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Tooveys: Antiquarian and Collectors' Books

Auction Reports

Auction Name Antiquarian and Collectors' Books Total Sales (GBP) 42,200.00
Auction Date April 01, 2026 - April 01, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 21,560.00
Sale Number #40126 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 33,790.00
Total Lots 209
Sold Lots 187.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 23,660.00
% of Lots Sold 89.47% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 37,410.00
Unsold Lots 22 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 112.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3009 SHELLEY, Mary.

Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.

1849 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,000.00
3080 [Fanny PARKES.]

Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, During Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana.

1850 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,875.00
3011 CHRISTIE, Agatha.

The Secret of Chimneys.

1925 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,750.00
3069

MANUSCRIPT. Notes Collected while attending The Artillery Depot of Instruction at Kirkee…[by]…Director of the Depot.

1860-1861. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,375.00
3124 CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.

A Chronological Description of the most Noble Achievements of his Most Sacred Majesty William the III. King of Great Britain, France and Ireland.

1696 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,375.00
3046 COLLINS, Wilkie.

The Moonstone. A Romance.

1868 GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 GBP 1,250.00
3042 MAUND, Benjamin.

The Botanist; containing Accurately Coloured Figures, of Tender and Hardy Ornamental Plants.

[1837-1846.] GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 875.00
3161

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: And with the former Translations diligently compared and revised.

1620 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 875.00
3204 Clifford Henry MECHAM.

Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow. From Drawings Made During the Siege.

1858 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 750.00
3117 WISDEN, John (publisher).

Cricketer’s Almanack.

1928-2022. GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 687.50
3181 OVIDIUS, Naso (Publius).George Sandys (translator).

Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G.S.

1626 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 687.50
3067 William CAMDEN.

Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland… Revised, Digested, and Published, with Large Additions, by Edmund Gibson.

[circa 1730.] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 650.00
3007 Helena Petrovna BLAVATSKY.

The Key to Theosophy.

[1889.] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 625.00
3035 William JACKSON.

The New and Complete Newgate Calendar, or Malefactors’ Universal Register.

[circa 1818.] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 625.00
3062 TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

The Lord of the Rings.

1965-1966. GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 625.00
3040 FASHION.

Le Beau Monde; or, Literary and Fashionable Magazine.

Nov 1806-Jan 1809. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 600.00
3089 DICKENS, Charles.

A Christmas Carol, in Prose.

1905 GBP 60.00 - 90.00 GBP 600.00
3120

Kelly’s Directory of Worthing and Neighbourhood.

1960-1975. GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 600.00
3008 GRATIAN.

[Decretum Gratiani.] Decreti huius plenissimum argumentum.

1516 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 575.00
3010 POE, Edgar Allan.

[The Purloined Letter.] The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present.

1845 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 562.50
3079 BURTON, Richard F.

The Book of the Sword.

1884 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 550.00
3166 [Joseph HASELWOOD.] Roach’s Authentic Memoirs of the Green Room, Containing the Lives of all the Performers of the Theatres Royal.

London: by J.

10th February 1796. GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 550.00
3109

TV 21 Century.

January 23 2065 [1965] January 14 2067 [1967]. GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 500.00
3144 Drill and Rifle Instruction for the Corps of Rifle Volunteers.

London: for H.M.S.O by W.

1860 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 500.00
3052 [VERSTEGAN, Richard.

Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum Nostri Temporis.

circa 1590.] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 475.00
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    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
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    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000