Auction Reports

Chiswick Auctions

Auction Info

Sale Name
Modern Literature, Limited Editions and Illustrated Art
Auction Date
03/28/2019 - 03/28/2019
Year of Sale
2019
Sale Number
#32819
Total Lots
247
Sold Lots
186
Lots Sold
75.3%
Unsold Lots
61
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
66,075.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
47,310.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
67,840.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
80,240.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
111,760.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
59.12%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
69,420.70

Top twenty five by sale price

View All Auction Lots.
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
167 Francklyn (Gilbert) Diatribae. Discourses on Divers Texts of Scripture

1638

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 7,500.00
106 Bann (Stephen) L'Impératrice Élisabeth

1908-1909

USD 150.00 - 200.00 4,750.00
197 Silver Binding.- A Description of St. Helena"

1805

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 3,250.00
193 Megillat Esther.- Description de l'Égypte": Antiquités

1820-23

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,625.00
112 Finlay (Ian Hamilton) Collected Works

1966

USD 300.00 - 400.00 1,500.00
183 La Baune (Jacques de) La Corona Estense: Sonetti Ebraici..., FIRST EDITION

1750

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,375.00
222 Dali (Salvadore) John Apostate: An Idyl of the Quays

 1927

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,375.00
78 Hogarth (William, after) An Alphabet

1898

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,375.00
35 Scarfe (Gerald, b.1936) Men of Snow' [Tony Blair

n.d.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,187.50
72 Debucourt (Philibert-Louis, engraver) & Vernet (Horace, after) The Rake's Progress, set of 8 engravings by T. Cook

1796-97

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,187.50
67 Chagall (Marc) Royal Square

c.1798.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,187.50
111 Finlay (Ian Hamilton) Evelyn Waugh

1975

USD 600.00 - 800.00 1,062.50
122 Muir (Edwin) The Diary

1975-1983

USD 400.00 - 600.00 875.00
99 Beardsley (Aubrey).- Concrete Poetry

1967

USD 600.00 - 800.00 875.00
91 Rembrandt (Harmensz. van Rijn) Modern Woodcutters 4

1921

USD 200.00 - 300.00 812.50
190 Bassani (Israel Biniamin) [Torah], light browning

1805

USD 600.00 - 800.00 750.00
220 Craddock (Harry) Etchings of Venice

1888

USD 200.00 - 300.00 687.50
85 Nicholson (William) Baigneuse debout à mi-jambes, etching

 c.1910.  

USD 300.00 - 400.00 687.50
139 Curicke (Reinhold) Le droit de la guerre

1724

USD 600.00 - 800.00 625.00
80 Japanese Album.-Kano School Au Theatre: Scene Dans Le Style Des Mille Et Une Nuits

1966

USD 700.00 - 900.00 625.00
200 The History

1835

USD 300.00 - 400.00 575.00
204 [Duncan (Francis)] Afbeelding der vermaarde Egyptische piramiden

1732-1733.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 525.00
154 Staël-Holstein (Germaine de) The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments"

1736

USD 400.00 - 600.00 525.00
151 Naples.- The works of Antonio Canova

1823

USD 400.00 - 600.00 525.00
108 Dufy (Raoul, artist) Mallarmé (Stéphane) My World and Welcome to it

1942

USD 300.00 - 400.00 500.00

  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR