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- Auction Name
- Books, Manuscripts and Maps
- Auction Date
- 11/02/2025 - 11/02/2025
- Sale Number
- #A1231
- Total Lots
- 376
- Sold Lots
- 269.0
- Lots Sold
- 71.54%
- Unsold Lots
- 107
- Total Sales (GBP)
- 159,025.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 68,400.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 111,300.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 91,400.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 147,500.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 107.81%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | CRICK, Francis Harry Compton | Manuscript Three volumes of his daily diaries, 1938-39 |
Starts March 17, 1938, & ends: April 12, 1939 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 16,500.00 |
| 301 | Francis CRICK SIGNED: Nobel Prize lecture: on the genetic code |
1963 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 12,750.00 | |
| 308 | NIELS Henrik David BOHR (Nobel Prize winner) | Birth of Nuclear Atom |
1955-04-14 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 6,250.00 |
| 125 | Gosse, Philip Henry | Illustrations of the birds of Jamaica |
1849 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 4,750.00 |
| 293 | Stuart, Charles Edward | Autograph Letter, Signed |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 4,687.50 | |
| 71 | Lilford, Lord | With Autograph Letter: Colourd figures of the Birds of the British Islands |
1891-7 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 4,000.00 |
| 98 | Gray (George Robert & R. Bowdler Sharpe) | Zoology of the Voyage of HMS of Erebus and Terror, Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, Birds |
1846-75 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,062.50 |
| 108 | Buller, Sir Walter Lawry | Signed- A History of the Birds of New Zealand |
1888 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,875.00 |
| 115 | LEGGE, W Vincent | A history of the birds of Ceylon |
1880 | GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,500.00 |
| 184 | Ian FLEMING | Live and Let Die |
1954 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,312.50 |
| 216 | BROGLIE, Louis Victor, Prince of (Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1929) | Quantum physics- Inscribed & Signed by: Recherches sur la theorie des quanta |
1925 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,000.00 |
| 32 | ORTELIUS, Abraham | WORLD ATLAS: Theatro del Mondo |
20 September 1655 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,937.50 |
| 73 | Bannerman, David A | Fine Binding, Author SIGNED: The Birds of the British Isles |
1953-1963 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,875.00 |
| 164 | Dickens, Charles | NONESUCH Press- DICKENS- The Nonesuch Dickens, 1937-38 |
1940-09-01 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 1,687.50 |
| 113 | Willughby's Ornithology |
1678 | GBP 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,625.00 | |
| 111 | Cassin, John | Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America |
[1853]-1856 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,562.50 |
| 99 | Buller, Sir Walter Lawry | A History of the Birds of New Zealand |
1873 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 1,562.50 |
| 110 | Baedeker, Friedrich Wilhelm Justus | Die Eier der Europaischen Vogel nach der Natur gemalt |
1855-63 | GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,437.50 |
| 79 | McKelvie Colin Laurie | The Woodcock, Snipe, Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, & Sporting Wildfowl |
1988-1999 | GBP 600.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,312.50 |
| 78 | Lilford, Lord | Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood |
1895 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 1,312.50 |
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