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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
51 GODWIN (WILLIAM)

Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, FIRST EDITION,J. Johnson and G.G. & J. Robinson, 1798; An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness, Dublin, Luke White, 1793 (3)

1798 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,216.00
52 [WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)]

A Vindication of the Rights of Men, FIRST EDITION, 1790; BURKE (EDMUND) Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790; PRIESTLEY (JOSEPH) Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 1791

1790 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,072.00
53 WOLLSTONECRAFT (MARY)

A Vindication of the Rights of Women: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, Dublin, J.Stockdale, for James Moore, 1793

Dublin, 1793 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,432.00
54 BASKERVILLE PRESS

ADDISON (JOSEPH) The Works, 4 vol., Birmingham, Printed by John Baskerville, for J. & R. Tonson, 1761

Birmingham, 1761 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
55 BINDINGS

SCOTT (WALTER) The Waverley Novels, Dryburgh edition, 25 vol., Adam and Charles Black, 1892-1894

1892-1894 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 537.60
56 BRUNEL (MARC ISAMBARD)

Annotated and signed lithographic overview and cross-section of the Thames Tunnel, 1840

1840 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,072.00
57 BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM)

Autograph letter signed, to Walter Shelley, regarding a theatre on the Great Eastern, May [18]57

[n.p.], 1857 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 768.00
58 BUTLER (CHARLES)

The Feminine Monarchie: or The Historie of Bees, Printed by John Haviland for Roger Jackson, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreet, over against the Conduit, [1623]

1623 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 640.00
59 CAESAR (CAIUS JULIUS)

[Opera] Quae extant... annotationes Samuelis Clarke, Jabob Tonson, 1712

1712 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
60 CHAPBOOK

St. Julien, the Emigrant; or, Europe Depicted, for the author by I. and E. Wallis, 1812

1812 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 89.60
61 CHAPBOOK

The Paths of Learning Strewed with Flowers or English Grammar Illustrated, FIRST EDITION, J. Harris, 25 September 1820 [watermarked 1822]

1820, 1822 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 384.00
62 CHATTERTON (THOMAS)

Autograph fragment from a lost letter to his sister Mary, [London, 30 May 1770]

[London, 30 May 1770 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 9,600.00
63 CHESTERFIELD (PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, 4th Earl)

Letters... to His Son Philip Stanhope, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, THE BRADLEY MARTIN COPY, J. Dodsley, 1774

1774 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,216.00
64 COWPER (WILLIAM, translator)

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, THE ESTELLE DOHENY COPY, 1791

1791 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
65 DICKENS (CHARLES)

Oliver Twist, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, 1838

1838 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,216.00
66 DICKENS (CHARLES)

The Christmas Carol, FIRST EDITION, FIRST "TRIAL" ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1844 [but 1843]

1844 but 1843 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 20,480.00
67 DICKENS (CHARLES)

[Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, 1843; and 3 others

1843 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,816.00
68 DICKENS (CHARLES)

Autograph letter signed to C.F. Smith, 4 March 1857

1857 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,792.00
69 DICKENS (CHARLES)

Autograph cheque signed, 8 May 1863

London, 1863 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,408.00
70 DICKENS (CHARLES)

The Works, 26 vol. "Library Edition", Chapman and Hall, [c.1870]

c.1870 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,024.00
71 EDWARD III - YORKSHIRE

Illuminated Royal Licence, bearing the great seal, Westminster, 15 November 1368

Westminster 1368 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 23,040.00
72 GAY (JOHN)

Fables... with a Life of the Author, 2 vol., John Stockdale, 1793

1793 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,024.00
73 GIBBON (EDWARD)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION of volumes 4-6, second edition of volumes 2 and 3, third edition of volume 1, Strahan and Cadell (8)

1796 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,408.00
74 GRAY (THOMAS)

The Poems..., J. Dodsley and J. Todd, 1775

1775 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 230.40
75 HARLEQUINADE - MANUSCRIPT FLAP-BOOK

A seventeenth century manuscript pictorial flap-book "Painted By Sal. Court, Price 2s.", [c.1753]

c.1753 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 10,240.00
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    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
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    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000
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    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.
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    Books & Autographs
    18 September 2024
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    Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
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