Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Date: 11th Dec, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST
Lots: 145

A diverse range of antiquarian and collectable books will come under the hammer in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale on 11th December, including a scarce copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Fairy Caravan, the story she felt was too personal and autobiographical for her to feel comfortable publishing it in this country. Further highlights include a relatively rare first edition of The Road to Serfdom by the Austrian-born British economist and philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek and a 19th Century Manuscript Maritime Exercise Book filled with handwritten and hand drawn diagrams, maps, illustrations, calculations, charts and notes relating to sailing.

Of more local interest is a copy of the first printed map of Yorkshire, published in Christopher Saxon’s Atlas of England and Wales in 1579 and a large collection of Teesdale Photographs by Elijah Yeoman (1849-1930) of Barnard Castle, which include pictures of Barnard Castle, Streatlam Castle, Raby Castle, Ronaldskirk and Rokeby.

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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (144)

 

Lot 2000
Cast Iron Book Press, "Patentee, Patrick...

Sold for £80
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2002
Austen (Jane). [Works]. [Norwalk: The Easton...

Sold for £450
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2003
Bindings. Collection of mostly pictorial cloth,...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2004
Broadside Ballads. A collection of fifteen...

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2006
Ghosts - Esoterica. Hole (Christina). Haunted...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2007
Insurance Documents. A collection of...

Sold for £50
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 2008
Shakespeare (William). [Plays], Bell's Edition....

Sold for £700
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2009
Shankar (Ravi) & Harrison (George, editor)....

Sold for £70
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2010
Slightly Foxed Editions. Fifty-six volumes,...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2011
The Beatles. Scheler (Max) & Kirchherr...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2012
The Beatles. Scheler (Max) & Kirchherr...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2013
Wood (Ronnie). Wood on Canvas: Every Picture...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2014
Agriculture. Henderson (Andrew). The Practical...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 2015
Blake (William). "Christ trampling down Satan",...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2016
Prints. A large and extensive collection of...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2017
Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher). The History...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2018
Architecture. Gibbs (James). A Book of...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 2019
Hogarth (William). The Works, from the...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2021
Knight (Henry Gally). The Ecclesiastical...

Sold for £700
Estimated at £500 - £800

Lot 2022
Strehlneek (E.A.). Chinese Pictorial Art....

Sold for £70
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2023
The Wood Lea Press. Greenwood (Jeremy,...

Sold for £80
Estimated at £60 - £90

Lot 2024
Dart (John). Westmonasterium: or The History...

Sold for £140
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2026
Clarke (Harry, illustrator). Goethe (Johann...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2027
Illustrated. Grimm (The Brothers). Little...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2028
Japanese Fairy Tales. Japanese Fairy Tales...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2029
Kipling (Rudyard). The Jungle Book. London:...

Sold for £140
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 2030
Potter (Beatrix & Rupert). Potter (Rupert)....

Sold for £2,200
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 2031
Potter (Beatrix). Peter Rabbit's Book Shelf....

Sold for £80
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2032
Potter (Beatrix). Peter Rabbit's Book-shelf,...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2033
Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, by...

Sold for £3,000
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500

Lot 2034
Potter (Beatrix). The Story of a Fierce Bad...

Sold for £130
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2035
Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester....

Sold for £80
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2037
Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit,...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2039
Potter (Beatrix). Appley Dapply's Nursery...

Sold for £40
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2040
Potter (Beatrix). Peter Rabbit's Book Shelf....

Sold for £80
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 2041
Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny....

Sold for £80
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2043
*Amended Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mrs...

Sold for £30
Estimated at £60 - £90

Lot 2045
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Carroll (Lewis)....

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 2046
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Aesop's Fables....

Sold for £220
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2048
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Rossetti...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2049
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Ruskin (John)....

Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 2052
Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the...

Sold for £300
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 2053
Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter Deluxe Editions,...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2054
Tolkien (J. R. R.). The Lord of the Rings: The...

Sold for £200
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 2055
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Two Towers [and] The...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2057
Bible, [English] - Geneva Version. The Bible:...

Sold for £700
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 2058
Bible, [English] - Geneva Version. [The Bible,...

Sold for £700
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2059
Bible, [English] - Geneva-Tomson-Junius...

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

Lot 2060
Darwin (Charles). A Naturalist's Voyage....

Sold for £60
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2061
Engineering. Burn (Robert Scott). Modern...

Sold for £50
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2062
Maclaurin (Colin). An Account of Sir Isaac...

Sold for £140
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2063
Military. Dumont (Jean). The Military History...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £150 - £200

Lot 2064
Military. Melzo (Lodovico). Regole Militari ......

Sold for £150
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2065
Montgomery (Bernard Law, Field Marshal, The...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 2066
Montgomery (Bernard Law, Field Marshal, The...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 2067
Peninsular War. Bradford (Rev. William)....

Sold for £170
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2069
London. Panorama of London and the River...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 2070
London. Panorama of London and the River...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2072
Yorkshire. Hartley (Marie, artist). The...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £150 - £200

Lot 2073
Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz). Yorke,...

Sold for £110
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 2074
Hungary. Ortelius (Abraham). Ungariae Loca...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2075
Italy. Ortelius (Abraham). Regni Neapolitani...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2078
Saxton (Christopher). Eboracensis comitatus...

Sold for £2,300
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000

Lot 2080
Speed (John). The North and East Ridins of...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 2081
Yorkshire. Jansson (Jan). Provincia...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 2082
Yorkshire. Greenwood (Christopher). Map of the...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £150 - £200

Lot 2083
Yorkshire. Seventeen engraved maps of...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2084
Amundsen (Roald). The South Pole. An Account...

Sold for £800
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 2085
Belcher (Captain Sir Edward). The Last of the...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2086
Bernacchi (L.C., editor). The Polar Book....

Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 2088
Matthews (L. Harrison). South Georgia, the...

Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2089
Mawson (Douglas). The Home of the Blizzard,...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2090
M'Cormick (Robert). Voyages of Discovery in...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2091
Mount Everest. Howard-Bury (C.K.). Mount...

Sold for £750
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 2092
Murray (James) & Marston (George). Antarctic...

Sold for £150
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 2093
Nansen (Fridtjof). "Farthest North" Being a...

Sold for £90
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 2094
Polar - French. Charcot (J.B.). Journal de...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 2095
Polar - German. Ritscher (Albert). Deutsche...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £300 - £500