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Auction Name Online: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 118,116.35
Auction Date November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 67,230.00
Sale Number #1052 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 97,720.00
Total Lots 355
Sold Lots 306.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 77,750.00
% of Lots Sold 86.20% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 112,820.00
Unsold Lots 49 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 104.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
297 Topsell (Edward)

Snakes.- The Historie of serpents; Historie of serpents

1608 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 3,302.00
167 Anacreon

Shelley (Percy Bysshe).- Anacreontis Odaria, ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata

1866 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,413.00
122

Binding.- Bible, English.- Holy Bible (The), containing the Old and New Testaments

1715 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,032.00
247 Philpot (Leonard Daniel, painter, architect and designer, 1877-1973)

Chinese travel permit for [Leonard] D.Philpot

1906 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 2,032.00
321 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Italy.- Three plates, from 'Vedute di Roma'

[circa 1770] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,778.00
3 [Lanquet (Thomas)]

Coopers Chronicle

[1560] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,651.00
31 Rabadan (Muhammad)

Mahometism fully explained

1723-25 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,651.00
36

Universal History (An), from the Earliest Account of Time...

1747-54 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,651.00
332 Smith (Thomas)

South Asia.- Narrative of a Five Years' Residence at Nepaul

1852 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,651.00
52 Erasmus (Desiderius)

Novum Testamentum

1542 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,524.00
347 Stanford (Edward)

London.- Stanford's Library Map of London and its Suburbs

1877 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,524.00
192 Moncrieff (A. R. Hope)

Mythology.- Classic Myth and Legend

n.d. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,397.00
329 Burckhardt (John Lewis)

Levant.- Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

1826 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,397.00
21 Prideaux (Mathias)

An Easy and Compendious Introduction for reading all sorts of Histories

1672 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,143.00
23 [Shirley (John)]

Raleigh (Sir Walter).- The Life of the Valiant & Learned Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight...

1677 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,143.00
280 Clavius (Christoph)

Mathematics.- Opera Mathematica V. Tomis distributa

1648 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,143.00
33 Sale (George, translator)

Qu'ran, English.- The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed

1734 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,079.50
53 Cicero (Marcus Tullius)

Bindings.- Orationum

1543 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,079.50
179 Smith (Charles)

Optical Device for Artists.- The New Ocular Modelling Method

[?19th century] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,079.50
13 Isaacson (Henry)

Saturni Ephemerides siue tabula historico-chronologica..

1633 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,016.00
20 Heylyn (Peter)

Cosmographie in Four Books containing the Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World...

1669 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,016.00
225 D.C. Thomson, publishers

The Broons & Oor Wullie Annuals

1950-2006 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,016.00
322 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Italy.- Villa Panfili fuori di Porta S. Pancrazio

[1776] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,016.00
8 [Raleigh (Sir Walter)]

The History of the World

1614 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 952.50
317 Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Italy.- Three plates from 'Vedute di Roma'

[circa 1770] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 889.00
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    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T)]. CLARK. The Military Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: HOMMAIRE DE HELL, Ignace-Xavier. LAURENS, Jules. Voyage en Turquie et en Perse
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    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.
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    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
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    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
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