Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper, 2303, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 29, 2024 - February 29, 2024
Page Size: 297 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Margaret Seguier

Royal Navy Interest.- Stewart (Margaret) Commonplace Book, manuscript in two hands

[c.1825] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 131.20
102

Music.- [Wade (Joseph)] [Urganda], manuscript 3 act opera,

[?c. 1830] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
103

Politicians.- Collection of letters and postcards

19th century GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,574.40
104

Musicians & Theatrical.- Collection of letters and postcards

19th -- 20th centuries GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 446.08
105 Edmund Wickes

Log for the Ship Strathfieldsaye Bound for Port Philip which left the Port of London Dec 8th 1852..., autograph manuscript

1852-53 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 209.92
106

Crimean War.- Letter from a lieutenant in the camp before Sebastopol unsigned

[1855] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
107 J.H. Wardle

Six Comic Illustrations as given on very many occasions Gratuitously for Charitable and Other Purposes at Readings and Concerts &c., illustrate...

[?Nottingham], [c.1880] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
108 Sir Walter Parratt

"The face of death". Anthem sung at Queen Victoria's funeral, autograph music signed by Parratt

1904 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
109 John Garland

Archive relating to Garland who held various significant government posts as a cabinet minister including Attorney General in several Australian governments...

v.s., v.d., 1916-20s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
110 Albert Smith

Smith (Albert, 363rd Mechanical Transport Coy, d. 1918) Large collection of letters (and some small photographs) from Smith to his wife Nancy and family

1917-18; GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
111 Walter Edwards

Edwards (Walter) Diary of service in Egypt and Palestine, manuscript

[1917]-18 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 262.40
112 Mussolini (Benito) & Victor Emmanuel III (King of Italy)

Commission of Lieutenant Colonel Romanelli of Artillery to be director of the artillery directorate of Messina, D.s. "Mussolini" & "Victor...

Rome, 1926 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 157.44
113 H. Fearnall

World War II Photographs

1944-5. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 170.56
114 Ruth Rendell

"Barbara Vine". The Blood Doctor, original draft typescript,

[c.2002] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 223.04
115 Publius Terentius Afer

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex, edited by A.H. Westerhovius

Glasgow 1742 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
116 Sophocles

Tragoediae quae extant septem

Glasgow 1745 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
117 Aristotle.

De Poetica, edited by Theodore Goulston

Glasgow 1745 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 428.40
118 Steele (Sir Richard) and Joseph Addison.

[The Tatler] The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., 4 vol.

Glasgow 1747 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
119 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opera quae supersunt omnia20 vol.

Glasgow 1748-1749. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 504.00
120 Francis Hutcheson

Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria libris III

Glasgow 1745 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
121 Christiaan Huygens

Cosmotheoros: or, Conjectures concerning the planetary worlds and their inhabitants,

Glasgow 1757 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 693.00
122 Thucydides.

Bellum Peloponnesiacum, 8 vol.

Glasgow 1759 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
123 Giovanni Battista Guarini

Il Pastor Fido,

1763 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
124 Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquis Worcester

A Century of the names and scantlings of such inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, ...

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 302.40
125 James Edward Buchanan Boswell

An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island, and memoirs of Pascal Paoli,

Glasgow 1768 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
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    Auction May 27th
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    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
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    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.
    ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.
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