Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper | Total Sales (GBP) | 718,993.80 |
| Auction Date | March 27, 2025 - March 27, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 294,300.00 |
| Sale Number | #1164 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 423,400.00 |
| Total Lots | 271 | ||
| Sold Lots | 208.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 557,050.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 76.75% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 796,700.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 63 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 90.25% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107A | [Bronte (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell" | Villette |
1853 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 126,000.00 |
| 53 | Bronte (Emily) | The North Wind |
[1842] | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 40,320.00 |
| 62 | Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) | Titanic.- Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother |
April 11th 1912 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 37,800.00 |
| 95 | [Austen (Jane)] | Emma: A Novel |
1816 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 23,940.00 |
| 183 | Hornby (C.H.St.John) | Ashendene Press.- A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV |
1935 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 23,940.00 |
| 170 | Ovid | Picasso (Pablo).- Les Metamorphoses |
1931 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 18,900.00 |
| 139 | Tolkien (J.R.R.) | The Hobbit; or There and Back Again |
1937 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 13,860.00 |
| 98 | Austen (Jane) | Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |
1818 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 11,970.00 |
| 181 | Wilde (Oscar) | Ashendene Press.- The Young King and Other Tales |
1924 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 192 | Chaucer (Geoffrey) | Golden Cockerel Press.- The Canterbury Tales |
1929-31 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 52 | Bronte [formerly Prunty, Brunty] (Patrick, Church of England clergyman and author, 1777-1861) | Seal ring, oval orange hardstone (?carnelian) |
n.d. [c. 1840] | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 9,450.00 |
| 97 | [Austen (Jane)] | Pride and Prejudice: A Novel |
1817 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 9,450.00 |
| 204 | Froissart (Sir John) | Shakespeare Head Press.- Froissarts Cronycles... |
1927-28 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
| 105 | Dumas (Alexander) | The Count of Monte-Cristo |
1846 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 |
| 55 | Bronte [married name Nicholls] (Charlotte [pseud. Currer Bell], novelist, 1816-1855) | Lock of Charlotte Bronte's hair, given by Charlotte's friend Ellen Nussey to be shared between Lady Morrison and Genevieve Wigfall, housed in an envelope "A part of a lock of hair of Charlotte Bronte's given to me by Miss Ellen Nussey April, 1889 |
1889 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 96 | [Austen (Jane)] | Mansfield Park: A Novel |
1816 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 219 | Nichol (Andrew) | Irish railway.- Five Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway...with a description of this important national work |
1834 [text dated 20th October at end & plates dated October, 1834] | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 |
| 76 | Eastlake (Sir Charles Lock) | Rothschild (Lionel de).- Pictures in the National Gallery London... |
[c.1899] | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 94 | [Austen (Jane)] | Sense and Sensibility: A Novel |
1813 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 223 | Mendel (Gregor) | Experiments in Plant Hybridisation |
[1901] | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 60 | England (Edward Lutwyche, army officer serving with Col Evelyn Wood's column, later Major-General, d. 1910) | Rorke's Drift.- Autograph Letter signed to his sister Frances Catherine England |
28th January [1879] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 6,048.00 |
| 126 | Fleming (Ian) | Casino Royale |
1953 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 6,048.00 |
| 123 | Du Maurier (Daphne) | The Selected Works... |
1972 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 125 | Flaubert (Gustave) | Madame Bovary |
1886 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
| 167 | Bateman (Henry Mayo) | Cigar smoking, a series of nine vignettes |
1920 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 |
