A spread from a 1516 first of Nova Legenda Angliae, sold at £7500 in Cambridge.
A plate from the 1712 edition of Caesar’s Commentaries sold by Cheffins at £6500.
A letter of 1803 in which George III, writing to Lord Hawkesbury, effectively declares his intention to renew war on France, was at £9000 one of the more successful lots in a recent Cambridge sale that produced its fair share of surprise results.