Tennants Auctioneers: Books, Maps, Manuscripts, 14258, Leyburn

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Auction Date: August 22, 2025 - August 22, 2025

Page Size: 135 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
51		[Daniel (John E.)]. Journal of an Officer in the Commissariat Department of the Army: comprising a narrative of the campaigns under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain...	London	1820	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 207.40
52		The War Diary of Major General Sir Cecil Lowther, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., who was in command of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards as Lieutenant Colonel. Typed transcript, 194pp		1923	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 585.60
53	Whitaker (Thomas Dunham).	An History of Richmondshire in the North Riding of the County of York....	London	1823	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 134.20
54	Drake (Francis).	Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York.	London	1736	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 390.40
55	Farey (John).	General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire...	London	1811-1813	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 183.00
56	Speed (John).	Glocestershire, contrived into thirty thre severall hundreds & those againe into foure principall devisions...	John Sudbury and George Humble	1610 [1611]	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 268.40
57		Ortelius (Abraham) & Godreccio (Wenceslao). Poloniae finitimarumque locarum descriptio. Auctore Wenceslao Godreccio.		No date [1570-1588]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 427.00
58		Stanford's Family Atlas of General Geography.	London	1894	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 134.20
59	Speed (John).	The Countie of Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne Described, With the Armes of such Nobles as have bene Earles of either of them.	George Humble	no date [1627]	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 170.80
60	Jefferys (Thomas).	The County of York Survey'd in MDCCLXVII, VIII, IX and MDCCLXX. T. Jefferys, 1771-72	T. Jefferys	1771-72	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 512.40
61	Ross (Sir John).	A manuscript journal/commonplace book of Sir John Ross, naval officer and Arctic explorer, including sketches and copied verse.		No date	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 9,760.00
62	Bankes (Thomas).	A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography...The Whole Forming a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels.	London	[1790?]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,586.00
63		Manwood (John). A Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest: Wherein is declared not onely those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of Forests...	London	1615	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 463.60
64	Lowe (E.J.).	Ferns: British and Exotic.			GBP 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
65		Ogilvie-Grant (W. R. ), J. G. Millais and Others. The Gun at Home and Abroad: British Game Birds and Wildfowl;			GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 305.00
66	Stonham (Charles).	The Birds of the British Islands.	London	1906-1911	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 122.00
67	[Ray (John)].	Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium...[bound with]: Index plantarum agri Cantabrigiensis.	Cambridge	1660	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 854.00
68	Miller (John).	Illustratio Systematis Sexualis Linnaei... An Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus.	London	[1770-]1777	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
69		The Garden, An Illustrated Weekly Journal. 1895-1905, six quarto volumes, a broken run, comprising: volumes for 1895, 1901 (1&2), 1903, 1905 (1&2)	1895-1905		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 158.60
70	[Lewin (John William)].	[A Natural History of the Birds of New South Wales, Collected, Engraved and Faithfully Painted after Nature].	[London	1838]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,037.00
71	Attenborough (David).	Zoo Quest for a Dragon.	London	1957	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 427.00
72	Gould (John).	The Birds of Great Britain.	London	[1862]-1873	GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	GBP 24,400.00
73	[Apperley (Charles James)], "Nimrod".	Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq...	London	1835	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 341.60
74	Waugh (Evelyn).	Men at Arms.	London	1952	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 158.60
75	Manning (Olivia).	[The Balkan Trilogy]: The Great Fortune, 1960;	London		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 585.60

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Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
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