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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Printed Books, Maps and Documents

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Auction Name Printed Books, Maps and Documents Total Sales (GBP) 236,246.86
Auction Date October 01, 2025 - October 01, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 117,200.00
Sale Number #100125 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 176,870.00
Total Lots 469
Sold Lots 386.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 161,070.00
% of Lots Sold 82.30% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 242,020.00
Unsold Lots 83 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 97.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
86 Buc'hoz (Pierre-Joseph)

Premiere [-Seconde] Centurie de Planches enluminees et non enluminees

[1775]-1781 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,760.00
34 Lee (Samuel)

The Travels of Ibn Batuta

1829 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 7,930.00
234 Schedel (Hartmann)

World. Secunda etas Mundi

1493 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,588.00
85 Anderson (John)

Zoology of Egypt: Volume First, Reptilia and Batrachia

1898 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,344.00
102 Strutt (Jacob George)

Sylva Britannica

1826 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,612.00
17

Company School. l. A collection of 24 watercolours of Indian street sellers, traders, and costume

circa 1820-30 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,803.20
188 Smith (William)

England & Wales. A New Geological Map of England & Wales with the Inland Navigations exhibiting the Districts of Coal and other sites of Mineral Tonnage by William Smith

March 18th 1828 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,904.00
377

Royal Bookplates. Collection of approximately 200 ex-libris

19th-20th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 3,539.20
89 Donovan (Edward)

An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas

1800-[1804] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,416.00
53 Staunton (George)

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China

1798 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,928.00
228 S. D. U. K.

Walker (J. & C.), A collection of 47 city plans

circa 1840 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,684.00
49 Shackleton (Ernest)

The Heart of the Antarctic

1909 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,562.00
104 Warner (Robert, Benjamin Samuel Williams & Thomas Moore)

The Orchid Album

1882-85 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,562.00
344 Locke (John)

Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, the false Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his Followers, are Detected and Overthrown

1728 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,440.00
218 Brunton (Richard Henry)

Japan. Nippn [Japan]

1880 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,318.00
48 Shackleton (Ernest)

South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

1919 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,257.00
100

New Naturalist series

1945-2021 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,196.00
384 Bell (Robert Anning, 1863-1933)

Collection of 71 ex-libris by Robert Anning Bell

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,148.80
47 Roberts (David)

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia

1855-56 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,074.00
383

Russian and German bookplates. Collection of approximately 300 ex-libris

mostly early to mid-20th-century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,896.00
25 Edmonds (J. E. & others)

History of the Great War Based on Official Documents

1925-48 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,708.00
326 Ayscu (Edward)

A Historie contayning the Warres, Treaties, Marriages, and other occurrents betweene England and Scotland

1607 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,586.00
464

Everyman's Library. A near complete & extensive collection of approximately 1000 volumes

circa 1905-45 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,586.00
466 Nicklin (Susan)

Address to a Young Lady on her Entrance into the World

1796 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,464.00
419 Tolkien (J. R. R.)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

1965 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,403.00
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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.