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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Page Size: 355 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
77

Naval.- Charles II [of Spain], [List of ports visited]

1695-97 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
78

17 century attempted rape.- [Legal deposition of an alleged attempted rape of Mary Shorne], manuscript in English

[Somerset] 3rd January 1698 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 139.70
79 ?Martin (merchant in London)

18 century merchant.- Letter signed "?Martin" "To my dear brother and dear friend", in French

London 12th February 1701 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
80 Hedges (Sir Charles, lawyer and politician, bap. 1650, d. 1714)

Royal Navy.- Letter signed to Admiral Sir George Rooke

Whitehall 2nd November 1703 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
81

Scotland.- Collection of Scottish legal documents...

v.s. v.d. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 63.50
82 Trapp (Joseph, poet and pamphleteer, 1679-1747) & Rev. George Hudson

London, 18th century poet.- A Book of all ye names of the Severall Inhabitants & others residing in Long Acre Ward in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields...

1729-30 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
83 Green (George)

Accounts, recipes, and cures, manuscript

1748-1822 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 228.60
84 [Lacon (Sir Edmund Knowles, of Ormesby House, Norfolk, compiler, pencil note attributing to, 1780-1839)]

Shropshire, Ludlow.-[Transcript of Charters relating to the town of Ludlow]

[c. 1750] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 304.80
85

Scotland.- The Scot Litany [and other poetical works]

[?Edinburgh] [c.1750 and later] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 107.95
86

Applications for admission to the gallery of the House of Lords & the Trial of Warren Hastings etc.

v.s. v.d. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
87 [Mitchell (John, stenographer)]

Shorthand.- Stenography Compleated and made Universal

[1761] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 95.25
88

French privateer defeated off the Scilly Isles

[Bristol] 1781 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 279.40
89

Miscellany.- Appointment of the Rev Gough Willis Thompson as Under Secretary at the Office of Ordnance

1st April 1782 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 101.60
90

Fair.- Proclamation of a fair at Sutton Coldfield

[c.1790s] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 63.50
91

[Manuscript Account book of Wm. Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart, and John Robinson Trustees]

1797-1816 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 165.10
92

Miscellany.- Collection of letters...

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 558.80
93 Pyron du Martre (Antoine, later Mark Anthony Porny, French master at Eton College, 1731-1802)

Heraldry.- [The Elements of] Heraldry

1799 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 762.00
94

Lincolnshire Open Field System.- [Survey Book of Lincolnshire's Open Fields]

n.d., [c. 1800] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
95 Tennyson (Rev. George Clayton, Anglican clergyman, vicar of Grimsby (1815) & rector of Somersby, father of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1778-1831)

Tennyson's Father & Grimsby.- Rent day [&] A Terrier or Survey of all the Possessions belonging to the Rectory of St. Mary's & the Vicarage of St James in Great Grimsby...

1634 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
96 [Candolle (Augustin Pyramus de, Swiss botanist, 1778-1841)]

Swiss Botanist.- Cassia linearis..., manuscript classification slip in Latin

n.d. [early 19 century] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
97 Clark (Edmund John, M.D., the fourth physician to climb Mont Blanc, of Cranbrook, Kent, 1799-1836)

Mont Blanc.- Autograph Letter third person to C.B. Smith

23rd April 1830 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 330.20
98 Parnell (Ann)

Jamaican slave uprising.- Autograph Letter signed to Mr. Croft of City Bank, Exeter

[Brampford Speke, nr. Exeter] 24 February, 1832 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 215.90
99 O'Connell (Daniel, Irish nationalist leader, 1775-1847)

Autograph Letter signed to Frederick Bonne

[Dublin] 23rd November 1833 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 330.20
100 Spencer-Churchill (Lord Charles, army officer, 1794-1840)

Spain.- Carlist Wars.- 3 Autograph Letters signed to Captain Romilly

Sunning Hill [Park] & Arriaga near Vittoria, [Spain] 16th August 1835 - 10th April 1836 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 139.70
101 Darling (Grace Horsley, heroine, rescuer of survivors from the wreck of the ship Forfarshire, 1815-42)

Cut signature with ink inscription "Longstone Light"

v.s. v.d., [c. 1840-45] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 228.60
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