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Auction Name Weekly Featuring Books Total Sales (GBP) 79,891.88
Auction Date February 24, 2025 - February 24, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 42,720.00
Sale Number #22425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 62,020.00
Total Lots 258
Sold Lots 218 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 46,250.00
% of Lots Sold 84.50% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 67,250.00
Unsold Lots 40 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 118.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1281

Manuscript devotional work;

first half of 15th century GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 13,125.00
1502

[Dodgson, Rev. Charles Lutwidge] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll.

1866 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,200.00
1394 Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows

1908 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,600.00 GBP 2,625.00
1388 Stevenson, Robert Louis

Treasure Island

1883 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 GBP 2,493.75
1395 Ecclesiasticus

The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach

1932 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,231.25
1392 Piper, John

Brighton Aquatints. Twelve original aquatints of modern Brighton with short descriptions by the artist

1939 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,100.00
1532 Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Exhibition poster Galerie Claude Bernard 1977

1977 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,100.00
1418 Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbavilles a pure woman faithfully presented...in three volumes.

1891 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,100.00
1475 Botany

Sheldrake, Timothy. Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of Medicinal Plants on the College of Physicians List

[1759] GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,837.50
1451 Christie, Agatha

Murder on the Orient Express

1934 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,575.00
1400 Woolf, Virginia

To The Lighthouse

1927 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,181.25
1343

[Polydore Vergil]. (De Inventoribus Rerum). An Abridgemente of the Notable Worke of Polydore Virgile. Conteining the deuisers and fyrste fynders onte aswell (sic) of antyquities

(?1560). GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,115.63
1425 Neuberg, Victor, B.

The Triumph of Pan,

1910 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,050.00
1449 Lewis C.S

The Magician's Nephew

1955 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 984.38
1793 Samuel Thornton (18th. C)

set of six coloured maps to include: 'India', 'Coremandell' and the 'Coast of Mallabar'

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 853.13
1384 Homer

The Iliad / The Odyssey. (Translated by Alexander) Pope. Limited Edition

1931 GBP 140.00 - 180.00 GBP 787.50
1423 Capote, Truman

Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Short Novel and Three Stories

1958 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 787.50
1295 Venn, Thomas, Tacquet, Andrew and Others

Military & Maritine Discipline in Three Books... Military Observations on Tacticks put into Practice for the Exercise of Horse and Foot... an Exact Method of Military Architecture... the Compleat Gunner

1672 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 721.88
1320 Hasted, Rev. Edward

The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the ancient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical

1778-99 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 721.88
1377 Rackham, Arthur

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

1932 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 721.88
1369 Dulac, Edmund

A Fairy Garland: Being Fairy Tales from the Old French

1928 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 656.25
1413 Conan Doyle, Arthur

Works; Sherlock Holmes Long Stories; Sherlock Holmes Short Stories; Historical Romances (2) & Stories,

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 630.00
1454 Bannerman, Helen

The Story of Little Black Sambo. No. 4 in 'The Dumpy Books for Children' series.

1899 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 551.25
1495 Collins, Lieutenant-Colonel David

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, From its First Settlement in January 1788 to August 1801: With remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that Country.

1804 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 551.25
1267 Martin, C. Francois

Le Regulateur Universel des Poids et Mesures

1809 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 525.00