Hansons: The Library Auction, 22625, Etwall, Derbyshire

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025
Page Size: 256 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 [Hugh Cecil (1889-1974)].

An original glass plate negative of Edward VIII (1894-1972), produced for the Royal Mint for use on stamps and planned coinage, [1936].

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,375.00
2 CHILD, Thomas.

Views of North China. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY. A collection of 65 albumen prints

1870-80 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
3

IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHS. An archive from the Mayor & Mayoress of Sheffield

 1940-41 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
4 HAWKING, Stephen.

STARMUS: 50 Years of Man in Space, first printing [one of only 500 copies that were made available to attendees], SIGNED with thumbprint by Stephen Hawking

 2014 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,250.00
5

Skylab-3 Mission. An unusual "laminated plaque" [photographic image printed directly onto wood], depicting a huge solar flare

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
6

Malby's Terrestrial Globe'.

[London] 1843 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
7 Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922).

TLS [Typed Letter Signed] on The Trans-Antarctic Expedition letterhead, 17 June 1914, addressed to E. H. Bayliss Esq.,

1914 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,625.00
8

The Conquest of Everest [Tom Stobart], three 35mm film reels in original Kodak cans bearing remnants of labels, Countryman Films Group 3, together with one 16mm reel of "Tensing's Country".

1953, 1955 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
9 Katushika Hokusai (1760-1849).

Poem by Samurai Dayu from Hokusai's final series of prints -

 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
10 Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).

Saint Simon

 1523 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 812.50
11 Jakob Andreas Fridrich the Younger (German, 1714--1779).

engraving of the Imperial Forces of Francis I Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Maria Theresa of Austria encamped at Ladenburg and Neuenheim on the River Neckar on September 28th 1745 during the war of the Austrian Succession.

1745 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
12 BURY, Thomas Talbot (illus.).

Six Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,

 London 1831 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 875.00
13

Georgian era scrapbook compiled by John Newman (d.1824) of Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,375.00
14 William Hogarth

The Works of William Hogarth,

 London 1822 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 42.50
15 [HEATH, William (Illust.)].

The Glasgow Looking Glass, Vol. 1, No. 2,

Glasgow 1825 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 275.00
16 CRUIKSHANK, George.

The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead,

London 1820 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,125.00
17 Walter Ernest "Wally" Fawkes, 'Trog' (b.1924),

original satirical cartoon depicting Harold Wilson handing a copy of 'The Queen's opening of Parliament speech' to his wife Mary

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
18 David Knight (British, 20th Century),

The Cabinet in Session'

 1966 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 275.00
19 Stanley Franklin (1930-2004),

"We'll meet again..."

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
20 Stanley Franklin (1930-2004),

original ink cartoon, published in the Sun newspaper 12 July 1975, depicts Harold Wilson in charge of the Cabinet/crew of H.M.S Self-Sacrifice

 1975 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 125.00
21 Paul Rigby (1924-2006),

original ink satirical cartoon, stamped 'received' and 'used' 20th June 1973 by the Sun newspaper Art Library on verso

 1973 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
22 Stanley Franklin (1930-2004),

original ink satirical cartoon, depicts Wilson as the 'Blackpool Rock' on which the 'looney left' ship has been wrecked

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 125.00
23 Raymond Jackson, 'JAK' (1927-1997),

original ink satirical cartoon, depicts Harold Wilson as a lion tamer and his Cabinet as lions, dated 3 April 1969

 1969 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
24 Frank Reynolds (1876-1953)

3 original pen and ink cartoons by artist and illustrator Frank Reynolds (1876-1953)

 n.d. c.1930s GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
25 Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), engraved by Robert Havell senior (1769-1832)

Stonehenge 1815 - Grand Conventicle Festival of the Britons.

 London 1815 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 181.25
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    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
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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
    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
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
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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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    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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    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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