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The copy of Jules Verne’s 'Around the World in Eighty Days' that sold for £2800 at Catherine Southon.

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This 1873, first English edition was bid to what would seem to be an auction record £2800 by Jonkers Rare Books.

A copy of JT ‘Antiquity’ Smith’s Ancient Topography of London of 1815 bearing the signature of one of George III’s daughters, Princess Elizabeth, was sold at £220 – again to Jonkers.