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
75	Thorburn, Archibald	BIRDS: 1- British Birds		1925-26	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 181.25
76	Howard, H Eliot	The British Warblers		1907-1914	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 550.00
77	Howard, H Eliot	SIGNED: The British Warblers		1907-1914	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 612.50
78	Lilford, Lord	Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood		1895	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 1,312.50
79	McKelvie Colin Laurie	The Woodcock, Snipe, Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, & Sporting Wildfowl	Norfolk	1988-1999	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,312.50
80	Phillips, J C	A natural History of the Ducks		1922-26	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 325.00
81	Payne-Galwey, Sir Ralph	SPORT: 1- The Book of Duck Decoys		1886	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 156.25
82	Smith, David	Seth - Parrakeets		1903	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 156.25
83	Forshaw, J M	BIRDS: 1- The birds of Paradise and Bower birds		1977	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 168.75
84	Snyder, Noel F R	USA: The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird		2004	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
85	LOW, Rosemary	BUTTERWORTH, Elizabeth (ill); Amazon Parrots		1983	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 337.50
86	LOW, Rosemary	BUTTERWORTH, Elizabeth (ill); Amazon Parrots		1983	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 362.50
87	Cooper, W.T. (Illus.)	Forshaw, J M; Australian Parrots	Melbourne	1980	GBP 250.00 - 400.00	GBP 287.50
88	Cooper, W.T. (Illus.)	Forshaw, J M; Kingfishers and related birds	Melbourne	1983-87	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 937.50
89	SCHLEGEL (Hermann) & A.H. Vester VAN WULVERHORST	Traite de Fauconnerie	London and New York	1979	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 525.00
90	ROBERT, Leo-Paul	Unsere einheimischen Vogel		c.1933	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
91	WOLF, Joseph	Pheasant Drawings by Joseph Wolf			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 512.50
92	Gould, J. and McEvey, A. (editor)	The Birds Of Australia and The Adjacent Islands		1979	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 825.00
93	Radde, Dr. Gustav	Ornis Caucasica Die Vogelwelt des Kaukasus systematisch und biologisch-geographisch beschrieben	Kassel	1884	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 825.00
94	Pleske, Theodor D	1- Ornithographia Rossica; Die vogelfauna des Russischen Reichs	St. Petersburg	1891	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
95	Swainson, William & John Richardson	Fauna Boreali-Americana		1831	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,000.00
96	Heink, Johann Anton	[Profitable Management of a Hunting Ground]- Praktische Bemerkungen uber die kleine Jagd, oder Anleitung zur Behandlung und eintraglichen Bewirtschaftung eines Jagdreviers	Dresden	1827	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
97	Philip Lutley Sclater; & Joseph Smit	Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S.		1873-76	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 575.00
98	Gray (George Robert & R. Bowdler Sharpe)	Zoology of the Voyage of HMS of Erebus and Terror, Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, Birds	London	1846-75	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,062.50
99	Buller, Sir Walter Lawry	A History of the Birds of New Zealand		1873	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 1,562.50

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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