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Sale Name: The Swinton Sale
Auction Date: 09/13/2024 - 09/13/2024
Year of Sale: 2024
Sale Number: #91324
Total Lots: 49
Sold Lots: 49
Lots Sold: 100.0%
Unsold Lots: 0
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (GBP): 30,365.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 8,890.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 15,050.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 8,890.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 15,050.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 201.77%
Currency: GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 39,613.90

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
21	Shakespeare (William).	Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. The Text of the First Edition, Illustrated with Etchings.	1883	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	3,050.00
112	Milne (A.A.).	Winnie-The-Pooh.	1926	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	2,196.00
23	Austen (Jane).	The Novels of Jane Austen, Winchester Edition.	1911-12	GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00	2,074.00
46	Donovan (E.).	The Natural History of British Birds, or, A Selection of the Most Rare, Beautiful and Interesting Birds which Inhabit this Country ...	1794-1799	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,586.00
56	Fleming (Ian).	Thunderball.	1961	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	1,464.00
180	Woolf (Virginia).	A collection of works by Virginia Woolf, comprising: A Room of One's Own	1930	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	1,342.00
84	Tweedie (Major-General W.).	The Arabian Horse, His Country and People, with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians and other Illustrations, also A Map of the Country of the Arabian Horse, and a Descriptive Glossary of Arabic Words and Proper Names.	1894	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	1,159.00
97	Beaufort (The Duke of) & Watson (Alfred E.T.).	The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.	1885-96	GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00	976.00
111	Tolkien (J.R.R.).	The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring.		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	915.00
20	Bronte (Anne, Charlotte and Emily).	Novels of the Sisters Bronte, Thornton Edition.	1905	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	915.00
22	Stevenson (Robert Louis).	The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, The Edinburgh Edition.	1894-98	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	915.00
103	Donovan (E.).	The Natural History of British Fishes, including Scientific and General Descriptions of the Most Interesting Species ....	1802-[1808]	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	854.00
182	Kipling (Rudyard).	A collection of works by Rudyard Kipling.	1902-28	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	793.00
88	Morris (Rev. F. O.).	A History of British Birds.	1891	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	793.00
60	Wright (Lewis).	The Illustrated Book of Poultry ....	1880	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	732.00
154		Bindings. A quantity of books, predominantly English literature.	Nineteenth and twentieth century	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	671.00
151	Dickens (Charles).	The Centenary Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens.	1910-11	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	610.00
189	Pratt (Anne).	The Flowering Plants of Great Britain.	no date,	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	610.00
44	Archibald Thorburn FZS (1860-1935)	Sandpiper feeding		GBP 150.00 - 250.00	512.40
150	Alken (Henry).	Scraps from the Sketch Book of Henry Alken, Engraved by Himself, Containing Forty-Two Plates.	1821	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	512.40
188	Bewick (Thomas).	A History of British Birds: Vol I, History and Description of Land Birds; Vol II, History and Description of Water Birds.	1805	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	488.00
184	Pepys (Samuel).	The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley.	1900-4	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	463.60
142	Amis (Kingsley),	The James Bond Dossier.	1965	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	463.60
187	MacGibbon (David) and Ross (Thomas).	The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland From the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century.	1887	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	427.00
146	Lloyd (Pattie),	The Pearl of Poesie; being A Collection of Songs and Hymns, from the Holy Scriptures.	1866	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	427.00

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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