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
100A

BINDINGS. A group of 5 vols: MACAULAY [Thomas Babbington]. The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches

London 1891 & 1893 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 50.40
101

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and administration of The Sacrements...

Oxford 1813 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.80
102

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacrements....

London 1858 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
103

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments...

Cambridge 1794 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 81.90
104

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of The Sacraments...

London 1794 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 50.40
105 [BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily & Anne]

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

London 1846 [but 1848] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
106 BYRON, George Gordon

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt

London 1812 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 88.20
107 BYRON, George Gordon

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire,...

Charleston 1811 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
108 BYRON, George Gordon

10 vols. uniformly bound, comprising: The Works

London 1827 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 56.70
109 [CARTER, Susannah]

[The Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman Cook]

GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 18.90
110 CASANOVA, [Giacomo]

Histoire de ma vie

Wiesbaden & Paris 1960-62 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 37.80
111 CASTIGLIONE, Balthasar

The Courtier

London 1724 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 69.30
112

CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, William Arthur Charles (6th Duke of Portland)

GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 37.80
113 ELLIOTT, Mary Belson

CHAPBOOK. Anne Paresseuse; ou, l'Indolente Corrigee

London nd [c.1819] GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 25.20
114

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and The East...

London 1819 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 37.80
115 CHURCHILL, Winston S.

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

London 1956-1958 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 18.90
116 CLARE, John

The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

London 1821 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 352.80
117 CROISSET, Juan and ISLA, Jose Francisco de (transl.)

Ano Cristiano o Exercicios Devotos para Todos los Dias del Ano

Madrid 1818 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
118

DAS PUCH VON DEM ENTKRIST

Leipzig 1925 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
119 DICKENS, Charles (ed.)

All The Year Round

1859-1860 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 81.90
120 DICKENS, Charles

DICKENS, Charles. [Works]

London nd [after 1880] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 239.40
121 DICKENS, Charles

Dombey and Son

London 1848 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
122 DICKENS, Charles

Little Dorrit

London 1857 GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 12.60
123 DICKENS, Charles

Our Mutual Friend

London 1865 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
124 DICKENS, Charles

Our Mutual Friend

London 1865 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 12.60
  • 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.