Tennants Auctioneers: Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 14257, Leyburn

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 144 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2026 Clarke (Harry, illustrator). Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von).

Faust.

London 1925 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 322.00
2027 Grimm (The Brothers).

Little Brother and Little Sister. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

London 1917 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 244.72
2028 Japanese Fairy Tales.

Japanese Fairy Tales Series, numbers 6, 11 & 24.

Tokyo GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 218.96
2029 Kipling (Rudyard).

The Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894, first edition (early reprint, June 1894), half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, variable foxing and finger-soiling, original pictorial cloth, gilt, all edges

London: 1894 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 180.32
2030 Potter (Beatrix & Rupert). Potter (Rupert).

Physiology, Containing Vital Operations of Animals, Digestions & Absorption, On the Blood & its Circulation, Respiration, Formation of Tissues. Manuscript journal/excerise book, signed 'Rupert Potter. 1850-51

1850-51 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,833.60
2031 Potter (Beatrix).

Peter Rabbit's Book Shelf.

Circa 1940 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 103.04
2032 Potter (Beatrix).

Peter Rabbit's Book-shelf,

Circa 1935 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 540.96
2033 Potter (Beatrix).

The Fairy Caravan, by Beatrix Heelis ("Beatrix Potter").

Ambleside 1929 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,864.00
2034 Potter (Beatrix).

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

London 1906 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 167.44
2035 Potter (Beatrix).

The Tailor of Gloucester.

London 1903 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 103.04
2036 Potter (Beatrix).

The Tale of Jeremy Fisher.

London 1906 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
2037 Potter (Beatrix).

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Centenary Edition.

London 1993 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 154.56
2038 Potter (Beatrix).

Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes,

London [1917] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
2039 Potter (Beatrix).

Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes.

London [1917] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 51.52
2040 Potter (Beatrix).

Peter Rabbit's Book Shelf.

2000-2010s GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 103.04
2041 Potter (Beatrix).

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.

London 1904 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 103.04
2042 Potter (Beatrix).

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.

London 1904 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
2043 Potter (Beatrix).

The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse.

London 1910 [1911 or later] GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 38.64
2044 Potter (Beatrix).

The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

London [1903] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
2045 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Carroll (Lewis).

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

London no date GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 322.00
2046 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator).

Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton.

London 1912 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 283.36
2047 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Ibsen (Henrik).

Peer Gynt.

London 1936 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
2048 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Rossetti (Christina).

Goblin Market.

London 1933 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 540.96
2049 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Ruskin (John).

The King of the Golden River.

London 1932 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 257.60
2050 Rackham (Arthur, illustrator).

The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard.

London 1917 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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