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Auction Name	Trafford Book Sale	Total Sales (GBP)	16,159.80
Auction Date	February 04, 2026 - February 04, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	6,751.00
Sale Number	#440	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	8,996.00
Total Lots	169
Sold Lots	117.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	11,831.00
% of Lots Sold	69.23%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	15,506.00
Unsold Lots	52	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	104.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
113		J. Baines - Sport. A collection of the shaped cards in modern album, with main interest in Rugby, plus some soccer & few other sports		GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 7,130.00
112		J. Baines - Rugby. A selection of Yorkshire clubs and players, mostly West Riding, notably Halifax and Hunslet.		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 483.00
9		Autograph album, late-1940s/early-1950s, with signatures of Chico Marx, Betty Hutton, Laurel & Hardy, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Vivien Leigh,		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	GBP 460.00
109		J. Baines - Football. - Bradford City		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 368.00
110		J. Baines - Football and Rugby. An Oldham and Rochdale selection including - Oldham Athletic		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 356.50
108		J. Baines - Cricket. A selection including - England		GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 299.00
111		J. Baines - Rugby. A Yorkshire selection comprising - Skipton		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 299.00
44		Autograph album with a few signatures including Laurel & Hardy and Frank Sinatra, the latter in pencil and rather faint.		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 172.50
95		Sports interest, mostly in sets including Player's - Championship Golf Courses		GBP 180.00 - 220.00	GBP 172.50
123	Churchman	Famous Golfers 1927, the set of 50, including Bobby Jones (two different) and Walter Hagen (two different).		GBP 200.00 - 250.00	GBP 172.50
160		A mainly 1900s/1920s collection addressed to the Eardley family of Stockport, with early RP Rochdale Steam & Electric Trams, RP of Norden,	1900s/1920s	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 172.50
153	Wills	Sports of All Nations	1901	GBP 170.00 - 200.00	GBP 161.00
145		F. & J. Smith - Prominent Rugby Players	1924	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	GBP 155.25
8		Autograph album, mostly with signatures obtained 1919 at The Palace Theatre, Manchester, but with others added in 1961 with the Ryder Cup teams of GB		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 149.50
42		Autograph album of entertainers, 1930s/50s, including signatures of Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Deborah Kerr (signed photo		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 143.75
107		A.& B.C. Gum - Footballer Picture Cards	1966	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 143.75
43		Autograph album of entertainers, 1940s, including signatures of Billy Cotton, Gracie Fields, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner,		GBP 120.00 - 150.00	GBP 132.25
10		Two autograph albums, 1930s/40s, including signatures of Leslie Howard, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Don Bradman, Tyrone Power, Paul Robeson,		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 120.75
25		Entertainers' autographs, a selection of signed photos, mostly 10 x 8", including Bette Davis, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Marlene Dietrich,		GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 120.75
135		Millhoff - Famous Golfers	1928	GBP 120.00 - 140.00	GBP 115.00
146		Taddy & Co. - V.C. Heroes - Boer War (#41-60)		GBP 130.00 - 150.00	GBP 115.00
51		Album of autographed photos of entertainers, TV presenters, etc, PC size, including James Garner, Cicely Courtneidge, Nigel Hawthorne, Lee Evans,		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 105.80
93		Motor Cycling sets comprising Lambert & Butler - Motor Cycles	1923	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 105.80
130	Huddersfield Town F.C.	Huddersfield Town Players & Officials, Season 1935-36	1935	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	GBP 105.80
168		Titanic related comprising three of the ship (including an RP by J.M. Vauxhall), a Bamforth In Memoriam card, and two RPs of the Southampton monument		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 105.80

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.