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Auction Name	Weekly Antiques, Collectables & Effects	Total Sales (GBP)	1,117.38
Auction Date	October 13, 2025 - October 13, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	0.00
Sale Number	#101325	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	0.00
Total Lots	58
Sold Lots	37.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	0.00
% of Lots Sold	63.79%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	0.00
Unsold Lots	21	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
577		Books to include the Naturalists Library	Not Available	GBP 455.04
710	Richard Spare	Companular	Not Available	GBP 53.09
711	Richard Spare	Red Gladioli	Not Available	GBP 53.09
170		Nine various framed book prints of butterflies	Not Available	GBP 50.56
24		Large framed Battle of Britain Memorial Flight over Beachy Head, coloured print, framed and glazed	Not Available	GBP 48.03
20	Robert Taylor	Robert Taylor two coloured prints Steaming into Wind and Phantom Launch	Not Available	GBP 44.24
640		Box of assorted vintage prints, framed	Not Available	GBP 37.92
19	Gerald Coulson	Gerald Coulson coloured print British Airways Concorde, signed, framed and glazed	Not Available	GBP 31.60
58		A group of various albums of vintage cigarette cards together with a Victorian photograph album (	Not Available	GBP 25.28
236		Three assorted pictures and prints	Not Available	GBP 25.28
619		Books, sporting interest and others	Not Available	GBP 25.28
160	Rob Hefferan,	Summer Pals, coloured print together with a further modern oil on canvas study of a	Not Available	GBP 18.96
500		Two reproduction tin plate signs and an oil on canvas, unframed	Not Available	GBP 18.96
595		Books, hardback fiction and non fiction	Not Available	GBP 18.96
617		Books, assorted hardback reference and others	Not Available	GBP 18.96
111		A box of various first day covers, stock books of world stamps etc	Not Available	GBP 15.17
204		A group of four various ornithological prints	Not Available	GBP 15.17
206	T.McLean	T.McLean caricature prints State Cricket Match, Vaux Hunting and Reconciliation, framed and	Not Available	GBP 15.17
608		Books and ephemera including local interest	Not Available	GBP 15.17
76		An album of vintage postcards	Not Available	GBP 12.64
294		Group of pictures and prints to include a watercolour of Thorpe St Andrew Parish Church	Not Available	GBP 12.64
177	after Monet	Coloured print after Monet	Not Available	GBP 10.11
676		Books, movie reference and others	Not Available	GBP 10.11
172	After Robert Back	The Sea Cadet Training Brig TS Royalist passing Greenwich, coloured print,	Not Available	GBP 6.32
178	after Jack Vetriano	Coloured print after Jack Vetriano	Not Available	GBP 6.32

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.
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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.