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Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 297 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
230 Mayow (John)

Tractatus quinque medico-physici

Oxford 1674 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
231 Higginbottom (John)

Medicine.- An Essay on the Application of Lunar Caustic, in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers

1826 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
232 Macculloch (John)

Medicine.- Malaria: An Essay on the Production and Propagation of this Poison

1827 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
233 Willis (Thomas)

Medicine.- Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae: Quarum prior agit de Fermentatione

1663 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
234 Smellie (William)

Midwifery.- A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery

1752 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Unknown
235 Dewar (James) and John Ambrose Fleming

Physics.- Collection of 12 offprints, mostly from the Proceedings of the Royal Society and Philosophical Magazine

1892-1904 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
236 Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh John William) and R.J. Strutt, fourth Baron Rayleigh

Collection of 25 offprints and journal papers by 3rd and 4th Baron Rayleigh Stutt, the odd spot and finger soil

1878-1942 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
237 Tyndall (John)

Six Lectures on Light Delivered in America in 1872-73

1873 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
238 Bacon (Sir Francis)

Sylva Sylvarum

Leiden 1648 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
239 Yarrell (William)

Birds.- A History of British Birds

1843-56 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
240 Davies (Maria, active 1790s)

Botany.- Australiana.- Purple Convolvulus from New South Wales

1795 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
241 [Beilby (Ralph)]

Quadrupeds.- A General History of Quadrupeds

Newcastle Upon Tyne 1792 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
242 White (Rev. Gilbert)

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

1789 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
243 Baigent (William)

Angling.- A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing

Newcastle [c.1937] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
244 Shirley (Thomas)

Angling.- The Angler's Museum

[1786] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
245 [Smith (John)]

Angling.- The True Art of Angling

1770 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
246 [Walton (Izaak) and Charles Cotton]

Angling.- The Compleat Angler...

1676 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
247 Croome (A.C.M.)

Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools

1913 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
248 Sulivan (Capt. George Lydiard)

Africa.- Slavery.- Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa

1873 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
249 David (Andrew), editor

Hakluyt Society.- Editor's copies.- The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages

1988-97 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
250 Campbell (John)

Maritime.- Lives of the Admirals, And other Eminent British Seamen

1742-44 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
251 Napier (Major-General Elers)

Maritime.- The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir Charles Napier

1862 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
252 Nichelson (William)

Maritime.- A Treatise on Practical Navigation and Seamanship

1792 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
253 Mackenzie (Murdoch)

Maritime.- Mathematics.- A Treatise on Marine Surveying...

1826 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
254 Seller (John)

Maritime.- Navigation.- Practical Navigation, or an Introduction to the whole Art

1739 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
  • 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.