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Auction Date
January 22, 2026 - January 22, 2026
Page Size: 306 items in 13 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76

Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ...,

1743 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
77 [Dodsley (Robert)]

The Oeconomy of Human Life,

1751 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 228.60
78 [Collier (Jane)]

An Essay on the Art of ingenious Tormenting, engraved frontispiece,

1753 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,159.00
79 Addison (Joseph)

The Works ...,

Birmingham, 1761 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
80

Theatre Playbill.- [Collection of 26 theatre playbills],

1904 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 406.40
81 Abbott (Lemuel)

Poems on Various Subjects,

Nottingham, 1765. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 76.20
82 Johnson (Samuel)

A Dictionary of the English Language...,

1766 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
83 Johnson (Samuel)

The Works of the English Poets,

1779-81. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 304.80
84 Johnson (Samuel)

The Beauties of Johnson,

1781 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 635.00
85 Comenius (Johann Amos)

Orbis Sensualium pictus...Joh. Amos Comenius's Visible World: or, A Nomenclature, and Pictures, of all the Chief Things that are in the World,

1777 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 304.80
86 Hanway (Jonas)

Distributive Justice and Mercy: Shewing, that a temporary real Solitary Imprisonment of Convicts, ...

 1781 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
87 [Williams (David)]

Royal Recollections on a Tour to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, and places adjacent,

1788 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
88

Playbill.- At the Theatre in Peterborough. On Thursday Evening June the 16th, 1789, will be presented a Tragedy called Hamlet Prince of Denmark...To which will be presented an entire New Pantomime...Vulcan's Force,

Peterborough 1789 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 57.15
89

Playbill, Hiring fair.- New Theatre Coventry. On Thursday evening June 3d, 1790,

[Coventry], 1790. GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
90

Animal welfare, Gloucester copy.- The Hare; or, hunting incompatible with humanity: written as a stimulus to youth towards a proper treatment of animals,

1799. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 381.00
91

Monthly Army List (The),

1800-05 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
92

Resolutions of the Irish Parliament (The), as Amended by the Parliament of Great Britain,

1801 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 50.80
93 Smith (Adam)

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,

1802 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,397.00
94 Hays (Mary)

Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women,

1803 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
95 Byron (Lord) Davies (Thomas)

Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, Esq.,

1808 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 698.50
96 Cooper (Capt. T.H.)

The Military Cabinet, being a collection of extracts from the best authors...,

1809 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 120.65
97 Ackermann (Rudolph)

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce,

1809-10 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 584.20
98 Ames (Joseph), William Herbert and Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin.

Typographical Antiquities; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland,

1810-19. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 698.50
99 [Edwards (Richard)]

Edwards' Genuine Edition. "The Book!" or the Proceedings and Correspondence upon the subject of the Inquiry into ... the Princess of Wales, previous owner's ink signatures to title and front pastedown,

1813 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 254.00
100 Dibdin (Rev. Thomas Frognall)

Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or A Descriptive Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century...in the Library of George John Earl Spenser,

1814-15 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 584.20