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Cotswold Auction Company: Treasures in Boxes, Books & Household items

Auction Reports

Auction Name	Treasures in Boxes, Books & Household items	Total Sales (GBP)	1,016.60
Auction Date	September 06, 2026 - September 06, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	695.00
Sale Number	#9748	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	1,255.00
Total Lots	33
Sold Lots	30.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	745.00
% of Lots Sold	90.91%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	1,345.00
Unsold Lots	3	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	75.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2019		N Books, including: The Norton Commando	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 84.50
2010		Antiquarian leatherbound volumes	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 78.00
2012	Rackham Arthur; Wagner Richard; Hudson Gwynedd; Carroll Lewis; Bull Rene; Paull H B; Andersen Hans; Home Gordon	The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie; Alice in Wonderland; The Arabian Nights; Hans Andersen's Fairytales; Cathedrals, Abbeys and Famous Churches; The New Oxford History of Music; Bible	ND; ND	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 78.00
2017		Classic Trucks; The World Encyclopaedia of Trucks; British Lorries 1900-1945; Railway Owned Commercial Vehicles; Collectors Guide to the Range Rover; The Landrover; Landrover International; The Illustrated History of Ford Vans and Trucks; The Bedford 1923	1900-1945; 1923-1950	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 78.00
2007	Callender Jeffrey; Carr George	The Caird Collection of Maritime Antiquities; Sermons	1933; 1737	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 71.50
2015		Motoring interest books	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 65.00
2014A		London Buses Before the War; London Buses 1929-1939; The London Bus; The Story of the London Bus	1929-1939	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 52.00
2125	Hogarth	N Art Prints, including: Hunting scenes	N/A	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	GBP 52.00
2000	Massingham H J; Haggard Rider; Waterton Charles; Drabble Phil; Henson Adam; Thacker Joy	Cotswold Country; Chiltern Country; London Scene; A Farmer's Year being his Commonplace book for 1898; Essays on Natural History	1899	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 45.50
2006	Bates H E; Kitchen Fred; Williamson Henry; Farr Rowena; Thomas Edward; Maxwell Gavin; Layton Claire; Bell Adrian; Thorpe Adam; Soper Eileen; Smith Stuart; Soper Tony; Monbiot George; Davies Nick; St.John Charles	N Books, including: On Silbury Hill; Wild Encounter; How to Study Birds; Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 45.50
2022		N Books, including: The Golden Age of British Motoring	1885-1935	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 45.50
2001	Hosking Eric; Vesey-Fitzgerald Brian; Watkins William; Jamieson Conor Mark; Shepheard-Walwyn H W; Bomford Joan; Kennard David; Bellamy David	An Eye for a Bird; A Book of British Waders; The Moor; Looking for the Goshawk; Nature Smiling Through	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 28.60
2002	Condry William; Percival-Westell W; Oddy Bill; Perry Richard; Fortescue J W; Armour G D; Barlee John; Stacey John	Birds and Wild Africa; Let's Watch the Birds; Bill Oddy's Little Black Bird Book; A Naturalist on Lindisfarne; The Story of a Red Deer; Birds on the Wing; This Wild Company	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 28.60
2005	Walker Alexander; Warren Henry C; Street A G; McFarlane Robert; Cocker Mark; Waterton	The Good Life; Kittle Cattle; The Old Ways; West Country; A Cotswold Year; The Happy Countryman; Claxton; Essays on Natural History	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 28.60
2004	Hosking Eric; Brown Philip; Waterston George; Timperley H W; Moss Steven; Deakin Roger; Williamson Kenneth; Warren Henry C	Sea Birds; The Return of the Osprey; A Cotswold Book; Birds Britannia; The Garden Bird Handbook; Notes from Walnut Tree Farm; The Atlantic Islands; West Country	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 26.00
2013	Owen David	Ferrari World magazine; British Sports Cars Road Tests; Mini Marque History Series; Haines Guides; ALFISSIMO!	1991; 1990; 89; 92	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 23.40
2003	Brockie Keith; Mason Gill; Soper Tony; Hoskin; Newberry; Ede Basil	Return to One Man's Island; The Hare; Bird Watch; Birds of the Day; Birds of the Night; Birds of Prey of the World; The Living Coast; Birds of Town and Village; Basil Ede's Birds	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 19.50
2024	Fairless Michael	N Books, including: Tube Map Travels	1913	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 19.50
2027		London Transport volumes	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 19.50
2023		N Books, including: The Pilots Air Traffic Control Handbook	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 15.60
2025		N Books, including: The Air Pilots Manual	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 15.60
2026		N Books, including: The Encyclopaedia of the Motor Cycle	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 15.60
2149	Bowen Emanuel	N Art Prints, including: Gloucester, Divided into Hundreds	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 15.60
2011		Heron volumes; Oxford Library of Words of Phrases	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 13.00
2120	Rubens Peter Paul; Metsu Gabriel; Gainsborough Thomas	N Art Prints, including: Landscape by Peter Paul Rubens	19th/20th century	GBP 15.00 - 25.00	GBP 13.00

Heritage, Nov. 18: Orson Welles. Signed Third Revised Final Draft for Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941). July 16, 1940.

Heritage, Nov. 18: Bob Dylan. Autograph manuscript working lyrics to "Man on the Street."

Heritage, Nov. 18: Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon. Inscribed by the author to the daughter of the Spanish Ambassador.

Heritage, Nov. 18: Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Inscribed by the author.

Heritage, Nov. 18: John Steinbeck. East of Eden. Inscribed by 27 members of the movie cast and crew, including James Dean and Elia Kazan.