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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 127,606.50
Auction Date December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 65,300.00
Sale Number #939 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 93,700.00
Total Lots 307
Sold Lots 275 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 73,200.00
% of Lots Sold 89.58% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 105,150.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 121.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
25 Beckford (William).- Hoskins (G.A.)

Travels in Ethiopia, above the Second Cataract of the Nile

1835 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 6,930.00
23 Beckford (William).- Polo (Marco)

The Travels...

1818.<br><br> GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,032.00
55

Manuscripts.- Qur'an

[c.1850]. GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
230 Shakespeare (William)

The Works... Revis'd and Corrected

1709 [-10]. GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,528.00
214 Foxe (John)

[Foxe's Book of Martyrs] Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable...

1596. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 3,024.00
31 Burton (Sir Richard Francis)

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah

1855-56. GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 2,772.00
63 Waley (Arthur, translator)

A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

1918 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 2,772.00
22 Beckford (William).- Jackson (James Grey)

An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the Districts of Suse and Tafilelt

1811 GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
33 Champollion (Jean Francois)

Grammaire Egyptienne

1836[-1841] GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 2,394.00
98

India.- Bhagavad-G?t?

[19th century]. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,394.00
83 [Isshin (Ogawa)]

[Hundred Beauties (Singing Girls) in Tokyo]

c.1895. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,268.00
215 [Turberville (George)]

[Noble arte of venerie or hunting; Booke of hunting]

[1611] GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 2,016.00
208

English Binding.- [Breviary] Portiforium Seu Breviarium

1557 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,890.00
17 Beckford (William).- Rutter (John)

Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey

1823 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,764.00
163 Shippard (William Henry, )

Shippard's manuscript map of the Middle East, Indian Sub-Continent, and East Asia

[mid 19th century] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,512.00
213 Crouch (Nathaniel)

Delights for the Ingenious

1684 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,512.00
269 Pennant (Thomas)

The literary life ...

1793 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,512.00
42 Hafez.

Divan

1791 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,386.00
159

Thousand and One Nights (The); or, Arabian Nights' Entertainments

1896 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,386.00
142

South East Asia.- Siam, Burma 1923

[1923]. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,197.00
209 Holinshed (Raphael)

Historie of Scotlande [The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande]

[1577] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,197.00
210 Holinshed (Raphael)

The firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande

1577 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,197.00
169 Stack (Capt. George)

A Dictionary, English and Sindhi...

1849. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,134.00
59 Penzer (N.M., editor)

The Ocean of Story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara

1924 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,071.00
60

Persian-Syriac grammar.- Kita?b-i s?arf va nah?v-i zaba?n-i Fa?rsi?

1898 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,071.00
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  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
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