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Auction Name	Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper	Total Sales (GBP)	174,680.10
Auction Date	March 06, 2025 - March 06, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	0.00
Sale Number	#976	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	0.00
Total Lots	294
Sold Lots	278	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	0.00
% of Lots Sold	94.56%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	0.00
Unsold Lots	16	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
240	Butler (Rev. Charles)	Bees.-The Feminine Monarchie or a treatise concerning bees, and the due ordering of them...	1609	Not Available	GBP 9,450.00
8	Homer	The Whole Works of Homer...		Not Available	GBP 7,560.00
48	Meynell (Alice, editor)	Bindings.-The Flower of the Mind: A Choice among the best Poems...	1897	Not Available	GBP 4,032.00
2	Plutarch	The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals...	1603	Not Available	GBP 3,780.00
164	Milton (John)	Milton (John) The Works	1851	Not Available	GBP 3,780.00
23	Homer	The Iliad...	1715-20	Not Available	GBP 3,276.00
34	Homer	Bindings.-The Iliad...	1802	Not Available	GBP 3,276.00
33		Bible, English.-Holy Bible (The), comprising The Old & New Testaments and The Apocrypha...	1800-16	Not Available	GBP 3,024.00
20	Milton (John)	Milton (John) The Poetical Works	1688	Not Available	GBP 2,394.00
241	Bewick (Thomas)	Bewick (Thomas) The Works	1885-87	Not Available	GBP 2,268.00
9		Bible, English.-Book of Common Prayer (The)...		Not Available	GBP 2,142.00
11	Fuller (Thomas)	The Church-History of Britain...	1655	Not Available	GBP 2,142.00
51	Joyce (James)	Ulysses...	1924	Not Available	GBP 2,142.00
251	Seligmann (Johann Michael)	Birds.-Sammlung verschiedener auslandischer und seltener Vogel...	1749-51	Not Available	GBP 2,142.00
17	Pennington (Isaac)	Quakers.-The Works of the Long-mournful and sorely-distressed...of that Despised People, called Quakers...		Not Available	GBP 2,016.00
42	Lardner (Nathaniel)	Bindings.-Lardner (Nathaniel) The Works...	1815	Not Available	GBP 2,016.00
49	[Humphries (Sydney, editor)]	Disjecta...	1909	Not Available	GBP 1,890.00
50	Proust (Marcel)	Remembrance of Things Past [A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu]	1922-31	Not Available	GBP 1,890.00
4		Bible, English. The Bible...		Not Available	GBP 1,764.00
26	[Prior (Matthew]	[Prior (Matthew] Poems on Several Occasions...	1718	Not Available	GBP 1,764.00
40	Hakluyt (Richard)	Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels and Discoveries, of the English Nation...	1809-1812	Not Available	GBP 1,764.00
30		Bible, English. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New...		Not Available	GBP 1,638.00
128	Edmondson (Joseph)	Fore-edge painting.-Heraldry,-. A Complete Body of Heraldry...	1780	Not Available	GBP 1,638.00
194	Tolkien (J.R.R.)	The Silmarillion	1977	Not Available	GBP 1,638.00
257	Culpeper (Nicholas)	Complete Herbal...	1818	Not Available	GBP 1,638.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
27th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 27: Dürer (Albrecht) Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, 4 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremberg, Hieronymus Andreae for Agnes Dürer, 1528. £30,000 to £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 26 fine hand-painted miniatures, 17th century dark brown morocco, [Lyon], [c. 1475 and later c. 1490-1500]. £25,000 to £35,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Brontë (Emily) The North Wind, watercolour, [1842]. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, April 11th 1912. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
27th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 27: [Austen (Jane)] Emma: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, for John Murray, 1816. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, one of 95 copies, signed by the artist, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: America.- Ogilby (John) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World..., all maps with vibrant hand-colouring in outline, probably by an early hand, 1671. £15,000 to £25,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Iceland.- Geological exploration.- Bright (Dr. Richard )and Edward Bird. Collection of twenty original drawings from travels in Iceland with Henry Holland and George Mackenzie, watercolours, [1810]. £20,000 to £30,000.
Forum Auctions
The Library of Barry Humphries
26th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 26: Beckford (William) [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline Lamb's copy with her signature and notes, 1786. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, first edition containing the 6 suppressed poems, first issue, contemporary half black morocco, Paris, 1857. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Beardsley (Aubrey).- Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1896. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Douglas (Lord Alfred) Sonnets, first edition, the dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author to his wife Olive Custance, The Academy, 1909. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions
The Library of Barry Humphries
26th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 26: Crowley (Aleister) The Works..., 3 vol. in 1 (as issued)"Essay Competition" issue on India paper, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1905-07. £1,500 to £2,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices, one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite, bound in dark purple goatskin, Paris, 1902. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Pellar (Hans) Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo' [together with] a published copy of the first edition of the book, 1923. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Cretté (Georges, binder).- Louÿs (Pierre) Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 2 vol., one of 99 copies, with 2 original drawings, superbly bound in blue goatskin, gilt, Paris, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Swann
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
March 20, 2025

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
March 20, 2025

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000

Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000