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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Motoring, Cycling, Maritime and Railway History - Books and Prints

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Auction Name Motoring, Cycling, Maritime and Railway History - Books and Prints Total Sales (GBP) 55,740.78
Auction Date November 07, 2017 - November 07, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 30,370.00
Sale Number #110717 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 45,910.00
Total Lots 304
Sold Lots 243 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 38,280.00
% of Lots Sold 79.93% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 57,420.00
Unsold Lots 61 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 97.08%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
125

An Album of Historic Racing Postcards. 153 postcards, depicting for the most part pre-1914 publicity images of period racing cars either in repose or racing at speed.

 pre-1914 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,151.00
319

1924 Bentley Le Mans Victory.

 1924 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,792.50
239

The Autocar, Volumes 26, 27, 29 & 30

 1911-1913 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,553.50
318

1921 Bentley Three Litre.

1921 GBP 400.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,553.50
267

The Sports Car - The M.G. Owners" Magazine.

1935-1939 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,314.50
107

The Light Car (Iliffe & Sons Limited). A good quantity of loose issues of this very rare weekly motoring journal,

 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,123.30
268

Motor Sport. A complete hardbound run

 1924-1939 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,075.50
121 Géo Ham (Georges Hamel 1900-1972)

* 1955 24-Heures Le Mans Poster. A poster advertising the "11-12 Juin 1955 Le Mans" race,

1955 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,027.70
97

* Glass Plate Negatives. Held in nine stiff whole-plate boxes, they all represent pre-1910 competition motoring and speed trials.

 GBP 350.00 - 550.00 GBP 979.90
433

Cycle Catalogues. A collection of assorted brochures,

 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 884.30
438

Cycling Postcards. An album of approximately 300 postcards.

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 836.50
320

1925 Bentley Three Litre.

 1925 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 764.80
333

Automotor Journal. A complete bound Volume IV (October 1899 to Sep 1900),

 1899-1900 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 645.30
307

1928 Bentley 4 1/2-Litre.

 1928 GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 597.50
98

The Motor. 25 loose copies of the weekly magazine, mostly with their covers/advertisements,

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 573.60
96

* London to Brighton Run. A selection of VCC dinner menus from 1946,

 1946, GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 549.70
148

AC Brochures. A 1923 monochrome illustrated brochure with 30pp and a sepia illustrated front card cover.

 1923 GBP 130.00 - 160.00 GBP 549.70
271

The Automobile Engineer: A Technical Journal Devoted to the Theory and Practice of Automobile Construction.

1910 to 1920 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 549.70
427

Bicycle Photographs. A group of approximately 70 photographs featuring bicycles, late 19th and early 20th century,

 19th and early 20th century, GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 549.70
432

* Manufacturers" Letters & Receipts. A folder containing an assortment of material,

 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 525.80
435

* Edwardian & Later Photographs. About 130 photographs of various sizes and categories,

 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 525.80
192

* 1903 International Motorcycle Meeting held at Canning Town, London on July 19th.

 1903 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 501.90
347 Wimpffen (Janos L).

Open Roads & Frontengines, World Championship Sports Car Racing in Photographs, 1953-1961,

2005 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 501.90
112

The Automotor Journal, Vol. 13, January to June, 1908. A single quarto hardback volume of this "Illustrated Weekly Journal", sub-titled "A Record and Review of Applied Automatic Locomotion", in the F. King & Co. publisher's mustard-coloured cloth bi

 1908 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 478.00
199

Grand Album Illustre de L'Industrie Automobile.

1900, 1901 and 1902 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 478.00
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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