Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers: The Residual Contents of Monreith House, Wigtownshire. The Seat of Clan Maxwell, 71426, Dumfries

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 14, 2026 - July 14, 2026
Page Size: 76 items in 4 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251

The Battle of Waterloo 18th June 1815, Adapted from H Houssayes 1815

Edinburgh 1815 Not Available GBP 186.00
252

N Books, including: [Series of Comparative Wall Atlas]

N/A Not Available GBP 49.60
253

N Books, including: [Smaller School Room wall maps]

N/A Not Available GBP 74.40
254 Holding Robert

The Skeleton

Leeds; Glasgow; Belfast N/A Not Available GBP 272.80
255 Christison Colin

N Books, including: [Plan of the Lands of Barsalloch Airlour]

1855 Not Available GBP 111.60
256 Moll H

N Books, including: [The West Part of Galloway Contains the Shire of Wigton]

N/A Not Available GBP 210.80
257

N Books, including: [Map prints published by C Smith]

London circa 1808 Not Available GBP 372.00
325

Collection of family related old photographs

N/A Not Available GBP 105.40
326

Collection of general books and novels

N/A Not Available GBP 235.60
327 Byron Lord

Collection of 19th century and later general books and novels

1826 Not Available GBP 37.20
328

Punch Magazine

1841-1891 Not Available GBP 111.60
329

The Illustrated London News Commemorating The Coronation of King Edward VII

1902 Not Available GBP 186.00
330 Weaver Lawrence

The New English and Spanish Dictionary; Small Country Houses their Repair & Enlargement

1891 Not Available GBP 558.00
331

Country Life

N/A Not Available GBP 520.80
332

Two boxes of general books and novels

N/A Not Available GBP 210.80
333 Kimber William; Lear Edward; Young Desmond

Edward Lear in Corsica; Teapots and Quails; Rommel

1953 Not Available GBP 272.80
334 Grey Zane

Tales of Swordfish and Tuna

1927 Not Available GBP 49.60
335 Creighton M; Ranke

A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation; History of the Popes

N/A Not Available GBP 198.40
336 Bolton Arthur T; Jourdain M

4 Books, including: The Architecture of Robert & James Adam

N/A Not Available GBP 80.60
338 Wodehouse P G

The Oxford Book of English Verse; The Letters of Queen Victoria; P Smith the Journalist

N/A Not Available GBP 148.80
339 Shakespeare William

The New Temple Shakespeare

N/A Not Available GBP 148.80
340 Thornbury Walter

Old and New London; The War in Pictures

N/A Not Available GBP 43.40
341 Canetti Elias; Lawrence T E; Le Carre John

4 Books, including: Crowds and Power

London 1963 Not Available GBP 198.40
342 Greene Graham

The Heart of the Matter; Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Society; Estate ledgers

1980s Not Available GBP 248.00
343 Calman W T

The Life of Crustacea; Wigtownshire Charters; Desk atlases

London 1911 Not Available GBP 322.40
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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