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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 297 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
127 Cooper (Capt. T.H.)

The Military Cabinet, being a collection of extracts from the best authors...

1809 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
128 Peacock (Thomas Love)

The genius of the Thames, signed presentation inscription from the author to his son to front endpapers "E. G. Peacock 2nd January 1844"

1810 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
129 Bewick (Thomas)

Binding.- The Fables of AEsop, and others

Newcastle 1818 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 584.20
130

Monkeys.- Apology Addressed to the Travellers Club or Anecdotes of Monkeys, bookplate and bookbinder's label to front pastedown, scattered spotting

1825 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
131

Irish Library Catalogue.- Catalogue of the Library of John Ussher Congreve, Esq.

MDCCCXXVII GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
132 Schiller (Friedrich)

The Ghost-Seer!

1831 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 95.25
133 Carlyle (Thomas)

The French Revolution: A History

1839 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 330.20
134 Shelley (Percy Bysshe)

The Poetical Works

1839 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
135 Hunt (Leigh)

The Town; its Memorable Characters and Events

1848 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 241.30
136 Tyrrell (Henry)

Women.- Woman and her failings

1857 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 101.60
137 [Gilbert (Elizabeth Rosanna)]

"Madame Lola Montez". The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet

New York [1858] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 139.70
138 Arnold (Mathew)

Merope. A Tragedy

1858 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 609.60
139 Dickens (Charles)

A Tale of Two Cities

1859 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 406.40
140 Hawthorne (Nathaniel)

The Marble Faun, or, The Romance of Monte Beni

Boston 1860 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 584.20
141 Mayhew (Henry)

London Labour and the London Poor

1861-62 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
142 Macdonald (George)

At the Back of the North Wind

New York 1871 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
143 Carroll (Lewis)

Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There

1874 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,143.00
144

Tom Brown's School Days

1879 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 952.50
145 Rietstap (J.B.)

Heraldry.- Wapenboek van den Nederlandschen Adel

Groningen 1883-87 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 431.80
146 Morris (William)

News from Nowhere

1891 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
147 Bierce (Ambrose)

Black Beetles in Amber

San Francisco & New York 1892 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 76.20
148 [Guthrie (Thomas Anstey)]

"F. Anstey" The Talking Horse and Other Tales

1892 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 95.25
149

Bookmarks.- [A large quantity of bookmarks]

[c.1900-2000] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 203.20
150 Stevenson (Robert Louis)

The Works

1906-7 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
151 Rook (Clarence)

Switzerland: The Country, Its People

New York & London 1907 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 6.35
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