 1991; 1979; 1970; 1925; 1957; c.1924; c.1905 | GBP 100.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 171 | Leland Charles Godfrey | Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition |
London | 1892 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 172 | Verne Jules; Hardy Thomas; French Cecil; Camus Albert; Brooke Rupert; Shelley Percy Bysshe | 6 Books, including: Around the World in Eighty Days |
London | c. 1890; 1923; 1922; 1946; 1915; 1922 | GBP 120.00 - 140.00 | GBP 100.00 |
| 173 | Woolf Virginia; West Rebecca; Leeper Janet; Carter John; Pollard Graham; Wilson Romer; Chamberlain Alun | 6 Books, including: Walter Sickert: a Conversation |
London | 1934; 1933; 1948; 1927; 1970 | GBP 120.00 - 160.00 | GBP 131.25 |
| 174 | Twain Mark | 11 Books, including: Tom Sawyer |
London; New York | 1877; 1894; 1882; 1880; 1883; 1909; 1903; 1906 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 175 | Lawrence D.H.; Eddison E.R.; Clemens Samuel; Kafka Franz; Chandler Raymond; Acton Harold; Fitzgerald Zelda; Cunninghame Graham R.B.; Bateman Frederic | 10 Books, including: Pansies |
London; New York | 1929; n.d., 1958; 1919; 1953; c.1898; 1950; 1948; 1968; 1928 | GBP 180.00 - 230.00 | Not Sold |
| 176 | Lenin Nikolai; Strakhov Adolf; Fulop-Miller Rene | 5 Books, including: On The Road to Insurrection |
London | c. 1926; 1927; 1877 - 1899; c. 1877; 1922 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 75.00 |
| 177 | Skira Albert; Harris Max; Reed John | 5 Books, including: Work and War in Spain |
London; Rome; Melbourne | 1938; 1917; 1936; 1921; 1944 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 81.25 |
| 178 | Hell Maximilian; Triesnecker Francisco de Paula | Ephemerides Astronomicae Anni 1793 |
Vienna | 1792 | GBP 250.00 - 400.00 | GBP 325.00 |
| 179 | Hervey Thomas K.; Seymour R.; Bunyan John; Boyle Eleanor Vere | The Book of Christmas; The Pilgrim’s Progress From the World to That Which is to Come: The Third Part; Child’s Play |
London | 1837; 1753 | GBP 850.00 - 1,250.00 | Not Sold |
| 180 | Herschel John; Vince Rev. S.; Wernischek Jacob | A Treatise on Astronomy; The Elements of Astronomy: Designed For the Use of Students in the University; Tractatus, Physicam Astrorum Notitiam, ex Principiis Mechanicae Proponens |
London; Philadelphia; Vienna | 1833; 1811; 1764 | GBP 180.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 181 | Hooper W.; Collins Anthony | Rational Recreations in Which the Principles of Numbers and Natural Philosophy Are Clearly and Copiously Elucidated; A Discourse of Free Thinking, Occasion’d by The Rife and Growth of a Sect call’d Free-Thinkers |
London | 1794; 1713 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold |
| 182 | Elger Thomas Gwyn | The Moon, A Full Description and Map of Its Principal Physical Features |
London | 1895 | GBP 180.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 183 | Thomson James | The Seasons: A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton and Britannia, a Poem |
London | 1729; 1730 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 184 | Walpole Horace | Jeffery’s Edition of the Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story |
London | 1796 | GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 185 | Milton John; Martin John | The Paradise Lost of Milton |
London | 1850 | GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | GBP 250.00 |
| 186 | Catalogue of the Contents of Strawberry Hill |
London | 1842 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 100.00 | |
| 187 | Haggard H. Rider | The Mahatma and the Hare |
London | 1911 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 188 | Haggard H. Rider; Brown John Lewis | Autograph Note Signed; Istar and Tammuz and Other Poems |
London | 1907 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 189 | Haggard H. Rider | A Note on Religion |
London | 1927 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 190 | Haggard H. Rider | Cetywayo and His White Neighbours; or, Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal |
London | 1882 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
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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. -
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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