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Auction Info

Auction Name
Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction Date
12/11/2025 - 12/11/2025
Sale Number
#14257
Total Lots
144
Sold Lots
132.0
Lots Sold
91.67%
Unsold Lots
12
Total Sales (GBP)
77,215.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
28,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
45,330.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
31,650.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
49,730.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
155.27%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2105 Shackleton (Ernest H.).

The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

1909 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,894.40
2122 Hayek (F.A.).

The Road to Serfdom.

1944 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 4,121.60
2033 Potter (Beatrix).

The Fairy Caravan, by Beatrix Heelis ("Beatrix Potter").

1929 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,864.00
2131 Vellum Bindings.

Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey.

1907-1908 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,606.40
2078 Saxton (Christopher).

Eboracensis comitatus (cuius Incolae olim Brigantes appellabantur) Longitudine Latitudine hominumque nemero relequis illustrior.

1577 [1579] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,962.40
2030 Potter (Beatrix & Rupert). Potter (Rupert).

Physiology, Containing Vital Operations of Animals, Digestions & Absorption, On the Blood & its Circulation, Respiration, Formation of Tissues. Manuscript journal/excerise book, signed 'Rupert Potter. 1850-51

1850-51 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,833.60
2125 Lewis (C.S.).

The Screwtape Letters.

1942 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,833.60
2102 Shackleton (Ernest H.).

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917.

1919 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 2,318.40
2103 Shackleton (Ernest H.).

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917.

1919 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,932.00
2108 Worsley (Frank Arthur).

Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure.

1931 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,674.40
2135 Yorkshire - Manuscript Documents.

A collection of approximately fifty-three 16th-19th century manuscript documents, mostly indentures, ...

16th-19th century GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,416.80
2059 Bible, [English] - Geneva-Tomson-Junius Version.

The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best Translations in diuers Languages.

1633 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,416.80
2110 Blome (Richard).

The Gentlemans Recreation.

1686 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,094.80
2137 Thomas (Dylan) & Piper (John, illustrator).

Deaths and Entrances.

1984 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,094.80
2107 Wild (Frank).

Shackleton's Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest... From the Original Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin.

1923 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,030.40
2084 Amundsen (Roald).

The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912.

1912 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,030.40
2121 Hayek (F.A.).

Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy.

1973-79 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,030.40
2091 Howard-Bury (C.K.).

Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921.

1922 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 966.00
2111 Botanical Studies.

A collection of nineteenth century botanical drawings, ink and watercolour,

nineteenth century GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 966.00
2139 India.

Views of Benares from the River Side. Presented by the Maharaja of Benares [cover-title].

No date [circa 1920-30] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 966.00

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