Cotswold Auction Company: Books, Medals, Militaria, Coins, Stamps & Collectables, 92325, Cheltenham

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 23, 2025 - September 23, 2025

Page Size: 113 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
25	Dickens, Charles	Dickens, Charles works			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 19.32
26		The Cambridge Modern History		1934	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
27	El Noreste	Art, Spanish Art and Art History, to include 'Cartografico'		2016	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
28		Art and art history - to include 'Art Treasures of Croatia' 'A Great British Collection'		19th November 2008	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
29	Garstin, Sir William	'Basin of the Upper Nile - Dispatch from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo......'			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 115.92
30	Baxter, Richard	Antiquarian interest to include 'Wonders of Nature and Art', 'British Poets', 'History of England', 'Watson's Essays'			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 334.88
31	Cook, James	'A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around The World, Performed in his Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775.....'	London	1777	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 360.64
32	Dore, Gustave (ills)	Binding - 'The History of Don Quixote by Cervantes			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 109.48
33		Assorted volumes, to include four volumes from The Hunting Library		1900 and 1903	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 70.84
34		Bound volumes of The Sporting Magazine dating from 1831, 1832, 1833, 1837, 1842, 1843 and 1848			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 64.40
35	Johns, Captain W.E.	various Biggles novels to include first editions of 'Comrades in Arms'		1947	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 23.18
36	Scott, Sir Walter	'The Waverley Novels'	Edinburgh	1891	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 25.76
37	(Anne Harriet Fish) (ills)	'Fish' - 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam....'		1922	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 51.52
38	Churchill, Winston	'The Second World War'		1948	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
39		Antiquarian - Bibles - to include 'The World Universal Family Bible .... with practical reflections on each chapter...'			GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 25.76
40	[Cary]	Map - 'Worcestershire from the best of Authorities' (1806)		-1806	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 12.88
41	[John Mills 1645-1707]	Joannis Millii HE KAINE DIATHEKE (Graece)		MDCCVII (1707)	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
42	Durand & Hastings	Militaria, relating to the London Rifle Brigade to include 'The London Rifle Brigade 1919 to 1950'		1952	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 64.40
43	Major R.H.W.S.	The Royal Green Jacket's Chronicle 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's and 1990's, and paperback journals 2022		1950	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
44		The Rifle Brigade Chronicle from 1890 to 1899, 1900 to 1938			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 206.08
44A	Maurice, Major General Sir Frederick (intro)	'The History of the London Rifle Brigade 1859 - 1919'		1921	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
44B	Berkeley, Reginald	'The History of the Rifle Brigade in the War of 1914-1918'	London	1927	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
44C		London Rifle Brigade First World War interest - letters - handwritten letters from France regarding rifleman Thomas Wisby Wright 303051			GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 38.64
45		Fine binding - Cedric Chivers , Bath - Menpes, Mortimer: text by Dorothy Menpes		1906	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 772.80
46		Fine binding - Cedric Chivers, Bath - Menpes, Mortimer "Japan a Record in Colour ...."		-1901	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 669.76

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.