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Auction Details

Auction Date
July 23, 2026 - July 23, 2026
Page Size: 434 items in 18 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
256 Churchill Winston Leonard Spencer; Churchill Randolph

Telegram to his bank manager A.L. Ball

1961; 1890 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
257 Fuller Jean Overton

Swinburne. A Critical Biography

1960s GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
258

Collection of early printed leaves

1497 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
259 Geoffrey of Monmouth

Pontici Virvnnii viri doctissimi Britannicae historiae libri sex

1585 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
260

Bible (The) that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Olde and New Testament

1610; 1612 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
261

The Bible

1610 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
262

Holy Bible (The) containing the Old Testament and the New

Cambridge 1639 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
263 Jonson Benjamin

The Workes

1616 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
264 Bacon Francis

The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seuenth

1622 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
265 Weever John

Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine

1631 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
266 Blore Edward

The Monumental Remains of Noble and Eminent Persons

1826 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
267 Shakespeare William

The Second Part of Henry the Sixt

1632 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
268 Browne Thomas

Religio Medici

1645 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
269 Lee Nathaniel

Caesar Borgia; Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth: A Tragedy

1680 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
270 Lowndes William

A Report Containing an Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins

1695 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
271 Pulteney William

A State of the National Debt, as it stood December the 24th, 1716

1727 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
272 Harris Joseph

An Essay Upon Money and Coins

1758 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
273 Collier Jeremy

A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage

1698 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
274 Cotton Charles

The Compleat gamester

1725 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
275 Sale George

The Koran

1734 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
276 Vertue George

The Heads of the Kings of England

1736 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
277 Pope Alexander

The Dunciad an Heroic Poem to Dr. Jonathan Swift

1736 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
278 Ovid

N Books, including: Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books

1736 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
279 Martin Gabriel

Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym

Paris 1738 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
280 Betterton Thomas

The History of the English Stage

1741 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
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