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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
126 Bibliography.- Sabin (Joseph)

Biblioteca Americana. A Dictionary of Books relating to America

Amsterdam 1961 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 165.10
127 Library catalogue.- Morgan (F.C.)

Doctor William Brewster of Hereford 1655-1715. With...various lists of books in the library of Dr. William Brewster with instructions as to their disposal

no place 1963. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
128 Enitharmon Press, Mandeville Press, and others.-

A collection of modern private and smaller press, including Agenda Editions, Carcanet, Interim Press, Jackson's Arm, ...

twentieth century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
129 Beaton (Cecil)

Diaries: 1944-48 [-1963-74]

1973 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 203.20
130 Dexter (Colin)

Neighbourhood Watch

1993 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
131 Durer (Albrecht)

After. Three photo-lithographic facsimiles after woodcuts from "The Small Passion", lithographic facsimiles

19th or 20th century GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 12.70
132 Social satire.- Dighton (Richard)

and others. Collection of 11 caricatures

19th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 508.00
133 Theatre.- Artists (Various)

Collection of 20 theatrical interest prints

19th century (20) GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.70
134 Allen & Son (R., Nottingham printers)

...Dick Turpin...to conclude with...Mazeppa! and the Wild Horse of Tartary..., broadside with wood-engraved vignettes

1869 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
135 Circus.- Trick riding.- Faria (Candido Aragonez de)

Hippodrome Bostock

[circa 1900] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 254.00
136 Cocteau (Jean)

La Crucifixion

Paris 1946 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 88.90
137 Dulac (Edmund).- Housman (Laurence)

Princess Badoura, A Tale from the Arabian Nights

[1913]. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 279.40
138

mid-20th century wallpaper.- 3 Wallpaper Samplebooks

[20th-century]. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 69.85
139 Osborn (Bayard 1922-2012)

Collection of 49 prints

mid-to-late 20th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
140 Rabelais (Francois)

The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick

[?1921] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 76.20
141 Sherriffs (Robert Stewart).- Marlowe (Christopher)

The Life and Death of Tamburlaine the Great

1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 241.30
142 Aldin (Cecil)

Rough and Tumble, illustrated title and 24 coloured plates by the author

[1909] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
143 Bilibin (Ivan Yakovlovich).- Pushkin (Alexander)

[The Tale of Tsar Saltan]

1905 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,270.00
144 Miller (Jon)

A collection of 21 original illustrations for Alix and the Tigers

[1988] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 25.40
145 Milne (A. A.)

Winnie the Pooh

1926 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 431.80
146 Milne (A.A.)

Now We Are Six

1927 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 107.95
147 Rackham (Arthur).- Evans (C.S.)

The Sleeping Beauty

1920 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 635.00
148 Architecture.- Brown (Richard)

The Principles of Practical Perspective; or Scenographic Projection...

1835 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
149

Architecture.- Builder's Dictionary (The): or, Gentleman and Architect's Companion

1734. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 698.50
150 Godman (Ernest)

Norman Architecture in Essex

1905 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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    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.