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| Auction Name | Avenue Auction | Total Sales (GBP) | 13,702.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 09, 2026 - June 10, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 4,670.00 |
| Sale Number | #60926 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 8,140.00 |
| Total Lots | 110 | ||
| Sold Lots | 82.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 5,840.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 74.55% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 10,060.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 28 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 136.20% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 958 | Tolkien J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
1955 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 845.00 |
| 974 | Bronte Charlotte; Bronte Emily; Bronte Anne | The Works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte |
1893 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 715.00 |
| 941 | A 1920s/1930s Family Photograph Album Featuring Hong Kong |
1920s-1930s; 1939 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 650.00 | |
| 988 | Lamb Charles; Lamb Mary; Rackham Arthur; Swinburne; de La Motte Fouque; Grahame; Reynolds Frank; Smith Jessie Willcox; Austen John | N Books, including: Tales from Shakespeare |
1909; 1918; 1911; 1950 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 650.00 |
| 955 | Parr Martin | Cherry Blossom Time in Tokyo |
2000 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 598.00 |
| 980 | Aesop; Billingshurst Percy J.; Grahame Kenneth | N Books, including: A Hundred Fables of Aesop |
1899 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 494.00 |
| 913 | GB FDCs |
1952-2024 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 442.00 | |
| 937 | West Somerset Imperial Yeomanry: A Photograph Album |
early 20th century | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 442.00 | |
| 207 | Austen Jane | Novels |
1911 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 390.00 |
| 962 | Milne A.A. | Winnie the Pooh |
1926 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 390.00 |
| 946 | A Collection of Victorian and Later Photo Albums |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 364.00 | |
| 1000 | Fairburn; Copinger; Burke | Fairburn's Crests; Armorial Bearings; Heraldry simplified |
1750 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 338.00 |
| 931 | 1966 World Cup Final Ticket Stubs and Ballot Letter |
1966; 1971 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 312.00 | |
| 948 | Handel | Samson, an Oratorio |
18th/19th century; 1650 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 312.00 |
| 978 | Carroll Lewis | N Books, including: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
1860 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 312.00 |
| 990 | Benson Freeman | N Books, including: The Honourable Women of the Great War |
1919 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 312.00 |
| 992 | Dulac Edmund | N Books, including: Picture Book for the French Red Cross |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 312.00 |
| 961 | Milne A.A. | Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner; When We Were Very Young |
1927; 1928; 1925 | GBP 80.00 - 150.00 | GBP 286.00 |
| 975 | Thackeray William Makepeace | A Collection of Classic Fiction Popular Editions |
19th - early 20th century | GBP 80.00 - 150.00 | GBP 286.00 |
| 985 | Hutchins John | The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset |
1863 | GBP 150.00 - 300.00 | GBP 286.00 |
| 966 | 17th/18th Century Engraved Devotional Image Books |
17th/18th | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 260.00 | |
| 202 | Woolf Virginia | To the Lighthouse |
1927 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 234.00 |
| 967 | Kircup James; Skiold Birgit | Zen Garden |
1973 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 221.00 |
| 956 | Quizem Caleb; Rowlandson T.; Bunbury H. | Annals of Sporting |
1809 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 208.00 |
| 994 | Defoe Daniel; Stothard Thomas; Mitford M.R.; Coleridge S.T.; Dickens Charles | N Books, including: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe |
1820; 1824; 1836 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 169.00 |
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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