Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, 1174, London

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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 29, 2025 - May 29, 2025
Page Size: 361 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Benivieni (Girolamo)

Canzoni e sonetti dell'amore e della bellezza divina,

Florence 1500 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
2 Plinius Secundus (Gaius)

De li homini illustri, in lingua senese traducto et brevemente commentato,

Siena 1506 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
4

Bound for Jean Grolier.- Negri Stefano Stephani Nigri Elegantissime e Graeco authorum subditorum

1540s GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 45,360.00
5 Plutarch.

La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite , 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi

Venice 1560 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
6 Du Bail (Louis Moreau)

L'Olympe

1635 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 478.80
7 Beccaria (Cesare)

Dei Delitti e delle Pene

Livorno 1764 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
8 Sophocles

Quae exstant omnia, 5 parts in 2 vol., edited by R.F.P. Brunck

Strassburg 1786 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 819.00
9 Verlaine (Paul)

Dedicaces, one of 55 copies on Hollande with an autograph poem about Bibi Bibi Puree

1894 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,386.00
10 Kirschbaum (Menachem Mendel.)

Takanoth eich LeHithnaheg Ka'Eth Be'Epher HaNisraphim

Cracow 1939 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
11

Antiphoner.- manuscript on vellum, contemporary binding

Spain circa 1500 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
12

Banking.- Early cheques.- Clayton & Morris, bankers. Group of 14 early cheques, and 16 other items

1660-1680 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
13 Charles II (King)

Order to the royal jewellers Francis Sympson and John Sympson

Whitehall 1663 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,268.00
14 Maitland (Sir Richard, of Lethington)

The Historical Genealogie of the ancient and noble Family of Seton...

late 17th century & 19th century. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
15 Garrick (David)

Autograph Letter signed to Dorothy Boyle, countess of Burlington

1749 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,071.00
16 [Addison (Joseph)

A regular Criticism upon Paradise lost, manuscript

18th century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
17 White (Rev. Gilbert)

"The benevolence of modern naturalists hath induced them to pronounce the toad harmless...", manuscript

n.d. 18th century GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
18

Gynaecology & Midwifery.- [Notes relating to Gynaecology & Midwifery], manuscript

?Edinburgh circa 1784 and later GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 882.00
19 Robespierre (Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de)

French lawyer, statesman, and leading figure in the Revolution...scribal copy of a triumphant address to the army on Republican victories

1793 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 3,276.00
20 Amherst (William Pitt, first Earl Amherst of Arracan)

Lord Amherst & Lord Byron.- Amherst (William Pitt, first Earl Amherst of Arracan, diplomat and governor-general of Bengal, 1773-1857) Collection of 7 autograph letters

London, Oxford & elsewhere 1807 - 4th August GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,134.00
21

Literary.- Collection of letters, including: Sir Walter Scott, Leigh Hunt, Mary Russell Mitford,

v. d. GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
22 Russell (Berthia)

Commonplace Book of manuscript verses, drawings and ephemera,

?Edinburgh 1825-29 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
24 Clare (John)

[Poems], manuscript, one of six copies by Charles Pollington of Boston [Lincolnshire]

Boston [Lincolnshire] 1839 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 756.00
25

India & elsewhere.- Doran & Magrath families.- Extensive correspondence, journals ...

1829-35 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,260.00
26 Doran (Robert)

3 Autograph Letters from Hong Kong to Mrs Doran, Miss Doran and and his grandfather Robert Hughes

1844, 1845 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
27

Commonplace Book, manuscripts, drawings, watercolours and ephemera, in several hands

1844-85 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 378.00
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