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Auction Date
September 11, 2025 - September 11, 2025
Page Size: 298 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226

AnnotatedHomer. Homeri Ilias Graece et Latine.

1754-1753. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
227 [Macpherson (James)]

Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland

Edinburgh 1760 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,016.00
228

Bindings The Book of Common Prayer

Cambridge 1761 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
229 Baskerville (John)

Book of Common Prayer (The)

Cambridge 1762 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
230 Cunningham (John)

Poems

1766 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
231 Chatterton (Thomas).- Tyrwhitt (Thomas)

A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poems, Called Rowley's...and an Examination of the Evidence which has been Produced in Support of their Authenticity

1782 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
232 Chambers (Ephraim)

Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

1788-84-86-88. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
233

Bible, EnglishThe Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments

Oxford 1786 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 533.40
234 Johnson (Samuel)

A Dictionary of the English Language

1786 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
235

SlaveryEngraved plate of a plan showing lower deck of a slave ship

[?c.1788] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 4,826.00
236 [Foster (E. M.)]

Frederic & Caroline, or the Fitzmorris family. A novel.

1800. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 825.50
237 Burns (Robert)

The Works

Liverpool 1800 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 107.95
238 Burns (Robert)

The Works

1802 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
239 Battle Broadside.- Panorama.- Barker (Henry Aston)

Battle of Trafalgar. Panorama, Leicester Square

[1806] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 762.00
240 Smeaton (John)

A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone

1813. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 482.60
241

BroadsidesThe Old and Original Paddy's Watch for the Year of our Lord 1818

[1819] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 107.95
242

Cornish murder An account of a most horrid murder, Committed in the town of Redruth

Penryn 1824 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 635.00
243 McCulloch (J. R.)

A Discourse of the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy

Edinburgh 1824 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 127.00
244 Veblen (Thorstein)

The Theory of Business Enterprise

New York 1904 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 101.60
245 Keynes (John Maynard) and Sir William Beveredge, editors. Bowley (Arthur L.)

Prices and Wages in the United Kingdom 1914-1920

1921 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 44.45
246 Heckscher (Eli F.)

Mercantilism

1934 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
247 Hayek (Friedrich August, editor)

Capitalism and the Historians

1954 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
248 Nattali (M. A.)

A Catalogue of a miscellaneous collection of books in Divinity, History, Biography, the Fine Arts

1838 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 76.20
249 Wordsworth (William)

The Sonnets

1838 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 76.20
250 Richardson (T.C.)

The Young woman's companion; being a complete guide to every acquirement essential in forming a useful member of society

Newcastle upon Tyne 1841. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 241.30
  • 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.