Sworders: Out of the Ordinary, A1243, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 19, 2025 - August 19, 2025
Page Size: 153 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
315

David Livingstone's coffin attended by Jacob Wainwright

1874 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 715.00
317

A large group of Palestine stereoscopic view cards

early 20th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
322

An Australian photograph album

c.1880 GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
324

Six Maori carte de visites

c.1875 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
344 Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni (Italian, 1732--1776) and Saverio Manetti (Italian, 1723-1785)

Two owls a pair of hand-coloured etchings

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 364.00
345 Raymond Harris-Ching (New Zealand-British, b.1939)

The Great Auk imagined off Eldey Island'

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 182.00
359

A collection of Victorian medical prescriptions and remedies

c.1840 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
367

The 'Human Factory' medical poster

1931 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,560.00
368

An archive of certificates and documents relating to Thomas Rhodes Armitage

19th century GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 130.00
369 After Jacques Gamelin

Illustration of two male figures showing muscles engraving, from 'Nouvelle Recueil D'Osteologie et de Myologie'

GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 78.00
375 William Hogarth (1697-1764)

'Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism'

1762 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 156.00
377

Three scientific concave & convex decorative mirrors

c.1970 GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 312.00
379 NASA

A NASA photograph of the dark side of the moon

c.1970 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 208.00
381

A 'Grand Magic Lantern Exhibition' poster or handbill

late 19th GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
403

P...S... (20th century) Cacophony of figures etching

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
425 After William Blake

'William Blake and his Contemporaries' offset lithographic poster in colours for the exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 14 July - 31 August 1987

1987 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
429

A collection of prostitute cards

c. 1980s-1990s GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 455.00
448

A watchmaker's advertising poster

19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 234.00
453 Edward Wesson (1910-1983),

'Huntingdon - See Britain by Train'

c.1950 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 494.00
458

A framed photograph of a Douglas DC3 plane the frame made from aircraft metal

1938 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
460

Flying' Harry Tate in his Vaudeville Theatre Show poster

c.1909 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 182.00
465

Two 'Motor Racing at Snetterton Circuit' original promotional posters

c.1960 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 117.00
467

Two motor racing 'Silverstone' and 'Aston Martin' promotional posters

c.1970 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 208.00
468 After Terence Cuneo

Bentleys at Le Mans, 1929'

GBP 120.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
469 Francesco Scianna (Italian, b.1942)

'Historic Grand Prix Drivers' Association: Donington 100 Race Meeting 1988' a chromolithographic poster

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 156.00
  • 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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    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.
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