J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter Books at Auction 2024

PAST AUCTION

19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 792

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Books & Manuscripts

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The Rare 'Harry Potter' First Editions

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Journalist, Author, Soldier, Spy?

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A.A. Milne: About a Bear

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Photographs of Scottish Life Formerly Owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon

LOT 1

Austen, Jane

Northanger Abbey [and:] Persuasion

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 2

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 3

[Bonhôte, Elizabeth]

Olivia; or, Deserted Bride

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 4

Clare, John

The Village Minstrel and Other Poems

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 5

Peacock, Francis

Sketches relative to the History and Theory, but more especially to the Practice of Dancing

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 6

Minerva Press - Canadian Novel - Slavery

Yamboo; or, the North American Slave

SOLD FOR £278

LOT 7

[Wynne, John Huddlestone (1742-1788)]

The Man of Honour: or, the History of Harry Waters, Esq.

SOLD FOR £3,276

LOT 8

[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman

The Beauty of the British Alps

£1,000 - £1,500

LOT 9

Dickens, Charles

[Works]

SOLD FOR £605

LOT 10

Poe, Edgar Allan

Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour; and Poems

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 11

Milton, John

Paraphrasis Poetica in tria Poemata

£300 - £400

LOT 12

Continental books

Collection of works including Elzevir press titles, 17th-18th century

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 13

Bindings

Collection of works, English literature, 18th-19th century

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 14

Fine bindings and library sets

Collection of works, English literature and European literature in translation, 18th-19th century

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 15

Antiquarian English and Scottish books

Collection of works, 17th-18th century

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 16

19th-century literature

Large collection of works including leather bindings

£300 - £500

LOT 17

Antiquarian literature

Collection of works, English and continental, 16th-19th century

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 18

Blackwood, Adam

Opera Omnia

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 19

Burns, Robert

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

SOLD FOR £555

LOT 20

Burns, Robert

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

SOLD FOR £240

LOT 21

Burns, Robert

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 22

Johnson, James - and Robert Burns, as contributor

The Scots Musical Museum

£300 - £600

LOT 23

McGonagall, Sir William Topaz (1825-1902)

Two signed poetry broadsides

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 24

[Scottish Satire, 18th century]

A Political and Satirical History

SOLD FOR £303

LOT 25

Watson, James

A Choise Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 26

Scottish and Jacobite history

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 27

Scotland

26 volumes

£300 - £500

LOT 28

Scottish Enlightenment

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 29

Jacobite history

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 30

Scottish works

Collection of 8 books

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 31

[Martyrdom of King Charles I]

Pamphlet volume of sermons preached before the House of Commons on the feast of King Charles the Martyr

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 32

[John Newton interest] Halyburton, Thomas

Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend, Learned and Pious Mr. Halyburton

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 33

Clarke, James Stanier and John McArthur

The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson

£600 - £800

LOT 34

[Symonds, William]

[Naval Costume]

£200 - £300

LOT 35

[Royal Interest]

Windsor Castle - Index to Rooms

£300 - £500

LOT 36

Heraldry and Genealogy

A small collection

£300 - £500

LOT 37

Bindings

On historical, military and other subjects

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 38

Smith, John Raphael (1751-1812)

Lt. Col. Tarleton

£500 - £800

LOT 39

Richardson, J. - and J.H. Nixon

The Eglinton Tournament

£500 - £700

LOT 40

Rowlandson, Thomas

Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms...

SOLD FOR £2,016

LOT 41

Churchill, Winston S.

The Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 42

Gittins, Daniel

Remarks on the Tenets and Principles of the Quakers

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 43

[Geneva Bible]

Rouland Hall

SOLD FOR £9,450

LOT 44

Baskerville, John (printer)

The Holy Bible

SOLD FOR £1,260

LOT 45

Scottish binding

The Holy Bible

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 46

17th-century embroidered binding

[The Holy Bible, New Testament and Psalms only]

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 47

Bibles and religious books

16th to early 18th century

SOLD FOR £2,016

LOT 48

Occult

An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 49

Popper, Karl

Conjectures and Refutations

SOLD FOR £240

LOT 50

Elizabethan medicine

Annotated medical sammelband

SOLD FOR £14,490

LOT 51

Boyle, Robert

Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 52

Babbage, Charles

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 53

Maxwell, James Clerk

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

SOLD FOR £11,340

LOT 54

Maxwell, James Clerk

On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 55

Einstein, Albert

Relativity, The Special and the General Theory

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 56

Stevenson, Alan

Report to the Committee of the Commissioners of Northern Lights

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 57

Stevenson, Alan

Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 58

Provis, William Alexander

An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Suspension Bridge constructed over the Menai Strait

SOLD FOR £278

LOT 59

Cleland, Elizabeth

A New and Easy Method of Cookery

SOLD FOR £3,780

LOT 60

Dentistry, 3 volumes

19th century

£200 - £300

LOT 61

Sowerby, James

English Botany

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 62

Lewer, S.H.

Wright's Book of Poultry

£200 - £300

LOT 63

McGillivray, William

The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 64

[Mosses] Braithwaite, R.

The British Moss-Flora

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 65

Low, David

[Plates from] The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 66

Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron

Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands

SOLD FOR £1,134

LOT 67

Snelling, Lilian (illustrator)

A Supplement to Elwes' Monograph of the Genus Lilium

SOLD FOR £819

LOT 68

Morris, Francis Orpen

A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Eggs

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 69

Sawada, Ken

The Art of the Classic Salmon Fly

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 70

Hooker, Sir William Jackson

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

SOLD FOR £7,308

LOT 71

Natural History

Including Buffon

SOLD FOR £353

LOT 72

Harris, John

Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels

SOLD FOR £2,268

LOT 73

Bankes, Thomas

A New Royal Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography Antient and Modern

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 74

Cook, James and James King

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 75

Le Roy, Jacques

Castella et praetoria nobilium Brabantiae, coenobiaque celebriora

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 76

Simpson, William

The Seat of the War in the East

SOLD FOR £1,386

LOT 77

[Woman traveller - French Revolution]

A Sketch of Modern France in a Series of Letters to a Lady of Fashion

SOLD FOR £303

LOT 78

Richardt, Fr. - Gustaf Ljunggren

Skånsker Herregådar

£300 - £500

LOT 79

Sun Yat-sen

Kidnapped in London

SOLD FOR £1,386

LOT 80

Saussure, Horace Bénedict de

Voyages dans les Alpes

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 81

Alexander, William

Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Austrians...

£200 - £300

LOT 82

Ellis, William

Polynesian Researches, during a residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands

£400 - £600

LOT 83

Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François

A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 84

Australia and New Zealand, 7 works

including gold mining in Australia

£400 - £600

LOT 85

New Zealand

4 works

£250 - £350

LOT 86

Travel

21 volumes

£200 - £300

LOT 87

Brockedon, William

Italy, Classical, Historical and Picturesque, Illustrated and Described

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 88

Kingdon Ward, F.

Asian Travel

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 89

Allom, Thomas (illustrator)

China, in a Series of Views

SOLD FOR £605

LOT 90

Allom, Thomas (illustrator)

China, in a Series of Views

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 91

Archaeological Survey of Western India

Report of the First Season's Operations in the Belgam and Kaladgi Districts

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 92

India

General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 93

India

Records of the Survey of India

SOLD FOR £2,520

LOT 94

India

Collection of 22 rare works in Urdu

SOLD FOR £6,930

LOT 95

India

Collection of works on Indian law and government, and Persian and Urdu literature

SOLD FOR £3,276

LOT 96

Indian Rebellion of 1857

3 works

£500 - £700

LOT 97

Blome, Richard

Britannia: or, a Geographical Descriptions of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 98

Loggan, David

Oxonia Illustrata

SOLD FOR £12,600

LOT 99

Hill, David Octavius

[Plates from] Views of the Opening of the Glasgow & Garnkirk Railway

£800 - £1,200

LOT 100

Inglis, Henry D.

Ireland in 1834. A Journey Throughout Ireland

SOLD FOR £378