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Auction Name: Fine Books, Atlases & Manuscripts
Auction Date: 03/26/2026 - 03/26/2026
Sale Number: #32104
Total Lots: 169
Sold Lots: 145.0
Lots Sold: 85.80%
Unsold Lots: 24

Total Sales (GBP): 738,034.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 374,400.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 575,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 448,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 684,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 107.79%

Top twenty five by sale price

Top twenty five lots by sale price
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
143	ORWELL (GEORGE)	Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Secker & Warburg, 1945	1945	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 11,520.00
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
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
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
157	STOKER (BRAM)	Dracula, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Archibald Constable, 1897	1897	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 10,240.00

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