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Auction Name	Weekly Featuring Books	Total Sales (GBP)	1,750.00
Auction Date	April 29, 2024 - April 29, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	920.00
Sale Number	#42924	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	1,330.00
Total Lots	17
Sold Lots	14	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	1,120.00
% of Lots Sold	82.35%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	1,610.00
Unsold Lots	3	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	108.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
532		Eighteen Chinese Government Gold Loan bonds, 1913	1913	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 475.00
753	Toyohara Kunichika	Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), Japanese woodblock print, Actor in a Kabuki role, details verso, 36 x 24cm		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 300.00
653	David Roberts RA	six colour lithographs, including 'Part of the ruins of a temple on the island of Bigge', Nubia, and 'Entrance to the Caves of Beni Hussam',	1856	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 237.50
754	Utagawa Hiroshige	Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese woodblock print, Nihonbashi, 36 x 24cm		GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 162.50
685	George Virtue for William Perry,	coloured engraving, A view of Penshurst Place in the county of Kent		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 100.00
125		A quantity of assorted books, architecture and history		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 75.00
478		A James Bond 007 Live and Let Die framed original film lobby card, colour lithograph	1973	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 75.00
688	John Speed	hand coloured map of Merionethshire,	sold by George Humble	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 68.75
736	Christopher Saxton and Robert Vaughan,	hand-coloured map of Brecknoc (Brecknockshire),	1607	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 68.75
120		A quantity of assorted books, mainly architecture		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 62.50
387		An opera silk programme The Australian Ballet Royal Gala - Maina Gielgud's production of The Sleeping Beauty	1988	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 37.50
660	Robert Morden	hand coloured map of Hampshire		GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 37.50
490		Seven autographed autobiographies - professional footballers		GBP 30.00 - 40.00	GBP 25.00
491		Yvonne Nicholls, a portfolio of paintings/sketches		GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 25.00

Sotheby’s
Modern First Editions
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD

Sotheby’s
Modern First Editions
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Gates, Bill, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, N Y: Knopf, 2021; first edition, with a handwritten note from Bill Gates

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Something Happened, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, first edition, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, London: John Murray, 1818, in four volumes
Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
London auction, 11 June
BROWSE NOW

Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN THE BAL FIRST BINDING. $12,000 - $18,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 6: PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY in wrappers. SIGNED BY PUZO. $3,000 - $5,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HUGHES, Langston. Scottsboro Limited. 1932. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN. $6,000 - $8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 7: HOMANN, Johann Baptist, HOMANN HEIRS, and Georg Matthäus SEUTTER. [Composite Atlas]. [maps dated between 1728-1765]. $30,000 - $40,000.

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