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Important Books and Manuscripts at Forum Auctions (May 24, 2017)
May 24, 2017
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230 Lots, including Continental Literature & History (53 lots); English Literature & History (68 lots); Manuscripts and Letters (45 lots); Modern First Editions (39 lots). Selected highlights include:
CAMPBELL (COLEN), JOHN WOOLFE AND JAMES GANDON. Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect…, 5 vol., first editions, 1715-71. £8,000-12,000.
BANBERY, FRED. Original illustration for Paddington at the Seaside, c.1975. £200-300.
COLUMNIS (GUIDO DE). Historia destructionis Troiae. First edition. £30,000-40,000.
DEMOSTHENES. Orationes duas & sexaginta, Benedetto Varchi’s copy, Basel, Johannes Herwagen, 1532. £4,000-6,000.
MILL, JOHN STUART. Principles of Political Economy, 2 vol., first edition, original cloth, 8vo, 1848. £1,000-1,500.
PARETO, VILFREDO. Cours d’Économie Politique Professé a l’Université de Lausanne, 2vol., first edition, Lausanne, 1896-97. £800-1,200.
CRYPTOPGRAPHY. F[alconer] (J[ohn]). Cryptomenysis Patefacta: Or the Art of Secret Information disclosed without a Key…, first edition, for Daniel Brown, 1685. £500-700.
DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE. The Hunting of the Snark, presentation copy inscribed by the author, 1876. £2,500-3,500.
Philipp R & Mary the Quene.- Mary I (Queen of England and Ireland, 1516-58) & Philip II (King of England and Ireland, consort of Mary I, and King of Spain, 1527-98) LETTER SIGNED TO LORD PAGET SIGNED “MARY THE QUENE” AND “PHILIPP R” AND ENDORSED “BY THE KING AND THE QUENE”, 1p., 1956 x 270mm., Westminster, 29th January 1555, ordering him and “Lord Clynton” [Lord Clinton] to Windsor Castle as Commissioners to oversee the installation of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy “by his Ambassadours resident here” and Lord Howard of Effingham “high Admirall of England” as members of the Order of the Garter. £18,000-20,000.
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Collection of letters and postcards signed to Herbert Marshall, 1940-48. £3,500-4,000.
BROOKE, RUPERT. Poems, first edition… ‘a fine copy’. £500-700.
CHURCHILL (SIR WINSTON SPENCER).- BEATON (CECIL). Sir Winston Churchill at 10 Downing Street, silver gelatin print, [c.1940]. £1,500-2000.
ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, signed by the author, 1998. £2,000-3,000.
VAN DE VELDE (HENRY).- NIETZSCHE (FRIEDRICH). Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch fur Alle und Keinen, number 6 of 100 specially-bound copies, decorations designed by Henry van de Velde, original morocco, folio, Leipzig, 1900. £3,000-4,000.
Full catalogue here.