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Auction Report
Auction Date
July 10, 2025 - July 10, 2025
Page Size: 222 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102 Fore-edge painting

Female Instructor (The) or, Young Woman's Friend & Companion,

1834 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 177.80
103 Dickens (Charles)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

1839 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 127.00
104 Bradshaw (George)

Map & Sections of the Railways of Great Britain

Manchester 1839 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
105 Abolition of slavery

Prospectus of the Society for the extinction of the slave trade

[1840]. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
106 Broadside, Corn Law

Speech of Mr. Alderman Cobden...on proposing a resolution to petition both houses of parliament for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn Law

Manchester 1841. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 279.40
107

London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1845,

[1844] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 508.00
108 [Bronte (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell".

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Smith 1848 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 254.00
109

Election handbill based on the Fox's tale in Aesop's Fables

[Stroud] [?c.1850] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
110 Poe (Edgar Allan)

The Works...with Notices of his Life and Genius

New York 1850-56. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 762.00
111 Beeton (Mrs. Isabella)

The Book of Household Management

1861. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 215.90
112 Ruskin (John)

The Works 11 vol.

1876-84 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 355.60
113 Bartolozzi (Francesco) and William Hamilton, After

The Lord Mayor desires the honour of Mr. Childers's company to dinner on Saturday June 17th 1882

[1882]. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 44.45
114 Dumas (Alexander)

The Count of Monte-Cristo

1888 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 533.40
115 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)

Poetical Works

n.d. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
116 Thomson (Hugh) Austen (Jane)

Mansfield Park, frontispiece and illustrations by Hugh Thomson

1897 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
117 Yeats (William Butler)

The Secret Rose

1897 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 533.40
118 Irving (Henry & Laurence)

Chicago notices of Mr. Laurence Irving's new play

[Chicago] 1907 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
119 Russia, Romanov

Tivoli Theatre, Manchester. For one week only...The beautiful Russian fugitive Countess Romanow cousin of the Czar of Russia

[Manchester] 1907 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
120 Shaw (George Bernard)

Pygmalion extract from Everybody's Magazine

1914 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 38.10
121 Adler (Rev. Michael, editor)

British Jewry Book of Honour

1922 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
122 Dorling (Capt. Taprell)

Taffrail. The Man from Scapa Flow, 1933, Seventy North, 1934,...

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
123 Greene (Graham)

Journey Without Maps

1936. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
124

Palestine Royal Commission Report, 9 folding maps only

1937 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 406.40
125

Holy Bible (The)

c.1947 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
126 Waugh (Evelyn)

The Loved One

[1948]. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
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