Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers: Weekly Antiques, Collectables & Effects, 102025, Norwich

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 20, 2025 - October 20, 2025

Page Size: 51 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
25		The Daily Express Tuesday 13th August 1940, framed front page featuring Battle of Britain news	1940	Not Available	Not Sold
27		A metal advertising sign for Bombs Away Laxative		Not Available	GBP 12.64
29	David Shepherd,	coloured print of African Afternoon		Not Available	GBP 27.81
30		Modern coloured print Homecoming for a Soldier		Not Available	GBP 10.11
31	Allen Larking O'Brien,	Memorial Committee County Clare Ireland framed certificate		Not Available	GBP 15.17
32		A coloured print of fox hunting scene and a further print of fox hounds		Not Available	GBP 10.11
40		A vintage Bovril advertising print, framed and glazed		Not Available	GBP 18.96
41		A print after Lowry		Not Available	GBP 6.32
43		Two boxes of various topographical postcards		Not Available	GBP 60.67
55		Mixed lot of local interest books to include Handbook of the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk and		Not Available	GBP 18.96
59		A collection of prints by Tim Fisher and Michael Charles Smith		Not Available	GBP 10.11
61		Two metal garage signs Red X Motor Oil and Regent Green Paraffin		Not Available	GBP 75.84
62		Two Kelly's Directories Norfolk & Suffolk 1929 and Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk 1904 together	1929, 1904	Not Available	GBP 25.28
63		Two boxes of mixed vintage postcards, various subjects		Not Available	GBP 107.44
65		Mixed Lot: City of Norwich plan 1945 together with a folder of loose plans	1945	Not Available	GBP 88.48
71		Two boxes of early 20th Century postcards to include Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and many	early 20th Century	Not Available	GBP 53.09
72		One box of postcards, various views of Kent together with a box of postcard protectors		Not Available	GBP 60.67
85		A group of modern film posters, Narnia, Game of Thrones and Star Wars plus two volumes of Indiana		Not Available	GBP 35.39
107		One box of books to include Don Quixote, The History of the Natural World and various others		Not Available	GBP 22.75
108		Box of books to include Arthur Ransome, Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers, Palmsworth Atlas and		Not Available	GBP 18.96
109		Box of box to include South African and the Trans Vaal War and others		Not Available	GBP 27.81
110		One box of various mixed books		Not Available	GBP 6.32
111		Books, sporting interest and others		Not Available	GBP 10.11
112		Books, assorted hardback reference and others		Not Available	GBP 12.64
113		Norfolk related books		Not Available	GBP 15.17

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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.