Cotswold Auction Company: Treasures in Boxes, Books & Household Items, 9671, Cirencester
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 21, 2026 - June 21, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2252 | Gibbings Robert; Wymer Norman; Lee Laurie; Jewson Norman; Huxley Elspeth | Topography, various Counties of England |
1986 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 28.34 | |
| 2253 | Rudder Samuel | A New History of Gloucestershire; The Gloucestershire Cotswolds; Victoria History, a history of the county of Gloucester; History, Art and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 28.34 | |
| 2254 | Brearley Mike; Doust Dudley | The Cricketers Companion; The Ashes Retained; The Spirit of Cricket; Gloucestershire County Cricket Club 100 Greats; The Hollow Crown England Cricket Captains from 1945 |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 7.73 | |
| 2255 | Williams J H; Carr Norman; Moorhead Alan; Durrell Gerald; Adamson Joy; Collier Richard; Woodruff Philip; Cottrell Leonard; Lewis Norman | Books on travel and wildlife |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 64.40 | |
| 2256 | Ladybird books |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 30.91 | ||
| 2257 | Besant Walter; Waters Brian; Smith Baldwin | London; The Bristol Channel; The Elizabethian Epic |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 28.34 | |
| 2258 | Bell Charles; Pouchet | Casquet of Literature; Don Quixote; The Hand; The Bridgewater Treatise; The Universe; Last Chronicle of Bassett; Layard's Nineveh and Babylon |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 463.68 | |
| 2260 | Irvin Washington; St George George; Lawrence D H; Ure John; Fleming Peter; Neve Arthur; Cronin Vincent | The Sketchbook; Siberia; Mornings in Mexico and Etruscan Places; The Trail of Tamerlane; News from Tartary; Brazillian Adventure; One's Company; 30 Years in Kashmir; A Pearl to India |
1954; 1936; 1938; 1934 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 386.40 | |
| 2261 | Irving R L G; Herzog Maurice; Noble Christina; Stonor Charles; Mytinger; Kirkup James; Eichorn Frans | The Romance of Mountaineering; Annapurna; At Home in the Himalayas; The Sherpa and the Snowman; Headhunting in the Soloman Islands; These Horned Islands; The Lost World of the Amazon |
1946; 1952; 1955 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 90.16 | |
| 2262 | Fleming Peter; Bell Charles; Bull Jeffrey T; Ford Robert; Cronin Vincent; Lowell Thomas | Bayonets to Lhasa; Tibet Past and Present; When Iron Gates Yield; Captured in Tibet; The Golden Honeycomb; Out of this World |
1961 | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 386.40 | |
| 2263 | Winn Christopher; Weldon Fay; Eliot George | I Never Knew That About Wales; I Never Knew That About Ireland; Auto Da Fay |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 7.73 | |
| 2264 | Cardus Neville | Cricket Ball Year; Close of Play |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 7.73 | |
| 2265 | Hughes Simon; Hamilton Duncan | Cricket's Greatest Rivalry; The Great Romantic |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 7.73 | |
| 2265A | MacArthur Wilson | The River Windrush |
1946 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 64.40 | |
| 2266 | Moorehead Alan; Pearson Michael | Gallipoli; The Sealed Train, Journey to Revolution Lenin 1917 |
1956; 1975 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 96.60 | |
| 2267 | Edmonds Phil; Underdown David; Moyes A G; Arlott John; Oborne Peter | 100 Greatest Bowlers; Start of Play, Cricket in the 18th Century; A Century of Cricketers; Basil, D'Oliveira |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 7.73 | |
| 2268 | Ordnance Survey maps |
N/A | GBP 15.00 - 20.00 | 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