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Auction Name: Home Furnishings and Interiors
Auction Date: 12/11/2025 - 12/11/2025
Sale Number: #121125
Total Lots: 64
Sold Lots: 43.0
Lots Sold: 67.19%
Unsold Lots: 21

Total Sales (GBP): 1,507.84
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 50.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 50.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 1507.84%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
326		Astronomie Par La Lande leather bound books, 3 volumes.	N/A	Not Available	GBP 235.60
340		Scott's Waverly Novels, 47 volumes.	N/A	Not Available	GBP 148.80
78		Select Passages from the Diary and Letters of the late John Blackader	1806	Not Available	GBP 86.80
75		Militaria interest books to include A Military History of Perthshire 1899-1902 published by Hay 1908;...	N/A	Not Available	GBP 74.40
538		Westminster Mint, five albums 'The History of World War II' containing COMMONWEALTH first day covers, coin covers, etc.	N/A	Not Available	GBP 68.20
80		Vintage playing cards and games to include Market or Covent Garden by KumBak, Voyager Tarot, Add'em, Bridge, Pocket Dominoes, ...	N/A	Not Available	GBP 62.00
79		Vintage playing cards and games to include Funny Families, Animal Grab, Happy Families, Fairy Tale Families, Grandfather's Whiskers, Scoop, Tiddly Winks,...	N/A	Not Available	GBP 62.00
12	After CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH,	an Art Nouveau framed floral print initialled CRM August 1914.	1914	Not Available	GBP 52.08
430	After H W BREWER and T GRIFFITHS,	Edinburgh in 1886,	N/A	Not Available	GBP 52.08
199		Antique brass bound bible - Scott & Henry.	N/A	Not Available	GBP 49.60
393	JACK VETTRIANO,	Fallen Angels book edited by W Gordon Smith,	1994	Not Available	GBP 47.12
394	WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE RA (British 1851-1931),	Southampton, drypoint etching	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 43.40
451		Miniature portrait print of Napoleon on horseback, , and a miniature portrait print of Wellington	N/A	Not Available	GBP 39.68
327	P.G.Wodehouse	P.G.Wodehouse folio society 6 volumes in slip case.	N/A	Not Available	GBP 34.72
389	CHARLES B GREUL (Canadian b1923),	First Nations style Eagle,	N/A	Not Available	GBP 31.00
61	photo by Gale & Polden Ltd of Aldershot and London	Framed photograph of South African Rifle Team 'Winner's of the Kolapore and MacKinnon Bisley 1924',	1924	Not Available	GBP 31.00
429	J HARRIS after HENRY THOMAS ALKEN (British 1785-1851),	set of four fox hunting prints, and After C CLARK, Ubique and Halt, pair of prints	1850	Not Available	GBP 24.80
75K		Collection of photographs to include a group of WWII Nazi German soldiers, submarine, parachute descent Crete, battleships, Royal Sovereign on Russian Convoys, etc.	N/A	Not Available	GBP 22.32
386	ALEXEY FIEDORIENKO (Ukrainian b1961),	Pierrot and Harlequin	2007	Not Available	GBP 22.32
62		Framed photograph of the School of Musketry Hythe, 182nd Party November 1896, the soldiers modelled with artillery gun	1896	Not Available	GBP 18.60

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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.