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
125	Gosse, Philip Henry	Illustrations of the birds of Jamaica	London	1849	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 4,750.00
126	Mulsant, E	BIRDS: 1- Lettres A Julie sur L'ornithologie	Paris	[1868]	GBP 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
127	Rudbeck, Olof	Book of Birds	Stockholm	1986	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
128	Kuroda, Nagamichi	Birds of the Island of Java	Tokyo	1933	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 537.50
129	Peterson, Roger Tory & Virginia Marie (eds)	Signed Limited edn: Audubon's Birds of America	New York	1981	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
130	CHAPMAN, Abel	UNIQUE COPY, with Five Original Drawings		1928	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,075.00
131	Meinertzhagen, Col. Richard	1- Birds of Arabia	Edinburgh	1954	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 118.75
132	Brown, L H; Urban, E K; & Newman, K	AFRICAN BIRDS: 1- The Birds of Africa		1982-2004	GBP 250.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
133	Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig	Die vollstandigste Naturgeschichte der Sumpfvogel	Dresden und Leipzig	-1851	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 325.00
134	Watling, Thomas	PLATES: Australian bird drawings		1923	GBP 150.00 - 300.00	GBP 400.00
135	David A BANNERMAN	David A BANNERMAN: Working copies			GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 325.00
136	Mantell & Gould	PLATES: 1- Notice of the discovery by Mr. Walter Mantell in the Middle Island of New Zealand, of a living specimen of the Notornis			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.50
137	Lodge, George Edward	ART: 1- Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist		1946	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 250.00
138	Shelley, GE	EGYPT: 1- A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt		1872	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 312.50
139	GOULD, John	AUSTRALIA: 1- A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands	Melbourne	1979	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 112.50
140	Thorburn, A	BIRDS: 1- A Naturalist's Sketch Book		1919	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 243.75
141	Keulemans, Tony and Coldewey, Jan	BIOGRAPHY: 1- Signed Limited Edn: Feathers to Brush: The Victorian Bird Artist John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912	The Netherlands	1982	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 193.75
142	Salim and S. Dillon Ripley	ASIA: 1- Ali, Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan	Bombay	1968-74	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
143		SCOTLAND: 1- Scottish Birds; The Journal of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club		1958-1985	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 193.75
144	WALPOLE-BOND, John	UK Counties: A History of Sussex Birds		1938	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 162.50
145	Verner, Willoughby	SPAIN, Etc: 1- My Life Among the Wild Birds in Spain			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 275.00
146	Ogilvie-Grant, W R	BIRDS: Ruwenzori expedition reports			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 143.75
147	Maumary L; Laurent Vallotton & Peter knaus	EUROPE: Les Oiseaux de Suisse		2007	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
148	DRESSER H. E: A	Eggs of the Birds of Europe	London	[1905]-1910	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,312.50
149	Hewitson, William C	Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds		1846	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 112.50

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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