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Auction Info

Sale Name
Books and Works on Paper
Auction Date
11/29/2023 - 11/29/2023
Year of Sale
2023
Sale Number
#112923
Total Lots
363
Sold Lots
262
Lots Sold
72.2%
Unsold Lots
101
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (GBP)
286,540.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
158,760.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
223,290.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
227,640.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
322,010.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
88.98%
Currency
GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
361,840.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
104 Cator (Joseph) Manuscript account of a journey from Jamaica to Charleston, South Carolina, then overland through North America to Boston, Massachusetts and to England, AprilAugust 1764

[circa 1765]

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 30,000.00
150 Simpson (William) and Sir John William Kaye. India Ancient and Modern,

1867

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 18,750.00
77 Magna Carta. By Permission of [the] Trustees of the Cottonian Library. This Plate being a correct Copy of King John's Great Charter,

[1733].

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 15,000.00
209 Forster, (E.M.) (1879-1970) A collection of autograph correspondence from Forster to Bob Buckinghams family,

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 11,250.00
302 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,

1997

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 8,125.00
299 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,

1997

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 7,500.00
160 Dodoens (Rembert) A Nievve Herball, or Historie of Plantes: translated by Henry Lyte,

1578

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 6,875.00
107 Cook (Capt. James) and Captain James King: A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...for making Discoveries in the North Hemisphere to determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America;

1784

 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 6,875.00
31 Book of Hours, use of Rome. Officium Beate Virginis Secundum Usum Romanum

[calendar: 1510-1530]

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 5,750.00
254 Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale,

1953

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 5,000.00
184 A collection of four fine embroidered bindings, circa 1890s-1900

circa 1890s-1900

GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 4,500.00
177 Sowerby (James) and Smith (James Edward) English Botany; or coloured figures of the British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth

1790 -- 1840.

GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 4,500.00
236 [Hale (Mathew)] A Tryal of Witches, at the Assizes Held at Bury St. Edmunds for the County of Suffolk; on the Tenth Day of March, 1664.

1683

 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 4,000.00
94 Pyne (William Henry) The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore,

1819

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,750.00
196 Beaumont (Francis) and (John) Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies Never printed before, and now published by the authours originall copies.

1647

 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,750.00
167 Gerard (John) The Herball Historie of Plantes, edited and enlarged by Thomas Johnson,

1633

 GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 3,500.00
183 Sternhold (Thomas) The Whole Booke of Psalmes: collected into English meter

1636

 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 3,500.00
171 Hogg (Robert) & Bull (Henry Graves) The Herefordshire Pomona, containing coloured figures and descriptions......of Apples and Pears, with illustrations drawn and coloured from nature by Miss Ellis and Miss Bull.

1876-85

GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 3,000.00
35 St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel. Illuminated manuscript on leaf vellum from a Book of Hours.

GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 3,000.00
286 Dickens (Charles) [The Works], 'The Nonesuch Dickens',

1937-38

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,750.00
298 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,

1997

 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 2,750.00
301 [Rrowling (J.K.)] The Tales of Beedle the Bard

2007

 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 2,500.00
247 Dali (Salvador) Illustrator/Artist. Casanova de Seingalt (Giacomo Girolamo) Dali Illustre Casanova,

1967

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,500.00
300 Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,

1997

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,375.00
267 Jansson (Tove) Comet in Moominland,

1951

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 2,375.00
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  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    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 AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    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 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 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 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'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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