SD Auctions: The Odfjell Collection | Polar - History - Ornithology - Colour Plate Books, 120425, GRESSVIK

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025
Page Size: 112 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ROALD AMUNDSEN

Nordvest-Passagen

1907 SEK 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 SEK 12,500.00
2 ROALD AMUNDSEN

Sydpolen [ The South Pole]

1912 SEK 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 SEK 45,000.00
3 ROALD AMUNDSEN

Sydpolen [ The South Pole]

1912 SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 425,000.00
4 ROALD AMUNDSEN

The South Pole

1912 SEK 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 SEK 21,250.00
5 ROALD AMUNDSEN

Nord-Ost Passagen

1921 SEK 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 SEK 5,625.00
6 AMUNDSEN & NANSEN

Fram over Polhavet [Farthest North]

1897 SEK 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 SEK 162,500.00
7 AMUNDSEN & JOHANSEN

Selv-Anden paa 86deg 14' [With Nansen in the North]

1898 SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 55,000.00
8 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Bidrag til Myzostomernes anatomi og histologi

1885 SEK 600.00 - 800.00 SEK 500.00
9 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Paa Ski over Gronland [The first crossing of Greenland]

1905 SEK 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 5,000.00
10 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Paa Ski over Gronland [The first crossing of Greenland]

1905 SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 23,750.00
11 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Eskimoliv [Eskimo Life]

1891 SEK 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 SEK 9,375.00
12 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Eskimoliv [Eskimo Life]

1891 SEK 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 SEK 6,875.00
13 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Fram over Polhavet [Farthest North]

1897 SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 22,500.00
14 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Farthest North

1897 SEK 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 2,000.00
15 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Norge og foreningen med Sverige

1905 SEK 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 SEK 5,625.00
16 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Nord i Takeheimen [In Northern Mists]

1911 SEK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 SEK 37,500.00
17 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

In Northern Mists

1911 SEK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 SEK 5,000.00
18 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896

1900-05 SEK 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 55,000.00
19 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Gjennem Sibirien

1914 SEK 800.00 - 1,200.00 SEK 1,500.00
20 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

For det blir for sent

1915 SEK 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 3,750.00
21 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

En ferd til Spitsbergen

1920 SEK 800.00 - 1,200.00 SEK 875.00
22 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Rusland og freden

1923 SEK 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 SEK 5,000.00
23 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Fedrelandslaget. Tale av Fridtjof Nansen.

1925 SEK 500.00 - 800.00 SEK 750.00
24 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Blant sel og bjorn

1924 SEK 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 SEK 1,500.00
25 FRIDTJOF NANSEN

Eventyr-lyst

1927 SEK 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 SEK 6,250.00
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    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
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    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
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    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000