Duke's: Autumn Auction, 1129, Dorchester

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 15, 2025 - October 15, 2025
Page Size: 283 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
499 GRAVES, ROBERT

TWO COPIES OF 'ANN AT HIGHWOOD HALL'

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
500 GREENE, GRAHAM

FOUR 'LITTLE SERIES' VOLUMES

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 182.00
501 GREGORY, BARNARD

'THE SATIRIST, OR MONTHLY METEOR'

London 1812 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
502 GUTHRIE-SMITH, H

MUTTON BIRDS AND OTHER BIRDS'

1914 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
503 HARDY, THOMAS

'TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES'

London 1891 GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 910.00
504 HARRIS, JOHN

LEXICON TECHNICUM' printed volume one to title page but text runs A-Z,

London 1716 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
505 HAYTER

AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE'

London 1813 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 130.00
506 HEBBEL, FRIEDRICH

THE NIEBELUNGS' translated by Goldberger, illustrated by G.H. McCall,

London GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
507 HILL, JOHN

THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM'

London 1770-1775 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 975.00
508 HOOD, THOMAS

POEMS' illustrated by Gustave DorA(c),

London 1870 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
509 HOWARD, JOHN

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL LAZARETTOS IN EUROPE'

London 1791 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
510 HUBER, FRANCIS

TWO VOLUMES - 'NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES' AND 'THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANTS'

Edinburgh 1808 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 52.00
511 HULME, EDWARD F.

BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS OF THE COUNTRY SIDE'

London 1903 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
512 HUNT, ROBERT

URE'S DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINES' seventh edition, volumes 1-4,

London 1878 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
513 HUTTON, W.

AN HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM TO THE END OF THE YEAR 1780'

Birmingham 1781 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 65.00
514 IMISON, JOHN

ELEMENTS OF SCIENCE AND ART'

London 1803 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
515 IRVING, WASHINGTON

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' volumes 1-4,

London 1828 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
516 JESSE, EDWARD

GLEANING IN NATURAL HISTORY' new edition, volumes 1 and 2,

London 1832 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
517 JOHNSON, SAMUEL

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE' eleventh edition,

Edinburgh 1797 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
518 KIPLING, RUDYARD

A SONG OF THE ENGLISH two copies, illustrated by William Heath Robinson,

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
519 LANG, ANDREW

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD'

London 1900 and 1898 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
520 LANG, FRITZ

'DAS SCHNAUZERBUCH'

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
521 LAVATER, J.C.

PHYSIOGNOMY' translated by Samuel Shaw,

London GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
522 LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN

'IN A GLASS DARKLY'

London 1929 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 104.00
523 LOWE, E. J.

A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH GRASSES'

London 1891 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
  • 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.