Hansons: The Library Auction, 111225, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 12, 2025 - November 12, 2025
Page Size: 266 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
179 TRUSLER, (John).

The Habitable World

London 1791 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
180

A collection of books and catalogues showing exquisite examples of the intricate carvings that are Netsuke

GBP 160.00 - 180.00 GBP 100.00
181 LAZARNICK, George.

Netsuke & Inro Artists, and How to Read their Signatures

Honolulu 1982 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 625.00
182 MEINERTZHAGEN, Frederick.

The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum

New York 1986 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 550.00
183

The Robert S. Huthart Collection of Iwami Netsuki, Volumes 1 & 2

Hong Kong 2000 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 425.00
184 BANDINI, Rosemary

Tiny Titans: the sumo netsuke collection of Karl-Ludwig Kley

2006 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
185

A miscellaneous lot of interest to BEE KEEPERS and collectors of JAPANESE ART

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
186 edited by Therkel Mathiassen

Danske Oldsager (Danish Antiquities)

1948- 1953 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
187

Cave Exploration & Research, 1948-86

1948-1982 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
188 WILLIAMS, (Henry Smith).

The History of the Art of Writing

London 1902 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
189 SOWERBY, (G. B.).

A Conchological Manual

London 1846 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 250.00
190

Liverpool Geological Society 1860-1950

1860-1950 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 125.00
191 FORBES, (Archibald)

How the Good News was Brought from Ulundi to Landsman's Drift

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
192 JERROLD, (Douglas William)

Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper, Jul-Dec 1846 & Jul-Dec 1847

1846-48 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
193

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE ARCHIVE 1860-1890s

1860-1890s GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
194

FRENCH REVOLUTION - NAPOLEONIC & AMERICAN WAR - 1791-1816]: An important archive

1791-1816 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
195 Clement Reid

Collection of 30+ books including:- Pliocene Deposits of Britain

1890 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 75.00
196 John Hill Burton

20 interesting and unusual books inc:- The Book-Hunter

1882 GBP 100.00 - 120.00 GBP 100.00
197

Popular Science Review 1862-1880

1862-1880 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
198

Transactions -- Inst. of Civil Engineers 1836-42

1836-42 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
199

Public Records of Ireland 1810 -- 1815

14th. July 1813; 27th. July 1814 & 1st. June 1815 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
200

The Slave Trade 18th. & 19th. C. + The West African Slave Squadron 1840s

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 250.00
201 SOWERBY, (George Brettingham).

Popular History of the Aquarium

London 1857 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
202 Lieutenant G. Woods

Napoleonic War -- Letter from HMS Eagle

8 August 1812 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
203

Memorials of the Star Club -- London - c. 1855

London c. 1855-60 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 325.00
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