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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Printed Books, Maps and Documents

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Auction Name	Printed Books, Maps and Documents	Total Sales (GBP)	252,515.56
Auction Date	May 14, 2025 - May 14, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	117,680.00
Sale Number	#51425	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	177,620.00
Total Lots	523
Sold Lots	445.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	141,350.00
% of Lots Sold	85.09%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	212,620.00
Unsold Lots	78	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	118.76%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
102	Drayton (Michael).	Poly Olbion. or A Chorographical Description of the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine,	1622	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,880.00
67	Shackleton (Ernest).	The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 2 volumes	1909	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,148.00
231	Ortelius (Abraham),	World. Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]	1598	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,148.00
299		Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues: ...	1613]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,148.00
72		The London and China Telegraph, 6 Volumes XXII-XXVII, numbers 862-1165, March 6th 1880- December 29th, 1885,	1880-1885	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 3,904.00
407		Bookplates. An album of approximately 550 bookplates, mostly 18th-century	18th-century	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 3,665.60
20		Company School. An album of fifty-eight Indian mica paintings, including birds, figures, palanquin bearers, horses, etc.,	circa 1850	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,660.00
79	Fauvel (Albert-Auguste).	Unpublished Documents on the History of the Seychelles Islands anterior to 1810 together with a Cartography enumerating 94 ancient maps and plans dating from 1501, ...	1909	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 3,416.00
508	Hamley (Lieut.-Col. E. Bruce).	The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, written in the camp,	1855	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 3,416.00
419		German and Austrian Bookplates. A collection of 300 ex-libris, late 19th and early 20th century	late 19th and early 20th century,	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,780.80
521	Trotter (Thomas).	An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkeness, and its effects on the human body,	1804	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 2,562.00
91	Seychelles. Hobbs (S. B.),	Map of the Island of Mahe, Seychelles. Made in Accordance with Ordnance No. 7 of 1898.		GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 2,318.00
184	Wyld (James),	Map of India Constructed with Great Care and Research from all the Latest Authorities and Intended more Particularly to Facilitate a Reference to the Civil and Military Stations.	1843	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,318.00
422		German Bookplates. A collection of approximately 180 ex-libris by German artists, mostly early 20th-century	early 20th-century	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 2,148.80
409		British Armorial Bookplates. A collection of approximately 430 ex-libris, 17th-19th century	17th-19th century,	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,074.00
305	Taylor (John).	All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet. Beeing Sixty and three in Number.	1630	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,952.00
369	Ramsden (Jesse).	Description of an Engine for Dividing Mathematical Instruments	1777	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,952.00
510		Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae, Birmingham, 1772	1772	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,952.00
12	Bruce (James).	Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 5 volumes,	1790	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,830.00
298		Bible [English]. A selection of leaves from [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New...,	1611 or 1613]	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,830.00
302	[Nausea, Friedrich].	A Treatise of Blazing Starres in Generall. As well supernaturall as naturall: To what Countries or people soever they appeare in the spacious world	1618	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,830.00
5	Barbault (Jean).	Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne	1761	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,708.00
230	Maffei (Giovanni),	World. Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589	1589	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,708.00
528		John Murray, publisher. A Handbook for Travellers in India Burma and Ceylon	1935	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,708.00
29		Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes	1743	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,586.00

Sotheby’s
Year in Review

Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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