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Auction Name	Books and Manuscripts	Total Sales (GBP)	192,563.20
Auction Date	December 04, 2024 - December 04, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	78,200.00
Sale Number	#29883	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	115,900.00
Total Lots	119
Sold Lots	101	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	96,700.00
% of Lots Sold	84.87%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	145,600.00
Unsold Lots	18	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	132.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
60	HUGHES (ARTHUR)	The remaining archive relating to the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Arthur Hughes (1832-1915), from the collection of Dr Leslie Cowan, including a panel painting, drawings and letters		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 20,480.00
95	FLEMING (IAN)	On Her Majesty's Secret Service, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 96 OF 250 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Jonathan Cape, 1963	1963	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 10,880.00
59	GORDON (CHARLES GEORGE)	Collection of material relating to General Gordon of Khartoum (1822-1885)		GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 10,240.00
67	ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)	Series of eight autograph letters signed, to Scottish Pre-Raphaelite artist Alice Boyd, 1866-1882; with letter from Alice Boyd and portrait photograph		GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 8,320.00
120	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	Typed letter signed, to Justin Arundale, on , Oxford, 30 May 1963	1963-05-30	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 5,888.00
40	ARTISTS & WRITERS -- ROSSETTI, RUSKIN, FORSTER & PRE-RAPHAELITES	Collection of autograph letters, signed, from various nineteenth-century artists and writers	nineteenth-century	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 5,376.00
47		[The Bible], 1599; [The Bible], 1599; and 5 17th century English Bibles, 1615, 1621 (2 copies), 1633 (2 copies)(6)	1599	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 4,864.00
48		The Holy Bible, 1679; and 5 other Bibles, 17th/18th c. in contempory bindings (6)	1679	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 4,864.00
80	HAMILTON (CICELY)	Beware! A Warning to Suffragists, FIRST EDITION, Artists' Suffrage League, c.1910	c.1910	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,096.00
98	FLEMING (IAN)	Dr. No, 1958; Goldfinger 1959, and 7 other Bond first editions (9)	1958-1966	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 4,096.00
44		The Holy Byble, Conteining the Olde Testament and the Newe, Christopher Barker, 1585	1585	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 3,840.00
9	GASCOYNE (JOEL)	An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney, Engraven by John Harris, Joel Gascoyne, 1703	1703	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,584.00
55		Collection of c.20 manuscript deeds and grants, sixteen dating from the fourteenth- to sixteenth-centuries, relating to Silksworth, Durham	c.1313 to 1501	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,584.00
97	FLEMING (IAN)	The Man with the Golden Gun, UNCORRECTED PROOF, LIMITED TO 596 COPIES, Jonathan Cape, [1965, printed late 1964]	1965, printed late 1964	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,584.00
115	ROWLING (J.K.)	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, , SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Bloomsbury, [1999]	1999	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,328.00
88	WATSON (JAMES D.) AND FRANCIS H.C. CRICK et al.	'Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid', in , Vol. 171, No. 4356, [Macmillan & Co.], 1953 (2)	1953	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 3,072.00
22	VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE)	Oeuvres completes, 30 vol., Geneva, 1768-1777	1768-1777	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,816.00
49	GALL (JAMES)	The Gospel by St John for the Blind, FIRST EDITION, Edinburgh, James Gall, 1834	1834	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,816.00
56	FROISSART (JEAN)	[CHRONICLES] [Here Begynneth the Fyrst Volum [the thirde and fourthe boke]], Rycharde Pynson [28 Jan. 1523];[31 Aug. 1525]	1523-1525	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,816.00
72	WHISTLER (JAMES ABBOT MCNEILL)	Two autograph letters signed and with his butterfly device, with accompanying postcard, [1889-1891]	1889, 1890, 1891	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,816.00
117	ROWLING (J.K.)	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bloomsbury, 2000	2000	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,816.00
31	GILLRAY (JAMES)	The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, Henry G. Bohn, [c.1847]	c.1847	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,560.00
45		[The Holy Byble], [Christopher Barker, 1585]	1585	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,560.00
43		Bibles, dated 1590, 1582 and 1585; and another (4)	1582	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,432.00
58	GODWIN (WILLIAM)	An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, FIRST EDITION, 1793	1793	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,432.00

Swann
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
March 20, 2025

Swann
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
March 20, 2025

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
March 20, 2025

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000

Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR

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