Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with No Reserve No Buyers Premium!, 415952, Columbia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Rossiter W. Raymond | Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains |
Washington | 1869 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 82.00 |
| 52 | James D. McCabe | Great fortunes, and how they were made; or the struggles and triumphs of our self-made men. |
Cincinnati, Chicago; San Francisco | 1871 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 115.00 |
| 53 | Aesop | Three hundred Aesops fables literally translated from the Greek |
New York | c. 1875 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 155.00 |
| 54 | Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) | Mark Twains Sketches, New and Old |
Hartford and Chicago | 1875 | USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 350.00 |
| 55 | John Clark Ridpath | A popular history of the United States of America : from the aboriginal times to the present day |
New York | 1876 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 175.00 |
| 56 | Sarah N. Randolph | The life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, ("Stonewall" Jackson) |
Philadelphia | 1876 | USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 305.00 |
| 57 | Lord George Byron | The Poetical Works of Lord Byron |
Boston | 1878 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 130.00 |
| 58 | Hugh Quigley | The Irish race in California and on the Pacific Coast |
San Francisco | 1878 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 84.00 |
| 59 | Paul Lacroix | XVIIIe Siecle: Lettres, Sciences et Arts en France 1700–1789 |
Paris | 1878 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 170.00 |
| 60 | Gustave Dore | The Dore Bible gallery: containing one hundred superb illustrations |
Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis | c. 1880 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 215.00 |
| 61 | Jules Verne | The Tour of the World in Eighty Days |
New York | 1880 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 205.00 |
| 62 | Julia Clinton Jones | Valhalla. The Myths of Norseland, a Saga in Twelve Parts |
New York | 1880 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 110.00 |
| 63 | W. Hamilton Gibson | Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making |
New York | 1881 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 90.00 |
| 64 | Theodore Gerrish | Army life : a privates reminiscences of the Civil War |
New York; Portland | 1882 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 65 | William Yarrell | A History of British Birds |
London | 1882 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 98.00 |
| 66 | Joseph-Francois Michaud | Histoire des Croisades : abrege a lusage de la jeunesse |
Tours | 1883 | USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 67 | Index to the miscellaneous documents of the House of Representatives, 47th Congress |
Washington | 1883 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 40.00 | |
| 68 | A. Egmont Hake | The story of Chinese Gordon : with additions, bringing down the narrative to the present time |
New York | 1884 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 68.00 |
| 69 | Edward Greey | The Bear-Worshippers of Yezo and the Island of Karafuto (Saghalin) |
Boston; New York | 1884 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 78.00 |
| 70 | George Washington Cable | The Creoles of Louisiana |
London | 1885 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 71 | Henry M Stanley | In darkest Africa: or, The quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria |
New York | 1890 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 175.00 |
| 72 | Quebec, the Gibraltar of America |
Grand Rapids, Mich. | c. 1890 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 32.00 | |
| 73 | John Wesley Powell | Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86 |
Washington | 1891 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 770.00 |
| 74 | W. Fletcher Johnson | The Red Record of the Sioux: Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890–91 |
Philadelphia | 1891 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 230.00 |
| 75 | James G. Blaine; J.W. Buel; John Clark Ridpath; Benjamin Butterworth | Columbus and Columbia : a pictorial history of the man and the nation, embracing a review of our countrys progress |
Richmond, Va. | 1892 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 72.00 |
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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