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Auction Name	Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper	Total Sales (GBP)	84,742.96
Auction Date	April 25, 2024 - April 25, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	54,790.00
Sale Number	#2307	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	77,760.00
Total Lots	291
Sold Lots	257	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	64,040.00
% of Lots Sold	88.32%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	91,060.00
Unsold Lots	34	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	93.06%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
53	Cornelis Andre Vlaanderen	L'Europe en Sept 1939	1939	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 3,148.80
260	Giuseppe Tucci	Tibetan Painted Scrolls, ,	1949	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,890.00
278	Lady Isabella Fremantle	Original sketchbook album with 103 drawings from a trip from England to Spain, via Ireland, France and Italy	1866-1868	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,638.00
196	Publius Virgilius Maro	The Georgicks...with an English Translation and Notes. By John Martyn	1741	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	GBP 1,512.00
75	Thomas Fuller	The History of the Worthies of England,	1662s	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,386.00
202	Charles Johnstone	Johnstone (Charles) Chrysal: or, the Adventures of a Guinea, 4 vol., mixed edition	1766-67	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,386.00
217		Miscellania, or Interesting and Amusing Tales, 3 parts in 1	1814	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,386.00
187	Decimus Junius Juvenalis	Satires, translated by Barten Holyday	1673	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,134.00
148		Cambridgeshire, Kirtling.- Charter, grant by William le Huet of Coulyngg Cowlinge to Roger Kadde de Kertlingg Kirtling one piece of land in Kirtling	1316	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,049.60
16	Charles Booth	Life and Labour of the People in London,	1902	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,008.00
188	Thomas Traherne	Roman Forgeries or a True Account of False Records...of the Church of Rome	1673	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,008.00
31	Mohammed Iqbal	Poet of the East and Chughtai, text in English Urdu and Persian	1962	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 945.00
72	Rev. Daniel Lysons	The Environs of London,	1795-1800	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 945.00
128	Quintus Curtius Rufus	De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, regis Macedonum, libri superstites, edited by Henrik Snakenburg	1724	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 882.00
264	Edmund Sharpe	Original manuscript Supplement to "Architectural Parallels"	1848	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 882.00
111	Nicholas Culpeper	The English Physician Enlarged, Printed for the Booksellers	1799	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 819.00
201	John Lodge	The Peerage of Ireland, or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, 4 vol.	1754	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 819.00
235	Oliver Onions	Oliver Onions. Whom God Hath Sundered. A Trilogy,	1925	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 819.00
243	H. P. Lovecraft	The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror, first English edition	1951	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 819.00
57	John Speed	The Mape of Hungari...	1626 but c.1676	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 787.20
172	Charles Babbage	Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Madam"	1848, declining an invitation to dinner.	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 787.20
77	James Hardiman	The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway,	1820	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 756.00
95	Ralph Austen	A Treatise of Fruit-Trees, Shewing the manner of Grafting, Setting, Pruning, and Ordering of them in all respects...	1653	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 756.00
96	Philip Miller	The Abridgement of the Gardeners Dictionary, sixth edition, A.L.s from the author loosely inserted	1771	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 756.00
100	Stephen Robson	The British Flora	1777	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 756.00

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.
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

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