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
25	James Wyld	MAP OF LONDON: James Wyld- A New Topographical Map of the Country in the Vicinity of London Describing all the New Improvements, Metropolitan Boroughs and Parish Boundaries		1843	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 412.50
26	Cole, B	Four MAPS Of LONDON, Etc: 1- A New and Accurate Plan of the City of Westminster xThe Dutchy of Lancaster and Places Adjacent		C1760	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 387.50
27		Eleven Maps: LONDON WARDS (All hand coloured): Langborn ward and Candlewick ward with their divisions into parishes according to a new survey, 1755		1755	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
28	Weller, Edward	Environs of London		c.1863	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 237.50
29		Cary's New Pocket Plan of London Westminster and Southwark			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 193.75
30	Nash, John	PLANS: 1- Plan of a Street Proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place		C1841	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
31		Illustrated London News (The) Panorama of London and the River Thames, [1845]		[1845]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 325.00
32	ORTELIUS, Abraham	WORLD ATLAS: Theatro del Mondo		20 September 1655	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,937.50
33		A LARGE NUMBER OF CHARTS, mainly of the Far East, in particular of the Coast of China			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
34	Collins (Captain Greenville)	Sea Charts. The East Coast of England		circa 1750	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
35	GILLRAY, James	Political Mathematician's, Shaking the Broad bottomed hemispheres, representing domestic political tensions			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 350.00
36	GILLRAY, James	JOHN-BULL, Baited by the DOGS of Excise		c.1790	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
37		Cries of London' 13 mounted colour plates		no date, c.1900	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
38	William Baillie (1752/3-1799)	'North View of Fort William'; 'General View of Calcutta'			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 387.50
39		SHOOTING- A Large Quantity		1882	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.50
40		GUNS & SHOOTING (10 Titles)	London	1865	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 512.50
41		GUNS & SHOOTING (5 Titles): 1- Daniel, W B- Rural Sports		1807	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 300.00
42	Greener, W W (First two Inscribed)	GUNS & SHOOTING (10 Titles): 1- The Gun and its Development	Cassell	1899	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 262.50
43	Nelson, William	GUNS & SHOOTING (6 Titles): 1- The Laws of England concerning the Game of Hunting		1732	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 312.50
44	Hawker, Lt. Col. P.	GUNS & SHOOTING (7 Titles): 1- Hawker, Lt. Col. P. (Inscribed presentation copy)- Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting	London	1844	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 112.50
45	Greener, W W	GUNS & SHOOTING (7 Titles): 1- The Gun and its Development	Cassell	-1881	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 287.50
46	Taylor, Leslie B	GUNS & SHOOTING (Five Titles): 1- A Brief History Of Westley Richards Firm 1812 - 1913	Stratford Upon Avon	1913	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 218.75
47	Hawker, Lt. Col. P.	(Inscribed presentation copy)- Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting	London	1825	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 262.50
48	[ROBERTS, James and Henry]	The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, represented in Variety of Attitudes	London	No date, c1825	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,137.50
49	Hazlitt, William	BINDING, ETC: Collection, including: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte		1828-30	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 362.50

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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