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Auction Name	Rare Books and Works on Paper	Total Sales (GBP)	60,452.82
Auction Date	February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	25,020.00
Sale Number	#22626	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	41,360.00
Total Lots	350
Sold Lots	295.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	29,910.00
% of Lots Sold	84.29%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	49,180.00
Unsold Lots	55	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	122.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
18	Edmund Sawyer	Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected (chiefly) fromt the Original Papers....Sir Ralph Winwood	1725	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 2,879.60
8	James Sowerby and Sir James Smith	(Fine Binding) English Botany	1790-1814	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,629.20
12		[Geneva or Breeches Bible in English]	1599 [after 1600]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,316.20
320	Samuel Gawith	(Pipe Tobacco) Full Virginia Flake Twenty unopened 50g tins	2016-2017	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 1,752.80
23	Daphne Du Maurier	(Signed First Edition) Rebecca	1938	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,502.40
11	Melesina Trench	(Early Irish Female Poetry and Authors presentation copy with marginalia) Campaspe, An Historical Tale; and Other Poems	1815	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,377.20
188	Harry Clarke	(Signed and Inscribed) Ephemera	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 1,252.00
27	John Gerard	(Botany) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes	1636	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,101.76
325		(Pipe Tobacco) A large quantity Mostly in kilner style jars, tins and vacum packed, mostly ms labled with dates	N/A	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,001.60
323		(Pipe Tobacco) McClelland 'Blackwoods Flake'	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 976.56
326		(Pipe Tobacco) A large quantity Mostly opened in kilner style jars, tins etc, many ms lables with dates	N/A	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 939.00
2		(Antarctic and Natural History) Report on the Collections of Natural History Made in the Antarctic Regions During the Voyage if the "Southern Cross"	1902	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 901.44
322		(Pipe Tobacco) Fifteen tins McClelland Beacon Extra...	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 876.40
30	James Sullivan	(Americana) The History of the District of Maine	1795	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 751.20
263		(Atlases) Nine 'Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough'	c.1820	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 726.16
321		(Pipe Tobacco) Fourteen tins Peterson of Dublin Irish Flake...	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 726.16
10	Hiob Ludolf	(Ethiopia) A New History of Ethiopia, being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia...	1682	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 688.60
28	Rudyard Kipling	The Power of the Dog	December 12th, 1923	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 688.60
16	John Nichols editor and publisher	(Antiquities) Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica	1780 to 1791	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 563.40
25	William Sanderson	(British Monarchy) Eight works	1656	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 563.40
31	David Ramsay	(Americana) The History of the American Revolution	1789	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 563.40
64	Francis Bacon	Three works	1631	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 563.40
69	William Camden	Six works	1657	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 563.40
24	Richard Baker	(British Monarchy) Four works	1684	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 525.84
111	[Duncan Campbell]	(Scotland) Nine works	1888	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 525.84

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.