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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025
Page Size: 533 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Jordan, David Starr

The Philosophy of Despair

San Francisco 1902 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
127 Joyce, James

Finnegans Wake

New York 1939 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
128 Joyce, James

Ulysses

Paris 1928 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 406.25
129 Joyce, James

Ulysses

Paris 1924 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
130 Joyce, James

Ulysses

Paris 1927 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
131 Joyce, James

Ulysses

New York 1934 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 437.50
132 Joyce, James

Ulysses

Paris 1928 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
133 Kafka, Franz

The Castle

New York 1930 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
134 Kafka, Franz

The Metamorphosis

New York [1946] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
135 Kavan, Anna

I am Lazarus

London [1945] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 406.25
136 Kazantzakis, Nikos

Zorba The Greek

New York 1953 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 212.50
137 Kipling, Rudyard

If

Garden City, New York [1910] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,000.00
138 Lang, Andrew, ed.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

New York 1902 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
139 Lawrence, D.H.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Florence, Italy 1928 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
140 [Lee, Sophia]

The Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times. By the Author of the Chapter of Accidents

Dublin 1786 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
141 Levi, Primo

The Truce: A Survivor's Journey Home from Auschwitz

London [1965] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 162.50
142 Locke, Richard Adams

The Moon Hoax; or a Discovery That the Moon Has a Vast Population of Human Beings. Illustrated with a view of the Moon, as seen by Lord Rosse's Telescope

New York 1859 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
143 London, Jack & Anna Strunsky

The Kempton-Wace Letters

New York 1903 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 175.00
144 London, Jack

The Acorn Planter: A California Forest Play, Planned to be Sung by Efficient Singers Accompanied by a Capable Orchestra

New York 1916 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
145 London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

New York and London 1903 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
146 London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

New York 1903 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,250.00
147 London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

New York and London 1903 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
148 London, Jack

Children of the Frost

New York 1902 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
149 London, Jack

The Cruise of the Dazzler - Salesman's Sample Copy

New York 1902 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
150 London, Jack

The Cruise of the Snark

New York 1911 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
  • 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: 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
    Book Week
    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.