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
201

Opera memorabilia: programmes, postcards and handbills.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 93.75
202

A miscellaneous collection of books to include A New Sequel to Mrs. Barbauld's Lessons, Adapted for Children from four to seven years old,

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
203 [MORERI, Louis].

The Great Historical, Geographical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History

London 1694 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
204 BERRIMAN, William.

An Historical Account of the Controversies That Have Been In The Church

London 1725 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 55.00
205

Library of classics, including: The Sisters Bronte, Thornton edition, 7 volumes

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 62.50
206

Collection of vintage children's books, including: Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus

GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.00
207

Selection of books relating to classical music, opera and art. Includes: Bayreuth guidebook 1911._Bayreuth Album 1892._ ...

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
208 SHAW, George.

General Zoology - Insects, vol. VI parts 1 and 2

London 1806 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
209 BARCLAY, The Rev. James.

A Complete and Universal Dictionary

London 1848 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 93.75
210 [Cleland, John].

Memoirs of the Life of Fanny Hill, Or, The Career of A Woman of Pleasure

London n.d., c. 1870-80 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.50
211 KEYNES, John Maynard.

The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money

London 1936 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 68.75
212 HOUSMAN, Clemence.

The Life of Sir Aglovale De Galis

London 1905 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
213 BAILEY, Nathan.

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary

London 1726 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 81.25
214 SCOTT, Walter.

The Fortunes of Nigel

Edinburgh 1822 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 150.00
215 HAGGARD, (H. Rider).

A collection of novels, some first editions, various publishers, the earlier titles mostly by Longmans, to include She (1887), Cleopatra (1889),...

GBP 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
216 Juvenalia.

Fables Ancient & Modern, by Edward Baldwin, Vol. II only

London 1805 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.00
217 David Hume and Tobias Smollett,

The History of England by David Hume and Tobias Smollett

London 1825 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
218 Lucretius.

De Rerum Nature [On the Nature of Things]

Leiden 1725 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 231.25
219

13 volumes of literary periodical the Quarterly Review,

1809- 1856 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 13.75
220

Yiddish Pentateuch, Together with [The Makhzor, Holiday Prayers,

1893, 1864 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
221

A mixed selection of bindings, including: View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam

1834._ Plutarch's Lives, vol 1 only 1733 GBP 30.00 - 60.00 GBP 45.00
222 Thucydidis -

History of the Peloponnesian War, in Greek and Latin

1788 GBP 100.00 - 300.00 GBP 93.75
223

Selection of antique bindings, including: Nouveau Dictionnaire de Sieges et Batailles, in 6 volumes, vol. 5 front board detached

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.50
224 DARWIN, Erasmus.

The Botanic Garden

London 1824 GBP 100.00 - 120.00 GBP 181.25
225 PRIOR, Matthew.

Poems on Several Occasions

London 1725 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 13.75
  • 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
  • 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
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