Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers: Home Furnishings and Interiors Auction to include Contents from Penicuik House and Edmonston House Biggar, 100225, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025

Page Size: 76 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
264		Three boxes containing books to include Fiction and Non Fiction, etc.			Not Available	GBP 59.52
265		Two boxes containing books to include Wood and Garden, Agriculture books, etc.			Not Available	GBP 22.32
266		Box containing books to include Rough Shooting, Richard Clapham, Fishermans Knots and Wrinkles, W.A.Hunter, Wood Carving, C.G Leland, etc.			Not Available	GBP 37.20
267		Box containing books to include Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War, 15 volumes, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, etc.			Not Available	GBP 47.12
268		Box containing books to include The Arabian Nights Illustrated, The Evolution of Man, 2 volumes, etc.			Not Available	GBP 22.32
269		Box containing books to include Crustacea of Norway, 10 volumes, etc.			Not Available	GBP 198.40
323		Books to include leatherbound The Natural History of Animals two volumes, another Class-Mammalia, Acreocracy of Scotland 1876, etc.			Not Available	GBP 117.80
324		Box of books to include Harrods Illustrated, he Wedderburn Book two volumes, etc.			Not Available	GBP 248.00
325		Box of books to include Fishing interest, etc.			Not Available	GBP 43.40
336		Box containing books to include Memoirs of Montrose leather bound two volumes, The Royal Crest Book Knight and Butters leather bound, etc.			Not Available	GBP 86.80
344	John Williams Small,	The Castles and Mansions of the Lothians,	Edinburgh	1883	Not Available	GBP 272.80
364		Postcard collection to include views of aircraft, Mable Lucie Attwell Friendship postcard, etc. also a Royal Air Force Mercury Guernsey PS5 coin cover.			Not Available	GBP 12.40
367		Seven prints to include Pink Footed Goose, American Wigeon, etc. (7)			Not Available	GBP 18.60
368		Marilyn Monroe Seven Year Itch			Not Available	GBP 9.92
370		Prints to include floral and landscape scenes.			Not Available	Not Sold
373	After TIMOTHY PONT,	map of Aberdeenshire titled 'DVO VICECOMITATVS ABERDONIA & BANFIA',	Stirling	1891	Not Available	GBP 12.40
375	THOMAS E BREITENBACH (American b1951),	Proverbidioms or Catchphrases 308 everyday phrases and fabels			Not Available	GBP 12.40
376	JAMES MACINTYRE,	Old Harbour Torquay and East Bay Dunoon, a pair of etchings			Not Available	GBP 12.40
379	JOHN G NORRISS,	four Post Office prints to include The Avon Mercury Trimobile in Small street Bristol c1950,...			Not Available	GBP 12.40
381		panoramic view of Hamburg, print	Hamburg		Not Available	Not Sold
383		Ten topographical lithographs to include Lochnagar, Heriot's Hospital Edinburgh, Balmoral, The Canongate, etc. (12)			Not Available	GBP 24.80
390		Set of eight modern prints of cats, in the Japanese ukiyo-e style			Not Available	GBP 59.52
392	After UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE I (Japanese 1797-1858),	Ushijima, Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print			Not Available	GBP 22.32
393	JAPANESE SCHOOL,	boy with silkworms, Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print			Not Available	Not Sold
395		Four etchings of Edinburgh to include Lady Stair's Close, Bakehouse Close, Lawnmarket etc.			Not Available	GBP 43.40

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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.