Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 93025a, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 30, 2025 - September 30, 2025

Page Size: 228 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Amaduzzi (G. C.)	Iohannis Christophori Amadutii epistola ad Iohannem Baptistam Bodonium qua emendatur et suppletur commentarium de Anacreontis genere ejusque bibliotheca,	Parma	1791	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
2	Eusebius Caesarienis	Historia ecclesiastica (translated by Rufinus Aquileiensis).	Mantua	[not before 15] July 1479	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	GBP 3,780.00
3	Facciolati, Jacopo & Egidio Forcellini, Giuseppe Furlanetto	Totius Latinitatis Lexicon	Hebrew Publishing Co. New York	[1925]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4	[Marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France]	Fete publique donnee par la ville de Paris a l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin Le 13 Fevrier MDCCXLVII,		1747	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 882.00
5	History: Pausanias & Gerbel, Pausanias & Loescher (Abraham) translator,	Pausaniae de tota Graecia libri decem : quibus non solum vrbium situs, locorumq[ue] interualla accurate est complexus...,	Basileae	1550	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
6		Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, manuscript on vellum	France or Low Countries	second half of the fifteenth century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 252.00
7		Leaf from a Book of Hours with a cockerel, attributed to the circle of William Vrelant, in Latin, manuscript on vellum	Flanders (Bruges)	second half of the fifteenth century	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 328.00
8		Leaf from a Book of Hours, most probably for the Use of Paris, with a decorated border, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum	Central France	c.1460	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 214.00
9	Baudoin [Jean] [Aesop's Fables]	Les fables D'Esope Phrygien,	Amsterdam	1701	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 76.00
10	Palladio (Andrea) & Leoni (Giacomo)	The Architecture of A. Palladio	Printed by John Watts	1715	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 151.00
11	Philip II	Important series of 29 Letters signed 'yo el Rey', including one Autograph subscription by Philip II to his Ambassador in France,	Flushing Laredo, Valladolid, Toledo, Madrid	22 August 1559 to 14 April 1561	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
12	Sudorius (Nicolaus) [Nicolas Le Sueur] translator,	Olympia Pindari Latino carmine reddita,	Lutetiae [Paris]	1576	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 76.00
13	Xenophon.	Xenophontis, philosophi et imperatoris clarissimi, quae exstant opera, in duos tomos divisa ...	Paris	1625	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
14	Abdullah Yusuf Ali	The Holy Qur-an: 1938. Inscribed		[1938]	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15		The Holy Bible, together with The New Testament... Translated from the Original Tongues into the Bengalee Language by the Serampore Missionaries,	Serampore	1832	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 479.00
16		Bible [English] The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments...,	[Amsterdam?]	1715; also bound with	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
17		[Diurnale monasticum secundum rubricam Romanam, et secundum ritum consuetudinemque fratrum monasterii s s. Udalrici et afre augustensis ordinis sancti Benedicti.]	[(Augsburg	13 December 1572)]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 315.00
18	Forlong (James)	A Student's Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World, Presentation copy, inscribed by the author upper left		1900	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 378.00
19	Beausobre (Isaac de)	Histoire Critique de Manichee et du Manicheisme, 2 vols.,	Amsterdam	1734 & 39.	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
20	Eachard (John)	The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into. In a letter written to R.L.			GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
21		Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum...,	Antwerp	1737	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 126.00
22	[Raleigh (Sir Walter)]	The History of the World,		[1617]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 605.00
23	Hastings (Warren)	Debates in the House of Lords on the Evidence Delivered in the Trial of Warren Hastings..., 1797.		5 July 1807	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 5,544.00
24	Guillim (John)	A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof then hath beene hitherto published...,		second issue with 1611 to title page (first issued 1610)	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 277.00
25	Guys (Pierre-Augustin)	Voyage Litteraire de la Grece, 2 vols	Paris	1783;	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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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.
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.