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Auction Name: Rare Books and Works on Paper
Auction Date: 06/12/2025 - 06/12/2025
Sale Number: #61225
Total Lots: 382
Sold Lots: 307
Lots Sold: 80.37%
Unsold Lots: 75

Total Sales (GBP): 64,534.30
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 28,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 47,280.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 36,130.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 60,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 106.67%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
256	William and Thomas Daniell	Two aquatints showing Indian scenes	c.1801	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 11,017.60
192		The Frank Strike Collection of Cornish Shipwrecks Over 200 Postcards of the Cornish Coastline -- Many by the Gibson Family		GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 2,879.60
183	Edward Twycross (ed)	The Mansions of England and Wales. County of Cornwall	1846	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,629.20
126		A 1960's Aerial view of Dubai Large photographic print	c.1960's	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 2,504.00
327	Libya, Socialist People's Republic (Editor).	The Great Man-Made River Project	1989	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
76	Seth Lister Mosley	A History of British Birds, Their Nests, and Eggs	1884 and 1887.	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,690.20
139	John C. Bellamy	A Thousand Facts in the Histories of Devon & Cornwall, in Chronological Order	1850	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
57	Arthur Young	Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts	1784, 1808	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,314.60
22		Pictures of the Indian Artist Raja Ravivarma	early 20th century	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 1,314.60
191		The Frank Strike Collection of Cornish Shipwrecks- Archive Two boxes of photographs, postcards, letters and other related ephemera		GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,252.00
342	Lindsay Alexander (intro) and John Harris (ed)	The Altar of the Household	n.d.	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
340		(Angling) Two good works	1794	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
100	J. R. R. Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings	1962	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,001.60
94	Isaac Taylor	County of Gloucester	c.1777	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,001.60
88	(Wiltshire) Greenwood publishers	Map of the County of Wiltshire, from actual survey in the years 1819 & 1820	1820	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 901.44
130	Lucas Janzoon	Waghenaer Zee caerte van Engelants Eijndt, Alsoe hem tselfde Landt verthoont beginnende van Sorlinges tot Pleijmondt	circa 1590	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 876.40
149		Judas of Penpont A 19th Century anonymous satirical poem	19th Century	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
268	Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage, A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript; Edited with an Introduction and Apparatus by Fredson Bowers	1973	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
98		Bacon's Map of London 1881	1881	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 751.20
49	Robert Baker	A Robert Baker 1615 'Breeches' bible. The Bible: Translated according to the Hebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in divers languages...	1615 and 1616	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 751.20

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