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Auction Name
Antiquarian & Collectable Books & Related Items
Auction Date
12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
Sale Number
#120425
Total Lots
272
Sold Lots
247.0
Lots Sold
90.81%
Unsold Lots
25
Total Sales (GBP)
31,095.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
15,910.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
24,330.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
17,750.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
27,190.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
114.36%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
145 FLEMING IAN.

Moonraker.

N/A GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,360.00
150

17th CENTURY PAPAL BINDING. A document wallet

 N/A GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,800.00
158 BLYTON ENID.

Child Whispers.

N/A GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,680.00
142 POTTER BEATRIX.

Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes.

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,140.00
155 SCOTT SIR WALTER.

Landscape Illustrations of the Novels of the Author of Waverley.

N/A GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,080.00
64 V(ON) THUN CAPT.

A Book of Flags & Pennants, manuscript & hand drawn throughout with index & very

 N/A GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,020.00
152 COLLODI CARLO.

The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio ...

N/A GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 780.00
153 (TIPHAIGNE DE LA ROCHE CHARLES F.).

Giphantia or A View of What Has Passed, What is Now Passing &

 N/A GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 720.00
146 FLEMING IAN.

The Spy Who Loved Me.

N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 576.00
62

Astronomy - Commonplace Book. Early 19th century quarto vol., some blank leaves but substantially

 N/A GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 480.00
116 BATCHELOUR GABRIEL RICHARDSON.

Of the State of Europe ... Containing the Historie & Relation of the Many Provinces Hereof.

 N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 456.00
255 SMITH ALEXANDER H. ("ANTIQUE SMITH").

Manuscript forgeries of the hand & signature of Robert

 N/A Not Available GBP 456.00
159 BLYTON ENID.

Real Fairies.

N/A GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 420.00
141 BONTE L. Q. & G. W.

A B C in Dixie, A Plantation Alphabet.

N/A GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 384.00
157 (RITSON JOSEPH & DOUCE FRANCIS).

Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus, A Choice

 N/A GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 360.00
151 DARWIN CHARLES.

The Descent of Man & Selection in Relation to Sex.

N/A GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 336.00
108 BUCK SAMUEL & NATHANIEL.

Loose collection of 112 eng.

N/A GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 336.00
81

PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. 14 fldg., mainly linen, maps of Palestine & the Middle East,

 N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 312.00
274 HEDDLE M. FORSTER.

The Mineralogy of Scotland.

N/A GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 288.00
229

Cock-Fighting & Game Fowl. 10 various vols.

 N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 264.00
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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.