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Auction Details

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
127 Cooper (Capt. T.H.)

The Military Cabinet, being a collection of extracts from the best authors...

1809 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
128 Peacock (Thomas Love)

The genius of the Thames, signed presentation inscription from the author to his son to front endpapers "E. G. Peacock 2nd January 1844"

1810 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
129 Bewick (Thomas)

Binding.- The Fables of AEsop, and others

Newcastle 1818 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
130

Monkeys.- Apology Addressed to the Travellers Club or Anecdotes of Monkeys, bookplate and bookbinder's label to front pastedown, scattered spotting

1825 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
131

Irish Library Catalogue.- Catalogue of the Library of John Ussher Congreve, Esq.

MDCCCXXVII GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
132 Schiller (Friedrich)

The Ghost-Seer!

1831 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
133 Carlyle (Thomas)

The French Revolution: A History

1839 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
134 Shelley (Percy Bysshe)

The Poetical Works

1839 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
135 Hunt (Leigh)

The Town; its Memorable Characters and Events

1848 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
136 Tyrrell (Henry)

Women.- Woman and her failings

1857 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
137 [Gilbert (Elizabeth Rosanna)]

"Madame Lola Montez". The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet

New York [1858] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
138 Arnold (Mathew)

Merope. A Tragedy

1858 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
139 Dickens (Charles)

A Tale of Two Cities

1859 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
140 Hawthorne (Nathaniel)

The Marble Faun, or, The Romance of Monte Beni

Boston 1860 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
141 Mayhew (Henry)

London Labour and the London Poor

1861-62 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
142 Macdonald (George)

At the Back of the North Wind

New York 1871 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
143 Carroll (Lewis)

Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There

1874 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
144

Tom Brown's School Days

1879 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
145 Rietstap (J.B.)

Heraldry.- Wapenboek van den Nederlandschen Adel

Groningen 1883-87 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
146 Morris (William)

News from Nowhere

1891 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
147 Bierce (Ambrose)

Black Beetles in Amber

San Francisco & New York 1892 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
148 [Guthrie (Thomas Anstey)]

"F. Anstey" The Talking Horse and Other Tales

1892 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
149

Bookmarks.- [A large quantity of bookmarks]

[c.1900-2000] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
150 Stevenson (Robert Louis)

The Works

1906-7 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
151 Rook (Clarence)

Switzerland: The Country, Its People

New York & London 1907 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 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.