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Auction Name
Online: Modern Literature
Auction Date
12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
Sale Number
#1051
Total Lots
334
Sold Lots
302.0
Lots Sold
90.42%
Unsold Lots
32
Total Sales (GBP)
136,303.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
67,550.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
95,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
78,460.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
111,240.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
122.53%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
228 Milne (A.A.)

When We Were Very Young

 1924 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,318.00
1 Mitford (Nancy)

The Pursuit of Love

 1945 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 3,048.00
34 [Russell (George)

]

 1936 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,286.00
94 Cocteau (Jean)

La Difficultie D'etre

 1947 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,159.00
31 Gregory (Isabella Augusta, Lady)

Seven Short Plays

 1909 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,159.00
24 Yeats (William Butler)

Eight Poems

 1916 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,159.00
235 Murdoch (Iris)

Under the Net

 1954 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,032.00
225 McCarthy (Cormac)

The Road

 2006 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,905.00
268 Remarque (Erich Maria)

All Quiet on the Western Front

 1929 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,905.00
234 Murakami (Haruki)

The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

 1991 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,778.00
246 Orwell (George)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

 1949 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,778.00
115 Du Maurier (Daphne)

The Loving Spirit

 1931 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,651.00
20 Yeats (William Butler)

Where There Is Nothing: A Play in Five Acts. Supplement to The United Irishman

 1902 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,524.00
37 Roosevelt (Franklin D.).- Lindley (Ernest K.)

Franklin D. Roosevelt. A Career in Progressive Democracy

 1931 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,397.00
174 Hughes (Ted)

The Iron Giant

 1968 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
4 Mitford (Nancy)

Noblesse Oblige

 1956 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,397.00
96 Cornwell (Bernard)

Sharpe's Eagle

 1981 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,206.50
301 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

A Middle English Vocabulary

 1922 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,143.00
100 Cornwell (Bernard)

[The Saxon Stories]

 2004-2019 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,079.50
302 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit

 1946 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,079.50
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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.