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Auction Name	Weekly Featuring Books	Total Sales (GBP)	35,075.00
Auction Date	March 25, 2024 - March 25, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	20,770.00
Sale Number	#250324	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	30,130.00
Total Lots	109
Sold Lots	100	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	22,740.00
% of Lots Sold	91.74%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	32,790.00
Unsold Lots	9	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	106.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
339	Wheeler, J. Talboys	The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, held on the 1st January, 1877, to celebrate the assumption of the title of Empress of India by Her Majesty the Queen.	1877	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,000.00
334	Rivers, Elizabeth	This Man: A Sequence of Wood-Engravings, number 89 of 200 on Corinthian Fine Text paper,	1939	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 2,375.00
259		The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India ...	1834-40	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 1,750.00
265	Malory, Sir Thomas	Le Morte Darthur. By Syr Thomas Malory. The original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited by H. Oskar Sommer....	1889-1901	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	GBP 1,500.00
312	Joyce, James	Ulysses	1936	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 1,375.00
271	McCallum, J.L (M.A. I. C.S)	Five early 20th century albums of black and white photographs, mostly covering the career of J. L. McCallum,...	early 20th century	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 1,187.50
335	Brangwyn, Frank and Yoshijiro Urushibara	Ten Woodcuts. Cut and printed in Colour by Yoshijiro Urushibara after designs by Frank Brangwyn	1924	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,000.00
287	Rowling, J.K	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	1999	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 812.50
285		(The Bible:....With....Annotations...) New Testament pictorial engraved title, OT.	1603)	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 750.00
288	Rowling, J.K	[The Harry Potter Gift Set], First Deluxe Editions of the First Four Books,	1999-2000	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 750.00
314	Lawrence, T.E, Woolley, C.L and Hogarth, D.G (intro)	Carchemish. Report on the Excavations at Djerabis on behalf of the British Museum, conducted by C. Leonard Woolley MA and TE Lawrence, Part I,	1914	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 750.00
331	Whitehead, John	Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo...	1893	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 687.50
268	Sebastian Evans. Jessie M. King	The High History of the Holy Graal.	1903	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 625.00
299	Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.	2000	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 600.00
261	Russell, William Howard	The Prince Of Wales' Tour: a diary in India; with some account of the visits ... to the courts of the Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal.	1877	GBP 160.00 - 200.00	GBP 550.00
263	Caine, W.S.	Picturesque India.		GBP 140.00 - 180.00	GBP 525.00
298	[Malet, Lady Marianne Dora]	Violet; or, The Danseuse: a Portraiture of Human Passions and Character	1836	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 500.00
318	Orme, Robert	A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the year MDCCXLV...		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 475.00
323	Hawking, Stephen	A Brief History of Time,	1995	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 475.00
350	John Wisden	John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack for 1912, edited by Sydney H. Pardon	1912	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 475.00
281		La Sainte Bible...edition nouvelle....reveue, and corrigee; enrichie, outre les anciennes notes, de toutes celles de la Bible Flammande....	1669	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 450.00
283	Craddock, Harry	The Savoy Cocktail Book....	1930	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 450.00
303	Wodehouse, P.G.	Company for Henry.	1967	GBP 160.00 - 200.00	GBP 425.00
286	Roberts, David	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea and Arabia.	2010	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 400.00
310	Austen, Jane	Emma.	1898	GBP 220.00 - 280.00	GBP 400.00

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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

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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
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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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