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Auction Name: Weekly Antiques, Collectables & Effects
Auction Date: 02/23/2026 - 02/23/2026
Sale Number: #247199
Total Lots: 43
Sold Lots: 29.0
Lots Sold: 67.44%
Unsold Lots: 14

Total Sales (GBP): 529.62
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: Inf%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
267	Richard Grenville	Battle of Trafalgar prints Victory Finest Moment and The Royal Sovereign, signed	N/A	Not Available	GBP 56.88
111		An album of various comical and topographical postcards	N/A	Not Available	GBP 40.45
262	De Neuvill	a pair of oleographs depicting famous Zulu war scenes, The Last Sleep of the Brave and Saving The Queen's Colours	N/A	Not Available	GBP 35.39
525		Quantity of various military and WWII interest ephemera booklets etc	N/A	Not Available	GBP 27.81
271		A pair of early 20th Century coloured etchings, figures at lakeside	early 20th Century	Not Available	GBP 27.81
232	After F W Baldwin and E T Holding	two coloured prints of views of Great Yarmouth	N/A	Not Available	GBP 27.81
635	RICHARD KENDALL (Ed); JULIET WILSON-BARREAU	MONET BY HIMSELF, ; DEGAS BY HIMSELF; MANET BY HIMSELF,	N/A	Not Available	GBP 27.81
193		Mixed Lot: Various vintage books, vintage insurance policy documents to include Norwich Union, Eagle	N/A	Not Available	GBP 27.81
20		A folder containing various unframed prints to include Delaroue	N/A	Not Available	GBP 25.28
98		Two portrait silhouette pictures and a further vacant easel back frame	N/A	Not Available	GBP 22.75
634	LANDON RONALD (Ed):	THE MUSIC LOVERS' PORTFOLIO,	ND.	Not Available	GBP 18.96
544		Small quantity of various vintage books including Kipling	N/A	Not Available	GBP 18.96
186		Mixed Lot: Various 20th Century topographical postcards, commemorative newspapers to include Royal	N/A	Not Available	GBP 18.96
548		Box containing a quantity of vintage bindings including two Vols of Gibbons Roman Empire	N/A	Not Available	GBP 18.96
328		Two vintage Pirelli calendars 1987 and 1988	1987 and 1988	Not Available	GBP 18.96
147		Quantity of cigarette and tea cards, loose and in albums	N/A	Not Available	GBP 15.17
536A	THE REV JOHN FLEETWOOD:	THE LIFE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. ALSO THE LIVES OF THE APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS,	ND.	Not Available	GBP 10.11
533	R J ALBERY:	OUR CONSERVATIVE STATESMEN,	ND	Not Available	GBP 10.11
65		A Nestle album 1935-36 together with volumes of Girls Crystal magazine, a copy of the Daily Sketch	N/A	Not Available	GBP 10.11
35		An oleograph study of a continental river scene, gilt framed	N/A	Not Available	GBP 10.11

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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.