Tennants Auctioneers: Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 112724, Leyburn

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 27, 2024 - November 27, 2024
Page Size: 112 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 [Thompson (Thomas Perronet).].

The Article on the Instrument of Exchange. Republished from the Westminster Review, No1...By the Author of the Catechism on the Corn Laws.

London 1830 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 950.00
2

Public Notice - Lifting of Dead Bodies.

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 600.00
3

A selection of antiquarian books, including Rhys (Udal ap), An Account of the Most Remarkable Places and Curiosities in Spain and Portugal,

London 1749 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 380.00
4 Boomer (Percy).

On Learning Golf.

London 1942 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 130.00
5

Auction Catalogues. Dresses from the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales. Christie's, 1997; The Jewels of the late Duchess of Windsor. Sotheby's, 1987

1997, 1987 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.00
6

An elaborately illuminated testimonial presented to Richard Jervis to mark his fifty years of service in the Ormskirk Police Division, dated August 17th 1900.

1900 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
7 Wisden (John).

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for the Year 1946-2018.

1946-2018. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 150.00
8 Pontey (William).

The Rural Improver; Or, A practical treatise, on the nature and management of such rural scenes and objects, as are necessary to promote the comfort, convenience, and embellishment of the residencies of the higher ranks of society.

London 1822 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 130.00
9

Egypt and the Middle East Watercolours.

1864-65 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
10 Jones (Owen).

The Grammar of Ornament.

London 1868 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 250.00
11

The Vernon Manuscript. A Facsimile of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1. With an introdcution by A.I. Doyle.

Cambridge 1987 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 110.00
12 Caracciolo (Maria Teresa) & Ayala (Roselyne de) editors.

The History of Rome in Painting.

Abbeville Press 2011 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 220.00
13

Prison Drawings.

C. 1930s GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 400.00
14 Grasset (Eugene).

Plants and their Application to Ornament.

London [1897-97] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,200.00
15 Pevsner (Sir Nikolaus) and Others.

The Buildings of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 900.00
16

Jugendstil. Ornamentik der Gegenwart.

Plauen no date [c. 1906] GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 200.00
17 Dresser (Christopher).

Studies in Design.

London no date [1874-76] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 280.00
18 James (M.R.).

The Canterbury Psalter.

London 1935 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 150.00
19 Sewell (Anna) and Kemp-Welch (Lucy, illustrator).

Black Beauty.

London 1915 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 250.00
20 Mackesy (Charlie).

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

London 2020 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 100.00
21 Young (Edward).

The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality.

no date [c.2005] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 300.00
22 Chaucer (Geoffrey).

Troilus & Criseyde.

2011 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 130.00
23 Gill (Eric) illus.

The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ.

2007 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 100.00
24 Rossetti (Christina) and Harrison (Florence, illustrator).

Poems.

London 1910 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
25 Lindisfarne Gospels.

Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Lindisfarnensis.

Olten & Lausanne 1956-60 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 400.00
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 746. Speed's Dual Atlas of Britain & the World with 96 Maps (1676). Est. $70,000 - $85,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 9. Visscher's Superb Double-Hemisphere World Map with Representations of the Elements (1658). Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 58. One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1554). Est. $5,000 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 745. A Complete Example of Ortelius' Atlas of Ancient Geography (1624). Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 73. First English Map to Show California as an Island (1625). Est. $16,000 - $19,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 156. Bachmann's Dramatic View of the Mid-Atlantic Region (1861). Est. $1,800 - $2,200
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 741. Early Announcement of Continental Congress' Declaration of Independence (1776). Est. $9,000 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 695. The First Printed Map Devoted to the Pacific (1589). Est. $8,000 - $9,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 733. Superb Image of the Presentation of Jesus in Hand Color (1502). Est. $700 - $850
    Old World Auctions (Feb 12):
    Lot 52. Produced by the Psychological Warfare Branch to Encourage Surrender (1945). Est. $200 - $230
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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