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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191 | H. Rider Haggard; Lilias Rider Haggard | 4 Books, including: Report on the Salvation Army Colonies…Scheme of National Land Settlement |
London | 1905; 1943; 1888 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 192 | H. Rider Haggard | 4 Books, including: Queen of the Dawn |
New York; London | 1925; 1905; 1910; 1887 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold |
| 193 | H. Rider Haggard | 17 Books, including: Finished |
1917; 1893; 1888; 1887; 1913; 1904; 1894; 1889; 1905; 1923; 1910; 1926; 1912; 1906; 1915; 1920 | GBP 60.00 - 120.00 | GBP 75.00 | |
| 194 | H. Rider Haggard; Harry Furniss | 18 Books, including: Colonel Quaritch |
1888; 1916; 1920; 1889; 1905; 1887; 1921; 1924; 1894 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 195 | Ovid; Fitzthomas Rev. Wm. Windsor | Ten Epistles of Ovid |
London | 1807 | GBP 70.00 - 140.00 | Not Sold |
| 196 | Le Corbusier | Aircraft |
London | 1935 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 100.00 |
| 197 | Gill Eric | Engravings 1928-1933; Sculpture on Machine-Made Buildings; Handworkers’ Pamphlets No. 4: Art and Manufacture |
London; Birmingham | 1934; 1937; 1929 | GBP 250.00 - 500.00 | GBP 325.00 |
| 198 | Lawrence T. E. | Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
London | 1935 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 |
| 199 | Darwin Charles | Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World |
London | 1845 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 500.00 |
| 200 | Huxley Thomas Henry; Martin H. N. | A Course of Practical Instruction in Elementary Biology |
London | 1875 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 201 | Culbertson Rosamond | A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of an American Female Under the Popish Priests in the Island of Cuba |
London | 1837 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 25.00 |
| 202 | L'Estrange Sir Roger | Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions, Part I |
London | 1699 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 203 | Gibbon Edward | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
London | 1838 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 204 | Simpson Keith | Forensic Medicine |
London | 1947 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 205 | Crouch Nathaniel | Two Journeys to Jerusalem |
London | 1719 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 300.00 |
| 206 | Verne Jules; Creswicke Louis | Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa; South Africa and the Transvaal War |
London; Edinburgh | 1873; 1872; 1900-01 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 18.75 |
| 207 | Gibson James J. | The Perception of the Visual World |
Boston | 1950 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 208 | An History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain |
London | 1794 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 52.50 | |
| 209 | Wodehouse P. G. | 15 Books, including: Carry On, Jeeves! |
London | 1925; 1967 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 62.50 |
| 210 | Arnold Frederick | The Philosopher in Slippers: Zigzag Views of Life and Society |
London | 1890 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 211 | Kimura Hisashi | 12 Books, including: New Study of the Polar Motion based on the Luni-Solar Actions |
Tokyo | 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1931; 1932; 1934; 1938; 1941; 1943 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 212 | Outlines in Lithography, From a Small Collection of Pictures |
Yarmouth | 1840 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 131.25 | |
| 213 | Shakespeare William | Much Adoe About Nothing |
London | c. 1870-1900 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 214 | The Strand Magazine |
London | 1891-94 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 215 | Genovese Marco Antonio; Fuller Thomas; Scarron Paul | Praxis Archiepiscopalis Curiae Neopolitanae; Pharmacopoeia Bateana; Le Romant Comique |
Rome; London; Paris | 1619; 1662; 1719 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 50.00 |
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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. -
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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