Tennants Auctioneers: Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 14257, Leyburn

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 144 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2001 Adams (W.E.).

Slaveholders' War: An Argument for the North and the Negro.

London; Manchester; Huddersfield 1863 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 51.52
2002 Austen (Jane).

[Works]. [Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1996], six volumes, red leather gilt, sealed in original cellophane;

[Norwalk: 1996 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 579.60
2003

Bindings. Collection of mostly pictorial cloth, gilt, bindings, history and literature,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 450.80
2004

A collection of fifteen printed broadside ballads: Mary's Complaint [and] The Gospel Ship.

Otley [c. 1841-1855?] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
2005

The Christopher Robin Calendar 1929, verses by A.A. Milne, decorations by E.H. Shepard.

London 1929 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 386.40
2006 Hole (Christina).

Haunted England: A Survey of English Ghost-Lore.

London 1951 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 515.20
2007

Insurance Documents. A collection of approximately sixty assurance/insurance documents, mostly life assurance policies, 19th/20th century

19th/20th century GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 64.40
2008 Shakespeare (William).

[Plays], Bell's Edition.

London, Philadelphia 1785 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 901.60
2009 Shankar (Ravi) & Harrison (George, editor).

Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar.

Guildford 1997 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 90.16
2010

Slightly Foxed Editions. Fifty-six volumes, numbers 1-56, 2008-2021

2008-2021 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 386.40
2011 The Beatles. Scheler (Max) & Kirchherr (Astrid).

Liverpool Days.

Guildford 1994 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 283.36
2012 The Beatles. Scheler (Max) & Kirchherr (Astrid).

Liverpool Days. Guildford:

1994 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 283.36
2013 Wood (Ronnie).

Wood on Canvas: Every Picture Tells a Story.

Guildford 1998 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 231.84
2014 Henderson (Andrew).

The Practical Grazier; or, a Treatise on the Proper Selection and Management of Live Stock;

London 1826 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 154.56
2015 Blake (William).

Christ trampling down Satan, an impression from an unfinished copperplate.

[London in circa 1903 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 412.16
2016 Prints.

A large and extensive collection of unframed prints, including plates from Curry and Rice,

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 90.16
2017 Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher).

The History of The Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments.

London 1812 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 154.56
2018 Gibbs (James).

A Book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments.

London 1728 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 360.64
2019 Hogarth (William).

The Works, from the Original Plates restored by James Heath.

London [circa 1835] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 283.36
2020 Humphries (Barry) & Garland (Nicholas).

The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie.

London 1968 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
2021 Knight (Henry Gally).

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy.

London 1842-1844 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 901.60
2022 Strehlneek (E.A.).

Chinese Pictorial Art.

Shanghai 1914 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 90.16
2023 The Wood Lea Press. Greenwood (Jeremy, compiler).

The Wood-Engravings of Paul Nash, a catalogue of the wood-engravings, pattern papers, etchings and an engraving on copper.

Woodbridge 1997 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 103.04
2024 Dart (John).

Westmonasterium: or The History and Antiquities of The Abbey Church of St Peters Westminster...

London [1723] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 180.32
2025 [Lever (Charles James)].

Nuts and Nutcrackers.

London 1945 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 206.08
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000