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Auction Name: Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction - London Winter 2025
Auction Date: 12/05/2025 - 12/07/2025
Sale Number: #120525
Total Lots: 538
Sold Lots: 378.0
Lots Sold: 70.26%
Unsold Lots: 160

Total Sales (GBP): 1,024,030.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 550,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 1,101,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 842,350.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 1,684,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 60.78%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
122	DIE HARD (1988) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Heavily Annotated Personal Shooting Script, Revised	N/A	GBP 30,000.00 - 60,000.00	GBP 49,125.00
92	CECIL B. DEMILLE - Cecil B. DeMille Productions Front Gate Sign	N/A	GBP 20,000.00 - 40,000.00	GBP 26,200.00
351	STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)/STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) - C-3PO's (Anthony	N/A	GBP 15,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 19,650.00
2079	ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951) - Alice at Tulgey Wood - Original Mary Blair Concept Painting	N/A	GBP 15,000.00 - 30,000.00	GBP 19,650.00
128	HARRY POTTER SERIES (2001 - 2011) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Rupert Grint Hand-Painted Halloween	N/A	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 18,340.00
2161	SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) - Framed Maleficent and Diablo Original Hand-Painted Production Cel Setup	N/A	GBP 12,000.00 - 24,000.00	GBP 15,720.00
345	STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE - SPECIAL EDITION (1997) - Grad Collection: Cast- and Crew-Autographed Poster	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 14,410.00
2222	THE SIMPSONS (T.V. SERIES, 1989-PRESENT) - Duplicate Family Couch Gag - Original Production Cels on	N/A	GBP 4,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 13,100.00
127	HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 13,100.00
420	WITHNAIL AND I (1987) - Bruce Robinson's Heavily Annotated Early Draft of Unpublished Withnail and I	N/A	GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 13,100.00
130	ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (1991) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Bound Primary Hand-Annotated	N/A	GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 13,100.00
109	THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) - Hand-Painted Brian Froud Gelfling Artwork	N/A	GBP 7,000.00 - 14,000.00	GBP 13,100.00
457	BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) - Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Huey Lewis, Bob Gale and	N/A	GBP 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 12,445.00
797	KENNER - Hand-Drawn and Painted M.A.S.K. Rhino Box Art	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 11,790.00
2100	FANTASIA (1940) - The Sorceror's Apprentice - Original Production Cel on Courvoisier Background	N/A	GBP 4,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 11,790.00
177	THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973) - Ray Harryhausen Hand-Drawn Pencil Concept of the Cyclopean	N/A	GBP 4,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 10,480.00
366	STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) - Production-made Rebel Trooper DH-17 Stunt Blaster	N/A	GBP 6,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 9,825.00
321	THE SHINING (1980) - Stanley Kubrick Handwritten Letter, Pair of Signed Letters, and a Large	N/A	GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 9,825.00
129	LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) - The Alan Rickman Archive: Personal Hand-Annotated Shooting Script, Letters	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 9,170.00
982	STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) - Alec Mills' Bound Personal Shooting Script	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 9,170.00

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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.