Chiswick Auctions: Books and Works on Paper, 112724, London

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Auction Date
November 27, 2024 - November 27, 2024
Page Size: 273 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Cook's Voyages

A collection of 74 engravings from: Anderson (George William) & Hogg (Alexander) publisher, 'A New Authentic and Complete Account of Voyages Around the World..of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third & Last Voyages',

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
52 Cook's Voyages

A collection of 74 engravings from: Anderson (George William) & Hogg (Alexander) publisher, 'A New Authentic and Complete Account of Voyages Around the World..of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third & Last Voyages',

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
54

A scrap album including several watercolours and documents, initially compiled by Augusta Richardson of Nassau (British Guiana?), 1843, including:

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 328.00
55 [Hill, John]

Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening. Containing plain and familiar directions for raising the several useful products of a garden, fruits, roots, and herbage; from the practice of the most successful gardeners...,

1757 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 504.00
56 Agassiz (Louis)

Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, 5 atlas vols. only,

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 756.00
57 Blackwall (John)

A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland,

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 164.00
58 Dicksee (Herbert)

The Watcher on the Hill,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 277.00
59 Earl (Maud) illustrator.

The Power of the Dog,

1/100. [1910] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.00
60 Parkinson (John)

Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Faithfully Reprinted from the Edition of 1629

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 252.00
61 Morris (F. O.)

A History of British Birds, 8 vols.,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.00
62

Natural history. A large collection of 72 volumes, including:

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 353.00
63

Natural History. An album of watercolours and cutouts,

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 403.00
64 [Glasse (Hannah)]

The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy; Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind every yet published...

1751 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 328.00
65

Astronomy and photographica. A miscellaneous collection of 50 volumes, including:

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 139.00
66 [Dickinson (Caleb)]

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Fever with a Review of the Several Opinions Concerning its Proximate Cause...

1785 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 63.00
67 Einstein (Albert)

The Meaning of Relativity,

1922 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 693.00
68 Freud (Sigmund) & Einstein (Albert)

Why War? A Correspondence..., translated by Stuart Gilbert

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.00
69 Freud (Sigmund)

The International Psycho-analytical Library,

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 353.00
70

Johari - mineraux du Shaba Meridional.

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
71 Newton (Isaac)

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Principia],

1803 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 756.00
72 Planck ((Dr. Max)

Treatise on Thermodynamics,

1903 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,197.00
73

Physics and Chemistry. A collection of 28 volumes, including:

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 693.00
74 Vesalius (Andreas)

Anatomia Viri in hoc Genere Princip ....in quat tota humani corporis fabrica......

1617 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
75 Louys (Pierre)

Woman and Puppet, number 2 of 1250 copies,

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
76 Lowell (James Russell)

The Complete Writings..., 16 vols.,

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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