Tooveys: Antiquarian and Collectors' Books, 112625, West Sussex

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025

Page Size: 216 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
4126	Miss TULLY	LIBYA. -- Letters Written During A Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli	London	1819	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 81.25
4127	[RABAUT, Jean-Paul]	An Impartial History of the French Revolution	Perth	1795	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
4128	Batty and Thomas LANGLEY	ARCHITECTURE. -- The Builder's Jewel: or, the Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer	London	1763	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 93.75
4129		BIBLE, In English. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible	London	1792	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.00
4130	William SALMON	COOKERY. -- The Family-Dictionary: or, Household Companion	London	1705	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 125.00
4131	X. Marcel BOULESTIN	COOKERY. -- Having Crossed the Channel...	London	1934	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 125.00
4133	WILKES, David	A General View of the Stage	London	1759	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
4134	HAYLEY, William	The Triumphs of Temper	Chichester	1809	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 56.25
4135	Edward-Gibbon SWANN	SUSSEX. -- General Santa Anna's Ghost: The Story of a Revenant Which is Actually True	Burgess Hill	1894	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 37.50
4136	Charles CROCKER	SUSSEX IMPRINTS. -- The Vale of Obscurity, The Lavant, and Other Poems	Chichester	1830	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
4137	BEETON, Samuel (editor)	The Young Englishwoman	London	1872	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	Not Sold
4138	S. Morris BOWER (editor)	CLIMATE. -- Census of Thunderstorms in the British Islands 1925-1936	Huddersfield	1933	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
4139	HARFORD, Alice (editor)	Annals of the Harford Family	London	1909	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 56.25
4140	Walter SCOTT	INDIA	Edinburgh	1822	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
4141		BIBLE, In English. The Holy Bible Containing the old Testament and the New	Cambridge	1663	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 525.00
4142	John Henry SYLVESTER	INDIA. -- Recollections of the Campaign in Malwa and Central India Under Major General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B.	Bombay	1860	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 750.00
4143	[Thomas WRIGHT]	CATHOLIC SECRET PRESS. -- The Disposition or Garnishmente of the Soule to receive worthily the blessed sacrament devyded into three discourses, 1 Preparation	Antwerp [but England]	1596	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 350.00
4144	R. NORTH	INDIA. -- The Punjab Frontier Force	Dera Ismail Khan	1934	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 450.00
4145	Vera G. PRAGNELL	VINE PRESS (publisher). -- The Story of the Sanctuary	Steyning	1928	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 150.00
4146	PATOUART, Fils	GUITAR. -- La Muse Lyrique: Dediee a la Reine. Recueil d' Airs avec Accompagnement de Guitarre	Paris	[1775]	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 100.00
4147		BINDING. The Holy Bible	Edinburgh	1772	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 275.00
4148	KIPLING, Rudyard	Soldier's Three, a Collection of Stories	Allahabad	1889	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 50.00
4149		MINIATURE BOOK. The Smallest Dictionary in the World	Glasgow	[1893]	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 50.00
4150		PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPT. [Seven leaves of a Burmese Buddhist text in Pali script with ink illustrations]	[N.p.]	[circa 1900]	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 31.25
4151	Nelson MANDELA	SIGNED BOOK. -- Long Walk to Freedom	London	1997	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold

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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.
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.