Hansons: The Library Auction, 22625, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

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
226

Selection of Georgian era bindings, including: The Worthy Communicant by Jeremy Taylor

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 25.00
227

6 volumes (incomplete) of The Works of Francis Bacon from 1824, The Works of William Robertson from 1812, The History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V...

1824, 1812, 1802 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
228 [PIGOTT, Charles].

The Jockey Club, or A Sketch of the Manners of the Age

London 1792 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
229 ROLAND, George.

A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of the Art of Fencing

Edinburgh 1823 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 231.25
230 LINGARD, John.

The History of England

London 1849 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 237.50
231 GORER, Edgar; BLACKER, J. F.

Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, vol. 1 only

London 1911 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 350.00
232

Revue des Deux Mondes

Paris 1863-82, GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
233 GREEN, Thomas.

The Universal Herbal, complete in two volumes

London 1823 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 75.00
234 BEWICK, Thomas.

History of British Birds

Newcastle 1804 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 93.75
235

Histoire Naturelle, 6 volumes (incomplete),

1764-1785 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 68.75
236

The Book of Exotic Birds: A Series of Richly Colored Plates, Accompanied by Descriptions

London 1852 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
237 BANNERMAN, David Armitage.

The Birds of the British Isles

Edinburgh 1953-1963 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
238

Handbook of the Birds of Europe the Middle East and North Africa

Oxford 1980-1994 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
239 OSBORNE, (E. C.).

Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, or, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester Railway

Birmingham 1838 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 32.50
240 COBB, Colonel M. H.

The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas

Birmingham 2003 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.00
241

Album containing 59 humour postcards, c.1930s, including Tom Browne._ Album containing 70 military postcards, 1910-1930s. ...

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.50
242

Trade & Industry Catalogues. Scientific Apparatus and Laboratory Equipment (Eureka Scientific Co. Ltd., n.d.); Laxton's Builders' Price Book for 1893

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
243 Harry Hemsley (1877-1951).

An archive of original cartoons & presentation copies for Betty Christmas [Hemsley's accompanist on piano],

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 75.00
244 Gladys Cooper (1888-1971), English actress, theatrical manager and producer who received three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in The Song of Bernadette [1943], My Fair Lady [1964] and Now, Voyager [1942].

An archive of publicity & theatrical postcards, three SIGNED, one of which is additionally inscribed verso, over 1000 postcards

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 75.00
245

Selection of stylish items, including: Bette Davis Signed Photograph._ Estee A Success Story by Estee Lauder

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 52.50
246 [by W. & D. Downey],

Princess Alexandra holding the infant Prince Edward,

London c. 1895 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.00
247 W. & D. Downey.

Photographic Portraits. A collection of 54 carbon prints

c. 1890 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
248 Martin Wellard

Martin Wellard (Contemporary). An archive of original illustrations for books written by Colin McCall, numerous pen & ink drawings on 25 card mounts...

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
249

Original German lithograph depicting a scene from the German Revolutions of 1848, titled 'The Strange Year of 1848'

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
250 Circle of Eugene Delacroix

Circle of Eugene Delacroix (French, 1798-1863). A series of pencil & watercolour costume studies, including Bedouin, Albanian, and European figures,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    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
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
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