Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 93025a, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 30, 2025 - September 30, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Fearnside (W. G.) | Black and Armstrong, c. 1850 |
GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 428.00 | ||
| 102 | The Thames. A collection of topography and literature, including: |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 103 | Morris (F. O., Revd.) editor, | A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, |
[1880] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 239.00 | |
| 104 | Butler (Arthur G.) | Foreign Finches in Captivity, |
1894-96 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 882.00 | |
| 105 | Crawshay (Richard) | The Birds of Tierra del Fuego, |
1907 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 454.00 | |
| 106 | Daniell (William) | Interesting Selections from Animated Nature with Illustrated Scenery, |
[1807- 1812] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 882.00 | |
| 107 | Emerson (P.H.) | Wild Life on a Tidal Water, The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew , |
1890 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 403.00 | |
| 108 | Furber (Robert) after & Bowles (John) | Five plates from 'Flora, or a curious collection of ye most Beautiful Flowers as they appear in their greatest perfection each Month of the Year' (January, March, April, July and November), |
Cornhill | [1749] (5) | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,260.00 |
| 109 | Lear (Edward) | Illustrations of Birds drawn for John Gould, |
2012 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | |
| 110 | Low (David) | The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands. |
1842 | GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,394.00 | |
| 111 | Milne-Edwards, (Henri & Alphonse) | Recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des mammiferes comprenant ... |
Paris | 1868-1874. | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 353.00 |
| 112 | Natural History & Science. A collection of 38 volumes, including: |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 328.00 | |||
| 113 | Jolley (A. E.) | Four albums of ornithological research: 'Rathlin Island, 1946'; Wexford & Saltee Islands, 1947'; 'Minsmere, Suffolk, 1949'; and another; |
1922-1923 (6) | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 252.00 | |
| 114 | Roberts (Dr. Austin) | The Birds of South Africa, |
1940 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 115 | Sclater (Philip Lutley) and Oldfield (Thomas) | The Book of Antelopes, |
1894-1900. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 116 | Bannerman (David Armitage) | The Birds of The British Isles, 12 vols., First editions, illustrated by George E. Lodge, original cloth gilt and dust jackets with pictorial onlay, |
1953 - 63 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 126.00 | |
| 117 | Shaw (George) & Nodder (Frederick P.) | The Naturalist's Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature, |
24 vols. bound in 12 | all but a few hand-coloured or printed in colour | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 118 | Strickland (Hugh Edwin, & Alexander Gordon Melville). | The Dodo and its Kindred; 1848 |
Reeve | 1848 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,260.00 |
| 119 | Thomson (James) | Arcana Naturae, |
Paris | 1859 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 120 | Westwood (John Obadiah) | Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis..., |
Oxford | 1874 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 277.00 |
| 121 | Wolf (Joseph) | The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, |
1874 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 122 | Unrecorded broadside The Miraculous Lamb, |
n.d. [c.1700] | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,764.00 | ||
| 123 | Godfridus. | The knowledge of things unknown [1711] |
1711 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 580.00 | |
| 124 | Halsall (Edward) | 'Practical Geometry', manuscript workbook, with numerous technical diagrams, calculations, tables, etc., |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 63.00 | ||
| 125 | Science. A large collection of offprints and separately-published articles, including numerous presentation copies inscribed by the authors: |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 945.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
