Chorley's: The September Auctions, 92325, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 23, 2025 - September 24, 2025
Page Size: 353 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
605

Collection of Manuscript Letters and Documents to include a 17th Century manuscript letter of two folded leaves

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 169.00
606

Volume of Manuscript Music 1820s

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 91.00
607

A 19th Century manuscript day-book or friendship book dated 1829

1829 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 91.00
608

A collection of varied manuscript volumes to include An early 18th Century manuscript volume mainly transcribing Aristotle in Latin,

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 845.00
609

[Music and Music Manuscripts] to include [Vauxhall Song book?], [circa 1750],

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
610

Various Student Notebooks, Exercise books and Ledgers to include one in quarter calf and marbled covers, inscribed for 'Elizabeth Browning

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 195.00
611 [Sheffield, John Duke of Buckingham (1647-1721)]

A Short Character of Charles the Second of England, five leaves in manuscript

[circa 1690] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 182.00
612

[18th Century Mathematical School Book] Vellum bound notebook with manuscript title to front cover 'Richard Beale His Summing Book. May d. 9. 1759.',

1759 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 169.00
620 Robert Morden

Herefordshire Camden's Britannia 1722

1722 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 52.00
621 Stanford (Edward)

Map of Guildford and Reigate

London 1816 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 78.00
622 [Bowen (Emanuel)]

An Accurate Map of the Counties of Gloucester and Monmouthshire Divided into their Respective Hundreds...,

circa1765 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 195.00
623

[Mining Map] New Billinge Lane Colliery Billinge & Winstanley Colliery Co. Ltd., Arley Yard Mine Workings, handcoloured linen backed map

circa1952 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
624 David (Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth)

Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia,

1928 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 910.00
625

Plan of the Parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury London: bears date 1890, surveyed by J. Grafton Izard,

1890 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 182.00
626

Plan of Freehold Hereditaments situated in the Parishes of Saint Mary Islington and Saint James, Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex,

1877 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
627

[Map] Shelton Street (Saint Giles in the Fields) Area 1884, Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act 1875

GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 104.00
628

Plan of the Parishes of St. Giles in the Fields and St. George Bloomsbury surveyed by G. J. Blair

1866 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 130.00
629

Map of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn b/w linen backed map

London 1900 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 104.00
630

[Map Europe] Haas (Johann Matthias) Europa, a large engraved map in four parts, partially hand-coloured in outline,

n.d. circa1750 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
631

[Map of the Ancient World] Ortelius (Abraham) Aevi Veteris, Typus Geographicus, Antwerp, bears date

1590 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
632 Lodge (J[ohn])

A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America, engraved map

circa1755 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
633 Mercator (G.)

Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolomaeum, hand-coloured engraved map,

n.d. (circa 1730) GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
634 Bellin (Jacques Nicolas)

A New Chart of the Coast of New England, Nova Scotia, New France, or Canada, with the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John's &c.

1746 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
635 [Frederik De Wit (1630-1706)]

Turicum Imperium,

Amsterdam late 17th Century GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
636 Zatta (Antonio)

Il Mappa Mondo,

Venice 1774 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 364.00
  • 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.