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Chiswick Auctions: Printed Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Printed Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (GBP) 52,235.10
Auction Date July 26, 2017 - July 26, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 29,260.00
Sale Number #72617 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 44,910.00
Total Lots 281
Sold Lots 222 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 38,040.00
% of Lots Sold 79.00% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 58,010.00
Unsold Lots 59 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 90.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44, illustrator) - Jonathan SWIFT (1667-1745).

Gulliver's Travels.

1930 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,175.00
198 [CROZAT, Joseph Antoine, Marquis de Tugny (1665-1740)].

Recueil d’Estampes d’Apres le plus Beaux Tableaux et d'après les plus Beaux Desseins qui Sont en France.

1729 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,968.50
241 THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863).

Two tipped-in original caricature ink drawings for “Vanity Fair”, From The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray.

1879-1886. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,651.00
143 LENNON, John (1940-80).

An album page or clipped page from a larger sheet SIGNED by Lennon with the inscription 'Mojom M' in between the 'Mojom' and 'M' Lennon has drawn a smiley face.

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,524.00
2 MAZZINELLI, Alessandro (1671-1741).

Officio della B V Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno… Dedicato alli Gloriosissimi Santi Gioacchino, ed Anna.

1756 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,397.00
49 NELSON, Horatio (1758-1805).

A clipped signature SIGNED 'Nelson Bronte', pasted onto a engraving of Nelson.

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 1,270.00
150

CARY's New Celestial Globe In which are correctly laid down upwards of 3500 stars selected from the most accurate observations and calculated for the year 1800.

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,016.00
176 INDIA - EYRE, Sir Vincent, Lieut (1811-1881).

Prison sketches: comprising portraits of the Cabul prisoners and other subjects.

n.d. but c.1840s. GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,016.00
60 GREGYNOG PRESS - Colin SEE-PAYNTON (b. 1946).

Of a Feather. Avian Collective Nouns & Terms of Assembly, Group Names & Associated Terms ...

2008 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 889.00
293

THE VESTA TILLEY COLLECTION.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 889.00
57 WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44) - EPHEMERA & printed material.

In Aid of the Royal Northern Hospital. @The Four Georges Loan Exhibition of Pictures (Gainsborough, Reynolds etc:) and Furniture of these 4 Reigns. @Open Daily 11 till 7. @Sundays Included. A large London Underground poster lithographed in colours by Vinc

 c. 1930, or later GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 825.50
204

GENEVA BIBLE. 1) The Bible. And 2) The Whole Book of Psalms

 1589. 1591 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 825.50
229

J.& R. M. Wood's Typographic Advertiser.

1862-68. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 825.50
170

Bacon's New Large-Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs with Supplementary Maps, Letterpress Descriptions, and Alphabetical Index.

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 762.00
134

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM - Signatures including: Stewart Granger, Charles Dance, Ann Blyth, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, …

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 660.40
179 WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850).

The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth.

1820 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 635.00
9 POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000).

A Buyer's Market.

1952 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 533.40
89 Prince Charles (1948-) and Princess Diana (1961-97).

A Christmas card dedicated to 'Eugenie' inscribed: 'and lots of love from Charles and Diana', with a picture of Charles, Diana, Princes William and Harry, incorporated in the card.

 Not Available GBP 533.40
207 DE BRITO, Bernardo (1569-1617).

Monarchia Lvsytana.

1632-1690. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 533.40
210

Original Leaves from Famous European Books; Original Leaves from Famous English Books.

n.d.. GBP 100.00 - 250.00 GBP 533.40
1 WILDE, Oscar (1854–1900).

The Importance of Being Earnest.

1899 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 508.00
48 DALI, Salvador (1904-89).

An album page SIGNED and dated 1950.

 1950 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 508.00
54 WHISTLER, Rex (1904-44, illustrator) - Simon HARCOURT-SMITH (1906-82).

The Last of Uptake or The Estranged Sisters.

1942 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 508.00
6

Album di stampe antiche

19th century. GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 431.80
180

A collection of framed engraved portraits on laid paper, by Lucas Vorsterman (1595-1675) and Pierre Lombart (1612/13-1681), after ANTHONY VAN DICK,

c. 1661-1662 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 431.80
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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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
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