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Auction Name	Antiquarian and Collectable Books, and Related Items	Total Sales (GBP)	64,294.29
Auction Date	July 17, 2024 - July 17, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	28,140.00
Sale Number	#71724	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	43,170.00
Total Lots	243
Sold Lots	224	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	34,980.00
% of Lots Sold	92.18%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	53,560.00
Unsold Lots	19	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	120.04%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
3555	SOWERBY, James.	British Mineralogy: or Coloured Figures Intended to Elucidate the Mineralogy of Great Britain.	1804-1811.	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 3,237.00
3619	WAIN, Louis (illustrator).	[Louis Wain Annuals.]	1901-1921.	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,116.50
3523	Oscar WILDE.	Poems In Prose. Original typescript.	n.d. circa 1900.	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,743.00
3507	Harold Ivan HARDING.	Diary of a Journey From Srinagar to Kashgar Via Gilgit.	1922	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,494.00
3564	LOUDON, [Jane Webb.]	The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants.	1848	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,494.00
3502	ARDIZZONE, Edward (illustrator). Sheridan LE FANU.	In A Glass Darkly.	1929	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,245.00
3682	George LAWRENCE.	Reminiscences of Forty-Three Years in India... edited by W. Edwards.	1874	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 1,245.00
3521	MANUSCRIPT.	Thomas BEALE and Thomas Beale COOPER.		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 1,058.25
3698		BIBLE, In English. [The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke: and conferred with the Best Translations in Divers Languages.]	1588	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 871.50
3699		BIBLE, In English. [The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures, contained in the Olde and Newe Testament.	1631	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 871.50
3595	George W. BACON (publisher).	Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs... with an Alphabetical Index of over 20,000 names... edited by William Stanford.	1914	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 809.25
3608	[DICKENS, Charles.]	Higham, Near Rochester. Kent. A Very Valuable and Beautiful Freehold Property known as 'Gadshill Place', for Many Years the Favourite Abode of Charles Dickens...	1870	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 809.25
3626	BIBLE, In English.	The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and The New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations diligently Compared and Revised.	1724	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 809.25
3533	DICKENS, Charles.	Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boys Progress... a Drama in Three Acts.	circa 1870.	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 747.00
3541	BERTELLI, Pietro.	Diversarum Nationum Habitus Centum, et quattuor iconibus in aer incises diligenter expressi, item Ordines Duo Processionum.	1589	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 747.00
3543	[LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan.]	London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation.	1871-1872.	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 684.75
3544	LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan.	The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien.	1896	GBP 70.00 - 100.00	GBP 684.75
3700		BIBLE, In English. [The Bible, that is The Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old and New Testaments.	1607	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 684.75
3580	ROWLING, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.	1997	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 622.50
3586		Spons' Engineers' and Contractors' Illustrated Book of Prices of Machines, Tools, Ironwork, and Contractors' Material, for 1876.	1876	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 622.50
3646	ADAMS, Douglas.	The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.	1979	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 597.60
3509	ROWLING, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.	1999	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 572.70
3510	ROWLING, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.	1999	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 572.70
3616	ROBERT-HOUDIN.	Memoirs of... Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror, Written By Himself.	1860	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 572.70
3512	FLEMING, Ian.	Goldfinger.	1959	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 522.90

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
17th July 2025

Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s
Geek Week
2-17 July | New York

Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.

Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.

Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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DOYLE
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
July 23, 2025

DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500

DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000

DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800

DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.

DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600

DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800