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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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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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