Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Date: 13th Dec, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
The Auction Centre, Leyburn
Lots: 75


The Books, Maps and Manuscripts sales encompass a broad range of collecting areas from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, which are sold alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, autographed letters and historic documents. Held four times a year, the specialist Book sales incorporate both private collections and libraries, and single lots from vendors across the United Kingdom.

Name: Paul Hughes
Email: books@tennants-ltd.co.uk

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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (75)

 

Lot 1
Battis (Walter). Bushman Art. Pretoria: Red...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2
Booth (Stanley) Sir Alfred Munnings,1878-1959,...

Sold for £650
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 3
Bianconi (Gio. Lodovico). Descrizione Dei...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 4
Davison (W.) 1781-1858. A collection of thirty-...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 5
Grant (Charles Jameson). The Managers Last...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 6
Potter (Beatrix). The Tales of Beatrix Potter....

Sold for £300
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 7
Illuminated Edges. The Book of Common Prayer .....

Sold for £480
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 8
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Lord of the Rings....

Sold for £420
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 9
Bewick (Thomas). The Fables of Aesop, and...

Sold for £240
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 10
Bewick [Thomas]. History of British Birds, Vol...

Sold for £80
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 12
Paper Peepshow. Tunnel Under The Thames. No...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 13
Milne (A.A.). Winnie The Pooh. Methuen, 1926,...

Sold for £480
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 14
Folio Society. OUP, Shorter Oxford English...

Sold for £80
Estimated at £60 - £100

Lot 15
Lewis (C.S.). The Allegory of Love, A Study in...

Sold for £80
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 16
Conrad (Joseph). [The Works of Joseph Conrad]....

Sold for £380
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 17
Greene (Graham). The Great Novels. Folio...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 18
Doyle (A. Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 19
Dickens (Charles) The Cricket on the Hearth. A...

Sold for £130
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 20
Wilson (Arthur). The History of Great Britain,...

Sold for £130
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 21
Panvinio (Onofrio). Onuphrii Panvinii...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 22
Scott (Sir Walter). Letters on Demonology and...

Sold for £750
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 23
Shakespeare (William). The Sonnets. The...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 24
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Lord of the Rings (The...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 25
Folio Society Literature. A large quantity of...

Sold for £750
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 26
Detective Fiction. An extensive collection of...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 27
Folio Society History A large quantity of...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 28
Fleming (Ian) Thunderball. Jonathan Cape, 1961,...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 29
Ovid. Metamorphoses. The Folio Society, 2008,...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 30
Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys,...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 31
Peake (Mervyn) - The Gormenghast Trilogy....

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 32
Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Lord of the Rings...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 33
Steinbeck (John). The Grapes of Wrath. New...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 34
Orwell (George). The Road to Wigan Pier....

Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 35
Eliot (T.S.). Four Quartets. Cambridge:...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 36
King Charles I (of England). 'A Journal of the...

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 37
Johnson (Samuel). A Dictionary of the English...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £300 - £400

Lot 38
Folio Society. A large collection of books...

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 39
Geminiani (F[rancesco]), A Treatise of Good...

Sold for £500
Estimated at £500 - £800

Lot 40
O'Brian (Patrick). The Complete Aubrey-Maturin...

Sold for £900
Estimated at £700 - £1,000

Lot 41
Yachting Yachting Monthly Magazine Illustrated,...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 42
[Fane (John, Earl of Westmorland)]. Memoir of...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 43
Nelson (Horatio, Viscount). The Letters of...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 44
Royal Navy Signal-Book for the Ship of War....

Sold for £1,300
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 45
Naval Chronicle. The Naval Chronicle, Volumes...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 46
[Lambart (Richard, Earl of Cavan)]. A New...

Sold for £900
Estimated at £500 - £800

Lot 47
Letters of a British Soldier in Ireland and...

Sold for £6,500
Estimated at £700 - £1,000

Lot 48
An Unknown Yorkshire Soldier. A First World...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 49
Cavendish Bentinck (F.) An interesting...

Sold for £800
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 50
Lake District Honeymoon. Wedding Tour of Mr &...

Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 51
Victorian Photograph Albums A Silver Mounted...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 52
Royal Family Autograph Letters An outstanding...

Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £1,000 - £2,000

Lot 53
Westmorland Elections. A collection of fifteen...

Sold for £600
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 54
Bewick (Jos.). Geological Treatise on the...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 55
Yorkshire Geology. Phillips (John),...

Sold for £200
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 56
[Wilkinson (Robert)]. Londina Illustrata....

Sold for £450
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 57
Somner (William). The Antiquities of...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 58
Bell (John). A Plan of the Town of Winlaton,...

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 59
Catlin (Geo.) Letters and Notes on the Manners,...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 60
Vittorio Sella [1859-1943]. Alpine Ranges, six...

Sold for £1,300
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 61
Vittorio Sella [1859-1943]. The Matterhorn...

Sold for £1,300
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 62
Vittorio Sella [1859-1943]. Mountain Views,...

Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 63
Iacovleff (Alexandre) [Jacovleff]. Dessins et...

Sold for £500
Estimated at £800 - £1,200

Lot 64
Shackleton (E.H.) et al. The South Polar Times,...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 65
Geology Arkell (W.J.), The Jurassic System in...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 66
Geology. Lyell (Charles), Principles of...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 67
Palaeontology. Morris (Prof.) & Lycett (John),...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 68
Hervey (John). Racing in America, 1665-1865,...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £200 - £400

Lot 69
The Sporting Life. British Hunts and Huntsmen ....

Sold for £200
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 70
Newland (Rev. Henry). The Erne, its Legends...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 71
Botany and Horticulture. Rumphius (Georgius...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 73
Boxing History. Bradley (J. Frank), The Boxing...

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 74
Wisden. John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 75
Einstein (Albert). Relativity, The Special &...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200