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Auction Name: Two Day Books, Maps, Ephemera and Works on Paper
Auction Date: 04/16/2025 - 04/17/2025
Sale Number: #41625
Total Lots: 1060
Sold Lots: 704
Lots Sold: 66.42%
Unsold Lots: 356

Total Sales (GBP): 50,146.90
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 19,180.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 30,890.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 31,075.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 49,130.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 102.07%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
680	MARY W SHELLEY:	FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS:	1839	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 4,270.00
995		MANUSCRIPT 3 vol. G R HUNTER RESEARCH BOOKS Pakistan. "The Texts of Harappa and Mohenjodaro by G. R. Hunter". C1930s. All three volumes bound in period cloth		GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 3,782.00
239	JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN:	THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN	1937	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 3,660.00
143	IAN FLEMING:	LIVE AND LET DIE	1954	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 927.20
140	IAN FLEMING:	2 Titles: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN	1965	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 756.40
139	Ian Fleming	Dr No	1958	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 671.00
941		A leatherbound manuscript book		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 585.60
993		Solwan; or		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 488.00
597	S BIRCH:	THE PAPYRUS OF NAS-KHEMPRINCE OF AMEN RA.	1863	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 475.80
142	IAN FLEMING:	FOR YOUR EYES ONLY	1960	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 463.60
136	AGATHA CHRISTIE:	DEATH ON THE NILE	1937	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 451.40
878		An exquisite scrap album, titled 'VISIT OF MY WIFE AND MYSELF TO INDIA, PAKISTAN AND CEYLON, ACCOMPANIED BY SIR ROBERT AND LADY BIGNOLD, OCT 1948 - FEB 1949'.		GBP 140.00 - 210.00	GBP 414.80
144	AGATHA CHRISTIE:	2 titles: ENDLESS NIGHT	1967	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 414.80
587	HENRY WALTERS:	INCUNABULA TYPOGRAPHICA - A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS PRINTED IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (1460-1500) IN THE LIBRARY OF HENRY WALTERS	1906	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	GBP 390.40
950		GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS: A large box folio containing various Publisher's Prospectuses		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 390.40
314	PATRICK HAMILTON:	CRAVEN HOUSE	1927	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 366.00
997	WALTER ELLIOT.	CANARESE KANNADA LANGUAGE INDIA. 1833 Memorandum : This Alphabet of the Ancient Canarese character commonly called Hala Canara and Prosvada Hala Canara		GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 366.00
996		1769 BOTANY. FOLIO Flora Malabarica		GBP 100.00 - 300.00	GBP 366.00
123		CODEX SINAITICUS - Facsimile edition	2010	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 341.60
901		Eight 19th century Suffolk interest pamphlets: [BURY ST EDMUNDS] THE POLL AT THE ELECTION OF TWO BURGESSES TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE SAID BOROUGH, TAKEN BEFORE HENRY PRIGG, 1847; THE REV SAMUEL RICKARDS: CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. A SERMON, ON THE DEATH OF		GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 329.40

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