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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
151 Miller (J[ohn])

The Country Gentleman's Architect

1787 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 165.10
152 Palladio (Andrea)

The Architecture...in Four Books

1742. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,016.00
153 Gehry (Frank)

Flowing In All Directions

Los Angeles 2003 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
154 Stewart (Basil)

Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints

1922 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
155 Hewson (William)

Experimental Inquiries: Part the Third. Containing a Description of the Red Particules of the Blood

1777 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
156 Monro (Alexander)

A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body

Edinburgh, 1788 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 355.60
157 Williamson (William)

Description of the Tumulus

Scarborough 1834 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 228.60
158 Bradley (Rev. James)

and Rev. Nathaniel Bliss. Astronomical Observations

Oxford, 1798[-1805]. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
159 Herschel (Sir John F. W.)

Telescope, offprint from Encyclopaedia Britannica

[1860]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 330.20
160 Boyle (Robert)

The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle

1725 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
161 Baume (Antoine)

A Manual of Chemistry, or a Brief Account of the Operations of Chemistry

Warrington, 1778 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
162 Davy (Sir Humphry)

The Bakerian Lecture, on Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity

1807 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
163 Davy (Sir Humphry)

Elements of Chemical Philosophy

1812 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
164 Faraday (Michael)

Chemical Manipulation; being Instructions to Students in Chemistry

1827 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
165 Wiener (Norbert)

Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Paris GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 952.50
166 Dalton (John)

Meteorological Observations and Essays

1834 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
167 Darwin (Charles)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

1869 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 762.00
168 Beaumont (William)

Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion . . . reprinted from the Plattsburgh Edition

Edinburgh, 1838 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 12.70
169 Jevons (William Stanley)

On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Interference, in Philosophical Transactions

1870 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 698.50
170 Eden (Sir Frederic Morton)

The State of the Poor: Or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England

1797 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
171 Faraday (Michael)

Experimental Researches in Electricity

[1878-82]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
172 Barnard (Christiaan)

A Human Cardiac Transplant: An Interim Report of a Successful Operation Performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, in South African Medical Journal, first edition

Cape Town, December 30 1967. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
173 Anderson (John)

Dura Den: A Monograph of the Yellow Sandstone

Edinburgh, 1859 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
174 S.D.U.K. (publisher)

Geological Map of England and Wales, engraved map with hand-colouring

1843 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 190.50
175 Geoffroy (E?tienne Franc?ois)

A Treatise of the Fossil, Vegetable, and Animal Substances

1736 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
  • 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.