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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
152 Addy (G. H.)

King's Royal Rifle Corps.- A Memoir...of his son Kenneth James Balguy Addy

1916 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
153

Aviation and Transport.- WW1.- WW1 Aviation Photo Album

c.1917-18 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
154

[Collection of Hebrew Sheet Music]

New York [c.1920s] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
155 Swinburne (Algernon Charles)

Bindings.- Collected Poetical Works

1924 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
156 Hardy (Thomas)

The Dynasts

1927 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
157 Hayek (Friedrich August)

Economics.- Freedom and the Economic System, in The Contemporary Review

1938-04-01 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
158 Whistler (Laurence)

The World's Room. The Collected Poems of Laurence Whistler

1949 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
160

Cookery.- Dictionnaire portatif de cuisine, d'office, et de distillation

Paris 1767 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
161 Henderson (William Augustus)

Cookery.- The Housekeeper's instructor, or, Universal family cook

1807 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
162

Cookery, Parisian bakers.- Tableau des boulangers de Paris

Paris 1809 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
163

Cookery.- [Rundell (Maria Eliza)], "A Lady"

1823 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
164

Cookery.- [Collection of Recipes]

[19th century] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
165 Brown (Mrs. Ralph)

Cookery.- Receipt book

1862 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
166 Gouffe (Jules)

Cookery.- Le Livre de cuisine

Paris 1867 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
167 Beeton (Mrs. Isabella)

Cookery.- The Book of Household Management

[c.1869] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
168 Dubois (Urbain Francois)

Cookery.- The Household Cookery-Book

1873 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
169 Herisse (Emile)

Cookery.- The Art of Pastry Making, according to the French and English methods

1895 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
170

Cookery, Liverpool School of Cookery.- A good group of publications and ephemera

various places [c.1891-1925] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
171 Rodwell (K.M.)

Cookery.- The Rudham Cookery Book

Norfolk [c.1939] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
172 Francia (Francois Louis Thomas)

Collection of twelve soft-ground etchings after David Cox etc.

[circa 1802-1810] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
173 Gainsborough (Thomas) After

Rural English Scenery

[circa 1802 or slightly later] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
175 Smith (John Thomas)

Nollekens and his times...

1828 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
176 Rutter (John)

Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey

Shaftesbury 1823 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
177

Silk Printing.- Royal Shakespearean Theatre, Stratford

Stratford 1830 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
178 Barrie (J.M.)

Peter and Wendy

[1911] 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.