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Gorringes: Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Music, Science & Natural History

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Auction Name Weekly House & Gardens Sale featuring Music, Science & Natural History Total Sales (GBP) 5,122.00
Auction Date December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 2,460.00
Sale Number #120825 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 3,530.00
Total Lots 31
Sold Lots 27.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,700.00
% of Lots Sold 87.10% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 3,860.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 132.69%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
512

Juvenile Drama: five boxes of toy theatre printed and coloured reproduction character printed back grounds

 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 975.00
418

Five 19th century reverse glass painted prints to include after Amiconi, 'See Europe Here!',

 19th century GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 624.00
520 Thackeray, William Makepeace

Thackeray, William Makepeace - The Works of ....

1878-79 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 546.00
786 Ronald Searle (1920-2011),

'Rat Race', signed in pencil, limited edition 80/99, Michel Casse,

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 312.00
842

Ten assorted modern silver mounted photograph frames including three pairs,

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 312.00
787 Ronald Searle (1920-2011),

'The Clown', signed in pencil, limited edition 92/99, Michel Casse,

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 286.00
794 After Paul Sandby RA (1731-1809),

an album of etchings and prints, various landscape and figural studies,

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 286.00
525

A case and a half of Noval, LB Port (seventeen bottles, boxed)

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 234.00
785 Ronald Searle (1920-2011),

'Atlas', signed and dated '79 in pencil, limited edition 25/99, Michel

 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 195.00
414 Peter Baldwin.

Five card toy theatres and a book The World of Toy Theatres, by Peter Baldwin.

 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 156.00
416

A collection of antique reference books on furniture, treen, Charles Horner, Lowestoft

 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 123.50
508

Two early 20th century stamped leather books with illuminated pages, calligraphy and floral designs

 early 20th century GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 110.50
462 Quiller-Couch, Sir Artur; Dulac, Edmund.

Sleeping beauty and Other Fairy Tales...; Picture Book for the French Red Cross.

 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 104.00
753

Vanity Fair Twelve caricatures, To include nine by SPY (Leslie Matthew Ward)

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 104.00
471 Kinglake, Alexander William -

The Invasion of the Crimea... down to the death of Lord Raglan.

 1863-87. GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 84.50
740 After John Speed (1552-1629),

hand coloured engraved map of Yorkshire

 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 84.50
465

The Vanity Fair Album... with biographical and critical notices. (first series), vol.1

 GBP 80.00 - 100.00 GBP 78.00
533

Masayuki Miyata Kirie (paper cut) Art Collection. (Limited portfolio edition).

 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 71.50
469 Stoker, Bram.

Dracula

 1913 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 65.00
531 Treves, Toby.

Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonne of Oil Paintings and Three Dimensional Works.

 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 65.00
758

Four hunting interest prints after Snaffles, Munnings and Aldin to include 'The Finest View in Europe' and 'The Huntsman',

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 65.00
784 John Tennent (b.1926),

'Guillemot Ledge', signed in pencil, limited edition 22/85, colour

 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 65.00
771 Robert Ryan (b.1962),

'We are all part of each other...' signed and numbered 3/200 to the margin,

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 52.00
523

A collection of Ordnance Survey maps, including; Pathfinder 1:25,000 second series,

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 39.00
468 Webster, Sir Charles. Frankland, Noble.

Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939-1945.

 1961 GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 32.50
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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