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Auction Name: Weekly House and Garden, featuring Music and Science
Auction Date: 06/16/2025 - 06/16/2025
Sale Number: #61625
Total Lots: 30
Sold Lots: 26
Lots Sold: 86.67%
Unsold Lots: 4

Total Sales (GBP): 8,098.12
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 2,030.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 2,815.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 2,210.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 3,085.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 262.50%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
761	Edmund Wiiralt, and Johnn Friedlaender	A folio of etchings, a lithograph and four black and white photographs to include Edmund Wiiralt, tiger, and Johnn Friedlaender, Fre Sol Bleu		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 5,250.00
734	After Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (Franco/Flemish, 1636-1699),	Still lifes of flowers, set of six colour etchings, etched by Nicolas de Poilly		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 498.75
735	Andrew Skilleter	a large collection of watercolours on card, Original illustrations from Cinderella and Snow White, with two accompanying books		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 262.50
510		A Bass & Co Pale Ale advertising poster, Gold Medal Paris Exhibition 1867	1867	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 262.50
273		A Geographica 8 inch globe on a turned ebonised wood stand		GBP 150.00 - 180.00	GBP 210.00
418	Symmons, Charles -	The Life of John Milton.	1810	GBP 120.00 - 160.00	GBP 183.75
412	[Cook, James]	A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World, performed in ... the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772 (etc.)	1784]	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 170.63
733	After Paul Sandby RA (1731-1809),	Views of Windsor Castle and Windsor to include 'Gate Under Queen Elizabeth's Picture Gallery',	1812	GBP 100.00 - 125.00	GBP 144.38
435	Castiglione, Baldassare -	Il Cortegiano, or The Courtier ... and a New Version of the Same into English.	1727].	GBP 100.00 - 140.00	GBP 131.25
758	Grace Appleyard,	Still life of flowers, inscribed to the mount Grave Appleyard, Holmer House, Hebden Bridge House, 1827		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 111.56
420	The Easton Press	The Easton Press - Collector's Editions, 25 vols.	1970's/80's	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 105.00
712	James Valentine (1815-1880),	'Group of Natives, St Kilda',	circa 1860-1880	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 85.31
447		The Holy Bible, or, Divine Treasury ... with the Apocrypha ...	1804	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	GBP 72.19
429	Tissot, Samuel Auguste -	Del Morbo Negro Dissertazione ... Tradotta nell' Italiano Idioma.	1778	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	GBP 65.63
423	Folio Society	A collection of eighteen Folio Society books to include St Peter's Umbrella and the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 52.50
409	Lawrence, T.E. -	Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph.	1935	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 52.50
760	after John Macwhirter, and After Cruikshank,	A collection of prints and watercolours to include 'The incessant roar of headlong tumbling floods', and 'A Dandy fainting or an exquisite in fits'		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 52.50
449	Manning, Rev. Owen & Bray, William -	The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey.	1974	GBP 40.00 - 50.00	GBP 52.50
441	Kelly, Bernard -	The Mind & Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins ...	1935	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 52.50
427	Milton, John -	The History of Britain, that part especially now called England ... to the Norman Conquest ...	1671	GBP 50.00 - 60.00	GBP 45.94

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