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Cotswold Auction Company: Treasures in Boxes, Books & Household items

Auction Reports

Auction Name	Treasures in Boxes, Books & Household items	Total Sales (GBP)	1,090.94
Auction Date	May 10, 2026 - May 10, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	605.00
Sale Number	#9629	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	1,100.00
Total Lots	32
Sold Lots	27.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	695.00
% of Lots Sold	84.38%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	1,280.00
Unsold Lots	5	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	85.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2000		Large quantity of assorted volumes of classic novels to include the Tusitala works of Robert Louis	1888	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 206.08
2128		Five early 20th century photographs of prize winning sheep and one of a bull, all inscribed, to	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 167.44
2200		Two boxes of books on ancient civilisations including Egypt Civilisation in the Sands, Byzantine	N/A	GBP 10.00 - 20.00	GBP 96.60
2004	Edmond Dulac; Henry Mayhew; Lord Byron	Folio Society, Dulac, Edmond (ils) 'Perrault's Fairy Tales' in original slip jacket with Mayhew,	1817; 1846	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 70.84
2138	Ken Howard (b. 1932)	After Ken Howard (b. 1932) Lithograph 'The Battle of the Imjin River', South Korea, Drum Major	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 64.40
2012	Laurence Whistler; Gloag; Edward Knoblock; Ian McEwan; Ted Hughes	Whistler, Laurence 'Rex Whistler His Life and His Drawings' published in 1948, grey cloth, Gloag '	1948; 1984; 1987	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 51.52
2125	Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969)	After Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969) Print in colours "The Silver Mirror", signed in pencil	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 51.52
2007	Gustave Dore; W. Watts	Dore, Gustave (ils) 'The Fables of La Fontaine' Cassell Petter & Galpin, frontis portrait of Jean de	1830	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 45.08
2191		Handcoloured engraving of a map of Kent titled 'Cantivm/Quod Nunc Kent', double-sided, the reverse	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 45.08
2136	Giovanni B. Vieri	Giovanni B. Vieri (20th century) Lithograph in colours View of The Sanctuary of San Romedio,	84	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 38.64
2006	Thackeray; John Ruskin; Kate Greenaway; Rudyard Kipling; A.A. Milne; Mark Twain	The works of Thackeray published by Smith Elder & Co., green boards, gilt titles, seven volumes,	1896; 1926; 1930; 1931	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 30.91
2008	Henrietta Knight; Robin Oakley; Frankie Dettori; Walwyn; Judith Barczy Kelly; John Masefield; Cecil Aldin	Horse racing interest to include signed copies Henrietta Knight 'Starting From Scratch Inspired to	1996; 2000; 2013	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 23.18
2126	Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969)	After Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969) Print in colours 'Variations on a Theme', signed in	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 23.18
2001	Manson; R.N.D. Wilson; Charles Terrasse; Laurence Binyon	Folio Society to include Flora Thompson, Catherine Mansfield, and others, - art interest to	1897; 1932	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 19.32
2003	George Birmingham	Birmingham, George - a quantity to include 'Lieutenant Commander' Methuen & Co. 1944, dust	1908; 1943; 1944; 1946; 1950	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 19.32
2013	Cecil Alden; Anna Sewell; Lord Alfred Tennyson; Alberto Sangorski; Thomas Hood; Thomas Seccombe; Walter Crane; Roland Pimm	Alden, Cecil (ils) Sewell, Anna 'Black Beauty the Autobiography of a Horse' Boots the Chemist,	1927	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 19.32
2011	Frazer; Verity Q. Steele; Hugh Thomson; John Austen; Veronica Lucan; Dirk Bogarde; E. Dunne; H. Sutcliffe; Ethel Vance; Michael Arlen	Assorted volumes, to include Frazer 'The Golden Bough', Steele, Verity Q. 'The Book on Pekingese',	1920; 1931	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 15.46
2048		Quantity of vintage football programmes to include Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton 1970, 1969	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 15.46
2139	David Monk	Quantity of prints to include David Monk (20th century) screenprint, 'Backwater Ford, Allerton Park,	74; 1908	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 15.46
2005	Winston S Churchill; Barbara W Tuchman; Elizabeth Longford; Max Hastings; Simon Jenkins; Viscount Cunninghan of Hyndhope; N.A.M. Rodger; Eric Bush; Creswell; Robert Blake	Militaria and naval history - to include Churchill, Winston S volumes 1, 2 and 4 of 'A History of	1962; 1970	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.88
2127	Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969)	After Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969) Print in colours 'La Mairie, Manosque', signed in	N/A	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 12.88
2002	Reverend C.A. Johns; Peter Quennel; Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald; C.F. Tunnicliffe	Johns, Reverend C.A. 'Flowers of the Field' George Routledge 1911, fourth impression, colour	1909; 1911; 1949; 1960	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 7.73
2038		Small quantity of vintage cigarette cards and football cards (1 box)	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 30.00	GBP 7.73
2123	C. W. Bates	C. W. Bates Print "Afternoon Stroll", Venetian street view, 44cm x 60cm	N/A	GBP 15.00 - 20.00	GBP 7.73
2124	Henry Ryland (1856-1924)	After Henry Ryland (1856-1924) Giclee print on canvas "Aphrodite Offering Helen to Paris", 61cm x	N/A	GBP 20.00 - 40.00	GBP 7.73

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

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

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

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

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

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