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
25 James Wyld

MAP OF LONDON: James Wyld- A New Topographical Map of the Country in the Vicinity of London Describing all the New Improvements, Metropolitan Boroughs and Parish Boundaries

1843 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 412.50
26 Cole, B

Four MAPS Of LONDON, Etc: 1- A New and Accurate Plan of the City of Westminster xThe Dutchy of Lancaster and Places Adjacent

C1760 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 387.50
27

Eleven Maps: LONDON WARDS (All hand coloured): Langborn ward and Candlewick ward with their divisions into parishes according to a new survey, 1755

1755 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
28 Weller, Edward

Environs of London

c.1863 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 237.50
29

Cary's New Pocket Plan of London Westminster and Southwark

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 193.75
30 Nash, John

PLANS: 1- Plan of a Street Proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place

C1841 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
31

Illustrated London News (The) Panorama of London and the River Thames, [1845]

[1845] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
32 ORTELIUS, Abraham

WORLD ATLAS: Theatro del Mondo

20 September 1655 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,937.50
33

A LARGE NUMBER OF CHARTS, mainly of the Far East, in particular of the Coast of China

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
34 Collins (Captain Greenville)

Sea Charts. The East Coast of England

circa 1750 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
35 GILLRAY, James

Political Mathematician's, Shaking the Broad bottomed hemispheres, representing domestic political tensions

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 350.00
36 GILLRAY, James

JOHN-BULL, Baited by the DOGS of Excise

c.1790 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
37

Cries of London' 13 mounted colour plates

no date, c.1900 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
38 William Baillie (1752/3-1799)

'North View of Fort William'; 'General View of Calcutta'

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 387.50
39

SHOOTING- A Large Quantity

1882 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 112.50
40

GUNS & SHOOTING (10 Titles)

London 1865 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 512.50
41

GUNS & SHOOTING (5 Titles): 1- Daniel, W B- Rural Sports

1807 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 300.00
42 Greener, W W (First two Inscribed)

GUNS & SHOOTING (10 Titles): 1- The Gun and its Development

Cassell 1899 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 262.50
43 Nelson, William

GUNS & SHOOTING (6 Titles): 1- The Laws of England concerning the Game of Hunting

1732 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 312.50
44 Hawker, Lt. Col. P.

GUNS & SHOOTING (7 Titles): 1- Hawker, Lt. Col. P. (Inscribed presentation copy)- Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting

London 1844 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
45 Greener, W W

GUNS & SHOOTING (7 Titles): 1- The Gun and its Development

Cassell -1881 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 287.50
46 Taylor, Leslie B

GUNS & SHOOTING (Five Titles): 1- A Brief History Of Westley Richards Firm 1812 - 1913

Stratford Upon Avon 1913 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 218.75
47 Hawker, Lt. Col. P.

(Inscribed presentation copy)- Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting

London 1825 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 262.50
48 [ROBERTS, James and Henry]

The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, represented in Variety of Attitudes

London No date, c1825 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,137.50
49 Hazlitt, William

BINDING, ETC: Collection, including: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

1828-30 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 362.50
  • 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.