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Gorringes: Weekly Featuring Toys and Transport

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Auction Name	Weekly Featuring Toys and Transport	Total Sales (GBP)	9,854.00
Auction Date	November 10, 2025 - November 10, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	3,200.00
Sale Number	#111025	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	4,650.00
Total Lots	46
Sold Lots	42.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	3,410.00
% of Lots Sold	91.30%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	4,970.00
Unsold Lots	4	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	198.27%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
757	After Sir William Nicholson	twelve woodblock-style colour lithographs from 'The Almanac of twelve sports' / 'The Sporting Calendar',		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 598.00
369		Ordnance Survey - One Inch Seventh Series maps, complete collection of index and 189 loose sheets as a boxed set.		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 546.00
400		Three boxes of railway related books, subjects include; Stationary Steam Engines, Traction Engines, South Eastern Railway,		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 520.00
351		Devon, 1809, Lt. Col. William Mudge of The Royal Artillery, The Second Part of the General Survey of England and Wales	1809	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 468.00
399		Three boxes of railway related books, subjects include; Stroudley Locomotives, Sussex Steam, the LSWR, Drummond Locomotives,		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 468.00
343		Kent, Ordnance Survey maps, comprising of a set of six engraved maps		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 442.00
356		Ordnance Survey maps of Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire, N. Huntingdonshire and W. Norfolk &c.,		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 416.00
350		Kent and East Sussex, a set of four 1850s engraved maps mounted on linen, engraved by Benjamin Baker,	1850s	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 390.00
348		The West Midlands, Ordnance Survey maps, comprising of a set of nine engraved maps mounted on linen		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 364.00
401		Two boxes of railway related books, subjects include; the Festiniog Railway, the Welsh Highland Railway,		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 364.00
402		Three boxes of railway related books, subjects include; Castles & Kings at Work, Great Western Kings,		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 364.00
347		Cambridge, Bedford & Herts., Ordnance Survey maps, comprising of a set of six engraved maps		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 338.00
353		Ordnance Survey maps, comprising of a set of seven engraved maps mounted on linen		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 338.00
403		Three boxes of railway related books, subjects include; Wartime GWR, SR 150, Great Western Railway		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 338.00
344		Volume One, Ordnance Survey maps, c.1864, comprising of a set of seven engraved maps	c.1864	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 286.00
352		Ordnance Survey maps of Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire, N. Huntingdonshire and W. Norfolk &c.,		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 286.00
354		Ordnance Survey maps of Devon, including part of Somerset and Cornwall,		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 260.00
355		Ordnance Survey maps of Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire, N. Huntingdonshire and W. Norfolk &c.,		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 260.00
358		Ordnance Survey maps of Dorset, comprising of a set of four engraved maps mounted on linen,		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 247.00
345		Devon, Ordnance Survey maps, c.1860s, comprising of a set of seven engraved maps	c.1860s	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 182.00
364		A collection of forty-eight mid to late 19th century Ordnance Survey maps, areas covered include;	mid to late 19th century	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 182.00
368		A collection of twenty-seven late 19th and early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps,	late 19th and early 20th century	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 169.00
395		Three boxes of railway related books, subjects include; British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives,		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 169.00
357		Ordnance Survey maps, comprising of a set of eight engraved maps mounted on linen and each edged		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 156.00
397		Three boxes of railway related books, subjects include; the Brighton Atlantics, the Modified Bulleid Pacifics,		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 156.00

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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.