Chiswick Auctions: The Art of Nature, 42925, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE HOUSTON MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, 1933 |
1933 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 353.00 | ||
| 1A | BISSON FRERES (LOUIS-AUGUSTE BISSON, 1814--1876 AND AUGUSTE-ROSALIE BISSON, 1826--1900) | LE MONT BLANC ET GLACIER DES BOSSONS, |
c.1862. | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 23 | ENID BLYTON | ROUND THE YEAR, |
1934 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 37 | WENCESLAUS HOLLAR (BOHEMIAN 1607--1677), FALCK & DE WIT | A Paeony, etched plate from Hollar's 'Animalium, ferarum, et bestiarum, florum, fructuum, muscarum, vermiumque icones variae, omnes ad vivum delineatae' |
1663 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 38 | AFTER NICOLAES VISSCHER II (DUTCH) (1649-1702) | A collection of eight festoon engravings, including 'Feston van Flora' and 'Feston van Cybele', |
c.1670-1702 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 39 | AFTER JOHN NASH RA (BRITISH 1893-1977) | Datura, 2020 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 101.00 | ||
| 40 | ELIZABETH BLACKWELL. | A CURIOUS HERBAL...A collection of 12 hand-coloured copperplates from this magnificent herbal |
[1737-39] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 189.00 | |
| 41 | AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL (C. 1797) | Salix exigua |
1797 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
| 42 | ELIZABETH ANN BRISCOE (1780-1842) | A lychee |
1811 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
| 43 | VICTORIAN PRESSED FLOWER ALBUM | Album with 82 pages with pressed flowers each with printed or manuscript notes describing each and dated, presented within mounts, contemporary half morocco, a.e.g., sm. Folio |
[1893-94] | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 328.00 | |
| 44 | S. D. BROWN [BRITISH fl.1910] | Album, containing a collection of 26 original natural history watercolours and drawings, together with a few other general drawings, original skiver, worn, lacking spine, initialled and dated, sm. 4to., |
[1910] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 45 | AFTER RORY MCEWEN (SCOTTISH 1932-1982) | Flowering Artichoke |
1971 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
| 46 | BRADBURY & EVANS, c.1855 -1856 edited by John Lindley | A PAIR OF NATURE PRINTS, Comprising Plate XI [Polystichum aculeatum lobatum] and Plate XXXI [A. Asplenium fontanum B. Asplenium lanceolatum] from Thomas Moore's (1821-1887) "The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland", |
1857 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 47 | CYANOTYPE BOTANICAL STUDIES, c.1880 |
c.1880 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 353.00 | ||
| 82 | CHARLES DARWIN | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, |
1866 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,071.00 | |
| 83 | LONDON ZOO INTEREST- Animals Studies, 1950s-1970s |
1950s-1970s | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 151.00 | ||
| 84 | Various Photographers, c.1960s | LONDON ZOO INTEREST, c.1960s. A group of nineteen (19) vintage silver gelatin press prints related to the London Zoo |
c.1960s. | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 85 | LONDON ZOO INTEREST - Chimpanzees at the London Zoo, c.1949- 1956 |
c.1949- 1956 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 101.00 | ||
| 86 | Nick Brandt (b.1964) | ELEPHANT EXODUS I, AMBOSELI, 2001. |
2001 | GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 93 | MICHEL GHATAN (SWISS, B.1975) | CHEETAH STATUE, 2021 |
2021, printed later | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 100 | PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER | On the Rhinoceroses now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie, extract from vol. IX of 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London' (pp.645-660), |
1886 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 756.00 | |
| 103 | AERT SCHOUMAN (DUTCH 1710-1792) | Macaque |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 104 | WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926) | Kudu |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 | ||
| 105 | WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926) | Young Springbok |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 630.00 | ||
| 106 | WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926) | North American Rattlesnake |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 378.00 |
