Sworders: Books, Manuscripts and Maps, A1231, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 02, 2025 - November 02, 2025
Page Size: 376 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
224 Millington, John

An Epitome of the Elementary Principles of Natural and Experimental Philosophy

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
225 Macleod, N & D Dewar

DICTIONARIES: 1- Dictionary of the Gaelic language

Glasgow 1831 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 125.00
226 Mason, AW, et al

MIXED: East-India Register and Directory, for 1822

London 1822 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
227 HERALDRY (England & Scotland)

1- Fairbairn's Crests of the families of Great Britain and Ireland

Edinburgh -1860 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
228 Watts, W.W

SILVER & PLATE: Old English Silver

1924 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
229 [Bonney T. G., and others]

Picturesque Europe

no date (1897) GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
230 SCOTT, Capt. Robert F

The Voyage of the Discovery

1905 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
231 BURTON, Richard F

The Land of Midian (Revisited)

1879 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 512.50
232 WRIGHT, John

1- The Fruit Grower's Guide in six divisions/volumes

no date, c1880 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 156.25
233 LYELL, Charles

Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation

1835 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 562.50
234 Wright, T

ESSEX TOPOGRAPHY, ETC: 1- The picturesque beauties of Great Britain (Essex)

1834 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
235 SCHUYLER, Eugene

Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja

NY 1877 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
236 Garrett, T F (Edit)

The Encyclopaedia of Practical Cookery

no date, c1890 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 125.00
237 T.S. ELIOT

The Waste Land

Richmond, Surrey 1923 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
238 W.B. Yeats (select.)

JOHNSON, Lionel; Twenty One Poems

Ireland, Dundrum 1904 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
239

Birmingham Guild of Handicraft

Birmingham November 1894-July 1895 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
240

Some 38 mainly Socialist, pamphlets & booklets

1927 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
241

NEW NATURALIST Series: 63 volumes, all very good copies with Dust Jackets

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
242

1- The Treble Almanack for the year 1791

Dublin 1791 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
243 [Calmet, Augustin]

VAMPIRES & APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS: Traite sur lcrispies Apparitions des Esprits, et sur les Vampires, ou les Revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c.

Paris 1751 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 737.50
244 HOGARTH, William

HOGARTH, William: The Works...

[c.1835] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 225.00
245

The Illustrated London News

1858 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 462.50
246 Dugdale, William

The History of Imbanking and Draining of divers Fens and Marshes

1772 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 300.00
247 Armstrong, Col. J,

KING'S LYNN: The History of the Ancient and Present State of the Navigation of the Port of King's-Lyn, and of Cambridge.. J. Roberts

1725 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 275.00
248

The Family Receipt-Book; or, Universal Repository of Useful

no date, c1805 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
  • 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.
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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.