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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
205 Hogarth (William)

Marriage a la Mode [and] A Rake's Progress

[18th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
206 Hogarth (William)

Sixteen Hogarth prints

18th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
207 Ashbee (C.R.)

American Sheaves & English Seed Corn: Being a Series of Addresses Mainly Delivered in the United States, 1900-01

1901 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
208 Brangwyn (Frank)

The British Empire Panels Designed for the House of Lords

1933 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
209 Gill (Eric)

Golden Cockerel Press.- Aesop. The Fables

Waltham St. Lawrence 1926 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
210 Gill (Eric)

Twenty-Five Nudes

1938 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
211 Chair (Somerset de)

Golden Cockerel Press.- The First Crusade

1945 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
212 Flaubert (Gustave)

Golden Cockerel Press.- Salambo

Waltham St. Lawrence 1931 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
213 Gill (Eric)

Golden Cockerel Press.- Song of Songs (The)

Waltham St. Lawrence 1925 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
214 Euripides

Gregynog Press.- The Plays

Newtown 1931 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
215 Alighieri (Dante)

Nonesuch Press.- La Divina Commedia

1928 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
216 Constable (Henry)

Vale Press.- The Poems & Sonnets

1897 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
217 Bell (John)

Anatomy.- Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints...

1810 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
218 Mayer (Tobias)

Astronomy.- Tabulae Motuum Solis et Lunae Novae et Correctae...quibus accedit Methodus Longitudinum Promota...

1770 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
219 Nasmyth (James) and James Carpenter

Astronomy.- The Moon: considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite

1874 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
220 Boyle (Robert)

The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle

1725 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
221 Baume (Antoine)

Chemistry.- A Manual of Chemistry, or a Brief Account of the Operations of Chemistry, and their Products

Warrington 1778 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
222 Davy (Sir Humphry)

Chemistry.- Elements of Chemical Philosophy

1812 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
223 Davy (Sir Humphry)

Chemistry.- Elements of Chemical Philosophy

1812 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
224 Faraday (Michael)

Chemistry.- Chemical Manipulation; being Instructions to Students in Chemistry

1827 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
225 Dalton (John)

Meteorological Observations and Essays

Manchester 1834 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
226 Darwin (Charles)

Om Arternas Uppkomst [On the Origin of Species]

Stockholm 1871 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
227 Faraday (Michael)

Experimental Researches in Electricity

[1878-82] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
228 Purcell (John)

Hysteria.- A Treatise of Vapours, or Hysterick Fits

1707 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
229 Taylor (John)

Mathematics.- Thesaurarium Mathematicae, or the Treasury of the Mathematicks

1687 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 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.