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
26 BURNS, Robert

The Soldier's Return...

Edinburgh 1857 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.60
27 BURTON, Richard Francis (transl.)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

London 1897 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 504.00
28

CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED. A collection of 24 vols., incl: MILNE, A. A.

London 1926 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 567.00
29 FOLKARD, Charles (illust.)

CHILDRENS AND ILLUSTRATED. The Arabian Nights

London 1913 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 12.60
30 MILNE, A. A.

CHILDREN'S, POETRY, MISC. The King's Breakfast

London 1925 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 37.80
31 DAHL, Roald

James and the Giant Peach

New York 1961 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.40
32 'Lewis Carroll'

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] Le Avventure d'Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]

London 1872 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.20
33 'Lewis Carroll'

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] Three Sunsets and Other Poems

London 1898 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 239.40
34 DULAC, Edmund (illust.)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

London [1909] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 252.00
35 FLINT, William Russell

The Lisping Goddess

Worcester 1968 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
36

FLORENCE PRESS. The Romaunt of the Rose rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer

London 1908 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 119.70
37 GILES [Ronald 'Carl']

Daily Express & Sunday Express Cartoons, a run

London 1946-2021 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
38 MACLEOD, Norman (ed.)

GOOD WORDS. Good Words, A Magazine for all the Week...

Edinburgh & London 1862 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.60
39 HAKE, Thomas Gordon

Parables and Tales

London 1872 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 529.20
40 HAMER, Sam Hield

The Wonderful Isles

London 1908 GBP 25.00 - 35.00 GBP 31.50
41 HARBOUR, Jennie (Illust.)

Hans Andersen's Stories

London nd GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 88.20
42 HASEGAWA, Takejiro (pub.)

Japanese Fairy Tale Series: Kachi-Kachi Mountain

1886 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
43 RACKHAM, Arthur (illust.)

ILLUSTRATED & LITERATURE. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irvine

London 1908 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 31.50
44 MALCOLM, Fiona

ILLUSTRATED and CHILDREN'S. My Fairyland, A Child's Own Visions

London 1916 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 88.20
45 MONTGOMERY, James

ILLUSTRATED, C19th. Five vols: Poems, ...

London 1860 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 126.00
46 PALGRAVE, Francis Turner

ILLUSTRATED, C19th. Five vols: The Five Days Entertainments at Wentworth Grange

London 1868 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
47 GREENAWAY, Kate (illust.)

ILLUSTRATED, CATS. Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her Seven Wonderful Cats...

Orpington 1885 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 12.60
48 ARNOLD, T. W. (transl.)

ILLUSTRATED. The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

London 1908 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 25.20
49 Du Maurier, George

ILLUSTRATED. Trilby, A Novel

London 1895 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 12.60
50 RACKHAM, Arthur (illust.)

ILLUSTRATED. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

London 1910 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 189.00
  • 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.