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
200 Jorge Welsh (ed.)

CHINA & PORCELAIN:1- Kinrande: Porcelain Dressed in Gold

2020 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 450.00
201

90 volumes in the KING PENGUIN Series: Including many first editions

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 262.50
202 Milne, A. A., & E. H. Shepard

1- The House at Pooh Corner

GBP 300.00 - 600.00 GBP 800.00
203 Potter, Beatrix

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

1908 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
204 Lawrence,T.E.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
205 Grose, Francis

MILITARY ANTIQUITIES respecting A History of the English Army

1801 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 181.25
206 Shaw, G F & Dr. Goldsmith

The Panorama of Nature, or a Comprehensive View of Natural History and Botany

R Edwards nd. [1817] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
207 Baltz, Lewis

PHOTOGRAPHY: Collection, including: 1- San Quentin Point

Berlin 1986 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
208 BAILEY, N

Dictionarium Britannicum

London 1736 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
209 TOLKIEN, JRR

TOLKIEN, JRR: Folio Society, 3 WORKS

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 193.75
210 Simond, L

TRAVEL & TOPOGRAPHY: 1- Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain During the Years 1810 and 1811

Edinburgh 1817 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
211 Eliot, W G

A Treatise on the Defence of Portugal

London 1811 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
212

Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar

London 1833 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 125.00
212a

Fourteen Hertfordshire sale catalogues

late 19th century to 1960s GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
213 Gibbon, Edward

The History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

London 1818 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
214

1- Punch Library of Humour

no date (1910) GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
215

FISH & FISHING, A Large collection

Groombridge 1862-1865 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
216 BROGLIE, Louis Victor, Prince of (Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1929)

Quantum physics- Inscribed & Signed by: Recherches sur la theorie des quanta

Paris 1925 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,000.00
217 [Storer, J. & Greig, I]

BRITISH TOPOGRAPH: 1- Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet

1807-1811 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
218

9 volumes of the DRAWN IN PEN & PENCIL SERIES

1855 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 118.75
219 Beattie, W

3 WORKS: TURKEY & THE EAST- 1- The Danube Illustrated In A Series of Views Taken Expressly for This Work by W H Bartlett

no date, c1847 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
220

Mixed:1- The Museum of Natural History

nd, C1860 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
221 Chenier, M

MOROCCO & CORSICA- 1- The Present State of the Empire of Morocco

1788 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
222 Scott, Captain Robert F

The Voyage of the Discovery

1905 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
223 Lander, Richard

Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa

Colburn 1820 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 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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