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Hansons: The Alan Turing Papers: The Collection of Norman Routledge (1928-2013), Fellow Mathematician & Personal Friend of Alan Turing

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Auction Name	The Alan Turing Papers: The Collection of Norman Routledge (1928-2013), Fellow Mathematician & Personal Friend of Alan Turing	Total Sales (GBP)	447,500.00
Auction Date	June 17, 2025 - June 17, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	116,000.00
Sale Number	#61725	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	183,000.00
Total Lots	14
Sold Lots	14.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	116,000.00
% of Lots Sold	100.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	183,000.00
Unsold Lots	0	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	244.54%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
5	TURING, (Alan).	On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem	1937	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 200,000.00
4	TURING, (Alan).	Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals [Alan Turing's PhD dissertation],	1939	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 106,250.00
12	TURING, (Alan).	The Word Problem in Semi-Groups with Cancellation, INSCRIBED BY ALAN TURING	1950	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 27,500.00
6	TURING, (Alan).	Computability and l-Definability	1937	GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 25,000.00
11	TURING, (Alan).	The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, association copy SIGNED by Routledge	1952	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 18,750.00
9	TURING, (Alan).	Finite Approximations to Lie Groups	1938	GBP 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 16,250.00
1	Ethel Sara Turing	[Alan Turning's Mother]. Autograph Letter Signed by Ethel Sara Turing, 6 Waterden Road, 16 May 1956	1956	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 11,250.00
10	TURING, (Alan).	A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function	1943	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 10,625.00
8	TURING, (Alan).	Equivalence of Left and Right Almost Periodicity [TURING'S FIRST PUBLISHED PAPER],	1935	GBP 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 7,500.00
2	TURING, (Alan).	An original GPO Telegram from Alan Turing to Norman Routledge	1951	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 6,875.00
7	TURING, (Alan).	The Journal of Symbolic Logic: A Formal Theorem in Church's Theory of Types, by M. H. A. Newman & A. M. Turing	1942	GBP 2,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 6,875.00
13	FORSTER (Edward Morgan).	An archive of Autograph Letters Signed by E. M. Forster to Norman Routledge, 1953-69	1953-69	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 6,250.00
14	ROUTLEDGE, (Norman).	King's and Eton: The Memoirs of Norman Routledge [unpublished autobiography],		GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 3,125.00
3	[NEWMAN, (M. H.)] Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954, ASSOCIATION COPY	SCARCE OFFPRINT, [Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, Volume I, November 1955],	1955	GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,250.00

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

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