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

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.