Chorley's: The September Auctions, 92325, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

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
345		Two Patents relating to Hearses to include Patent 1095		1875	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 130.00
346		Improvements in or connected with Coffins for Rescuing People Buried Alive	London	1896	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 221.00
347		[Trade Catalogue] Specimens of memorial cards, issued by J Lowndes, Cheadle, Staffordshire,			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 78.00
348		[Trade Catalogue] Pattern Book of Brass and Plated Coffin Furniture	Birmingham	n.d. [circa 1880]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 325.00
349		[Patent] Improved Means and Apparatus to be employed in the execution of Criminals by Hanging		1886	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 91.00
350		Various Patents relating to Embalming each later inserted in blue paper folders, to include Patent 4626		1896	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
351		[Football Interest] Evening News, including Football Evening News, London October - December 1911			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
352		A photograph album relating to Finlaystone House Langbank, Renfrewshire, Scotland, manuscript annotation as photography by F Sleigh			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 130.00
353	de Laporte [(L'Abbe Joseph)]	Atlas Moderne Portatif compose de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre,	Paris	1780	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 910.00
354	Bellin (Jacques Nicolas)	Volume of Maps for Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages' 64 engraved maps, predominantly folding, 4to, later faux marble papered boards with title label			GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,820.00
355	[Jacob Cats (1577-1660)]	A series of 86 plates of Dutch proverbs or sayings, later mounted and with the proverbs pasted verso,		1622'	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
356	Ryosuke (Tokuno)	Dai-Nippon Kahei Seizu [Facsimiles of Currency],	Tokyo	1878 [possibly later]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
357	Wales (William)	Illustrations History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 14 plates, various maps fold-out, small folio			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
358	Alken (Henry)	Humourous Miscellanies	London	1823	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
359		Road Map of India Survey of India Offices,	Calcutta	1942	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 78.00
360	Barthes (Roland)	Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) ... with an extract from Erte's memoirs, translation by William Weaver,	Parma	1972	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 39.00
361		[Royalty & Aristocracy] to include Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes		1947	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
362	Landseer (Thomas)	Ten Etchings, illustrative of the Devil's Walk	London	1831	GBP 70.00 - 90.00	GBP 130.00
363	Hogg (Robert & Henry Graves Bull, editors)	The Herefordshire Pomona, containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears,	Hereford	1876-1885	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 2,600.00
364	Beebe (William)	A Monograph of the Pheasants	London	1918-1922	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 715.00
365	Walker (J. and C., publishers)	Hobson's Fox-Hunting Atlas containing separate Maps of Every County in England and the three Ridings of Yorkshire	London	n.d. [circa 1860]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 650.00
366	Kirkman (F. B., editor)	The British Bird Book An Account of All The Birds, Nests and Eggs Found in The British Isles ... illustrated By Two Hundred Coloured Drawings and Numerous Photographs	London	1911-1913	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 26.00
367	Johnston (W. & A. K.)	The Cosmographic Atlas of Political. Historical, Classical, Physical and Scriptural Geography and Astronomy	London	1889	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 117.00
368	Hogarth (William)	The Works of William Hogarth, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath ...	London	n.d. [1822]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 650.00
369		[The Sporting Life] British Hunts and Huntsmen in four volumes	London	1908-1911	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 156.00

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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.
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.