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Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Avenue Auction | Total Sales (GBP) | 5,219.50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 12, 2026 - May 12, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 2,790.00 |
| Sale Number | #51226 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 4,910.00 |
| Total Lots | 95 | ||
| Sold Lots | 58.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 4,530.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 61.05% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 7,880.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 37 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 66.24% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 687 | John Speede | Map of Oxfordshire and Oxford; Cowley's map of Surrey |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 572.00 |
| 762 | Edward Coley Burne-Jones | THE FLOWER BOOK |
1905 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 494.00 |
| 210 | A Large Enamelled Advertising Sign; 'Usher's, The Court Luncheon Ale' |
N/A | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 364.00 | |
| 642 | Jack Butler Yeats; Pamela Colman Smith | A Broad Sheet |
1902 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 338.00 |
| 613 | Two Tank Booklets |
1944 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 247.00 | |
| 695 | Raymond Ching b.1939 | Short-eared Owl...Plate No. 67 |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | GBP 221.00 |
| 597 | WWII Airgraphs and Aerogrammes |
1890 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 169.00 | |
| 627 | Album of Mesopotamia and Indian Postcards |
1914 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 169.00 | |
| 648 | Rena Gardiner | DORSET: THE ISLE OF PURBECK; DORSET: THE EAST WINTERBORNE VALLEY |
1969; 1968 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 169.00 |
| 673 | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; The Old Curiosity Shop |
1910 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 156.00 |
| 657 | Andree Levinson | Bakst the Story of the Artist Life |
1923 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 130.00 |
| 605 | Stamps: A Quantity of Various Railway First Day Covers |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 117.00 | |
| 626 | An Autograph Album |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 104.00 | |
| 646 | Walt Disney | WALT DISNEY'S SKETCH BOOK of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS |
1938 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 91.00 |
| 647 | John Betjeman | HIGH AND LOW |
1966 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 78.00 |
| 536 | A Collection of 19th Century Ambrotype Photographs |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
| 629 | A Collection of Early 20th Century Postcards |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
| 643 | NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON TO NEW GUINEA |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 60.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
| 665 | W. Earl Hodgson | Salmon Fishing |
1906 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 669 | F.O. Morris | A History of British Birds |
N/A | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 730 | John Liddell (1924-2005) | St Basil's, Moscow |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 761 | Oudart; Reinold; W Pether | A COLLECTION OF BIRD PRINTS AFTER OUDART AND REINOLD |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 65.00 |
| 675 | A Collection of Books |
N/A | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 58.50 | |
| 623 | An Edwardian Album of Postcards |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 52.00 | |
| 652 | Charles H Calvert | HISTORY OF SOUTHERN & CENTRAL AFRICA |
1879 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 52.00 |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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 -
