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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 296 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
279 Cook (Captain James)

Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World

Newcastle, 1790 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,270.00
280 La Peyrere (Isaac)

Account (An)

1599 & 1600 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 355.60
281 Brion de la Tour (Louis)

Tableau general et raisonne du Globe Terrestre

18th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 50.80
282

Annual Register (The)

1764-1821 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 215.90
283 Mogg (Edward)

Paterson's Roads: being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, title trimmed at head

[1832] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 558.80
284 Beames (Thomas)

The Rookeries of London: Past, Present, and Prospective,

1852 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 190.50
285 Crace (Frederick)

A Catalogue of Maps, Plans, and Views of London

1878 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
286 Mackay (Charles)

The Thames and its Tributaries

1840 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 76.20
287 Pennant (Thomas)

Some Account of London, half-title

1813 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 254.00
288 Price (H. G. Hilton)

The Marygold by Temple Bar: Being a History of the Site now occupied by No. 1, Fleet Street, the Banking House of Messrs. Child & Co.

1902 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 190.50
289 Robins (William)

Paddington: Past and Present

[c.1853] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
290 Shepherd (Thomas Hosmer)

Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century, first edition

1827 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 228.60
291 Leigh (Charles)

The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak

Oxford, 1700 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
292 Coney (John)

Ecclesiastical Edifices of the Olden Time

1842 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
293 Cuitt (George)

Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time

1855 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.70
294 [Johnson (Samuel)]

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

1775 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 215.90
295 Wells (Edward)

A New Map of the British Isles, Shewing their Present Genl. Divisions

17th and 18th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
296 Sayer (Robert)

A Plan of the Road and Harbour of Fowey or Foy; Plan of the Bays of Polkerris and Mevagizey in Cornwall

1786-1779 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
297 Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher)

The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster

1812 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
298 Bell (Faith)

[Illuminated photo album of the English Lake District]

1904 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 431.80
299 Dugdale (Sir William)

The Antiquities of Warwickshire, engraved portrait frontispiece

1656 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
  • 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.