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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 296 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Brown (Thomas)

Sketch of a System of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Edinburgh 1820 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
102 Fencing.- Roland (George)

A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of the Art of Fencing

, Edinburgh, 1823 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 254.00
103 Dickens (Charles)

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

1838 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 381.00
104 Dickens (Charles)

[Christmas Books]

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
105 Dickens (Charles)

and Wilkie Collins. No Thoroughfare... being the extra Christmas number of All the Year Round

1867 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 215.90
106 Martineau (Harriet)

Deerbrook

1839 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
107 Beckford (William).- Maddox (Wiles)

Views of Lansdown Tower, Bath. The Favourite Edifice of the Late William Beckford Esqr.

Bath & London, 1844 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 609.60
108 [Gilbert (Elizabeth Rosanna)], "Madame Lola Montez".

The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet. With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating

New York [1858]. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
109 Thackeray (William Makepeace)

[The Works]

1867-69 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,016.00
110 Ibsen (Henrik)

Et Dukkehjem

1879 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 165.10
111 Stevenson (Robert Louis)

Treasure Island

1883 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,048.00
112

Suffolk bathing.- Woodbridge public salt water swimming bath. Subscriptions invited. Prospectus

Woodbridge, 1887. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 6.35
113

Panoramas.- William Hamilton's latest novelty excursions, Sea to Sea

Netherfield, near Nottingham, [1894]. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
114 Fletcher (William Younger)

English Bookbindings in the British Museum

1895 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 698.50
115 Hardy (Thomas)

Jude the Obscure

1896 [but 1895] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 177.80
116 Hardy (W. J., editor)

The Home Counties Magazine

1899-1912 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 254.00
117 Kipling (Rudyard)

Kim

1901 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 558.80
118 Rook (Clarence)

Switzerland: The Country, Its People,

New York & London 1907; GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
119 James (Henry)

[The Novels and Tales]

1907-1945. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
120 Duncan (Raymond)

Le Vrai But Du Travail

1912 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 63.50
121

Shipwreck survivors.- The Survivors of S.S. "Trevessa"

New Ferry GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
122 Eliot (T.S.)

Journey of the Magi

[1927] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 241.30
123 Shakespeare Head Press.- Spenser (Edmund)

The Works...

Oxford, 1930-32. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 406.40
124 Montgomery (Bernard Law, Viscount of)

A Collection of Field-Marshall Montgomery's Personal Messages to 21 Army Group

Berlin 29-8-45." GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 381.00
125 Waugh (Evelyn)

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece

1957. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 635.00
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