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Cotswold Auction Company: Treasures in Boxes, Books & Household Items
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Treasures in Boxes, Books & Household Items | Total Sales (GBP) | 3,539.42 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 21, 2026 - June 21, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 1,425.00 |
| Sale Number | #9671 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 2,300.00 |
| Total Lots | 67 | ||
| Sold Lots | 51.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 1,675.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 76.12% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 2,740.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 16 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 129.18% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2148 | Worcester GRG | The Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze |
1947; 1948 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 193.20 |
| 2186 | N Books, including: Transport |
N/A | Not Available | GBP 167.44 | |
| 2117 | N Books, including: Transport |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | GBP 115.92 | |
| 2248 | Runyan Damon; Aubrey John; Vasari; Blaeu Joan | N Books, including: Joan Blaeu Atlas Maior - Scotia and Hibernia |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 109.48 |
| 2179 | Hogarth William | The Prodigal Son |
N/A | GBP 15.00 - 25.00 | GBP 96.60 |
| 2266 | Moorehead Alan; Pearson Michael | Gallipoli; The Sealed Train, Journey to Revolution Lenin 1917 |
1956; 1975 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 96.60 |
| 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 |
| 2129 | Botanical floral prints |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | GBP 83.72 | |
| 2145 | N Books, including: Yachting Monthly |
early 20th century-1960s | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 83.72 | |
| 2154 | Thier; Goldsmith Oliver; A'Beckett G A; Leech John; Walton Izaak; Horatii Flacci Quinti | N Books, including: Thier's Consulate and Empire |
1740; 1861; 1865; 1913 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 83.72 |
| 2241 | Jekyll Gertrude; Weaver Lawrence; St Clair Baddeley Welbore; Farrer Reginald | N Books, including: Gardens for Small Country Houses |
1907 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 83.72 |
| 2075 | Vanity Fair and Spy prints |
1877-1900 | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | GBP 77.28 | |
| 2245 | Nansen Fridtjof; Bain J Arthur | N Books, including: The Farthest North |
1898; 1906 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 64.40 |
| 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 |
| 2265A | MacArthur Wilson | The River Windrush |
1946 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 64.40 |
| 2137 | Allier Paul (1883-1967); Gallois Emile (1882-1965) | Female dancer; Six coloured prints of figures dancing |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 57.96 |
| 2247 | Hedin Sven; Waddell L Austin; Landor A Henry Savage; McGovern W Montgomery | N Books, including: A Conquest of Tibet |
1905; 1906; 1909; 1924; 1925; 1935 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 57.96 |
| 2150 | Tate Gallery International Paints calendars; Newspapers; Who's Who in Gloucester; Concert brochures |
1910; 1960; 1961 | GBP 15.00 - 25.00 | GBP 51.52 | |
| 2250 | Heath Robinson W | Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales |
ND | GBP 40.00 - 50.00 | GBP 51.52 |
| 2138 | Gallois Emile (1882-1965) | Six coloured prints of figures dancing; Five coloured prints of figures dancing; Four coloured prints of figures dancing |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 45.08 |
| 2242 | The New Naturalist |
N/A | GBP 20.00 - 30.00 | GBP 45.08 | |
| 2249 | Kingsley Nicholas | The Country Houses of Gloucestershire |
N/A | Not Available | GBP 45.08 |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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 -
Forum Auctions
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