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Auction Name	Books, Maps and Manuscripts	Total Sales (GBP)	50,300.00
Auction Date	November 27, 2024 - November 27, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	16,230.00
Sale Number	#112724	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	27,480.00
Total Lots	112
Sold Lots	107	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	17,480.00
% of Lots Sold	95.54%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	29,300.00
Unsold Lots	5	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	171.67%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
37		A Friends First, and Last New Year's Gift or Some Reviews of Perfecte Friendshipe, by S.G. E.C...To My Only Friend Mrs I.G., eternall Felicity.	1648	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 3,200.00
79	Blome (Richard).	The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories of America.	1687	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 3,000.00
108		A Victorian autograph album containing mostly 19th century autograph letters signed,	19th century	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,800.00
34	Religious Manuscripts.	A Charitable Caveat for the over confident,	1663. B.P.R.D.D.'	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 2,500.00
14	Grasset (Eugene).	Plants and their Application to Ornament.	[1897-97]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,200.00
84	Jardine (Sir William).	The Naturalist's Library.	1833-1843	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,900.00
48		SAS War Diary 1941-1945. The Originals Edition.	2011	GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,700.00
35	Peryn (William).	A Spiritual Exercise and Ghostly Meditations... Ink manuscript,	no date [c. 18th century]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,600.00
33	Religious Commonplace Book.	Commonplace Book of Alethea Langdale. Ink manuscript in several hands,	early 18th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,200.00
87		A collection of botany books, including Hogg (Robert) and Johnson (George W.), The Wild Flowers of Great Britain...	1874-1880	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,100.00
112		Twenty-six large albumen print photographs of Rome,	No dates [c.1860s or slightly later]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 1,000.00
1	[Thompson (Thomas Perronet).].	The Article on the Instrument of Exchange. Republished from the Westminster Review, No1...By the Author of the Catechism on the Corn Laws.	1830	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 950.00
88		Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Compiled Upon a New Plan.	1771	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 950.00
15	Pevsner (Sir Nikolaus) and Others.	The Buildings of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 900.00
75	Martin (Robert Montgomery).	The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition and resources.	no date [c. 1850]	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 800.00
57	Speed (John).	The Kingdome of Scotland.	[1676]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 750.00
46		A panoramic view of the Battle of Waterloo, details include cavalry, foot soldiers, a band, buildings, canons, etc.,		GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 700.00
71		A small collection of travel books, including Edwardes (Major Herbert B.), A Year on the Punjab Frontier, in 1848-49	1851	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 700.00
94	Tolkien (J.R.R.) -	The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring.	1963	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 700.00
32	Guliolmi (P. Fran).	Rudimentorum Philosophiae Scholasticae.	1667-1668	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 650.00
54	[Hutton (John)].	A Tour to the Caves, in the Environs of Ingleborough and Settle, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire.	1780	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 650.00
65	Turgot (Michel Etienne).	Plan de Paris.	18th century	GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 650.00
107		A detailed journal of shooting, fishing and stalking kept by H.D.K. Money. Ink manuscript entries from 1914-1944	1914-1944	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 650.00
2		Public Notice - Lifting of Dead Bodies.		GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 600.00
66	Moll (Herman).	A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales &c. with the Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads &c. Shewing the Computed Miles from Town to Town.	1724	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 600.00

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

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
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

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
and Machine Manuals
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