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Gorringes: House & Garden Sale
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | House & Garden Sale | Total Sales (GBP) | 7,215.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 01, 2026 - June 01, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 2,260.00 |
| Sale Number | #10626 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 3,660.00 |
| Total Lots | 41 | ||
| Sold Lots | 33.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 2,710.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 80.49% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 4,370.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 8 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 165.10% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1713 | Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) | Morning of Darjeeling; The Castle of Chillon |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 3,900.00 |
| 1752 | Bruce Onobrakpeya (b.1932) | Encounter with Three Ghosts; Blue Base |
1970; 1973 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 468.00 |
| 1700 | Clarke Graham (1941-) | Months of the Year |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 286.00 |
| 1746 | Yoshiharu Kimura | Wind |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 234.00 |
| 1417 | Graves Robert; Nash Paul | Welchman's Hose |
1925 | GBP 0.00 - 100.00 | GBP 221.00 |
| 1391 | Dow Alexander | The History of Hindostan |
1803 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 195.00 |
| 1449 | Carte de visite photographs |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 182.00 | |
| 1472 | Victorian scrap album |
N/A | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 156.00 | |
| 1459 | Album of greetings and Christmas cards |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 110.50 | |
| 1720 | Graham Clarke (b.1941) | Snowdrop; Winter Goods |
N/A | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 97.50 |
| 1745 | Yamamoto Shoun; Kuniyoshi | 6 Books, including: Japanese woodblock prints |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 97.50 |
| 1460 | Album containing mostly Edwardian greetings cards |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 91.00 | |
| 1736 | Samuel John Egbert Jones (fl.1820-1845) | The Smugglers Alarmed; Smugglers Attacked |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 91.00 |
| 1325 | Postcard albums |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 84.50 | |
| 1379 | Buckland Francis T.; Carlyle Thomas | Curiosities of Natural History; The French Revolution: A History; The Illustrated Exhibitor |
1886; 1888 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 84.50 |
| 1388 | Grace W.G.; Mitchell A.T.; Hassell John | 4 Books, including: Cricket |
1891; 1901 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 78.00 |
| 1712 | Lansdowne James Fenwick (1937-2008) | Studies of birds |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 78.00 |
| 1400 | Aunt Louisa; Ballantyne R.M. | 13 Books, including: Cinderella |
ca.1880; ca.1883 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 71.50 |
| 1462 | Chiang Yee | Dabbitse |
1955 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 71.50 |
| 1714 | Eisen Keisai (1790-1848) | Gods on a Floating Bridge |
N/A | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | GBP 71.50 |
| 1483 | Knox George | Collection of art reference books |
N/A | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 58.50 |
| 1337 | Photograph album |
N/A | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 52.00 | |
| 1377 | O'Meara Barry E.; D'Abrantes Duchess | Napoleon in Exile; Memoirs of Napoleon, his Court and Family |
1822; 1836 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 52.00 |
| 1382 | Stephens John L. | Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan |
1843 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 52.00 |
| 1696 | Dighton Robert (1752-1814) | Hamlet in Scotland; Mr Braham in the character of Orlando |
1792; 1802 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 52.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000