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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
99

William Camden Camden's Britannia Abridg'd with improvements and continuations to this present time to which are added exact lists of the present nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland

1701 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 563.40
100 William Camden and Edmund Gibson (additions)

Britannia: Or a Chorological Description of Great Brita

London 1722 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 776.24
101

(The Thames) William Tombleson [Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway]

London [c.1834] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 162.76
102

(MS dedication from the author) Henry Mayhew London Labour and the London Poor

London 1851 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 62.60
103 Edward Twycross (editor)

The Mansions of England and Wales. County of Cornwall

London 1846 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,878.00
104 David Roberts

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubi

London 1855-56 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,026.64
105 Turner (Joseph Mallord William)

Picturesque Views in England and Wales from Drawings

London 1838 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 375.60
106 Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel)

Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; being a Correct Coppy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England & Wales...

1720 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 813.80
107

(Atlases) Five works

London 1728 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 438.20
108 John Cary

(Atlases) Four works

London 1793 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 313.00
109 F. O. Morris

(Ornithology) A History of British Birds 1895 1864

London 1864 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 150.24
110 Charles Stonham

(Ornithology) The Birds of the British Islands, illustrated by Lilian M. Medland

London 1906 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 162.76
111 William Robinson editor

(Botnay) Flora and Sylva

London 1903-1904 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 125.20
112

(Botany and Horticulture) Seven works

London 1859 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 275.44
113 John Wright

(Pomology and Horticulture) The Fruit Grower's Guide

London [c.1891--1894] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 187.80
114

(Topography) Two sets

London, Edinburgh and Glasgow 1843 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 50.08
115 Seventeen

(Bindings) Seventeen illustrated works

London 1811 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 400.64
116

(Children's Literature) Eighteen Works

1911 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 56.34
117 Charles Devillers

(Georges Levitzky, binder) Les Ghazels de Hafiz

Paris [1922] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 175.28
118 My Strength

(Miniature) A Word for Every Day

Milwaukee [n.d. early 20th century] GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 12.52
119

(Illustrated Juvenile Works) Twenty

London n.d GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 187.80
120

Fifteen Illustrated Works

Dundee n.d GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 187.80
121

(Victorian Popular Publishing) Cope's Tobacco Plant & A. H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library (6 vols.)

Liverpool 1889 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 100.16
122

A Good Part-Run of The Journal of The Marine Biology Association Fifty-Five Volumes

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
123 [William Tombleson]

Five Illustrated Topographical Works

London [c.1832] GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.34
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