What: Fine Books and Works on PaperWhere: Forum Auctions, 220 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4LP, UKWhen: January 25Top lots of the sale:- Verve: Artistic and Literary Review / an Artistic and Literary Quarterly. Nos.1-38 in 26 vols [a complete set], numerous color lithographs by Picasso, Chagall, Matisse & others, Paris & London, 1937-60. Estimate: £ 8,000 - £ 12,000 (US$ 10,814 – US$ 16,222)- Doves Press - English Bible (The), 5 vol., one of 500 copies, signed and inscribed by Laurence Hodson, Doves Press, 1903. Estimate: £ 5,000 - £ 7,000 (US$ 6,759 – US$ 9,463)- W.B.Yeats and Lady Gregory- Shiels (George) Professor Tim, original typescript, annotated by Yeats, Shiels and Lady Gregory, c.1925. Estimate: £ 2,000 - £ 3,000 (US$ 2,704 – US$ 4,055)Seamus Heaney: Ugolino, number 77 of 125 copies, Dublin, Dolmen Press, 1979. Estimate: £ 3,000 - £ 4,000 (US$ 4,055 – US$ 5,407)- Jane Austen - Brock (Charles Edward) A group of seventeen ink and watercolour drawings for Dent's edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, 1908. Estimate: £ 6,000 - £ 8,000 (US$ 8,111 - US$ 10,814)- James Shirley: Six new playes, viz. The Brothers. Sisters. Doubtfull Heir. Imposture. Cardinall. Court secret, first edition, 1653. Estimate: £ 3,000 - £ 4,000 (US$ 4,055 – US$ 5,407)- John Wesley Autograph Letter signed, 1782. Estimate: £ 8,000 - £ 12,000 (US$ 10,814 – US$ 16,222)- Gaius Valerius Catullus - Guarini (Alessandro) Alexandri Guarini Ferrariensis In. C.V. Catullum Veronensem Per baptistam Patrem Emendatum Expositiones cum Indice, [Venice], [Georgius de Rusconibus], 1521. Estimate: £ 2,000 - £ 3,000 (US$ 2,704 – US$ 4,055)- Albius Tibullus and Gaius Valerius Catullus. Elegiae, sive Carmina, Venice, Andreas de Paltasichis, 1487. Estimate: £ 5,000 - £ 7,000 (US$ 6,759 – US$ 9,463)- Longitude - An Act for providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea, first edition of this highly important act, John Baskett, 1714. Estimate: £ 3,000 - £ 5,000 (US$ 4,055 – US$ 6,759)- Agriculture by Gervase Markham – The English Husbandman. Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments belonging thereto, rare first edition, printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. For Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, 1613. Estimate: £ 2,500 - £ 3,500 (US$ 3,379 – US$ 4,731)- India.- Company School (circa 1790-1810) and Welland (Rachel, active 1798-1804) A composite album with over 115 drawings and watercolours executed and collected from a tour of India [circa 1798-1804]. Estimate: £ 3,000 - £ 5,000 (US$ 4,055 – US$ 6,759)- China - Staunton (Sir George) an Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, Atlas vol. only, 1797. Estimate: £ 2,000 - £ 3,000 (US$ 2,704 – US$ 4,055)- Africa by Andrew Smith. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa, 5 vol., first edition, original cloth, [1838-50]. Estimate: £ 4,000 - £ 6,000 (US$ 5,407 – US$ 8,111)- Africa by James Grant. A Walk across Africa or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journey, first edition, inscribed by the author, Edinburgh and London, 1864. Estimate: £ 2,000 - £ 3,000 (US$ 2,704 – US$ 4,055)For details, visit: https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/Click on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.
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