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Auction Name Fine Books, Atlases & Manuscripts Total Sales (GBP) 738,034.40
Auction Date March 26, 2026 - March 26, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 374,400.00
Sale Number #32104 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 575,200.00
Total Lots 169
Sold Lots 145.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 448,500.00
% of Lots Sold 85.80% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 684,700.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 107.79%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
148 ROWLING (J.K.)

COMPLETE SET OF THE SEVEN HARRY POTTER NOVELS, ALL HARDBACK FIRST EDITIONS AND ALL WITH SIGNATURES OF J.K. ROWLING, Bloomsbury, 1997-2007 (7)

1997-2007 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 114,700.00
156 SHEPARD (E.H.)

'The Kangaroo Jump', original drawing for Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), [c.1926]

c.1926 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 38,400.00
72 AUSTEN (JANE)

Autograph cut signature and address, in an album with Austen family provenance, [late eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century]

late eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 28,160.00
163 TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)

[The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, George Allen & Unwin, [1954-1955]

1954-1955 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 25,600.00
59 HAWKING (STEPHEN)

Autograph letter to Alan Deyermond, [July 1969]; with associated material

1969 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 23,040.00
22 Henry Wayland Powell

Autograph eye-witness account by Henry Wayland Powell, Captain & Lieutenant First Regiment Foot Guards, 20 June 1815

20 June 1815 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 16,640.00
52 ANNING (MARY)

Autograph fragment signed, mentioning fossils, [n.p., n.d.],

n.d., GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 15,360.00
86 [STATHAM (NICHOLAS)]

Abridgment of Cases, FIRST EDITION, [Rouen], Guillaume Le Talleur, for Richard Pynson, [c.1488-90]

c.1488-90 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,360.00
114 GREENE (GRAHAM)

[Works], 14 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, 1929-1980; and 5 others by Evelyn Waugh and Kipling

1929-1980 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 15,360.00
21 Charles Wood,

Collection of over 180 letters from Lt. Col. Charles Wood, 10th Hussars, to his brother Col. Tom Wood, 1809-1826

1809-1826 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 14,080.00
102 FLEMING (IAN)

Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST ISSUE, with cut signature of author, Cape, [1953]

1953 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 14,080.00
152 EDWARD (PRINCE OF WALES)

Series of thirteen autograph letters signed, to Sir Henry Launcelot Aubrey-Fletcher, September 1914 to March 1915

September 1914 to March 1915 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 14,080.00
43 MERCATOR (GERARD)

Italiae, Sclavoniae, et Graeciae tabulae geographicae; Galliae tabule geographicae; Belgii in ferioris geographichae tabule; Germaniae tabule geographicae, 4 parts in 1 vol., [Duisburg, 1595]

1595 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 12,800.00
113 GOODEN (STEPHEN) - Aesop

Aesop's Fables, 8 copies on vellum, Sangorski binding, 1936

1936 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 12,160.00
101 DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)

The Sign of Four, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Spencer Blackett, 1890

1890 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 11,520.00
143 ORWELL (GEORGE)

Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Secker & Warburg, 1945

1945 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 11,520.00
23 Charles Wood

Series of eleven letters from Lt. Col. Charles Wood, 10th Hussars, May to July 1815

May to July 1815 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 10,880.00
162 TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit or There and Back Again, THIRD EDITION, BOOK CLUB EDITION, The Children's Book Club, [1942]

1942 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 10,880.00
157 STOKER (BRAM)

Dracula, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Archibald Constable, 1897

1897 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
161 TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, George Allen & Unwin, [1937, but 1938]

1937, but 1938 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
168

Archive of "Confidential" operational instructions, "Top Secret" maps, and aerial photographs relating to Operation Neptune, sold as an archive

N/A GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 9,600.00
65 ROTHSCHILD (LIONEL WALTER)

The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 250 COPIES], 1893-1900

1893-1900 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,960.00
105 FLEMING (IAN)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 122 OF 250 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Jonathan Cape, 1963

1963 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,320.00
112 ERIC GILL

. The Four Gospels, 500 COPIES, ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY GILL 1931

1931 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,320.00
1 JOHN SOANE

View of the Proposed Hall at Wotton House, [1820]

1820 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,680.00