Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper, 2307, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 25, 2024 - April 25, 2024
Page Size: 291 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Sir Harry H. Johnston

The Uganda Protectorate

1902 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 189.00
2 David Livingstone

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

1857 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 201.60
3 David Livingstone

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

1857 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
4 John M'Leod

A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People

1820 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 327.60
5 David Roberts

Sketches in Egypt & Nubia

Aalsmeer c.1985 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 428.40
6 David Roberts

Sketches in Egypt & Nubia

Aalsmeer c.1985 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 214.20
7 C.G. Schillings

In Wildest Africa

New York & London 1907 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
8 Henry Morton Stanley

How I Found Livingstone

1872 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 163.80
9 Henry Morton Stanley

Through the Dark Continent

1878 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 126.00
10 Henry Morton Stanley

In Darkest Africa, or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

1890 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 302.40
11 John Hanning Speke

Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile,

1863 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 352.80
12 William Herrod-Hempsall

The Bee-Keeper's Guide,

1938 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 63.00
13 Bashir E. Allouse

Birds of Iraq,

Baghdad 1960-62 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 138.60
14 R. K. Brooke

South African Red Data Book - Birds, Pretoria

1984 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 44.10
15 Husam al-Daulah Timur Mirza

The Baz-Nama-Yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry

1908 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.20
16 Charles Booth

Life and Labour of the People in London,

1902 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,008.00
17 Robert Willis

The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton

Cambridge GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 302.40
18

Stratagems of Chess

1817 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 94.50
19 Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

The Second World War

1948-54 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
20 Richard Cosway

Photographs of a Private Collection of Portrait Drawings of the English School

1902 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 201.60
21

Crests and Monograms.- Album of Crests and Monograms

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 138.60
22 Nicholas Culpeper

The British Herbal and Family Physician

Halifax c.1815 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 403.20
23 Charles Darwin

The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals

1872 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 504.00
24 Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers

1894 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.20
25 Jack Davenport

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

1869 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 302.40
  • Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: TWAIN, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. $1,000 to $1,500 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: [BAUM, L. Frank]. PICTURES FROM THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ By W.W. Denslow… Chicago, [1903]. $400 to $800 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London, Jonathan Cape, 1962. $400 to $600 AUD.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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