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Sworders: Books and Manuscripts and Maps, 42725, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 27, 2025 - April 27, 2025
Page Size: 435 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Skeaping, John

A retrospective exhibition of Bronze sculptures.

1979 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
52 Thornton, Colonel

Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the Year 1802, including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field-amusements. In Two Volumes.

London 1806 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 87.50
53 Country Squire [i.e. GOSDEN Thomas]

An Essay on Hunting.

1733 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 200.00
54 Thornton, Colonel E

A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England, and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland.

London 1804 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 125.00
55 SCOTT, John; [LAWRENCE, John]

The Sportsman's Repository; Comprising a Series of Highly Finished Engravings, Representing the Horse and the Dog, in All Their Varieties.

London 1820 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
56 HOBSON, William Colling

Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas; containing separate Map of Every County in England, and the Three Ridings of Yorkshire; comprising Forty-two Maps (All Hand Coloured), showing the Roads, Railways, Canals, Ports. Etc., etc., compiled from the Maps of the Board

London no date c1860. GBP 250.00 - 400.00 GBP 150.00
57 [ROBERTS, James and Henry]

The Sportsman's Companion, or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, represented in Variety of Attitudes. Interspersed with Tail-Pieces & Embellishments alluding to the Sport.

London No date c1825. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
58 ALKEN, Henry & BARENGER, James (ill)

The Sporting Repository, containing Horse Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking.. Contains all six numbers (All Published), Bound in One Volume.

London 1822 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
59

The India Sporting Review. 7 Volumes.

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
60 Sterling Clarke, Mrs. J

The Habit & The Horse; A Treatise On Female Equitation. With Illustrations, Lithographed By Messrs. Day & Son, From Photographs By Herbert Watkins (including 6 in colour).

London 1860 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
61 STOCQUELER, (J H)

Bengal Sporting Magazine.

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
62

The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; A Magazine Entirely Appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits. Complete run of all 13 volumes.

London 1822-1828. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,025.00
63

The Sporting magazine of Monthly Calendar of Transactions of the Turf,

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 100.00
64 [Halfpenny, John]

The gentleman's jockey, and approved farrier, Instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to Horses.

London 1676 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,125.00
65 Hawker, Lt. Col. P

Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.

Longman et al.1824. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 275.00
66 1- Goldsmith, Oliver

Dr. Goldsmith's Celebrated Elegy on that Glory of Her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize. J. Harris, Nov. 1, 1808

1808 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 212.50
67 Taylor, Rev. Isaac

1- Scenes in Asia, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers.

London 1819 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 350.00
68 D P (ill)

The Devil in Scotland Being Four Great Scottish Stories of Diablerie.

London 1934 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
69

A book cover design for 'Treasure Island' by R L Stephenson

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 400.00
70 Hogarth

the works, 159 engravings, commentary by Trusler, 2 vols.

1821 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
71 ALKEN, Henry

1- A touch at The Fine Arts

London 1824 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
72 ACKERMANN (publisher)

A collection of over 140 COLOUR AQUATINT PLATES of Seats from his 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics', dated between 1824 and 1828.

1824-1828. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
73 1- [Burt, E]

Letters from a gent in north of Scotland...2 vols, Vol.1- 1754,

1754 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 175.00
74 1- Stoddart, John

Remarks on local scenery & Manners in Scotland during the years 1799 and 1800, in 2 vols.

London 1801 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
75 Forsyth, Robert

The Beauties of Scotland, 5 vols, 1805-1808.

1805-1808. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
  • Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000
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    Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000
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