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Auction Report
Auction Date
June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025
Page Size: 382 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 W. B. Yeats

The Cutting of An Agate

London 1919 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 31.30
2 Thomas Tusser, Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling and E. V. Lucas

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

London 1931 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
3 E. R. Humphreys

Sammelband of Seven Works

1853-56. GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 187.80
4 Thomas Ayre Bromhead

The Parent's Medical and Surgical Assistant

London 1821 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 31.30
5 A. A. Milne

Three Monogram editions

1928 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 350.56
6 Henry Wentworth Acland

Memoir on the Cholera at Oxford, In the Year 1854, With Considerations Suggested by the Epidemic

London, Oxford 1856 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 162.76
7 George Moore and Stephen Gooden illustrations

The Brook Kerith

London 1929 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 350.56
8 Thomas Rowlanson illustrations

The English Dance of Death

London 1815-16 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 525.84
9

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue

London 1851 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 350.56
10

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue and Reports by the Juries

London 1851 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 275.44
11 F. A. Pouchet

The Universe: Or, the Infinitely Great and Infinitely Little

London 1870 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
12 Major H. G. Raverty

A Dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or Language of the Afgans; With Remarks on the Originality of the Language, and its Affinity to Other Oriental Tongues

London W. Newman Calcutta GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 200.32
13 Ann Dupree, Louis Dupree and A. A. Motamedi

A Guide to the Kabul Museum. The National Museum of Afghanistan

Kabul 1968 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 62.60
14 Baron Charles Hugel and Major T. B. Jervis

Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab, Containing a Particular Account of the Government and Character of the Sikhs

London 1845 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 212.84
15 M. Grosley

A Tour to London; Or, New Observations on England, and its Habitants

London 1772 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 100.16
16 G. J. F. Tomlinson and G. J. Lethem

History of Islamic Political Propaganda in Nigeria

London c.1933 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.64
17 Charles Darwin and Others

[Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle]

London 1839 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 150.24
18

A Voyage Round the World, vols II, III, IV, lacks vol I and fold out plate, full uniform polished calf, Dublin 1777

Dublin 1777 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
19 G. W. Grabham and R. P. Black

Report of the Mission to Lake Tana 1920-1921

Cairo 1925 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
20 (The Hakluyt Society)

The Travels of Peter Mundy 1608-1667 Six volumes, Series II

1907-1936 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 150.24
21

International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883 The Fisheries Exhibition Literature, vols. 1-13 (complete), 1884

London 1884 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 500.80
22

Pictures of the Indian Artist Raja Ravivarma

India. early 20th century GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 1,314.60
23 Lieut. Chas. Rathbone Low

Her Majesty's Navy including its Deeds and Battles

London 1890-1893 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 137.72
24

(India) Five good works

London 1858 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 313.00
25 Charles Ball

The History of the Indian Mutiny

London 1858 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 237.88
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