Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern, L25404, London

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025

Page Size: 161 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
127	William Morris	Kelmscott Press--William Morris \| The Earthly Paradise, 8 volumes, 1896-97	1896-97	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 10,795.00
128	William Morris, Coleridge	Kelmscott Press--Two Works \| William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason, and Poems ... of Coleridge, 1895-96	1895-96	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 10,160.00
129	Mao Zedong	Mao Zedong \| Typed letter signed, also signed by Zhu De, to Clement Attlee, on international solidarity, 1 November 1937	1937-11-01	GBP 300,000.00 - 500,000.00	Not Sold
130	Mao Zedong	Mao Zedong \| Autograph manuscript notes on poetry, 1975, with related material	1975	GBP 400,000.00 - 600,000.00	Not Sold
131	Sir Alfred Milner	Sir Alfred Milner \| Series of c.120 letters to Lady Violet Cecil, a revealing correspondence on public affairs, 1898-1920	1898-1920	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
132	John Milton	John Milton \| Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd. Cresset Press, 1931, in a jewelled binding	1931	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 21,590.00
133	Alfred de Musset	Alfred de Musset \| Les Nuits. 1929, one of 10 copies on sycamore		GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
134		Poetry \| A collection of autograph manuscript poems and prose extracts, 1986	1986	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 9,525.00
135	J.K. Rowling	J.K. Rowling \| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue	1997	GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00	GBP 69,850.00
136	J.K. Rowling	J.K. Rowling \| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, paperback issue	1997	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 6,985.00
137	Ronald Searle	Ronald Searle \| 6 pen and ink illustrations for The Terror of St Trinian's, framed		GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 21,590.00
138	E. H. Shepard	E. H. Shepard \| Pooh & Piglet, pencil drawing, 1931	1931	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 6,985.00
139	A. Szyk, C. Roth	A. Szyk, C. Roth \| The Haggadah, [1940], number 101 of 125 vellum copies signed by Szyk and Roth	1940	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 10,795.00
140	Francis Thompson	Francis Thompson \| A collection of autograph draft manuscripts of poems and translations, 1890s	1890s	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
141	J.R.R. Tolkien	J.R.R. Tolkien \| Autograph letter signed, to Amy Ronald, on Pauline Baynes's map of Middle Earth, 1970	1970	GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 9,525.00
142	Christian Zervos	Christian Zervos \| Pablo Picasso, OEuvres, 1949-1986, 34 volumes, the monumental catalogue raisonne	1949-1986	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 16,510.00
143	Michael William Balfe	Michael William Balfe \| Autograph score of the Fantasia in E for horn and orchestra, 1841	1841	GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	GBP 3,810.00
144	Vincenzo Bellini	Vincenzo Bellini \| Two autograph sketchleaves for "Norma", 1831, apparently unpublished	1831	GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
145	Vincenzo Bellini	Vincenzo Bellini \| Autograph manuscript of part of "Beatrice di Tenda", c.1833, apparently unpublished	c.1833	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
146	Hector Berlioz	Hector Berlioz \| Three autograph letters signed, to E. Plouvier, H. Schlesinger, and H. Ferrand, 1857-1864	1857-1864	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 1,270.00
147	Gaetano Donizetti	Gaetano Donizetti \| Autograph scena for Settimio from "L'esule di Roma", [1828], unrecorded and unpublished	1828	GBP 18,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 20,320.00
148	Gaetano Donizetti	Gaetano Donizetti \| Autograph manuscript of the aria 'Io talor piu nol rammento' from "Sancia di Castiglia", 1832, unpublished in a modern edition	1832	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
149	Charles Gounod	Charles Gounod \| Autograph manuscript full score of the incidental music to "Jeanne d'Arc", 1873	1873	GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	Not Sold
150	Charles Gounod	Charles Gounod \| Autograph manuscript full score of the incidental music "Le Songe d'Auguste", 1853, UNPUBLISHED	1853	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 16,510.00
151	Charles Gounod	Charles Gounod \| Contemporary manuscript of the revised version of the opera "Cinq-Mars" [1877]	[1877	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 3,302.00

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