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Auction Name: Online: Books and Works on Paper
Auction Date: 04/24/2025 - 04/24/2025
Sale Number: #1002
Total Lots: 304
Sold Lots: 269
Lots Sold: 88.49%
Unsold Lots: 35

Total Sales (GBP): 172,387.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 67,130.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 96,470.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 76,070.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 109,180.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 157.89%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
246	Satire.- American Revolution.- Darly (Matthew) and Mary Darly.	A View in America in 1778	1778	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 9,450.00
149	Roberts (M., sergeant, 46th Regiment)	Narrative of the Shipwreck of the "Royal Charlotte" in the Eastern Seas	n.d. [c. 1825].	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 5,040.00
119	Le Rouge (Georges-Louis)	Les Curiositez De Paris, De Versailles, De Marly, De Vincennes, De S. Cloud, Et Des Environs	1733	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 4,284.00
130	Privat D'Anglemont (Alexandre)	Paris Anecdote, additional pictorial title	1885	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 4,032.00
153		Polar & Everest explorers and other explorers.- Collection of letters and newspaper cuttings, some signed, signatures, including: Sir John Franklin, Ernest H Shackleton, Douglas Mawson, ...	v.d.	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 3,780.00
206	Poe (Edgar Allan)	The Complete Works	1902	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,528.00
213	Francis (Dick)	[The Complete Novels], 40 vol.	1963-2006	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,528.00
103	Boehme (Jacob)	The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher, 4 vol.	1764-81.	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,276.00
280	Americas.- Various Artists & Cartographers (17th to 19th century)	Large collection of over 90 maps and views, including South America,	mainly 17th to 19th century	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,024.00
112	Gardiner (Alan H., editor)	The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, 4 vol.	1933-58.	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,024.00
165		Film & Television.- Collection of autographs, photographs, programmes and newspaper cuttings, some signed, signatures including: Rudolph Valentino, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, ...	[20th century]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 2,772.00
87	Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob)	Kupfer-Bibel in welcher die Physica Sacra, 4 vol.	1731-35	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,520.00
172	Milligan (Spike)	and Larry Stephens. [BBC Broadcasts c.15 typescript scripts of "The Goon Show"],	[1952-53].	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 2,520.00
105		The American Preacher, 4 vol.	1791-93	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 2,394.00
166		Variety, Music Hall & Modern Entertainment.- Collection of letters, autographs, photographs, programmes and newspaper cuttings, some signed, signatures including: Marie Lloyd, George Formby, ...	[20th century].	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,016.00
38		Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), Containing the Old and New Testaments,	1768	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,764.00
41		Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha bound between the Old and New Testaments,	1777	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,764.00
295		Scott's Discovery Expedition	1901	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,764.00
175	Brice (Germain)	A New Description of Paris	1687	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,764.00
232		Japan.- [Japanese pattern sample book], 3 vol.	[1897]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,638.00

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