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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper (at Forum Auctions)
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Auction dates
May 29, 2025 01:00 PM BST
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There are 367 lots within this auction
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θ Plinius Secundus (Gaius) De li homini illustri, in lingua senese traducto et brevemente …
0 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Bound for Jean Grolier.- Negri Stefano Stephani Nigri Elegantissime è Graeco authorum subditorum …
36,000 GBP
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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θ Plutarch. La prima [- seconda] parte delle Vite , 2 vol., translated by Lodovico Domenichi, …
10,000 GBP
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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θ Novel.- Du Bail (Louis Moreau) L'Olympe, rare first edition, Pierre Rocolet, 1635.
380 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Criminology.- Beccaria (Cesare) Dei Delitti e delle Pene, first edition, Livorno, Marco …
0 GBP
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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θ Sophocles Quae exstant omnia, 5 parts in 2 vol., edited by R.F.P. Brunck, Strassburg, J. G. …
650 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Verlaine (Paul) Dédicaces, one of 55 copies on Hollande with an autograph poem about Bibi la …
1,100 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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θ Holocaust.- Kirschbaum (Menachem Mendel.) Takanoth eich LeHithnaheg Ka'Eth Be'Epher HaNisraphim, …
950 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Antiphoner.- manuscript on vellum, contemporary binding, [Spain], [c.1500]
2,200 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Banking.- Early cheques.- Clayton & Morris, bankers. Group of 14 early cheques, and 16 other items …
0 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Charles II (K ing ) Order to the royal jewellers Francis Sympson and John Sympson to make …
1,800 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Scottish Genealogy.- Seton family.- Maitland (Sir Richard, of Lethington) The Historical …
0 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Garrick (David ) Autograph Letter signed to Dorothy Boyle, countess of Burlington, 1749, relating …
850 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Miltoniana.- [Addison (Joseph)] A regular Criticism upon Paradise lost, manuscript, original …
0 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Gynaecology & Midwifery.- [Notes relating to Gynaecology & Midwifery], manuscript,[Edinburgh], …
700 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Robespierre (Maximilien François Marie Isidore de), French lawyer, statesman, and leading figure …
2,600 GBP
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Lord Amherst & Lord Byron.- Amherst (William Pitt, first Earl Amherst of Arracan ) Collection of 7 …
900 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Literary.- Collection of letters, including: Sir Walter Scott, Leigh Hunt, Mary Russell Mitford, …
2,400 GBP
700 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Commonplace book.- Russell (Berthia) Commonplace Book of manuscript verses, drawings and …
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ France.- French School (1820s) Sketchbook with over 120 original drawings from a tour of …
1,700 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Clare (John ) [Poems], manuscript, one of six copies by Charles Pollington of Boston …
600 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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India & elsewhere.- Doran & Magrath families.- Extensive correspondence, journals and some related …
1,000 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Hong Kong.- Doran (Robert) 3 Autograph Letters from Hong Kong to Mrs Doran, Miss Doran and Robert …
300 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Commonplace Book, manuscripts, drawings, watercolours and ephemera, in several hands, including: …
300 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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θ Creationism.- Nevins (John Birkbeck) On the Evidences of the harmony of Creation, derived from …
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Rorke's Drift.- Chard (John Rouse Merriott).- Illuminated address presented by
2,800 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Rorke's Drift.- Chard (John Rouse Merriott).- Illuminated address presented to John Chard R.E., …
2,400 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Spender (Sir Stephen ) Autograph Letter signed
40 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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λ Peake (Mervyn) 1911-1968) English writer, artist, poet & illustrator . 2 Autograph Letters …
0 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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θ Raleigh (Sir Walter) The History of the World, Printed by William Jaggard for Walter Burre, 1621.
700 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by Sir Thomas North, 2 parts in …
800 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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θ Profusely annotated.- New Testament, Greek. Novi Testamenti libri omnes, profusely annotated in …
1,600 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan, or The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and …
4,800 GBP
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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θ Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), by His Ma:ties Printers, 1669.
0 GBP
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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θ Binding.- Herbert of Cherbury (Edward, Lord) The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, …
950 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Restoration binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacraments, by …
0 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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θ Bindings.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The) Containing the Old Testament and the New, by …
3,500 GBP
700 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Royal Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), Oxford, by the University Printers, 1701.
500 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Bindings.- Collection of the several Statutes (A), and Parts of Statutes, Now if Force, relating …
500 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Bindings.- Almanack.- Rider (Cardanus) Rider's (1735) British Merlin, by R. Nutt, 1735; and 2 …
650 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Royal binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacraments ..., …
480 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), by Thomas Baskett, 1751.
900 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Binding.- Almanacks.- Remarkable News from the Stars: or, an Ephemeris for 1768, together 12 …
400 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), Cambridge, by John Archdeacon Printer to the University, …
1,350 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Miniature Books.- Almanacks.- London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783, [1783]' and 5 other …
850 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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θ Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, Cambridge, …
1,400 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, Oxford, 1827.
2,000 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The), elaborate silver latticework binding, Oxford, at the …
1,500 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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θ Nostradamus (Michel) The True Prophecies or Prognostications, first edition in English, Printed …
5,000 GBP
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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θ Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works, edited by Thomas Speght, [Adam Islip], 1687.
1,100 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Locke (John) An Essay concerning Humane Understanding, second edition, Printed for Awnsham and …
1,300 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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θ Swift (Jonathan) Travels into several Remote Nations of the World, 2 vol., second 8vo edition …
5,000 GBP
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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θ Swift (Jonathan) The Works, 24 vol., for C. Bathurst [&c], 1766
0 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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θ Judaica.- [ Mears (Abraham)] The Book of Religion, Ceremonies, and Prayers of the Jews..., …
600 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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θ Georgian Irish actress & socialite.- Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This present Wednesday, being …
300 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Autograph poem concerning Locke.- Locke (John) An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning …
0 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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θ Fielding (Henry) The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, 4 vol. extended to 8, extra-illustrated, …
3,200 GBP
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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