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Auction Name	Cigarette and Trade Cards, Postcards, Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera	Total Sales (GBP)	84,625.14
Auction Date	August 14, 2024 - August 14, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	32,125.00
Sale Number	#81424	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	49,405.00
Total Lots	279
Sold Lots	231	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	49,825.00
% of Lots Sold	82.80%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	75,235.00
Unsold Lots	48	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	112.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
3367		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 189 signed photographs		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,482.00
3363		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 142 signed photographs relating to the Carry On movies		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,486.00
3368		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 172 signed photographs		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,486.00
3364		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 217 signed photographs of comedy interest		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,988.00
3369		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 80 signed photographs		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,490.00
3198		A collection of approximately 740 postcards of Somerset including photographic postcards titled 'Camping at Bream'		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,490.00
3114		A large collection of cigarette and trade cards		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 2,241.00
3372		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 200 signed photographs		GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,743.00
3300	George Lucas and Gary Kurtz	AUTOGRAPH, STAR WARS. A Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) cast and crew photo book signed by writer/director George Lucas and producer Gary Kurtz and gifted to Gerry Gavigan	1977	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,618.50
3366		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 123 signed photographs relating to James Bond 007		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,494.00
3370		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 200 signed photographs		GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,494.00
3371		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 200 signed photographs		GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,494.00
3373		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 200 signed photographs		GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,494.00
3235		A large collection of postcards		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,369.50
3319		FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES. A collection of approximately 69 football programmes the majority from the late 1940s and 1950s		GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 1,182.75
3362		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 107 signed photographs relating to Harry Potter		GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,182.75
3375		AUTOGRAPHS. A group of 17 signed photographs		GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,120.50
3199		A collection of approximately 416 postcards of Lincolnshire including photographic postcards titled 'Post Office		GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,120.50
3315		EPHEMERA. An album containing approximately 61 items of ephemera		GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 996.00
3365		AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 46 signed photographs relating to Dr Who		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 996.00
3323		PHOTOGRAPHS. An album containing approximately 97 cartes-de-visite photographs		GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 871.50
3213		A collection of approximately 153 postcards of Cornwall and the Scilly Isles including photographic postcards titled 'Wreck of the White Star Liner 'Suevig' on the Treacherous Rocks at the Lizard... 1907'		GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 809.25
3115		A large collection of cigarette and trade cards		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 747.00
3129		An album containing a set of 12 French Art Nouveau colour lithographic postcards by Alphonse Mucha		GBP 180.00 - 240.00	GBP 747.00
3237		A large collection of postcards		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 747.00

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second. 1762.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: An impressively extra-illustrated copy; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio!

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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.

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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, P.T. Barnum and many more!

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October 17th, 2024

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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Sotheby’s
Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
18 October 2024

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy

Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding

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