Tennants Auctioneers: Books, Maps and Manuscripts, 14311, Leyburn

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 15, 2026 - April 15, 2026
Page Size: 138 items in 6 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Naval Fiction.

Forester (C.S.). The Commodore.

London 1945 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 154.56
102 Orwell (George).

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story.

 London 1945 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 515.20
103 Pamphlets.

The Crisis. Number LXXII. To be continued Weekly, During the Present Bloody Civil War in America. Saturday, June 1, 1776.

London 1776 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 128.80
104 Pullman (Philip).

The Book of Dust. Three volumes: La Belle Sauvage; The Secret Commonwealth; The Rose Field.

London 2017-2025 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 489.44
105 Rimbaud (Arthur).

A Season in Hell.

 London 1949 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 180.32
106 Scott (Sir Walter).

The Fortunes of Nigel.

Edinburgh 1822 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 386.40
107 Swift (Jonathan).

Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.

London 1711 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
108 Swift (Jonathan).

Three sermons: I. On mutual subjection. II. On conscience. III. On the Trinity.

 Dublin 1744 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 206.08
109 Tolkien (J.R.R.) -

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring.

London 1962 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 579.60
110 Wells (H. G.).

The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance.

 London 1897 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 540.96
111 Wells (H.G.).

The Island of Doctor Moreau.

 London 1896 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 618.24
112 Wells (H.G.).

A collection of first editions, including Little Wars.

London 1913 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 412.16
113 Wells (H.G.).

A collection of Wells' political works, each with bespoke cloth-covered case, from the library of Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, including The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia.

London 1936 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 772.80
114 Yeats (William Butler).

Michael Robartes and the Dancer.

 Churchtown, Dundrum 1920 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 450.80
115

A collection of seven manuscript documents relating to Herbertshire, Scotland, including a 1671 Instrument of Sasine in favour of James reddock;…

 N/A GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 103.04
116 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Autographs of the members of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-58, including Sir Edmund Hillary, Vivian Fuchs, and George Lowe.

N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 128.80
117

A collection of printed and manuscript documents relating to Northumberland, Lancashire, and Cheshire,

N/A GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 708.40
118

Sketches of the Lives of the Saints of the Society of Jesus who have been Canonized or Beatified up to the present time. 1868,

1868 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 515.20
119

A collection of approximately 69 manuscript documents, 16th-19th century

 16th-19th century GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 708.40
120

A collection of approximately 120 manuscript letters addressed to Robert Thorp/Dickson & Thorp Solicitors, and Thomas Adams (solicitor) of Alnwick.

1790s to 1840s GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 322.00
121 Priestley (Joseph, 1733-1804, and Timothy, 1734-1814).

A collection of letters written to Joseph Priestley's sister Martha Crouch, the majority from Joseph Priestley's brother, Timothy (Signed "T" or "Tim").

N/A GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,864.00
122 Quakers - Darlington.

The Conversational Album for Recreative Instruction and Amusement, with manuscript entries in response to printed questions, by members of the Mounsey, Backhouse, Richardson, I'Anson, Fowles, Barclay families of Darlington.

1873-76 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 90.16
123 Sinhalese Palm-Leaf Manuscript.

[A palm-leaf manuscript, probably Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, 19th century?].

Sri Lanka 19th century? GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
124 Butcher (David).

The Stanbrook Abbey Press 1956-1990.

Risbury 1992 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 103.04
125 Keats (John).

Endymion: A Poetic Romance.

London 1947 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 618.24