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Auction Name: Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction Date: 04/09/2025 - 04/09/2025
Sale Number: #40925
Total Lots: 143
Sold Lots: 133
Lots Sold: 93.01%
Unsold Lots: 10

Total Sales (GBP): 95,904.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 35,040.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 56,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 37,620.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 60,420.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 158.73%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
32	Gauss (Carl Friedrich).	Disquisitiones Arithmeticae.	1801	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 19,200.00
109		[Mounsey (George W.)]. Three manuscript journal accounts of a trip through Egypt and the Middle East in 1858/1859	1858/1859	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 4,800.00
9	Gillray (James).	Twenty-one caricatures, including 'Taking Physick' [BM 9584], 'Breathing a Vein' [BM 10306], 'Gentle Emetic' [BM 10304], 'Charming well again' [BM 10307]	ex Fonmon Castle.	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 4,560.00
140		Three works in one, comprising: The Art and Mystery of Vintners and Wine-Coopers. Containing Approved Directions for the Preserving and Curing all Manner and Sorts of Wines, by E. T. a Wine-Cooper of long Experience.	1734	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 3,840.00
39	Atkinson (George Francklin).	The Campaign in India, 1857-58. From drawings made during the eventful period of the Great Mutiny... Illustrating the Military Operations before Delhi and its Neighbourhood.	1859	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 3,360.00
69	Raffles (Thomas Stamford).	The History of Java.	1817	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 2,760.00
126	Hughes (Ted) and Lloyd (R.J., illustrator).	The Cat and the Cuckoo.	no date [1987]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,160.00
14	Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher).	A History of The University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings,	1815	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 2,160.00
51		The Edinburgh Geographical and Historical Atlas, comprehending a sketch of the History of Geography ... and History of each Continent, State, and Kingdom, delineated.	no date [c. 1831]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,040.00
56	Ogilby (John).	Britannia: or the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales Actually Survey'd: with a Geographical and Historical Description of the Principal Roads; Explain'd by One Hundred Maps on Copper-Plates...	1698	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 1,680.00
30	Boyle (Robert).	Tracts: Containing I. Suspicions about Some Hidden Qualities of the Air; with an Appendix touching Celestial Magnets, and some other Particulars. II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata De Vacuo. III. A Discourse of the Cause of Attractions by Suc	1674	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,680.00
12	Ackermann (R[udolph], publisher).	A History of the University of Oxford, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.	1814	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,440.00
94	Crowne [(John)].	Darius, King of Persia. A Tragedy.	[1688]	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 1,200.00
134	The Gregynog Press.	The Life of Saint David.	1927	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,140.00
67	Dampier (William).	A New Voyage Around The World.	1699	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 1,080.00
16	Adam (Robert).	Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia.	1764	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,080.00
91	Austen (Jane).	Pride and Prejudice.	1894	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,020.00
90	[Street (Cecil)], Burton (Miles).	To Catch a Thief.	1934	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 960.00
131	Private Press.	Jones (Glyn & T. J. Morgan). The Story of Heledd.	1994	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 960.00
10	[Hogarth (William)].	[The Works...from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath...and Explanations...by John Nichols. Baldwin and Cradock].		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 900.00

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