Leland Little Auctions: Collectible Books, Maps, & Documents, 232155, Hillsborough, NC
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 17, 2025 - September 17, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6026 | Herman Melville; Boardman Robinson, illus. | MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE. |
New York | 1943 | Not Available | USD 570.00 |
| 6027 | Mark Twain; Thomas Hart Benton, illus.; Willis Wager, ed. | LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. |
New York | 1944 | Not Available | USD 3,120.00 |
| 6028 | Geoffrey Chaucer; Arthur Szyk, illus.; Frank Ernest Hill, trans. | THE CANTERBURY TALES. |
New York | [1946]. | Not Available | USD 150.00 |
| 6029 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Jessie Ayers, illus. | JACOB'S LADDER. |
Coral Gables, Florida | 1950 | Not Available | USD 390.00 |
| 6030 | Kurt Vonnegut; Dennis Lyall, illus. | CAT'S CRADLE. |
Norwalk, CT | 2013 | Not Available | USD 510.00 |
| 6031 | Donna Tartt. | THE SECRET HISTORY [and] THE LITTLE FRIEND. |
London | 2009 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 6032 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Easton Press Collector's Editions of the Classics of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Norwalk, CT | 1991 | Not Available | USD 780.00 |
| 6033 | Ernest Hemingway | Easton Press Complete Set of the Works of Ernest Hemingway |
Norwalk, CT | 1990-2003. | Not Available | USD 840.00 |
| 6034 | William Faulkner | William Faulkner, Seven Leather-Bound Titles |
Not Available | USD 720.00 | ||
| 6035 | (20) Finely Bound Franklin Library Titles, the Majority Signed |
Not Available | USD 780.00 | |||
| 6036 | (15) Finely Bound Easton Press Titles, Including Many Signed |
Not Available | USD 540.00 | |||
| 6037 | Three Early-19th-Century Books with Fore-Edge Paintings of Views of England |
Not Available | USD 2,400.00 | |||
| 6038 | John Bowring; George Cruikshank and William Heath, illus. | MINOR MORALS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ILLUSTRATED IN TALES AND TRAVELS (Title for Parts I and II); MINOR MORALS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ILLUSTRATED BY TALES AND TRAVELS, PARTICULARLY IN THE EAST (Title for Part III). |
London | 1834 and 1835 (Part I and II) and Edinburgh | Not Available | USD 120.00 |
| 6039 | Group of Tauchnitz Editions from the Collection of British Authors |
Not Available | USD 240.00 | |||
| 6040 | G. J. Whyte-Melville. | [WHYTE-MELVILLE'S NOVELS]. |
London, New York, and Melbourne | [n.d.]. | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 6041 | G. J. Whyte-Melville. | [WHYTE-MELVILLE'S NOVELS]. |
London, New York, and Melbourne | Not Available | USD 270.00 | |
| 6042 | George Whyte-Melville | Five Uniformly Bound and Illustrated Novels by George Whyte-Melville |
Not Available | USD 330.00 | ||
| 6043 | William Hepworth Dixon | HER MAJESTY'S TOWER. |
London | 1869-1871. | Not Available | USD 60.00 |
| 6044 | Richard, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. | THE PRIVATE DIARY OF RICHARD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, K.G. |
London | 1862 | Not Available | USD 120.00 |
| 6045 | Nicolaes Visscher II. | ANGLIAE REGNUM TAM IN SEPTEM ANTIQUA ANGLO-SAXONUM REGNA QUAM IN OMNES HODIERNAS REGIONES ACCURATISSIME DISTINCTUM. |
Amsterdam | Not Available | USD 240.00 | |
| 6046 | Sir William Betham | 19th-Century Irish Grant of Arms Issued by Sir William Betham |
Not Available | USD 300.00 | ||
| 6047 | Five French Books Colorfully Bound by Brentanos |
Not Available | USD 60.00 | |||
| 6048 | Cornelius Tacitus; Arthur Murphy. | THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS; WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, NOTES, SUPPLEMENTS, &C. |
London | 1807 | Not Available | USD 900.00 |
| 6049 | Lazare de Baif; Antonio Telesio; Charles Estienne, ed. | LAZARI BAYFII ANNOTATIONES IN L.II. DE CAPTIVIS, ET POSTLIMINIO REVERSIS. IN QUIBUS TRACTATUR DE RE NAVALI [and three other works]. |
Paris | 1536 | Not Available | USD 1,020.00 |
| 6050 | John James Hissey | Seven Travel Books by John James Hissey, Finely Bound by J. Larkins |
London | 1884-1896 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0a99416d-9c0f-4fa3-afdd-7532ca8a2b2c.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a077b4a5-0477-4c47-9847-0158cf045843.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/6363a735-e622-4d0a-852e-07cef58eccbe.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ee16d5b-a2ec-4c03-aeb6-aa3fcfec3a5e.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d5f50485-7faa-423f-af0c-803b964dd2ba.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fb024365-7d7a-4510-9859-9d26b5c266cf.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].")
![<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a7c0eda0-9d8b-43ac-a504-58923308d5a4.jpg "<b>Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4:</b> 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.")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00d5fd41-2542-4a80-b119-4886d4b9925f.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 11:</b> Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] <i>Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,</i> Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.")
