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| Auction Name | Open House | Total Sales (GBP) | 8,339.50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 25, 2026 - May 25, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 6,000.00 |
| Sale Number | #A1328 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 9,120.00 |
| Total Lots | 61 | ||
| Sold Lots | 57.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 6,400.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 93.44% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 9,720.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 4 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 85.80% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 429 | Van Keulen Johannes | Pascaert van't Eylandt Ceylon |
C1710 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 403.00 |
| 432 | Petrovitch Woislav M | Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians |
1914 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 403.00 |
| 416 | Bohun Edmund | A Geographical Dictionary |
1688 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 351.00 |
| 421 | Horwood Richard | Two engraved London street plans; Six photographs of London scenes |
N/A | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 325.00 |
| 450 | Keene Charles; Millais John E | Two Scrap Albums |
1861-63; 1860-64 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 325.00 |
| 406 | Hazlitt W; Johnson S | 22 Volumes of leather bound books |
1825; 1819 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 299.00 |
| 438 | Dulac Edmund; Quiller-Couch | The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales |
(1910) | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 286.00 |
| 423 | Bewick Thomas; Bewick John; Cruikshank G; Caldecott R; Doyle Richard; Daumier Honore; Hood T | 7 Books, including: Select Fables |
1820; 1881; 1883; 1886; 1862; 1946; 1836 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 273.00 |
| 411 | Tertullian; Hesiodus; Robinson; Plauti M Acci; Gronovii Ioh Frederici; Rufus Curtius | 6 Books, including: Opera Omnia |
1662; 1737; 1684; 1685 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 221.00 |
| 446 | Furneaux J H; Brassey Lady; Stark Freya; Blunt Wilfrid; Harrer H; Heyerdahl T; Howarth D | N Books, including: Glimpses of India |
1895; 1885; 1938; 1953; 1957; 1958; 1964 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 214.50 |
| 444 | The Nasser Khalili Portolan Atlas; The Nasser Khalili Collection of Swedish Textile Art |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 208.00 | |
| 445 | O’Donovan E; Wolff J; Dore G; Allen EWD; Schutveld; Spencer N; Schrader; Purdent; Anthoine; Wright W; Buxton N; Choukas M | N Books, including: The Merv Oasis |
1882; 1846; c1880; 1925; c1910; 1873; 1771; 1907; c1906; 1895; 1929; 1935 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 195.00 |
| 412 | Ward; Lock; Bawden Edward; Houston MG; Doyle Richard | 9 Books, including: The Englishwoman's Domestic magazine |
1867-1872; 1960; 1947; 1950; 1849 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 188.50 |
| 427 | Dickens; Shakespeare; Huxley Aldous; Kingsley Charles; Longfellow; Yonge Charlotte M; Conrad Joseph; Goethe; Graves Robert; Wells; Huxley | 20 Books, including: Pickwick Papers |
1911; 1932; 1897; c.1882; 1893; 1926; 1923; 1873; 1948; 1931 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 188.50 |
| 440 | Speed J | Buckingham both Shyre, and Shire towne describ |
c.1676 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 188.50 |
| 450A | Scott Walter | Poetical Works |
1933-34 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 182.00 |
| 407 | Dickens | Household Words |
1852-1859; 1845-1847; 1856-1862 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 175.50 |
| 445A | Speed John | Kent with her Cities and Earles described and observed |
N/A | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 162.50 |
| 409 | Allom; Pickering; Rose T; Haggard H Rider; Blew WCA; Leyden John | 5 Books, including: Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland illustrated |
1833; 1902; 1894; 1811 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 156.00 |
| 448 | Two Photograph Albums |
1905-10 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 156.00 | |
| 401A | Carew Bampfylde-Moore; Dubaquier Paulette; Yoors Jan; Parker; Ficowski J; Leland GC; Cuttriss Frank; Bowness; James GPR; Sarosi B | 25 Books, including: Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, King of the Beggars |
c1860; 1947; 1990; 1967; ND; 1962; 1915; 1973; 1837; 1978; 1910; 1942; 1967; 1973 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 149.50 |
| 422 | Babington; Strutt; Radcliffe; Nimrod; Pennell-Elmhirst; Surtees; Alken H | 7 Books, including: Records of the Fife Foxhounds |
1883; 1807; 1833; c1893; 1899; 1903 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 136.50 |
| 424 | Edwards Lionel; Sabretache; Garnett R; Keen Henry; Craig EG | 5 Books, including: Shires and Provinces |
1926; 1831-37; 1924 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 136.50 |
| 433 | Nuova Raccolta di costumi di Napoli |
1828-30 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 136.50 | |
| 434 | Perceval; Presbyter A | N Books, including: Perceval's Tracts |
1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; 1837; 1838; 1843; 1844; 1845; 1847; 1849; 1827; 1830; 1831; 1841; 1842 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 136.50 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000 -
Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
Live Sale 24 JuneSotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.