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

Auction Details

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
674	EDGAR ALLAN POE	GUSTAVE DORE ILLUSTRATION: 2 Titles: THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS	London	2010	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	GBP 82.16
675	JAMES HAMILTON	BOOK ILLUSTRATION INTEREST: 4 Titles: ARTHUR RACKHAM	London	1990	GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 69.52
676	Jack Hillier	JAPAN. The Art of the Japanese Book		1987	GBP 30.00 - 80.00	GBP 27.81
677		A CATALOGUE OF THE COSTEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY	Princeton	2000/03	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 48.03
678		ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND - AN 1865 PRINTING RE-DESCRIBED AND NEWLY IDENTIFIED AS THE PUBLISHER'S ''FILE COPY'' WITH A REVISED AND EXPANDED CENSUS OF THE SUPPRESSED 1865 ''ALICE''		1990	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 151.68
679	ALFRED A STEVENS	BOOK COLLECTING: 2 Titles: THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A BOOKMAN	London	1933	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	GBP 15.17
680	ANDREW W TUER	LITERARY INTEREST: 2 Titles: PAGES AND PICTURES FROM FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S BOOKS	London	1898	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	GBP 6.32
681	WILLIAM THOMAS LOWNDES	THE BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE	London	1858	Not Available	Not Sold
682	KEITH BOSLEY (Ed)	LITERARY INTEREST: 8 Titles: THE ELEK BOOK OF ORIENTAL VERSE	London	1979	Not Available	GBP 6.32
683		THE BOOKMAN - SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1926	London		GBP 10.00 - 15.00	Not Sold
684	LORD BIRKENHEAD	RUDYARD KIPLING: 2 Titles: RUDYARD KIPLING	London	1978	GBP 10.00 - 15.00	GBP 5.06
685	Isaac D'Israeli	Amenites of Literature consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature		1842	GBP 5.00 - 20.00	GBP 5.06
686	FLORENCE BECKER LENNON	BOOKS AND AUTHORS: 3 Titles: LEWIS CARROLL - A BIOGRAPHY	London	1947	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	Not Sold
687		A small collection of Ephemera reference books			GBP 5.00 - 25.00	GBP 5.06
688	MARGARET LANE	BEATRIX POTTER INTEREST: 3 Titles: THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER	London	1985	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	GBP 10.11
689	JOHN ARNOLD	THE FANFROLICO PRESS - SATYRS, FAUNS AND FINE BOOKS	Middlesex	2009	Not Available	GBP 6.32
690	SIDNEY MENDELSSOHN	SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY	London	1957	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 328.64
691	VIVIEN NOAKES	EDWARD LEAR INTEREST: 4 Titles: EDWARD LEAR - THE LIFE OF A WANDERER	London	1968	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 60.67
692	EDGAR ROSENBERG (Ed)	GREAT EXPECTATIONS - AUTHORATATIVE TEXT, BACKGROUNDS, CONTEXTS, CRITICISMS	New York	1999	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	GBP 35.39
694	IOLO A WILLIAMS	EARLY ENGLISH WATERCOLOURS AND SOME COGNATE DRAWINGS BY ARTISTS BORN NOT LATER THAN 1785	London	1952	GBP 55.00 - 105.00	GBP 50.56
695		THE ART JOURNAL	London	1952	Not Available	GBP 6.32
696		ROYAL ACADEMY PICTURES	London	For the years 1897-1899	GBP 20.00 - 25.00	GBP 18.96
697		THE MAGAZINE OF ART	London	November 1986 - April 1897; 1986	GBP 40.00 - 55.00	GBP 37.92
698	CARL JUSTI	DIEGO VELAZQUEZ AND HIS TIMES	London	1889	GBP 10.00 - 25.00	GBP 18.96
699	LANGTON DOUGLAS	FRA ANGELICO	London	1902	GBP 55.00 - 80.00	GBP 53.09

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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.
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.