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

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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
2101 Shackleton (E.H.).

The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

London 1909 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 489.44
2102 Shackleton (Ernest H.).

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917.

London 1919 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 2,318.40
2103 Shackleton (Ernest H.).

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917.

London 1919 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,932.00
2104 Shackleton (Ernest H.).

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917.

London 1919 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 412.16
2105 Shackleton (Ernest H.).

The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

London 1909 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,894.40
2106 Turner (Samuel).

Siberia: A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration.

London 1905 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 77.28
2107 Wild (Frank).

Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest... From the Original Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin.

London 1923 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,030.40
2108 Worsley (Frank Arthur).

Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure.

London 1931 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,674.40
2109 Wright (C.S.) & Priestley (R.E.).

British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, Glaciology.

London 1922 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 618.24
2110 Blome (Richard).

The Gentlemans Recreation.

London 1686 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,094.80
2111 Botanical Studies.

A collection of nineteenth century botanical drawings, ink and watercolour,

nineteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 966.00
2112 Brown (James).

The Forester or A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General Management of Forest-Trees.

Edinburgh and London 1871 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 103.04
2113 Miller (Hugh).

The Testimony of the Rocks or Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed.

Edinburgh 1867 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 206.08
2114 Heath (Francis George).

The Fern Portfolio.

London 1885 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 180.32
2115 Hulme (F. Edward).

Familiar Wild Flowers.

London no date GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 180.32
2116 Lowe (E.J.).

Ferns: British and Exotic.

1856, 1862-186 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 489.44
2117 Assorted.

Ashburton (Charles Alfred). A New and Complete History of England, from the first settlement of Brutus...To the Year 1798.

London no date GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 540.96
2118 Christie (Agatha) & Oppenheim (E. Phillips).

The Under Dog and Blackman's Wood,

London no date [1929] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 38.64
2119 Classics.

Homer. The Iliad [and] The Odyssey. Translated by Alexander Pope.

London 1763 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 579.60
2120 Fleming (Ian).

Thunderball.

London 1961 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 167.44
2121 Hayek (F.A.).

Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy.

London 1973-79 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,030.40
2122 Hayek (F.A.).

The Road to Serfdom.

London 1944 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,121.60
2123 Lee (Harper).

To Kill a Mockingbird.

London 1960 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 283.36
2124 Leland (John).

The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary...Published by Mr. Thomas Hearne.

Oxford 1768-1769 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 115.92
2125 Lewis (C.S.).

The Screwtape Letters.

London 1942 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,833.60
  • 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