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Auction Name	Books and Manuscripts	Total Sales (GBP)	192,563.20
Auction Date	December 04, 2024 - December 04, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	78,200.00
Sale Number	#29883	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	115,900.00
Total Lots	119
Sold Lots	101	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	96,700.00
% of Lots Sold	84.87%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	145,600.00
Unsold Lots	18	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	132.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
60	HUGHES (ARTHUR)	The remaining archive relating to the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Arthur Hughes (1832-1915), from the collection of Dr Leslie Cowan, including a panel painting, drawings and letters		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 20,480.00
95	FLEMING (IAN)	On Her Majesty's Secret Service, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 96 OF 250 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Jonathan Cape, 1963	1963	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 10,880.00
59	GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE)	Collection of material relating to General Gordon of Khartoum (1822-1885)		GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 10,240.00
67	ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)	Series of eight autograph letters signed, to Scottish Pre-Raphaelite artist Alice Boyd, 1866-1882; with letter from Alice Boyd and portrait photograph		GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 8,320.00
120	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	Typed letter signed, to Justin Arundale, on , Oxford, 30 May 1963	1963-05-30	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 5,888.00
40	ARTISTS & WRITERS -- ROSSETTI, RUSKIN, FORSTER & PRE-RAPHAELITES	Collection of autograph letters, signed, from various nineteenth-century artists and writers	nineteenth-century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 5,376.00
47		[The Bible], 1599; [The Bible], 1599; and 5 17th century English Bibles, 1615, 1621 (2 copies), 1633 (2 copies)(6)	1599	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 4,864.00
48		The Holy Bible, 1679; and 5 other Bibles, 17th/18th c. in contempory bindings (6)	1679	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 4,864.00
80	HAMILTON (CICELY)	Beware! A Warning to Suffragists, FIRST EDITION, Artists' Suffrage League, c.1910	c.1910	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,096.00
98	FLEMING (IAN)	Dr. No, 1958; Goldfinger 1959, and 7 other Bond first editions (9)	1958-1966	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 4,096.00
44		The Holy Byble, Conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe, Christopher Barker, 1585	1585	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 3,840.00
9	GASCOYNE (JOEL)	An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney, Engraven by John Harris, Joel Gascoyne, 1703	1703	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,584.00
55		Collection of c.20 manuscript deeds and grants, sixteen dating from the fourteenth- to sixteenth-centuries, relating to Silksworth, Durham	c.1313 to 1501	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,584.00
97	FLEMING (IAN)	The Man with the Golden Gun, UNCORRECTED PROOF, LIMITED TO 596 COPIES, Jonathan Cape, [1965, printed late 1964]	1965, printed late 1964	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,584.00
115	ROWLING (J.K.)	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, , SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Bloomsbury, [1999]	1999	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,328.00
88	WATSON (JAMES D.) AND FRANCIS H.C. CRICK et al.	'Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid', in , Vol. 171, No. 4356, [Macmillan & Co.], 1953 (2)	1953	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,072.00
22	VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE)	Oeuvres completes, 30 vol., Geneva, 1768-1777	1768-1777	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,816.00
49	GALL (JAMES)	The Gospel by St John for the Blind, FIRST EDITION, Edinburgh, James Gall, 1834	1834	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,816.00
56	FROISSART (JEAN)	[CHRONICLES] [Here Begynneth the Fyrst Volum [the thirde and fourthe boke]], Rycharde Pynson [28 Jan. 1523];[31 Aug. 1525]	1523-1525	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,816.00
72	WHISTLER (JAMES ABBOT MCNEILL)	Two autograph letters signed and with his butterfly device, with accompanying postcard, [1889-1891]	1889, 1890, 1891	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,816.00
117	ROWLING (J.K.)	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bloomsbury, 2000	2000	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,816.00
31	GILLRAY (JAMES)	The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Henry G. Bohn, [c.1847]	c.1847	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,560.00
45		[The Holy Byble], [Christopher Barker, 1585]	1585	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,560.00
43		Bibles, dated 1590, 1582 and 1585; and another (4)	1582	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,432.00
58	GODWIN (WILLIAM)	An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, FIRST EDITION, 1793	1793	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,432.00

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