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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 262 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
130 Nwoko (Demas, editor.)

et al.. New Culture: A Review of Contemporary African Arts

1979 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,016.00
131 Osborne (John)

Look Back in Anger

1957 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,778.00
132 Peake (Mervyn)

[The Gormenghast trilogy]

1946-59 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,905.00
133 Pinter (Harold)

The Homecoming

1965 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,270.00
134 Powell (Anthony)

Agents and Patients

1936 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 508.00
135 Powell (Anthony)

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

1960 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 825.50
136 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

1998 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
137 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

1999 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
138 Steinbeck (John)

The Grapes of Wrath

New York 1939 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,302.00
139 Tolkien (J.R.R.).- Michael H.R. Tolkien's copies.- Flaubert (Gustave)

OEuvres Completes

1964 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
140 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit

1937 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 13,860.00
141 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit

1937 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,556.00
142 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit; or There and Back Again

Boston and New York 1938 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
143 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring

1954 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
144 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit

1961 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
145 Tolkien (J.R.R.).- Baynes (Pauline)

[Artist's Proof Illustration for the First Paperback Edition of The Hobbit]

1961 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,651.00
146 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

and Pauline Baynes (illustrator). The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

1973 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
147 Wallace (Edgar)

and Merian C. Cooper. King Kong. Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace

New York 1932 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,334.00
148 Windsor (Edward, Duke of)

A King's Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor

1951 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 889.00
149 Engel (Jean, binder).-

Quinze Joyes de Mariage (Les)

Paris 1887 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,079.50
150 Theocritus.

Les Syracusaines ou Les Fetes d'Adonis

Paris 1900 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 635.00
152 Kieffer (Rene, binder).- Longus.

Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe

Paris 1745 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,064.00
153 Kieffer (Rene, binder).- Mauclair (Camille)

Le Poison des Pierreries

Paris 1903 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 952.50
154 Michel (Henri Marius, binder).- Musset (Alfred de)

Lorenzaccio

Paris 1895 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 825.50
155 Michel (Henri Marius, binder).- [Regnault (Jeanne-Julie)], "Julia Bartet".

Causerie sur l'Art Dramatique

Paris 1903 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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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.
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    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.
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    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.