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Auction Name	Weekly Featuring Books	Total Sales (GBP)	117,488.44
Auction Date	October 28, 2024 - October 28, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	55,380.00
Sale Number	#102824	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	80,820.00
Total Lots	300
Sold Lots	256	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	61,540.00
% of Lots Sold	85.33%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	89,360.00
Unsold Lots	44	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	131.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2126	Kingsford, Florence [Lady Cockerell] (1871-1949) (illustrator) Graily Hewitt (1864-1952) (calligrapher)	Hymn of Saint Francis,		GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 15,750.00
2185	Tolkien J.R.R	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,	1954 .	GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 15,750.00
2019	Esquemeling, John	The Bucaniers of America: or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults committed of late years upon the Coasts of the West indies, by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French ...	1684	GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 9,187.50
2245	Cook, Captain James	John Webber, et al. [Atlas to] A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere,		GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 5,775.00
2187	Tolkien J.R.R	The Hobbit, 2nd edition, 5th. impression, colour frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers, top edge green, original green pictorial cloth, unclipped dust jacket, 8vo,	1951	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 2,887.50
2094	Milne, A. A.	Winnie-the-Pooh, decorations by E. H. Shepard.	1926	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,231.25
2026	Raleigh, Sir Walter	Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations ... upon The First Invention of Shipping. The Misery of Invasive Warre. The Navy Royall and Sea-Service. With His Apologie for his voyage to Giuana.	1650	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,100.00
2066	Shakespeare, William (Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer)	The Works of Shakespear (sic) in six volumes. Adorned with Sculptures.	1771-70	GBP 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,968.75
2012	[Wycliffe, John]	The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English Versions...	1850	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,312.50
2070	Tolkien, J.R.R	The Return of the King,	1955	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,312.50
2214	Darwin, Charles	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.	1861	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,312.50
2002	Brown, William Robinson	The Horse of the Desert ...		GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,246.88
2040		Sign-manual warrant of Charles I to Sir William Uvedale, Treasurer of the Privy Chamber, to restore a pension of PS50 to [the king's cup-bearer] Edward Ellis; Whitehall, 14 May 1627	1627	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,181.25
2100	Barrie, J.M.	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham,	[1912].	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,115.63
2197		Extra-Illustrated -- John Hodgson -- A History of Northumberland in Three Parts	1820-1858.	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,115.63
2051	Boreman, Thomas	The Gigantick History of the Two Famous Giants, and other Curiosities in Guildhall, London.		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 984.38
2155	Homer	The Iliad The Odyssey. (Translated by) Pope.	1931	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 984.38
2036		Letters Patent to Philip Lovell, gentleman, and Thomas Lovell of property at Skelton in Yorkshire, late the abbey of St Mary in York; 14 May 1545	1545	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 918.75
2080	Rossetti, Christina -- Florence Harrison (illustrator) --	Poems, 4to, introduction by Alice Meynell,	[1910]	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 918.75
2048		The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages ...	1594	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 853.13
2071	Tolkien, J.J.R	Lord of the Rings, 3 vols, to consist of The Fellowship of the Ring,; The Two Towers; The Return of the King	1960	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 853.13
2035	Lancione, Sempronio	La Theoria del vero modo di scrivere cancelleresco corsivo di nuova ritrovata, con l'inventione di ventidue regole, ...	1601	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 787.50
2253	Lear, Edward	Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania	1851	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 787.50
2299	Timlin, William M. (1894-1943)	The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy,	[1923]	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 787.50
2161	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 721.88

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD