Sworders: Books, Manuscripts and Maps, A1231, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
50 Charles DICKENS

BINDING: Charles DICKENS: The Works

1892-96 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 262.50
51 Charles DICKENS

BINDING: Charles DICKENS: The Works

London no date GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
52 DICKENS, Charles

BINDING: DICKENS, Charles: The works

no date, c1880 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 312.50
53 Charles DICKENS

BINDING: Charles DICKENS: The Works

London 1877 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
54 Wright, T

BINDING, Etc. including: The History and Topography of The County Of Essex

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
55

Binding, etc, including: Large Bible

1904 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
56 Wilson, C

Binding: 1- Memoirs of the life, writing & Amours of William Congreve

1730 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
57

16/17 Century Binding: A large full leather folio

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,250.00
58

BINDING: 28 vols. Of British Poets

1859-61 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 337.50
59

FINE BINDING: Quantity, including: Souvenir volume of Sir Walter Scott's poems from Inverness

1871 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 525.00
60

FINE BINDING: A Large quantity of leather bound books

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 262.50
61 Walter Scott

BINDING: 1- The Waverley Novels

Edinburgh 1877-1879 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 487.50
62 Bacon, Francis

BINDING: 1- The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

1691 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 512.50
63 Poe, E.A

Binding- including: Poe, E.A: Poetical works

no date, C1858 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 206.25
64 DIXON, Charles, Whymper, Charles (ill)

De Luxe edition of 35 copies only: Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of the British Islands Sheffield

1900 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 537.50
65 Yarrell

BIRDS: 1- History of British Birds

1843 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
66 Morris, Beverley R

British Game Birds and Wildfowl

Groombridge 1855 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 243.75
67 Hale, WG

Signed Deluxe Limited Edns- 1- The Meyers' illustrations of British birds

2007 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 600.00
68 White, Rev. Gilbert

FINE BINDING- 1- The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

1813 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 287.50
69 Montagu, George

(Hand coloured Plates): Ornithological Dictionary

London & Exeter 1802 & 1813 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 262.50
70 MORRIS, Rev. F. O

1- A History of British Birds

Groombridge 1851-57 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 600.00
71 Lilford, Lord

With Autograph Letter: Colourd figures of the Birds of the British Islands

1891-7 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,000.00
72 Bannerman, David A

SIGNED: The Birds of the British Isles

1953-1963 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 200.00
73 Bannerman, David A

Fine Binding, Author SIGNED: The Birds of the British Isles

1953-1963 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,875.00
74 MORRIS, Rev. F. O

A History of British Birds

1870 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 387.50
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