Hansons: The Library Sale (Presented by Rare Book Auctions), 52026a, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2026 - May 20, 2026
Page Size: 252 items in 11 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
116 James Heath

A Brief Chronicle of the Late Intestine Warr in the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland & Ireland

London 1663 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 168.75
117 William Fawcett

Rules & Regulations for the Formations, Field-Exercise, and Movements of His Majesty's Forces; Reef Points

London 1808; 1934-1935 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 32.50
118 Rudyard Kipling

Kim

London 1901 GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 27.50
119 William Camden; Edmund Gibson

Britannia: Or A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland

London c. 1730 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 100.00
120 James Reynolds; John Emslie

Diagrams of the Steam Engine

London 1848 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 425.00
121 Joshua Barnes

The History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III

Cambridge 1688 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 162.50
122

The Book of Common Prayer

London 1681; 1682 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
123 William Dugdale; William Fithorne the Elder

A Short View of the Late Troubles in England

Oxford 1681 GBP 200.00 - 280.00 Not Sold
124 John Maynard Keynes

A Treatise on Money

London 1930 GBP 60.00 - 120.00 GBP 325.00
125 William Temple

The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart.

London 1731 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
126 Adam Smith; Baroness De Stael; Edward Gibbon Wakefield

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; Considerations on the Principle Events of the French Revolution; England and America

Edinburgh; London; London 1817; 1818; 1833 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 300.00
127 Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

London 1809 GBP 80.00 - 160.00 GBP 275.00
128 William Russell; William Smith; Charles Darwin; A. H. Johnson; Eric Wood

12 Books, including: The History of Modern Europe

London 1805; 1810; 1869; 1879; 1912; 1923; 1926 GBP 60.00 - 120.00 GBP 193.75
129 David Roberts; William Gilpin; George Burder; Henry Blunt; W. H. Bartlett; William Bright; Edward Cooper

21 Books, including: The Practical and Devotional Family Bible

Glasgow 1861; 1802; 1806; c. 1900; 1845; 1837; 1901; 1911; 1852; 1888; 1920; c. 1910; 1830 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 81.25
130 Agnes Strickland; W. H. Maxwell; Sharon Turner; John Froissart; William Harrison-Ainsworth

27 Books, including: Lives of the Queens of England

London 1844-1848; 1866; c. 1910; 1840; 1884; 1890; c. 1930; 1868; 1885 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 118.75
131 Arnold J. Toynbee; S. R. K. Glanville

4 Boxes of Books, including: A Study of History

1947 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 37.50
132 Emanuel Bowen

Atlas of the World

London c. 1744 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 4,625.00
133 John Speed

The North and East Riding of Yorkshire

London 1611-1614 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 150.00
134 Duncan George Forbes of Culloden; George Lockhart; John Heneage Jesse; Alexander Charles Ewald; Robert Forbes

10 Books, including: Culloden Papers

London; London; London; London; Edinburgh 1815; 1817; 1845; 1875; 1895-1896 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 375.00
135

The Old and New Testament

1619 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 300.00
136 ALLINGHAM W

The New Method of Fortification

London 1702 GBP 60.00 - 120.00 GBP 143.75
137 MAITLAND Charles

Mr. Maitland's Account of Inoculating the Small Pox Vindicated, from Dr. Wagstaffe's Misrepresentations of that Practice, with some Remarks on Mr.

London 1722 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 525.00
138 HOPKINS Ezekiel

The Vanity of the World; The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse

London; London & New York 1685; 1878 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
139

The Palestine Police Magazine; For the Record

Jerusalem 1947; n.d. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 118.75
140

The Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

London 1840 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 187.50
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
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    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000