Hansons: The Library Auction, 91025, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 224 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 GALLICO, (Elisha)

[A Commentary on Ecclesiastes], bvr spr qhlt

Venice [1577] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 325.00
52

[MACHZOR]. A prayer book for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Sulzbach [c. 1756] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
53

[THE TORAH OR PENTATEUCH]. The Five Books of Moses

[Amsterdam] [1797] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 275.00
54 MORPURGO, (Samson)

[The Tree of Knowledge], a philosophical commentary on Jedaiah Bedersi's Behinat ha-'Olam ("The Examination of the World")

Venice [1704] GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 68.75
55 PAPPENHEIM, (Solomon)

[The Curtains of Solomon], Yeri'ot Shelomoh

Dyhernfurth 1784 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
56

[HEBREW BIBLE - PENTATEUCH]. The first Pentateuch produced for the Karaite community

Ortakoy [Turkey] 1833-35 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 4,000.00
57

[COMMENTARY ON THE PENTATEUCH]. Mekor Hayyim

Mantua 1559 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 300.00
58

[MIDRASH RABBAH]

Sulzbach [1755] GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
59

GERSONIDES/RALBAG. [Levi ben Gershon]. Perush al ha-Torah [philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch]

Venice 1547 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,062.50
60

[SIFRA]. A Midrash halakha on Leviticus

Venice 1545 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 812.50
61 SABA, (Abraham)

byvr 'l htvrh [Commentary on the Torah], Tzror HaMor

Venice 1546 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
62 ABOAB, (Isaac)

Menorat HaMaor [The Lamp of Illumination], a collection of midrashic sermons

Sulzbach 1738-39 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
63 KARO, (Joseph)

Maginei Eretz [Shields of the Earth]

Amsterdam 1732 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 60.00
64

LEVI YITZCHOK OF BERDITCHEV

Salonika [Thessaloniki] c. 1800 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 93.75
65 FALK, (Jacob Joshua)

Pnei Yehoshua

Furth 1824 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 32.50
66 Talmud Bavli

[BABYLONIAN TALMUD]. Massechet Erachin

Basel 1580 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 812.50
67 TEHILLIM [PSALMS]

Sefer Tehillim with the commentary of David Kimhi/Kimchi/Qimhi or RaDaK

[Isny] [1542] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 425.00
68

TIKUNEI ZOHAR

Livorno 1796 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 131.25
69

The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition

Michigan & Cambridge 1998 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 106.25
70 LANDAU, (Yechezkel)

Tzion le-Nefesh Chayah - Brachot

Jozefow 1855-56 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 168.75
71 EYBESCHUTZ, (Jonathan)

Ya'arot Devash

Sulzbach 1799 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 35.00
72

[PENTATEUCH]. Chamisha Chumshei Torah

Amsterdam 1768 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 175.00
73

MACHZOR

Vienna 1825 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 35.00
74 JACOBI, (Friedrich Heinrich)

[PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY]. Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn [On the Teachings of Spinoza in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn]

Breslau 1785 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
75

[SCHILLER]. Die Philosophischen Briefe von Schiller [The Philosophical Letters of Schiller]

Lemberg 1851 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.00
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    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
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    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
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    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.