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Auction Name The Library Auction Total Sales (GBP) 64,636.25
Auction Date September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 27,390.00
Sale Number #91025 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 44,040.00
Total Lots 224
Sold Lots 164 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 38,980.00
% of Lots Sold 73.21% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 62,030.00
Unsold Lots 60 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 104.20%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
83

[THIRD RABBINIC BIBLE]. Sha'ar Bet HaShem ha-Kadmoni

 [1546-48] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 13,750.00
41 SPINOZA, (Benedictus)

De Rechtzinnige Theologant [Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise]

 1693 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,250.00
21

[THE ZOHAR]. Liber Sohar / Sefer ha-Zohar al ha-Torah

 1684 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,250.00
56

[HEBREW BIBLE - PENTATEUCH]. The first Pentateuch produced for the Karaite community

 1833-35 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 4,000.00
38 BROUGHTON, Hugh (Transl.)

Daniel His Chaldie Visions and His Ebrew

 1596 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,187.50
22

[MASECHET ZEVACHIM, TALMUD BAVLI]. Zevachim [Sacrifices] in relation to the Babylonian Talmud

 [1580] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,562.50
1

[POLYGLOT BIBLE]. Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament, and Greek Apocrypha

 1584 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,062.50
59

GERSONIDES/RALBAG. [Levi ben Gershon]. Perush al ha-Torah [philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch]

 1547 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,062.50
10 DIODATI, (Giovanni)

[FIRST PROTESTANT BIBLE IN ITALIAN]. La Bibbia, Old & New Testament

 1607 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,000.00
14 CALVIN, (John)

A Commentary upon the Prophecie of Isaiah

 1609 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 937.50
60

[SIFRA]. A Midrash halakha on Leviticus

 1545 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 812.50
66 Talmud Bavli

[BABYLONIAN TALMUD]. Massechet Erachin

 1580 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 812.50
90 HARRIS, (Benjamin)

The Protestant Tutor, Instructing Children to Spel and read English, and Grounding them in the True Protestant Religion, and Discovering the Errors and Deceits of the Papists

 1679 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 812.50
11

HESYCHIUS OF ALEXANDRIA. [Hesychiou lexikon = Hesychii dictionarium], an important second edition of this ancient Greek lexicon

 [1520] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 750.00
87

[MISCELLANEOUS HEBRAICA]. A mixed collection of books

 19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 750.00
89

Holy Bible

 1634 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 750.00
9 WILKINS, (David)

[EGYPTIAN NEW TESTAMENT]. Novum Testamentum Aegyptium vulgo Copticum [New Testament in Coptic]

 1716 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 687.50
61 SABA, (Abraham)

byvr 'l htvrh [Commentary on the Torah], Tzror HaMor

 1546 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
135

[PETERLOO MASSACRE - RADICAL JOURNALS, PAMPHLETS, PERIODICALS]. A sammelband of works comprising: Peterloo Massacre, Containing A Faithful Narrative of the Events which preceded, accompanied, and followed the fatal Sixteenth of August, 1819

 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 600.00
20

[HEBREW BIBLE]. Biblia Sacra Hebraea

 [1659-1661] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 525.00
46 BAXTER, (Richard)

Gildas Salvianus: The Reformed Pastor

 1657 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 450.00
177 MILLER, Henry

Tropic of Capricorn

 1939 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 450.00
29 KIMHI, (David)

Sefer ha-Shorashim [The Book of Roots, i.e. lexicon to the Bible]

 [1546-48] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 425.00
67 TEHILLIM [PSALMS]

Sefer Tehillim with the commentary of David Kimhi/Kimchi/Qimhi or RaDaK

 [1542] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 425.00
127

SATIRICAL PRINTS & CARICATURES. The Journey of a Modern Hero to the Island of Elba [Napoleon Bonaparte]...

 [1814] GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 400.00
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