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
624 Anthony Farrington

JAPAN The English Factory in Japan 1613-1623

1991 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 139.04
625 COMMANDER J BUCHAN TELFER

THE CRIMEA AND TRANSCAUCASIA - BEING THE NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY IN THE KOUBAN...

London 1879 GBP 35.00 - 55.00 GBP 18.96
626

ARABIA: THE CRADLE OF ISLAM Studies In The Geography, People And Politics Of The Peninsula With An Account Of Islam And Mission-work

New York 1900 GBP 20.00 - 60.00 GBP 27.81
627 Kenneth Williams

ARABIA. Ibn Sa'ud the Puritan King of Arabia

1933 GBP 20.00 - 50.00 GBP 27.81
628 ALLFREE, Philip Stephen

OMAN. Warlords of Oman

London 1967 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 164.32
629 Valentine Chirol

MIDDLE EAST The Middle Eastern Question or Some Political Problems of Indian Defence

1903 GBP 30.00 - 60.00 GBP 31.60
630 Snouck Hurgronje, C.

[Middle East]. Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century. Daily Life, Customs and Learning

London 1931 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 316.00
631 C. A. Hopper

PALESTINE. The Civil Law of Palestine and Trans-Jordan

Jerusalem 1936 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 265.44
632

INDIA. 1794-1800. Indian antiquities, or, Dissertations, relative to the ancient geographical divisions, the pure system of primeval theology, the grand code of civil laws, the original form of government, and the various and profound literature of Hindos

1794 -1800 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.60
633

The Thousand And One Nights

GBP 10.00 - 50.00 GBP 94.80
634 JOHN PAYNE (Transl)

THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS

New York 1844 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 94.80
635 GOETHE

FAMMTLICHE WERKE

Stuttgarts and Tubingen 1850 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 75.84
636

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GOETHE

Stutgard and Tubingen 1840 Not Available GBP 69.52
637 GEORGE SAND

Paris, Michel Levy Freres

1862 GBP 15.00 - 25.00 GBP 6.32
638 VICTOR HUGO

LES MISERABLES - FANTINE; COSETTE; SAINT DENIS; JEAN VALJEAN

New York 1862 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 75.84
639

SCHILLERS FAMMTLICHE WERKE [SCHILLER'S COMPLETE WORKS]

Stuttgart and Tubingen 1838 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
640 GOETHE

FAUST

London 1908 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.92
641 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

2 Titles: POE'S TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

London 1979 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 44.24
642 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

2 Titles: UNDINE [De La Motte Fouque and adapted from German by W L Courtney]

London 1925 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 63.20
643 EDEN PHILLPOTTS AND FRANK BRANGWYN [Illus]

THE GIRL AND THE FAUN

London 1916 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.88
644 RUDYARD KIPLING AND W HEATH ROBINSON [Illus]

A SONG OF THE ENGLISH

London ND GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.92
645 EDME ARCAMBEAU AND JESSIE M KING [Illus]

THE BOOK OF BRIDGES

London 1912 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 341.28
646

SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET - PRINCE OF DENMARK

London 1922 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.88
647 EDMUND DULAC

3 Titles: EDMUND DULAC'S PICTURE-BOOK FOR THE FRENCH RED CROSS

London ND GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.84
648 ALFRED LORD TENNYSON AND EDMUN J SULLIVAN [Illus]

MAUD - A MONODRAMA

London 1922 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
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    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.
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    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.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.