Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: Antiquarian Book Auction, BK33, Exeter

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 28, 2025 - October 28, 2025
Page Size: 478 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
323 WAKEFIELD, Priscilla

NATURAL HISTORY. An Introduction to Botany, ...

London 1831 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 81.90
324 RAY SOCIETY (pub.)

Monographs, including: KILLINGTON, F. J.

1936-37 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.40
325 RENNELL, James

The Geographical System of Herodotus, Examined; and Explained...

London 1800 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 113.40
326

ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES. REEKS, Margaret

London 1920 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 25.20
327 WHITE, Gilbert

The Works in Natural History...

London 1802 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 138.60
328 WINTON, John G. & MILLAR, W. J.

Modern Steam Practice and Engineering

London 1883 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 107.10
329 WRIGHT, Lewis

The Illustrated Book of Poultry

London, Paris & New York nd [1873] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 107.10
330 [APPERLEY, Charles James]

NIMROD

London 1870 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
331 NOAKES, Andrew

ASTON MARTIN. Aston Martin DB 70 Years

London 2017 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.80
332 BECKFORD, Peter

Thoughts upon Hunting

Sarum 1782 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 37.80
333 DARWIN, Bernard

GOLF. Green Memories

London nd [1928] GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
334 HARRIS, Nigel M. W.

"Sampan Pidgin"

Shanghai 1938 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,197.00
335 HOYLE, Edmond

The New Pocket Hoyle, 'Hoyle's Games'

London 1802 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
336

HUNTING. A collection of circa 95 monochrome prints

late C19th or later GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 12.60
337 SURTEES [Robert Smith]

HUNTING. The Hunting Tours of Surtees

Edinburgh & London 1927 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.60
338 THOMAS, Parry

MOTOR RACING. Designer-Driver

London 1959 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 44.10
339 TREMAYNE, David

MOTOR SPORT. Racing through Europe, the motor sport photography of Brian Joscelyne

London GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 239.40
340 WALTON, Mark (ed.)

MOTOR SPORT. Goodwood Festival of Speed, the First Twenty Years

Chichester 2012 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 18.90
341 NUTTING, William Washburn

The Track of the "Typhoon"

New York 1922 GBP 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
342 HISCOCK, Eric C.

SAILING

London 1956 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
343

SOUTH WEST ENGLAND & WALES. MERCATOR, Gerard; HONDIUS, Henry, & JANSSON, Jan. Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria, Monumetha, Clamorga, Caermarde, Penbrok, Cardigan, Radnor, Breknoke, Herefordia et Wigornia

[c.1636 or later] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 113.40
344

SPORTING, ART AND ART REFERENCE. A collection of 40 vols.

London 1938 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
345 [SURTEES, Robert Smith]

Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour

London 1853 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 12.60
346 WALTON, Izaak & COTTON, Charles

The Complete Angler

London 1824 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 31.50
347

AFRICA, ADMIRALTY CHARTS

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 18.90
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • 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.
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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.