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Auction Name The Library Auction Total Sales (GBP) 72,885.00
Auction Date February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 44,400.00
Sale Number #22625 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 69,825.00
Total Lots 256
Sold Lots 186 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 69,660.00
% of Lots Sold 72.66% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 108,845.00
Unsold Lots 70 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 66.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
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
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
16 CRUIKSHANK, George.

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

1820 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 5,125.00
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
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
74 BOND, Michael.

A Bear Called Paddington

1958 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,875.00
71 TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

[Lord of the Rings].

1963 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,812.50
102 NABOKOV, Vladimir.

Lolita

1955 GBP 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,812.50
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
52 MASSIE, Chris.

Corridor of Mirrors, manuscript draft [originally titled My Friend Douglas],

1941 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,312.50
50

A large collection relating to the formative years of the Labour Party,

GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,000.00
79 P.G. Wodehouse

Collection of Everyman's Library editions of P.G. Wodehouse classics

2000-2015 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,000.00
12 BURY, Thomas Talbot (illus.).

Six Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,

1831 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 875.00
10 Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).

Saint Simon

1523 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 812.50
70 TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

[The Lord of the Rings]. The Fellowship of the Ring

1960-61 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
132 SOBIESKI STUART, John.

Vestiarium Scoticum

1842 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
41 Robert Kerr [or Carr], Viscount Rochester, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 1587-1645).

Autograph Letter Signed to the Earl of Northampton, [c. 1613].

c. 1613. GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 750.00
53 MASSIE, Chris.

Pity My Simplicity [Love Letters], manuscript draft [originally titled Fata Morgana], entirely handwritten in black ink, [iii]

1944 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 687.50
177

Disorders Inquiry Committee 1919-1920 Report, also known as the Hunter Commission, conducted after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, or Amritsar Massacre,...

1920 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 600.00
55 MASSIE, Chris.

A collection of nine FIRST EDITIONS, all scarce, each one a PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author, comprising: Penny Whip, ...

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 500.00
196 KIPLING, Rudyard.

The Works, vols. 1-26 of the Bombay Edition

1913-27 GBP 500.00 - 600.00 GBP 500.00
136 STEWART, Donald William.

Old and Rare Scottish Tartans

1893 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 500.00
113

A collection of classics, including: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, in 4 vol.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 475.00
42 Henry III of France (1551-1589), King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, also King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575.

Autograph on document

1577 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 450.00
254

A quantity of antique maps, including: GIBSON, J. A Map of the New Governments of East and West Florida

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 450.00