Chiswick Auctions: The Art of Nature, 42925, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
Page Size: 46 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

THE HOUSTON MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, 1933

1933 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 353.00
1A BISSON FRERES (LOUIS-AUGUSTE BISSON, 1814--1876 AND AUGUSTE-ROSALIE BISSON, 1826--1900)

LE MONT BLANC ET GLACIER DES BOSSONS,

c.1862. GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
23 ENID BLYTON

ROUND THE YEAR,

1934 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
37 WENCESLAUS HOLLAR (BOHEMIAN 1607--1677), FALCK & DE WIT

A Paeony, etched plate from Hollar's 'Animalium, ferarum, et bestiarum, florum, fructuum, muscarum, vermiumque icones variae, omnes ad vivum delineatae'

1663 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
38 AFTER NICOLAES VISSCHER II (DUTCH) (1649-1702)

A collection of eight festoon engravings, including 'Feston van Flora' and 'Feston van Cybele',

c.1670-1702 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
39 AFTER JOHN NASH RA (BRITISH 1893-1977)

Datura, 2020

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 101.00
40 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL.

A CURIOUS HERBAL...A collection of 12 hand-coloured copperplates from this magnificent herbal

[1737-39] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 189.00
41 AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL (C. 1797)

Salix exigua

1797 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 945.00
42 ELIZABETH ANN BRISCOE (1780-1842)

A lychee

1811 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 945.00
43 VICTORIAN PRESSED FLOWER ALBUM

Album with 82 pages with pressed flowers each with printed or manuscript notes describing each and dated, presented within mounts, contemporary half morocco, a.e.g., sm. Folio

[1893-94] GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 328.00
44 S. D. BROWN [BRITISH fl.1910]

Album, containing a collection of 26 original natural history watercolours and drawings, together with a few other general drawings, original skiver, worn, lacking spine, initialled and dated, sm. 4to.,

[1910] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
45 AFTER RORY MCEWEN (SCOTTISH 1932-1982)

Flowering Artichoke

1971 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 945.00
46 BRADBURY & EVANS, c.1855 -1856 edited by John Lindley

A PAIR OF NATURE PRINTS, Comprising Plate XI [Polystichum aculeatum lobatum] and Plate XXXI [A. Asplenium fontanum B. Asplenium lanceolatum] from Thomas Moore's (1821-1887) "The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland",

1857 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
47

CYANOTYPE BOTANICAL STUDIES, c.1880

c.1880 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 353.00
82 CHARLES DARWIN

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,

1866 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,071.00
83

LONDON ZOO INTEREST- Animals Studies, 1950s-1970s

1950s-1970s GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 151.00
84 Various Photographers, c.1960s

LONDON ZOO INTEREST, c.1960s. A group of nineteen (19) vintage silver gelatin press prints related to the London Zoo

c.1960s. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
85

LONDON ZOO INTEREST - Chimpanzees at the London Zoo, c.1949- 1956

c.1949- 1956 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 101.00
86 Nick Brandt (b.1964)

ELEPHANT EXODUS I, AMBOSELI, 2001.

2001 GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
93 MICHEL GHATAN (SWISS, B.1975)

CHEETAH STATUE, 2021

2021, printed later GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
100 PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER

On the Rhinoceroses now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie, extract from vol. IX of 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London' (pp.645-660),

1886 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
103 AERT SCHOUMAN (DUTCH 1710-1792)

Macaque

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
104 WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926)

Kudu

GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
105 WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926)

Young Springbok

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
106 WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926)

North American Rattlesnake

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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  • Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Peter Max, Portrait of Mary Tyler Moore (Versions 1,2, 5, 6), 2001. Estimate $10,000-15,000
    DOYLE: The iconic screen-used wall-mounted "M" from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Estimate $5,000-8,000
    DOYLE: The Mary Tyler Moore Show by Al Hirschfeld. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Annie Leibovitz presents Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke for Vanity Fair. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    DOYLE: Al Hirschfeld presents Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in the CBS Wednesday Night Lineup. Estimate $4,000-6,000
    DOYLE: Richard McKenzie, Portrait of Mary Tyler Moore. Estimate $1,000-2,000
    Doyle
    The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore
    June 4, 2025
    DOYLE: Three Original Bill Hargate Costume Designs for The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Estimate $600-800
    DOYLE: The famous Bonnie and Clyde "Wanted" broadside. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE: Ticket to the Final Episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show Estimate $400-600
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    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
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