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Auction Name: Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Music, Science & Natural History
Auction Date: 12/08/2025 - 12/08/2025
Sale Number: #120825
Total Lots: 31
Sold Lots: 27.0
Lots Sold: 87.10%
Unsold Lots: 4

Total Sales (GBP): 5,122.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 2,460.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 3,530.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 2,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 3,860.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 132.69%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
512		Juvenile Drama: five boxes of toy theatre printed and coloured reproduction character printed back grounds		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 975.00
418		Five 19th century reverse glass painted prints to include after Amiconi, 'See Europe Here!',	19th century	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 624.00
520	Thackeray, William Makepeace	Thackeray, William Makepeace - The Works of ....	1878-79	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 546.00
842		Ten assorted modern silver mounted photograph frames including three pairs,		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 312.00
786	Ronald Searle (1920-2011),	'Rat Race', signed in pencil, limited edition 80/99, Michel Casse,		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 312.00
794	After Paul Sandby RA (1731-1809),	an album of etchings and prints, various landscape and figural studies,		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 286.00
787	Ronald Searle (1920-2011),	'The Clown', signed in pencil, limited edition 92/99, Michel Casse,		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 286.00
525		A case and a half of Noval, LB Port (seventeen bottles, boxed)		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 234.00
785	Ronald Searle (1920-2011),	'Atlas', signed and dated '79 in pencil, limited edition 25/99, Michel		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 195.00
414	Peter Baldwin.	Five card toy theatres and a book The World of Toy Theatres, by Peter Baldwin.		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 156.00
416		A collection of antique reference books on furniture, treen, Charles Horner, Lowestoft		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 123.50
508		Two early 20th century stamped leather books with illuminated pages, calligraphy and floral designs	early 20th century	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 110.50
462	Quiller-Couch, Sir Artur; Dulac, Edmund.	Sleeping beauty and Other Fairy Tales...; Picture Book for the French Red Cross.		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 104.00
753		Vanity Fair Twelve caricatures, To include nine by SPY (Leslie Matthew Ward)		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 104.00
471	Kinglake, Alexander William -	The Invasion of the Crimea... down to the death of Lord Raglan.	1863-87.	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 84.50
740	After John Speed (1552-1629),	hand coloured engraved map of Yorkshire		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 84.50
465		The Vanity Fair Album... with biographical and critical notices. (first series), vol.1		GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 78.00
533		Masayuki Miyata Kirie (paper cut) Art Collection. (Limited portfolio edition).		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 71.50
531	Treves, Toby.	Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonne of Oil Paintings and Three Dimensional Works.		GBP 100.00 - 140.00	GBP 65.00
784	John Tennent (b.1926),	'Guillemot Ledge', signed in pencil, limited edition 22/85, colour		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 65.00

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