Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers: 23rd October Antiquarian & Collectable Books & Related Items, 102325a, Carlisle

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 207 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
159A STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS & STEVENSON FANNY VAN DE GRIFT.

The Dynamiter.

1885 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
160 URIS LEON.

Exodus.

1959 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 24.00
161 RUSHDIE SALMAN.

Haroun & the Sea of Stories.

1990 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 96.00
162 DAVID ELIZABETH.

A Book of Mediterranean Food.

1968 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 38.40
163 RACKHAM ARTHUR (Illus).

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

1933 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 42.00
164 DICKENS CHARLES.

The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

1839 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 120.00
165 FORSTER E. M.

A Passage To India.

1924 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 144.00
166 HEMINGWAY ERNEST.

Death in the Afternoon.

1932 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 50.40
167 FOLIO SOCIETY.

Anton Chekhov, the Collected Stories.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 102.00
168 FOLIO SOCIETY.

Works of Charles Dickens.

1982-1988. GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 66.00
169 DORE GUSTAVE (Illus).

Rabelais Oeuvres.

Paris C.1971. GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 24.00
170 BURLINGTON C., REES D. & MARRAY A.

The Modern British Universal Traveller or a New Complete and Accurate Tour through England, Wales, Scotland and the Neighbouring Islands.

1779 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 240.00
171 (PRIOR MATTHEW).

Poems on Several Occasions.

1718 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 120.00
172

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences & Miscellaneous Literature.

Edinburgh 1797; with the Supplement to the Third Edition, 2 vols., Edinburgh, GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 144.00
173 LONGMAN, REES, ORME (Pubs).

The Edinburgh Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary ...

1827 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
174 SMITH ADAM.

An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations ...

1819 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 288.00
175 SMITH ADAM.

An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

1799 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,320.00
176 COLLIN LEOPOLD (Pubs).

Pieces Inedites sur les Regnes de Louis XIV, Louis XV et Louis XVI.

1809 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 48.00
177 GOADBY R. (Pubs).

A New Display of the Beauties of England or A Description of the Most Elegant or Magnificent Public Edifices, Royal Palaces, Noblemen's & Gentlemen's Seats & Other Curiosities.

1776 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
178 EVELYN JOHN.

Diary & Correspondence ...

1862 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 102.00
179 HUMPHREYS ARTHUR L. (Pubs).

Thomas a Kempis.

1902 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 72.00
180 (CARRERE J-B-F.)

A Picture of Lisbon Taken on the Spot, Being a Description, Moral, Civil, Political, Physical & Religious of that Capital ...

1811 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 192.00
181 MEREDITH JOSEPH.

Treatise On the Grape Vine.

1876 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 102.00
182 PAULET J. J.

Iconographie des Champignons.

Paris 1855 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 360.00
183 STANFORD EDWARD (Pubs).

Stanford's Compendium of Geography & Travel.

1924 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 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.