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
325 ANDRADE, Edward Neville da Costa

Manuscripts for Christmas lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Dec. 3,5,7 & 10; 1927-28 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
326

THE SAVAGE CLUB

LONDON 1857-1957 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
327 Sir Walter Lamb

Autograph & Typed letters Signed: 1- ALS

22 Mar. 1949 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
328 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale

Autograph & Typed letters Signed

1941 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
329 Osbert Lancaster

Signed letters from Osbert Lancaster & Sir Francis Meynell

Feb. & March, 1951 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
330

Montgomery of Alamein

1945 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
331

SIGNED letters sent to Andrade

29th Sept 1947 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
332 Dr. C.E. Kenneth

PHOTOGRAPHY, Etc: 1- MEES, Autograph Letter Signed

Mar. 27, 1939 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
333 LANCHESTER, F. W

Five Typed Letters Signed

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
334 Sir William J

Signed Letters: 1- LARKE, Two Autograph letters Signed

3-4-46 & 18-7-51 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
335 WOOD, A B (Albert Beaumont)

Signed Letters: 1- Five autograph letters

London 14-9-43 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
336 ANDRADE, Edward Neville da Costa

Manuscript & letters About William RAMSAY

1852-1916 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
337 COOPER, Sir William Mansfield

Manchester University related letters

1965 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
338

RADAR

1945 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
339 Major Eden C Showers

Letters and papers relating to him

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
340 Ernest P A Law (English historian & Barrister)

Four letters, three signed by Harry Verney & one by Stamfordham

1921-07-04 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
341

Palmerston and Montgomery family Signed Letters, etc

Sept. 15, 1869 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
342

David John Morgan (Served as MP for Walthamstow)

Oct.1, 1900 to Jan 9, 1906 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
343

Children's Illustrated Books

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 312.50
344

LIMITED EDITIONS, ILLUSTRATED

Paris 1945 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
345 Malory

ILLUSTRATED: Beardsley, A; Le Morte Darthur: The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur

1909 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 168.75
346 Kay NIELSEN (ill)

Red Magic; A Collection of the World's Best Fairy Tales From All Countries

1930 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 312.50
347 William Allingham

Richard Doyle (ill); In Fairyland

1875 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 225.00
348 DORE, Gustave (ill)

THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE

Cassell no date, c1870 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
349 DULAC, Edmund (ill)

1- A. T. Quiller-Couch The sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales

no date, C1910 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 250.00
  • 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.