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Auction Name	Online: Books from the Macclesfield Library	Total Sales (GBP)	119,164.10
Auction Date	July 03, 2025 - July 03, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	74,750.00
Sale Number	#1042	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	106,700.00
Total Lots	205
Sold Lots	189	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	83,250.00
% of Lots Sold	92.20%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	119,100.00
Unsold Lots	16	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	100.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
62	Bible, Arabic & Latin.	Bible, Arabic & Latin. [New Testament Gospels] Sacrosancta quatuor Iesu Christi D.N. Evangelia	1619	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 4,318.00
77	Hierogplyphs.- Kircher	Kircher (Athanasius) Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus, first edition, issue with Barberini arms to		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 3,302.00
26	Llwyd	Llwyd (Humphrey) Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum, first edition, Cologne,	1572	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 3,048.00
153	Sculpture.- Maffei (Paolo Alessandro)	Sculpture.- Maffei (Paolo Alessandro) Raccolta di Statue Antiche e Moderne data in luce...da	1704	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,794.00
41	Horozco y Covarrubias	Horozco y Covarrubias (Juan de, Bishop of Guadix) Emblemas Morales, Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1591	1591	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 2,540.00
120	India.- Baldaeus	India.- Baldaeus (Philip) Naauwkeurige Beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, first edition,	1672	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,540.00
5	Bude	Bude (Guillaume) De asse & partibus eius libri quinque, Paris, Michel de Vascosan, Robert Estienne	1541 [colophon 1542]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,905.00
81	Persian.-	Persian.- Dieu (Lodewijk de) Rudimenta linguae persicae, bound with 2 others, Leiden, Elzevier, 1639	1639	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,905.00
116	Aerostatics.- Lana Terzi	Aerostatics.- Lana Terzi (Francesco) Prodromo ouero saggio di alcune inuentiuoni nuoue...per	1670	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,905.00
200	Mathematics.-	Mathematics.- Cowley (John Lodge) An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid, second edition, engraved	[c.1765]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,905.00
10	Linacre	Linacre (Thomas) De emendata structura latini sermonis libri sex, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1550	1550	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,651.00
114	Kircher	Kircher (Athanasius) Ars Magna Sciendi, 2 parts in 1, first edition, Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson van	1669	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,651.00
67	Military.- [Helm (Franz)]	Military.- [Helm (Franz)] Armamentarium principale oder Kriegsmunition und Artillerey Buch,	1625	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,524.00
104	Astronomy.-	Astronomy.- Hecker (Johannes) Motuum caelestium ephemerides, first edition, Gdansk, Simon Reiniger	1662	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,524.00
126	Anglo-Saxon.- Spelman (Sir John)	Anglo-Saxon.- Spelman (John) Aelfredi magni Anglorum regis, first edition, Oxford, 1678 & others on	1678	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,524.00
180	Leupold	Leupold (Jakob) Theatrum machinarum generale, first edition, Leipzig, 1724 bound with others from	1724	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,524.00
24	Athanasius,	Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria & Saint) Dialogoi E peri tes hagias Triados...[graece]. Dialogi	1570	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,397.00
50	Law.- Saltern (George)	Law.- Saltern (George) Of the Antient Lawes of great Britaine, first edition, for John Jaggard, 1605	[1605].	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,397.00
159	Natural History.- Lange	Natural History.- Lange (Karl Nikolaus) Historia lapidum figuratorum Helvetiae..., plate vol. only,	[1708]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,270.00
1	Asconius Pedianus	Asconius Pedianus (Quintus) Expositio in IIII. orationes M.Tullii Cic. contra C.Verrem., Venice,	1522	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,206.50
31	Astronomy.-	Astronomy.- Giuntini (Francesco) Commentaria in sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco accuratissima, 2		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,206.50
80	[Balcanquhall (Walter)]	Balcanquhall (Walter) A Large Declaration concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland, first edition, by	1639	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,206.50
37	Varro (Marcus Terentius)	Varro (Marcus Terrentius) Opera quae supersunt, 5 parts in 1, Geneva, [Henri Estienne], 1581 &	1581	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,143.00
108	Schott	Schott (Gaspar) Technica curiosa, sive mirabilia artis.., Wurzburg, 1664 & Mechanica	1664	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,079.50
135	Mining & Metallurgy.- Ercker	Mining & Metallurgy.- Ercker (Lazarus) Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum,	1684	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,079.50

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

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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