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Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 490 items in 20 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
74

(Signed Limited Edition) John Betjeman Summoned

London 1976 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 212.84
75 Patrick Geddes publisher

The Evergreen. A Northern Seasonal

Edinburgh; London 1895-97 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 525.84
76

Limited Editions Club Two works

New York 1954-05-11 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
77 Stephen Gooden

(Signed) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

London 1940 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 125.20
78 Christopher Whitfield and Eric Gill

Five scarce publications

Welwyn, Hertfordshire [c.1939] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 43.82
79 S. Matthewman (editor)

Yorkshire Poetry. Five issues

1922-08-01 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 87.64
80 (Harry Clarke illustration)

Lennox Robinson Two works

Dublin & Cork [c.1925] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 125.20
81 Grant Richards publishers

The Butterfly [New Series]

[London] [1893] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 125.20
82 William Shakespeare

Four limited editions

London [1923] GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.60
83

(The Limited Editions Club) The Plays of William Shakespeare

New York 1939 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 162.76
84 Jessie M. King (endpapers and illus.)

(Children's Illustrated Literature) Thirty eight works

1925 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
85

Guinness Christmas Booklets Seven works

1934 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
86 (Edmund Dulac designs)

Constant Lambert Horoscope - A Ballet

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
87 Tobias Smollett

The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality Being Lady Vane's Memoirs

London 1925 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 112.68
88 Maria Edgworth

Four volumes

1897 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 187.80
89 Thomas Love Peacock and F. H. Townsend (illustrations)

Four works

London 1895, 1896 and 1897 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 525.84
90

(Illustrated Prose & Poetry) Seventeen works

London 1911 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 187.80
91

(The Art of the Book) Eight works

New York 1919 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.56
92

Seven works

London 1929 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 62.60
93 Florence Harrison

In the Fairy Ring

London [1908] GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 225.36
94

Art Interest Marc Chagall, Henry Moore and others

New York 1957 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 37.56
95 Raymond PEYNET(1908-1999)

Original gouache illustration from 'Un Chapeau de Paille D'Italie'

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 187.80
96

(Signed and Inscribed) Allardyce Nicoll Masks Mimes and Miracles. Studies in the Popular Theatre

London 1931 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.56
97 Erik Fischer

Melchior Lorck

Copenhagen 2009 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 75.12
98

Raymond Quenau One Hundred Million Million Poems

1983 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 137.72
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    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
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    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
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    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
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  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.