Hansons: The Library Auction, 91025, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025

Page Size: 224 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
76		[HUNGARIAN BIBLE]. Svent Biblia, Old & New Testaments	Utrecht	1765	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 112.50
77		[Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu of Vilna]. Sefer HaBrit [Book of the Covenant]	Brunn	[1797]	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 35.00
78	[BAER, (Seligman)]	Seder Avodat Yisrael	Rodelheim	1868	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 131.25
79		[Tikunei haZohar]. Three parts in one volume	Livorno	[c. 1850-55]	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 131.25
80	MENDELSSOHN, (Moses)	[GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENT]. Three works comprising: 1. Philosophische Schriften, two parts bound in one volume...			GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
81		MISCELLANEOUS RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY. A small collection of books comprising: SALZMANN, (Christian Gotthilf)...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.00
82	PINNER, (E. M.)	[BABYLONIAN TALMUD]. Talmud Babli - Babylonischer Talmud	Berlin	1842	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 106.25
83		[THIRD RABBINIC BIBLE]. Sha'ar Bet HaShem ha-Kadmoni	Venice	[1546-48]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 13,750.00
84	DORE, Gustave (Illust.)	Bibelen eller Den Hellige Skrift [Norwegian Holy Bible]	Philadelphia	1890	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
85	GINSBURG, (Christian)	The Massorah	Vienna	1897-1905	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 32.50
86		[FACSIMILES]. The Venice Haggadah of 1609...			GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 156.25
87		[MISCELLANEOUS HEBRAICA]. A mixed collection of books		19th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 750.00
88		[MISCELLANEOUS HEBRAICA]. A mixed collection of books		19th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 100.00
89		Holy Bible	London	1634	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 750.00
90	HARRIS, (Benjamin)	The Protestant Tutor, Instructing Children to Spel and read English, and Grounding them in the True Protestant Religion, and Discovering the Errors and Deceits of the Papists	London	1679	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 812.50
91	BARONIUS, Caesar	Annales Ecclesiastici	Rome	1594	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 125.00
92		The Proceedings at Large of the Court-Martial, on the Trial of the Honourable Augustus Keppel	London	1779	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.50
93	ORWELL, George	Nineteen Eighty-Four	London	1949	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 300.00
94	REED, The Hon. William B.	A Northern Plea For Peace	London	1863	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 60.00
95	JOHNSON, Captain Edward J.	Practical Illustrations of the Necessity for Ascertaining the Deviations of the Compass with Explanatory Diagrams	London	1852	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	GBP 50.00
96		A Collection of the Public General Statutes, Passed in the Forty-Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third	London	1807	GBP 750.00 - 850.00	Not Sold
97	HALLAM, Henry	The Constitutional History of England	London	1827	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
98		The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine	London	1884-1888	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 193.75
99	LYSONS, Samuel	LYSONS, Daniel; Magna Britannia	London	1861	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
100	LYSONS, Samuel	LYSONS, Daniel; Magna Britannia: Derbyshire	London	1817	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 12.50

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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.
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.