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Auction Name: The Alan Turing Papers: The Collection of Norman Routledge (1928-2013), Fellow Mathematician & Personal Friend of Alan Turing
Auction Date: 06/17/2025 - 06/17/2025
Sale Number: #61725
Total Lots: 14
Sold Lots: 14
Lots Sold: 100.00%
Unsold Lots: 0

Total Sales (GBP): 447,500.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 116,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 183,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 116,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 183,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 244.54%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
5	TURING, (Alan).	On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem	1937	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 200,000.00
4	TURING, (Alan).	Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals [Alan Turing's PhD dissertation],	1939	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 106,250.00
12	TURING, (Alan).	The Word Problem in Semi-Groups with Cancellation, INSCRIBED BY ALAN TURING	1950	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 27,500.00
6	TURING, (Alan).	Computability and l-Definability	1937	GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 25,000.00
11	TURING, (Alan).	The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, association copy SIGNED by Routledge	1952	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 18,750.00
9	TURING, (Alan).	Finite Approximations to Lie Groups	1938	GBP 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 16,250.00
1	Ethel Sara Turing	[Alan Turning's Mother]. Autograph Letter Signed by Ethel Sara Turing, 6 Waterden Road, 16 May 1956	1956	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 11,250.00
10	TURING, (Alan).	A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function	1943	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 10,625.00
8	TURING, (Alan).	Equivalence of Left and Right Almost Periodicity [TURING'S FIRST PUBLISHED PAPER],	1935	GBP 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 7,500.00
2	TURING, (Alan).	An original GPO Telegram from Alan Turing to Norman Routledge	1951	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 6,875.00
7	TURING, (Alan).	The Journal of Symbolic Logic: A Formal Theorem in Church's Theory of Types, by M. H. A. Newman & A. M. Turing	1942	GBP 2,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 6,875.00
13	FORSTER (Edward Morgan).	An archive of Autograph Letters Signed by E. M. Forster to Norman Routledge, 1953-69	1953-69	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 6,250.00
14	ROUTLEDGE, (Norman).	King's and Eton: The Memoirs of Norman Routledge [unpublished autobiography],		GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 3,125.00
3	[NEWMAN, (M. H.)] Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954, ASSOCIATION COPY	SCARCE OFFPRINT, [Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, Volume I, November 1955],	1955	GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,250.00

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