Sworders: Books, Manuscripts and Maps
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books, Manuscripts and Maps | Total Sales (GBP) | 159,025.00 |
| Auction Date | November 02, 2025 - November 02, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 68,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #A1231 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 111,300.00 |
| Total Lots | 376 | ||
| Sold Lots | 269.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 91,400.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 71.54% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 147,500.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 107 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 107.81% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | CRICK, Francis Harry Compton | Manuscript Three volumes of his daily diaries, 1938-39 |
Starts March 17, 1938, & ends: April 12, 1939 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 16,500.00 |
| 301 | Francis CRICK SIGNED: Nobel Prize lecture: on the genetic code |
1963 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 12,750.00 | |
| 308 | NIELS Henrik David BOHR (Nobel Prize winner) | Birth of Nuclear Atom |
1955-04-14 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 6,250.00 |
| 125 | Gosse, Philip Henry | Illustrations of the birds of Jamaica |
1849 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 4,750.00 |
| 293 | Stuart, Charles Edward | Autograph Letter, Signed |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 4,687.50 | |
| 71 | Lilford, Lord | With Autograph Letter: Colourd figures of the Birds of the British Islands |
1891-7 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 4,000.00 |
| 98 | Gray (George Robert & R. Bowdler Sharpe) | Zoology of the Voyage of HMS of Erebus and Terror, Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, Birds |
1846-75 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,062.50 |
| 108 | Buller, Sir Walter Lawry | Signed- A History of the Birds of New Zealand |
1888 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,875.00 |
| 115 | LEGGE, W Vincent | A history of the birds of Ceylon |
1880 | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,500.00 |
| 184 | Ian FLEMING | Live and Let Die |
1954 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,312.50 |
| 216 | BROGLIE, Louis Victor, Prince of (Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1929) | Quantum physics- Inscribed & Signed by: Recherches sur la theorie des quanta |
1925 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,000.00 |
| 32 | ORTELIUS, Abraham | WORLD ATLAS: Theatro del Mondo |
20 September 1655 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,937.50 |
| 73 | Bannerman, David A | Fine Binding, Author SIGNED: The Birds of the British Isles |
1953-1963 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,875.00 |
| 164 | Dickens, Charles | NONESUCH Press- DICKENS- The Nonesuch Dickens, 1937-38 |
1940-09-01 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 1,687.50 |
| 113 | Willughby's Ornithology |
1678 | GBP 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,625.00 | |
| 99 | Buller, Sir Walter Lawry | A History of the Birds of New Zealand |
1873 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 1,562.50 |
| 111 | Cassin, John | Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America |
[1853]-1856 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,562.50 |
| 110 | Baedeker, Friedrich Wilhelm Justus | Die Eier der Europaischen Vogel nach der Natur gemalt |
1855-63 | GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,437.50 |
| 8 | SPEED, J | The Invasions of England and Ireland with all their Civill Wars since the Conquest |
c.1627 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,312.50 |
| 78 | Lilford, Lord | Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood |
1895 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 1,312.50 |
| 79 | McKelvie Colin Laurie | The Woodcock, Snipe, Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, & Sporting Wildfowl |
1988-1999 | GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,312.50 |
| 148 | DRESSER H. E: A | Eggs of the Birds of Europe |
[1905]-1910 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,312.50 |
| 275 | Maurice BARING | Original MANUSCRIPT: Daphne Adeane, A novel |
1926 | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,312.50 |
| 57 | 16/17 Century Binding: A large full leather folio |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,250.00 | ||
| 48 | [ROBERTS, James and Henry] | The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees and Performances, of the most Eminent Race Horses & Stallions, represented in Variety of Attitudes |
No date, c1825 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,137.50 |
![<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.")
