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
2126 Orwell (George, editor).

Forster (E.M.), Ritchie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien & others. Talking to India.

London 1943 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 115.92
2127 Poetry.

A collection of Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Wild Hawthorn Press pamphlets and ephemera,

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 412.16
2128 Signed by Nelson Mandela.

Schadeberg (Jurgen), Nelson Mandela and the Rise of the ANC.

London 1990 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 115.92
2129 Speed (John).

The Historie of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans.

London 1632 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 244.72
2130 Tolkien (J.R.R.).

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.

London 1970 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 115.92
2131 Vellum Bindings.

Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey.

London 1907-1908 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,606.40
2132 Manuscript Documents.

A collection of manuscript documents, mostly relating to Sunderland and surrounding areas, 17th-19th century

17th-19th century GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 244.72
2133 Manuscript Maritime Exercise Book.

An early 19th century maritime exercise book

early 19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 644.00
2134 Manuscript Recipe/Account Book.

Recipes include: 'To destroy Pismires', 'To dye skins Blue', 'To make Vinegar', 'For the scurvy', 'Methods of preserving Birds', ' a Receipt to Catch Hares'. ...

GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 128.80
2135 Yorkshire - Manuscript Documents.

A collection of approximately fifty-three 16th-19th century manuscript documents, mostly indentures, ...

16th-19th century GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,416.80
2136 Lawrence (T.E.).

Crusader Castles.

London 1936 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 322.00
2137 Thomas (Dylan) & Piper (John, illustrator).

Deaths and Entrances.

Newtown 1984 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,094.80
2138 Cartes de Visite - Royalty.

An album of approximately 95 cartes de visite of royalty and emperors of the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, China, etc.,

c.1860s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 901.60
2139 India.

Views of Benares from the River Side. Presented by the Maharaja of Benares [cover-title].

No date [circa 1920-30] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 966.00
2140 Elijah Yeoman (1849-1930),

A collection of photographs, Barnard Castle, Teesdale Studio,

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 579.60
2141 Beeton (Isabella).

The Book of Household Management.

London 1861 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 167.44
2142 Craddock (Harry).

The Savoy Cocktail Book.

London 1930 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 772.80
2143 Fox (John).

The Book of Martyrs: Containing an Account of the Sufferings and Death of the Protestants In the Reign of Queen Mary the First.

London [1761] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 244.72
2144 Chambers (R.W., editor).

This Book is a record of those members of University College London & of University College Hospital and Medical School who were killed or who died on service: 1914-1919.

London 1922-1924 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 64.40
  • 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