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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
156 [?Crette (Georges) for] Marius Michel, binder.- Delapalme (Emile)

Le Livre de mes Petits-Enfants

Paris 1866 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
157 Ramage (John, binder).- Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)

Poetry

1905 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 889.00
158 Rostand (Edmond)

La Princesse Lointaine

Paris 1901 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 762.00
159 Shaw (Christopher, binder).- Gross (Philip)

The Abstract Garden

Llandogo 2006 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
160 Visinand (A., binder).- Beyle (Marie-Henri)], "Stendhal".

L'Abbesse de Castro

Paris 1890 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 635.00
161 Visinand (A., binder).- Schiller (Friedrich)

Don Karlos Infant von Spanien

Leipzig 1802 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
162 Yseux (Louis, binder).- Balzac (Honore de)

Eugenie Grandet

Paris 1911 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,524.00
163 Bindings.- Lockhart (John Gibson)

Ancient Spanish Ballads

1842 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 609.60
164 Flaubert (Gustave)

Un Coeur Simple

Paris 1894 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 571.50
165 Garrett (Frank, binder).- [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll".

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1932 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,778.00
166 Moore (Henry)

Hamlet

Rome 1985 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,556.00
168 Lepape (Georges).- Poiret (Paul)

Les Choses de Paul Poiret vues par Georges Lepape

Paris 1911 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 762.00
169 Bateman (Henry Mayo)

The World's Champion Featherbedder

early GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
170 Beardsley (Aubrey).- Wilde (Oscar)

Salome: A Tragedy in One Act

1894 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,270.00
171 Brendel (Alfred)

Dreizehn Engel/Thirteen Angels

Montauk, NY 2003 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 508.00
172 Kelmscott Press.- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor)

Poems chosen out of the Works...

1896 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,524.00
173 Nonesuch Press.- Shakespeare (William)

The Works

1929-33 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 508.00
174 Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.)

High Street

1938 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,794.00
175 Royal Photographic Society (The)

Pictures from the Tyng Collection

1931 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,270.00
176 Vale Press.- Longus.

Daphnis and Chloe

1893 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 889.00
177 Vale Press.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe)

The Poems 3 vol.

1901 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,286.00
178 Antiquities.- Sadeler II (Aegidius)

Vasa A. Polydoro Caravagino Pictore Antiquitatisq. Imitatore

1605 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 762.00
179 Antiquities.- Straet (Jan van der) After.

Imperatorum XII [The Twelve Roman Emperors]

circa1600 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,810.00
180 Architecture.- Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus)

De architectura libri decem

1522 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 698.50
181 Architecture.- Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus)

...De Architectura libri decem... nunc primum in Germania

Strasbourg 1543 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
  • 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.