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Auction Name Rare Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 90,907.72
Auction Date November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 39,380.00
Sale Number #110625 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 65,520.00
Total Lots 490
Sold Lots 403.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 50,070.00
% of Lots Sold 82.24% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 82,490.00
Unsold Lots 87 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 110.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
40 Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

The Three Norns Winding the Rope of Fate

1911-11-01 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 6,510.40
54 Arran Inlet (c.1933)

Jessie Marion KING (1875-1949)

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,756.00
138 Thomas Martyn

(Cornwall) A New and Accurate Map of the County of Cornwall, from Actual Survey

1844 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,003.20
103 Edward Twycross (editor)

The Mansions of England and Wales. County of Cornwall

1846 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,878.00
406

The Cellar-Book: or, The Butler's Assistant, in Keeping A Regular Account of His Liquors

1794 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 1,752.80
3 Geoffrey C. Warren and Harry Clarke (illustrations)

Elixir of Life [Usige Beatha] Being a Slight Account of the Romantic Rise to Fame of a Great House

1925 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,565.00
71 Jane Austen and Hugh Thomson illustrations

(Peacock Binding) Pride and Prejudice

1984 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,565.00
1 Albert WAINWRIGHT (1898-1943)

The Procession of the Magi

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,252.00
15

(Dylan Thomas interest) Botteghe Oscure IX

1952 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 1,252.00
2 Arthur Symons (ed) and Aubrey Beardsley illustrations

The Savoy

1896 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,064.20
104 David Roberts

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

1855-56 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,026.64
380

Charles Booth Labour & Life of The People - East London

1889 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,026.64
27

(Signed and inscribed) Louis Golding Magnolia Street

1932 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 901.44
20

[Ornament Design] Jugendstil Ornamentik der Gegenwart

[c.1906] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 876.40
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
100 William Camden and Edmund Gibson (additions)

Britannia: Or a Chorological Description of Great Brita

1722 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 776.24
23 J. Griffyth Fairfax and Lionel Lindsay illustrations

(Signed Presentation Edition) The Troubled Pool and Other Poems

1911 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 751.20
38 Arthur Rackham

(Signed with an Original Sketch) The Springtide of Life

[1918] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 751.20
33 Arthur Rackham

Four limpbacks

[1908] GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 726.16
195 (Charles I)

Manuscript Receipt for the Royal Chamber, 1640-41

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 688.60
24

[Carr family of Frognal and Eshott Heugh, Felton, Co. Northumberland] An Early 19th Century Sketchbo

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 651.04
226

(Queen Victoria) The Queen is Slowly Dying A.L.S on Windsor Castle headed paper

July 1883 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 651.04
127

(Maritime) Nine illustrated works

1842 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 626.00
263 Henry Cotton Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae

(Ireland) The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland

1851-1860 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 626.00
331 Andreas PEDRETT (1892-1977)

Klosters, Graubunden-Grisons (1943)

-1943 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 626.00
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    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
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
  • Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T). The Costume of Turkey
    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
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: POSTEL, Guillaume. De la République des Turc
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES. EMPIRE OTTOMAN.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant T. Emile. L'Art Arabe
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES. Histoire de l'art Egyptie
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT, contes arabes
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: SCHLEGEL, Hermann et A. H. VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie - Planches
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: THEVENOT, Melchisédec. Relation de divers voyages curieux
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11:
  • 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.