Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Two Day Books, Maps, Ephemera and Works on Paper, 100825, Norwich

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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 08, 2025 - October 09, 2025
Page Size: 1118 items in 45 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
227 MARTIN CRUZ SMITH UK FIRSTS

5 Titles: THE SIBERIAN DRAMA

London 2019 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 12.64
228 C J SANSOM

MODERN FIRSTS: 6 Titles: TOMBLAND

London 2018 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 15.17
229 DICK FRANCIS

8 Titles: SHATTERED

London 2000 GBP 15.00 - 20.00 GBP 12.64
230 AGATHA CHRISTIE

CRIME FICTION: 4 Titles: THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD

London 1951 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 18.96
231

KELLEY ARMSTRONG FIRST UK EDITIONS: 7 Titles: FROSTBITTEN

London 2009 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 12.64
232

Various Dick Francis hardback titles, to include DEAD HEAT

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 12.64
233

ISAAC ASIMOV FIRSTS: 4 Titles: IN THE BEGINNING

London 1981 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 56.88
234 ELLIS PETERS

11 Titles: DEATH MASK

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 22.75
235 WILLIAM HAZLITT

CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS

London 1817 GBP 25.00 - 40.00 GBP 27.81
236

MIXED LOT: 3 Titles: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

London ND Not Available GBP 6.32
237 SUSAN CUNNINGTON AND EVELYN PAUL (Illus)

STORIES FROM DANTE

London 1910 GBP 15.00 - 20.00 GBP 22.75
238 Edited by Montague Summers

NONESUCH PRESS. The Complete Works of William Wycherley

1924 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 GBP 18.96
239 JOHN HOLLAND

SONG OF A BOY

London 1939 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 22.75
240 THOMAS GRAY

DESIGNS BY MR R BENTLEY FOR SIX POEMS

London 1766 GBP 105.00 - 210.00 Not Sold
241 L M WILSON

THE OLD BOOK SELLER

Greenock 1989 GBP 20.00 - 25.00 GBP 15.17
242 THOMAS RAE AND KATHLEEN M LINDSLEY (Woodcut Illustrations)

ADVENTURES OF JOHN McALPINE

Greenock 1985 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 18.96
243 LAURENCE HOPE

3 Titles: STARS OF THE DESERT

London 1911 GBP 10.00 - 25.00 GBP 12.64
244 GEORGE CRABBE

TALES

London 1812 Not Available GBP 5.06
245

ANTIQUARIAN LEATHERBOUND POETRY: 5 Titles: THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON INCLUDING THE SUPRESSED POEMS

Paris 1827 GBP 25.00 - 40.00 GBP 15.17
246 G B HARRISON (Ed)

THOMAS NASHE - PIERCE PENILESSE, HIS SUPPLICATION TO THE DIVELL

London 1924 Not Available GBP 6.32
247 JOHN HOOLE

JERUSALEM DELIVERED; AN HEROIC POEM TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF TORQUATO TASSO

London 1803 GBP 10.00 - 20.00 GBP 5.06
248 THOMAS CAMPBELL

THE PLEASURES OF HOPE WITH OTHER POEMS

London 1822 GBP 10.00 - 15.00 GBP 6.32
249 ANATOLE FRANCE

L'ETUI DE NACRE [THE MOTHER OF PEARL CASE]

Paris ND Not Available GBP 5.06
250 Hervey Allen

EDGAR ALLAN POE. Poe's Brother The Poems of William Henry Leonard Poe

1926 GBP 10.00 - 30.00 GBP 10.11
251 MARY ANN P. FLETCHER

Poems

Newcastle Upon Tyne 1836 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 176.96
  • 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.