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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
179 Doyle (John, "H.B.") and others

Album of over 110 caricatures and prints

[mid 19th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
180 Lang (Andrew)

The Olive Fairy Book

1907 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
181 Malory (Sir Thomas)

Rackham (Arthur) .- The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

1917 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
182 Barrie (J.M.)

Thomson (Hugh) .- The Admirable Crichton

[1914] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
183 Valentine (J.)

Scottish Scenery: Callander & Killin

[1870s] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
184 Ardizzone (Edward)

Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

1936 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
185 Severin (Mark)

Erotica.- L'Escapade de la Statue

2002 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
186 Pogany (Willy)

Khayyam (Omar) Rubaiyat

1930 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
187 Verdet (Andre)

Provence Noire

1955 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
188 Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus)

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

Strasbourg 1543 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
189 Brangwyn (Frank)

The Etched Works

1908 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
190 Butler (A.S.G.)

The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens

1950 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
191 Cooper (Thomas Sidney)

Cattle.- Cattle Subjects

[?1839] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
192 Delamotte (William Alfred)

Etchings

Bagshot 1837 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
193

Faits memorables de la vie militaire et privee de sa majeste l'empereur des francais

Paris 1807 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
194 Harding (James Duffield)

A Series of Subjects from the Works of the late R. P. Bonington ...

[ca. 1830] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
195 Junot (Madame, Duchess d'Abrantes)

Memoirs of Celebrated Women of all Countries

1834 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
196 Kauffman (Angelica, 1741-1807)

The Holy Family with an angel

1773 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
197 Barbari (Jacopo de') After, and others

Old master prints.- Collection of 32 old master prints

[16th to 18th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
198 Passe the Elder (Crispin van de) and others

Old master prints.- Collection of 23 old master ornament prints, emblamata, and works by "The Little Masters"

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
200 Gillray (James)

"Miss, I Have a Monstrous Crow to Pluck with You!!"

1794 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
201 Gillray (James)

Satire.- Dilettanti-theatricals: -or- a peep at the Green Room

1803 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
202 Bunbury (Henry William) and others

Hairdressing and shaving satire.- Collection of 9 satirical prints depicting late Georgian fashions in hairdressing and shaving

late 18th and early 19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
203 Hogarth (William), After

Marriage A-la-Mode, the set of six, early states before later reworking

1745 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
204 Hogarth (William)

Gin Lane, and seven others similar

mid 18th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 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.