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

Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.