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

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025

Page Size: 112 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	FRIDTJOF NANSEN	Gjennem Armenia	1927	SEK 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	SEK 1,500.00
27	ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]	Aurora Australis	1908	SEK 700,000.00 - 900,000.00	SEK 1,875,000.00
28	ERNEST SHACKLETON	The heart of the Antarctic	+ SUPPLEMENT	SEK 200,000.00 - 300,000.00	SEK 325,000.00
29	[SHACKLETON] MURRAY & MARSTON	Antarctic Days	1913	SEK 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	SEK 87,500.00
30	ERNEST SHACKLETON	The heart of the Antarctic	1909	SEK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	SEK 3,750.00
31	ERNEST SHACKLETON	SOUTH	1919	SEK 15,000.00 - 30,000.00	SEK 16,250.00
32	[ERNEST SHACKLETON] FRANK WILDE	Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest.	1923	SEK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	SEK 8,750.00
33	SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]	The South Polar Times	I-III1902-1911.	SEK 80,000.00 - 120,000.00	SEK 75,000.00
34	[WILLEM BARENTSZ] GERRIT DE VEER	Tre navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi [...]	1599	SEK 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	SEK 18,750.00
35	[WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN	Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden [...]	1663	SEK 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	SEK 11,875.00
36	APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD	The Worst Journey in the World	1922	SEK 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	SEK 11,875.00
37	HERBERT G. PONTING	APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD	1930-35.	SEK 6,000.00 - 10,000.00	SEK 5,000.00
38	MARTIN CONWAY	The First Crossing of Spitsbergen.	1897	SEK 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	SEK 1,750.00
39	MARTIN CONWAY	No man's land.	1906	SEK 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	SEK 3,750.00
40	JAMES COOK	A Voyage towards the South Pole, [...]	1777	SEK 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	SEK 15,000.00
41	HESSEL GERRITSZ	Histoire Dy Pays nomme Spitsberghe.	1872	SEK 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	SEK 1,250.00
42	ELISHA KENT KANE	The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin.	1853	SEK 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	SEK 12,500.00
43	JOHN LAING	A Voyage to Spitzbergen	1822	SEK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
44	HENRY J. PEARSON	"Beyond Petsora Eastward"	1899	SEK 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	SEK 2,500.00
45	ROBERT E. PEARY	The North Pole.	1910	SEK 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	SEK 18,750.00
46	RAYMOND E. PRIESTLEY	Antarcrtic Adventure.	1914	SEK 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	SEK 9,375.00
47	JOHN ROSS	Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage	1835	SEK 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
48	LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS:	TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION At the South Pole.		SEK 120,000.00 - 150,000.00	Not Sold
49	LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS:	TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION Forestalled. Amundsen's tent at the Pole.		SEK 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	Not Sold
50	ELEAZAR ALBIN	A natural History of Birds. + A Supplement	1738-40	SEK 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	SEK 32,500.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.