Hansons: The Library Auction, 22625, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025
Page Size: 256 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 [Hugh Cecil (1889-1974)].

An original glass plate negative of Edward VIII (1894-1972), produced for the Royal Mint for use on stamps and planned coinage, [1936].

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,375.00
2 CHILD, Thomas.

Views of North China. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY. A collection of 65 albumen prints

1870-80 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 9,375.00
3

IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHS. An archive from the Mayor & Mayoress of Sheffield

1940-41 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
4 HAWKING, Stephen.

STARMUS: 50 Years of Man in Space, first printing [one of only 500 copies that were made available to attendees], SIGNED with thumbprint by Stephen Hawking

2014 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,250.00
5

Skylab-3 Mission. An unusual "laminated plaque" [photographic image printed directly onto wood], depicting a huge solar flare

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
6

Malby's Terrestrial Globe'.

[London] 1843 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
7 Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922).

TLS [Typed Letter Signed] on The Trans-Antarctic Expedition letterhead, 17 June 1914, addressed to E. H. Bayliss Esq.,

1914 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,625.00
8

The Conquest of Everest [Tom Stobart], three 35mm film reels in original Kodak cans bearing remnants of labels, Countryman Films Group 3, together with one 16mm reel of "Tensing's Country".

1953, 1955 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
9 Katushika Hokusai (1760-1849).

Poem by Samurai Dayu from Hokusai's final series of prints -

GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
10 Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).

Saint Simon

1523 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 812.50
11 Jakob Andreas Fridrich the Younger (German, 1714--1779).

engraving of the Imperial Forces of Francis I Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Maria Theresa of Austria encamped at Ladenburg and Neuenheim on the River Neckar on September 28th 1745 during the war of the Austrian Succession.

1745 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
12 BURY, Thomas Talbot (illus.).

Six Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,

London 1831 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 875.00
13

Georgian era scrapbook compiled by John Newman (d.1824) of Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,375.00
14 William Hogarth

The Works of William Hogarth,

London 1822 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 42.50
15 [HEATH, William (Illust.)].

The Glasgow Looking Glass, Vol. 1, No. 2,

Glasgow 1825 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 275.00
16 CRUIKSHANK, George.

The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead,

London 1820 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,125.00
17 Walter Ernest "Wally" Fawkes, 'Trog' (b.1924),

original satirical cartoon depicting Harold Wilson handing a copy of 'The Queen's opening of Parliament speech' to his wife Mary

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
18 David Knight (British, 20th Century),

The Cabinet in Session'

1966 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 275.00
19 Stanley Franklin (1930-2004),

"We'll meet again..."

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
20 Stanley Franklin (1930-2004),

original ink cartoon, published in the Sun newspaper 12 July 1975, depicts Harold Wilson in charge of the Cabinet/crew of H.M.S Self-Sacrifice

1975 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 125.00
21 Paul Rigby (1924-2006),

original ink satirical cartoon, stamped 'received' and 'used' 20th June 1973 by the Sun newspaper Art Library on verso

1973 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
22 Stanley Franklin (1930-2004),

original ink satirical cartoon, depicts Wilson as the 'Blackpool Rock' on which the 'looney left' ship has been wrecked

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 125.00
23 Raymond Jackson, 'JAK' (1927-1997),

original ink satirical cartoon, depicts Harold Wilson as a lion tamer and his Cabinet as lions, dated 3 April 1969

1969 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
24 Frank Reynolds (1876-1953)

3 original pen and ink cartoons by artist and illustrator Frank Reynolds (1876-1953)

n.d. c.1930s GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
25 Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859), engraved by Robert Havell senior (1769-1832)

Stonehenge 1815 - Grand Conventicle Festival of the Britons.

London 1815 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 181.25