The Swan: THE AUCTION ROOM LONDON IN ASSOCIATION WITH SWAN FINE ART - A RARE SINGLE OWNER ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY SALE WORKS FROM THE 15TH CENTURY ONWARDS, 12825, Oxfordshire

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 28, 2025 - January 28, 2025

Page Size: 148 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	Addison, Joseph.	The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.	Birmingham	1761	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
127	Josephus, Flavius	Histoire de la guerre des Juifs contre les Romains. Traduit du Grec par Arnauld d'Andilly. Troisieme edition.	Paris	1670	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
128	Philostratus the Athenian.	Tade enestin en tode to biblio. Philostratou Eikones. Philostratou neoterou Eikones. Tou autou Heroika. Kallistratou Ekphraseis. Tou autou Bioi sophiston. = : Quae hoc volumine continentur. Icones Philostrati. Philostrati iunioris Icones. Eiusdem Heroica.	Florentiae	1517	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
129	Montanus, Arnoldus.	Atlas Japannensis. Being remarkable addresses by way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. Collected out of their several Writings and Journals. English'd by J. Ogilby.	London	1670	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
130	Guillaume Bude	Commentarii linguae Graecae.	Paris	1529	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
131	Philoponus (Joannes).	Ioannu Grammatikou tou Philoponou Ypomnema eis ta Peri psyches biblia Aristototelus... Ioannis Grammatici Philoponi Comentaria in libros de Anima Aristotelis,	Venice	1535	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
132	Lysons, Daniel	Magna Britannia	London	1806	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
133	Bryan, Michael.	A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers	London	1816	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
134	Shakespeare.	Selection of nineteenth century works, to include;		1886	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
135	Dulaure.	Histoire De Paris. WITH Atlas.	Paris	1837	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
136	Spenser, Edmund	The Faerie Queene	London	1897	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
137	Robert Louis Stevenson	Works. Vailima edition.	London	1922	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
138	Horace	Quintus Horatius Flaccus		1903	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
139	Juvenalis / Persius Flaccus	Decii Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae Decem et sex Auli Persii Flacci satirae sex.	Londini,	1845	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
140	Johnson, Samuel	Dictionary of English Language	London	1805	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
141	Granger	A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the revolution [4 vols]	London	1804	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
142	Walter Scott	Poetical Works	Edinburgh	1822-1830	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
143	A Series of magnificent engravings	To illustrate the various folio or quarto editions of the Works of Shakespeare and Milton.	London	1818	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
144	Budge, E. A. Wallis	The Book of the Dead Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer. Anhai. Kerasher and Netchemet.	London	1899	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
145	18th/19th Century Bindings, Zaehnsdorf.	An attractive set of bindings, to include;			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Unknown
146	Casanova	Memoires De Casanova De Seingalt.	Paris	1931-1932	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
147	Horace	Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera	London	1733	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
148	Tolkien, Christopher.	History of Middle Earth. 1983-1996		1983-1996	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.