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Auction Name Open House | With Arms and Militaria Total Sales (GBP) 5,661.50
Auction Date December 01, 2025 - December 01, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 5,600.00
Sale Number #A1254 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 8,650.00
Total Lots 59
Sold Lots 50.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 6,600.00
% of Lots Sold 84.75% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 10,150.00
Unsold Lots 9 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 55.78%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
409 Saxton, C:

Essexiae Comitat' Nova vera ac absaluta Descripto,1576

 C1595. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 572.00
402 Leerhsen, C:

1- Trump, surviving at the top.

1990 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 533.00
403

THREE MAPS OF AFRICA: 1- Dapper, Olfert: Africae Accurata Tabula

1686 or later. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 214.50
450 EDINBURGH: 1- SHEPHERD, T. H:

Modern Athens, displayed in a series of views, or EDINBURGH, in the nineteenth century;.

 1829 1 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 208.00
427 DORE, Gustave (ill):

THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE

no date c1870. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 175.50
430 CAVENDISH Lab- 1- BRAGG, William Lawrence:

Autograph letter Signed:

1947 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 175.50
425

Eleven Maps: LONDON WARDS (All hand coloured):

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 169.00
411 ROBERT, Leo-Paul:

Unsere einheimischen Vogel.

 c.1933 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 156.00
424

ESSEX, TWO MAPS: 1- Speed, J: Essex divided into hundreds, with the most ancient and fayre towne Colchester..

1713 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 130.00
407 SCOTT, Capt. Robert F:

The Voyage of the Discovery, 2 Volume Set.

1905 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 123.50
439 1590- JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus:

Giustino historico illustre, ne le historie esterne di Trogo Pompeo, tradotto dal sig. Bartolomeo Zucchi, da Monza.

1590 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 123.50
441 1526- Diodorus Siculus:

Delle antique historie fabulose nuovamente fatto volgare & con diligenza stampato

 1526 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 123.50
455

Mixed:1- The Museum of Natural History, 2 vols.

nd C1860. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 123.50
440

3 Maps- AFRICA: 1- Sanson, N: Afrique,

1650 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 117.00
449

Reference books, important Natural History Auction catalogues, etc.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 117.00
408 SCHUYLER, Eugene:

Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja, 2 volumes.

 1877 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 110.50
426

EDINBURGH Directories: 1829-1902 (11), including: The Post Office annual Directory

1829-1902 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 110.50
437 Albert Houthuesen (Dutch-British, 1903-1979)

Albert Houthuesen, An Appreciation'

 1969 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 110.50
428 Dionigi de Carli:

Der nach Venedig uberbrachte Mohr, oder: Curiose

[1692]. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 104.00
429 Crompton, Richmal:

(7) 1st. Edns. With Dust Jackets, including: William the lawless;

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 104.00
416 MACILWAIN, George

(Seven first editions bound in one volume): The general nature & treatment of Tumours

 1845 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 97.50
434 ANDRADE, Edward Neville da Costa:

Royal Institute discourse: 'Nature of Light'.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 97.50
435 ANDRADE, Edward Neville da Costa:

Manuscripts for Christmas lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, adapted for juvenile auditory founded by Faraday.

1927-28. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 97.50
436 ANDRADE, Edward Neville da Costa:

1- High Vacuum- A 24 Page Manuscript of his discourse given at the Royal Institution, London, Feb, 2, 1951.

1951 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 97.50
452 William, Vincent:

Voyage de Nearque des bouches de l'Indus jusqu'a l'Euphrate ou le journal de l'expedition de la flotte d'Alexandre.

 1800 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 91.00
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
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