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Bonhams: Deeds Not Words. Women's Suffrage Part II

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Auction Name	Deeds Not Words. Women's Suffrage Part II	Total Sales (GBP)	75,366.40
Auction Date	March 12, 2026 - March 12, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	33,300.00
Sale Number	#32103	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	52,100.00
Total Lots	49
Sold Lots	44.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	40,300.00
% of Lots Sold	89.80%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	62,500.00
Unsold Lots	5	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	120.59%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
56	CLAXTON (FLORENCE)	The Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights,]--The Biddie Book,	[1871]; 1897	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 7,680.00
49		Collection of over 80 photographs, [c.1908-1913]	[c.1908-1913]	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 7,040.00
61		Manuscript minute book, 1896-1898	1896-1898	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 5,376.00
2	EMMELINE PANKHURST	Temporary Discharge Certificate for Emmeline Pankhurst, signed and dated May 1913	1913	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,096.00
4		Mrs Drummond will Speak at The Temperance Hall', Saturday 21 March 1914	1914	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,840.00
22		Rare pamphlets from the Mary Phillips collection of suffrage material, mostly undated	undated	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,840.00
29	PANKHURST (SYLVIA)	Autograph manuscript of an article on Communism, [c.1922]	[c.1922]	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 3,328.00
78		Collection of 40 photographic postcards and RPPCs depicting campaigning and WSPU groups	N/A	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,328.00
6	HAMILTON (CICELY)	Beware! A Warning to Suffragists..., FIRST EDITION, Artists' Suffrage League, [c.1910]	[c.1910]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,072.00
7	Edited by Ethel Hill and Olga Fenton Shafer,	Great Suffragists- and Why. Modern Makers of History...	[1909]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,816.00
33	PANKHURST (CHRISTABEL)	Two autograph letters signed to Walter Long MP, September 1909 and July 1910	1909 and 1910	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,432.00
25	Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence	Votes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, vol. 1-4 [nos. 1-186], October 1907-September 1911	1907-1911	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,176.00
21		A collection of approximately 70 printed handbills and leaflets, [early twentieth-century]	[early twentieth-century]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,048.00
34	PANKHURST (CHRISTABEL)	Autograph letter signed to the Editor of the Daily Mail, 1913, with a telegram	1913	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,048.00
9	LYTTON (CONSTANCE)	Autograph article on her conversion to the suffrage cause, [c.1908]	[c.1908]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,664.00
26	Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence	Votes for Women. Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, incomplete run of 91 loose issues, 12 April 1912-2 October 1914	1912-1914	GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,664.00
64	GALLIMAUFRY	Collection of letters, prints and other material	N/A	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,664.00
1	ELIZA SCHOFIELD	Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1908]	1908	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,536.00
28		Women's Franchise. A Record of the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1908-1909; The Common Cause. The Organ of the Women's Movement for Reform, 1909-1910	1908-1909; 1909-1910	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,088.00
51	PANKHURST (EMMELINE AND CHRISTABEL)	Portrait photograph signed by both, 13 October 1908; with another of their arrest	1908	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,024.00
55	DESPARD (CHARLOTTE) AND MABEL COLLINS	Outlawed. A Novel on the Woman Suffrage Question, FIRST EDITION,	1908	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 960.00
71	DAVISON (EMILY WILDING)	In Memoriam programme for her memorial service, 14 June 1913; with scarce memorial card	1913	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 960.00
8	GORDON (HELEN)	The Prisoner: a Sketch, Letchworth,	1911	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 832.00
54		CHILDREN'S FICTION Cassell's Annual for Boys and Girls, 1914--MEADE (L.T.,ed.), Atalanta, 1889	1914, 1889	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 832.00
5		The Trial of the Suffragette Leaders, The Woman's Press, [1909]	[1909]	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 768.00

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.