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

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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
2126 Orwell (George, editor).

Forster (E.M.), Ritchie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien & others. Talking to India.

London 1943 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 115.92
2127 Poetry.

A collection of Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Wild Hawthorn Press pamphlets and ephemera,

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 412.16
2128 Signed by Nelson Mandela.

Schadeberg (Jurgen), Nelson Mandela and the Rise of the ANC.

London 1990 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 115.92
2129 Speed (John).

The Historie of Great Britaine Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans.

London 1632 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 244.72
2130 Tolkien (J.R.R.).

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.

London 1970 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 115.92
2131 Vellum Bindings.

Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey.

London 1907-1908 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,606.40
2132 Manuscript Documents.

A collection of manuscript documents, mostly relating to Sunderland and surrounding areas, 17th-19th century

17th-19th century GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 244.72
2133 Manuscript Maritime Exercise Book.

An early 19th century maritime exercise book

early 19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 644.00
2134 Manuscript Recipe/Account Book.

Recipes include: 'To destroy Pismires', 'To dye skins Blue', 'To make Vinegar', 'For the scurvy', 'Methods of preserving Birds', ' a Receipt to Catch Hares'. ...

GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 128.80
2135 Yorkshire - Manuscript Documents.

A collection of approximately fifty-three 16th-19th century manuscript documents, mostly indentures, ...

16th-19th century GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,416.80
2136 Lawrence (T.E.).

Crusader Castles.

London 1936 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 322.00
2137 Thomas (Dylan) & Piper (John, illustrator).

Deaths and Entrances.

Newtown 1984 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,094.80
2138 Cartes de Visite - Royalty.

An album of approximately 95 cartes de visite of royalty and emperors of the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, China, etc.,

c.1860s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 901.60
2139 India.

Views of Benares from the River Side. Presented by the Maharaja of Benares [cover-title].

No date [circa 1920-30] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 966.00
2140 Elijah Yeoman (1849-1930),

A collection of photographs, Barnard Castle, Teesdale Studio,

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 579.60
2141 Beeton (Isabella).

The Book of Household Management.

London 1861 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 167.44
2142 Craddock (Harry).

The Savoy Cocktail Book.

London 1930 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 772.80
2143 Fox (John).

The Book of Martyrs: Containing an Account of the Sufferings and Death of the Protestants In the Reign of Queen Mary the First.

London [1761] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 244.72
2144 Chambers (R.W., editor).

This Book is a record of those members of University College London & of University College Hospital and Medical School who were killed or who died on service: 1914-1919.

London 1922-1924 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 64.40
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