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Auction Details

Auction Date: June 20, 2024 - June 20, 2024

Page Size: 274 items in 11 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
226	POWELL (ANTHONY)	[A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, INCLUDING ONE PRESENTATION COPY AND SEVERAL LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,920.00
227	ROWLING (J.K.)	A collection of six Harry Potter titles, all INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a family friend, 8vo, Bloomsbury; and an unsigned copy of "Deathly Hallows" (7)		c.1999	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 7,680.00
228	ROWLING (J.K.)	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication leaf, Bloomsbury, [2000]; sold with the original Books Etc. staff purchase receipt and bag		2000	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,536.00
229	ROYALTY - 1937 CORONATION	A collection of approximately 100 annotated proof copies of programmes, seating plans, lists of invitees etc. relating to the staging of the Coronation of George VI		1936-1937	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,816.00
230	ROYALTY - QUEEN ELIZABETH	WILDING (DOROTHY) Fine portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, SIGNED BY THE SITTER on the mount, [15 April 1952]		1952	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,920.00
231	SMITH (DODIE)	I Capture the Castle, PRESENTATION COPY, with 7 further presentation copies and 2 others (10)	Boston,	1948	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 2,816.00
232	SMITH (DODIE)	Autograph manuscript addressed to Ambrose Heal ("To my Master, he having desired me to compose a Valentine"), [c.1923-1932]; and other items (3)		c.1923-1932	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,024.00
233	SMITH (DODIE)	The Hundred and One Dalmations, PRESENTATION COPY, Heinemann, 1956		1956	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 4,096.00
234	TAGORE (RABINDRANATH)	Typed letter signed, to Ludwig Rellstab, 25 September 1920; with envelope		1920	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 640.00
235	TIMLIN (WILLIAM M.)	The Ship that Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy, 1923; Faust illustrated by Harry Clarke, ltd to 1000 copies, 1925 (2)		1925	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,664.00
236	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, George Allen and Unwin, 1937		1937	GBP 20,000.00 - 40,000.00	GBP 70,250.00
237	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	Farmer Giles of Ham, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, George Allen and Unwin, 1949		1949	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 9,600.00
238	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPESSIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, George Allen and Unwin, [1954-1955]		1954-1955	GBP 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 46,080.00
239	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	Tree and Leaf, first edition in paperback, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Unwin Books, 1964; and 3 others by or on Tolkien (4)		1964	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 7,040.00
240	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	Smith of Wootton Major, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, George Allen and Unwin, 1967		1967	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 7,680.00
241	TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)	The Road Goes Ever On. A Song Cycle. Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien. Music by Donald Swann, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM TOLKIEN TO MARGARET WISEMAN, Allen and Unwin, 1968		1968	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 8,320.00
242	TZARA (TRISTAN) AND HANS ARP	Vingt-cinq poemes, H. Arp dix gravures sur bois, FIRST EDITION, Zurich, [printed by J. Heuberger, 1918]	Zurich,	1918	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
243	WAUGH (EVELYN)	Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, ONE OF 50 SPECIALLY ISSUED PRE-PUBLICATION COPIES, Chapman & Hall, 1945 [1944]	Chapman & Hall	1945 1944	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 8,960.00
244	WAUGH (EVELYN)	Collection of 24 autograph postcards and 3 letters to Sylvia Barker, July 1948 to November 1951		1948-1951	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 2,816.00
245	WITTGENSTEIN (LUDWIG)	Correspondence to his pupil, the eminent Cambridge philosopher Casimir Lewy (1919-1991)	Cambridge	1939-1945	GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	GBP 16,640.00
246	ANGLING	HALFORD (FREDERIC M.) Dry-Fly Fishing, in Theory and Practice, NUMBER 100 OF 100 LARGE PAPER DE LUXE COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Sampson Low, 1889		1889	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 832.00
247	BEWICK (THOMAS AND JOHN)	History of British Birds, 2 vol. (incl. 2 supplements), 1804-1821; COUCH. Fishes, 4 vol., 1877; YARRELL. Birds, Fishes and Quadrupeds, 1836-43, all large/Imperial 8vo (14)	Newcastle,	1797-1804-1821	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,536.00
248	CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCO ANTONIO & FLORIANO)	Icones anatomicae, FIRST EDITION, 1801-1814 (9)	Venice,	1801-1814	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 14,080.00
249	CARDANO (GIROLAMO)	De causis, FIRST EDITION, 1569	Bologna,	1569	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,792.00
250	COMPUTERS, CODING, TURING AND MANCHESTER MARK I - ALICK E. GLENNIE	An important archive relating to A.E. Glennie's work on computer programming (small quantity)		1951	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 15,360.00

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier). The History of the Bucaniers of America..., 4 parts in one, 3rd edition, 1704. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Greenough (George Bellos). A Physical and Geological Map of England & Wales..., Geological Society, July 1865. £5,000-8,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Illuminated Psalter. Manuscript Psalter with Calendar, Flanders or North-East France, late 13th century. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, Use of Rome, in Latin, Florence, c. 1470s. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Henry VIII (King of England). Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum, Antwerp: Michiel Hillen, 1522. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Binding for Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae..., 1555. £20,000-30,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Llwyd (Humphrey). The Breviary of Britayne..., 1st edition in English, 1573. William Lambarde's copy. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Embroidered Binding. The Whole Book of Psalmes..., Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1634. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Astronomy Manuscript. [Shakerley, Jeremy (1626-c.1655). Tabulae Britannicae, the British tables…], late 17th c. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
September 11
Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, The Polydore Vergil bound for Queen Mary I

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Elew (Jan Barend, publisher). Nederlandsch bloemwerk, Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe, 1794. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Vellucent Art Nouveau Binding [Book of Common Prayer] by Herbert Granville Fell, 1900. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 11: Palladio (Andrea). The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books, 2nd edition, 1721. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
10 September 2024
The Shem Tov Bible
Koller Auctions
Books & Autographs
18 September 2024

Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000

Koller, Sep. 18: Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.

Koller Auctions
Books & Autographs
18 September 2024

Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000

Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 732. Early Announcement of Continental Congress' Declaration of Independence (1776) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 361. One of Ortelius' Most Decorative Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1585) Est. $9,500 - $12,000

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 55. Early Edition of One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1545) Est. $6,000 - $7,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 27. Fascinating Japanese Satirical Map of the World Published After WWI (1924) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 637. Complete Example of De Bry's Petits Voyages, Part VIII (1606) Est. $4,750 - $5,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 50. Extremely Rare Uncut Sheet from Sylvanus's 1511 Edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (1511) Est. $2,000 - $2,300

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 399. One of the Most Desired Maps of Ireland by John Speed (1610) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 689. Pictorial Map of Melbourne in the Style of MacDonald Gill (1934) Est. $900 - $1,100

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 652. Blaeu's Carte-a-Figures Map of Africa in Full Contemporary Color (1663) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 729. Hand-Colored Image of David Handing the Letter to Uriah (1518) Est. $1,000 - $1,300

Old World Auctions (Sept 11): Lot 533. Eight-Volume Set Recounting Travels of Anacharsis in Greece (1789) Est. $800 - $950

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