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Auction Name
Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper
Auction Date
07/17/2025 - 07/17/2025
Sale Number
#1176
Total Lots
252
Sold Lots
202
Lots Sold
80.16%
Unsold Lots
50
Total Sales (GBP)
500,748.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
289,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
412,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
367,150.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
522,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
95.80%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
249 Sowerby (George Brettingham, Jr., 1812-1884)

Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity

[circa 1840] GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 21,590.00
126 Yeats (William Butler)

The Secret Rose

1897 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 19,050.00
251 Euclid.

De gli Elementi, collation: *2

GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 15,240.00
2 Lucianus Samosatensis.

Dialogoi

1496, 1517 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 13,970.00
250 [Stensen (Niels)]

De Solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus

1669 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 11,430.00
98 Christie (Agatha)

Cards on the Table

1936 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 11,430.00
23 Henry VII & Philip the Fair

[Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy]

25th April 1499 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,160.00
196 Ogilby (John)

America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World...

1671 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,525.00
175 Miro, Kandinsky etc, Spender (Stephen)

Fraternity

1939-03-01 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,255.00
110 Lewis (C.S.)

[The Chronicles of Narnia]

1950-1956 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
167 Milton (John)

Paradise Lost: A Poem

1937 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
127 Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)

Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

1893 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,620.00
148 Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt

1841 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,985.00
104 Du Maurier (Daphne)

Rebecca

1938 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,350.00
109 le Carre (John)

A Murder of Quality

1962 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 6,350.00
3 Petrarca (Francesco)

Le Cose Volgari

1501 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,350.00
239 Thornton (Dr. Robert John)

Collection of 17 botanical plates, from 'The Temple of Flora'

1810-1812 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,096.00
199 Staunton (Sir George)

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China

1797 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,096.00
39 Chaucer (Geoffrey)

The Workes of Geffray Chaucer newlye printed

[1542] GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,715.00
41

Bible, English. The Holy Bible

1613 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,715.00

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