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
51 Photographer Unknown, c.1880-90 [possibly Coutinho Bros]

NATIVE HUTS AT ADEN, c.1880-90.

c.1880-90. GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.00
52 Burton Brothers (active 1866-1914)

TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEWS OF TASMANIA & NEW ZEALAND, c.1880s.

c.1880s. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 227.00
53 Photographer Unknown, 1889

IPHIGENIA AS PERFORMED BY FRENCH SEAMEN ON A SHIP, 1889.

1889 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
54 Various Photographers, late 19th century

NEW ZEALAND VIEWS, late 19th century.

late 19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,008.00
55 Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1934) & Felice Beato (1832-1909)

A GROUP OF FOUR HAND-COLOURED ALBUMEN PRINTS, c.1880.

c.1880. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 176.00
56 Photographer Unknown, c.1899

HEAD OF A DECAPITATED MAN, CHINA, c.1899.

c.1899. GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 13.00
57

JAPAN INTEREST, c.1880s

c.1880s GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 101.00
58

PANORAMA OF CAPE TOWN, c.1900

c.1900 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
59

CANGO CAVES, NEAR OUDTSHOORN, SOUTH AFRICA, c.1900

c.1900 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 164.00
60

MISSIONARY ALBUM, UGANDA & RWANDA, 1880s-1890s

1880s-1890s GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
61

PANORAMA OF DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANZANIA, c.1890

c.1890 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
62

INDUSTRIAL CYANOTYPES, c.1905

c.1905 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 88.00
63

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS, VOLUMES IX & X, 1865-1866

1865-1866 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
64 Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)

ANIMALS IN MOTION: AN ELECTRO-PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF ANIMAL PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, 1899.

1899 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 302.00
65

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, MANILA, c.1898-1900

c.1898-1900 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
66

WORLD WAR I INTEREST, c.1916-1918

c.1916-1918 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 101.00
67

IN THE SHADE, LONDON, KENSINGTON GARDENS, 14TH JULY 1935.

14TH JULY 1935. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
68 Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)

UNTITLED, 1928

1928 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 479.00
69 Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)

RENEE, PARIS, 1931.

1931 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 353.00
70 Bertram Park (1883-1972)

UNTITLED, 1920s

1920s GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 277.00
71 Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)

A GROUP OF SIX MONOGRAPHS ABOUT CECIL BEATON, 20th century,

20th century GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 139.00
72 Photograph Collection.- Vintage Dancers

Group of vintage autographs from the 1920s,

1920s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
73 Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976)

A FINE GROUP OF PORTRAITS OF US DIPLOMAT CHARLES ULRICK BAY, c.1950.

c.1950. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
74 Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014)

A CHEEKY LITTLE WINE, 16th JULY 1952.

16th JULY 1952. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.00
75 Brian Griffin (1948-2024)

TONY BENN, 1990

1990 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.00
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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.