• 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.
  • 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.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    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.

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
230 TOURTEL (MARY)

RUPERT BEAR Annuals- A Very large collection of annuals, including: 1946 & 1947 (softback, very good); 1949; 1951, 1952; etc.

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
231 Cecil ALDIN

Time I was dead, pages from my autobiography.

1934 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
232 VERNE, Jules

Around the World in Eighty Days.

Philadelphia: -1873 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 175.00
233 LEWIS, C S

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children.

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,500.00
234 Dickens, C

1- The battle of life.

1846 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 225.00
235 Rudyard KIPLING

The Works, 25 volumes.

no date. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
236 MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred James

Pictures of Horses and English Life, With an Appreciation by Lionel Lindsay.

1927 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
237

1- British Flat Racing and Breeding, 1923; 2- British Steeplechasing and Racing In Ireland, 1927; 3- Racing and Breeding in America and the Colonies, 1931.

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
238 [TULL, Jethro]

The Horse-Hoing Husbandry or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation.

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
239 Shakespeare

Shakespeare Works.

1900-1903 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 750.00
240 Shakespeare Collection, including Clarke, C & M

The Plays of William Shakespeare, in 3 vols. Histories, Tragedies and Comedies.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
241 MENGOLI, Pietro

Geometriae Speciose Elementa (Six parts in one volume).

Bologna 1659 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
242 TOLKIEN, J R R

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.

1955 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 900.00
243

A group of four Tibetan Sowa Rigpa medical studies on paper,

17th/18th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 187.50
244 Annei Lucani Pharsalia

De Bello Civili, Libri Decem.

Lipsiae 1589 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 162.50
245 J M BARRIE

a collection of books removed from 23 Campden Hill Square, the home of the Llewelyn Davies family, whose children J M Barrie befriended and who were the inspiration for the Darling children and the Lost Boys.

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 150.00
246 GUILLIM, John

A Display of Heraldry, Manifesting A More Easy Access to The Knowledge Thereof &c &c.

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 187.50
247

COOKERY a collection, including: Raffald, E: The experience English housekeeper.

1805 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 250.00
248

Rotuli Parliamentorum ut et petitiones, et placita in Parliamento, The Rolls of Parliament, volumes 1-5.

1832 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
249 Cripps-Day, F H

The History of the Tournament in England and in France.

1918 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
250 WALPOLE, Horace

The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, in Five volumes.

1798 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
251 CAXTON

1- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, 2 Vols.

New York, Cambridge 1968 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 187.50
252

UK HISTORY, including: Fenn, John: Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, in 2 vols.

1787 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
253 [D'URFEY (THOMAS)]

Collin's Walk through London and Westminster, a Poem in Burlesque.

1690 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 150.00
254 ROSENBERG, Isaac, Gordon Bottomley

ROSENBERG, Isaac, Gordon Bottomley; Poems.

1922 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 75.00
  • 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.
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