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Auction Name	Books and Maps - online 10/18	Total Sales (GBP)	111,795.20
Auction Date	October 27, 2024 - October 27, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	64,250.00
Sale Number	#A1170	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	101,070.00
Total Lots	453
Sold Lots	293	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	105,310.00
% of Lots Sold	64.68%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	166,040.00
Unsold Lots	160	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	67.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
128	RUSSELL, Patrick:	TWO WORKS/VOLUMES: 1- An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel.	1796	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 7,808.00
104	CHURCHILL (Winston S)	Collected Works in 38 volumes.	1973-76	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 6,464.00
137	Visscher, Nicolaes (publisher).	No title page, just a collection of 82 illustrations, all double-page.		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 3,392.00
148	Ptolemy; Giovanni Antonio Magino Patavino (Edit):	Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei Pars secunda, continens praeter antiqvas ipsivs Ptol. recentiores etiam tabulas, quae Vniuersae terrae faciem nostro aeuo cognitam exhibent.		GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 2,688.00
119	Langley (Batty):	Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England.	1729	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 2,368.00
112	DICKENS, Charles:	David Copperfield.	1850	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 1,792.00
103	Cuvier, Baron:	The Animal Kingdom, Arranged According to its Organization.	1834- 1837	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,472.00
365		Tiger Woods, signed yellow masters golf flag,		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 1,177.60
285	Mitchell, Margaret:	Gone with the Wind.	1936	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,075.20
156		CIVIL WAR document on vellum: A collection concerning Robert Horseman (Captain), dating from 1642-1649	1642-1649	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,049.60
219	WILLIAMS, Anna:	Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.	1766	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,049.60
266	Leonard Beaumont:	ART FROM LINOLEUM.	1932	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,024.00
286	John MINTON (ill):	1- Alan Ross: Time was away. A Notebook In Corsica.	1948	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 998.40
3		TAYLOR AND SKINNER'S MAPS OF THE ROADS OF IRELAND: SURVEYED IN 1777 AND CORRECTED DOWN TO 1783.	1783	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 972.80
23	STOW, John:	A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark. In 2 volumes.	1754-55	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 947.20
108	DICKENS, Charles	(Two First editions): 1- A Tale of Two Cities.	1859	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 921.60
110	DICKENS, Charles	(Three First editions): 1- Little Dorrit.	1857	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 921.60
211		A Plan of Samuel Days House Yard Gardens and Orchard,		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 921.60
241		World War I & II-Women's Land Army Magazines: 'The Landswoman' (WWI) and 'Land Girl' (WWII); WWI-'The Landswoman'		GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 921.60
261	Buckland, William:	Reliquiae Diluvianae; or, Observations on the Organic Remains contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, and on other Geological Phenomena, attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge.	1823	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 921.60
313	CHARTERIS, Leslie	(The SAINT- 16 books) 1- The Saint's Choice.	1967	GBP 800.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 921.60
446	Harry Houdini,	Harry Houdini, signed large album pages,	1920	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 921.60
114	LOUDON, Mrs	(Two works): 1- The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants.	1841	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 896.00
111	Charles DICKENS	(Six First Editions): The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.	1837	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 793.60
133	Sowerby, George Brettingham:	The Conchological Illustrations [or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured shells].	1841	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 793.60

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Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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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”.

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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 .

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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
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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