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Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Weekly Auction of Antiques, Collectables, Furniture etc (Saleroom 5)

Auction Reports

Auction Name	Weekly Auction of Antiques, Collectables, Furniture etc (Saleroom 5)	Total Sales (GBP)	614.30
Auction Date	February 02, 2026 - February 02, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	50.00
Sale Number	#9532	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	70.00
Total Lots	23
Sold Lots	17.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	50.00
% of Lots Sold	73.91%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	70.00
Unsold Lots	6	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	877.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
247		A group of various framed prints, Picasso and others		Not Available	GBP 214.88
372		A pair of coloured prints of Indian elephants		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 126.40
207	Hugh Brandon Cox	two coloured prints Blakeney Autumn and Road to Blakeney		Not Available	GBP 69.52
129		A vintage Geographia terrestrial globe (very worn and discoloured)		Not Available	GBP 35.39
115	James Newlands,	the Carpenter and Joiners Assistant		Not Available	GBP 31.60
249		A portrait of a Victorian lady,		Not Available	GBP 22.75
30	Rowland Hilder,	flighting ducks, coloured print, framed		Not Available	GBP 18.96
56	Pestalozzi	Hints to Parents on the Cultivation of Children		Not Available	GBP 15.17
250		A set of three reproduction hunting prints		Not Available	GBP 15.17
253		A group of three modern prints of views of Norwich Cathedral		Not Available	GBP 12.64
60		Mixed Lot: Various postcards, albums of cigarette cards etc		Not Available	GBP 10.11
210		A group of three 19th Century portrait engravings John Loudon McAdam, Nicolaus Sanderson and one	19th Century	Not Available	GBP 10.11
24		Coloured print Sunset in the Highlands together with James North, study of a tumbling brooke		Not Available	GBP 6.32
208	John Sutton,	limited edition print (No. 203 of 850) coloured print of ships		Not Available	GBP 6.32
255		A collection of various framed prints, mainly ornithological interest		Not Available	GBP 6.32
257		Quantity of assorted pictures and prints		Not Available	GBP 6.32
294		A group of three framed reproduction maps		Not Available	GBP 6.32

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.