Chiswick Auctions: Photographica & Photography Books - Timed online, 90525, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 05, 2025 - September 05, 2025
Page Size: 212 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

A Group of Cased Images, 1840s-1860s

1840s-1860s GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 76.00
2 Various Daguerreians, c.1840s-1850s

A selection of Daguerreotype portraits of children,

c.1840s-1850s GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 139.00
3 Various Daguerreians, c.1850s

A selection of Daguerreotype portraits of gentlemen,

c.1850s GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 277.00
4 Various Daguerreians, c.1840s-1850s

A selection of Daguerreotype portraits of ladies & gentleman,

c.1840s-1850s GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 277.00
5 Ambrotypist Unknown, 1850s-1860s

PORTRAITS OF BOWER FAMILY MEMBERS.

1850s-1860s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
6

A Group of Cased Images, 1840s-1850s

1840s-1850s GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.00
7

AN INTERESTING GROUP OF CARTE-DE-VISITE PORTRAITS, c.1860-1880

c.1860-1880 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.00
8

A Polytechnic Sized Rackwork Chromatrope Magic Lantern Slide

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
9

VICTORIAN INTEREST, 1860s-1880s

1860s-1880s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
10 Various Daguerreians, c.1850s

A selection of Daguerreotype family portraits of women,

c.1850s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 176.00
11 Various Photographers, 1880s-1920s

A GROUP OF INTERESTING CARTES DE VISITE AND CABINET CARDS, 1880s-1920s.

1880s-1920s. GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 176.00
12 American Daguerreians, c.1850s

Two good American monochromatic quarter plate Daguerreotype portraits c.1850,

c.1850s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
13

CRIMEAN WAR INTEREST, FENTON, ROBERTSON, & BEATO, 1855

1855 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 428.00
14 Edouard Denis Baldus (1813-1889)

LA TOUR SAINT-JACQUES, 1858.

1858 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
15 Charles Marville (1813-1879), Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887), & Bisson Freres

A group of four photographic reproductions of artworks,

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
16 Charles Reutlinger (1816--1881)

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG FRENCH BOY IN MILITARY DRESS, c.1850s.

c.1850s. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
17

PORTRAIT ALBUM INCLUDING A RARE CARTE-DE-VISITE OF BLACK AMERICAN MISSIONARY THOMAS LEWIS JOHNSON, 1870s-1890s

1870s-1890s GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 454.00
18 James Mudd (1821-1906)

PORTRAIT OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, 1861.

1861 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
19

BRITISH INTEREST, c.1860s

c.1860s GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
20

BRITISH PORTRAITURE INTEREST, 1880s-1900

1880s-1900 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 101.00
21

BRITISH HISTORY INTEREST, 1860s-1800s

1860s-1800s GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
22 Various Photographers, 1875-1895

PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF BRITISH AND EUROPEAN VIEWS, c.1875-1895.

c.1875-1895. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 164.00
23

BRITISH INTEREST, c.1870s

c.1870s GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
24 James Valentine (1815-1880)

DURHAM FROM THE RAILWAY, c.1890.

c.1890. GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 50.00
25 Francis Frith (1822-1898)

LUDLOW CASTLE, c.1892.

c.1892. GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
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    The Odfjell Collection
    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
    The Odfjell Collection
    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.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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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.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    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.