Sworders: Books, Manuscripts and Maps, A1231, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 02, 2025 - November 02, 2025

Page Size: 376 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	HOMANN, J P	Two Maps: 1- (America) Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Novissima Repraesentatio quam ex singulis recentium Geographorum Tabulis	Nuremberg	c.1730	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 325.00
2	HOMANN, J P	Two Maps: 1- [Africa] Accuratissima Totius Africae Tabula in Lucem Producia Per Tacobum de Sandrart Norimbergae	Nuremberg	c.1690	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 325.00
3	Dapper, Olfert	THREE MAPS OF AFRICA: 1- Africae Accurata Tabula ex Officina Jacobum Meursium		1686 or later	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
4	Sanson, N	3 Maps- AFRICA: 1- Afrique	Paris	1650	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
4a	Bernard, R	3 Maps: 1- Carte d'une partie de la Mer du Sud	Paris	c.1774	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
5	KELLY, T	THREE MAPS, CHINA & ASIA: 1- A 19th century map of CHINA		Circa 1820	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
6		CHINA: Five MAPS & A Plate taken from: Staunton's: An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China		1796	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
7	Collins, Capt	Two Maps: 1- The Severn or Channell of Bristoll		C1693	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
8	SPEED, J	The Invasions of England and Ireland with all their Civill Wars since the Conquest		c.1627	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,312.50
9	JANSSON, J	Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonium presertim durante illorum Heptarchia	Amsterdam	c.1700	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 787.50
10	Speed, J	ESSEX, TWO MAPS: 1- Essex divided into hundreds		1713	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
11	Andrews & Dury	MAPS OF HERTS. & ESSEX: 1- A Topographical Map of Hertford-shire from an Actual Survey, As an Index map to the large one		C1766	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 325.00
12	Saxton, C	Essexiae Comitat' Nova vera ac absaluta Descripto, 1576		C1595	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
13		Accurate Map of Cambridgeshire divided into its Hundreds Emanual Bowen			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
14	SPEED, J	Surrey Described and Divided into Hundreds		c.1627	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 225.00
15	Speed, J	Three Maps (Hand coloured, mounted, framed & glazed): 1- Huntington Both Shire and Shire Towne with the Ancient Citie Ely Described			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 325.00
16	van den Keere	Four Maps (Hand coloured, mounted, framed & glazed): 1- Surrey		c.1632	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
17	Morden	Four Maps (all 41 x 34cm & hand coloured): Gloucestershire			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
18	Mercator	Four 17th. Century Maps,1- Warwicum, Northhamtonia		17th. Century	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 112.50
19	Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz)	Oxford. Oxonium Nobile Anglie oppidum.	[Oxford / Windsor Castle]	[1572 - 98]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 300.00
20	Greenwood, C&J	(Five hand coloured Maps): 1- Map of the county of Buckingham from an actual survey made in the years 1832-33		April 1834	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
21	Blaeu, J	MAPS OF DORSET & SUSSEX: 1- Comitatus Dorcestria Vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 287.50
22	Cary, J	MAPS OF SUFFOLK, Etc: 1- Map of Suffolk from the best authorities	Stockdale	1805	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
23	OGILBY, John	Road Maps- 1- The Road from London to the City of Bristol	London	c1675	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
24	OGILBY, J	TWO ROAD MAPS: 1- The Road from Chelmsford in Essex to St. Edmonds-Bury in Suffolk & Safron-Walden in Essex		C1698	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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