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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
26	Ravilious (Eric).- Richards (J.M.)	High Street		1938	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,159.00
27	Ravilious (Eric).- White (Rev. Gilbert)	The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne		1938	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 457.20
28	Ravilious (Eric)	Monotype Corporation Ltd. [Calendar for 1954]		[1953]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,079.50
29	Ravilious (Eric)	The Wood Engravings...		1972	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 431.80
30	Ravilious (Eric)	The Wood Engravings...		1972	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 2,159.00
31	Ravilious (Eric)	The Wood Engravings...		1972	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 254.00
32	Ravilious (Eric).- Dalrymple (Robert)	& others. The Complete Wedgwood Designs of Eric Ravilious		1986	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 304.80
33	Ravilious (Eric)	For Shop Use Only: Curwen & Dent Stock Blocks & Devices		1993	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 355.60
34	Ravilious (Eric)	Submarine Dream: Lithographs and Letters		1996	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 825.50
35	Ravilious (Eric)	Four Wood Engravings...made in 1933 for the Golden Hours Press' Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta		1998	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
36	Ravilious (Eric).- Ullmann (Anne, editor)	Ravilious at War	Upper Denby	2002	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 241.30
37	Ravilious (Eric).- Archer (Caroline)	and Robert Harling. The St Bride Notebook...with wood engravings by Eric Ravilious published to celebrate the centenary of his birth	Oldham	2003	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 355.60
38	Ravilious (Eric).- Trant (Carolyn)	Art for Life: The Story of Peggy Angus	Oldham	2004	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 355.60
39	Ravilious (Eric).- Greenwood (Jeremy)	Ravilious: Engravings	Woodbridge	2008	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
40	Ravilious (Eric).- Ullmann (Anne)	, Christopher Whittick & Simon Lawrence. Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters & Design	Upper Denby	2008, 2002	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 533.40
41	Ravilious (Eric).- Garwood (Tirzah)	Long Live Great Bardfield & love to you all: her Autobiography, 1908-43		2012	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,397.00
42	Bawden (Edward)	Christmas Book Shop (The): The Year's Best Books		[1924]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 558.80
43	Bawden (Edward)	Pavilion Hotel Scarborough		1934	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 762.00
44	Bawden (Edward)	Cattle Market, Braintree, l	London	1937	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,397.00
45	Bawden (Edward)	Aesop's Fables: An Old Crab & a Young		1956	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 889.00
46	Bawden (Edward)	Christmas card: An old crab and a young		[circa 1956]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 165.10
47	Bawden (Edward).- Carolino (Pedro)	English as She is Spoke		1960	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 457.20
48	Bawden (Edward)	Hold Fast By Your Teeth		1963	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 457.20
49	Bawden (Edward)	Borough market, from 'Six London Markets'		1967	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,048.00
50	Bawden (Edward).- Greenwood (Jeremy)	Edward Bawden: Editioned Prints	Woodbridge	2005	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 330.20

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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.