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Auction Name Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium Total Sales (USD) 16,368.00
Auction Date February 15, 2026 - February 15, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 54,307.00
Sale Number #401049 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 110,000.00
Total Lots 101
Sold Lots 101.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 54,307.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 110,000.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 14.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
57 traditional Hebrew

Form of Prayers for the Feast of Pentecost; Form of Prayers for the Feast of Tabernacles

1865 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 700.00
97 For Whom the Bell Tolls

HEMINGWAY, Ernest

1940 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 690.00
84 John Wesley Powell Contributor(s): Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86

1891 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 560.00
69 Benson John Lossing Illustrator(s): Benson John Lossing

The Home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial

1871 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 445.00
52 Samuel Cooper

A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States: Comprehending the Exercises and Movements of the Infantry, Light Infantry, and Riflemen; Cavalry and Artillery

1854 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 410.00
76 Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

1885--1886. USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 390.00
99 The Hobbit or There and Back Again

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

1966 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 380.00
34 William Shakespeare Contributor(s): Samuel Johnson (Editor)

The Plays of William Shakespeare

1771 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 360.00
89 Arthur Conan Doyle Contributor(s): Joseph Bell (Note)

A Study in Scarlet

1903 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 355.00
91 Edgar Allan Poe Illustrator(s): Contributor(s): Edwin Markham (Introduction)

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

1904 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 355.00
47 Noah Webster Contributor(s): John Walker (pronunciation guide)

An American dictionary of the English language : exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definition of words

1846 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 330.00
19 Jonathan Swift

Works of Jonathan Swift

1734 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 295.00
18 Flavius Josephus Contributor(s): Jacques Chretien Basnage (Translator, Editor)

Vervolg op Flavius Josephus of Algemene historie der Joodsche naatsie, behelzende ene uitvoering beschryving van derzelver regerings-vorm, godtsdienst

1727 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 290.00
77 John Wesley Powell Contributor(s): Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84

1887 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 265.00
41 Edward Baines

History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815

1817 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 250.00
48 Benjamin Franklin

The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin; Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary

1851 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 250.00
45 Homer

Homeri Odyssea

1839 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 235.00
98 Ian Fleming

The Man with the Golden Gun

1965 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 230.00
46 Anonymous

Life of William Henry Harrison (of Ohio), the Peoples Candidate for the Presidency; With a History of the Wars with the British and Indians on Our North-Western Frontier

1840 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 225.00
100 The Silmarillion

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

(c)1977. USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 225.00
58 Ed. S. Taylor

The History of Playing Cards, With Anecdotes of Their Use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping

1865 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 220.00
49 United States Contributor: Hickey, W. Illustrator: E Weber & Co Balt

The Constitution of the United States of America, With an Alphabetical Analysis; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation; the Prominent Political Acts of George Washington; Electoral Votes for All the Presidents and Vice-presidents;

1851 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 215.00
90 Edmund Spenser Contributor(s): John W. Hales (Memoir); R. Morris (Editor)

The Works of Edmund Spenser

1904 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 210.00
1 Johann Wigand

De Neutralibus et mediis, libellus utilis et necessarius

1560 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 205.00
53 John C. Fremont

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California: to which is added a description of the physical geography of California

1856 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 200.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.