Hansons: The Library Auction, 22625, Etwall, Derbyshire

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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
51 THATCHER, Margaret.

The Downing Street Years

London 1993 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 275.00
52 MASSIE, Chris.

Corridor of Mirrors, manuscript draft [originally titled My Friend Douglas],

London 1941 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,312.50
53 MASSIE, Chris.

Pity My Simplicity [Love Letters], manuscript draft [originally titled Fata Morgana], entirely handwritten in black ink, [iii]

London 1944 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 687.50
54 MASSIE, Chris.

Death Goes Hunting, incomplete manuscript draft, entirely handwritten in black ink,

c. 1953. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
55 MASSIE, Chris.

A collection of nine FIRST EDITIONS, all scarce, each one a PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author, comprising: Penny Whip, ...

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 500.00
56 ACHER, Frater.

Mutabor: A Journey into the Goetic Flesh

2024 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
57 BERTIAUX, Michael.

Cosmic Meditation, limited edition numbered 763/777, 8vo, limp boards, tipped-in colour frontispiece, near-fine/fine

London 2007 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
58 LEARY, Timothy.

High Priest,

Berkeley 1995 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 106.25
59 GARY, Gemma.

Wisht Waters: The Cult & Magic of Water

London 2022 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.00
60 GARY, Gemma (Ed.).

Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: The Little Key of Solomon

London 2023 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 106.25
61 ABRAHAMSSON, Carl.

Reasonances, 2000-2013: Essays, Lectures, Interviews

Bucknell 2014 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
62 ADAMS, Peter Mark.

The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca tarocchi

Bucknell 2017 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
63 FRISVOLD, Nicholaj & Katy de Mattos.

The Canticles of Lilith

London 2021 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 75.00
64 SKINNER, Stephen (Ed.).

Aleister Crowley's Four Books of Magic, Book 4 (Liber ABA)

London 2021 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
65 CHURTON, Tobias.

Aleister Crowley in England: The Return of the Great Beast

Rochester, Vermont 2021 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
66 TUTTI, Cosey Fanni.

Art Sex Music

London 2017 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 375.00
67 GRANT, Kenneth & Steffi.

Hidden Lore, Hermetic Glyphs

London 2006 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
68 GRANT, Kenneth.

Images & Oracles of Austin Oman Spare

London 2003 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 300.00
69 GRANT, Kenneth.

Borough Satyr: The Life and Art of Austin Osman Spare

London 2005 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 75.00
70 TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

[The Lord of the Rings]. The Fellowship of the Ring

London 1960-61 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
71 TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

[Lord of the Rings].

London 1963 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,812.50
72 TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

[The Lord of the Rings]. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King

London 1966-67. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 275.00
73 TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

Lord of the Rings, complete 3 vol.

London 1966, 1957, 1958 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 350.00
74 BOND, Michael.

A Bear Called Paddington

London 1958 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,875.00
75 PULLMAN, Philip (Intro.).

Paradise Lost

Oxford 2005 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 131.25
  • 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
  • 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
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    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.
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