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Auction Date: September 11, 2025 - September 11, 2025

Page Size: 298 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
251	Beeton (Mrs. Isabella)	Mrs Beeton's Every-Day Cookery, half-title		1923	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 6.35
252		CocktailsThe Cocktail Key		[c.1930].	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 63.50
253	Lane (C., publisher)	Lane's Telescopic View of the Interior of the Exhibition		1851	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 825.50
254		GuildhallBanquet Invitations[c.55 Invitations to a Banquet at Guildhall]		v.d.,1851-1930.	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 635.00
255		Agriculture BroadsidesReal Estate and Land Auction[Collection of 25 broadsides mostly relating to land and property sales]		v.d., [1843-1917].	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 38.10
256	[Hughes (Thomas)]	The Scouring of the White Horse	Cambridge	1859	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 190.50
257	Dickens (Charles)	Our Mutual Friend		1864-65.	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 584.20
258		Suffolk bathingWoodbridge public salt water swimming bath. Subscriptions invited. Prospectus	Woodbridge	1887.	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
259		PanoramasWilliam Hamilton's latest novelty excursions, Sea to Sea, from the rising to the setting sun	Netherfield near Nottingham	[1894].	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
260	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	The Works		1900	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 698.50
261	Steiner (Rudolf)	The Way of Initiation		1908	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 190.50
262	Thompson (Flora)	Lark Rise to Candleford, illustrations		2009	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 12.70
263	Elliot (Daniel Giraud)	A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise	New York and Amsterdam	1977	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 889.00
264	Burnett (M[ary] A[nn])	Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine		1842-45-[47]-50.	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,016.00
265	Curtis (William)	Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London	Lambeth-Marsh	1777-98	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 4,318.00
266	Harrison (Joseph)	The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist's Magazine		1837-44	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 355.60
267	Maund (Benjamin)	The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain...		1878	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 381.00
268	Paxton (Joseph)	Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants		1837-49	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,016.00
269	Darwin (Charles)	The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection		1885	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 254.00
270	Repton (Humphry)	Circle of. Landscape with oak trees from an as yet unidentified estate		1794	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 139.70
271	[Dezallier d'Argenville (Antoine)]	The Theory and Practice of Gardening		1728	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 190.50
272		GrassesPerson of Honour lately deceased. St. Foine improved: a discourse shewing the utility and benefit which England hath and may receive by the grasse called St. Foine: and answering to objections urged against it		1674	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
273	Henry (Alken 1785-1851)	An Album of six hunting watercolours		[early 19th century]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 279.40
274	Commerell (Abbe de)	An Account of the culture and use of the mangel wurzel, or root of scarcity		1788	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 69.85
275	Bartholin (Thomas)	Bartholinus Anatomy; made from the Precepts of his Father		1668	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 558.80

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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.