• Bonhams, June 25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. $200,000 - $300,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Gersdorff, Hans Von. 1455-1529. Feldtbuch der wundartzney. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Pare, Ambroise. C.1509-1590. La Methode Curative des Playes, et Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraits des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles. $25,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Reisch, Gregor. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bright, Richard. 1789-1858. Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo. C. 1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Vicq D'Azyr, Felix. 1748-1794. Traite d'antomie et de physiologie. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Croce, Giovanni Andrea Della. 1509?-1775. Chirurgia libri septem... $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bruno Da Longburgo. 1200-1286. La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Schwann, Theodor. 1810-1882. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Cowper, William. 1666-1709. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life… $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bidloo, Govard. 1649-1713. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. $6,000 - $9,000
  • Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Audubon Birds of America, 1st Octavo Edition; 5 vols plus Journals, ex. J.J. Pringle. $4,000 to $4,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: American Ornithology Plates Folio in 2 Vols, A. Wilson and C. Bonaparte. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 23 CP Railroad Photographs c. 1883 by O.B. Buell. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Cormac McCarthy, Signed 1st Editions, The Passenger & Stella Maris Box Set. $1,700 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Oliver Buell Cabinet Photograph, Chief Crowfoot. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Colton's Atlas of the World, 1856, in Two Volumes; plus Africa / Mahdist War Map. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1805 Thomas Jefferson Inaugural Speech. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Barflies and Cocktails, Harry McElhone, First Edition Mixology Book. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1861 U. S. Grant Broadside Proclamation, Paducah, KY. $1,000 to $1,200.
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    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 2 John Overton Signed Letters, 1803, re: TN Statehood. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Simon Wastell "Microbiblion or The Bibles Epitome: in Verse" 1629. $600 to $700.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Thomas Lewis Family Letter Archive; Boston, Massachusetts. $400 to $500.
  • Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.

Sworders: Books and Maps - online 4/19, A1139, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 28, 2024 - April 28, 2024
Page Size: 293 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 BLAEU

BRITANNIA prout divisa fuit temporibus ANGLO-SAXONUM praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia.

c.1645. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 350.00
2 JANVIER, Jean

Les Isles Britanniques Comprenant les Royaumes d'Angleterre d'Ecosse et d'Irlande.

c.1762 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
3 Van Keulen

Paskaart van't Canaal Engelandt Schotlandt en Yrland.

c.1708. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
4 Morden Robert

The smaller Islands in the British Ocean (The Isle of Wight, Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Scilly, Isle of Man, Holy Island and Farne Isles).

c.1722. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
5 Walker (J & C)

A Geological Map of England and Wales.

1843 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 87.50
6 WALES Blaeu

Penbrochia Comitatus et Comitatus Caermaridunum.

Amsterdam c.1662. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
7 SPEED, John

Kent with Her Cities and Earles described and observed, hand-coloured, mounted, framed and glazed front and rear,

 c.1676 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
8 Blaeu, J

Middle-Sexia.

Amsterdam c.1662 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
9

16 Second World War Maps of England, Wales & Scotland, German Luftwaffe.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 237.50
10 CORONELLI, VM

Scotia, parte meridonale; Scotia, parte settentionale,

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
11 DE WIT, F

Novissima prae caeteris aliis accuratissima Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae,

Amsterdam c.1690. GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 400.00
12 Collins, Captain Greenvile

The East Coast of Scotland with the Isles of Orkney and Shetland.

c.1693 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
13

Collection of Maps including: Hertfordshire, 1840 and c.1880; Devonshire, c.1748; Cambridgeshire, c.1818; Bedfordshire; Isle of Thanet, c.1850; ...

 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
14 KENT Jansson, J

Cantium vernacule.

Amsterdam c.1650 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
15 GREENWOOD, C & J

Map of the County of Kent from an actual survey made in the years 1819 & 1820.

1829 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
16 Morden, Robert

Wiltshire.

c.1722. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
17 Braun, Georg & Frans Hogenberg

Brighstowe vulgo quondam venta (Bristol City Plan).

c.1581 or later GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 375.00
18 Speed, John & Norden, John

Sussex Described and divided into Rapes with the siutuation of Chichester the cheife citie thereof.

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 225.00
19 Stow, John

Farrington Ward without its Division into parishes taken from the last survey.

c.1754. GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 87.50
20 Smith, C

A New Map of the County of Kent Divided into Lathes &c.

c.1804. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
21 [DRAYTON, Michael]

KENT.

c.1622. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
22 Speed, J

Kent with her cities and Earles described & observed.

c.1616, GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 200.00
23 Speed, J

Penbrokshyre described and the Situations both of Penbroke and St. Davids shewed in due form,

c.1676 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 162.50
24 SPEED, John Dorsetshyre

With the Shyre towne Dorcester described, as also the Armes of such noble families as have bene honored with the Titles there of since the Normans Conquest to this present Anno.

1610 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 162.50
25 SPEED, John

Essex, devided into Hundreds, with the most antient and fayre Towne Colchester Described and other memorable Monuments observed.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
  • Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
  • Finarte, July 4-5: FERMI, ENRICO. Letters, 1923. €30,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The comedy, 1477. €45,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The Comedy [Commentary by Christophorus Landinus]. Addition: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in Latin and Italian], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ASTRONOMIA - CALENDARIO - REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES (MÜLLER, JOHANN, OF KÖNIGSBERG) Kalendarium, 1483. €5,000 to €7,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: CATERINA II DI RUSSIA, Parchment diploma granted by Catherine II of Russia, 1778. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: VICO, GIAMBATTISTA New Science Principles, 1725.
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