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Chiswick Auctions: The Art of Nature

Auction Reports

Auction Name	The Art of Nature	Total Sales (GBP)	11,150.00
Auction Date	February 10, 2026 - February 10, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	6,850.00
Sale Number	#1302	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	10,330.00
Total Lots	27
Sold Lots	18.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	8,280.00
% of Lots Sold	66.67%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	12,530.00
Unsold Lots	9	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	88.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
69	Cherry Kearton F.R.P.S & Theodore Roosevelt, 1909	A handwritten autograph letter in ink from President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) to Cherry Kearton, Nairobi, British East Africa, August 29th, 1909.	1909	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,268.00
85		Handwritten Journals, 1906-1960	1906-1960	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,142.00
179	Sclater and Oldfield	Book of Antelopes, 4 vol. 1894-1900	1894-1900	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,016.00
84		A Selection of Important Manuscripts relating to Cherry Kearton Including an unpublished Autobiography		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,134.00
81		Kearton. From the Library and Collection, many signed and inscribed (80)		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 630.00
180	Crealock	Deer-Stalking..Highlands of Scotland, Ltd ed.1897	1897	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 479.00
71	Herbert Spencer and Cherry Kearton	Herbert Spencer and Cherry Kearton in the Spencer Airship No.II		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 403.00
83	Cherry Kearton F.R.P.S (1871-1940)	Selection of Patents, Photographs and Documents relating to Cherry Kearton's Advancements in Still and Cinematograph Camera Design		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 403.00
77	Kearton Brothers	The Kearton's Personal Press Cutting's Archive		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 378.00
80	Kearton	Collection of Publishing Contracts.		GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 239.00
74	Cherry Kearton F.R.P.S (1871-1940)	A Selection of Bird Studies c.1920s	c.1920s	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 202.00
73	Cherry Kearton F.R.P.S (1871-1940)	Photographs of Black Footed Penguins, Dassen Island, South Africa, c.1930	c.1930	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 176.00
70	Cherry Kearton F.R.P.S (1871-1940)	Flashlight Photograph of a Maneless African Lion c.1909	c.1909	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 126.00
78	John Kearton	Quarto album in green cloth with silver gelatin prints approx 159, showing Richard Kearton's family,		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 126.00
72	Kearton Brothers	Kearton Brothers		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 113.00
82	Richard Kearton F.Z.S, F.R.P.S	The Adventures of Jack Rabbit, first edition, 1911 and original manuscript.	1911	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 113.00
76	Cherry Kearton F.R.P.S (1871-1940)	A Collection of six silver gelatin photographs of wildlife		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 101.00
79		A Selection of 35mm Nitrate Cine Film from the archives of Cherry Kearton		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 101.00

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.