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

Auction Details

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
101	Modern Literature.	A large collection of 20th/21st literature, mostly first editions, many signed, including Vonnegut (Kurt), Slaughterhouse-Five, 1970;	20th/21st		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,952.00
102	Scott (Paul).	[The Raj Quartet]: The Jewel in the Crown, 1966;			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 219.60
103	Didion (Joan).	Play It As It Lays	London:	1971	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 549.00
104	Heaney (Seamus).	Beowulf.	London	1999	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 854.00
105	Lee (Harper).	To Kill a Mockingbird.	London	1960	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 427.00
106	Graves (Robert).	I, Claudius.	London	1934	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,159.00
107		A collection of mainly 20th/21st century poetry, including first editions, such as:	20th/21st century		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 366.00
108	Trollope (Anthony). - Palliser Novels.	Can You Forgive Her?.	London	1864-65	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 305.00
109	Adams (Douglas).	The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.	London	1979	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 427.00
110	Powell (Anthony).	['A Dance to the Music of Time' series].			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 366.00
111	Fermor (Patrick Leigh).	A Time of Gifts.	London	1977	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	GBP 268.40
112	Rushdie (Salman).	The Satanic Verses.	London	1988	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 390.40
113	Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de).	The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha...Translated from the Original by Capt. John Stevens.	London	1706	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 244.00
114	[Sterne (Laurence)].	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.	London	1760-1767	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,342.00
115	Trollope (Anthony).	A collection of works published by The Trollope Society, including novels, short stories and non-fiction.	London	1989-2003	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 134.20
116	Palmer (Samuel).	An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil.	London	1883	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 390.40
117	Heller (Joseph).	Catch-22.	London	1962	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 268.40
118		KapoIan-Kouymjian (Angele and Dickran Kouymjian). The Splendour of Egypt: A Commentary of Napoleon Bonaparte's Expedition (1798-1801) and the "Description de l'Egypte".	New York	1975	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 122.00
119		Greene (Graham). Our Man in Havana.	London	1958	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,037.00
120		A bound collection of ten chapbooks, comprising: A Concise Abridgment of that Popular and Interesting Work, the Spirit of "The Book", or Memoirs of Caroline, Princess of Hasburgh, a Political and Amatory Romance. London: W. Mason, J. Johnston, 1812, hand-			GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 3,050.00
121		Forty-two seventeenth century manuscript Calendars of Prisoners, comprising dates: March 1686, July 1686, July 1687, April 1688, August 1688,			GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 13,420.00
122	[Vignoles (Charles Blacker)].	Manuscript diary attributed to railway engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles		1856	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 146.40
123		A large collection of manuscript documents forming part of a family archive. The majority are autograph letters and manuscript diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.		19th and 20th centuries	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,159.00
124		Grant of Arms to David Morgan Rees of Benton House, Whitchurch, County of Glamorgan, signed by Sir Gerald Wood Wolaston, Garter Principal King of Arms and Arthur William Stewart Cochrane, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1935.		1935	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 463.60
125	Walton (Izaak).	Manuscript indenture signed by Izaak Walton. Dated 18th March 1670		1670	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 854.00

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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.
Sotheby's
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Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.