Forum Auctions
Forum Auctions are a London auction house specialising in antiquarian books, manuscripts, works on paper, prints and modern & contemporary art. They were launched in 2016 with Stephan Ludwig serving as chief executive officer.
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Logical origins of our digital world
24 April 2023Boole’s 1847 paper would ‘find widespread use in the design of computers and communication systems’
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On the origin of the ‘survival of the fittest’ comes to London auction
17 April 2023This copy of 'The Study of Sociology' by Herbert Spencer is a first edition from 1875 in original cloth.
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Long life down to good cooking?
13 March 2023Manuscript including recipes sold for £15,000 was written by a lady who died ‘aged around 100’
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Wish you were here… in the New World
13 February 2023Sixteenth century work edited by Hakluyt aimed to encourage English expansion and influence
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Fifteenth century friar's manual inspired by the game of chess
06 February 2023A 15th century first edition of a pioneering work by Johannes Gallensis surfaced at auction late last month.
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Gillray drawing stars in a satirical selection
09 January 2023Highlights from London auction also include art historian’s collection and extraordinary Orwell oddity
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Boney and Pitt slice up globe for dessert
19 December 2022'Plumb-pudding in danger or State Epicures taking un Petit Souper' is the most famous of all James Gillray’s satirical caricatures and perhaps the most well-known of all Georgian political cartoons.
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Dreweatts and Forum draw closer together with joint sale and combined departments
05 December 2022Dreweatts and Forum Auctions are to hold their first joint sale this month.
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Flats full to the brim with books
21 November 2022First part of a collection which covered the walls and cellar of two whole flats is offered at auction
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Rare glimpse of Inca culture
17 October 2022First and only published volume of South American work appears in London saleroom
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Benois steps up in the saleroom
10 October 2022A couple of ballet-related lots danced away for high prices over the summer.
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‘Anatomical first’ makes appearance
03 October 2022Boasting what have been described as the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the foetus in utero among its 39 engraved plates, a 1761, second edition of William Smellie’s 'Sett of Anatomical Tables… of the Practice of Midwifery' was one of the highlights of an online-only Forum (25/20/12.5% buyers premium) sale of September 15.
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Make a wicked £9500 bonus
19 September 2022Bid to £9500 rather than the suggested £150-200 was a copy of the first, and possibly only edition ever seen at auction of William Knight’s A Concordance Axiomaticall…
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Gilbert exerts a strong magnetic pull
12 September 2022Catalogued as a ‘very good, complete copy in original condition of the first really modern scientific book published in England’, a 1600 first edition (Peter Short) of De Magnete by William Gilbert is estimated at £10,000-15,000 in Forum Auction’s Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper sale in London on September 29.
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‘Lustie’ farmers sought for a pioneering settlement
15 August 2022Bearing as its title ‘Certain Directions for the Sending of Men and Comodities, & Cattle to Virginia’, a 10pp secretarial manuscript thought to date from c.1609 proved a major attraction in a July 14 sale held by Forum (15/20/12.5% buyer’s premium).
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Collector showed her great taste in gastronomic works
08 August 2022Gastronomy-themed books spanning five centuries were offered in a London auction.
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Deadly demand by ‘Bloody Mary’
11 July 2022The queen’s menacing message to Protestant courtiers makes an auction appearance
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Rare broadside bid to £2800
20 June 2022Bid to £2800 via thesaleroom.com in a Forum Auctions (25/20/12.5% buyer’ premium) sale of May 5 was this seemingly very rare broadside published in London by James Catnach.
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Larkin leaps to five figures twice
13 June 2022Two volumes of poetry offered in London auction were published by the Marvell Press.
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A landmark of Canadiana rediscovered in an attic
06 June 2022Recently found in a Norfolk attic, a full set of Canadian scenes by the military artist and topographical draughtsman Major General James Pattison Cockburn (1779-1847) sold for £130,000 at Forum Auctions (plus 25% buyer’s premium).
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