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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 18, 2025 - September 18, 2025
Page Size: 392 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Lodge (David)

The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 533.40
27 Fraser (Antonia)@

Mary Soames, Sheridan Morley and Bernard Levin.- [A large quantity of non-fiction

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 584.20
28 McCarthy (Tom)

Remainder

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 431.80
29 Mitchell (David)

Ghostwritten

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,016.00
30 Symons (Julian)

Sweet Adelaide

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 381.00
31 Vidal (Gore)

The Smithsonian Institution

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
32 Aleksei (Gan)

Konstruktivizm [Constructivism]

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 381.00
33 Chernikov (Yakov Georgievich)

Arkhitecturnye fantazii [Architectural Fantasies]

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
34

A group of 4 miniature children's books

1937-39 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 190.50
35 Kirsanov (Semyon)

Posledniy Sovremennik [The Last Contemporary]

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
36 Kruchenykh (A.E.)

Lef Agitki Mayakovskogo

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
37 Kuznetsov (Pavel)

Turkestan. Avtolitografi. [Turkestan. Autolithographs]

Moscow and Petrograd GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
38 Punin (N.)

Vladimir Vasilyevitch Lebedev

1928 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
39 Sel'vinskii (Il'ya)

Zapiski Poeta [Notes of a Poet]

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
40 Tager (Elena)

Poyasok [The belt]

Petrograd 1930 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
41 Stenberg brothers.-

Dvorets Sovetov [Palace of the Soviets]

Moscow 1931 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
42 Abercrombie (Joe)

[The First Law trilogy]

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,016.00
43 Abercrombie (Joe)

[The Great Leveller trilogy]

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
44 Acton (Harold)

Memoirs of an Aesthete

1948 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
45 Adams (Douglas)

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 406.40
46 Adams (Douglas)

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
47 Adams (Douglas)

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
48 Adams (Douglas)

Mostly Harmless

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 152.40
49 Adiga (Aravind)

The White Tiger

2008 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
50 Allingham (Margery)

Look to the Lady

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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    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.
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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.