Sworders: Open House | With Arms and Militaria, A1254, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 01, 2025 - December 01, 2025
Page Size: 59 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
350

A commemorative printed souvenir marking the death of Admiral Lord Nelson,

early 20th century GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 52.00
375

HMS Scourge Photographs,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
401 WELLINGTON, Arthur, 1st Duke of - GURWOOD, John (ed.):

The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, during his Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France.

London 1844-47. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 78.00
402 Leerhsen, C:

1- Trump, surviving at the top.

New York 1990 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 533.00
403

THREE MAPS OF AFRICA: 1- Dapper, Olfert: Africae Accurata Tabula

1686 or later. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 214.50
404 Watts, W.W:

Old English Silver.

1924 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 71.50
405 Lionel Edwards (ill); R.C. Lyle:

Brown Jack.

1934 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 52.00
406 SCOTT, Walter:

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland...

Kelso 1902 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 52.00
407 SCOTT, Capt. Robert F:

The Voyage of the Discovery, 2 Volume Set.

1905 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 123.50
408 SCHUYLER, Eugene:

Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja, 2 volumes.

NY 1877 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 110.50
409 Saxton, C:

Essexiae Comitat' Nova vera ac absaluta Descripto,1576

C1595. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 572.00
410 Rudbeck, Olof:

Book of Birds, in 2 Vols.

Stockholm 1986 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 58.50
411 ROBERT, Leo-Paul:

Unsere einheimischen Vogel.

c.1933 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 156.00
412 PLANS: 1- Nash, John:

Plan of a Street Proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place.

C1841 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 52.00
413

Palmerston and Montgomery family Signed Letters, etc:

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 52.00
414

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
415 Morden:

Four Maps (all 41 x 34cm & hand coloured): Gloucestershire; Middlesex; Worcestershire; & Kent

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
416 MACILWAIN, George

(Seven first editions bound in one volume): The general nature & treatment of Tumours

1845 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 97.50
417 MACILWAIN, George

(Five first editions bound in four volume): 1- Medicine & Surgery, one inductive science.

1938 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 84.50
418

MAPS OF SUFFOLK, Etc: 1- Cary, J: Map of Suffolk from the best authorities.

1805 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 52.00
419

MANUSCRIPT of TWO Glasgow Directories,

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 52.00
420 MACILWAIN, George (Inscribed & Signed):

Memoirs of John Abernethy.

1856 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 52.00
421 GOGOL, Nicolas; Prince Mirsky (Trasl):

The Diary of a Madman.

1929 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 84.50
423 Evelyn WAUGH

(Two Signed Limited Edns): 1- Black Mischief.

1932 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 84.50
424

ESSEX, TWO MAPS: 1- Speed, J: Essex divided into hundreds, with the most ancient and fayre towne Colchester..

1713 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 130.00
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