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Auction Name Antique, Oak & Country and Interiors Total Sales (GBP) 4,463.38
Auction Date January 15, 2026 - January 16, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,360.00
Sale Number #114 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 2,170.00
Total Lots 27
Sold Lots 25.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,460.00
% of Lots Sold 92.59% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,330.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 191.56%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
16

A group of 14 Champion spark plug tin advertising signs.

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 1,001.60
15A

A W.B. Cooper Lowestoft enamel advertising sign.

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 688.60
150

A collection of 19th century and later photographs

19th century GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 500.80
174

Australia 1948 cricket autographs.

1948 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 313.00
823 Philip SNOW (20th/21st Century British School)

Swallows and Swift'

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 237.88
832

A 19th century writing blank.

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 237.88
176

Postcards.

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 200.32
854

Trinity House and Penzance interest.

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 175.28
144

Postcard Album & Photos.

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 150.24
826

An early coloured print.

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 137.72
164

Great Britain Presentation Packs.

GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 125.20
564

Three BIBA mail order catalogues.

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 125.20
857

A pair of 18th century maritime mezzotints.

18th century GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 100.16
828 F. C. Lewis after W. Varley

(Truro) South West View of St. Mary's Church, Truro.

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 87.64
165

Cigarette Cards - sets and odds.

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 56.34
833 Francesco Batolozzi, after Maria Cosway

The Hours.

GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.08
147

Cigarette Cards Etc.

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 43.82
821

A photographic print of Queen Victoria.

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 43.82
171

Postcards, stamps, coins, trade and cigarette cards.

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 37.56
8

Australian black and white lantern slides.

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 31.30
47

A large late 19th/early 20th century maroon leather bound 'Current Account Ledger'.

late 19th/early 20th century GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 31.30
188

Cricket; programmes, handbooks, etc.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
189

Rugby league programmes, etc.

GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 25.04
573

Five vintage actress photographs.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 25.04
820

A French lithograph Schwartz, after Laurenty.

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 12.52
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000