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Auction Name	Winston Churchill	Total Sales (GBP)	51,383.00
Auction Date	September 30, 2025 - September 30, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	33,120.00
Sale Number	#93025b	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	46,830.00
Total Lots	44
Sold Lots	27.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	66,420.00
% of Lots Sold	61.36%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	95,780.00
Unsold Lots	17	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	53.65%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
335	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) A V for Victory Cartier silver pendant		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 9,450.00
306	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Lord Randolph Churchill, First edition, inscribed. & Als letter, 1906	1906	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,930.00
312	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) The World Crisis. Abridged & Revised. Inscribed. 1947	1931	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	GBP 4,284.00
345	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) The Collected Works, 38 vol., Centenary Limited Edition	1973-76.	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,780.00
328	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) My Early Life. Inscribed, Odhams Press. 1947	1947	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,528.00
307	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) My African Journey. 1st ed. orig. boards, 1908	1908	GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00	GBP 3,024.00
329	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Portrait photograph, signed	1950	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,024.00
309	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) The People's Rights, 1st/1st cloth, 1909	[1910]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,772.00
331	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Savrola. Inscribed. New York, 1956	1956	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,520.00
333	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Photographic half-length portrait, signed ("Winston Churchill")		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,520.00
334	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Photographic half-length portrait, signed ("Winston Churchill, 1953")		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,520.00
341	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Signed typed letter, 1963	1963	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,016.00
323	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Signature and typed minute		GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,071.00
321	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Typed draft reading copy for a radio speech delivered by Churchill on Ma	1944	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,008.00
302	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Malakand Field Force, Colonial Ed. 1898	1898	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 504.00
318	Unknown Photographer,	Unknown Photographer, 1943 Photograph of Churchill and Roosevelt during the 1943 Casablanca Conferen	circa 1943	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	GBP 454.00
315	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Marlborough. His Life and Times, 1st edition	1933 - 38	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 328.00
320	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Foreign Policy: The Prime Minister's Review	n.d.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 328.00
325	[Churchill (Winston Spencer)	[Churchill (Winston Spencer) Large collection of Churchill items, photographs and other ephemera		GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 315.00
314	Domeny (L.)	Domeny (L.) Cubist artist's sketch cartoon of Winston Churchill		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 277.00
332	[Churchill (Winston Spencer)]	[Churchill (Winston Spencer)] Handwritten transcripts (in an unknown hand) of Churchill's works		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 151.00
342	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Vintage portrait photograph by Vivienne	2003	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 126.00
343	[Churchill (Winston Spencer)]	[Churchill (Winston Spencer)] Press photographs of Churchill's Funeral in 1965	1965	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 126.00
344	Churchill (Winston Spencer)	Churchill (Winston Spencer) Ephemera from Winston Churchill's funeral, 30 January 1965	1965	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 113.00
300	Churchill (Lady Randolph) nee Jennie Jerome	Churchill (Lady Randolph) nee Jennie Jerome Autograph letter from the mother of Winston Churchill	3 August [1896]	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 101.00

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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.