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
100	DU BUS, Bernard	Esquisses Ornithologiques; Descriptions et Figures d'Oiseux Nouveaux ou peu connus	Brussells	[1845-?51]	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
101	FUERTES, Louis Agassiz	FINE BINDING- Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals	[Chicago]	[ca. 1930]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 131.25
102	HACHISUKA, Hon. Masauji	The Birds of the Philippine Islands with notes of the Mammal Fauna, four parts bound in two volumes, complete	Witherby	1931-35	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 500.00
103	Hume and Marshall	1- The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon	[Calcutta]	1879-81	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 700.00
104	Smythies, Bertram E	Sangorski & Sutcliffe Fine Binding: Birds of BURMA	Rangoon	1940	GBP 300.00 - 600.00	GBP 325.00
105	KEULEMANS, John Gerrard	Onze vogels in huis en tuin, beschreven en afgebeel	Leiden	1869-76	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 337.50
106	Barboza du Bocage, J V	Ornithologie d'Angola Ouvrage Publi Sous les Auspices du Ministre de la Marine Et des Colonies	Lisbonne	1877-81	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 787.50
107	VON WRIGHT, M & F	Svenska Faglar; Efter Naturen Och Pa Sten Ritade	Stockholm	1924-28	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 387.50
108	Buller, Sir Walter Lawry	Signed- A History of the Birds of New Zealand		1888	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,875.00
109	Whitaker, Joseph	The Birds of Tunisia being a History of the Birds found in the Regency of Tunis		1905	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 450.00
110	Baedeker, Friedrich Wilhelm Justus	Die Eier der Europaischen Vogel nach der Natur gemalt	Leipzig & Iserloun	1855-63	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,437.50
111	Cassin, John	Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America	Philadelphia	[1853]-1856	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,562.50
112	DELACOUR, J. & JABOUILLE, P	Les Oiseaux de l'Indochine Francaise		1931	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 462.50
113		Willughby's Ornithology		1678	GBP 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,625.00
114	Beebe, C William	A Monograph of the Pheasants		1918	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,112.50
115	LEGGE, W Vincent	A history of the birds of Ceylon	London	1880	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,500.00
116	Schioler, E Lehn	Danmarks Fugle med henblik paa de i Gronland	Copenhagen	1925-31	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 218.75
117	Van Oort, EH	Ornithologia Neerlandica	The Hague	1922-35	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 887.50
118	Naumann, Johann Andreas	Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas	Kohler	1897-1905	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
119	Bunyard, Edna (ill)	Limited edn. 50 copies only: Eggs of the Rarer Limicolae and Variations	Leeds	1993	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 262.50
120	J G Millais & others	Ogilvie-Grant, W R; The Gun at Home and Abroad			GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 412.50
121	HACHISUKA, Masauji	The Dodo and Kindred Birds or The Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands		1953	GBP 250.00 - 400.00	GBP 512.50
122	Archer (Sir Geoffrey) and Eva M. Goodman	The Birds of British Somaliland and the Gulf of Aden		1937-61	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
123	Bannerman, David A & W Mary	SIGNED: Birds of the Atlantic Islands	Edinburgh	1963-68	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.50
124	Bannerman, David A & W Mary	SIGNED: Birds of the Atlantic Islands	Edinburgh	1963-68	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold

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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