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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025
Page Size: 386 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251

Seventeen items from Black Cat Press

Skokie, IL c.1970s-1980s USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
252

Puss in the Palace

London [c.1912] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
253

Fifteen miniature volumes printed by Richard J. Hoffman

Van Nuys, CA Various dates USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
254 Weber, Francis J.

Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States: A Personal Memoir

San Fernando, CA 1999 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
255 Weber, Francis J.

Twenty-seven miniature books from the Junipero Serra Press

San Buenaventura & San Fernando, CA Various dates USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
256

Eleven miscellaneous miniature books

1981-2008 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 175.00
257

Three 19th century miniature photograph albums

Various places 1800s USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
258 [Greenaway, Kate]

Drawings by Kate Greenway, Verses by Laura E. Richards

Berkeley 1974 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 112.50
259 Davis, Richard

Tailor's Poems

Pittsburgh, PA 1943 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
260

Twelve miniature books with religious themes

c.1913-1980 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 137.50
261 Guest, Fr. Francis F.

The Symbolism of the Santa Barbara Presidio

Santa Barbara 1967 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
262 Anacreon

Le Petit Momus

Paris 1832 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 137.50
263 Nahmias, Maurice E.

Le Cyclotron. La Desintegration de la Matiere et la Radiobiologie

Paris 1945 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
264 Agassiz, Louis

Methods of Study in Natural History [with] A Journey in Brazil

Boston 1863; 1868 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
265 Cooke, M. C.

Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms: What to Eat and What to Avoid

London 1894 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 100.00
266 De Vries, Hugo

The Mutation Theory: Experiments and Observations on the Origin of Species in the Vegetable Kingdom

Chicago 1909 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
267 De Vries, Hugo

Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation - 2 editions [with] Intracellular Pangenesis

Chicago 1905; 1912; 1910 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
268 Figuier, Louis

The World Before the Deluge [with] The Human Race

London 1865; 1872 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
269 Gray, Asa

The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States with two other works by Asa Gray

Boston & Cambridge 1848 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
270 Mantell, Gideon Algernon

Thoughts on Animalcules [with] Petrifactions and their Teachings

London 1846; 1851 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
271 Mawe, John

The Linnaean System of Conchology, Describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells, Arranged into Divisions and Families

London 1823 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 137.50
272 Morgan, Thomas Hunt

The Scientific Basis of Evolution [with] What is Darwinism?

New York [1932]; [1929] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
273 Owen, Richard

Four works by or about Richard Owen

Various places Various dates USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 312.50
274 Wallace, Alfred Russel

Tropical Nature, and Other Essays

London 1878 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
275 Wallace, Alfred Russel

The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and its Failures

London 1898 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
  • 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.