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Gorringes

Auction Info

Auction Name
Weekly House and Garden, featuring Coins, Medals and Books
Auction Date
05/19/2025 - 05/19/2025
Sale Number
#51925
Total Lots
55
Sold Lots
43
Lots Sold
78.18%
Unsold Lots
12
Total Sales (GBP)
34,984.70
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
12,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
18,490.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
14,790.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
21,150.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
165.41%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1604

Archive of the Courthouse Farm Stud, Offham near Lewes and the Clark family, 1900-2014

1900-2014 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 14,437.50
1553 Browne, Sir Thomas

Urne Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus.

1932 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,725.00
1574 Sheldrake, Timothy

Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of Medicinal Plants on the College of Physicians List,

[1759] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,312.50
1597 Wyld, James

A New General Atlas of Modern Geography ...

(ca.1840) GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,246.88
1588 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice ...

1894 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,115.63
1589 Austen, Jane

Sense and Sensibility ...

1899 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 853.13
1590 Austen, Jane

Mansfield Park, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Introduction by Austin Dobson.

1897 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 787.50
1576 Luyken, Jan & Caspar

Het Menselyk Bedyrh.

1694 GBP 600.00 - 900.00 GBP 787.50
1563 Milne, A.A.

Winnie-the-Pooh...

1926 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 721.88
1554 The Gregynog Press

The Lamentations of Jeremiah.

1933 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 577.50
1558 Rackham, Arthur

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

1932 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 525.00
1593 Bannerman, Helen

The Story of Little Black Sambo.

1899 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 446.25
1585 Budge, E.A. Wallis

The Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers: being histories of the anchorites recluses monks coenobites and ascetic fathers of the deserts of Egypt ...

1907 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 420.00
1560 Victoria, Queen of Great Britain

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands ....

1868 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 420.00
1551 Cook, Captain James

New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World ...

(1784-86) GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 420.00
1565 Cave, Henry W.

Picturesque Ceylon.

1893-95. GBP 160.00 - 200.00 GBP 393.75
1578

The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women, illustrated by as many engravings; exhibiting their principal eccentricities and amusements...

1820 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 393.75
1580

Mrs. Cliff's Receipt Book 1820

1820 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 393.75
1596 Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss-Opera.

1922 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 341.25
1552 Morris, Rev. Francis Orpen

A History of British Birds.

1870 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 341.25

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