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Auction Name Interim Books and Ephemera Sale Total Sales (GBP) 19,142.02
Auction Date September 18, 2024 - September 18, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 11,745.00
Sale Number #91824 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 18,595.00
Total Lots 329
Sold Lots 323 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 12,115.00
% of Lots Sold 98.18% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 19,245.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 99.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
271

JAPAN WW2 ARCHIVE MANUSCRIPT AND TYPESCRIPT. 1942-1943

1942-1943 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 985.92
213 DORE, Gustave -

Sotain. Histoire Dramatique, Pittoresque et Caricaturale de la Sainte Russie.

1854 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 492.96
194 CUNARD, Nancy.

Negro Anthology

1930s GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 455.04
281

BATTLE OF KOHIMA a historically important WW2 Archive of original Manuscript Military Intelligence documents

c1944 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 391.84
267

Scrapbook. c1870s.

c1870s. GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 366.56
240

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ENVELOPE.

1861 GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 316.00
142

Trial, Conviction, & Execution, of Rose Cullender and Amy Duny., Widows for Bewitching several persons,

1823 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 303.36
228 Margaret Strickland.

Manuscript. "Illustrated Amateur Magazine. July [18]98 Vol 2 No. 1.

[18]98 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 240.16
285

WW2 New Delhi, India Command, 1943 Confidential booklet from N.P Warell[?] Field Marshal Commander in Chief In India.

1943 GBP 30.00 - 40.00 GBP 214.88
148 DEFOE, Daniel.

The Political History of the Devil containing His Original. A State of his Circumstances. his Conducl Publick and Private.

1739 GBP 180.00 - 300.00 GBP 202.24
274

WW2 Archive of congratulatory letters for Lieutenant General Sir Lionel Vivian Bond.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 202.24
131 Saunderson (Nicholas)

The Elements of Algebra, in Ten Books,

1740 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 189.60
159

The Trial of Archibald Bolam for the Murder of Joseph Millie in the Savings bank, Newcastle on Thursday Dec 8th, 1838.

1838 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 189.60
161 Blake (William).

Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience,

1955 GBP 150.00 - 350.00 GBP 189.60
272 Stringer-Jones (Walter, pilot),

Royal Canadian Air Force. 1942-45 WW2, Pilot's Flying Log Book -

1942-45 GBP 60.00 - 70.00 GBP 189.60
145

The Story of Tabbykin Town, In School and Play By Louis Wain, 1920

1920 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 176.96
317

Very Large Quantity of 7 Shelves of poetry and fiction

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 GBP 176.96
74

CORNWALL GENEALOGY The Visitations of Cornwall comprising The Heralds Visitations of 1530, 1573, & 1620. With additions by Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Vivian.

GBP 50.00 - 60.00 GBP 151.68
160 .[George CRUICKSHANK] (illustrator) and William HONE.

18 PAMPHLETS IN ONE BINDING

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 151.68
193

De Sibyllinis Aliisque qua Christi Natalee praecessere Oraculis.

1680 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 151.68
196 HARTLEY, George.

LISTEN. A Poetry Quarterly. 5 Issues.

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 139.04
106

PRIVATE PRESS. U.S A Collection of 21 volumes. Including; ASHLAR PRESS. 1932,

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 126.40
119

Ein Dutzend mathematischer Betrachtungen.

1826 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.40
122 By William Makepeace Thackeray With some notes by Anne Isabella Thackeray

The Orphan Of Pimlico, And other Sketches, Fragments and Drawings

1876 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 120.08
175

MILITARY Hints for young instructors on how to instruct in flying.

1916 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 120.08
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
    Gonnelli
    Futurism
    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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