• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • 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 Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, 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.

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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