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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
26 Thou (Jacques-Auguste de)

Historiarum sui Temporis

1733 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
27

Trials.- Authentick Coppie of the Tryal of Scot and Mackpherson Anno 1712

1737 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
28 [Dodsley (Robert)]

The Oeconomy of Human Life

1751 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
29

Bindings.- Book of Common Prayer (The)

Oxford 1754 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
30 Pope (Alexander)

The Works

1757 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
31 Bengel (Johann Albrecht)

Bengelius's Introduction to His Exposition of the Apocalypse

1757 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
32 Butts (Thomas, editor and publisher)

Music.- Harmonia-Sacra, or a Choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes

[c. 1760] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
33

Maritime.- Royal Charter (The) of Confirmation granted by ... King James II

1763 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
34 Abbott (Lemuel)

Poems on Various Subjects

Nottingham 1765 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
35 Gilpin (William)

The Lives of John Wicliff; and of the most Eminent of His Disciples

1766 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
36 [Gibbon (Edward)]

A Vindication of some passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1779 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
37 Watson (Robert)

The History of the Reign of Philip the Second

1779 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
38

Robin Hood's Garland; or, Sherwood Songster

1787 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
39

European Travel Journal.- From Switzerland to Venice thence Bullogna & Loretto to Rome

[late 18th century] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
40

Philosophy.- Institutiones Philosophiae

[late 18th century] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
41

Robin Hood's Garland

Nottingham 1794 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
42 Thomson (Rev John, minister of the Church of Scotland, minister of Duddingston Kirk 1805-40, 1778-1840)

Scotland.- Duddingston.- [Three Sermons]

1802, 1817 & 1818 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
43

Yorkshire.- Fragment of a Rent Roll

1804 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
44 Southey (Robert)

Madoc

1805 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
45 Dowding (William, Receiver of Corn Returns, London)

Receiver of Corn Returns.- County of Rutland, Uppingham... A Return of the Prices of Corn from this Market for the Week...

17th August 1813 - 5th January 1819 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
46

Chapbooks.- Jack the Giant Killer

Banbury [c.1820s-30s] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
47 Mangnall (Richmal, schoolmistress, 1769-1820)

French Kings.- Portraits of French Kings

[c. 1820] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
48 Campbell (Thomas)

The Pleasures of Hope with Other Poems

1827 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
49 [Tuckey (Mary B.)]

Creation: or, A Morning Walk with Anna

Dublin 1845 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
50

Ironworks.- Letters Patent awarded to John Depledge of Thorncliffe Ironworks, Sheffield, for "A New Metallic Broacher"

1846 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 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.