Hansons: The Library Sale (Presented By Rare Book Auctions), 21826, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 18, 2026 - February 18, 2026

Page Size: 305 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
151	RIDLEY, (Rev. Gloc.)	The Life of Dr. Nicholas Ridley	London	1763	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
152	SOUTHWELL, (Rev. Henry)	New Book of Martyrs	London	n.d. c.1785	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
153	BURNET, Bishop [Gilbert]	Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume	Oxford	1823	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 50.00
154	MUSTON, (Rev. Dr. Alexis); HAZLITT, William (trans.)	The Israel of the Alps: A History of the Persecutions of the Waldenses	London	1853	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 25.00
155	SKUES, G. E. M.	Nymph Fishing For Chalk Stream Trout	London	1939	GBP 30.00 - 60.00	GBP 27.50
156	JARDINE, Sir W.	British Salmonidae	London	1979	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
157	[HOBBES, (Thomas)]	The History of the Civil Wars of England	[London]	1679	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 625.00
158	HARDY, (Thomas)	The Well-Beloved	London	1897	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
159	HENRY, (Benjamin Couch)	Ling-Nam or Interior Views of Southern China, Including Explorations in the Hitherto Untraversed Island of Hainan	London	1886	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
160	SEQUEIRA, (Joao Henriques de)	A New Merchant's Guide: Containing a Concise System of Information for the Port and City of London: Together with Some Observations Particularly Useful to Commercial Men and Their Clerks...	London	1798	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
161	CARTER, (Howard)	The Tomb of Tutankhamen	London	1923-33	GBP 600.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,062.50
162	GIBBON, Edward	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		N/A	GBP 400.00 - 800.00	GBP 812.50
163	WILBERFORCE, William	A Practical View	London	1829	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,062.50
164	BUCHANAN, John Lane	Travels in the Western Hebrides: From 1782 to 1790	London	1793	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 81.25
165		Outlines in Lithography, From a Small Collection of Pictures	Yarmouth	1840	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
166	LOCKE, (John)	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	London	1775	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
167		[LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY]. A complete set in 16 volumes comprising: A Hand-Book to the Primates	London	1896-97	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 400.00
168	HILL, (D. O.) & BUCHANAN, (George)	[RAILWAYS]. Views of the Opening of the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway, with An Account of That and Other Railways in Lanarkshire	Scotland	1981	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 52.50
169	MORRIS, Ivan.	The Tale of Genji Scroll	Tokyo	1971	GBP 60.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.00
170	KOLDEWEY, (Capt.)	The German Arctic Expedition	London	1874	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 156.25
171	BARTH, (Dr. Henry)	Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa	London	1857-58	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
172	BULL, (H. J.)	The Cruise of the 'Antarctic' to the South Polar Regions	London	1896	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
173	VON SPIX, Dr. Joh. Bapt.; VON MARTIUS, Dr. C. F. Phil	Travels in Brazil in the Years 1817-1820	London	1824	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 125.00
174	BAILLIE-GROHMAN, (Wm. A.)	Camps in the Rockies	London	1882	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 50.00
175	YOUNGHUSBAND, (Lieut. G. J.)	Eighteen Hundred Miles On a Burmese Tat	London	1888	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 131.25

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.