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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
51 Muir, John

Alaska Days with John Muir

New York [1915] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
52 Nordhoff, Charles & James Norman Hall

Botany Bay

Boston 1941 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 125.00
53 O'Brien, Flann [pseud. of Brian O'Nolan]

At Swim-Two-Birds

[New York] [1939] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 212.50
54 Oates, Joyce Carol

The Step-Father [with] Invisible Woman

1978; 1982 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
55 Patterson, Richard North

The Lasko Tangent

New York 1979 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
56 Price, Ken, Stephanie Barron, et al.

Ken Price: Sculpture, A Retrospective

Los Angeles 2012 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
57 Saint-Edon, Dennis

3 Poems

Cleveland, Ohio 1967 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
58

Five science fiction and fantasy novels from English authors

1974-2005 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
59

Four short story collections by English authors

1997-2004 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
60

Three Star Wars volumes signed by cover artists

USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
61 Stegner, Wallace

Thirteen works by or about Wallace Stegner

Various places Various dates USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
62 Steinbeck, John

The Moon is Down

New York 1942 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
63 Steinbeck, John

Positano

Salerno [1959] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
64 Sterling, George

Strange Waters

[San Francisco] [c.1926] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
65 Stewart, George R.

Ordeal by Hunger

Boston 1960 USD 10.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
66 Stokes, Geoffrey

Star-Making Machinery: The Odyssey of an Album

Indianapolis [1976] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
67 Styron, William

Lie Down in Darkness

Indianapolis; New York [1951] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
68 Tyler, Anne

The Tin Can Tree [with] Saint Maybe

New York 1965; 1991 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
69 Whitman, Walt

Feuilles d'Herbe

Paris 1922 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
70

Three periodicals published by The Whole Earth Catalog

Various places 1969-77 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
71 Wilder, Thornton

Heaven's My Destination

New York 1935 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
72 [Williams, John Babbington]

The Thrilling Adventures of a New York Detective

New York 1893 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
73 Woods, Stuart

Chiefs

New York 1981 USD 10.00 - 10.00 USD 25.00
74 Young, Charles

The Shark-Hunter or The Life and Adventures of Richard Harman, Master Mariner

London 1898 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
75 Desbillons, Francois-Joseph

Fabulae Aesopiae, Curis Posterioribus Omnes Fere Emendatae...

Paris 1778 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.