Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers: Collector's Auction of Toys, Postcards, Stamps, Coins, Whisky, Wine & Spirits, Medals and Militaria etc., 32025, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 92 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1300

Postcard collection of around 700 postcards

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 117.80
1301

Scottish topographical postcard collection

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 520.80
1302

Postcard collection held over three albums comprising over 100 postcards

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 80.60
1303

Large postcard collection held over eight albums

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
1304

Postcard collection comprising around 700 postcards

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 148.80
1305

Photograph and postcard collection held across two albums

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 372.00
1306

Collection of around 170 British topographical postcards

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 39.68
1307

Postcard collection comprising over 180 postcards

GBP 40.00 - 70.00 GBP 136.40
1308

Postcard collection held over multiple packets sorted by town or region

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 272.80
1309

Postcard collection held in one pink plastic folder containing around 160 postcards

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 59.52
1310

Postcard collection comprising around 70 postcards and photographs

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 62.00
1311

Postcard collection comprising around 130 postcards of Welsh interest

GBP 25.00 - 40.00 GBP 31.00
1312

Postcard collection comprising over 250 postcards of mostly English topographical interest

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.20
1313

Postcard collection comprising over 250 postcards of mostly English topographical

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 80.60
1314

A collection of signed and other stars of stage and screen portrait photographs and press cards

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
1315

Collection of Socialist and Soviet ephemera

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 124.00
1316

Mining Engineers Office Carron, a large map titled 'Newbigging Limestone Mine 1921'

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1317

Postcard collection of over 350 postcards, predominantly of Indian interest

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 868.00
1318

Postcard collection containing near 100 postcards of Egypt and Egyptian interest

GBP 30.00 - 60.00 GBP 37.20
1319

Photograph album containing views of Cape Town

GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 74.40
1350

GREAT BRITAIN GB first day cover FDC collection spanning 1977-2001

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 31.00
1355

Postal history collection, a ring binder folder

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 68.20
1356

GREAT BRITAIN GB Queen Victoria QV 1d penny black PH and three others

GBP 40.00 - 70.00 GBP 105.40
1392

GREAT BRITAIN GB and Benham , a vast collection of first day covers FDCs spanning 1937-2018

1937-2018 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 124.00
1400

GREAT BRITAIN GB Postal History, a Queen Victoria QV 1d penny black on cover

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 99.20
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  • Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
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    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
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    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
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    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
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    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
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    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
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    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
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