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Auction Name Home Furnishings and Interiors Total Sales (GBP) 1,542.56
Auction Date October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 0.00
Sale Number #101625 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 0.00
Total Lots 47
Sold Lots 46.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 97.87% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 0.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
411 LORNA MULVEY,

Forth Rail Bridge

Not Available GBP 161.20
412 RALPH CLARKSON; FLORENCE PAGE; J HOUSTON; JAMES CONNELL,

St Giles; John Knox's House Edinburgh; Bakehouse Close Edinburgh; Scottish Shrine, and an unsigned etching of Holyrood Palace Edinburgh.

Not Available GBP 124.00
357

Box of books to include Venice Art and Architecture, A Pageant of Painting, The Dark Ages, etc.

Not Available GBP 80.60
340

Two boxes of books to include R.L.Stevenson, Tusitala Edition 34 volumes, Ancient Cities 3 volume, etc.

Not Available GBP 62.00
350A

20th Century Puffin Picture Books titles to include Orlando's Home Life, On The Farm, Wonder of Animal-Life, The Story of China, Pantomine Stories, Zoo Animals, The Magic of Coal, Waterways of the World, Locomotives, The Story of Iron, Extinct Animals har

20th Century Not Available GBP 59.52
352

Box of books to include Folio Society The Father Brown Stories with slip case and other all with slip cases, etc.

Not Available GBP 59.52
357B

Three boxes of books to include fiction and non fiction, etc.

Not Available GBP 55.80
452

Railwayana interest, two framed diagrams of signalling arrangements at Waverley Station Edinburgh

Not Available GBP 52.08
350

Box of books to include The Grove Encyclopaedia of Northern Renaissance Art 3 volumes, etc.

Not Available GBP 49.60
356

Two boxes of books to include War and Peace, etc.

Not Available GBP 49.60
328

Three shelves containing books to include Farming, Flowering plants, etc.

Not Available GBP 43.40
351

Four hardback art books to include Paintings in the National Gallery London, ArtInVenice, Western Europea Illuminated Manuscripts and Renaissance Venice and the North.

Not Available GBP 43.40
357A

Four boxes of books to include fiction and non fiction.

Not Available GBP 43.40
357F

Box containing boos to include John Galsworthy volumes, The Works of the Brontes, The Temple Edition, etc.

Not Available GBP 39.68
329

Three shelves containing books to include Charles Dickens, A History of Private Life four volumes, Farm Livestock of Great Britain, etc.

Not Available GBP 37.20
341

Two boxes of books to include Bells Cathedral Series, etc.

Not Available GBP 37.20
352A P.G.Wodehouse

Best of Blandings folio society six volumes with slip case.

Not Available GBP 37.20
357G

Three boxes of books to include art reference books.

Not Available GBP 37.20
334

Mahogany glaze fronted bookcase with Encyclopaedia Britannica 16 volume set.

Not Available GBP 34.72
345

Two boxes of art books, etc.

Not Available GBP 34.72
451 J HARRIS after HENRY THOMAS ALKEN (British 1785-1851),

The Dandelion and A Jonquill (One of the Flowers of our Hunt) two prints

1851 Not Available GBP 34.72
377

Tomlinsons Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures two volumes and two volumes of The Book of the Garden.

Not Available GBP 31.00
412E JAMES SPENCE RGI RSW (Scottish 1929-2016),

Toledo Alcazar

Not Available GBP 27.28
352B

The History of Venice in Painting, Georges Duby, Guy Lobrichon in slip case.

Not Available GBP 24.80
342

Two boxes of books to contain mainly art .

Not Available GBP 18.60
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.